Roach Infested This Year...

When you answered the ask asking about your art style (which is a post I keep looking back on bc what you have to say is very interesting) in one of your screenshots of you talking you mention something about how most if not all of your symbolism is self referent and I was wondering what you meant by that!

Hellloooo. I’m glad you found my ranting interesting. Here is some Dirk art I’m probably never going to finish for your troubles.

What I meant by that when talking about any symbolism in my art is that it doesn’t reference outside sources - e.g. where some art might use something like religious concepts, animals, real life events to represent ideas, I tend to use things more like colors, contrasting objects, composition. That sort of thing. So things that are inherently a part of the work itself rather than connections to the real world. If I ever do use symbolism otherwise, it’s usually comic related even still. Although I have done pieces with religious symbolism before too, haha.

I don’t know how to describe it other than “self referential” because I’m not really sure what else to classify that sort of symbolism as. Just… artistic maybe? Non literal? I couldn’t say. I think it all basically just goes along with the majority of my art nowadays being more figurative than literal. Sorry if this doesn’t explain it very well. It’s also funny to think that anyone is “Looking back” on any of my texts posts though, haha. To me I feel like I am just dumping my words on my poor followers. Surprising. Thank you for reading.

Die With A Smile (2024)

"This killer is sermonizing, proselytizing, preaching. To understand this monster, we have to decipher these murders."

"The art that you like, isn't necessarily the art that you want to create."

That's a quote that I have stumbled upon one day on the internet, and it completely changed me. So much in art is about learning about yourself. Your strengths, weaknesses and preferences. For years, I believed what I wanted to draw are artworks filled with details, that someone can spend minutes looking at while discovering something they haven't noticed before. This led to this super daunting task of having to plan that, and knowing that the process of creating an artwork like that, will take me hours to finish. Knowing what awaits me, led to me procrastinating and never wanting to draw. Sometimes days, weeks or even months.

I believe it is important to challenge yourself, and do things that you don't want to do. However, that should only go so far. If that stops you completely from doing what you're doing, then you have to change that. Especially if it's just a hobby. It took me years, but eventually I realized that I do not have the patience for spending hours and hours on a single artwork. Not that I don't enjoy the process of drawing itself, but more than anything, I love finishing artworks. I love the feeling of moving on constantly, and being able to look back at a long list of drawings that I have accomplished.

To achieve that, my art became a lot more abstract, simplified and messier. But I think it also has become more personal that it ever has been before. My art now reflects my impatience. My flaws, be it anatomy, perspective or coloring. It's all there, but what it did is make drawing fun again.

Treasure Hunter

My name is Anno, and I am an artist who likes to work in multiple mediums (digital art, Pixel art, and Acrylic painting to name my current mediums).

This Tumblr is a sideblog to my website, so if you like my stuff, you should check that out!

Needed a profile pic for this blog and wanted to try a cartoony style at the same time!

Allergies? probably

"If you don't invite them in, they can't come inside"