Art Cafe

Sydney | she/her | csp

[freshmatcha]

wip romy 🃏💚

[freshmatcha]

Vi-Bee 🐝 for VGen's April Challenge! I spent this month drawing my main characters Vivi & Yumea from my (upcoming) webcomic 'Pancakes at Vivi's' !! Voting opens May 1-7th! Any support is MAJORLY appreciated! <3 I'm hoping to earn an Artist+ badge so I can start taking more commissions through VGen! 😊

vvv Link to VGen's website here! vvv https://vgen.co/challenge/apr-2026 Bonus content: Some of the wips I took! I like to scroll through them, it's so satisfying! 🤹‍♀️

To be fully transparent (and a lil emotional hehe) I think to date, this drawing is the BEST thing I've ever made and I've both never been prouder of myself as well as amazed at how far I've come! I think honing in on core things I didn't initially learn has really helped me connect so many skills in art I've struggled with connecting together, and as a result I feel like I've grown a LOT in a short time (but in reality I guess it wasn't short haha)

And the best thing I can also say if you're stuck in that spot of feeling stagnated; it will pass. I promise. But you need to be patient with yourself above all else!!

I drew this over 10 years ago and after 10+ years of patience, persistance, and (honestly)blindly believing in future me, I feels good to take a second and celebrate myself! All artists should do this; making isn't easy. But comparing is. So at the very least, look back at what you've done and really take in how far you've already gotten! <3

[freshmatcha]

OPLA Vivi wip! based off of when her and nami were fighting + when she jumps off the ship to escape lol i love her aura ALSO Charithra's performance as Vivi was soOOOOOO GOOOOOOD RAHHHHHHHH loved opla season 2 sm :3

[freshmatcha]

*does a silly jig* wip for a (potential) stardew valley portrait mod elliott's fall default + just finished drawing the base + expressions for emily (the seasonal one specifically!)

Seasonal Outfits - Slightly Cuter Aesthetic

Overhauls all character sprites and portraits for a slightly cuter aesthetic

idk how long this'll take and i keep distracting myself from working on my webcomic so whoops

[velinxi]

Who did this to you?

[Characters from CTC]

[freshmatcha]

DUSTIN' THIS BLOG OFF WHOOPSIEE ;3 jinu fanart i did kinda recently; looking at my old art is seriously giving me the itch to redraw it all,,,,, goodness

[briandavidgilberts]

[diornies]

letter to theo by vincent van gogh

[hoao]

when furudate wrote “today you happen to be the defeated. but what will you become tomorrow?” and then “nothing would ever get started if they didn't first think, 'let’s give it a try.'” and then “he who climbs the ladder must begin at the bottom” and then “we’re not limited to just one way of being great” and then “being weak means that there is room to grow” and then “does losing prove that you are weak? isn’t losing difficult for all of you? a challenge where, after ending up on your hands and knees, you must see if you can stand up again? if you stay on your hands and knees, that proves that you are weak.”

[projectiondepartment]

every time it rains i think of that raymond carver poem. poetry is like prayer to me methinks. or an incantation

[projectiondepartment]

this one btw

[heartapnea]

this quote from hbomberguy’s plagiarism video really resonated with me:

“creative people have trouble recognising their skills as skills, because eventually they feel like second nature. […] this stuff really is valuable. if it wasn’t, people wouldn’t be stealing it. creativity doesn’t feel special or unique until you realise people have to plagiarise it”

your craft is and always will be valuable, please never let anyone make you doubt that

[nabulsi]

I really wanna bring attention to another fundraiser I trust.

This fundraiser belongs to a man named Hossam Bardawil who has lost so much due to this war. Not only has he lost his material belongings, his job, his home, but more importantly, he's lost his family. His parents and siblings tragically lost their lives, and now Hossam is trying to survive, living out of a tent in horrific conditions.

Now, Hossam is tasked with looking after the remaining family, including his nieces and nephews, as well as their mothers, as they navigate this terrifying world they are in. He's raising funds now to evacuate to safety.

They need $20,000 to evacuate the remaining members of their family, and currently have received less than $100 in donations.

They urgently need your help. Please share and please donate. Even a small amount brings them closer to safety and a life away from the constant fear of death.

Donate to Urgent Relief Needed: Rebuild Hope for Hossam's Family, organized by Walid AS

Dear Compassionate Hearts, My name is Walid. Today, I reach out on… Walid AS needs your support for Urgent Relief Needed: Rebuild Hope f

[astrozure]

mon cher...

print!

[tolkjo]

I don’t know what this is, OCD Alan is canon to me (projecting)

[lumsparko]

They're here to make you smile!

[nudityandnerdery]

[christinaroseandrews]

This guy knows what he’s talking about. He’s one of the lead writers for Leverage and if you ever watch the series on DVD, do yourself a favor and listen to him talk about how the scripts got written. Some of the advice he has is stuff I use all the time: 1. Don’t introduce an important plot person or thing after the first half of the story. 2. Always tie up loose ends. 3. Introduce important things in the middle of unimportant things. 4. If you have to infodump, find an emotion to tie it to and it will seem less like infodump and more like a motive rant. Seriously this guy knows how to write.

[kinavu]

I feel like ive seen quite a few gfms getting passed around and ive observed that a lot of them have stories of such exceptional people who have achieved so much, or were going to before the genocide cut it off. And i really commend them for it, i really do.

But it breaks my heart that palestinians reaching out to us feel the need to have to prove that they are they are good people who are worth the support, like theyre only worth being supported if they had a good gpa or were exceptional in some way.

They shouldnt have to prove that theyre beneficial to the economy somehow to be worth the support. They shouldnt have to be exceptional to deserve help. Our governments are putting them through this, both in the west and around the world too. They shouldnt have to prove anything. We owe them this

[kinavu]

Ok this got a lot of notes unexpectedly so gonna link a few fundraisers here of people who reached out to me

(June 11th)

Sujood's Children @sweatynachocreator - (vetted by @/el-shab-hussein) - $5,860 CAD raised of $45,000

Wafaa Alnhal @hebsnhel - vetted by @/nabulsi - €10,015 raised of €35,000

Yahya Bkheet (his blog got deleted) - vetted by @/nabulsi - €430 raised of €30,000

Amani Hasan @amani93gaza - vetted by @/nabulsi - $4,113 CAD raised of $17,732

Dr. Nasser Mohamed (his blog got deleted) - vetted by @/nabulsi - £2,626 raised of £50,000 goal 

Iyad Sobhe (his blog also got deleted) - vetted by @/nabulsi - £8,220 raised of £60,000

Ruba Shaban @rubashabansblog - vetted by @/nabulsi - €22,381 raised of €60,000

Tawfik Satoom @tawfiksatooom - vetted - $1,324 raised of $20,000 (his campaign ends in 11 days!)

Please read their stories and do not hesitate to donate any amount you can, even its just $5