[vimbry-moved]

I need to find that 1 comic I saw in the neopian times eons ago as a little baby, that had a lab rat lupe musing on its changing gender identity that I kept in the back of my mind for several years and did not unpack

[vimbry-moved]

FOUND it, issue 111

[lakehounds]

“Fears”

Autobiographical comic, 2020.

[clawheld]

[phimeirai]

oversized

[kingmystrie]

[kingmystrie]

ik i just posted this but i added color

[courtmartialme]

omg .. riza meowkeye and roy muttang fma ..

[grubscouts]

Away message: SK8 2 CR8

[kingarniestar-deactivated202509]

You're a star!

[nomaxart]

Got a swell treat for you all today. A portrait made for Smallyu! Not really open for comms, but Smallyu was stealthy enough and managed to sneak one in. Sneaky, sneaky! 👀

[sarielsnowings]

Species challenge! 🦊✨

I asked my followers on Twitter and Bluesky for animal suggestions (especially less common ones in the furry fandom) and this was the result :3 it was very fun, should repeat it sometime!

[assovi]

[tabbyraks]

Study of a few lizards. Namely, starting from the upper left one and going clockwise: Giant Girdled Lizard - Smaug giganteus Green Basilisk - Basiliscus plumifrons Grand Cayman Blue Iguana - Cyclura lewisi

Thanks to the Hourly Lizards Twitter account for compiling these images!

[brainsanalysis-deactivated20210]

Hello please reblog this if you're okay with people sending you random asks to get to know you better

[tabbyraks]

Tracking my work hours has been delightful

[tabbyraks]

Glad to announce I am now officially a Newgrounds shill

It's literally just everything I've wanted from social media. The rating system is awesome, the stuff people put on there is awesome (games, art, music, animations, dear god), the feeling of doing manual labor to weed out the bad from the good and feeling like you're making a difference as opposed to a binary like/don't-like system is so incredibly awesome. (Not to mention it's on a latest-posted / best-of-timeframe system, not an algorithm.) I've been sleeping on Newgrounds for far too long (quite literally as long as I've been alive) and it's time to change that. With what little influence I have on social media, I beg you to at least give Newgrounds a chance

[mansand]

i made ants and they hate eachother

[tabbyraks]

I think I create content (art, writing, creative endeavors) so slowly because I push my boundaries so incredibly far each time I want to create something. The piece I'm working on now is a far cry from my previous work in terms of light, color, contrast, and even visual design - mainly because it's literally concept art, which I've never explicitly done before - and yet I still beat myself up about going slowly. Clearly, it's taking more time because I'm slogging through so many new things I have to visualize that I've never had to consider before.

In contrast to this, when I write code, it's relatively hassle-free because code is just straightforward logic; therefore it carries less mental weight and stress because there are usually only a few familiar paths forward to your goal (assuming you're at least an experienced programmer). Creativity is different in that there's always more to learn and try, which puts a lot of stress on your mind because very few of the uncountable paths in front of you are familiar.

This dichotomy is precisely what leads to growth and/or stagnation: if you take the familiar path, it's leagues easier but you learn nothing and gain no new insight besides learning more about the workings of the path amd how to make it easier for yourself next time. If you take an unfamiliar path, it's so mentally stressing and it takes much longer to weed your way through the jungle but when you come out on the other side you've learned a whole new way to traverse your way to a desired result, usually carrying a new trait you've sought after for a long time.

I, personally, have a very strong bias against familiar paths. If I can choose, I'll never choose the familiar path. Why this is, exactly, is a topic for another post but I suspect it's to do with how I view my work compared to the work I adore. A bit of an inadequacy thing, perhaps.

Love you all. New art soon - a look at a world I'm designing for a project.

[kingarniestar-deactivated202509]

TUMBLR STILL EATING MY REPLIES - I wanted to say, just focus on whether or not you enjoy the art making process. When it comes to my personal work I'm more than comfortable to post a shitty little doodle if that's all I feel like doing.

I experiment a lot as well, but I don't experiment explicitly to improve my artwork because I've learned that art is subjective and even stick figures can be super impressive at times. So whenever I experiment it's less of me trying to go for a specific final result and me just doing whatever I have the most fun in that moment with the amount of energy I have and on the topic i feel like in that second. Even my longer projects go very much this way, with me working on things sporadically.

I think maybe posting unfinished stuff or even intentionally leaving art unfinished, small in scale and unpolished when doing some experiments if you want to do more of them.

At the end of the day, when you get art done is when you get art done and you shouldn't feel guilty about that. You can take two days or 50 years, so long as you're doing it in a way that you're happy to be doing it, I'm rooting for ya.

[tabbyraks]

Thanks for the kind words. Oddly enough, I believe my enjoyment of art stems from the stressful paths. There's something deep inside me that feeds on the absolute alignment of what I wanted to do and what I achieved that can only be satisfied through constantly wading through these barriers. For example, my current muse is Nomax (@/nomaxart) and his purely astounding work. I want to take some of what makes his art so appealing and add it to mine, but it's taking incredible deliberation and brainpower. However, the result when I do finally find what I'm searching for will feel like such an achievement that I've started to assign that feeling to the act of going through these stressful paths before I've even achieved the feeling itself, if that makes sense.

Nowadays, I usually don't see "unfinished" work as experimental. This is mainly because I'm happy with where I'm at with my sketchwork/draftsmanship, shapes, and anatomy and I do actually tread the familiar path when I reach those steps. The experiments I'm doing currently require a decent amount of work before I get to the fun (rather, experimental) part which is the rendering portion where I get to drive myself mad over all the things that make a painting what it is - value, color and light, contrast, etc. - because I haven't done much in the way of those yet as I've spent the past three years mainly focused on anatomy and character work.

Hence "unfinished" work for me is just any work before the fun, stressful part. In my mind, why bother posting work that hasn't reached its full potential yet? ("Full potential" in this scenario meaning every ounce of knowledge and insight I can squeeze out of the experience before I restart the cycle of ruminating on what I've done wrong and right - plus what I'd like to include next - for five to ten business days before attempting to work on another full art piece.)

Again, thanks for the interaction. I appreciate that you've read what I wrote and provided your insight, and though I write online like a professional English teacher for some odd reason (currently unknown, even to me.) I also appreciate your willingness to read my long and in-depth explanations of these things. (I sincerely did not mean to write this much. I'm going to stop now to avoid even more of a text wall)