How Do I Art?

How do I art?

This is a difficult question and I'm gonna give a basic bitch answer, but practice.

-Try to draw a little bit every day (if you can't, at least a couple times a week)

Don't go for realism right off the bat. You're not going to be able to draw a perfect human face or anything when you first start

Draw cartoons. For you, I'd recommend Owl House, Amphibia, Gravity Falls, or Hazbin Hotel/Helluva Boss characters. That way you can get used to drawing without it being to challenging

VERY light sketches. You're going to want to brush the pencil across your paper in a feathery motion. Pushing too hard is very difficult to erase

Don't use a mechanical pencil eraser. A mechanical pencil is fine, but the eraser tends to smear and smudge instead of just erasing (a pink eraser's perfect)

Use a reference picture. Drawing from your mind is a lot harder than drawing from a pic. You also don't have to be creative in order to draw

(this one's really cringe but) Don't give up or throw your art away. Your art's gonna be bad at first, but if you give up, you'll never get better

You now vs. younger you

i just look more sad

I wrote this for a freshman year English assignment

December 26 I opened my eyes

a sweet summer sky full of wonder

a sparkling shore swimming with marine life and acute awareness

At two years old I tried to join my sister's class

they said I wasn't ready; I could have been ready

Six years old I was a student

reading novels, doing advanced math, a social butterfly

mom's perfect daughter

i couldn't have been ready

Twelve, a hurricane

waves hitting, a freight train shattering every bone in the body

disease striking the world, pain striking my mind like no twelve year old should know

my first thoughts of ending it, deep cuts engraving once perfect skin

tears shed, friends lost, incessant dread lurking as the Grim Reaper breathes down my neck

Fifteen, will I ever be ready

newfound friends, love, a new sense of belonging

but still i bleed, they scream, and together we weep, knowing I could have been more

i am drowning in that ocean, burning in the sun

look what's come of be, a wreck, a disaster in the making

I wasn't ready

(I think I got a B+ on this, so ig at least my teacher liked it)

your 12th emoji is how you'll die

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krystal-kade

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krystal-kade

9 months ago

'The weak breeze whispers nothing The water screams sublime His feet shift, teeter-totter Deep breath, stand back, it’s time

Toes untouch the overpass Soon he’s water bound Eyes locked shut but peek to see The view from halfway down

A little wind, a summer sun A river rich and regal A flood of fond endorphins Brings a calm that knows no equal

You’re flying now You see things much more clear than from the ground It’s all okay, it would be Were you not now halfway down

Thrash to break from gravity What now could slow the drop All I’d give for toes to touch The safety back at top

But this is it, the deed is done Silence drowns the sound Before I leaped I should’ve seen The view from halfway down

I really should’ve thought about The view from halfway down I wish I could’ve known about The view from halfway down'

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krystal-kade

1 year ago

Right, considering the current state of corporate politics on this site, and that it seems that only those affected seem to be actively speaking on the matter, it is up to I, the only fucking cishet on tumblr, to drag this out to a wider audience.