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The realisation that u don't need to be rad-quality artist and have a huge fanbase to actually enjoy with ur own art. The only you need is to makin' stuff what u are actually enjoying to make and not fitting others expectations for whatever reasons
When that hits, u know u are doing everything right.
I redrew my Engineer princess because I felt like the original illustration didn't convey my concept sufficiently :)
Here are all the mercs I've drawn so far together:
Week One hundred seventy-one, The Mercs As ...
COFFEE DRINKS
(Suggestion credit: anonymous)
"Meet the Dell" - Original Character Showcase Vol. 1
Born in Bee Cave, Texas in 1940, even as a child young Dell showed signs of unimaginable genius in the fields of engineering, mathematics and physics. A benevolent and good-natured American, but at the same time vengeful and always purposeful on the path of killing his enemy by any means (even if not by his own hands, but by the forces of his ingenious buildings & devices) the specialist immediately came to the attention of the director of Mann.Co in the first place. By that time, Dell was no longer surprised by his work responsibilities and difficulties, having 11 PhD's from a variety of scientific fields & long engineering practice in West Texas mines. If you still think that it is bloody impossible to expect anything serious from this low middle-age man in a silly green cap, who is telling corny dad jokes to cheer up his mates... If you think that you have right to insult an' blaming him for fun: as Dell said by himself once, when pulled up his fully-loaded shotgun in fullfiling rage - "𝘚𝘵𝘢𝘳𝘵 𝘱𝘳𝘢𝘺𝘪𝘯𝘨, 𝘣𝘰𝘺!". "𝘐 𝘵𝘰𝘭𝘥 𝘺𝘢 𝘥𝘰𝘯'𝘵 𝘵𝘰𝘶𝘤𝘩 𝘵𝘩𝘢𝘵 𝘥𝘢𝘳𝘯 𝘵𝘩𝘪𝘯𝘨."
i think in the end furries will always win. in whatever time it takes i think people are going to realize anthropomorphism is so deeply ingrained in us as creatures that to even invent a hatred of the concept to begin with is like hating the concept of telling stories or singing or dancing
im @maxshortt and here's a bit of important bio & info about me, what you prolly will see when clicking on my profile for the first time:
· TF2 artist that just loves makin' "posters" and arts in Blender in a free time (notice, BLENDER, NOT SFM. I HAVE NO IDEA HOW TO DO SHIT IN SFM, pls stop saying my works are "soo good for sfm" :3)
· I have my little blog page here - shortt's strawpage
· i simply love and adore TF2 and maining engineer + scout
· im currently studying graphic design (however, I'm finding making art about some 18-years-old game more convincing for mah soul 💅)
· somewhat of omnisexual and enboy, so whatever you refer to me as "he" or "they", I don't mind for both! (Im thinking if I'm on aromantic spectrum currently or not...) 🤔
· Fav music artists: Tyler, the Creator, Mac Demarco, C418, SALES, Femtanyl, Lil Nas X, Gorillaz, bbn0$, Joji, Lil Darkie, Freddie Dredd, Freddie Gibbs, The Weeknd, just random dnb music and games OST's (bruh if that's not enough then just check out my spotify playlists to know me better)
· Neurodivergent & having OCD (and prolly ADHD as well, and smth else...), so...
· dont wanna go in a typical dni message here, but just to assume: DNI xenophobic/ableistic/racist/sexist/pro-war and pretty much any other shit.
· even tho I have my kind of TF2 sona, my pfp is always my Engi OC named Dell, that's pretty much all :3
Imma doin' crap on Bluesky and Steam the most of the time!! Here's the full list:
Bluesky Steam LambdaGeneration Scrap.tf ArtStation(if someone even need it) my half-alive Pinterest
engie...... crop top....... and my life is yours
Gimme that cereal stuff, I’m hungry