Week 4?: Clouds

I've done it! and gave my avatar/persona an update as well!

Aahhhhhhhh! My new paper screen cover just arrived!

I've been using it for all of five minutes, and I already love it!

Had to make a sacrifice, I just can't figure out how to draw the feet I envisioned them having, so they have nubs now. ;-;

Ready for round two? My hubris is unending.

The Age Old Struggle:

Tried making a comic strip for the first time and had allot of fun with it. I hope to make some sort of sequel or extension to this in the future when I have the time.

Had a bad day, so I scrolled through Tumblr for 30mins and doodled any face that made me laugh, here's the result.

At this point, I'm just going through the reblogs on this post and adding art when people ask. Hope you like cats.

Tumblr is shit for artists but I’m really bullheaded and I don’t want to move

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.

Bonus @mangakeque doodle I just found in my sketches folder. The face was so funny I couldn't resist redrawing it.

It's almost spooky time! :D

(I'm still alive! finaly had time to draw something for fun)

Week 5? Idk???: mushroom

Heavily inspired by Stanley, my favorite li'll mushroom from spiritfarer and parrot waxcaps.