Chikuto

Chikuto

@chikuto.bsky.social

Art! 🎨 chikuto.carrd.co/#work 📖 https://www.clockwork-comic.com/ Socials + Support! 📧 chikuto.art@gmail.com 💬 chikuto.straw.page ☕ https://ko-fi.com/chikuto

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Chikuto
@chikuto.bsky.social

uk government wants me to pay for a tv license soooo bad 🖕

Mathew Buck@filmbrainbmb.bsky.social

So the UK government are currently consulting on a green paper that would force YouTube to prioritise content from traditional television channels like BBC, ITV, etc. over those from other content creators. That would be quite bad for creators like myself. rsvp.withgoogle.com/events/keep-...

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Chikuto
@chikuto.bsky.social

one of my favourite art pieces is Electric Fan, and the amount of people i've tentatively shown it to and seen them immediately roll their eyes and go "i could do that". you didn't. and you never will. because you didn't have something to say, and you didn't want to share it with the world.

Chikuto
@chikuto.bsky.social

this is really fucking odd advice because art, fundamentally, is a conversation. all forms of art are an artist just saying "this is how i feel/i thought this was worth saying", and sometimes asking "is this how you feel too?". it is, a lot of the time, how we communicate with the world.

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Chikuto
@chikuto.bsky.social

this is how you get a bunch of people strolling into art galleries like "i could do that/that's not special", because they're misunderstanding the reality of art being just another form of conversation. they're refusing to engage with what is being said, and obsessing over the technicality of it

Chikuto
@chikuto.bsky.social

and to no one's surprise these are probably the same people who use ai tools to make ai images, and why its not art. there's nothing being said. they've actively chosen to forego effort and the chance to say something, just to show off something they believe is "high fidelity", ergo "superior"

Chikuto
@chikuto.bsky.social

this is really fucking odd advice because art, fundamentally, is a conversation. all forms of art are an artist just saying "this is how i feel/i thought this was worth saying", and sometimes asking "is this how you feel too?". it is, a lot of the time, how we communicate with the world.

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Chikuto
@chikuto.bsky.social

you have to be your own biggest fan. you can be aware of flaws in your work and areas you can improve, but you have to love what you're creating more than a hypothetical audience ever could. you need to be able to look back at your work and say "i put in the work and made that, because i love it".

Katie Croonenberghs Art@kamakru.bsky.social

Hey artists, let's share some helpful things in the community :) 🎨 What's one tip or trick you would give a new artist in your chosen medium? (Or just in general!)

Chikuto
@chikuto.bsky.social

especially in an era of corporate and artificial slop, its more important than ever to remember art is a conversation, not a high-fidelity end product. your art is an extension of the ideas and imagination you have as a person. why would you not be your own biggest fan?

Chikuto
@chikuto.bsky.social

i just had to rapid fire book 7 appointments down at my local doctor office and the poor receptionist was like "oh god its my first day hold on" girl i'm so sorry

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Chikuto
@chikuto.bsky.social

the first chapter of issue 4 has come to an end <3 wanted to share this final page on its own because i'm very happy with it [ #art #clockwork ]

Chikuto
@chikuto.bsky.social

the first chapter of issue 4 has come to an end <3 wanted to share this final page on its own because i'm very happy with it [ #art #clockwork ]

Chikuto
@chikuto.bsky.social

I was going to finish the next clockwork page today because I finally have some time, but it will have to wait until the end of the week when it cools down I think

Chikuto
@chikuto.bsky.social

happy that i finally got to draw the catacombs after all this time, so here's the panel from yesterday's page without speech bubbles! [ #art #comic ]

Chikuto
@chikuto.bsky.social

due to ~reasons~ i have had to be off my antidepressants for a few weeks, and i'm noticing for the first time in years that i actually have the urge to draw again quite consistently. or at least draw/write/create etc in that ballpark.

Chikuto
@chikuto.bsky.social

there are still a lot of other variables in place that make it difficult for me to engage in art as hobby (living situation etc), but i have a medication review soon so i will ask my doctor about it. but before i do i was wondering if anyone has encountered anything similar with antidepressants/etc🤔

Chikuto
@chikuto.bsky.social

seeing this yoshitaka amano piece as a child may have changed my brain chemistry actually

Lightfoot@hriashia.bsky.social

"Airships are cool" is also sufficient. Every setting should have at least one airship.

Chikuto
@chikuto.bsky.social

wild of me to start a webcomic called Clockwork where the main character's nickname is Cog and the entire thing has NOTHING to do with steampunk

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@byelacey.bsky.social

i've had readers ask if my lies within reboot will go on webtoon and the answer is a resounding: no. i don't care if you only read comics on the Corporate App. that's a skill issue. i'm not writing for a platform. go to my web site or don't.

Alli Shaw@allidrawscomics.bsky.social

I want the average webcomic reader to recognize webtoon is merely one oversanitized commercial platform and not the totality of webcomics, and be willing to dig through links pages to find gold.

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LEO
@hellspawnmotel.bsky.social

the older I get and the more I learn about artists I look up to, the more I believe that you absolutely need at least one impossible to fully repress freaky fixation or kink to be a true genius

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Hog Wild
@toadally.bsky.social

I don’t “network,” I make friends. Other artists are not my competition, they’re my beloved peers and sources of inspiration. We all have the same goal; to share our art. I’m not gonna corporatize my human relationships with them. I am in my sandbox playing and I hope they join me.