Welcome to my art thread! I'm just trying to get back into the swing of things. I used to be pretty active online from 2009-2020 as an artist and storyteller, and then I had a lot of life drama hit that knocked me down for a while. I'm trying to get back to my webcomic-turned-webfiction Just Another Day and just being regularly creative in general. My dream is to be a folklore illustrator, and at the moment I have collected 1102 fairytales, 992 nursery rhymes, and 342 Aesop's fables so far. Now to start illustrating some!

I'm not looking for feedback, criticism, or anything. Most posts will probably be completed commissions since that's all I really have time to draw these days, but I'm not really looking to pick up any orders here. Just wanna hangout and post what art I can complete lately. I'm tired of deviantART's bogus "suggested tags" and NFT bots, and Facebook's "page TOS violation deactivation" bots and copyright infringing AI scraping. Not really any good art community sites out there anymore.

Come and chill with me if you want.

Got my first woodburnt ornament order! A baby with microcephaly. Experience with a pencil carries over well to pyrography, except shading is based more on exposure time than pressure.

I was feeling really bad about just HOW MANY DAYS it was taking me to do this one, and then I checked my time sheet and realized I actually was putting work into it instead of just goofing off and being lazy.

i wish i could draw like that lol. my art is mediocre at best. xD;;

Hotarla wrote: ↑Dec 30th, '24, 07:15 i wish i could draw like that lol. my art is mediocre at best. xD;;

Thank you! I spent several years drawing eight hours or more per day, originally for pleasure, later for keeping bills paid. I try to stretch and stuff regularly because I have lost SO MANY art friends over the years to repetitive stress injuries like carpal tunnel and tendonitis.

The oval was not ovally enough to my liking. I was sick with a three-day fever, but, deadlines are deadlines, my other three jobs were not producing income for this time frame, and I'm drowning in debt due to a narcissistic stalker.

Wow that’s dedication! I love how realistic you draw! That house you just posted, like wow, it’s so real!

Thanks! The trick on the bricks is indention. Retract the lead from a mechanical pencil you don't want to write with any more, line the ruler up, and carefully bare down onto the paper. Then shade over it. The lines are usually too small for the lead to enter, so it leaves a white ghost mark behind. Perfect for cement.

I see. It literally looks like a photograph, if I didn’t know you had drawn it, I’d think someone had AIed a picture into black and white pencil art.

The highest compliment a realistic pencil artist can get.