Snoopy Watching Me Draw After A Meal At A Restaurant (I Love Drawing Food)

Birthday gifts for friends, I pushed myself with these ones because I will absolutely try anything new for my beloved friends, for myself…. maybe haha 😌 I absolutely adore how both of them turned out ✨

We were all beginners at one point or another, and we ought to respect everyone's beginning regardless of what it looks like. Critiquing another artist's skills or mocking them for being inexperienced is in extremely poor taste.

"But it could look better, I'm just giving them advice so they can improve-" no. If they want advice, they'll ask for feedback. Also, feedback should be given in a constructive and kind manner, not just an infodump of their flaws. it's called constructive criticism for a reason, because it's meant to build others up not tear them down

There are so many art babies just starting and it always gives me hope for the future of art, knowing that people are still finding joy in creating and starting on the long journey of being an artist. We have got to take care of these beginners, not crush their spirits by criticizing them for not being as experienced as the artists further down the trail. It is a process. Let them learn like we did, like we still are learning.

A banner I made bc I’m working on opening commissions (through vgen!!) and it’s strange to see my art next to each other like this for some reason

artists, this is ur reminder to start drawing references or redesign your original characters before artfight in july this year

Lots of thoughts recently. Everything feels plastic.

I could go on and on about why all that AI "art" is bad. I could mention theft, lack of creativity, it's impact on the work field and environment, but countless people have already said all that. I wanted to touch on something that to me is the most utterly wrong about all of it.

Art is more than just something pretty to look at or listen to. It's therapeutic. It's a form of communication. A tool for human connection. It's a pure, human need.

Support real artists ☀️

What could they be saying…?

Appreciation post for all the beginner artists who work hard despite the AI ​​looming over us. You are fabulous. You are precious. Keep up the hard work, you are needed.

tw: eye strain and angst

@shadowmagegemini asked for angst and I responded “I gotchu” 😌 in all seriousness this was super fun and experimental so commission me again please your characters are so fun to draw

Strawberry 🍓

So earlier in art class today, someone drew a characters hands in their pockets and mentioned that hands are really like the ultimate end boss of art, and most of us wholeheartedly agreed. So then, our teacher went ahead and free handed like a handful of hands on the board, earning a woah from a couple of students. So the one from earlier mentioned how it barely took the teacher ten seconds to do what I can’t do in three hours. And you know what he responded?

“It didn’t take me ten seconds, it took me forty years.”

And you know, that stuck with me somehow. Because yeah. Drawing a hand didn’t take him fourth years. But learning and practicing to draw a hand in ten seconds did. And I think there’s something to learn there but it’s so warm and my brain is fried so I can’t formulate the actual morale of the lesson.