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switchthedragon · 4 months

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⚠️WACOM SUPPORTS AI ART. PLEASE READ. ⚠️

So I've been using a wacom tablet for over a year now, and I know they're pretty cheap to buy and good quality. But please don't support them anymore. If you have a wacom tablet already that's completely fine, but if it breaks go buy from a different brand.

Look at the tail, the neck, and the fur. There are holes in the fur, fur where there shouldn't be fur, and the tail is just completely detatched.

A Youtuber I watch also pointed out some other details.

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I recommend Huion. My brother uses huion and I can say that their products work just as good as, if not better than, wacom. I'll put the link to their site below, feel free to add on any details I might've missed! ^^

Please reblog!!!

Link to Huion's products.

Tagging my mutuals as well so that they see this. (Ignore the tagging)

@russmel @mrfellsans @lazy-shapeshiofter @largefound-the-sequel @sillygoofyqueer @mellybabbles @sunnvydaze @c00kietin @samijami @panda-of-the-trash @big-coyote @ksopaz @oh-look-a-homosexual-punk-boy @oodlesndoodles @scuddle-bubble101 @iamunabletothinkofablogname @flooffydergen @justanidiotartist @lilibanned @bluedovee @alurafiremender @proxdragon @moontherian @westaysilly @swiftmitsu @fateswind0wseat @elizakai @obsidianwolf36 @tuxibirdie @fir3lit3 @thatidiotutartist @italic-doing-random-shit @corruptgrail @wishtale-blogs @thetunashop @bunny-behind-a-keyboard @masked-artist-xp @mochadagoober @safwunnz @nyxus-nyx @nottefierr @zucchiyeni @kuuuuro

#switch the dragon #switchthedragon #important #wacom intuos #wacom hates artists #wacom tablet #wacom #Youtube

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gingerkingfisher · 4 months

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Anyone have tips on how to refurbish a wacom tablet?? I don't wanna buy a new one but the usb port is starting to have issues, and I wanna catch it before it gets worse. Hashtag Anti AI art fuck you wacom

#maow #text #wacom #wacom tablet #wacom hates artists #wacom intuos #idk what else to tag this uh HElp??? help?????

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nekogunz · 3 months

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I'm so extremely sure I overdid the hashtags but yolo... A WORK IN PROGRESS!!!!! I drew the first basil in 2022, second one just today!

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halluprism · 8 months

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𝐀 𝐬𝐜𝐚𝐫 𝐨𝐧 𝐌𝐲𝐬𝐭𝐚𝐜𝐨𝐫'𝐬 𝐩𝐚𝐬𝐭… ☁

[🇬🇧] A character that leaves you on edge everytime they show up on screen - because you know they'll be making someone's life miserable - is to me the perfect villain, and that's how I describe SW the best. - That and unforgettable voice acting, I recognized Lorraine Toussaint's voice immediately in Nimona.

[🇵🇹] Uma personagem que nos mantém em alerta de cada vez que aparece no ecrã - porque sabemos que está prestes a tornar a vida de alguém miserável - é para mim, o vilão perfeito, e é dessa forma que melhor descrevo a Shadow Weaver. - Adicionalmente é um exemple de voice acting inesquecível, reconheci a voz da Lorraine Toussaint imediatamente em Nimona.

#back when I was on my shera brainrot #hate the character love the design kind of situation #shadow weaver #light spinner #art #spop #she ra #she ra and the princesses of power #digital art #illustration #lineart #artists on tumblr #firealpaca #wacom cintiq

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vampirekinn · 7 months

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do i.. do i spend money on a drawing tablet? or shld i just get a game for half the price

#fly agaric #i just hate drawing and having to be looking elsewhere like i already do w my current wacom tablet #i hate apple but i wont lie i do rlly want an apple tablet w a pen to draw on #it wld be much more like drawing on paper for me n im so much more comfortable w that #and i miss drawing EOURHG i havent drawn in so long #i miss drawing for myself.. wah #my motivation for drawing has reawakened recently tho!!!#and out of all the things its bcs of miraculous ladybug..... lol #i just remembered how i drew fanart and ocs for it and all the cool art i saw of other artists way back then #... on deviantart TAT

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catman-draws · 9 months

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my first tablet years and years ago was a wacom, and the thing barely worked from day one. i was doing better ON MY PHONE after it finally actually died than when using it. i think i've had my current (huion my beloved) tablet (going on 5 years) longer than i had the wacom (two MAYBE three years, and that was with me continuing to use it despite it super not working), and the huion still works beautifully, lol. so, seconding your pro tip. wacom is not worth it

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I'm so sick of them, I literally rage-purchased a huion in my blinding fury.

#catman asks #I've had a few wacoms and I hate them #they were Gifts is the thing #if I have any artists looking to go digital following me #don't waste your money on wacom #just buy a huion or literally anything else #trying to draw on this thing is like pulling teeth

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radveins · 6 months

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10 things I hate about you

Instagram: @radveins_

#art #artists on tumblr #digital artist #artwork #fanart #10 things i hate about you #julia stiles #sketch #digital painting #portrait #cute #wacom #clip studio paint

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4kywis · 2 years

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happy birthday shinji 💜💚

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grimmla-arts · 4 months

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Was inspired by Wacom's most recent horror show, where they used Ai to promote their tablets. I'm really struggling to put all my thoughts down, but I really wanted to attempt to show the way Ai makes me feel. It's a false dragon.

I think I find myself increasingly disgusted by the lack of humanity demonstrated by higher ups of companies like Wacom. Their decision to include generative AI in their ad is pure madness motivated only by the desire to save a few bucks at the cost of devaluing the human experience. It would have cost them very little to have an artist draw them a fine dragon for their advertisement, but they chose to use AI. (and don't give me that bull about 'oh we didn't know it was Ai, it was a third party.' I don't believe it.)

The big question is why?

I'm not going to pretend I have the best answer, but I'm fairly certain it's because, like the people that sing Ai's praises, they really hate humanity. You'd have to in order to think it was fine to not only take someone's work, but their life's passion and put it through a meat grinder just so you can prompt product. That's all they want... product... slop for the masses. It's heartbreaking. Needless to say I won't be buying any Wacom products anymore. Shame too, I liked my tablet, now I can't touch it without thinking about the parasite that is Wacom.

Ai is such a disturbing trend. It's a terrible beast pretending to be a creation tool , but all it does is consume and regurgitate. Unable to create without scrapping millions of images and texts. It has but one goal. To get rid of you. Make no mistake, this tool was developed specifically to remove people from the equation. Why hire an artist when it's just as easy to type in a prompt? Maybe it's not as good, but its instant, its cheap. Why hire a journalist when it's faster to just prompt some popular text? It doesn't even have to be accurate... just cheap.

I'm trying not to rant about the horrors of capitalisms at this point, but X'D maybe another time.

and I know i'm kind of preaching to the choir but This year is going to be awful in regards to AI. All I can say is brace yourselves, educate your loved ones (as there's bond to be a million new ways to scam people) and give no quarter to this garbage.

#dragon art #dragon #wacom

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den-ai-d · 5 months

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Ooof...a decade on this site eh?

Oh no, story time incoming!

10 years and yeah, so much has happened already. Originally, I made this blog back when I was in high school as a place to post my drawings; back then, it was all just pencil drawings on paper. Looking at them now...well it was obvious I still had a long way ahead of me LOL. And to think some people assume that everyone skilled enough in art must have had some innate talent for it. CLEARLY, they don't know what they're talking about because I was terrible at it early on!

But I mean, I didn't really think that of my art, did I?

No. In fact, I'm pretty sure that kid me was very much impressed with his own works. See, that child had a very bloated ego and a high opinion of himself. You should ask his poor friends; I'm sure they'd agree that the bugger could take a few lessons on humility with how he'd be sharing all of his silly sketches to them and pontificating on and on about how nice he thinks they are. Yeah, I was an insufferable kid.

But I do think that overinflated ego of mine turned out beneficial for my growth as an artist because without it—without my love for my own art—I wouldn't have stuck to it.

And stuck to it I did.

Went to college soon after that and took a program majoring in biology. Not much of a surprising choice since I've always liked the sciences and figured it would later on give way to a stable career; funnily enough, while I was very passionate about making art, I never thought it would be a profitable source of income. But that didn't mean I'd stop doing it on my free time though! Actually, this was when I got myself my first tablet! And what better way to start my digital drawing experience than to buy a FUCKING EXPENSIVE cintiq!!! With the extra motivation coming from the monetary pressure of such a purchase, you bet your ass I used the hell out of that thing. I was so intent on making use of it that—would you look at that—I still use it to this day! (Wow, they really made those old wacom tablets to last, didn't they?)

Obviously, college work ended up taking a lot of my time so I couldn't really draw as much as I did a few years ago. There were even times when I could only make one painting throughout a whole month; a far cry to my previous output. But even so, I never wavered in thinking that making art—being an artist—was something that was part of my identity; it was something that I always will come back to, no matter how much busy I got contending with course work.

And speaking of which, fuck that! Got my first honest-to-goodness mental breakdown because of all the studying I was doing at one point. See, I'm the type of student that likes getting good grades because BIG NUMBERS so I made it a point to be studious. To the point of insanity, apparently.

Anyway, I got better eventually and it all turned out nice. Even snagged all the awards I could've gotten for my thesis by the end of it! Yes, I am bragging. I deserve it, thank you very much! (For anyone curious, it was a study about plant pigments and using them in solar cells).

After that debacle, I found myself whisked into Adulthood which meant I finally had to find a job. Guess I was lucky since I didn't really have much of a hard experience searching for one. Got accepted into a cosmetics company for a lab position. Hmm, in hindsight, I think they just wanted a fresh graduate who wouldn't demand a high salary and that was me so I got in pretty easily. And honestly, the work was AWESOME. My job ended up with me coming up with formulas for new products. I got to make lotions, shampoos, soaps (ugh, I hated that one), perfumes, toners, balms, scented candles, and—oddly enough that one time—glue! It was a wonderful experience for me since it blended my interest in science and art with how it required me to think of creative ways of applying technical solutions in order to make products that needed to look, feel, smell, and perform a certain way.

As a bonus, I even got to make stuff for myself! I was particularly fond of making creams with menthol. The soothing chill on the skin is just so nice!

It wasn't all good though. I mean the menthol was fine and dandy, I assure you, but even if I was enjoying myself with the work, it just so happens that it just wasn't giving me enough money to provide for the family. Also, there was that one time I splashed chili oil on my eye. A very eye-opening and spicy turn of events to be sure.

With the bills stressing the hell out of me, I then thought to myself: if only I had a marketable skill that I could use in my off time as a way of engaging with a hobby whilst earning money.

Yup, I started my singing career!

LOL no. I opened art commissions for the first time!

It was a very scary experience, mind you. I don't consider myself a social butterfly and the prospect of talking with other people in a transactional context was a big reason why I haven't even considered doing it all this time. Turns out being poor and running out of money outweighed such concerns. Also, my keeping up with art and posting them online all these years seemed to have payed off well; my twitter having then recently crossed over a thousand followers which meant I had a decent pool of potential clients!

And so I bumbled through my first few commissions trying to appear professional and all put together in front of my clients while consistently shitting myself on the inside. Just like all well-functioning adults!

It was October last year when I started. I figured that I wouldn't have much in way of commissioners—what with being new to the business—and that was fine since I didn't have much time to put on them anyways since I did still had to go to work on my day job. What mattered was that it gave me enough of a financial buffer so that I didn't have to worry too much about going under.

This continued to the turn of the year where I was able to juggle both my job and doing commission without much of a hassle. In fact, I noticed that people were actually really interested in getting commissions from me. So much that at one point...I actually made more money in a month than what I would've with my monthly salary! At that point, it was so over! Like, I originally was planning to at least observe how things went within this year and then decide after if I would just keep it as a side gig or go full-time with art. Turns out I was much more impulsive than I expected.

It was on a bright sunny February morning (no cinematic storm clouds in sight, unfortunately) that I decided on a lark to approach my boss at work and tell them that yup, no joke, I was gonna be leaving. I handed my resignation letter a few days later.

I would've liked to say that it was a tearful goodbye with my cherished co-workers whom I've spent the last five years of my life with but...COME ON, I barely talked with those people! Instead, it was a lukewarm farewell between people who just happened to work in proximity to each other. Eh, like I said, I wasn't much of a social butterfly and no one really made an effort to get to know me so oh well. MOVING ON!

Actually, I couldn't just up and leave because there are laws around these kinds of things so I worked there for another month but all that was a blur. Soon enough, I was officially unemployed!

So like I mentioned earlier, I full on did not expect doing art as something that would bring in much in way of income. My parents too thought the same. They said that yeah, art was a good hobby but as job? Let's be serious here! Well, turns out we were wrong all this time. With me fully dedicated to commission work, I was able to take on a larger volume of clients. Not as many as some of you go for (I'm looking at you, people who take ten or more commissions per batch, you monsters!) but enough that I was actually making a stable living! And yeah, WAY more than my now previous job. What an absolute shock to everyone involved; me most of all.

Now it's almost the end of the year, my plans having all but shattered into tiny pieces. Tiny pieces that scatter with the wind as I look back on the past ten years that has led me to where I am today. A lot of time has passed. I graduated high school, college, then got a job. Then graduated from that too. Certain people have come and gone. Some more permanent than others. I've lost friends and made new ones. Tumblr got fucked. Twitter got fucked. The world stopped for two years. For some, it's still stuck in those two years. I made glue in a lab. Almost lost an eye in a lab. I bought chips with my very own money for the first time. I loved people. Hated them too. Things have happened. Things have changed.

I certainly am very different from that kid who was having troubles fitting in with others from his class, what with being bullied and suffering through a particularly angsty teenage (oh my god I was CRINGE). A kid who often sought drawing as an escape to all of those terrible things out of his control.

I guess I'm happy I can still relate to that kid.

#den thoughts #10 year tumblrversary #tumblr milestone #omg an essay #what the hell #it's 5 in the morning #I wrote this for two hours #me and my pretentious ass #ugh #I'm going to bed

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c-rowlesdraws · 1 year

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How about an iPad with a cheap third-party keyboard attachment? (I you don't already have one you draw on, I follow so many artists and I'm not sure what you draw on, sorry)

I know that plenty of artists either work mostly or exclusively on the iPad and love it, but, with all respect to them and to you, for me, that sounds like hell.

I currently draw using a Wacom tablet, the kind that sits flat on the desk while I look up at my drawing program in a second monitor, with my laptop next to it. I like having a large drawing space that I don't have to block with my hand, and I like having a big screen or two to move things around on. I have an early-generation iPad that I use to draw when I'm away from home, and using it feels like being trapped in that little flat eternal jail dimension the criminals get trapped in at the start of Superman*. I hate having to touch or tap around with my stylus to select different tools instead of having tablet buttons and keyboard shortcuts, and I hate the small size of the screen relative to even my laptop.

not to mention all the stuff you can do on a normal, salt-of-the-earth, god-fearing computer that's awkward-to-impossible on an iPad, with the way the UI is laid out and structured. It looks like a giant smartphone screen. Gross.

an iPad also wouldn't solve my problem of, "software I want to use is incompatible with Mac OS".

My mind might change someday, but for now I really like flat tablet + two monitors at a desk for my personal work-from-home setup.

*I think it's Superman? You'd be surprised, but variations on "criminals superman space prison" is not a very helpful google.

#catie talks #oh christ I just thought about trying to do 3D artwork on an ipad and I think that really would be impossible for me #so that's another thing #also processing power/memory is probably an issue with those things #but really I can't stand the thought of never being able to have more than one window open and side-by-side at a time

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infernalmellifera · 9 months

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Meet Miz Venus!!!

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ଘ(੭ˊᵕˋ)੭* ੈ✩‧₊˚ Basic Info!!

⋆｡ °✩ Name: ~ Venus Valentine ~

⋆｡ °✩ Age: ~ 18 ~

⋆｡ °✩ Birthday: ~ December 13!!! ~

⋆｡ °✩ Pronouns: ~ She/He/It ~

⋆｡ °✩ Personal account + non-art reblogs: @infernalcringecomp

⋆｡ °✩ Other: ~ Autistic // Fil-Am // Toric Enby ~

++ ⋆｡ °✩ Current Hyperfixation: ~ ULTRAKILL ~

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ε(*´･ω･)з* ੈ✩‧₊˚ My Tags!!

☆｡･:* #InfernalMellifera Art — My art :) mostly digital work, but the occasional cosplay prop piece and other projects as well.

☆｡･:* #InfernalMellifera Cosplay — Cosplay content , mostly handmade

☆｡･:* #InfernalMellifera Doodles — Doodley doos that I do at work and conventions

☆｡･:* #Mirage Monday — My Mirage (Ultrakill) semi-weekly cosplay content ! feel free to @ me in mirage fanart to cosplay :)!!! (started 9/4/23)

☆｡･:* #MY LOVELY BOYFRIEND YAAAY!!! — Drawings and (very rare) cosplay collaborations with FireCat115 (YouTube/Twitter)

+ Reblog Tags

☆｡･:* #favorites :] — I tag a majority of art reblogs with this one and I mean it every time. My bookmark tag bcz i also dont know how this site work’s completely yet >_<

☆｡･:* Hopefully Self Explanitory Subtags — #cuuuuuute!! ,, #gorgeous ones :9 ,, #interesting ones :0 ,, etc…

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ପ(๑ᴗ͈ˬᴗ͈)ଓ ੈ✩‧₊˚ About my Art........

ྀ࿔ I am an AVID Clip Studio Paint user. Almost all my digital work is made on CSP. Otherwise, I use Illustrator or Photoshop (for my older works done in high school). I have a Wacom One that I got for christmas that I use as well.

ྀ࿔ My typical process for more complex pieces is sketch, color, shading, blur, render, highlight. For a piece more simple like the one above, it would be sketch, lineart, color, shade, highlight.

You can read alll about my portfolio art (self-portraits) on my website too ✧～(ゝᴗ ∂ )

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˚✧ Music Artist: Perfume

˚✧ Song: UltraChurch - Keygen Church

✧ Color: Pink and Red

˚✧ Streamer: Jerma985, of course!

˚✧ Music Genre: J-Rock // Breakcore // Game OST

˚✧ Game Genre: Rhythm Games

˚✧ Vidya Game: ULTRAKILL

˚✧ Character: Super Sonico!

˚✧ Animal: Le Frogge

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⋆｡ °✩ I LOVE dressing gyaru, but my favorite substyles to wear are:

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─── ⋆⋅☆⋅⋆ Agejo

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─── ⋆⋅☆⋅⋆ Haady

⋆｡ °✩ My name is from the Planet, Venus (and kinda from Sailor Venus too...), and my favorite holiday!

⋆｡ °✩ My Special Interests are BEES and FASHION!!!

⋆｡ °✩ My Crested Gecko, Sebby, is 6 years old :]

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👍 YAAAY! (things I love)

⭐️ My Boyfriend

ULTRAKILL

Persona 5 Royal

⭐️ Super Sonico!!!

Cosplay

Figurine Collecting

Bread 😋

⭐️ Cats! 🐈‍⬛

⭐️ Gyaru Fashion

Hating and Lying

Sex 😳

👎 Eww… (things I hate)

Yandere Content (tag if possible? light trigger but idgaf)

Hugs from strangers

British “people” (jokingly)

Drawing (also jokingly)

Other Info on Image

Height - 4’11”// 150cm (short king)

Favorite Necklace - Silver Cross

Drink I LOVE! - La Croix

I almost always use a ballpoint pen for doodles

I wear platforms

I draw my Boyfriend a LOT

#meet the artist #personal art #InfernalMellifera Art #My art :]

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shadowhoodie13 · 2 months

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I’m gonna get a lot of hate for this but it’s whatever. A reason I haven’t been rebloging as much avatar/ATWOW (blue ppl movie) is cause I can’t stand how often that fandom uses ai art to generate what “art” they want. I’ve been distancing myself from blogs I follow that make or promote ai art cause it’s obvious when they’re using ai. Like no you didn’t just make 6-9 fully fledged rendered pieces with slightly different art styles. There is no consistency to your work there is not love made into it and it tells me that it’s ai.

I’m huge against ai especially with the sora shit coming out that will be used to take more jobs from creatives and even be used in prosecutions cases, government propaganda, deep fakes of irl ppl that will be used to deny them jobs and hate crime propaganda. Ai “art” is a mockery of what is creatives strive to make. We do what we can to learn how to draw and get to the lvl of art we want. Y’all using ai for your self ships is so dumb. I get the economy is shit but fucking pay someone to draw you self ship art or do it yourself. Art is enjoyable the process is fun even if you might not always like how it turns out in the end. You learn techniques that can help you improve in the process IK I sure do as a self taught artist. If you genuinely can’t see why ai is so bad I’ll link a bunch of articles of companies and their sleazy activities cause ai is free.

Duolingo 1 2

Wizards of the coast/MTG 1 2 3

Wacom art tablets 1 2

Layoffs 1 2

Training ai off of actual artists and their work 1 2 3 4

Tools against ai 1 2 3

You can also do your own research but ai is taking creatives jobs. There is no good reason for ai

#ai art discussion #ai art is not art #ai art is art theft #ai art is theft #ai art is stolen art #ai art isn't real art #fuck ai art #ai discourse #ai discussion #fuck ai everything #I didn’t even add all the links for ai voice and what that’s doing to the va community #atwow #atwow ai

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moki-dokie · 1 year

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I wish I had the same tools and resources as other artists my age did in their formative years. I wish I had some of the tools I have now back then. I wish my brain worked like most people's and that I could visualize light sources and how it interacts with a subject. I wish I had the time and money to go take some real university art classes. I wish a severe years long battle with depression didn't rob me of creativity so badly that I lost what little skill I had. I wish I hadn't developed a bad tremor and twitch thanks to medication meant to fight that depression. I wish I had enough time in the day to actually do art how I want.

There's a ton of things I wish I could change, have, or do in regards to art. I'll never not be extremely envious of artists decades younger than me that are already so insanely skilled that they can pitch a portfolio to studios. I'll never not be jealous of peers my age that continue to grow and get even better at something they're already so good at.

But, at the same time, I've learned to be gentler on myself. I've forgiven myself for the things out of my control. And instead of staying stuck in an endless negative spiral and lamenting all the what-ifs and could-bes, I choose to go forward and make art anyway. I choose to have fun with it again, to doodle and experiment. I allow myself the freedom to start over and learn. I still don't have all the resources available to me that I wish I did but I won't let that stop me. It can still be extremely frustrating when I want to draw something and simply can't figure out how or when nothing turns out how it looks in my head, but it isn't the end of the world. I'll make something else, learn something new, and continue.

It's hard to start over in your mid 30s, but I'd rather do this than bang my head against a wall forever and hate everything I do to the point of not doing it at all. Finding the joy in creating again has been key. And sometimes that means sketching studies of cats for weeks on end because their anatomy is pleasing to work with and I can find myself learning while I'm at it, to the point that soon I won't need endless refs and I'll be able to draw them mostly from memory. Sometimes that means turning a funny meme into a full comic page just to challenge myself with expressions and panel layouts or to play around with color or grayscale. Sometimes it means leaving something I was working on for weeks or months and then coming back to it with a fresh perspective, new knowledge, and rekindled joy that made me start it in the first place. And, sometimes it's merely finding a bunch of tutorials and trying them out to see what happens.

It's crazy how much this ipad has really boosted my creativity. Not being tied to my PC is a huge bonus, as is the feeling of drawing on paper (bless paper like screen protectors!) And drawing directly on the surface. A stylus that behaves like an actual pencil (or pen, or brush, or whatever) has been tremendously rewarding and fun. I think a lot of my frustrations before were purely because I just didn't have the right tools. My Wacom was a piece of shit that only worked with sai which wasn't ideal. This is miles better, I really can't even describe it.

Anyway all this to say that if you're struggling with your art, it's ok. Be kinder to yourself, cut yourself some slack, and maybe just doodle pages and pages of silly looking cats for the hell of it. Whatever brings some measure of joy.

#art #artists on tumblr #idk just some thoughts floating around

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kittydoggie · 2 months

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It's amazing to see techbro assholes go "Hahaha, great to see those artists get knocked down a peg."

Bro? Bro? Did your family beat you with a digitizer? Like, did your ma choke you out with a Wacom cord or something? Were you assaulted by Huion? You can tell us, tell us where the paint brush hurt you.

It's mystifying. Artists are well known to be poor and die in horrible poverty, even if you get into a studio, the work isn't guaranteed.

AI isn't the issue, humans are. Capitalism is. AI is just a machine doing what it's told. It has no will. It doesn't feel anything. It doesn't hate or love or know if it's causing joy or pain. It isn't evil or good.

A human makes it do all the things it does. Like a gun, it is an inert machine until a man takes it up with the intent.

#art #ai #thinking

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catman-draws · 9 months

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If I could abolish a single company from the planet, ngl wacom is looking pretty tempting rn

#catman speaks #god I hate wacom so much #fuck wacom all my homies hate wacom #they're so Useless I Hate their products #can you tell I'm Struggling with my tablet rn #pro artist tip: don't buy anything from wacom

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