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im like if pierce brown wrote red rising except if it was about lesbians instead
title self explanatory. just mostly curious what everyone's thought process is when it comes to art! I wanna try some new ways to approach art
Most of the time for me, I'll realize I want to draw, then go down a mental list of things I've been wanting to draw during the days I haven't been.
If that doesn't work, I'll look at my characters and see if anyone calls out to me to draw at the moment.
Last thing (sometimes first thing) I try is just simply doodling, sometimes I'll get grander ideas as I warm up.
I am this exact chart dude. I'm at the last part rn god help me.
swear to god my ocd is telling me to stop drawing my ocs because i haven't drawn anything else but i literally got red rising hyperfixation really bad again and now I just wanna explore the world with them 😭😭😭 it never ends
i want to eventually go in depth about all of my trinkets, so what better way to ease you guys in by seeing the entire thing as it is right now! consider it like ... a preview of things to come!
it's still very much a work in progress (peep the left side.) im always getting new things to add!! im glad i found this shelf it's so good man.
ok just ranted about this on Tumblr but I wanna say it again
cept this one gets alll my context
so i used to mostly draw and participate in the adoptable community, it's honestly the first ever community I found and how I made my first friend on a social media.
with that being said, of course that made me hopelessly nitpicky about my own designs.
I was focused on making a good design immediately, and if I wanted to change I'd need to do a whole overhaul, because that's what everyone else did.
So if I ever said something like "this is the final design!" and of course it never ended up that way, I felt like I was breaking a promise to ... something?
then I got older, left the community (thank god. it was never for me.) and suddenly im just designing for myself now. Why am I upholding these things I don't enjoy? Who cares its for me?
oh my god. It's for me. Its always been FOR ME. Art, characters, this is all because I WANNA CREATE.
well, my current mindset just can't do. it's 2025(as of realization) and I've been trying to rewire my brain in general since 2024. let's experiment.
Now? I just let myself draw something. If I like the trait, I'll keep it! sometimes I just like it for one art, it's nothing major. I keep the characters fundementals the same. As long as I'm satisfied with the design, it goes to completion.
Sometimes I realize I wanna go in a different direction then intended, so I EXPLORE IT see if I like it. Maybe I'll do a piece or two in that, seeing what I end up liking and not liking and going to the next piece with a new mindset.
i keep what i like! and i wanna keep using my characters, so i update them to my vision with what i like! if i don't like it it's okay if i go back too. inconsistency is awesome, actually.
im not sure how to end this. I guess I should mention this is just my art journey, yours is going to be different. I see what other people do, and see if it works for me.
heres a vivines example since they are six months old today :)
it finally happened, it's that day i was born and im not dead yet!
am i doing anything? not really. mostly just hanging out with my cat. also mostly glad im not working on a monday and getting paid for it
I think I want to try drawing something dynamic today, but if it doesn't work out imma play some games rainy days save me
joe napping :)