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A couple drawings I made recently! These bots still have a vice grip on my brain asjdlsaln

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Been making silly/cursed reaction images of my dnd party :P

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It's (far from) over

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mARTch day 4 - objects!

Including: a button, a candle snuffer, a glass tealight holder (with very funky reflections), a pen, an incredibly crumpled piece of paper, my eraser, mouse and some plant fertilizer. All of these were already on my table when I decided to do the studies.

I tend to prefer doing any art studies on paper instead of digitally and I use a little notebook with green pages for that, so be prepared for lots of green the coming few days lol

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Putting these here because they're good questions

Both, kind of! I find machines as a whole fascinating as well, pretty much for the same reason as you said. The intricate parts working together to do specific tasks and the whole process to create these is absolutely wonderful. There's a creativity within what's seen as these "boring/purely technical" things that I've really fallen in love with and that inspires me, especially now that I'm learning about some of these inner workings at university.

With robots I think the reason they seem to stick with me so specifically is because they not only are incredibly complex and sophisticated machines, but that they really show of the human nature. People are more likely to pack bond with a robot, give it a personality and make it feel alive to them. Robots, and the way they're often humanised, give such a clear example of just how much humans connect with the world, no matter how much people try to deny it.

Plus, as someone who's autistic, I think robots in movies/media have resonated with me because they're often seen as "other". Whilst I as a kid never fully picked up on it or realised what it was, I did sometimes feel distanced from other people because there was just something different about me, even though I never knew what. Seeing all these robots in media that seemed to have the same thing, processing the world through a different lens and being different to their (human) peers, but still being seen as *alive*, I think that really stuck with me.

That connection to robots is probably also why a lot of my hyperfixations/special interests are robot-related, and a lot of my inspiration (for art) comes from my hyperfixations and special interests.

So in the end, whilst all machines do inspire me to some extent, robots definitely have that special place in my heart.

This was a bit of a ramble, but I hope it makes sense!

mARTch day 2 - inspiration!

Beyond my sibling, who has always been a major inspiration for my art, a lot of my inspiration/drive to create art comes from robots! They're a general passion for me (and part of the reason I'm trying to get an engineering degree), and a lot of my favourite media is robot related.

Often when I'm in an art block, it's something to do with robots that manages to pull me right out of it again, so it felt right to give them this moment of appreciation.

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mARTch day 2 - inspiration!

Beyond my sibling, who has always been a major inspiration for my art, a lot of my inspiration/drive to create art comes from robots! They're a general passion for me (and part of the reason I'm trying to get an engineering degree), and a lot of my favourite media is robot related.

Often when I'm in an art block, it's something to do with robots that manages to pull me right out of it again, so it felt right to give them this moment of appreciation.

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I'm going to be doing bweird's mARTch event this year, starting off with my submission from day 1 - selfportrait!

Since I'm busy with university, I'll try my best to do the important days and then for the others I'll draw depending on whether I have the time/motivation on that day.

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Welcome to my art/creative blog!

Squid | 18 | any pronouns

Main blog: @squidsushi

My commissions are open! Check out my website for more information, inlcuding pricing, examples and my tos: https://squid-sushi.carrd.co/

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Sunny day

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My DnD character for an upcoming campaign! He's a warforged bard and is simply a silly guy.

Some fun facts under the cut:

Since his face can't express, he uses masks with emotions (inspired by the theatre masks) instead!

The painting on his ukulele and embroidery on his waistcoat are both done by him.

He tried eating once. It went poorly.

He likes the rain, as it makes a nice noise against his metal plating.

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I'd rather be free... from here...

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I loved the wild robot so muchh

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Trying to beat my anxiety (no pun intended) about posting art, so have some of the skrunkly taking over my thoughts right now

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Woo yeah, art fight babey! I genuinely think I've drawn more these past few weeks than I have in a year lmao

Featuring:

Kitty (beaniebabies)

Honeydew (@pasquadraws)

Dave (bonkleshorts)

Amos (traashpaandaa)

The Harbringer (@unfriendly-aesop)

Celeste (IvyHart2008)

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Me?? Actually posting something instead of just lurking the spot tags??????? Wild

These were made in shakeart (left) and wigglypaint (right) btw! PLease go check em out, they're so funky to draw with

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Day 4: redesign!

I had to dig through old sketchbooks to find something for this and ended up coming across an oc i made all the way back in 2017 when i first started drawing. This is now her fith iteration (the previous ones are under the cut)

Prompt list

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Starting off fashionably late with oc-tober, I combined prompt 1 and 3 into one drawing :]

It was so hard to choose a favourite oc but these two are very near and dear to my heart and they're also (among my other splatoon ocs) the oldest active ocs I have, so it felt fitting to put the two prompts together, esp since i'm now on schedule (although we'll see how long that lasts lmao)

Prompt list