Drawing For You

Invisible Artist

I never really wanted to make this to be a blog-blog, like write anything other than describe my art and put hashtags to the pieces. Yet, here I am, midnight, nearly 1 am; and I just couldn't wait to write this out.

I am afraid. I am lost and afraid, yet this feeling drives me more. I don't feel like an artist. Maybe it is because I never was formally trained, my skill has always been self taught mostly with guidance from other artists and my father. Maybe the lack of formal training is why I never pursued a career with my art? I have always regretted that and nearing 40, who knows if that will ever happen. This thought causes dread, depression and anxiety. I don't know if I should continue to draw, I feel lost. I am afraid to pursue my art even as a freelance, I don't take judgement well or criticism. Yet I know if I do not, I wont grow or gain more skill. I digress.

I write this because I post my art on various social medias and get nowhere. I don't know if I am doing this correctly. Should I network more? It's ok to ask for help. I see my posts get very few clicks, likes, etc. and others seem to explode with popularity. I have tried fan art, OCs, progress art, revisit old drawings. I haven't tried the DTIYS stuff, but I want to because it looks fun.

To those that read this, to the artists who feel invisible because you don't get the traffic you deserve, comment below so we see you. I will follow. It's ok to feel invisible, we all have to start somewhere. Even if you are near 40 like myself. There are so many artists out there who have been rejected or never found their style, medium etc. until later in life.

Carmen Herrera Rose Hilton Mark Rothko Phyllida Barlow Wassily Kandinsky Betty Tompkins Claude Monet Vincent Van Gogh Johannes Vermeer El Greco Paul Cezanne Georges-Pierre Seurat Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec Edouard Manet Paul Gauguin Alfred Sisley

Don't give up and don't draw for the likes, the fame or the notoriety. Draw because you want to create. Create because it is worth doing. In a world of destruction, chaos, hate; we need beauty. Things that inspire, drive us, give us awe and make us feel. Keep drawing. I see you, because I am you.

I needed this and I feel there are many I know that do as well 💜🫶🏻

Beat your imposter syndrome and self-doubt on your personal Hero’s Journey

You probably know the Hero’s Journey popularized by Joseph Campbell, the basic structure for many beloved stories. A hero gets called to action, enters an unknown world, faces challenges and temptations, fails, learns what they need to change, applies said new insights, et voilà: success.

I just realized you can apply this to your imposter syndrome and self-doubt. Many of you feel (or fear) you don’t have the skills to bring your big, new project to an end. I’m here to tell you: you don’t need to.

The hero at the beginning of the story doesn’t have what it takes to bring their journey to a successful end. It’s the journey itself that transforms the character into someone who has what it takes to finish it. The character at the end of the journey is not the same as the character at the beginning of the journey.

So start ambitious projects that you feel underqualified for. It’s not imposter syndrome or writer’s block. You're in the challenges and temptations phase of your journey. Don’t let them hold you back. Let them transform you. Identify the skills you need to acquire to make your journey into a success. Learn. Practise. You’re not “not good enough”—you’re on your Hero’s Journey and you’re on the threshold of your transformation phase.

(I told my husband about this idea and he played Don't stop believin' by Journey. Per-fection.)

If this helped you, you might want to take a look at the rest of my writing advice.

Now go tackle your dream!

random word prompt, why am I like this? words were sexy and favorite food and I chose french fries lol

we are playing a homebrew one off ttrpg adventure this Saturday for one of our player's birthday. We combined the two most chaotic energy races that reminded us of them, goblins and kobolds and called the Koblins; and we determined a group of Koblins is called an Ope; so here is the Ope for the adventure, no names yet, but classes are: fighter, rogue, barbarian, sorcerer, bard, ranger, druid and warlock; no inteligence based classes lol just chaos monkies. we are all gonna roll randomly to see which character we get, so i tried to draw them as androgynous as possible because i don tknow whos getting whom. so i tried to draw extra wide hips or curves to give feminine but since they are also kobold dna in them they are reptile so no breasteses just smooth bois and the tails vary from short to long and horns vary, they kinda look like tiefling goblins but i tried to draw some reptilian features as well

food inspired drawing! food inspired drawing! mashed potato cat! mashed potat cat! why am I like this?

the redesign of my test comic character, i thought, but what if fat? and since i am fat, i made main character fat, i like the design better, more to come

I decided to revisit a ttrpg character of mine, Quinoa, who is a firbolg barbarian, he's very chill until he is not. i originally went for a slim tall barbarian look but my brother said he should be bigger, so i decided to go with a slim thick look lol i like it, here is the progression and flat colors

lol mood

my favorite go to TTRPG character, i play him in multiverse conceps too; his name is always Valdo Udvardy except in certain universes the first name changes; hes an eccentric wizard design is based on Eugene Hütz from Gogol Bordello