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As a person who suffers multiple chronic illness. I grow weary of those who say i can do anything if I just put my mind to it. Instead what I really want to know is that what I do is 'enough'. Credit goes to the following video creator. www.youtube.com/watch?v=rFDY...

thanks man, I've had a rough time this year, feels like I've been kicked around constantly and just not had enough time to actually sit down and concentrate on drawing. Here's to hoping 2025 will be a better year

Thank you I needed to read that.🥰❄️

Thanks - really appreciate that. You’ve got pretty good aim apparently!! 🤣

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I’m so thankful for artists who choose to share their work. Thank you!

Thancc

Made six acrylic paintings - happy !!

This!!!!

Art is more than paper or pen or ink or paint…do you!

Not sure tangled yarn is art, exactly, but I kept my hook and hands busy in 2024!

Great piece and the scraps will be a great palette, are there enough to do a similar piece but with the palette reversed?

GORGEOUS!!

I feel seen!

@jaxonsigns.bsky.social

My creations with scraps

I worked on inventing a scarf pattern using thrift store yarn $1 a skein and a dozen scarves came out pretty well. I loved a book and decided to write a fan fiction novel in response and typed out 200 pages. Now. I. Know. I Can do That.

ChatGPT and I are amazing!

Thank you, wow those words are powerful

Lovely

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That's an excellent thought. Really, very good. Thank you.

I took my paintings & turned them into greeting cards. Now I can sell them over and over again!🤣

I've wrote more this year than maybe the last five together, 99% of it being freeform, play-by-post roleplaying. I don't feel like I'm progressing much, but I don't really care, I'm happy and I made a good friend ♥

The great thing about creating is you can pick it up again whenever you’re ready.

Thank you, angel!!!! As an art teacher, I try to express this idea to my students. Thank you for putting it into words I can print and have them read! Eloquent as always.

I tattooed a little poem about love on the back of this gangster's neck. The chloroform worked well enough so I was able to get him back into the alley behind his crib before he woke up.

Thank you

Sometimes I need to hear that.

A few things I made.

Thanks. I needed to hear that. I started trying more to draw things in summer. But I kind of fell off on it and constantly flip flopped the rest of the year. I've just barely started though.

Thanks Angel.

I take part in #inktober every year, which usually jumpstarts me out of a non-art producing slump. I generally don’t finish all the prompts, but do get a few decent sketches out of it. Last art work before Christmas this year is a 3” x 4” fountain pen ink wash sketch:

My effort to do just that

thank u! I'm very excited for a new art journey in 2025 :D Something I had to learn is that even failure is part of the progress ^_^ Improvement is not a stagnant line.

My goal was at least one new painting a week this year. I have completed 73 paintings thus far. "Twilight Thunderhead in the Highlands" 20" x 16" oil on canvas

I bet that one surgeon who signed his initials onto the livers of his patients would really appreciate being told that

I understand that. I routinely step back from my social media outlets. They’re exhausting sometimes. If it becomes a chore to make and post art in order to make headway, we’ve lost the point of creative expression. 💚

Amen to this! Artistic expression should never be forced or else it risks being false.

Thank you, this post made my day 🙏

Actually it has nvm

Art is the gift that keeps on giving.

Thank you, dear.

Bless you for saying that. You don't know how many people you inspired to keep going.. or try at all

Or music

I did an acrylic on canvas for a dear friend who recently lost her pet bunny to illness.

Thank you for this thread. I only had enough spoons this year to make exactly one art. But it raised enough money to lift an old high school friend out of an abusive relationship and gave her a fresh start, so I’m gonna rest until I have spoons again without beating myself up for a lack of spoons.

Create art and doesn’t listen to anyone else! I’ve been waiting for decades for family to compliment my drawings, or see the beauty in them, but if only I see it, that’s what counts. I’m no brilliant artist. But I do love to create.

My niche is photography. Unfortunately, I haven't been spending enough time with my art lately. 😔

Thank you. I needed to read this. I hardly had any time or energy to paint last year, but I did manage a few tiny “test canvases!”

I work with fabric and would welcome some fabric art ideas and works.

Thank you🥹 I needed this

Well put. There's No better Joy than Creation with Peace of Mind.

LOVE this.

Ok but this seems like an awful lot of pomp and pride for a drawing I did of Chucky Finster as Charles Lee Ray.

I needed this. I went from making the most extravagant ink drawings frequently, to only doing calligraphy and writing. I’ve gotten subtle judgement since it’s not as “magnificent”, and I get asked “do you draw anymore”. Some even imply Im no longer an artist not understanding the diversity of art.

How I feel about the future.

Thank you for sharing this. Been a very difficult year where I wanted to create but couldn’t. This inspires me to go create anything. Just to keep moving forward anyway I can.

thank you for this

It is what kept me sane this year.

I wrote exactly one sketch 😂

My first totally recycled weaving project, it hangs in my study.

Do you want to? What's stopping you? Switch media? Just play, no goal or product in mind? 🫠

Made a yarn bowl out of olive wood. Christmas present for my daughter in law.

Every day, for at least an hour. Going on five years straight.

I like that, very well said 😊

Thank you. My art is words. New book launched August 2024.

Wise words — very well said. I read this last night, and it struck the same cord. Kafka would agree. Not giving up on creativity & talent is an accomplishment, itself!

Made art every day and sold a number of pieces! It was a creative year.

thank you for these words 💌

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Did so much art this year and those were the moments that put my head back together. 🥰

Beautiful!!

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I like your art projects!

"Fall Guy" needle felt. It took me a couple of weeks. Then I had it on display on my desk & a customer said "hat looks like me." It did look like him so I gave it to him. People said I was crazy because I could have sold it. But the look on his face when I gave it to him was of much greater value.

Thanks. I’m a writer and it’s been a tough year, productivity-wise. I needed this.🖤

Thank you for that.

Thank you. I have been taking a break for the holidays and have been feeling bad about it.

I treated myself to a set of watercolour pencils... I've been very curious to try... No goal in mind... After playing, i was gonna bin it, but when I walked past the table & saw it upside down, I was like... ooh... I like it! Even a fail, with fresh eyes and a different perspective is valid!

I am inspired by your words. Thank you! I needed that.

Thank you, I needed this

Wrote some songs this year after I finally stopped worrying I might be crap and just got on with it... very liberating

One of the most inspiring moments in my life, when I was an optometrist, was when an Art teacher told me about 'making marks'. Biro, stick, crayon...

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I needed to hear that

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Wow thanks, needed this.

But what if I made negative improvement

Does knitting and crochet count?

Well I made the Christmas art from yesterday

🥹🥹 Thank you…

gosh,, i really needed to hear this,,

Beautifully said!

Does a paint by number count as art? Asking for a friend.

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I made an art installation of banned books in my fireplace 📚

Spoken like a true artist.

Why thank you angel!

THIS THIS THIS THIS!!!!!!

Definitely

Absolutely

I often feel like I'm not enough