◇•Katana's Spirits•◇

🌿 Katana 🌿 24 🌿 He/They 🌿 Current Hyperfix: Trigun 🌿 I draw lots of original stuff for a story I'm writing 🌿 tag for my original story is #woa worlds of avalon 🌿 Commissions - Open 🌿 https://katanasspirits.carrd.co/#commissions

[katanasspirits]

🌿✨️•○》 Commissions OPEN!! 《○•✨️🌿

Available through my Carrd:

🌲》 Illustration

🌿》 Character Art

✨️》 Character Design

◇》 https://katanasspirits.carrd.co/#commissions

Available through my Ko-Fi:

✨️》 Character Sketches

◇》 https://ko-fi.com/katanasspirits

[recurringwriter]

WHOA!!!!! i love my friends' ocs

[abtl]

Reblog to let your friends know you love their ocs

[swallowedgirl]

Anna Haifisch

[deirdreskye]

Babe are you okay I saw you reblogging "here's the life I've always longed for"

[agalarianzigzagoon]

for anyone curious there is a follow up image:

[thefloatingstone]

Still watching this youtube channel about what I can only describe as "Dark Classical art" and this one absolutely floored me because I was unaware of it and I want to share it because it changes my perspective on this artist completely.

You might be aware of Louis Wain. If not by name then by his art. He's the artist behind that series of cat drawings that slowly became more and more abstract and bizarre.

This series of paintings of cats are often labelled as a visual representation of Wain's deteriorating mental illness and schizophrenia. Even more so often labelled as "a tragic display of a painter's failing battle with schizophrenia."

The paintings look like this and were painted around the very early 1900s.

Ok got all that?

So here's the thing.

Although Wain did suffer from a mental illness that was strong enough for him to be institutionalized, his mental illness was never diagnosed with clear certainty. Although "Schizophrenia" is so heavily applied to him based purely on how his series of paintings LOOK, despite actual specialists widely disputing this. On top of this, although he did paint the kaleidoscope cat portraits during this time, it was not the only things he painted, and he was quite capable of painting "normal" pictures of cats.

The Kaleidoscope Cat portraits are more images of him experimenting with colour and shapes, something the Smithsonian themselves state on their website.

Wain had actually made his entire living painting whimsical images of cats, often for product adverts, before he was incarcerated and was actually a very beloved artist at the time. When his friends learned of his incarceration, they started a collection of donation money to help transfer Wain to the Bethlam Royal Hospital instead, one of the best mental health facilities of the time. Even the Prime Minster of the time donated, and they raised a large amount of money across England to help him.

4 years later, Wain drew this as his final image which he released publicly

I knew all about "the Schizophrenic cat Guy" but he had always been presented to me as some tragic case of an artist going mad and his skills and work unraveling as he went insane.

Which is why I wanted to share this information which was new to me. And because I think it's important.

[striders]

[pixelprofligate]

"youd do numbers on tumblr" girl i am on tumblr and the numbers? 4

[catchymemes]

[writing-official]

[azul-demetileno]

BEWARE OF THIS SCAMMER!!!!!

this person asked me is i was available for a comission and i said yes (i admit i was oblivious since i have little to no experience with commissions) and i made a sketch of what they wanted and asked for a payment (i gave them my paypal email and received some suspisious emails...i learned from my mistake)they tried to get me to make a refund of a money that i dont have, they were insistent. Aparently they have a modus operandi since i contacted another artist and they told me that they almost got scammed by this person. I feel stupid, used and i lost my time and dignity, but i won´t fall for that anymore, please share this so more artist can protect themselfs from this scammer (all they want is free art, so they don´t value our effort and skills)

[katanasspirits]

✨️🌲🌿•○》 Commissions Open! 《○•🌿🌲✨️

Please help me get the cosigner on my car off my back about my finances

Available through my Carrd:

🌿: Illustraton

🌲: Character Art & Design

✨️: Unlisted but still available: Pngtubers, twitch panels, obs overlays, etc. Basically just ask, and think of the listed options as suggestions!

Available through my ko-fi:

✨️: Finished Sketches

Any help means something right now! Even if you can't afford to help me out, just reblogging this for visibility would mean the world to me!

[katanasspirits]

I uh. Realize I havent posted here in a while...

Maybe I should take example from my bluesky acct and just start rebloggin my own shit all the time lol

[ineedagun2001]

end of january affirmations

im not doing anything wrong and no one is mad at me

there must be a place for me in this world because here i am

my art doesnt suck

instagram is nothing to me

[ysolt]

fuck an "intended audience" how about we normalize engaging with new and unfamiliar art pieces on their own terms

[ysolt]

[little-theatre-fairy]

ladies and gentlemen, please welcome the difference between pushing a product and creating a work of art

[themainspoon]

I can't be bothered to find the thread rn. But there were a bunch of people talking about it, and I agree, so I'm sharing the idea here:

We need a death of the audience; lots of media gets worse because authors are too worried about a hypothetical audience. As someone engaging with media, you need to understand that you simply might not understand all of it, and that's ok. But also I think more authors need to realize that it's ok if not everyone in the audience will fully understand everything they're doing.

[wolfsteax]

Do not give a fuck about the audience. Just don't.

I want weird shit that's not easy to market like Mad God. I want passion projects like Outer Wilds that feel like a gift to the heart. I want imperfect masterpieces like Arcane that push the limits of art.

I want the corporate mindset to die in all media.

Death to the "audience". Art is not a product.

[chilewithcarnage]

no amount of budgeting will make up for the fact that we simply do not make enough money

[raddagher]

no amount of therapy will make up for the fact that we simply do not make enough money

[pansy-butch]

I AM SOMETBING PRETENDING TO BE HUMAN i have always been something pretending to be human i have always pretended to be human i have always been more thing than person i am something pretending to be human

[eggwraith]

opens box that reads "i wanna draw again". inside lies a note. the note says, "mental illness and difficult circumstances have taken years of interest, accessibility, and skill away from me. i want to forgive myself for that. i want to heal my relationship to my hobbies. i want to feel connected to something that once made me feel good, but the cyclic discouragement is difficult to overcome." i turn over the note. on the back it reads "wannta drawe sexy bodies awooga"

[eggwraith]

seems like this one really resonated with the artists who dont do art fandom

[pieklo]

Reblog daily for health and prosperity