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at the end of the day i think the online digital artist community has for a very long time operated on a set of like unspoken handshake rules generally enforced by social pressure which (despite being positioned on a moral & pseudolegal plane) have very little overlap with what is legal or illegal (de facto or de jure) but which have Everything to do with figuring The Artist as a universal would-be petit bourgeois auteur, reflected through these rules' emphasis on (1) the moral necessity of The Artist's unwavering & eternal power over their own art (& its reception) as articulated via informal pseudo-IP mechanisms (no reposting, dont tag as me/kin/id, dont use as your pfp, dont draw my oc), (2) the moral mandate toward Constant Self-Improvement (generally meaning adopting more of the conventional signifiers of "Good Art" eg realism) (admonition of "tracing" even for practice, artists who do things that are "not conducive to improvement" being fair game for mockery), & (3) attempting to induce in observers (often through guilt) a social pressure to further the ambitions of such artists ("you need to reblog/share, not just like", "you MUST commission 1 million artists immediately", "it's rude to express anything other than praise for any piece of art")

like these all (in tandem with SEO etc) boil down to attempting to lay the groundwork for an imagined future state of self-employment emanating out of one's (semi-)hobbyist artistry (& to obstruct anything perceived as interfering with that fantasy or its actuation). it's sort of like hiring a team of accountants on the assumption that youre going to win the lottery someday, like if it were in another context we'd effortlessly recognize it for the meritocratic grindset shit that it is. & none of this is even remotely conducive to the production of good art lmao

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i love drawing i love drawing

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my laptop can barely run oxenfree but i make it work yall

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main blog: @official-denial

my art blog: @nnalien

photography & aesthetic: @aronautic

memes & shitposts: @1likeequals1prayer

scary blog: @nalienation

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ellieee

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An oil painting depicting Undertale and The Locked Tomb as twin infant skeletons suckling at the breast of Homestuck

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girls

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tlt doodles in class, corona and harrow (and pal?!?)

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harrowhark or whatever omg close ups under the readmore

the scowl on that girl

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new oc "unnamed switchboard operator"

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hi

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Elliott

Full image vvvvv

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boys magica

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