Notts' Art Page

This is where I post art and voice random thoughts. He/They, Autistic, Type 1 Diabetic. Birthday: June 1st, 1998. [Main Page Link for Mobile] [Linktree Link for Mobile users]

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Hey there. This is my new art page. I plan to get some things posted here soon enough; I might start with old artwork and go up from there. I’ll also use this page to pose random thoughts about things, too. I might make a proper introductory post, but this’ll do for now.

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This was a tough piece, but it was well-worth doing. I fought *my* grief through art once before; it’s time to fight someone else’s.

This is for @/peanutpatch.bsky.social and her chicks, some of which sadly passed away recently. She gave consent for me to share this piece publicly.

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Arlo yearns for Pikmin 4 DLC... Link to DA: https://www.deviantart.com/notsophism/art/Arlo-With-a-Tie-1106565965

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I’m posting the 2021 oil tanker picture I did again.

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NottsArtworks Shop | Redbubble

NottsArtworks is an independent artist creating amazing designs for great products such as t-shirts, stickers, posters, and phone cases.

I have a Redbubble now. I still need to work out the kinks and make some better artwork for it (Some of these are from 2020), but I'll go ahead and show a couple older pieces that are on there now.

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The Neurodivergent Diabetic

A neurodivergent diabetic's various tales of dealing with his challenges.

Today, we begin a personal art retrospective.

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A neurodivergent diabetic's various tales of dealing with his challenges

So I've begun writing a blog about my experiences as a Type 1 Neurodivergent Diabetic.

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So as you may have seen in my previous post, I felt like stepping away from art…. And then, out of the blue, the drive to create came back, and I decided it was time to punch above my weight for once.

I finally finished this piece. It was one hell of a ride motivating myself to complete it. I don't think I have too many words to say about it this time.

The fight's over. This inner demon is gone.

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I can’t engage with illustration anymore. Too much is going on in my life for me to maintain my mental bandwidth for art. I have to step away.

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2023 was not an easy year for me. Unlike 2022, a lot of the hardships were spread out throughout the year, rather than being concentrated at the end. I can’t really recreate the emotional catharsis I experienced with the Tiger piece. But the unfinished nature of this piece at least fits my mental state at the time it was made.

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(CW: blood & gore.)

I couldn’t finish the piece in time for the new year, but I’ll take the fact I managed a WIP.

Today, I slay a monster.

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It is time for me to heal in defiance of everything going on in my life. I’m not gonna be perfect, but I can at least have confidence in my tools.

And I have learned something very valuable from, of all things, a *TF2* fan animation: The Scratched Universe Episode 6 (Part 2).

“You can learn, you can train, you can make the effort until you drop. However, know this. Someone who works hard can never beat someone who enjoys himself. THIS... is what I live for!"

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I'm sorry. With my father's conditioning worsening, I've been feeling a lot of complicated emotions. I only have so much mental and physical bandwidth to devote to art, and a lot of it has been spent developing tools that I like, rather than actual pieces. Someday I'll get back into the hobby in full. But this year just isn't the time. It's unfortunate, too; I wanted to challenge myself by getting one piece done a month, and while that has been the case, only two of them are ones I would consider fully rendered.

At least I found this sketch of a tree nice. I'm going to focus on myself for a bit.

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I’m sort of recovering, but I’m still in the thick of things. I’m happy to report that I’ve been migrating to Krita—which wasn’t used for this piece; Firealpaca was. It is the exact kind of art program I’m looking for. I don’t know how soon I’ll be ready to post, though. Again, there is still a lot going on that I must navigate, between my father, and my work situation.

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I'm sorry. With my father's conditioning worsening, I've been feeling a lot of complicated emotions. I only have so much mental and physical bandwidth to devote to art, and a lot of it has been spent developing tools that I like, rather than actual pieces. Someday I'll get back into the hobby in full. But this year just isn't the time. It's unfortunate, too; I wanted to challenge myself by getting one piece done a month, and while that has been the case, only two of them are ones I would consider fully rendered.

At least I found this sketch of a tree nice. I'm going to focus on myself for a bit.

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I’ve been long battling my diet for the sake of my diabetes, ever since early 2022. I’ve stopped having conventional snack items and meat in favor of a vegetarian diet, with strict focus on whole foods. Overall, I feel a lot better than I used to, as I’m sticking with foods that don’t throw off my blood sugar.

… Though, until now, I cut back on too much. I had stopped having snack foods and simply didn’t replace them with anything effectively. I tried simply having larger breakfasts, lunches, and dinners, but they just made me feel tired and imbalanced. I tried including Greek yogurt and eggs during those times as well, and they simply amplified those feelings.

… That was until I realized thanks to a nutritionist that I could simply have those latter foods as snacks to supplement what I’d already been eating. Now, after an hour has past after a major meal, I prepare a serving of greek yogurt and an egg, with at least one serving containing the yolk. I feel a lot more balanced and capable with handling life.

Sometimes, all one really needs is for someone else to point them in the right direction.

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My bandwidth for art is inconsistent at best due to life’s stressors. I’ve been stuck once more doing background fundamentals practice. But I managed to doodle out this tree at work.

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Crap, I haven’t posted here in a while. I should.