Reynard's Art

[reynardart]

Art progress over two years, and why I'm a big believer in getting attached to a character or a fandom and using that to fuel your art. If you have something you love to draw, you'll draw it with passion and you'll draw it a lot and you will, over time, improve.

Tl;dr: if practice without purpose seems pointless, find something to be passionate about. Love characters, love your OCs, love a fandom, love something and draw it because you love it, and you'll improve.

I stopped drawing when I went to undergrad, and when I stopped, I was ok. Not great, pretty much at the level I was at in the older piece. I didn't get any better for the next few years, because while I tried to practice, did things like drawabox, looked at tutorials, all of it, I had nothing I really loved to draw.

I honestly just assumed I'd hit my peak level of skill, and could not improve from there. Which was... fine. Art isn't my job, it's a hobby, so while it irked me that I couldn't draw things I wanted to draw, it made sense to me - I wasn't an artist, after all. Artists have talent, I do not, so of course practicing wasn't helping me - you can't get better than your best, right?

It turns out practice without purpose is pointless (for me, at least) - I had no goals, I just wanted to be 'better', and had no idea what 'better' looked like. I didn't have any specific thing that I wanted to draw better, so I didn't.

Then the pandemic happened and I began working from home, and was so. fucking. bored. So, I started looking for things to be interested in, and whaddayaknow, Homestuck was trending.

I made this silly little guy for an RP campaign I didn't even get into, and I drew him once and wasn't super happy with it. I had an image in my head, and it wasn't what I saw on my page, so I did it again. And again, and again, and then I loved someone else's character and drew them.

And I did that for two years, at which point I decided to redraw the full-body character art I'd done way back then. I wasn't trying to prove that I'd gotten better at art, I honestly didn't really think I had, but then I looked at them side-by-side and realized that I had improved more in the last two years than I had in the decade prior.

[kiiraes]

gonna post my entire stickman reaction pic collection

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[astroslayyy]

throwing in a few more I have :3

[cicada-candy]

✨️✨️

[erijuice]

collecting these like pokemon cards

[caesarsaladinn]

everybody tweets like a social theorist these days, blaming their sad little lives on the commodification of art, decline of third spaces, hyperindividualism, and other such nonsense. I, on the other hand, know what's causing my misery--the demiurge's curse

[jordanbolton]

To The Substitute Art Teacher - Jordan Bolton

[soviet-union-deactivated19911226]

u ever see someone with extremely fucked up views (or actions) and think wowww if a couple of things in my life went the tiniest bit differently that would have been me

[max1461]

I think most people would benefit from reflecting on how this might be true for them

[vacuously-true]

Sometimes people bitch about media, both fiction and nonfiction, that they think "humanizes" bad people, especially bigots fascists Nazis et cetera. And I'm just like. Hey. Hey. The problem is. They ARE human. HUMANS did that. Your next door neighbor could do that. Your grandma could do that. You could do that.

"No I'm a good person" why? Because you've gotten lucky and not seen propaganda yet that perfectly hit your buttons? Because you had people to correct you when you fucked up? Idk man I don't think we're all so different from the bad people. We're all just people.

Reminding ourselves of our shared humanity with terrible people does NOT serve to justify their actions. It serves to remind us that the seeds of what happened to them could get into us as well, or might already have. It reminds us to be vigilant and interrogate the hatred inside us.

If you convince yourself that you're just an Inherently Good Person who would never believe hateful things well. Now any little hateful thing that makes its way inside you undetected is never going to be interrogated. It will be left to grow undisturbed.

If you remember that those things can get into anyone, you know to look out for them, and weed them out when they appear, and take the criticism when others point them out in you. So remember, that could have been you. If you forget, maybe it will be.

[zoesupreme]

spotify is raising prices again here's the apk that gives you premium for free

[world-of-lang]

and here's the desktop version for Windows with adblock and skip-bypass BlockTheSpot

[dont-look-me-in-the-eye]

spot X for windows

spot X for linux/mac

[bringcal]

i miss vhs tapes and cds i miss feeding my computers and tvs yummy treats. now theyre eating nothing. theyre being born without mouths

[edgar-allan-possum]

[reynardart]

And heart~

[secondlina]

I forgot to post this Crow Time to tumblr! Here it is!

I love Jellybean Juice so much...

[reynardart]

And another~ Time this time.

[reynardart]

Another in the tarot card set!

[amvs]

interesting fact i have titanium in my spine

[amvs]

[walkietalkiesaki]

Fun Fact!

Titanium not only is crazy durable, but it noo magnet! Thas wy Dock chok jjiun spi; surgyr ad pater noster, qui es in cœlis; sanctificetur nomen tuum: Adveniat regnum tuum; fiat voluntas tua, sicut in cœlo, et in terra. Panem nostrum cotidianum da nobis hodie: Et dimitte nobis debita nostra, sicut et nos dimittimus debitoribus nostris: et ne nos inducas in tentationem: sed libera nos a malo.

[amvs]

dude got hit with the ol’ Lorum Ipsem beam😞

[carry-on-my-wayward-butt]

its so brave that you have such a 2012-coded url in this 2024 world

would you call a bear brave for standing in a new construction suburb or would you recognize the unfamiliar world they built around him

[reynardart]

Another in the tarot car set - this one's escaping the card ~

[freakyarts]

Is monoke a dead fandom? Does it have a fandom? Does it matter? NO

[soviet-union-deactivated19911226]

u ever see someone with extremely fucked up views (or actions) and think wowww if a couple of things in my life went the tiniest bit differently that would have been me

[max1461]

I think most people would benefit from reflecting on how this might be true for them

[vacuously-true]

Sometimes people bitch about media, both fiction and nonfiction, that they think "humanizes" bad people, especially bigots fascists Nazis et cetera. And I'm just like. Hey. Hey. The problem is. They ARE human. HUMANS did that. Your next door neighbor could do that. Your grandma could do that. You could do that.

"No I'm a good person" why? Because you've gotten lucky and not seen propaganda yet that perfectly hit your buttons? Because you had people to correct you when you fucked up? Idk man I don't think we're all so different from the bad people. We're all just people.

Reminding ourselves of our shared humanity with terrible people does NOT serve to justify their actions. It serves to remind us that the seeds of what happened to them could get into us as well, or might already have. It reminds us to be vigilant and interrogate the hatred inside us.

If you convince yourself that you're just an Inherently Good Person who would never believe hateful things well. Now any little hateful thing that makes its way inside you undetected is never going to be interrogated. It will be left to grow undisturbed.

If you remember that those things can get into anyone, you know to look out for them, and weed them out when they appear, and take the criticism when others point them out in you. So remember, that could have been you. If you forget, maybe it will be.

[cannibalchicken]