🦌 Call me Juniper or Pashoo, Filipino-American trans woman, 27
Some people also call me Delilah or Sharks. I’m a furry, I draw, find my art here. Married to @kcdodger✨ Trying to juggle cartooning, painting, and animation. Eventually want to get back into composing, and add in coding and game design. Ask me about my OCs!
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(Using this as my new pin because I still like this drawing. Links to come as I coordinate pages for ease of mobile viewing.)
A disillusioned fortune teller, scholar, and mystic, studied in old poems and proverbs. Their absent-minded demeanor belies a dangerous cunning and supernatural foresight with which they have cut down empires. Agent to a mysterious benefactor known only as “The Director”.
any advice for someone trying to get back into art? know this sounds sudden and on-the-spot but i've loved ur work for years and i've been meaning to ask you for a while
This might not apply to your exact situation, but this is a little lengthy and involves burnout and reassessing how I handle my time and energy throughout the day, so I’m putting it after the break.
A summary of the most important advice I can give, though:
I’ve generally found that the first step in getting back into art is to be kind to yourself, whether that’s allowing yourself to suck, allowing yourself to have time and privacy to draw, validating yourself as an artist, acknowledging your struggles. Brookes Eggelston, an artist who made a video on burnout, included in his checklist “Are you okay?” Like, just, is there something on your mind? Something bothering you? Is there something you need to do or a conversation you need to have with someone to put your mind at ease? It’s important to be kind to yourself, or else getting back into art is going to be harder than it has to.
I am also definitely doing OCtober again this year because it was a blast to do last year, though I won’t be numbering them by days so that I don’t feel pressured to do one per day.
I’m also super proud of that last drawing, it’s the first completed drawing I’ve made in over a month, and I think I needed that. Much thanks to one of my friensd who helped me overcome a huge stumbling block early in redesigning Shou’s outfit colors, because I might have fizzled out there.
This is also Shou’s second redesign! More on that below the break.
A disillusioned fortune teller, scholar, and mystic, studied in old poems and proverbs. Their absent-minded demeanor belies a dangerous cunning and supernatural foresight with which they have cut down empires. Agent to a mysterious benefactor known only as “The Director”.
