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[cymk8]

My advice to every artist (and honestly, everyone, but it’s especially relevant if you want to make art yourself) is to learn to appreciate everything other people make. Especially things you don’t like! Look at weird, ugly, bad art, with clashing colors and weird proportions and botched perspective and tropey subjects. Look at things made by amateurs an hobbyists and children, with shaky lines and incomprehensible detail. Look at everything you might find cringe or unpleasant - look at furries and gore and fetish porn and all the niche fandom crossovers. Look at art from cultures you don’t know well, look at things made hundreds of years ago, look at paintings from art movements you don’t know or don’t like at the museum. Look at photography and sculptures and fashion shows and murals on buildings and the design of everyday objects like chairs or lampposts or cars. Look at animation and comics and advertising, even the design on your cereal box.

And each time you look, try to find one thing you can appreciate about it. It’s fine if you don’t enjoy the art, but try to find something in it that has value, something you can respect about it, something that moves the world. It can be mastery of a technique, it can be the emotion conveyed, the thought it provoked, it can be color choice, composition, originality, or it can simply be the act of creation itself. Even in art that makes you uncomfortable, art that you find disgusting or bland or vile or ugly or just lame. You need to learn to see it. It’s ALWAYS there. Really look for it. Because you can learn from every single one of these things. Ask yourself why the artist made this, why they made it in this way. Wonder what someone other than you might see that you don’t see, if it has a meaning you just can’t grasp.

You will learn about the value of art, what it means to create, what it means to be human. If you can appreciate those things, it’ll reflect in how you make your own art. Not only will it deepen your relationship to art as a whole, but it’ll allow you to jump past the initial instinct to look away and give you the opportunity to notice techniques and patterns that you maybe wouldn’t have thought to use otherwise! You can learn from the masters, but you can also learn from everyone else. Learn to see the soul in art! I promise it’s worth it.

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Loving the shadowheart split hair

every day I thank Larian for the canon e-girl shart design...

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🛐🛐🛐 + my bobheart agenda

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my girlfriend unnie is a gumiho

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A monster has its teeth in your companions.

It builds nightmares out of their worst memories and drinks their pain.

One of your companions has a particularly bad worst memory.

Play Here

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Art by @cymk8

Character Specific Achievements:

Aldiirn - Dusksong Be a bard. Use music to make first contact. belongs to @mistercrowbar

Andar - Poor Man's Dancing Lights Be an arcane caster. Try to cast magic. belongs to Tatsunara

Ember - Ghosts Need Sleep Explain why you're sometimes absent. belongs to @catsharky

Finch - Get Safe And Cared For Idiot Successfully hug Astarion. belongs to @everchased

Francys - Priorities Ignore everyone else in the campsite. belongs to @ineadhyn

Greygold - Psspsspsspss Be a ranger. Help Astarion calm down after being frightened. belongs to @jeeaark

Nawen - You're Unbreakable Be a rogue. Give your vampire a pep-talk after a particularly difficult day. belongs to @ineed-to-sleep

Ria - Music Box Be a bard. Play the theme. belongs to @ladyofrosefire

Staeve - Don't Forget Me Say something memorable. belongs to @velnna

Temiter - This Is All A Bit Much Abandon the dream using the silver cord. belongs to @not-poignant

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Another link to the game.

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I couldn't r e s i s t...🌶🌶🌶

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Hello! Would it be okay if I use your fanart of shadowheart (the lady of sorrows one) as my discord icon?

(I'd credit you too of course!)

Yes! Absolutely. Thank you for asking, it means a lot :)

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pov: you gothify your roommate for the views

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hey, did you know that the world is a better place because of your creations and art and writing, no matter how niche or how many people see it

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and they were ROOMATES 👀⁉️

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Have you seen the bg3 patch 8 animated short yet? 👀

BOY HAVE I. [replays the last few shadowlach moments over and over until I die]

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People sending me nice asks abt how my art makes them feel and stuff that it inspired them to do 🥹 it gives me the light to keep looking forward while I'm still burnt out... t y ...

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Just asking if you had a print shop for your art or something? (I'm kind of in love with something you've posted and wish I could buy a print for it one day)

Aw that's sweet...unfortunately I don't have plans to make a print shop at the moment! I'll let y'all know if that changes 🥰

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pov you're giving your werewolf gf a smooch

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🌚↔️🌞

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I'm ok btw! Thank you for your encouragement and support. It's just a Bad Feeling™. Shartposting cannot be stopped

In other unfortunate news, someone used ai to make a commission i did for them into an animation

Commissions are closed for the foreseeable future 🙃

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In other unfortunate news, someone used ai to make a commission i did for them into an animation

Commissions are closed for the foreseeable future 🙃