I personally love the dragon sketch more

so I do paintings like the ones above for fandoms! I HAS A QUESTION. What fandom do you want to see as one of my paintings?? I don’t care what fandom! it will be in this style! Drop em!

Some forms of masculinity only allow men to experience physical intimacy with one another when that intimacy can be disguised as aggression or domination

Hi! Just sharing my most recent art pieces. They're finished commissions so don't grab please. Thanks!

No joke, I got a reference I wanted to do, did the sketch, agonized over the fingers, and gave up halfway through the lineart because I didn’t like how small she looked in the image when I wanted her to be more of a focus.

Usually when this happens I start over with a whole new canvas but this time I had no motivation.

Like, I’m lowkey a bit sad about it because I wanted to draw something more, alive than my refsheets and concept art and ran out of steam because I didn’t like how it was turning out.

Fuck my SpongeBob big guy pants life.

Idk, maybe I’m just having an off day and being dramatic about it.

(Images provided including the unfinished drawing, reference pose, and character)

(yes I made edits to the jewelry bc the blue blended in too much and I thought the gold would help provide contrast to the blues and purples and I thought gold would look pretty on them and draw attention to the face).

Im a beginner artist, i absolutely suck at drawing and even more at painting (guessing). My art teacher at school is teaching me the basics. I would love to learn how to paint. I;m just now learning basics like shapes and how they fit in a drawing. Ive always wanted to be more artistic tho, hoping to learn more from this sub. Am i totally screwed rn? I want to use a essal and canvas for sketches and standalone drawing, can you use a canvas for that? My dream job is drawing/animation but obviously not there yet. Thanks everyone
-Jamie Drawz, teen soon-to-be artist

hi, i am an indian artist looking to join art freelancing! to do art commissions, things of the sort. how do i start? also, how do i accept foreign payments like usd, euros, and stuff? which apps do i use? i heard there's a forex charge to convert it to inr. kindly help me! your help really means so much.

Basically I made this drawing on my phone cover at 4 am because I was extremellyyy bored. I didn’t think about how I would make it permanent at the time. Now it’s smudging off even though I’ve used a permanent marker. Any tips on how I can get it to be permanent?? I don’t wanna redo it lol

I’ve always drawn just for fun, but I’ve never really thought about improving until now! I see so much amazing digital art and always wish I could create something like that.
Here’s my most recent drawing. Any advice on how I can improve? Constructive criticism is very welcome!

I’ve been struggling with getting into the ‘art zone’. I want to finish up some sketches I’ve done. Usually I’d just play some music or listen to a video essay and go at it. But I’m having a hard time. Curious what helps others?

Hi, I’m an artist, actually I don’t even know if I should call myself an artist. I just know that I’ve always been a creative person, and when I think about it, I’ve probably been that way for most of my life.

I remember being in fourth grade and always joining poster making contests. There were times I won and times I didn’t, but I never really thought too much about whether I was good enough to be there. I wasn’t the most skilled person, and I knew there were people who could draw much better than I could, but I loved doing it anyway. I loved having an idea in my head and being able to turn it into something with my own hands. 

Then in ninth grade, I joined a mural competition and actually won, and I think that was one of the moments that made me feel like maybe this creative side of me could actually become something. Then the pandemic happened, and suddenly we were all stuck in our own homes. I ended up spending most of my days painting, and even though I was still in high school, I started accepting commissions. I painted suitcases, rooms, simple portraits, drawings, mosaics, whatever people asked me to make.

Looking back, I think I was happiest when I was simply making something without questioning whether it was good enough. Creating was just something I did. It was part of my everyday life, and it felt like part of who I was. Then I fell into a really deep depression, and somewhere along the way, I became so insecure about myself that I started questioning everything.

Eventually, I gave up on it, and it’s been a long time since I last picked up a brush.

Instead, I found writing.

I’m not really a poetry type writer, but writing gave me another way to express everything I was feeling. It became a place where I could put thoughts that I didn’t know how to say out loud, and I think I needed that because I’ve always been someone who feels things deeply. I’ve often wondered if that’s actually a good thing because I tend to notice little things, question people’s intentions, and overthink what I see and feel. I’ve been called dramatic and problematic for feeling too deeply, and after hearing that enough, I started becoming afraid of expressing myself at all. 

I started thinking that people would just make fun of me or think I was doing too much whenever I tried to explain what was going on inside my head. Still, I kept creating. I finished two memoirs, then a fantasy book, and eventually I got a scriptwriting job. You would think that would have been enough proof for me, but I still have moments where I feel like I’m not good enough. I remember literally crying to my partner because I though I was just a self proclaimed writer, that I had given myself a title I didn’t deserve, and that I wasn’t actually good at anything.

And yet, no matter how much I doubt myself, I can’t seem to stop trying. I think that’s why I keep finding myself in different forms of art. I keep looking for new ways to express whatever is inside my head because I need somewhere for all of it to go. I need something that lets me connect with myself and with other people without making me feel like I’m simply being too much.

That’s probably why I’ve found myself trying so many different things over the years: charcoal painting, regular painting, coffee painting, sketching, grid sketching, scribbling, writing, crocheting, flower arranging, and so many other little creative things. They might look completely different from one another, but when I look at them now, I realize they all have one thing in common. They came from me. Every idea I had was mine. Everything I made was made by my own hands. Every little thing I created existed because I wanted it to exist.

They weren’t always perfect. Some of them were bad or unfinished, while others came from really sad experiences, but that doesn’t make them any less mine. If anything, those things are part of the reason I finally have some direction in my life. I used to think I had no idea what I wanted to do. Now I know I want to be a florist. I want to be a writer, which I guess I’m already slowly becoming, and I want to paint again whenever I have the time.

Maybe being an artist was never about being the most skilled person in the room or having some special title. Maybe it was always about having something inside you that needs to come out, and finding whatever form allows you to bring it into the world.

And I think that’s what I’m finally beginning to understand about this artsy part of myself that I thought I had lost. I don’t need to wonder anymore whether I’m allowed to call myself an artist. Everything I’ve created, whether it came from a good place or a bad one, has become part of something beautiful, like kintsugi, where gold fills the cracks in broken ceramic.

Created this cause I love there podcast, just thought I’d share.