Finally Have A Working Camera So I Decided To Finally Take A Pic Of A Figurine I Made Of Teepo From ToX

Hello

If anyone is interested I'm selling some of my sculptures. I need money to get better supplies for my work. I want to make sure my sculptures are the best quality they can be as well as just in general get supplies ive ran out of. I also might possibly need a molding kit, I plan on doing my best to get into a local artists alley, my stuff takes FOREVER , so making a good amount of individual pieces multiple people can afford requires making casts of whatever that will be. That and I can do commissions if anyone is interested. The things for sale are the Amethyst, Pearl, Garnet and Lapis Lazuli. (I also have an Opal figure for sale, I just need to finish some things on her before posting, I kinda stopped painting to sculpt again haha)

Bulking out to get proportions down, this is a lot bigger than it probably looks.

Haven't posted in awhile so....here are some old works in progress(old as in the pictures are pretty old..) I found myself to love Sans haha.(every character I should say) The drawings will be painted over, or idk I might try my hand at them digitally since I finally have a computer -just no net or good wifi- I'll sculpt Peridot eventually, I just wanna make Yellow Pearl first...but all that has to wait til all my current projects are done. 83 (almost the same poses pfft, didn't notice til side by side)

this is me being organized, others tell me messy but everything is placed for convenience, think of an art programs setup, mines all customized for ease of use. Ugh, apparently me doing art is useless I'm told since it's not bringing in money (well sorry that I'm trying to establish the means nessesary to be productive first, to gather the knowledge and skills needed to work in a timely matter, get the materials to make things more efficient, and the time to do the stuff needed just to do this. Already had everything else I care about taken away so why not the last thing I have right?) Anyways, finally unpacked my art stuff, finally moved without breaking my stuff: D HAD to remix all my paints AGAIN after lack of use (was using tinfoil, now using 1$ store stacked pill containers for paint.) I need to get back into drawing, might start off by trying to draw out designs/proportions for future sculptures, or idk, drawing I love but it's hard to stay motivated on it. (I need to actually use my computer again, haven't in quite a long while.) Sorry don't get how me posting a picture turned into a weird vent thing.

Never blame your fans

I know many of you artists - whether you draw, write, or compose - are frustrated that your original work, especially your dream projects, aren’t getting the responses you were hoping for.

I feel the same way.

But some of you express your frustrations completely destructively and blame the world for not giving you the spotlight.

When you do that, you’re blaming your problems for existing rather than adjusting and compromising to solve them. You’re making excuses for your mistakes. You’re demanding the world to change but you are not willing to change with it.

This is the perfect mindset to NEVER succeed in anything, ever.

You need to accept some basic truths of art before you can go any further:

Your art should teach you as much as or more than it teaches others: If you claim your art opens horizons and widens minds, yours should be the first priority. You cannot speak without listening. You are not a righteous prophet enlightening the heathens with the true word. You are one humble person and your art is one humble person’s story.

There are no new stories, but there are always new storytellers. That amazing idea you have that nobody’s ever thought of before? Someone has. But nobody has told the story your way, or drawn the character your way, or sung the song your way. Art is not about being new. It is about being you.

Popular art is all about the beholder. All these shows and games with so much fan art? They got to that level because they command a personal investment from and serve the viewer - they have worlds their fans want to be part of, and your canon will be swept aside along the way. You the artist are not a god or a wise sage. You are a guide and a footman. To be an artist is to be humanity’s servant, not its lord - and there’s no shame in that.

Most of your fans are not artists or art critics. While there will be a good number of them in your fanbase, the vast majority are not going to be super-open-minded creative thinkers who value every single opinion, outlook, and story just because it’s done technically well. They will be ordinary people with ordinary, selfish interests, and they will care about your content more than your talent. You have to balance what you want to draw with what everyone wants to see.

But the most important part of being an artist or really a person at all is to understand this:

Nobody owes you success.

Nobody is under any obligation to pay anything you produce a second glance or support or promote it in any way.

Nobody is spiting or robbing you by not giving you a like or a reblog or a follow.

Every single gesture of appreciation you receive from someone is a courtesy - a gift that you earn, not a right you’re entitled to.

It is not the job of your audience to love your work. It is your job to make it lovable. And just because you are working really hard does not mean you are working in the right direction.

I know that thousands upon thousands of artists put hours or months or years into a project and feel like they get nothing in return. Sometimes it is not how hard you’re working but what you’re working for that is the problem. 

Sometimes you need to slow down and think, “Do I have to have this just so? What would the kind of person interested in my work be looking for, and where can I address it? Am I maybe taking myself and my work a little too seriously?” 

And a lot of artists don’t realize that as an amateur, you are the sole proprietor - you are your art. Whether people like you determines whether they like your art.

And that’s why when you blame everybody else and post ungrateful, catty garbage like this:

… you don’t subsequently become the next Toby Fox.

The simple fact is that people will pay you attention if they think your offering + your hassle are worth their attention.

You need to create a world that someone other than you will have fun in and you need to be a good host to everyone who visits. 

You need a world that will welcome your fans with open arms.

You need to build a world people can live & play in.

And you and your world need to appreciate your fans just for showing up.

Because this is exactly what the big fish do.

because they spread your work around to more people without shanking you on credit and who gets the likes

because they make your work show up sooner & more often on searches and are simply a nice gesture

because they take time out and pay good money to listen to your story and make you from a pauper into a prince

because if you appreciate no one, no one will appreciate you, nor should they

You know...I'm trying my best to make money, I just don't find weeks working on something (every second compressed would mean days of work, at least 40 hours straight.) Is really worth only getting 20$...heck even 50$ isn't worth it. The only real "worth" is possible "publicity" I have no other way ME myself can make money...and I am almost positive no one would want to pay what I would find fare for my time taken, my skills, etc.

Some sketch wips of headshots I'm making for a pricelist in the future~

I finally finished the sculpt of Garnet :D A little over 6 inches tall~  I haven’t made anything in SO long and need to get more materials/tools eventually (mainly tools but yeah, because I had lost everything I used to have and have to build up again) Who should I make next, which versions, etc? 

Sorry for not being on lately I have a new achievement of not being on my computer for almost two months. I haven't don't any digital art in forever (horrid art block to be honest,as well as heavily discouraged to even keep drawing.) Well, anyways.. I have finally gotten more supplies for sculpting, I've been working on three that I'm almost done with but had to stop working on due to lack of supplies So now I just gotta get done with painting all of them and working on a few new armatures~ c: I might also post some sketches of something else I want to make (Cry related, should I post it in the tags though...?) I want to sketch out a few ideas of what might be cool to make, I plan on putting a lot of effort and work into it so I don't wanna half-ass it. (As in I am PLANNING, on making it more detailed visually than the SU stuff I've made.) I would like opinions on things, like when it comes to an outfit/outfit parts or whatever else Other than that I might post others things from my Sketchbook and other ideas I have on making things. (I want to make myself valefor from ff10.) And some other ff10 related things mixed with other series, idk. Just thoughts I'm putting down at this point. Mobile doesn't do "read mores" so I apologize.

Dear Tumblr,

All those posts you see of young artists charging $3, $6, $10 for a drawing because they need help? That’s fucking exploitation, and fuck you if you think it’s reasonable or a “good deal" to pay nickels and dimes to squeeze a full-color original drawing out of some talented, hardworking kid because things are tight, and they can’t afford their textbooks. Or food. They sure as hell can’t afford to make you art for $6.

Instead, stop. And ask them where you can donate. If you can afford a $6 drawing, then you can afford to spend $6 simply to help someone. You don’t need internal organs as payment.

Don’t allow young artists to be exploited.