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Former 19 year old, aspiring 26 year old, mostly an art blog, might post other stuff here and there though.

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Some recent paintings I’ve done.

Random personal/life rambles under the cut. Tw:mental health

Recently, I’ve been having a really bad time mentally. Nothing bad has really happened to me personally since January(the first week of the year was ROUGH, but I’m mostly over that now), but I’ve just been spiralling for some reason, and I feel like I’m stagnating and falling behind. I’ve mostly stopped having original ideas, and am also having major creative block. I’ve started doing a painting every day, though, and it’s honestly just what I needed, I think.

Doing painting studies from photos has genuinely been a godsend for me, though. It’s relaxing and gives me something to look forward to every day. I’ve also noticed incremental technical improvements. I now consider myself to be on the low end of mediocre. I never thought that’d be something I’d be happy about, but seeing myself progress in at least one small area of my life reminds me that I’m not completely stagnant, and am still capable of growth.

I’ve even been able to come up with some ideas related to my long-term worldbuilding/story project recently, and have started writing it down. Idk yet if it’s something I’ll share here, but it’s helped a lot to feel at least somewhat creative again, and to actually enjoy doing things. It’s genuinely been so long since doing an activity –even an activity I love – didn’t feel like a chore, and I feel like getting at least some of that sense of enjoyment back is a sign that I must be doing at least something right.

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Been a bit art blocked(also busy) as of late, but I was listening to spider dance and decided to sketch Muffet. It was from memory so I forgot some details(like the fangs), but ‘twas fun.

Looking forward to having time and inspiration to paint again, though, since I love doing that. I’ve done a few since the ones I shared, but not really any where I’ve liked the finished versions, unfortunately.

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More watercolour. This time, a ref of orcas. I like how most of the waves turned out, but some areas are overworked and the sky near the horizon isn’t properly blended with the rest of the sky.

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Photo study from Pinterest. I’m still a bit rusty from watercolours(been in a bit of a slump in general, and haven’t really had any art I was proud of), but this is a good start, I think!

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Caught a spider and put it outside today. I’m terrified of them and this is huge progress for me. I’m proud of myself.

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I’ve been enjoying the ink wash a lot recently. The rest of this piece sorta went to shit(in the full piece, the face doesn’t really fit onto the body), but I’m pretty happy with this part.

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Haven’t really been doing Inktober that much, but here are two pieces I’ve attempted. The first one is pencil and ink wash, and the second one is just drawing directly with a pen.

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“Then he aimed at your slimy skin and pulled the trigger. Your head burst.” -RTRT by Mili. I based this off the art for the song, and wanted to practise my expressions and rendering. Unfortunate timing with the idea I had for this piece, but I started it before that happened.

Overall, I’m pretty happy with this. I got lazy near the end, but I think it turned out well anyways.

Official art I referenced under cut:

References used:

Official art for RTRT

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“I may be weak but I’ll fight your enemies”

This is a little piece based on the song Meatball Submarine by Mili

I like the idea and sketch/composition, and think I’m happy with it overall, but there’s something about the rendering I’m a bit unhappy with. If anyone could point out what’s wrong with it(or offer criticism of any sort) I’d really appreciate it!

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ATTENTION TO EVERYONE WHO FOLLOWED ME ON THE PROFILE @colorisandoo

As if being at rock bottom wasn't enough, tumblr played with me and my previous account that I use for work, with all the content, portfolio and clients was DELETED, and unfortunately I can't recover… I was stupid enough to try to delete a third party blog linked to my main account and ended up deleting everything... with a lot of pain I created the new account to try get organized again, if you talked to me, message me again… all pending projects will be carried out. If you can, help me reorganize my account again ♥

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I know this meme is overplayed at this point, but I was looking at archosaurs on Wikipedia again and my brain automatically did this.

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I painted this 12 years ago but it is more relevant than ever today.

YOU ARE FREE

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Still can’t do faces that well, unfortunately. anyways, here’s an attempt at the bug man. Literally did not even include his most iconic feature. I’m so busy rn, and there were definitely better ways I could have spent my time, but I can’t say I regret wasting it on this. As the saying goes, “it’s just so much fun, too much fun, oh come on”

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A plant study I did in watercolour. I actually really like it. It’s the first time I’ve done watercolour in a bit, and I’m happy how it turned out for the most part.

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I was thinking about birds earlier today(many such cases), when my thoughts wandered a bit too far and the phrase “ratite-oulli” popped into my head. I knew I had to draw it, so here’s a quick 10 minute sketch. Nothing is to scale at all, and the cassowary is sorta terrible, but this is a shitpost anyways, so…

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Some miscellaneous things I’ve done in the past two days. All from photo reference, but trying out different styles.