it's hard to bear

Whenever you make art you should make it the most self indulgent thing that has ever existed. make it so self indulgent ppl are like Hmm is this a fetish, they went so hard with it, wow, I don't even go here but maybe I do now

I love making emojis now tbh it has been my low pressure intro into re learning and understanding digital art, started with just words but it has. Clearly evolved. I don't quite have my smooth lines from traditional totally translated yet, but practice will make progress.

I'm alive just very busy with classes and actually posting the things I create feels extremely difficult in comparison to just creating them, but here's my day 2 welds from the program I'm in! I didn't get to finish cleaning up the heart before we ran out of propane :( #grahamsgrams #welding #art

Meat heart I just finished for the #hannibal server that started from the Tumblr fandom that has that shit trending weekly. We have open invites this weekend, come sit with us! discord.gg/2qthmraSg #art #gore #grahamsgrams

you gotta draw or the bad people will win

Gotta get a compilation together of all my best doodles from class soon bc that's 95% of the art I've managed since training started besides painting my nails weekly again. Have a presenter who really caught my eye for now though, her face had good shapes. #art #grahamsgrams #headshot #biroart

What lies beneath #wip #art #grahamsgrams

by the way, you're not doing nothing. Slow creative days happen. Rough days happen. Believe me, I get it. But staring at your WIP, visualizing, adding a note for later, hell even just italicizing a single word. that shit counts. it's something. you're making an effort. that's never nothing.

you must act to experience change

Get in where you fit in

Be gay do crime

Today's #streetart n #graffiti highlights. Living here and being surrounded by ever changing art and surroundings is such a trip in comparison to rural areas where the only things that change are the seasons around you.

Of course the fannibal and Will Graham kinnie has a HUMAN ORGAN FOR TRANSPLANT lunchbox

Pro lunch packing tip: play pretend you're your friend's adoring housewife and making it for them instead of yourself!

Brought to you by me reframing the tip my friend gave me about packing when I was struggling on it for my trip ft my lunchbox I've had since I was a teen.

It can be incredibly hard to see your progress when recovering from depression or burnout. The whole world keeps demanding certain benchmarks of you to the point that it’s easy to feel like a failure despite your hard work. Remember your progress is your own journey. Every win means something.

oh Well, i guess you're in hell. that's no longer where i dwell

Marco with a bloody nose, looking up angrily, then shifting his head up, grinning, barring his bloody teeth. YAY TRAIN SCRIBBLES!

Shift. #oc #ocsky #sona #art #grahamsgrams #sketch

#OC_tober day 4. Aida
"The crown you bestowed upon me"

#kinktober day 3 #tentacles, CW noncon (while I still can) sorry, Marco. Don't wanna think too hard, or at all really about what it says that I went straight for torturing my sona for this prompt. Got a half drawn piece with his guts spilled on the floor from yesterday too. #art #nsfwart #oc #ocsky

#kinktober day 2, boob job ft @ktdu18.bsky.social 's Nancy! Also using his list because I couldn't choose so why not just use a friend's list. In this house we love characters who are 90% hair 🥰 #art #oc #ocart #nsfwart #anthro

Embroidered stitching close up

"I ask you to be mine" cutout over striped fabric back. It used to be their old work sweater too and the patches cover the logo! Truly the re use re purpose re make style of fashion I adore. Got it bc they were insisting on paying me for a bong I was gifting them I wouldn't ever be using again and then lent me this saying it's a bit small on them so I was like "so... If you're gonna insist on paying me for that, just give me this?"

Bat squishmallow bigger than my torso with duffel for size comparison

Ringding practices close up magic. He takes it super duper serious do don't laugh. Ringding was born to be a magician! He would show you his invisibility cape, but he misplaced it and now it's hard to find. Want Ringding to pull a quarter from behind your ear?

Spooky season full blast! I got back my sweater another friend made that I thought I lost and giant (RARE!) bat squishmallow from married couple friends because "get loved, idiot". Both items just feel like I get hugs from friends who are so far whenever I'm wearing/snuggling them 😭🥰

✨️🎃 Don't lose your head 🎃✨️
HAPPY HALLOWEEN!! #myart #drawlloween #pumpkin

She has a little crush on you 💕✨️

IT WEEN!!! Shout-out to chat for the idea bc I had no clue what to make w these glow and letter beads from my random cache of art supplies at my grandma's but had to do SOMETHING #art #kandi

#Kinktober day 1 from my friend's half done list "blowjob". I love scribbling my same 2 boys fucking over and over. Boys will be boys fr 🥰 #art #nsfwart #grahamsgrams #oc #ocsky #yaoi

It's the season

Depiction of my self proclaimed pride mom aunt: "oh and if it's Friday it would have to be a GIRLS NIGHT- Oh I'm SO SORRY *insert bullshit yammering here* Me with a thought bubble that says just call me a slur and arrows pointing to me saying exhausted from travel and has been out for 8 years

The blood of the covenant is thicker than the water of the womb. (It hasn't even been 24 hours and I'm sick of blood family) #art #ventart #queerart #transproblems #grahamsgrams

illustration showing a large werewolf holding a pumpkin seated next to a woman holding a giant pumpkin in her lap carving it with a small knife. They are in a pumpkin patch under a full moon

It's pumpkin month!!

The gentle kind of squishy aliveness in your style is gorgeousssss omg

That alone-ness and leaving your things unpublished, unread, unseen, is the mind killer. Scratch that, even worse, not creating and letting the fear to even exorcise those demons and keep them in for fear of judgement is the real mind killer.

And honestly. Exploring supremely fucked up shit through fiction and sharing it (last few months especially) has done more for my self confidence and self esteem than years of therapy. I feel so much less alone knowing friends feel seen and share the same feelings too vs. Hiding those creations

Reddit post screenshot from r/antiship. The user expresses frustration about therapists viewing fiction as a healthy coping method. Tone is exasperated and critical.

Perhaps you should consider listening to your therapists.

Seriously, fiction is a great way to cope and work through shit. It also lets a person explore taboo in a safe way. Antishippers really are just reactionaries.

#profiction #proship #procopingstrategies #therapy #antiship