Collab with the amazing @nothingbizzare !

He did the lineart and I did the colors

Find the other half of the collab on his page to figure out who Teru is talking to >:)

I’ve been having fun turning my VR art into AR paintings lately.... really makes me feel like I’m just casually living in the future. this scene is the landscape from ‘Reality Is’, and it was brought into AR with Figmin XR!

if you want to see how this was made, I’ve got a process video here. (everything you see was hand painted and hand placed in virtual reality)

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does anyone else want to stick these two in the same room together or is that just me... i simply think they are adjacent in vibes... (+a bonus thing???)

get u a fictional guy that makes you feel like this... seeing these guys just evoke a Similar Kind of Brain Chemical and Response. Help Me.

also have bonus yosuke doodle featuring the same brushes used here...! from january 23rd, lol.

hello hello, just wanted to unceremoniously crash through the ceiling to say your art is just so sjdjdjskshskdhdj. it’s delightful, you draw every character just so well n' every time i see them i get a big goofy smile all over my face :))

have a good day/night/whatevers!! and while i’m at it, thankyou for your art :)

This will be stuck in my head for a year and probably more, and I have no words to express how happy I am right now

so let me depict it visually

HDHAHHFHAHXBABBS

i love it when the traumatized child war survivor gets taken in by a kindly old wizard man who helps raise her into a war criminal to fight his battles!!!!!!!!!! especially when Azteca died and it brought back all those memories of war from her childhood!!!!!!!!!!! wizard101 yay fun happiness smiles and joy

talking to a friend about getting back into art and i think the #1 most important piece of art advice i could ever get or give is just "figure out what is FUN to you"

like i think there is sooooo much emphasis on how to build SKILL in art but a lot of it really treats art like a job or like video game grinding, like it's this thankless job that you have to work at in order to reach a Threshold and i know it's not EASY to make yourself have fun but like

imo a solid 70% of the reason i create art is because the Act of Drawing is fun to me. it's fun problem-solving and planning and putting down lines and playing with colors and tools. it's fun to depict little scenes in my head or to create outfits or to find ways to fill the canvas. never forget that creating can be fun. sometimes it's hard and sometimes you have to battle through your own blockades to get there but the ultimate goal should always be to ENJOY it, to find what you enjoy doing and then do it forever. improvement will follow enjoyment.

i think especially with all the debate about ML image generation it's more important than ever to embrace FUN. if you're only focused on the end result it's so easy to get in your own head- to think about what doesn't look good or what skills you don't have yet or to compare yourself to other artists. but photography didn't kill the art of drawing and AI won't either because, simply put, there will always be people who want to do the physical act of making art because it's fun to do! using paints and markers, splashing colors around, doing shitty pen doodles, using the symmetry tool in your art program to do abstract mandalas that are just squiggles formed into patterns. do art like you're 5 and you've been handed markers to pass the time. do art like you're bored in class and you're keeping your brain entertained by drawing stick figure comics in the margins. do art like an absent thing, do art because it satisfies your brain. the goal is not to make something beautiful and perfect, the goal is to make something because your hands need to make and your body needs to make.

So this must have already been asked but I can never work tumblr’s search correctly. Is the creative life also your day job? Your work is amazing but like it is your side passion or just what also sustains you. How could I order your pottery work?

tumblr's search is mostly broken now so i'm not surprised lmao (i'm always happy to talk to yall even if it has been asked before)

I do have an actual creative career (with benefits and retirement!! LOL), I'm an art director in a small design firm and I specialize in retail package design and product photography. Most of you in the States (and probably Canada) have seen my work in the real world! It's very boring lol.

Ceramics is my true love, I think, but I don't have any desire to sell it myself online as I don't have the space to store inventory or funds to get the shipping materials (or even the clay materials) and would rather teach it. BUT. I will be selling some of my pottery very soon through the studio I learn/teach at, and I will post that link when I actually have it! They do ship at least within the States, and 60% of the sale will go to me.

But all my other creative adventures whether that's drawing or writing or any other activity that involves making with my hands are just for funsies and because it makes me happy. One of the best pieces of advice one of my bosses gave me when I first started was "You are in a creative job, make sure you have your own creative outlet that you don't monetize." And I stand by that. It keeps me sane, and that's also part of why I don't have an online ceramics shop or pushed a shop for prints too hard.

@rhinoyo MY BELOVED LEMMY, HAPPY BIRTHDAY!!!! lots of love!! <33

had this song stuck in my head for like two days after which i decided to just illustrate it

matching phone lockscreens for you and the demon you’ve been dragging around in a book that has at least once possessed you and trapped YOUR soul in said book with intent of then possessing one of your friends but you still carry that tome everywhere with you to this day for god knows what reason. Sorry, that was really specific, no idea where THAT came from,

first sober night in awhile and im not itchin for weed or alchie and am instead remembering the things that make my blood pump day after day

art piece i did for my friend kipper of him and his partner- thank you for letting me draw them! 💜💗

BITCH ASS MOTHERFUCKER!!!

oh yeah have i ever mentioned that buddy is an artist? and that its a pretty imoprtrant part of their character?? yeah sorry i kinda forgot to say anything about it

this is them like 5-6 years after ‘the black paladins’ btw. hes doing ok! definetly not stellar and its gonna take a lot more time for all of them to adjust to, yknow, not livng in a fuckin cave. theyre all staying on eenek’s dad’s ship for now. its a bit crowded but it could be worse!

my loser child who works at a space walmart or somewhere like that<3

After thinking thibgs over i think i need to simplify my character art and over complicate my background art

public art is so important. its impacts may seem small, but even small impacts are not insignificant.

over this last summer and fall a local artist painted a mural along the side of a bridge which I go across regularly to get home. It made me excited and happy seeing the mural come to life, passing by week after week as the art slowly stretched itself from one side to the other. yesterday I went on a long walk, and towards the end of it I had the choice to go walk by the water or go more directly home along my street. I had planned to go by the water cause I love water and nature is soothing and pleasant to exist around, but instead I decided to go more directly home because I wanted to see the mural. I've passed by it plenty of times, but every time I see the flowers and find a new creature nestled into the plant life, I feel like I am discovering another fun part of the story in the painting. it makes me happy, it makes me feel connected to this place and to my community, and it creates a sense of belonging. if that mural makes me feel more connected to my community and the world around me, if it brings me happiness and joy and excitement and wonder, then I know it does that for other people too. when people ride by on the bus and catch a glimpse of the blooming flowers, maybe it makes them smile. when people bike by on their way to their job or to the library, maybe it is comforting to see the same expression of love day after day. whether people are happy, sad, busy, distracted, angry, lonely, or scared, when they pass by that mural they are seeing an expression of love from someone, someone who is a part of the community and who was asked by the community to share their ideas and their feelings. when people pass by the mural, they are being recognized by the world, they are hearing the world call out to them, they are feeling the world give them a hug, or whatever they need in that moment. those moments of connection, even if we experience them individually, are all part of a collective experience of enjoying that place and connecting with that place. and that place is a place we all share. we build that space together by existing and enjoying the art we see and enjoying our world and enjoying each other.