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sincerely strange 🕯️
@strangesaint.bsky.social

i've said it before but my primary art motivator is finding ways around things that i don't want to do. my entire current art style developed because i HATE doing linework and didn't want to do it, so i started drawing lineless. when i first started that, i only drew with crayon brushes because >

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sincerely strange 🕯️
@strangesaint.bsky.social

my hand wasn't steady enough to make the smooth clean edges i wanted on my shapes, and the crayon texture hid that. but the more i drew like that, the better my hand became so that now i can draw with smooth brushes. i didn't want to take the time to do studies and learn anatomy, so i traced >

sincerely strange 🕯️
@strangesaint.bsky.social

3D models and screenies of SL avatars to do my figure poses. the more i did that, the more instinct i developed for forming body shapes, so that now i don't really trace the models as much as i just reference. >

sincerely strange 🕯️
@strangesaint.bsky.social

the thing that AI sloppers don't understand is that you're still developing skills for something even if you are doing it "badly". if you think something is too hard, or you don't like to do it, find a way around it, or a way to mitigate it. there's no "wrong way" to do art. >

sincerely strange 🕯️
@strangesaint.bsky.social

you are constantly learning from doing anything at all. and the most important thing is that you keep creating with your own hands and brain. if you think your art is bad or unworthy PLEASE PLEASE KEEP CREATING !! sincerely, please. even if you don't think you're getting "better" at it. it matters.