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sorry, i can’t show more art because it’s under NDA (Not Doing Art) so you understand

Ok I have decided that I don't have the stamina for an october drawing challenge I am going to start #REPOSTOBER where I just repost old art that I like every day 💁‍♀️ JOIN ME IF YOUR DARE 🎃

quinnkdev

Doing that, tbh

#why not #watch as i also not complete this

goblin deez.....rats

#gheist art #character art #dnd5e #character design #my guys #goblin #dnd #yeah yeah i reused the twitter caption so what

jup the goblin moon druid, for a waterdeep campaign

their full name is Juniper Fields Berry Wine, as stated by the crate they were found in

#gheist art #character art #dnd5e #sketch #character design #my guys #dnd #goblin

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sanctus-ingenium

Hello so I heve a rather personal question as an artist. So when I draw and create art no matter how much I like it after it's done i'm not satisfied with it and I see every little detail that's off or every mistake. No one else see it. So my question is do you get that feeling too? How do you get rid of it? Or do you just embrace it and ignore the things that tip you off?

you cannot draw something in a way that removes its most essential and valuable feature: the fact that you drew it. that's why when you look at it, you have x-ray vision and you can see every brush stroke you fucked up and how the sketch was better but you could never capture it and how the foreshortening is wrong etc. because you drew it. it will never go away no matter how good you get because you can never outrun the fact that you made it. that's a good thing btw

a yuan-ti artificer

#gheist art #character art #dnd5e #character design #my guys #i was going to give her a tattoo sleeve #but i forgor

character busts i made for DayLITE's Spiral Skies book!

#gheist art #commission #character art #character design #daylite

toastyglow

no one is obliged to like you and that is okay. this is why you mustn't put your self-worth in the hands of other people--you have no control over how they feel about you.

wanting your art to connect with others is the same: no one is obliged to interact with it and you have no control over whether they do or not. you must accept this. your mood can't be reliant on the decisions of others, let alone strangers--happy when you get engagement from them, sad when you get less.

I'm not saying it's selfish to want validation, attention, or connection. your feelings are real and I've FELT them. I still feel them. but other people have a choice of whether to give you those things or not, whether in everyday situations or online, and you have to accept that choice. the only thing you can control is you.

connecting, REALLY connecting with others, is about actively inserting yourself into communities you vibe with, learning the necessary skills (social or otherwise), being vulnerable, and a little luck. join a discord server or a local club. focus on specific artistic friendships. put your time and effort into those relationships, spend less time on social media, uncouple your self-esteem from your art and try your damnedest to make your own at home. that's all you can do.

toastyglow

I want to add that the reason why you see “big artists” saying this stuff is not because they’re getting all their emotional needs met and don’t remember what it was like to be insecure starting out.

it’s because once you get to a certain level of internet-popular, you start to realize that it’s Never Enough. no matter how popular that one thing you made was, eventually it tapers off and you crash and you have to work for the next hit. until you burn out.

that applies no matter how big or small your following is. it never stops. but it does get harder to deal with the more intense the highs are. put less stock into it now so it has less power over you in the future.

yelloskello

as an artist whose peak was a few hundred followers on mastodon back when everybody left tumblr, whose follower count typically hovers somewhere in the mid-100's; as an artist who could not be called a "big artist" by any length of the imagination: this is all true and once you learn to not depend on external validation for your artistic self-worth, you're so much more stable and when you get it it's just icing on the cake.

teobug

This is extremely real, and also why I tell any and every artist who will listen that success is not found with follower counts or even really post engagement. Those can be manufactured, or if anything make a lack of "success" (via a lack of engagement, support, or income) feel worse by nature of seeing big numbers, and never feeling the impact of those numbers fully.

Success (at least in my experience) comes from building a solid network/community of other artists and friends you can interact with, who you lift up and will also lift YOU up both in up times and down times!

I have never felt more connected and satisfied with sharing my art than I have this past year or two and that's because I have stopped trying to build a following - yes it feels nice to see Number Go Up, but more than anything it feels really nice and is genuinely so much more fun to share art and have multiple friends I've made hype me and it up. I'm not posting for the algorithms, I'm posting for my friends to see my stupid oc art and pog IRL about it.

And for people wondering how you can even make art friends organically: Comment on other artists work! Hype them up! Be willing and ready to make the first move in that regard - everyone is worried about looking kind of stupid or saying the wrong thing.

Let yourself BE UNABASHEDLY EXCITED AND STUPID FOR A MINUTE. I promise it won't work every time but it works better than sitting there hoping someone will make the first move! I've made so many more friends with extremely talented and kind artists by letting myself say or express the nice thing I felt by looking at someone's art.