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ryelleart · 2 months

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I saw a comment a while ago that said Leo has Bugs Bunny energy and I’ve been thinking about it ever since

#my art #art #digital art #fanart #rottmnt #leo #leonardo #rise leo #rottmnt leo #rottmnt fanart #rise of the tmnt #rise of the teenage mutant ninja turtles #tmnt #tmnt fanart #meme #100

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ryelleart · 2 months

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What better excuse to try out my new fur texture brushes than to properly draw my Penny 🧡

#my art #art #drawing #digital drawing #digital art #dog #artists on tumblr #original art #please don't repost

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ryelleart · 3 months

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For my birthday present to me, I’m sharing the Hamato clan family portrait I’ve been working on since September 🎂

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ryelleart · 3 months

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Now that my cousin has finally seen the wedding portrait I made for her and her new husband, I can finally share this!

The art I made last year was mostly just fanart, memes, and shitposts of colorful cartoon reptiles, and the one special piece I spent months on

I’m equally proud of them all 💙

#my art #art #please don't repost #face your art #face your art 2023 #art vs artist #art v artist 2023 #digital art #digital drawing #fanart #original art #the quarry #tmnt #rottmnt #dc #wonder woman

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ryelleart · 4 months

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Wow 10,000 likes is a lot 😳

Thank you guys for liking my art! 😭

#text post #10000 likes #tumblr milestone

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ryelleart · 4 months

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It took 4 days of work and downloading a whole new set of brushes just to make the sparkler effect, but I finished my first dtiys!

I’m proud of how this piece turned out, and I had a lot of fun making it (especially when I got to play around with my new lightning pattern brush)

Congrats on the well deserved 2k followers @starjammin! 🥳

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ryelleart · 4 months

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Can’t have a family photo without the guy responsible for creating the family in the first place

#my art #rottmnt #wip #baron draxum

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ryelleart · 4 months

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Mayhem!

#my art #rottmnt #wip #mayhem #rottmnt mayhem #rise mayhem

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ryelleart · 4 months

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This has been sitting in my drafts since 2021. I don’t think I’m ever gonna finish it 😭

#my art #art #wip #unfinished wip #cassandra cain #dc fanart #fanart #black bat #batgirl #orphan #please don't repost #I made this after watching a tiktok of someone pole dancing to call me by your name #I also wanted to draw Richard underneath her #they would’ve been posting on a street sign or something for the hell of it #with some of the other siblings hyping them up in the background #but when I took too long to complete this piece I just. lost interest in finishing it #and so it’s just Cassie #pole dancing in a blank void of nothing

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ryelleart · 4 months

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Yet another basic Casey fit (future boy edition)

#my art #rottmnt #wip #casey jones #casey jr

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ryelleart · 4 months

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I couldn’t think of a fun outfit for Casey so I went with something basic 😔

Maybe I’ll think of something better later

#my art #wip #rottmnt #casey jones

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ryelleart · 4 months

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ryelleart · 4 months

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*whispers* what if Usagi and Yuichi were brothers? 👀

Since I’ve already been asked for clarification about these guys on discord, ig I’ll share some of my HCs:

Usagi is 16/17, and Yuichi is 13

They’re both Miyamotos (obvi, they’re brothers)

Yuichi is kind of a composite of Netflix Yuichi and Yuichi Yamamoto from the comics

As an homage to Netflix Yuichi’s hero worship of his ancestor, my Yuichi thinks his big brother is the coolest person ever (big “my brother can beat up your brother” vibes)

In fact, Usagi is the main reason why Yuichi want to learn how to fight; he wants to be just like his big brother

In turn, Usagi adores Yuichi, and he’d do anything for his little brother

Even if he is a pain in the ass

The brothers almost exclusively refer to each other with nicknames, like “Yui” (Usagi), or “Usa” and “scar face” (Yuichi)

I imagine their situation is like Mako and Bolin’s: a young man forced to take care of his little brother at an early age due to unfortunate circumstances that left them without a proper guardian

I haven’t really thought about the specifics of their backstory too much, so idk what those circumstances are. Maybe their family/home was lost amidst the fallout of the Krang invasion? (oh yea this is technically connected to a rottmnt shitpost I made a while ago, so this au is set in the rottmnt universe)

Regardless, Usagi tends to take odd jobs around the Hidden City to provide for Yuichi

That’s all I got so far. Maybe I’ll revisit this and expand on it later 🤷🏽‍♀️

+ some memes to illustrate their dynamic a bit more

#art #my art #fanart #please don't repost #usagi miyamoto #yuichi usagi #not really #but he’s the inspiration for my version so I’m including him #tmnt #rottmnt #rottmnt usagi #rise usagi

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ryelleart · 5 months

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I’m back!!

I was hoping I wouldn’t take this long, but I’m finally done with the big project I was working on so I can now spend my free time making drawings of mutated turtles who are ninjas and also teens

#my art #wip #rottmnt #raph

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ryelleart · 5 months

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I’ve been drawing for a long as I can remember

Some of my earliest memories of drawing were from when I was a young child, when I was trying to teach myself to draw love hearts by drawing a still life of my apple-shaped Polly Pocket play set, and doodling snowmen and flowers on my bedroom window with special window markers my mom got me

I never had any formal art education growing up, and the fact I became a decent artist even though I was self-taught became a point of pride for me

It wasn’t until I was in middle school that self doubt and insecurity started to imbed themselves into my mind and disperse that pride, bc that’s when I finally met other kids my age who were also artists like me

That didn’t really bother me at first, bc I was mostly just excited to meet other kids who liked drawing as much as I did, but then I began doing something that’s impacted my work and my self esteem for years to come

I compared my art to theirs

I looked at how much more technically proficient their art was in comparison to mine, how much more polished their drawings were in comparison to mine… how their art generally looked better than mine

That budding self consciousness didn’t stop me from drawing, I loved making art too much to let my newfound self doubt keep me from engaging with my favorite hobby, but it did shape how I’d see my own art from that point on

Fast forward to day two of my freshman year of art school, and my Drawing Foundations instructor had my class sit around the model stand in the center of the studio, where she had placed a bunch of random still life objects that she wanted us to draw (for clarification, she only wanted us to draw one object of our choosing, bc there were a lot of objects in front of us and we only had like 30 minutes to work)

As everyone else started to work, I took a moment to decide which object I’d choose to draw, which already put me on edge bc another insecurity I developed over the years was that I work slower than other artists, so the fact I didn’t start drawing immediately like everyone else didn’t make me feel very good

As such, my slow pacing was a big factor into deciding to draw the object that was directly in front of me: a small, plastic rocking horse for babies

When my instructor ended the exercise, she had us line up our drawings on the large window sill so we could all look at our collective work. I was a bit nervous bc I wasn’t fully satisfied with my rushed drawing, but I did what I was instructed to do

And when I took a step back to look at all the drawings side by side, I felt crushed

Bc while I was struggling to finish a drawing of a simple baby toy in time, everyone else made drawings of the various vases, flowers, fruits, and the lone longhorn skull that looked more complete (or “better”) than mine

Idk why my immediate next thought made such an impact on me, especially when it was never really something I worried about too much before that day, but after seeing all the drawings we made, I thought to myself, “my drawing is so juvenile compared to everyone else’s”

What exactly made it “juvenile”? Well, nowadays I couldn’t really tell you, but back then I would’ve said it was bc of 2 reasons:

My personal drawing style didn’t look as “mature” as everyone else’s (Idk what that means, but that’s how I felt at the time)

I was the only one in my whole class who chose to draw the rocking horse (the only object on the stand that had bright colors and was explicitly a toy for kids)

I spent the rest of the class feeling insecure about my childish rocking horse drawing, so much so that I almost had a breakdown some time afterwards (I’d go on to have at least two of those over the next four years, but for completely different reasons)

It was during that particular low moment, when I was on the brink of crying over something as insignificant as a dumb drawing of a toy, that I finally had enough. I realized that I wasn’t gonna survive art school if this was how I felt about every piece I made moving forward. And more importantly, I just didn’t want to keep feeling the way I did anymore; those were feelings I’ve had for 8 years at that point, and I was tired of feeling so bad about the art I made when I used to be so proud of it

So, at that moment, I made myself a promise: I was going to stop comparing my work to others

It wasn’t easy, especially early on, but I realized I needed to let go of my insecurities if I wanted to improve (in relation to both my art and my mental state), so… I tried

I tried to stop thinking about how I couldn’t execute a technique as well as someone else. I tried to remind myself that it’s ok that I couldn’t finish an in-class assignment while others could. I tried to explain to myself why it was okay if my art looked (or simply was) “juvenile”, especially if making the piece ultimately made me happy. I tried to think of all the things about my art that I did like, things that could only be found in my work and no one else’s

It took a while, but I’m proud to say that my efforts eventually paid off, and I was eventually able to stop comparing my art to other’s

And from then on, I felt so much better about the art I produced, whether it was for school or for myself

Being able to make art again without those insecurities weighing me down was incredible, and my newfound confidence kinda reflected in the quality of my work as well

The reason why I’m sharing all of this is bc I recently saw someone express very similar feelings of insecurity over their own art being “childish”, and I shared my own experiences and advice with them in hopes it’d help them feel better about their work. And after a bit, I realized that this person is most likely not they only one that’s currently dealing with these feelings of inadequacy. Maybe you, the artist who’s reading this right now, feel the same way about your own work. Or maybe you know an artist, either in person or online, who feels this way. Regardless, I figured that if I was able to help that one person I reached out to personally, then hopefully by publicly sharing my experience and the advice I gave to them, I can help someone else

Whether your work looks “worse” than that of other artists is inconsequential. Art isn’t a competition or a race, as no two artists will ever have the same experiences, pacing, preferences, or goals. There’s no need to compare yourself to anyone else bc no one else will ever make art the way you do, and that’s not a bad thing by any means

And most importantly, art is subjective. There’s no definitive scale for what’s “good” or “compelling” or even “childish”, there isn’t even a universal basis for what constitutes as “art” to begin with, so any judgements people make about art are entirely personal to the ones making said judgements

For example, my little cousin made a painting a few years ago, when she was still a child, and when I first saw it framed on their living room wall, I honestly thought it was an abstract piece by some professional artist. It wasn’t technically impressive in the sense that you couldn’t believe a child was skilled enough to make something like it, bc it was honestly just a bunch of scribbles and lines that you’ve probably seen in any other painting made by an inexperienced child. However, to me, the placement and weight of those scribbles and lines seemed so intentional, it gave me the impression it was a purposeful abstraction of a building made by an adult with artistic experience

Hell, in my third year of art school, I cited Leonid Afremov as one of the artists I admired/drew inspiration from during my final crit, and after I showed my professor one of Afremov’s paintings, he told me to my face that he thought I, an amateur artist, was a better painter than Afremov

In order for you to understand my disbelief and flattery at that statement, this is the painting I made that was being critiqued that day

And this is one of Afremov’s paintings that I showed my professor

Do I agree with my professor? Do I think I’m a better painter than Leonid Afremov?

No, absolutely not; do you see that painting??

But that’s kinda my point: I don’t think my work is anywhere near that of Afremov’s, but my professor saw something in my art, something “weird”, that he valued more than whatever he saw in Afremov’s work. Something not even I could see myself, even to this day

Simply put, while you might not think highly of your work, while you might believe it’s unimpressive or “childish” in comparison to the works of other/more experienced artists, other people won’t see your art the way you do. In fact, they might be impressed by it, and the idea that it’s “childish” might not even cross their minds. Or maybe it will, but it either won’t change how much they like it, or it’ll make them like it even more

If you feel as insecure about your art as I used to, I urge you to try. Any time you feel like your work isn’t as “mature”, polished, or impressive as another’s, try to remember that it’s ok if you can’t draw as well as more experienced artists, if you don’t understand color theory or lighting or perspective like they do, if you can’t emulate the same techniques they utilize in their work, or even if your work is “childish” in any way. Try to allow yourself to be proud of your art, regardless of what it is or how it looks, bc the fact you can even make art at all is an achievement that you should be proud of

So be proud of yourself

You deserve it

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ryelleart · 5 months

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LEONARDO NINJA TURTLE LIKED MY ART?? HELLO???

#ik this isn’t an art post #but I wanted to archive these pics somewhere other than my photo gallery #and bc it’s nice to see evidence of people (whether they’re well known or not) enjoying your work #never thought anyone other than my family friends and other random fans online would see my stuff #it’ll be easy to look back at this moment and remember how cool this is now that it’s on my blog #also yes I’m still technically on hiatus 😭#hopefully I’ll be back by Christmas 🤞🏽#tmnt #teenage mutant ninja turtles #leonardo #leo #text post #art feedback

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ryelleart · 6 months

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If someone wanted to make an AI bot of one of your characters and use your art as a pfp for it, how would you like them to give credit? or would you rather that person not make it at all?

absolutely not.

I'm not gonna beat around the bush, I fucking hate the AI chat bot things and the stolen art for their pfp is flat out disrespectful to artists and writers everywhere

no one has my permission to use my characters (au or oc) for AI and especially not to use my art for its pfp

straight up fuck AI i want absolutely nothing to do with those creative stealing shit apps

laterally those chat things are just saying a big ol "fuck you" to all the writers who put their heart and soul into creating beautiful, original written masterpieces.

so no. if they have any ounce of respect and basic human decency, I'd rather a person not make it at all.

#THIS #fuck ai art #text post

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