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in one of the servers I'm in, we've been discussing looking back at your old art, and a couple people mentioned that getting compliments on their old art makes them feel like their artistic growth isn't as evident to other people as it is to them, or like they havent improved as much as they thought for people to still be complimenting their old work

but it's really not like that! Your personal perception of your art is inherently going to be very different to the audience. This is how i explained it in there & i thought i'd share it here as well:

A compliment on your old art doesn't undermine the growth in your new art, it's just admiring the qualities of your work that were already there!

Our art can change direction, our grasp of the fundamentals can get stronger, and this means our personal standards will always go up and the choices we would make creating a piece change, so when you as the creator look back on your old art, you're hit with a lot of "oof, I'd do x and y and z differently now".

But your audience doesn't have any of those hangups, to them youve drawn some good art, and when they look at your current art, you're making even stronger art, and both of them are worth admiring.

not that any of this makes it any less psychic damage inducing to look at your own old art LOL but putting yourself in the shoes of the audience and looking at it for what it is rather than how well it reaches your current standards can still help a little with that

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smiling at you btw. loving you btw. liking you btw. enjoying our time together btw.

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my special and darling daughter

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Transcript: "Ace Detective?…Are you stupid or something?…More like Stupei, Ace Defective."

Please do not spoil who the character or voice actor is in the replies or reblogs. Thank you

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She Awaits: A balcony meeting.

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She Awaits - Flooded Garden (Lovers' Kiss)

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She Awaits 0.03 will be releasing on 6/13!

development and testing for this update is finally finished and i am now in the process of making some final adjustments before release. thanks as always for your support <3

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yeah i dual-wield

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take a break while watching this little bunny cross your dash

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An agate stone that looks like a window to the ocean.

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every moment of your life, from birth to death, constantly, while you aren't looking, there's some kind of weird shapes just moving around in the ocean. and the shapes are eating eachother sometimes too. and they might even dig holes. and all of this is happening during everything else that's going on. like think about the most important moment in your life. the thing that shaped you as a person. the entire time that was happening, far away, deep in the ocean, where no human has ever seen, there was some kind of wet sack with a weird protrusion flailing about in the water. maybe it even grabbed a fish. who knows. i don't. just think about that for a bit

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'The Tales from the Enchanted Isles' illustrated by Dorothy P. Lathrop, 1926

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critical ocean studies / blue humanities — fields that center the ocean as a space of culture, ecology, memory, and power, not just backdrop; explore how water shapes lives, empires, resistance, and futures, especially in the anthropocene; “blue” as in water as a world-making force

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"i asked chatgpt and" ok well i asked the demon in a red paisley suit that i see in my dreams and he sent me a wax-sealed red envelope from across the lake asking me to bring him strawberry preserves

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your grace