Rejam Art

Genuinely so fucking embarrassed but I somehow wrote down two months of June instead of realizing July exists after June. Don't ask me how, I do not even know.

Anyway I have MOSTLY fixed this fuck up but if you're awaiting art from me, please have a look-see at my to do list here:

think of all the art by other people that you have ever loved! and think over how often you loved it, not due to the technical execution on display or the foundational expertise, but because it had some element, some verve, some spirit that you liked - some touch of the person who made it that made it resonate with you despite the fact that like all art it had flaws

your art reminds me of (thing that they also love)

your oc reminds me of (character that they also love)

omg #me

i think i want to try and do something like this later so #inspiration

can you tell me where you got x brush or resource

i don't usually go here but i love this!

comments I think artists need to start being vocally offended by and shutting down asap, politely but very fucking firmly:

urgh i hate my art

this makes me never want to draw again

ok but it's easy for you so your opinion doesnt matter, it's hard to draw for me

i hate my old art so fucking much i can't even look at it idk how you can stand to do a redraw

this thing i drew is really bad and i fucking hate it

its probably ok if i post unfinished things and wips here right

maybe they're not like they are where you're from, but those earth sunrises aren't anything to sneeze at, either

I'm putting this on my art blog since it's directly related to ARPGs i am in and my art blog is where those people live!

i know confrontation is scary and hard and i don't blame anyone who doesn't want to, and i know in some cases it's genuinely impossible, but like

twice in the last six months in two different games i've been in a situation where i was providing feedback to moderators in some way, got a deluge of DMs/PMs privately agreeing with me, and yet very very few people were willing to speak up and agree with me publicly or back me up. i know sometimes you simply can't. i know sometimes you've moved on and don't wanna get your foot in the shit again. it's ok. but if you can, please do. it's so frustrating and exhausting to KNOW how supported your ideas are and yet have no public support. it makes you look insane and like a troublemaker and the net result has been that i've more or less decided i'll never do it again. i've done it too many times now and having done it twice in six months has just wiped me out. i can't do it anymore.

also, please understand that when you do this, because i take confidentiality seriously, sometimes i'm left holding pieces of a puzzle that only I can put together, and therefore answers that *everyone* ought to have aren't being had. everyone says "don't tell anyone i said this," so I don't, so i'm sitting here holding proof of things that really ought to be public so that other people can also know how these pieces fit together, and i can't do anything with it, and i have to spend all my time talking around it.