@toast-dude - Tumblr Blog

I've started an art blog

I've always felt like my posts would get swallowed up by reblogs, so I was very particular about what I reblogged. Problem solved! Go to https://www.tumblr.com/tdudeart for my art!

aomitois

rb and tag your favorite song that's not in english, japanese or korean

#rock me amadeus #in the original German

cherryhatter-deactivated2015072

KICK THE CAN!

Let’s play the biggest game of kick the can on the internet.

To kick the can, reblog it. I wanna see how long this can go on for.

visibun

the oldest reblogs for this post that i can find are from january 2nd of 2013. this can has been getting kicked around tumblr for almost 13½ years now

drtanner

And yet somehow this is my first time kicking it!

blaiddraws

a couple weeks ago i was looking through my ancient submas posts (i do Not remember why lmao) and came across this one and very dearly wanted to redraw it. so. gestures vaguely

emmet with a shocked, lax frown, and Ingo with an elated smile. their characteristic mouth-shapes reversed

#submas if they got four sleeps in the past seven days #so tired they are only barely themselves #smile? frown? no #they are existing #and that's the best they can do #ingo pokemon #emmet pokemon #pokemon #submas

fangirlinginleatherboots

just so yall know

art block is your brain telling you to do studies.

draw a still life. practice some poses. sketch some naked people. do a color study. try out a different technique on a basic shape.

art block doesnt stop you from drawing, it stops you from making your drawings look the way you want them to. and thats because you need to push your skills to the next level so you can preform at that standard

think of it as level grinding for your next work.

gallusrostromegalus

As a scientific illustrator- this is 100% true and going to review your basics will fix it every goddamn time. Not only does it keep your skills sharp, when you’re not emotionally invested in the final product of a piece, you relax and your brain makes more/better art juice for you. So, when you get back to that big/important piece? You’ll know what to do and how to do it.

Nothing in nature blooms all year round. Rest, and take care of yourself.

strawbebbynya

i want someone to put this into writer’s blocks now

404computerhamstersnotfound

Writer’s block means you need to relearn the whole alphabet. idiot.

redwingedwhump

For writers block- same thing. Do Studies.

Write a description of an object. write the weather today. Write a made up characterization of a random photo of an actor from the internet as to the character they are in that picture. Write a little story about your pet’s day. Write about spilling soup and make it super dramatic and tragic. Write about someone’s day being ruined and make it funny. Write a meetcute coffeeshop AU of two OCs you’d never put together- maybe from different stories. Write them breaking up.

Write a bunch of short stuff meant for no audience ever and super duper self indulgent.

blackaquokat

@sweetiepie08

accidental-spice

@kanerallels

catkin-morgs-kookaburralover

I found out relatively recently that it really helps if I write short fiction surrounding the novels I write. Like oh? I’m stuck for a bit? Ooh there was that section I wanted to explore but doesn’t fit in the plot really. There was that what-if that could never happen in the actual story but would be fun to explore. It keeps me in the characters’ headspace (tho that’s not always what I’m needing) but not right where they are exactly.

winterinhimring

Yes! I have gotten past writers’ block multiple times by writing drabble collections. Making something coherent happen in just 100 words is a very different challenge from writing a long story and it also lets me get past plot points that I don’t want to explore in-depth.

I am also going to have to start drawing studies now…