The art of Grifx

Oh and I drew her a quick thumbnail picture too. I'm not sure how I like it overall since I feel like you can tell it was done hurriedly, but I am really happy with how the visor came out.

Twas my birthday yesterday, which means another self-portrait. I didn't feel like doing my traditional silly pose with a slice of cake thing this year so instead I made a regular illustration this time around

Happy holidays! I once again participated in the annual secret santa event that's hosted in Loish's discord and this is the piece I made for CozyNookArt this year!

There's a post that's been going around on Bluesky talking about how the only people who will ever be successful at art are those who are "naturally gifted" at it and that learning how to draw is like a hazing process that nobody enjoys. And obviously that's bullshit, humans have been making art for literally all of history, they're not doing that because they hate it. But you hear that kinda talk about different skills all the time, pretending that it's only ever available to those who are born naturally talented and in the process completely dismissing all the effort that people put in to learn their craft. Anyway that inspired me to find the oldest drawing I still had and redraw it. So I found back this old drawing I made for school when I was 4 years old. The assignment was to draw a self portrait, hence why there's text at the bottom that reads This is me. As you might be able to guess, mine wasn't super accurate. Obviously I'm way better at drawing now than I was back then, but that's because in the 21 years since I made that drawing I kept going and kept learning, because I simply enjoyed making art and wanted to be good at it. It's not mere natural talent that got me from where I started to where I am now and it's the same for every other artist out there

I'm definitely not the first to do this, but since @lavendertowne dropped a tutorial for emulating her artstyle in her latest vid about salty AI bros (a real power move tbh) I absolutely had to try it out myself, which was so fun!

Took a break from artfight for vacation, but now I'm back with my second attack! This cutie belongs to @pokepaws

Took me a bit to get started but I got my first attack of the year done! This lovely ink cap gal belongs to @feefal

Almost Artfight time!! Figured I'd make a card still (definitely didn't neglect to do that before haha) I'm joining team fossils this year, might still get a few more references in before we start. Hope everyone who joins enjoys the event! https://artfight.net/~Grifx

Got tired of my old icon so I drew myself a new one (perhaps also as a way to procrastinate on drawing my references for Artfight, I'm sure that'll be fine...)

It was my bday back in February and normally I draw myself every year, but this year I simply couldn't get into it. Still wanted to draw something, but I haven't been able to do fully finished pieces so I figured it might be better to know when to quit and just leave this one half-done