#frannerd

[alinktoana]

local elderly girl sells stickers at a japanese food festival

not gonna lie, the entire experience is very emotional to me and it's been a month but moon channel's vid essay about cool japan, and the release of smt5 vengeance (lol) inspired me

tldr: i made some stickers, got real existential about it, will keep making more c: if youd like to check them out, here's a link

ive always wanted to draw, i used to say i was gonna become a painter or a fashion designer when i grew up. none of that happened, but i did go to film school. my final project was a script for an animated short highly inspired by nbc hannibal, majora's mask (i know, it was 2016, it makes sense to me lol) and a huge loss in my life from which i havent fully recovered, 10 years later.

the point is, ive always been art adjacent but i never really drew, until i got inspired by_hannibal itself_, noel fielding, kylux (LOL) and a roommate who was who was really inspired by art youtubers like frannerd and drew around the house, so i picked up a pencil and started drawing hannigram fanart bc i was so insanely in love with that show lol i remember who i was before i drew. i spent my days reading and watching tv, bc i love stories and stuff, but i was a consumer. and once i got a job after college i felt so incredibly isolated and directionless. do i have a direction now, as i work as a """"designer""" for a company that sells a mental health app? no. but like demifiend was force fed a magatama and got demon powers (LMAO BEAR WITH ME I JUST BOUGHT SMT3 HD REMASTER), i caught the art demon (like steven zapata says). and i caught it bad. i spend my day to day rushing through my work and chores and everything so i can have enough time to draw in the evening, to do whatever, and sometimes the need is so immense i cant do anything bc im not good enough, my skills are fading, im worthless, what's the meaning of all this? so i took a chance and showed my work at an arts alley on a japanese food festival i was helping organize. mind you, i was juggling that with my 9/5, promoting the event, finishing drawings from years ago. and when i got there, nobody got it. people looked at the stickers and didnt recognize the characters, and went on to buy the stickers my friends had that were more current. it was all japanese fanart. we were there with the single purpose of baiting weebs like us lol

ive always dealt with clients, im used to this. but im used to business to business, bc sigh i am a corporate girly. and im a beginner in the demon arts of arting. i felt so ashamed people were preferring other people, that i had the audacity to think i was worth anything. but i stood there, standing still with my brain boucing off my skull wanting to leave but also enjoying the experience and hoping someone, anyone would get it. and some people did. to my surprise, jack frost was my best selling sticker, lol. jack frost, from the smt franchise, a franchise im so new to but i love so dearly. im 100% a poser, ive never finished a megaten game. but… it just speaks to me. and thats where my cool japan feelings come from bc, like i said, i was selling at a japanese food festival. people my age, from the country i come from, were exposed to dragon ball and cardcaptor sakura from birth. and learning about history and the atrocities of the japanese empire is just. who can you trust. but ive aways resonated with one thing from japan, and it's the way they portray sadness in their works. it's become a ritual since last year that i will listen to smtv's ost when im on my period bc it literally brings me back to life. no one but i know how many times ive drawn goro majima and taiga saejima bc their mere existance and their sorrow resonates with me so immensily and i dont wanna see them being sad, nor do i wanna see me being sad. it's. it's really difficult to be to admit that im from brazil, bc our country sells happiness as an export but for many, many years the most popular genre is butthurt country music, and it makes sense, you know? people dont wanna admit they're sad. and i can only imagine what it's like for regular japanese people, bc we (i) get to see their big exports of bittersweetness… i dont know, maybe other people get to see that from brazil too, i dont know. the arts in brazil, or specially where i live, it's just isnt in the cards for us. but ill keep trying, you know. and i know fanart is a hack. but im trying. despite everything and everyone wanting us (me) to work for mining/metal/oil companies, make the most money, have the least health, drink all the alcohol (but call an uber), consume, reproduce and die, i. i just wanna draw tiny people, you know. it's. not that big a deal. all this to say that yes im gonna keep drawing and making stickers and, who knows, you know. these are stickers that i wont ever find near me, or that im too broke to get them from artists/official stores, so if youre like me, here's some pdfs in case you wanna print them and stick them wherever c: ty if you got this far, this is a big ramble… but it's been years in the making and despite everything im happy about it c:

[bel-luppi]

Watercolor practice studying frames from Frannerd's videos (which are a visual delight✨)

[mostly-paper-kind]

FranNerd planner.

[belleepoque7]

hiç şaşmaz

[ikathemadhatter]

Starting a new sketchbook with random doodles from pics saved on my phone, since i want to practice more... Today sketches starring the artist @frannerd-blog and the musician Minami Kei from Falilv 🌸

[eevielearnsspanish]

informative exchange I had in the comment section of a Fran Meneses video

[transcript under cut]

me: “que pasu mi amol” [imitating Fran baby talking to her cat] that killed me <3

p1: omg same. demasiado universal esa conversacion con los michis. “QUE? que pasu mi amur”

me: No se la palabra ‘michis!’ Suena lindooo

p2: michi significa gato

me: que lindo! <3

[ecarrier]

I started what I am affectionately referring to as my Ugly Sketchbook (idea from @frannerd) This will be a space I can draw or sketch anything without the pressure to look like an “aesthetically pleasing” sketchbook spread.

[bekoe]

June 8th, 2020: Something New

I decided to make my planner into a creature! It’s the “We Are Nice Humans” planner by frannerd!

[iamclaoh]

#CuarentenaDeIlustración

Día 4: Podcast Favorito Edo y Fran. Tocan temas muy interesantes, son muy divertidos y tienen acento chileno.

<3

[littlealienproducts]

Yearly Planner by frannerd

[joancomics]

I like to do sketch warm ups to start my day. This one came out really good so I wanted to share! This is @frannerd, I love watching her videos about illustration work. You should check out her stuff! . . . . . Check out the link in my bio for more sketches . . #artistsoninstagram #sketch #warmup #portrait #frannerd #joancomics https://www.instagram.com/p/B5AlN8nDQEO/?igshid=1c90xdq0l1kbk

[mostly-paper-kind]

Using one of the FranNerd undated monthly calendar sheets to help me plan out my university work. ⠀

[rajkumarhansda-blog]

Once you have tasted the taste of sky, you will always look up- Leonardo

This is my first post

[sailorprincessx]

A few weeks ago I made this Draw of Fran Meneses aka @frannerd my absolutely favorite illustrator and artist in the whole world... I post this before in my Instagram page (because I used the most) so if you wanna follow me on ig my user is @sof4b_ Hope you like guyssssssss!🌱 Plus, hamburguesa & cereal (frannerd’s cats)

[ikathemadhatter]

in the search of inspiration and motivation ~ Frannerd

[pandatelier]

This year I wanna come back to drawing lovely things that make me happy every month. January was a very hard and intense time for me.

1. I started using my new, beautiful planner from Frannerd. I'm really delighted with it. It has tons of extra stuff inside like stickers, places for notes and new years resolutions, but best of all - it's filled with lovely drawings. I love this calendar, it gives me inspiration every day.

2. I finished my master's thesis on Moomins and I'm really happy about it. I wrote about life of the author, Tove Jansson, and also interpreted all books from the Moomins series. Tove was a great artist and her life is an inspiration to me.

3. I finally managed to renovate and sell my apartment, it was really tiresome and stresfull.

4. I bought new vegan cosmetics from Resibo.

5. There's a new cute coffee maker in our house.