Labyrinth

🇨🇴 All pronouns. Sometimes a character artist. I create 🤍 profile picture by @ratective

[lbyrnthhours]

Did I eveeeeer post this?? Anywhere?? This is a short about the Gem war and the Diamonds using audio from Breaking Bad. 😵‍💫 It's super old, 3 years or so. Don't have time to complete it or remake it but....

[going2hell4everythingbutbeingbi]

honestly yall just gotta be comfortable reading books that make you feel stupid

[going2hell4everythingbutbeingbi]

read books that you don't understand. read books where you have to pay attention. read books that make you reread a page eight times to figure it out. read books that you need to take notes on. read books with words you have to google. read books that don't make sense without research on the setting. read books that make you feel stupid because otherwise you'll just be stupid.

[going2hell4everythingbutbeingbi]

everyone who responded to this like "every book makes me feel stupid because xyz" okay but you're reading. you're trying. you're putting in the effort and it will get easier with practice. no matter how dumb you feel and how dumb you think the book you're reading is, if you're struggling and you still do it, you're actively working to make yourself smarter.

I think we all forget how many people just don't read. ever.

[lbyrnthhours]

[lbyrnthhours]

Some simple self indulgence..

Almost put a highlight on Yellow’s ass but that would have been too diabolical. cause damn😭 Not even intentional

[lbyrnthhours]

Oooommffgg do I miss having time to draw Blue.

[bispearls]

[lbyrnthhours]

this is NOT what i usually post here but redesigning this fuck has been flexing my creative hand. show is really terrible but very very charming!

[lbyrnthhours]

mommy’s girl

[lbyrnthhours]

some of yall a little too trigger happy with that airbrush tool

[annoyingslops]

missing you

[lbyrnthhours]

you don’t take care of yourself, everyone can tell

[lbyrnthhours]

you live in me

(something a little different 🤍)

[nyong-choi]

Song of the Sea Parody

[lbyrnthhours]

she is me and will always be exactly me

[lbyrnthhours]

good morning Blue Diamond nation

[lbyrnthhours]

she is me and will always be exactly me

[lbyrnthhours]

Where did u go queen..

oh queen. college..

massively appreciate the ask though. one of these days the Diamonds will show up on here again but these past few months have not been the months for digital art posting

[lbyrnthhours]

guys i haven't drawn Blue Diamond in a month

[lackadaisycats]

this might be a silly ask, and im sorry if it is! But how would you say to deal with comparing your art to others? like, you’ll be happy with something you’ve drawn, but you go online and see all these thousands of people better than you and suddenly that art isn’t great anymore. what advice or thoughts do you have on that?

have a wonderful day!

It's not a silly ask. It's something most artists struggle with at points, especially when young - comparing yourself to other artists in a way that makes everything feel like an unpleasant, hopeless competition; thinking your goal should be becoming the "best" most stand-out artist in an entire discipline; thinking you must be a professional success by some ridiculously young age; conflating your innate worth as a human being with the amount of positive attention your art gets.

There's also a tendency to gloss over all the struggles, missteps, discarded work, practice and dedication that went into everything you're judging yourself against. On the surface, it looks like you're surrounded by natural born geniuses who turn out masterpieces like nothing. They don't. None of it was easy. It was years or decades getting there. I guarantee there were restless nights, untold dark hours of self-doubt, endless frustration, and literal tears shed over this stuff. What you're seeing is a very curated end result.

It's torturous, futile mental practice to think of this like some kind of game you have to win to be worthwhile. There is no objective winning. There's just achieving whatever goals you set for yourself, making whatever progress satisfies you, and enjoying the process. There is shining at the very specific thing only you do. That's the thing that'll make you a stand-out. And in that, your only competition is yourself. You're still going to be battling your own art demons, but at least in that state of mind, other artists aren't your rivals. They're relatable peers on their own journeys to become the best at what they do. You can learn a lot from them, appreciate whatever knowledge they can share, be inspired by them, commiserate with them, all without the burden of feeling like you have to fight them to climb to the top of the pile. You're all running on your own self-determined track.