UHH I Havent Posted Any Of My Artfight Stuff Yet?? Attack On Sunshinegremlin On AF!

uHH i havent posted any of my artfight stuff yet?? attack on sunshinegremlin on AF!

catch me @ shakesfaeriean on AF!

Queer 👏 people 👏 are 👏 not 👏 all 👏 fucking 👏 activists 👏

Stop quizzing us on queer history and asking us questions we aren’t qualified to answer about the world and about politics and about our identities

Stop trying to back us into a corner so you can justify your discrimination on the basis that we don’t know what we’re talking about or can’t “defend” ourselves to you

Stop treating every queer person that stands up and says “I want to be treated like a person” as if they’re an activist

Cut that bullshit out

Marginalised people just want to exist and be happy

I don’t know everything, and that doesn’t make me undeserving of your respect or my human rights you fucker

I don’t even owe you the stuff I do know- I still am entitled to basic fucking respect

TLDR; Queer people shouldn’t have to be historians or scientists for you to not be a fucking dick

A lot of people say that when it comes to art, you need 80% dessert and 20% veggies. That's to say that you need to have fun/be creative 80% of the time, and 20% of the time, you need to study.

As someone who struggles with executive dysfunction, I'll add this to the metaphor: season your vegetables.

Studies in art don't have to be boring! Relate what you're doing to your interests. Want to draw fabric? Do 30 minutes of fabric studies, then draw your favorite character in long flowing clothes. Gesture studies? Do 30 minutes of those and then draw a little scene where characters are interacting or a short comic. In these examples, you're learning something and then applying them to creative work. Ideally, this motivates you to study and then reinforces that knowledge through the creative application.

It becomes easier to season your veggies when the subject doesn't matter. When I'm doing value studies from a photo, I choose to paint my favorite animal. When I study color, I reference my favorite artists and apply the studies to my characters. When speed painting, I paint my characters' houses, objects they would have, and their favorite foods.

Sometimes studies are still going to be a little boring (sometimes you genuinely just have to draw something that doesn't relate to you creatively or to your interests to get bettet), but these are just some ideas to gey yourself through them if your struggling to start. It's just like how i hated English class until my professor let me write about artists and write personal essays. Sometimes, the best way to start is to make sure you're going to have a good time.

Addendum: As always, there's no correct path in art. Do what works for you, but if you take yourself seriously as a creative, you should also examine yourself and ask if your process is really helping you work towards your goals or if you need to restructure.

Second addendum: Don't let this prevent you from trying new subjects just because you don't think it'll interest you. I always feel like character art is my favorite thing, but recently, I have learned that I enjoy drawing interiors. Sometimes you learn to enjoy subjects

my suggestion for a voi/voids pronoun flag <3

voi(or void)/void/voids/voidself

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doodling a lot today

more artfights attacks from earlier this month! top left is for @midas-howls , top right is for portals (AF), and bottom is for Tzorah (AF) ! <333