#werewolf talks

[w-erewolfboy]

Popping by to say I'm healing well so far from surgery, just a bit annoyed about the sleeping slightly upright on my back situation. My poor neck is a little stiff despite my best efforts.

[w-erewolfboy]

Y'know, for years now I've kept this blog entirely for posting my art but I do wonder if I shouldn't post more besides art. Treat this blog like my bsky or my main blog. This tumblr is my de facto portfolio page and so I want to keep it professional but also, maybe talking about my process more would be useful here?

[w-erewolfboy]

Popping in to say I am WAY more active on bluesky but also that I am very sorry to keep neglecting my art tumblrrrrr

[w-erewolfboy]

Slow Art

I've been thinking a lot lately about my art practice, and how I'd like it to change and how it has already been changing. This is something I shared on my bluesky as well, but because of character limits it ended up being short.

In essence, I'm returning to art as a slow practice, as an intentional practice, and as a self-centred practice.

I used to make art to play the numbers game because that's what I thought I had to do. I kept the algorithm happy and I made a lot of art, some of it good and some bad. My production was at an all time high because I forced myself to post three times a week minimum, I was in school and I was never not making art.

I think that while the practice did me good, it also made my work suffer a lot. I was constantly making and creating and I never took the time to really savour or take in what it was I was making- even if I was passionate about my latest projects I never really stopped to make them realize their fullest potential.

Now, though, in the last two years especially, I have slowed down. At first it was because my work was getting in the way of making art at all, then it was because I was keeping most everything I made off of social media and being more selective of what I post and when.

Now, I do it intentionally because I want to get back to creating how I created when I was a kid. When I was drawing, in those days, I did it often and I did it well because it was for me primarily. Showing my friends the cool stuff I drew and drawing with them was a bonus feature, but my art was for me. I was doing some of the most creative work I'd ever done, at my pace.

I honestly think my work has never been better for it, after this (small but significant) change in attitude and practice.

So, while I likely won't post new things as often, I'm hoping that this statement and this practice will make me a better artist- and for those of you who follow me who also do art, I hope this makes you think a little about your art practices.

[coyotegard]

Me? Sending dirty texts to my wife while shes at work out of boredom? More likely than you think

[w-erewolfboy]

Okay tumblr isn't letting me post my latest art and I don't even know if it'll let me post text posts so this is a test

[w-erewolfboy]

Directory

NO NFTS AND NO AI ART EVER!

In case you missed my bio, I'm Jay and I make art.

For people who follow me here but may like to see more of me on other platforms, I've linked everything below.

I am most active on my bluesky, but I do still post elsewhere. At this point my instagram is basically abandoned save for promoting new games I make on itch.

Portfolio: https://w-erewolfboy.tumblr.com/

Itchio: https://werewolfboy.itch.io/

Bluesky: werewolfboy.bsky.social

Instagram: w_erewolfboy

Ko-fi: /werewolfboy

[coyotegard]

Sometimes i remember how when my mom made me go to CCD the teacher was all "we should define ourselves by our religion first, country of origin second, like the jewish people" and even then it didn't make a lot of sense bc she was boiling judaism down to just a religion when its an ethnicity as well and not all people who are jewish practice judaism so when people introduce themselves as jewish its not necessarily a religion thing is usually a cultural one and also tells you a bit about the persons culture when they introduce themselves. When you introduce yourself as a christian/catholic youre basically introducing yourself as a someone who is potentially racist/bigoted/homophobic aka generally unsafe to be around so uh. Yeah