It's Almost Spooky Time! :D

As requested by a friend:

The worms

Man, if I showed this to myself back when we first made this oc they would've gone feral. (Even though we couldn't figure out how to give them proper feet)

I don't know why this is what made me come out of lurking, but yes! My mother was, and still is, so weird about my hair. I'm not a kid anymore, so she isn't able to control me as much, but she still makes offhand comments about how "she wishes I would let it grow some" or that I "looked so much better and more presentable before" every time I have it trimmed.

2: woods

A feral artist, this one seems to have strayed from its natural habitat.

Part 2 of me drawing my avatar/OC into random pictures from my photo gallery. I had a lot of fun with this one.

Just realized I haven't posted any of the stuff I made for YouTube here, so have a quick art dump.

Steam’s little corner notifications when a friend launches a game are so fucking useless and i hope they never get rid of them. yes, please let me know that the kid i met on a maplestory forum in middle school and haven’t spoken to in a decade is playing Train Simulator

break is over, and I already feel like I need another one. Anyway, I'm experimenting with different rendering methods, so have a messy drawing of me being tired.

I needed this in my life so much

I just had a small epiphany why you might like other people's art more than your own:

It's the lack of suspension of disbelief.

When you see something someone else has drawn or painted, you take in the content faster than you take in the technical aspects. You experience it as pseudo-real, the same way you stop perceiving animated characters as drawn or book characters as written as you get into the story.

On the other hand, when you yourself have made something, all you see is the machine behind the theater, so to speak. You're probably thinking about lines, shading, coloring in a "does this make sense? Is this the best decision I could have made?"-kind of way.

I think that's also why sometimes, pictures you haven't looked at for a long time starts looking nice to you again, à la: "Hey past-me was unto something! Why can't I replicate it nowadays?". It's probably specifically because you've forgotten the process of making it that you are now seeing it with fresh eyes.

Art is an illusion, but a magician has a hard time tricking themself. So don't be so hard on yourself: it's probably just that you can't see the magic right now, but that doesn't mean it's not there.

heeppy hoolida

WIP of a character who's been bouncing around in my head for ages that I've finally worked up the courage to try and bring to life.