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rindomness · 8 months

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i think the thing that makes me most powerful as an artist is the fact that i have kept copies in some form or another of almost everything i have made since i started and thus whenever the imposter syndrome is hitting i can look at the literal piles of sketchbooks and notebooks and binders i keep the physical copies of my work in and go oh yeah. ive been working at this for like ten years. and then it just goes away.

anyway i absolutely recommend this as a strategy no matter how cringey it might seem keeping visual evidence of skill progression is an incredible tool against imposter syndrome. voice in your head can't tell you you're faking your skills if you can pull out a literal record of your skill growth against it

#even digital stuff like.#keep a file on a physical drive with your shit on it. back it up every once in a while.#google docs is fine but nothing quite beats digging through your files on your laptop and finding something you wrote five years ago #that's maybe not as technically sound as what you can do *now* but still isn't like bad.#legitimately i found a notebook while cleaning last month that was just like.#half of a novel. handwritten in this little composition notebook.#was it *good?* eh! but im also looking at that after yeah like five or six YEARS of practice #and that even beats finding stuff i wrote. like. Actually Legitimately Ten Years Ago #always makes me sad to see younger artists than me declaring theyre gonna delete their stuff cause its embarrassing or cringey #like. ok so what i spent a full two years drawing bad undertale comics with every panel on a new piece of paper.#im going to keep them until i have no choice but to get rid of them which will likely be when *i* die and not a moment before #reminder i need to back up my stuff . wheres my hard drive for that.

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gatoiberico · 6 months

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recently played skyward sword and OOF it's so damn good

prints | also playthrough on my gaming channel!!

#zelda #skyward sword #art #artists on tumblr #digital art #been a hot second since I drew something outside of work #I love when you get so obsessed with media that it rekindles your motivation to do stuff again #also I haven't even uttered a sentence in the tags for like #eons #hope y'all are doing well!!#elgatoiberico #also who is gaming channel #if you do happen to venture there I hope you enjoy bread and cheese dfghgd

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tchaikovskaya · 4 months

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I will defend teaching kids to read and write in cursive with my dying breath sorry im with the boomers on this one

ETA: YALL STARTED BEING ANNOYING IN THE NOTES SO NO MORE REBLOGS FOR YOU!!!

#I really do not understand the hostility toward it?#like i feel like even penmanship in block letters would get this treatment eventually if literally everything goes digital #the students I teach have told me that im one of the only teachers they have in high school who makes them do stuff on physical paper…

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biggest-gaudiest-patronuses · 7 months

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got a worm nibbling my brain. can someone help me find a piece of obscure media?

webcomic/indie comic from the 2010s. basically a sci-fi short story about a young girl (with red hair?) who was being raised by scientists as part of an experiment. she receives a haircut/has her head shaved, in preparation for her annual brain scan/testing. it is revealed that while her body is human, her "brain" is artificial, made of computer implants throughout her skull and spine. at some point her biological mother (also a scientist on the same campus?) encounters her and is repulsed, viewing her as a machine who has murdered her daughter.

it was very poignant and it bruised my heart and i can NOT find it anywhere

#i thought it was made by the creator of 'O Human Star' for some reason but apparently not?#goddammit goddammit goddammit #'i don't have to write down the title of this piece of media i encountered in my formative years bc i'll always remember it'#*cut to ten years later frantic googling*#fun fact 'a.i.' is now a completely useless search term #google in general is useless #and stuff i read 3+ years ago regularly vanishes from the internet #bookmarks are not enough! if you like indie media--download that shit! buy digital/physical copies while you can #save it to the cloud back it up and organize that shit!!!#keep a list of the stuff you read (organized by date/media type and possibly with keywords if you want it to be useful longterm)#(or a spreadsheet even if you're like me and rabidly consume short stories/comics like a pack of amnesiac piranhas on a feeding frenzy)#(that stuff PILES UP over the years ok. if you wanna make sure you'll be able to find it again a decade later--curation is key)#because art WILL touch your soul and then vanish into the void leaving naught but a 404 Error in its wake #i am an old man shaking my fist at the kids on my lawn but the kids on my lawn are me and my longterm digital planning skills circa 2012

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fosliie · 6 months

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Everywhere I look, he’s always there

Was reminded of this trend from awhiiiile ago and just HAD to do a lil spin on it.

#myart #sam and max #sam and max freelance police #freelance husbands #digital art #illustration #also haha! I am not done with Sam and Max quite yet!#I haven't been all big in Sam and Max lately cause of college but I appreciate all the love even when I post other stuff #also! this could be interpreted as freelance husbands or freelance wives #I like that it works either way

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miguxadraws · 2 months

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teaching pomni how to dance

what type of music would they dance to? i dont even know! but i think dancing with your partner or teaching them how to dance is the peak of wholesomeness!! actually adorable...

astral circus AU belongs to @chelledoggo