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PM Seymour covered your post in his most recent video "The Touch Starved Tumblr User"

just wanna congratulate you for that!

Yeah someone else shared it w/ me. Kinda insane to see a post I made on whim go basically... everywhere like that. Especially given that I made it from my mildly-popular-in-one-fandom position surrounded by a lot of friends of various levels of popularity, seeing it get posted by accounts with 50k, 80, 150k is like damn. Really highlighting the difference in what 'popular' can mean to someone. I hope people at least take home the message about how to approach creating and posting online to heart and pace themselves. Its remarkably easy to slip into the ditch with such an interaction driven system, so i hope that those reposts and discussions at least mean more people see & talk & internalize it

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I'll be honest if youre a strictly digital artist you should pick up some sort of physical hobby art. Stamp carving/needlefelting/etc. Maybe get a single carving knife and just start whittling twigs like some sort of cowboy. Having something more tactile to do with your hands can be a lot more relaxing and grounding than paper or screen art is in my experience its really good for nerves

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Pencil for scale. I have a tiny book for testing

love is winning

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love is winning

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would you be open to doing rain world themed tattoo commissions ??? i would pay handsomely lmfao

I certainly wouldn't be completely opposed! Although I'd have to know the subject well/be confident- if somethings going on someones skin I wanna make sure its something I could get right

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Covering fire

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Hurricane

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Shootingstar

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The Sunder Sacrifice a bit of yourself for an advantage

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The Blend No need to run if you never got found

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Danse macabre

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To Reap

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30 triangles, 6 diamonds, and 31 days of Rain World fanart later... We are done with art month!! You can see the individual posts here!

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This post has grown far outside of its original scope and lots of people have commented on things I do and don't agree with, so I want to say one last piece on this topic: First and foremost: It is fine to want to grow your audience, and to study and implement ways to do that. Its also perfectly fine to feel frustrated when your work goes largely unnoticed despite your efforts, or even frustrated at how people who seem to be in a significantly better place than you complain about numbers that would make your day. These are understandable feelings, and I don't think people should dismiss them. The system you have to work within when putting content online is unfair and random, its going to feel unfair and random- gambling doesn't feel great until you get payout. This is not a post to say just get over it and be happy with what you got, because sometimes what you got fucking sucks. And for a lot of people this isn't just a fun hobby but something that puts food on the table, and they are desperately trying to get a boost to help secure that. But what it is a post is about how most people do not mean to talk down to you about this kind of thing, or intend to come off as smug about it- and are in fact earnestly trying to tell you to watch out for a type mindset that can easily sneak up on you and make the entire process of being a creator completely miserable. A lot of artists who feel completely massive compared to you fell into this trap and maybe they recovered, but a lot of them don't and fret about these same things constantly, despite the change in position. A lot of them jumped ship and never looked back. When you exercise for a long time, its good to step back and take a breather to stretch and rest. Its an important pause that gives you a break and helps protect against long term damage from strain. You need to be willing to do that mentally with art and content creation for the same reason. Its not just about numbers equating to self worth or quality (although thats perhaps one of the most common problems people have)- theres other ways it manifests like a hyper-focus on what the "well performing" posts are, a desire to seek audience approval in a way that has you rewriting how you engage with your own work or what work you deem acceptable to make. And while you can do that for a little bit, and it may even pay out- its not sustainable long term. You will burn out, you will hate creating, you will hate posting, you will hate even thinking about drawing- eventually the exhaustion will hit. We shouldn't pretend like art is strictly fun and games (because its not, for many its a job or the closest they have to one, and that sometimes means doing things that aren't fun) just like we shouldn't pretend like these pitfalls aren't a legitimate issue- they can be as debilitating as wrist damage. But just being aware of them and taking small steps to re-ground yourself can go a long way. Check your follower counts every couple month instead of every day. Check how many notes you got on that piece after a week instead of after an hour. Remind yourself that 10 reblogs is still 10 whole people, visualize notes as people in a room instead of a nebulous concept. Dont post for a bit but still draw. Try to appreciate likes as their own thing instead of as "worthless" engagement. Find an extension to hid the numbers, etc, etc. Its hard to say what might help because everyones different- but just take time to step back and make sure some element of what your doing is still fun and for you- even if it cant always always be all of it.

Small artists you need to understand that when you see an artist who you think has 'made it' tells you not to worry about the numbers and to not fret about getting more likes than reblogs they are not telling you it because they think you are stupid for caring or because they dont need to network to survive they are very likely telling you that because they have witnessed first hand the way the numbers game tears people to shreds in terms of mental health and motivation

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I have to say, your thoughts on the slug cats, scavengers, their place on the world, and how anthropomorphizing would change them has been an incredibly neat read! I love scavengers so I was super happy to see your take on them, and I think you’re doing a good job handling these concepts. I hope you’re having a good day, and take care! Also your art is beautiful. Love all the creatures.

Can believe I missed this one but thank you so much!! I love specbio with fictional creatures (even ones clearly not designed with a lick of 'bio' in mind) so I guess it makes sense I would not be able to leave it out of anthros... I love a good ol' fashion 'this is basically a person' furry, but RW creatures are so... alien that it feels like you lose a lot going 100% in on that, in terms of setting. Especially when you have the scavengers and slugcats together- both very smart creatures but very very different. Its fun to think about the ways they might think of each other, conflict with each other, etc etc even with the power of communication

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i love your survivor... can you give them a little kiss on the forehead for me? i think they deserve it!

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ccccan i use some of your ideas from the surv scavenger AU(?) idea for a guy i have rolling around in the back of my head?

i wont like. strip it of everything its mainly just the clothing ideasss because pretty...

Sure thing! Have fun!