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It's been a while since I've worked on a sincere, longer-form landscape study. I still had to keep a time limit of one hour on this, but I still had a lot of fun focusing on this. Daily drawing 2472.

gewska

Four years ago I woke up at 5 am from distant explosions. I asked my boyfriend if he heard them too, he said he didn’t and I should go back to sleep. I tried to calm myself down, went on the internet, it was silent, no news or explanations. I told myself that those were just some weird street noises. Half an hour later I woke up again from the same noses, but louder. This time, there were news: russia launched a full scale invasion. In these 4 years I’ve felt layers of fear, hatred and sorrow I never thought were possible. The war completely changed my perception of the world and justice, it forced me to reevaluate everything in my life and everything I believed in. I’m not very good with words, so today I’ll be sharing some of my very personal artworks exploring some of the complicated feelings and experiences I had over the past 4 years. The war still goes on, in fact it has been going on since 2014 not 2022. russians still kill, rape, torture Ukrainian people, destroy our cities and do everything in their power to erase our nation from this world. Today I would like to ask you to donate to Ukraine and share info about this war. All the links can be found here. Thank you Слава Україні!

a-substantial-trash-pile

☀️ hot boy summer ☀️

trying to practice drawing back views because i always draw front views. it's for science, i swear!!! *lying*

hikase

The first meeting of Yog and madame (or not the first?)

batneko

Shout-out to characters who don't plan to survive their stories! Heroes who think they can only atone for their failures through sacrifice, villains who don't think they deserve to live in the world they're trying to create. Gimme that passive suicidality baby, mm-mm, delicious.

vargurvargur

Been thinking about Krusherverse again, so here's a snowy bird witch

teeterarting

Environmental Storytelling

super-jump

Lipstick 💋😘💋

wankadoodles

Métis Miku (Creeku)

wankadoodles

HAPPY INDIGENIOUS PEOPLES DAAAAAAAYYYYY

theconstitutionisgayculture

Something that often gets overlooked in all the talk about why modern writing is shit is the effect the internet has had on people's ability to understand what they're reading. Specifically, I'm talking about how growing up on social media and watching "reviews" from channels like CinemaSins has trained people to pounce on any inconsistency the moment they see it in the most superficial manner possible so they can get a "witty" tweet out about it. I'm talking about things like calling out Character A saying something in Chapter 6 that contradicts something he said in Chapter 3 as bad writing instead of the character himself lying, or losing touch with reality, or anything like that. It's this obsession with proving that we're smarter than the people who are writing the thing we're reading. Of having a quick retort for everything instead of letting what we read sink so we can think about it.

When we read like that, we also write like that.

Instead of trying to create complex characters or a narrative with twists and turns, we instead write so that people who read novels like they're social media posts don't find anything to make fun of. And that absolutely impacts the quality of what we write. We're not writing for ourselves, or our audience, anymore. We're writing so people who want to find something to mock have nothing to mock. But that's an impossible goal, because if someone wants to mock your work, or you, they will, even if they have no "legitimate" reason to do it. We can't write with those people in mind. We shouldn't be those people, either.

Novels are supposed to make you lose yourself in another world. You're supposed to feel for the characters and care about what happens to them. You're supposed to see them as people. Fictional people yes, but still people. You aren't supposed to read like an editor looking for mistakes and you aren't supposed to write for an editor.

Look, there's a lot wrong with modern writing. I know that this isn't even in the top 5 issues that need to be fixed. But it's still something I notice, especially from younger or newer writers. And it's sad to see people scared of their own work.