#art is problem solving

[perkeleen-lavellan]

@artists

Take the shortcut, the trick that makes you work faster, the technique you saw your favourite artist use.

Use the reference picture, trace over it. Use free 3D and image resources, try photo-bashing. Practise other people's artstyles, look at the ones you like and examine exactly which parts you love and practise incorporating that to your work.

You do not live in a vacuum, you're allowed to learn from others, you're allowed to use all the tools you have access to. Remember that you are mortal and you don't have to spend 10 years practising drawing the perfect circle when a compass exists.

[poorly-drawn-mdzs]

Finally caught up with Apothecary Diaries. I can't believe they gave Maomao a gun.

[egophiliac]

hear me out

silver vanrouge ❌️

silver draconia ✔️

malleus beats lilia to the punch

[purplepixel]

I did the meme. The world is not ready for them

[lilybug-02]

oh no.

Bug Fact: American Sign Language for "bug/insect" is made by signing the number "3" , placing your thumb to your nose, and bending your index and middle fingers twice. Pictured Below!

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[meo-eiru]

I CAN DRAW AGAIN🥹🥹🥹

I've been constantly thinking about this guy lately so I decided to draw him

[ruporas]

how to guide your mossball (ID in alt)

[distorted-prince]

His connection to the dark world is just 5G

[ink-ghoul]

What if I re-paint my own painting, but like, not pixel this time, it would be fun

[notbecauseofvictories]

here’s my question: how do you have so many hobbies? i just started a regular office job and it’s fine and lovely but i get home and i want to turn into mush—no thoughts. i was super creative and thoughtful in undergrad bc it was my job to write for class and i miss it but it’s not like that anymore

I have two answers to this---one practical, and the other existential.

The practical answer is that, as with many things in life, cultivating a life outside of work requires practice. Three years ago, I talked about this with regard to reading for pleasure; it applies to other hobbies as well. So be patient with yourself! Get used to the job; get used to the grind of commuting and computers and meetings and emails. The more comfortable and used to it you get, the more energy and attention you'll have for other things. I know I bring up exercise with alarming regularity for someone shaped like a moldy potato, but it really is like exercise. I've been working on cultivating hobbies and things other than work since 2020. If you want to try…start small. 5lb weights. Don't worry so much about the powerlifters. (They started with 5lbs too.)

The existential answer is that one day, you will wake up on a Saturday---or maybe a Sunday, that works too---or maybe it will be late at night, as the clock flips over to 2am---you know what, the timing isn't important. The point is that you will be lying in bed, warm and snug and theoretically content with the world. Thinking of the day ahead or behind you, dwelling on nothing in particular.

Then, very suddenly a quiet, cold-blooded thought will swim to the surface of your mind. In that moment, you will think with a mounting dread:

Wait, is this...is this it?

It probably won't happen tomorrow, or next year, or even five years from now. If you have a spouse to espouse or children to parent, family members to care for, a highly-intensive job, etc. it might not happen for decades. The thought might rouse briefly, then sink back to the depths of your subconscious to sleep on. But at some point, you will look around at your life and you will wonder if this is all. If this is it. If life is just animal needs, paying bills, sometimes seeing your friends on a Saturday, and watching whatever is on netflix. And if that's all life is, just a finite count of days to be used and used up without any greater purpose or plan....where does that leave you? What are you, just some half-sunk and shattered visage? Will anything you love, you built, survive you? If not, what are all those days for?

....there are many, many ways to deal with this. You can go on a screaming bender, buy a shiny red corvette, travel the world, find religion. You can read deeply on any topic of your choosing, join activist groups or yoga studios, or give a TED talk; change your job, change your spouse, change your gender. I don't know if anyone has solved an existential crisis, but human history is littered with attempts.

Or you can swear at your fucking sewing machine because it keeps breaking the goddamn thread and you're just trying to sew straight lines what the fuck is with this motherfucking thing oh my fucking jesus

[reclusiarch-orm]

Magnus the Red turns from Tizca.

Another sketch. Now i am trying to figure out how people superimpose colors on grey value sketches. i have no clue. i refuse to google it. do NOT tell me how. i will do this MYSELF

[ethnicallymoral]

No guillotine could take away the amount of head I’d give him

[poorly-drawn-mdzs]

Greetings Traveler! The Yiling Laozu welcomes you!

[okaydiscount]

after 305!!!! :))) everyones havin a fun time

[ceniwen]

I hc cyno being honest in the really straightforward way when it comes to kaveh. Poor guy being bullied by his juniors.

[beskarfrog]

i'm trying hard not to, sir