Melsiefera 🐝 ✨

Hey busy bee! I'm Melsie, a playful Graphic Designer and Illustrator based in The Netherlands with a huge love for everything cute and a little bit weird. I hope my art and design can bring some joy into your life and make you more inspired to create things yourself!

[drawingden]

So how’s the art coming along guys?

[bumbleshark]

[herssian]

you're allowed to draw. draw badly even. draw and then delete it. draw and rework it and then delete it anyway. draw only half of it and the other half three years later. in one style or another. in different styles in the same week. traditional or digital. you're literally allowed to draw however you want

[supermuuh]

The moment you realize you CAN NOT draw and that all arts before were just luck

[beemovieerotica]

if you work in a creative field...or if you do creative hobbies like writing or drawing...you need to make friends with people who don't do those things. you need to befriend normie Steve who has never written a story in his life. and this is because when you are in a creative job or hobby and spend all your time doing that thing, surrounded by very capable people, who you inevitably compare your own progress and skills to, you forget what the baseline human skill at that thing is. and it's usually zero. normie Steve has not written a story since the 3rd grade when his teacher made him do it. he's very good at other things that are not storytelling - but if you tell normie Steve that you wrote a full 300-page book from start to finish, he will think you're some kind of savant. he does not know ANYONE else who has done this. you need this perspective. because when you're constantly on Let's Write Stories dot Com then everyone on Let's Write Stories dot Com will inevitably be like "oh of course everyone on earth has written a book or several at this point!" and you canNOT let yourself think that. that is not even close to the average human experience. you are in a bubble. do not put yourself down. do not give up.

[wickedsnack]

so as long as tumblr keeps this, here's the tumblr version of etiquette that was maintained when twitter's quote-retweets affected artist visibility/notes:

for art that someone has added reblog commentary to (or removed the caption from), reblog from the source

otherwise, avoid adding reblog comments to art (as this will affect the artist's notes/visibility)—utilize tags and replies to provide commentary (which artists will absolutely appreciate)

reblog comments are comments added to the body of a post, not the tags and not replies.

[talonsin]

hey, did you know that the world is a better place because of your creations and art and writing, no matter how niche or how many people see it

[melsieferastudio]

I'm absolutely addicted to this game, I love old man Leon!!! Feels good to play as him again after so long.

Process GIF added below for fun!

[melsieferastudio]

Happy Valentine's Day from Moomin!

I've been rewatching episodes from the Moomin animation and I'm mentally stuck in Moominvalley

[aurin-avenir]

“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.”

— Hbomberguy on plagiarism.

[punchdrunkdolly]

i exist and i love you

[willgrahamscock]

KILL AI AND REBLOG AND CREATE ART IN 2026

[melsieferastudio]

Bird of Paradise

Instagram | BlueSky

[melsieferastudio]

To be a cat sleeping in the field surrounded by flowers 🌹✨

[fallenrockstars]

Me remembering halfway through posing hands in a drawing that I HAVE hands and can use them for reference

[mollyjames]

I genuinely think the idea that if you should draw a little every day or you'll suffer skill degradation is a total fabrication. Some of the best art I've ever drawn has been coming back from long breaks. I'm talking like weeks. Sometimes you just gotta reset and flush the systems. There's no shame in it. Take breaks. The art will be there for you when you're ready.

[nonetoon]

Art motivation 💪

[mysillycomics]