the artsy side

hi! my name is maggie (adult, she/her 🇵🇱) and i do a little bit of drawing :)

[mydzygro-art]

some sketchbook spreads!!

i don’t usually work with pencil, but there’s something very oddly satisfying about the end result, even if it has a lot of flaws it just feels good to look at - guess i’m a sucker for some good ol’ texture haha

[morzowo]

[caseywond3r]

hey guys so apparently this is a thing a lot of people don't realise but like. if you have had writer's block/ art block for like. six months. a year. two years. that's maybe not a block. that's maybe depression. and you should maybe look into treating the source of the problem instead of just beating yourself up for not being able to write/draw. be kind to yourself and know that your struggle to create isn't based in laziness or a lack of skill or talent.

[tyrannosaurus-trainwreck]

You also do have like, a finite amount of energy. Especially creative and emotional energy.

The celebrate-the-grind stories where some famous artist held down two grueling part-time jobs to make ends meet and got by on four hours of sleep a night so they'd have time to write their novel or paint or whatever, so what's your excuse are absolute bullshit. We should look at those about the same as we look at long-haul truckers doing a lot of amphetamines to handle driving for 16 hours a day or AAA game studios and crunch time.

So yeah, if your ability to make art has dried up, you really should take a good look at the underlying reasons and see if there's maybe some self-care you need to be doing. The answer is pretty much never "laziness."

[opalescent-potato]

tags via @tyrannosaurus-trainwreck

[mydzygro-art]

some sketches for a friend! his name is mango :)

[mydzygro-art]

"Is that my hat?"

Recently I went on my first vacation in two years! Having the time to just sit down, reflect and observe always fills me with motivation to draw.

Sooo... I came back to this little project I've been sitting on for the past couple of months! A little reader insert (or rather my personal interpretation for the character) from the wonderful work of @morning-star-joy ❤

Had some more things cooking up, but I gave up in the end. Compositions with multiple characters interacting with each other feel too difficult for me atm (also man, I really need to draw more men lmao), but I'm working on expanding my portfolio in that area!

For anyone interested (and you SHOULD be interested!), you can read the fic here - a stranger's heart without a home (nsfw)

Thank you for your amazing work! ❤

[pikestaff]

"Stop saying 15 year olds with weird interests are cringe, they're 15" this is true however you should also stop saying adults with weird interests are cringe because who gives a shit

[themythicalcodfish]

To wit:

[switchelsweets]

I want to share some wisdom from my high school art teacher.

In my AP Art class, there was a girl who was just starting to experiment with mixed media. At this point she was still playing around, trying to decide what direction she wanted to go with her portfolio. So one critique day, she brought in an abstract canvas with some rhinestone highlights and painted and real peacock feathers. She loved sparkles and peacock feathers so she thought she’d try introducing them a *little*. And after everyone had given some input, the teacher gave her his advice, VERY roughly paraphrased here:

“So here’s the thing… I do not like this style. These are just elements that do not speak to me personally, but I see that you like them, and you’re doing interesting things with them.

“My biggest critique is, I only merely *dislike* this piece. I want you to make me HATE it. Go crazy with the things that you like. Don’t hold back trying to make it palatable to people like me. Because I am NEVER going to like it. And if the audience does not like it, it should drive them crazy seeing how much YOU love it.”

Her portfolio was chock full of neon colors and glitter and rhinestones and splashes of peacock feathers and it was a delight. Our teacher despised every piece lol, but she got great marks and I think even won some awards. And more importantly, she was happy and proud of the results. Because she didn’t limit herself by trying to appeal to people who were never going to enjoy what she enjoyed.

Takeaway here: be as cringe as you want. Don’t limit yourself based on other ppl’s tastes. They’re not you, and you are incredible 💕

[mydzygro-art]

Illustrations loosely based on "fables from Nicaragua and Guatemala"

Hello!

This is an old college assignment, that unfortunately is not holding up so well as time goes on - but I still have some fond memories of being super proud of how it all came out (especially the first illustration).

I used to NEVER work in color, because I really had no idea how to make it look good - so I would always hand in my artworks with some bullshit explanation as to why it's lineart only haha

But as time went by (and my teacher's patience got thinner) I had to start using color aaand this was my first time doing so!

As you can see, it's still pretty bare so I'm thinking of re-doing it someday to see how much I've improved. Especially because I found out how you can use gradient maps to try out different color palletes when working from b&w - which this illustration is fully based on.

I rememeber heavily relying on reference for this work - I don't know what it was exactly, but I probably copied some of the more detailed elements to save up on time. The deadlines were extremely short for some of these projects, so I scrambled to get anything out haha

But yeah, I'd definitely would like to do better than that, now that I have more experience and time under my belt!

[mydzygro-art]

unrelated but also very much related?

these two artworks were made specifically to fill out a page in my portfolio for an assignment wayyy back in uni; and I must admit - they were pretty bland

so I decided to polish them up a bit and uh.. somehow ended up going into two completely different directions

but they still fit next to each other so they're getting posted together anyway >:)

[greater-than-the-sword]

"Credit to the original artist" is not credit to the original artist

[greater-than-the-sword]

"Payment to the cashier", I say, as I haul a TV out the door of the Walmart

[mydzygro-art]

day and night

[mydzygro-art]

silly little fishman

((psst you can find the whole sketchbook spread here!))

[mishastoesies]

“if no art makes you feel anything, make your own art and feel something” is too raw of a line to have come from a jenna marbles video of her painting a rainbow/polka dot seahorse saying “it’s seahorse time” on a denim jacket

[starseekrr]

[greenycrimson]

Why do you people feel profound thought has to come from high places? The gutter looks at the stars too

[aberrantemotion]

not only did you prove your point, but you showed an example of it in the same sentence

[mydzygro-art]

solar mama

Concept art for a solar punk character in a game that unfortunately never got to be...

Loved this design so much and I still had some sketches laying around - so I decided to polish them up and give this lady the full mockup she deserves ❤

[mydzygro-art]

a small process for my recent underwater illustration

sorry if it's very random, but each step looks cool enough to be its own thing so I wanted to put it out somewhere haha

[mydzygro-art]

new obsession - turning old linocut designs into textures for painting :))

process gif here

[cookietastic]

Looking at your own art for reference going “how the fuck did I do that”

[mydzygro-art]

further exploration of the design for this tall fantasy lady :^))