#be edgy

[defiantdreemurrs]

i think an important part of creating any kind of serious, heartfelt art is also understanding commitment to the bit and understanding when you may need to be silly.

i say commitment to the bit but honestly i mean it. no matter how much it might make you anxious “what if this parts not right and people dont like it?” you gotta push thru and do it anyways with conviction and commitment. if you walk it back or half ass it your audience will be able to tell and they sure wont be happy about it. anything done with enough conviction will work out because as you pour work into your art all your feelings get poured in with it and a lack of conviction means you wont bother trying to make it work, so it wont end up working anyways. but a wealth of belief and a strong conviction will encourage you to put as much as you can into it in order to *make* it work.

knowing when to be a little silly with it is also important. even putting aside the common wisdom about contrasts and silly parts making the serious ones stand out more, you kinda *have* to let yourself be silly when creating serious art because serious art in and of itself *is kinda silly*. you may feel the urge to do things like use long, edgy sounding titles, or write a line that sounds a little corny but means something to you. these are things that trigger our cringe response, but the secret here is that they make you cringe because we arent used to naked self expression in our societies.

people are often taught to repress themselves and never show too strongly their feelings. we made this a societal norm in america and im sure all over the world too. were taught to believe there are right and wrong ways to express yourself and the wrong ways are bad and embarrassing and cringe. but theyre not. in fact theyre more potent forms of self expression than the muted palette of emotions that are deemed “not cringe”. in order to express yourself fully you kinda *have* to be a little silly with it and know when to push harder to do something even if it makes you cringe.

because being genuine will usually be more impactful than shrouding something in irony and wit and understatement. and being genuine can sometimes sound silly if you arent used to it. so try to let yourself be silly, be the silly little edgelord you are deep down inside and bare your soul for the world to see, warts and all, instead of reshaping it in a way that others might find socially acceptable but doesnt feel satisfying to you.

give your OC edgy clothes. have your characters say corny things. write a song that makes you cringe and sing with your heart. be silly. commit to the bit. be your genuine self.

[peteytheparrot]

My poor blog has just became a Gravity Falls blog at this point…. ANYWAY! here’s some cut art that never made it into The Book Of Bill by Emmy Cicierega, it was originally posted on Twitter (source)

[ghostlysleuth]

☠️ punk butch / teddy bear butch 🧸

happy pride month! this is also me testing gl@ze for the first time lol

(as usual, posted early on ptrn)

[skronklpus]

Jax art !

[germboyfriend]

DO I SEEM ANXIOUS TO YOU?

DO I SEEM BACKED INTO A CORNER?

[bloomeng]

supergirl and superboy <3

[gasolinne]

[spookygibberish]

Silly design exercise in which I customize the homunculi and throw them into blenders

[galapogos]

I 🧡 listening to music :-D

[ecstasydemon]

this joke is so stupid i love it

[feefal]

Wanna make a drawing that’s inspired by the whole “Eve was created from the rib of Adam”.

I imagine it would take a lot of rib bones to construct a whole adult skeleton, so it’ll be a feral, bloodied Eve standing amidst a pile of crumpled Adam’s with their rib bones stolen

[caemidraws]

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[espuor]

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[elvyn]

This dramatic bald guy again (I'm impatiently waiting for news from da4)

[impsandstars]

Petition for Stolas to go back to his goth phase.

[japnz]

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