- she/her
- they/them
paints sometimes
Naming stuff is so hard!
Sometimes it's super easy because it's just 'the guy' or 'hehe funny meme', but then for things that can have more abstract meaning, or are in general more mysterious... haaaaaaaaa it's struggle street T_T
What's your approach to titling an artwork? Do you think it's something that deserves a lot of care, or are you content to just call something "Painting #69"?
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well it's a good thing I'm not a fire out there
Rain smells really yummy though (petrichor)
Kinda morbid how the smell is produced through the death of a certain kind of bacteria... the more you know O_o
Happy new year everyone!!
It's now past 7pm on the 1st of Jan 2026, and I have a super important message as someone (probably) from the future (at the time of posting this):
Take care of your health, be safe, and remember to take breaks instead of drawing for 8 hours straight! Don't get RSI, it sucks and I know from personal experience!
My Goals for the Year
Everyone makes a good new year's reso so maybe I'll join in :>
- Draw/paint something at least once a month (so that I can do a summary of the year thing without blank months - 2025 is a year that has a lot of blanks for me as I only started taking art seriously again last year, so I want to change that!)
- Paint a landscape piece once every two months, as a way to ease into doing more backgrounds. Won't set the bar too high for this one because my motivation levels aren't great to begin with, due to my other life issues
- Improve my Mandarin Chinese listening and reading skills to intermediate level, or even get to advanced level if possible.
I currently can listen and speak at an intermediate level as a heritage speaker, but my reading skill is still beginner level in traditional Chinese :v - Get a new day job. My current day job has such a toxic work environment both emotionally/mentally and physically - our manager is a massive micromanager and we have a snitch who is out to get someone in trouble all the time!! Plus the building we work in has a mould problem that I reported but it was not taken seriously until the ceiling in another room collapsed. This is in a health facility, mind you!
I reckon that's about it. Hopefully I can stick to these goals!
All the best for everyone and their new year resos too. Enjoy the first week of the new year!
Kinda about process, but more as in how you get the idea and then how it ends up in the end (rather than literal "how to paint xyz").
How do you often end up with the idea to draw something, and does it end up looking the way you originally thought it would?
I usually find myself imagining a finished artwork (or several of them) with the character, pose and story that seems interesting. It's then up to praying and hoping my hands can either put that picture on the canvas, or paint something better by doing a bit more planning first to see if I can find a better composition :')
Most of the time though, the art style I usually imagine in is something more akin to a very clean smooth-shaded anime style, rather than the painterly style I normally use, probably because my imagination is kinda fuzzy 🤔
That means what ends up on the canvas, and what I originally imagined, end up being quite different. Idk
Hello world!
I heard about Sheezy.art after someone mentioned it in the comments of a YT video talking about how artists shouldn't use dA anymore, due to the company's aggressive anti-artist tactics.
I think I'll still keep my dA account around to stay in touch with friends, but will probably stop uploading to it from this point onwards. Idk
Either way, I'm so glad there's another site like dA that has a gallery but is not overly professional/formal like Cara and ArtStation are! The infinite scroll format is extremely draining in its own way and I'm tired of it.
I did some "prettying-up" of my page, and... wow, this is way too much power for an individual. Lmao
I think I've made it look... okay(?), lol