🦋 hawke | 24 | any pronoun | ace 🦋
not everything can be fixed, but what matters is the change you make every day
---
⛔DO NOT copy/trace/repost
⛔nft/ai DNI.
🇺🇦 to my ukrainian followers 🇺🇦
poland currently has 9 reception points with medication and shelter at the border. the government announced that we accept everyone, vaccinated or not, passport or not. our borders are open!! there's also trains cursing kiev - warsaw. stay safe;;
"why do you commission other artists when you can draw yourself?"
have you ever had your oc drawn and interpreted by another artist??? seeing your own character in someone's style??? like that's LITERALLY SO COOL wdym why???????
just your daily reminder that 20% is always better than 0%. finishing lines of one arm is enough. researching references and doing a very messy sketch for a start is enough. finishing that face lineart is enough. colouring just skin is enough.
it's ok to do little; bit by bit
the only 5 artist moods:
- i wanna draw but i have no ideas
- i wanna draw but i have no motivation
- i don't wanna draw but i'm drowning in ideas
- i don't wanna draw but i got a sudden huge spark of motivation
- WHERE IS MY PEN?!
personally, having followers/fans/an audience recognise your oc and remember their name might be the highest form of flattery an oc artist can get.
i hope everyone knows that if you do and actively show you remember them, you literally make the artist's day 1000% better.
this is about collecting data to help the algorithm. the data collected will help show i.e. baldur's gate content and accounts if you like content of this fandom. sort of like tiktok
glaze your stuff and watermark, but please read the whole article before you let panic take over
people remember that art is a luxury, not a necessity challenge
artists are paid $2K+ in the industry and for the work op posted $350 is nothing but a steal. we're humans too and need to pay for necessities. you're paying for our years of experience, time, effort, tools and more
@SolarFlairYT
$350 is a little less than my rent for a month fuck you mean. Theres no world in which $300 is justified for a piece of fake exotic ornaments. I could buy a switch with that
there are vaccination points at the border and the trains course since yesterday where in warsaw we have shelters all ready, please please please stay safe.
i noticed that the side of art growth that nobody seems to talk about is how looking through your old art you finally notice what seemed to be off & how to fix it?
like even if how you draw currently causes you trouble, you STILL notice & understand things better
one last thing imma say today is this. ocs are personal, they're someone's creation and idea they put their whole heart into. they aren't yours to use/claim.
you can always commission an artist to design you a custom too. just for the love of god, respect artists and their ocs
genuine question: when did it become so normalised for artists to alter the client's idea/character design and ignore their request?
when did people forget this is a paid contract between the artist and client & meeting their expectations is the bare minimum??
discord not giving a single fuck to what people say and rolling out the new usernames pisses me off beyond measure
mark herring died in 2020 because of a username that some dumb minors wanted to have, and now this will just cause wars and more harassment over discord
@Boniibee
what i also found useful is to not post anything the hour before ~and~ after your initial post. what's important is that when it comes to including info in a thread ( & generally making a thread) is to NEVER do it instantly cus it will deboost your post. wait at least an hour
@imsuperreal
please please make sure to pick one room (preferably the bedroom) and consider it a fort. pick up any blankets or clothes you have and tuck them under the windows. keep the doors closed to that room. sleep in multiple cloth layers & blankets!!
it really bothers me how so many people are quick to shit on us and even call us n*zis for the situation on the belarus border, failing to realise that we're just trying to help right now and the decision was done by our government. i'm just a citizen and i had no say in this
just wanted to say, this is a safe space for any asexual and aromantic folks and anyone under these umbrella terms.
if you don't support aces/aros, demis or graysexuals please unfollow and leave me alone
as an update. moving past the border was possible by men just yesterday, but it has changed and unfortunately, men can't cross the border anymore. i'm so sorry
a daily reminder that you're talking to strangers online and that no; talking sexually about someone's ocs is not globally accepted/common and is certainly not something most people are comfortable and happy about 🥴
drawing fanart is not a guarantee for engagement and success. you don't have to force yourself to draw solely what's trendy in order to get somewhere. draw for yourself and for your own happiness. people *will* notice, and the right ones will stay
[RE4] don't ask why luis is lower. thought it's cuter that way (i know he's taller than leon but that's how i imagined it and i'm s t u b b o r n)
---
more on patweon.
#re4
can we all just accept that art is hard and people struggle with different things
both men and women are hard to draw! and as someone who drew *only* men most of my life: surprise! drawing women is really difficult for me! another plot twist: practise will fix that
"but men are easier to draw--"
nah nah women arent difficult to draw yall are probably just thinking too hard in making them 'feminine' like cmon its the same human form. draw the basic shape first before worrying about boob placement or whatever!!
this is not deviantart trying to help artists out
a i generators are going through a *model collapse* right now because a i bros are scrapping off of each other
dA is doing it so that it's easier to navigate real art and use that for their datasets. they DON'T care about us.
what also bothers me is that instead of focusing on the actual issue and spreading the word you decide to shit on us for trying to spread information. tells a lot
🌿THANK YOU EVERYONE FOR 5K!🌿
it's raffle time~
the prize will be 1x render decor bust illustration of a character of the winner's choice.
comment below and also please include a few words on the personality of the chara! more rules below🌿
@makeupanartist
yeah but also when u have anxiety you just keep beating urself up that u don't draw as much as you used to/should/would like to. but u just can't. and it's an endless circle
if this is out of your budget that's absolutely okay! but stop doing this to artists when you can just go look around for one that's within your range.
you don't go to a restaurant and complain about pricing, you just go to a different one. please respect our labour.
controversial take for some, im sure, but i want to remind everyone that tracing FOR STUDY PURPOSES is good
in fact it's something i highly recommended, especially for beginner artists. it helps understand the form and shapes better!
@MrSirDBA
@NyangJinArt
everyone decides the prices themselves, i don't have a fixed price lol
but i'm really busy so rn these were the last pipe ones im doing! plus i have 2 other objects comms to do. if i finish my regular commissions and these, i might just link my kofi and open them again :]