#starting art

[ashlehdahling]

it's been a long time coming, but I’ve finally decided to post my art online, especially on Redbubble.

if you have the time, please look around!

(via Night Time Blooms Sticker by ashlehdahling)

[fishthegenderwiz]

Monday I was scrolling around the net, thinking about making a dollhouse and decorating it, when I came across a full apartment one that was basically one room, built on a flat surface, with a little set of stairs to the bed area. It got me thinking to make little rooms to start off… But how? I have no boxes or anything Waaaaait.. I have this display cabinet that is displaying nothing! It’s perfect! Visible on each shelf are 20cm x 20cm square canvas boards, which I’ll be using as the base. Each “floor” will have a ladder leading to the next, and I’m thinking The Borrowers themed. I’m pretty excited for this. I have to remind myself it’s not going to be completed in a week so I don’t get frustrated.

[jinxneedssleep]

Finally drawing again after months. Sorry for bad picture quality 😓

[pensghettdesigns]

Not sure how this whole art blog thing works.

So for a while I’ve been trying to figure out how to make my art blog so that I can gain some traction and open commissions.  I have some old (March) Steven Universe fanart piece but mostly have focused on doing non fan artwork.  But would that make it easier for me to be recognized as an artist? (I mean I have only posted a WIP so far on here but I’m not sure how to really proceed) 

[shadowcream]

My sister, who had always been much more artistic than I had growing up (and who is also now a professional creative), said to me, "I always wonder where that comes from, that one day you can pick up a pen and just start drawing. Was that always inside of you? Or did it just appear?" I really don't know the answer to that question. But what I do know is that once I started to draw and paint, I couldn't stop. Would that have happened earlier in life if I had been pushed or encouraged more? I am not sure. I think part of what drives my work is my life experience, so coming into it later is something I am actually grateful for.

Lisa Congdon about starting creative life later in life.

http://joesdaughter.org/blog/2013/6/19/l8m19lkfc62rx0qvnyjucu1xs14vrd

[melancholymurry]

Tomorrow I start at college and I'm still not sure how I feel about this... I know that I'm excited to start an art course... but at the same time I'm kinda nervous.

I haven't started anywhere new since I started secondary school when I was eleven years old. I'm eighteen now but I feel like I'm that little, chubby (understatement 'cause I was fucking huge when I was little) girl starting somewhere new again for the first time... I'm so nervous that I won't fit in. Making friends there isn't as important to me as getting good grades but it would be nice if I at least got on well with the other class members.

Also I'm terrified about starting an art BTEC because I know deep down that my work is really really awful and that I won't be able to pass... But I really need to learn how to get better at drawing so I can get my manga down as sketches and try and get it published... It's a stupid dream but it's my dream and I'm going to try and follow it as much as I can.

I also go back to work on Thursday at the place I work on and off at during the summer holidays and such. Since my college timetable is Monday to Wednesday I got offered Thursday and Friday work ten hours a week just to get me by with the costs of materials (and potentially travel if I can't get my 16+ oyster card renewed...). I spent about £60 in WHSmiths the other day on sketchbooks for me and a friend of mine starting a similar course at another college. It's ridiculous how much good quality sketchbooks cost :/ I just hope it'll be worth it and that I do well at this college...