#nettletalk

[nettleseeds-art]

Swirly eyes aficionados, what kinds of spirals do you like most?I tend to vary it up a lot but I need ideas for some hypno doodles 👀

[nettleseeds-art]

I dont want to see your ai "creations" seriously its so cringey and gross

Hello!

While I tried doodling here and there in my youth, I didn't formally start learning art until I was 27 years old. 27! I had lived as long as Janis Joplin, Amy Winehouse, and Kurt Cobain had for their entire lives, creative output and all, and here I was like a newborn deer scrambling to get my footing in art!

I started this because it was a bit of a rough spot for me. I left my job as an engineer and had just started my PhD program, which was effectively a full-time job making just enough to cover groceries and my share of the rent, but not much else. Everything else - games, books (thank you public library), even taking a taxi - was considered extraneous. While I had commissioned art several times before then, suddenly I couldn't justify the cost. There were many artists out there whose art I adored and wanted to support, and I had lots of characters and things I wanted to see made real!

So, I picked up my pencil and an old sketchbook and I started drawing. Home late from class? I would cool down with some doodle practice. In the lab on a sunday waiting for an experiment to finish? That was a golden 30 minute window to draw. It was rough. Rougher than rough. Even though I had tried drawing before, I had no concept of anatomy, posing, layout, composition, color(!), or style. Yes, I would get frustrated ("why doesn't it look on the page like it looks in my head? Q~Q"), but I learned that 1) artists are very supportive, and my friends were happy to give advice and feedback as I grew, and 2) visualizing and creativity are a practiced skill! It takes time, but Idk if I can live without doing art. Its fun and I love the high you get when you look at something and go "I made that!!!" Even my old, rough art...sure I cringe at it, but its fun to revisit. Its something I made,

So why am I yelling about all this (again)? Because for some reason, here more so than the site with an actual ai bot built in, here right on tumblr I somehow end up seeing more ai generated crap everywhere. Maybe its a factor of community size. Or people in my niche just wanting more "content" to wallop their scallops too (I do get lots of hypno community stuff on my dash). Its disheartening and frankly just gross.

"But I wanted to create something to share with the community!" Pick up a pencil. Make a shitty photoshop meme. Write it out as a story. It's what weve been doing for literally decades now.

"But I tried art and it seems hard or I cant do it because xyz!" Look, Im a dumb bitch who never thought she had a creative bone in her body. If I can do it, so can you. And if art isn't for you? See the previous answer above. Or as we say in science, vide supra.

You have something you want to share? We want to see the you within it! Put your love into it, your own personal touch. Nothing can overcome the feral rawness of someones interests diffusing into their work. Anything else is just hollow. Theres no cleverness. Theres no whimsy. Its just sad.

[nettleseeds-art]

Ill be honest its been fun to reshare old art and lean a bit more into my interest in hypnosis, but im seeing WAY more AI here than I was hoping

Ive even had people reaching out to connect as "artists", I look at their blog and its all AI. This after I had my own art butchered by someone generating thumbnails for their AI hypno videos and taking money for it. This after I've made my art freely available for years because its my hobby and passion to draw

This ain't it, yall. I dont mind reading your fun hypnoposting but slapping some slop in there only makes me scroll right past

[nettleseeds-art]

I havent had much hypnosis art lately but uhhhhh

Swirly eyes cool. Coin pendulums cool. There, I said it

[nettleseeds-art]

I keep forgetting to upload stuff here, please find me elsewhere if you want more regular updates. I mostly just come here now to ogle fanart and fics.

Other places:

Bsky

Twitter

My discord server: xm7WweBBxu (18+, we run art jam events a couple times a year!)

Also here's a wip of whats coming next

[nettleseeds-art]

Updated pinned post!

Hi I'm nettleseeds i settle your needs

I doodle. Sometimes it gets kinky, so 18+ only please. Im currently on an art hiatus while I work on designing a vtuber model

Feel free to ask me stuff, i dont bite. I run a discord server for art and art events (art jams, free digital zines, etc). (Update: Discord is still very active but links are no longer public due to bots, so please dm me if you'd like the invite!)

Not a hypnotist, not a vtuber, just a dork. Not looking for hypnosis, but i dont mind talking about it

For those who have asked, sorry but I dont take commissions!

Bsky Twitter

[nettleseeds-art]

Learning to Draw in 2026

So you made ✨learning to draw✨your 2026 resolution. Yay! In a time when people are making slop at record rates, doing art will help keep you sharp and creative. Here are some tips that will help you keep it up and achieve your goal this year!

1) draw today! Grab a pencil/pen/crayon and some paper/napkin/whatever. The hardest part is starting to draw, but each day you put it off is another day farther from learning to draw! It can be as easy as just doodling a circle, but getting the habit started is critical

2) your art will be crap at first, and thats ok! Every artist starts out awful, its like the art brain is full of gunk that you gotta get out first before the flow clears. I spent a long time with basic pencil doodles, it was subtle but over time my skill grew as I kept drawing

3) practice fundamentals! You can doodle what you like, but try to draw from what you see. Use photo references, learn proportions from anatomy. Don’t worry about visualizing from day 1, look at a bowl on your table and draw it! You don’t need to dive right into stylized art

4) don’t be afraid to ask for help! I know many artists who love to share their advice or tips, because more artists means more art to enjoy! You can also find plenty of youtube vids (I like Proko’s video on drawing the head using the Loomis method), these are all easy to access!

I am looking forward to what you draw, and I am cheering for you! Art isn't just about the final drawing, it's about the joy and process of creating something. Art always feels so much better when you look at it and say "i made that!"✨

[nettleseeds-art]

We spend 20 hours drawing for a 5-second view while scrolling

Artists stare for hours at their work, thus we hyperfocus on our own flaws, its why often you hear artists dont like their own art

But everything you make is appreciated, you create from nothing and it's uniquely you