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nortworm.bsky.social @nortworm.bsky.social · 16/08/2025

If anyone finds this I just want you to know, genuinely, that I'm sorry. I wanted this account to be an inspiration to others. I wanted to show people that you don't have to be big or start out the best to be good. It was supposed to be inspiring. Now it's just another story of failure. I'm sorry.

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nortworm.bsky.social @nortworm.bsky.social · 16/08/2025

I won't be posting on this account anymore. I joined a friend's small art community and I felt that friend was being betrayed by someone speaking poorly, so I spoke up and told them. It's resulted in a witch hunt and everyone involved has eyes on me, waiting for it to evolve and for me to "slip up"

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nortworm.bsky.social @nortworm.bsky.social · 06/08/2025

I could have spent some more time refining it - and I might do that tomorrow, since I want to see if I can give this some more depth. The more I learn from this the more I can apply to later works. For that reason I might rework the Gohan from a few days ago as well.

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nortworm.bsky.social @nortworm.bsky.social · 06/08/2025

Did another small study on the main artwork for Cloyster, turned it into a color/shading exercise. It isn't pretty but as usual, I learned a lot about blending and color depth as I went. I want to develop a style of shading that isn't like my friends', something softer and more natural.

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nortworm.bsky.social @nortworm.bsky.social · 05/08/2025

Something came out this week about this chara being stolen from another small artist and there's still some smoke. Maybe a good idea to not touch his chars with a 10 foot pole for rn. Don't know all the details I'm just friend of a friend and heard through the grapevine.

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nortworm.bsky.social @nortworm.bsky.social · 31/07/2025

Also after getting away from the piece and coming back a day later I realize why my proportions look as bad as they do - the belt is supposed to cover the stomach, not the waist. I made it too low. This was an awesome experiment to learn from.

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nortworm.bsky.social @nortworm.bsky.social · 31/07/2025

Here before the horny freaks to say I really like the shading - you did great on the lighting from behind and the front shadows!

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nortworm.bsky.social @nortworm.bsky.social · 30/07/2025

I'm fully aware of my weak points, which this work brought to my attention as I made progress on it. Despite that, for this only being a 2 hour piece, I think it came out amazing given how before I started all of this I was still making stick figures.

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nortworm.bsky.social @nortworm.bsky.social · 30/07/2025

Today I sat around and said "so what I'm learning is very TRADTIONAL but I want to do something more stylized" and after a shitpost yesterday I sat down and picked a Gohan Dokkan card to reference, which I kept on the corner and worked on by eye. I learned a lot as I worked and I think it shows.

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nortworm.bsky.social @nortworm.bsky.social · 29/07/2025

Today I decided to tackle something I've been dreading learning: hands. I've never been happy with hands and this was my first time really trying to draw them with any kind of proper structure. I'd like to think I made a lot of progress from squibbly bricks with nubs.

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nortworm.bsky.social @nortworm.bsky.social · 28/07/2025

You chose to repost my horrible work from last month first instead of my alien guy with the broken hands and the airpods this is horrible for the economy

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nortworm.bsky.social @nortworm.bsky.social · 28/07/2025

As a bonus here's my sketch sheet for today after that buff alien dude was done. If you want my suggestions for structure, there's a video out there by Jim Lee and he goes over the structure used in comics. Jazza also has an amazing book on structure basics with exercises.

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nortworm.bsky.social @nortworm.bsky.social · 28/07/2025

Anyways this was mostly a goofy little sketch I did with my friends, trying out some art tips I found on YouTube. If someone finds this page and they're just getting into art, or they're trying to get back into art: I believe in you. I'm proud of you. No matter my follows or clout I truly feel this.

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nortworm.bsky.social @nortworm.bsky.social · 28/07/2025

I truly hope that in 2, 3, 4 years someone looks at my art and goes "oh my gosh! I want to draw like that!" and they look back here, when I was struggling with anatomy, when I was struggling with facial structure, when I was learning from nothing and they go "I CAN draw like that! I can LEARN."

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nortworm.bsky.social @nortworm.bsky.social · 28/07/2025

The art space is so full of this.. judge-y energy. Artists with bigger followings who tell you you're not worth their time, people who will abandon you for the next, bigger server or group once they've improved. It isn't every artist, but it isn't a very great intro to art.

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nortworm.bsky.social @nortworm.bsky.social · 28/07/2025

I've been practicing off and on and I think I should be honest - I'm not about this online clout crap. I want to improve for me, at my pace. I think that's why I'm going to keep posting. Something for me to look back on and be proud.

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nortworm.bsky.social @nortworm.bsky.social · 16/06/2025

So that replacement got delayed and in the meantime I did NOT want to miss out on my daily practice so I spent about 45 minutes doing some work and feeling out the shape of a body with a bit of a sketch/note page. It's very sloppy but I used colors to separate it for my own review

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nortworm.bsky.social @nortworm.bsky.social · 15/06/2025

It's crossed my mind that I never said why I'm posting my entire art journey. Over the years I've heard that behind every great artist is hundreds and hundreds of discarded works and sketches. I want to put that to the test in a way and document the pieces that "didn't make the cut" along the way.

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nortworm.bsky.social @nortworm.bsky.social · 15/06/2025

Currently my tablet is on its last legs because I received a faulty unit, so while I wait for the replacement to arrive tomorrow this is all I could bring myself to work on. Hopefully this is a good look into how my process works, I take things I learned and put them together until I understand it.

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nortworm.bsky.social @nortworm.bsky.social · 15/06/2025

the little character in the bottom left corner is a little doodle of my friend's character, but I'm learning different methods to build a body and ways to see the muscles/underlying form of the human body. I see in shapes not lines which makes learning easy in some ways and difficult in others.

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nortworm.bsky.social @nortworm.bsky.social · 15/06/2025

I'm not done yet today so expect some more but today I did a face warmup then looked at some body tutorials/aids from Jim Lee and DrawLikeASir, a quick google should find either if you're interested. You may be able to see my process as the session went on, this was about 3 hours of total work.

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nortworm.bsky.social @nortworm.bsky.social · 14/06/2025

We all start somewhere, I aim to see myself improve every day and I plan to post my wips/products here now as I go. If nothing else, maybe it's inspiration for others. For me though, I think this is a super fun hobby. My goal is to get good enough to draw characters/art for my other poor friends.

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nortworm.bsky.social @nortworm.bsky.social · 14/06/2025

Today's been pretty wild, I opted to finish some practice and see how well I've done, then my buddy @miaterasu.bsky.social gave me some tips and guided me through some more of the process resulting in the last image, which took 4 hours total.

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nortworm.bsky.social @nortworm.bsky.social · 14/06/2025

Yesterday my buddy sent me some practice sheets he found so I started banging out some spheres to get used to drawing heads. I did these then some drawpile stuff with my friends to goof around.

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nortworm.bsky.social @nortworm.bsky.social · 14/06/2025

This was from day 1, when I was still getting used to my pen tablet. Hand eye coordination hasn't been nearly as hard as I anticipated it to be.

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nortworm.bsky.social @nortworm.bsky.social · 14/06/2025

Just got into digital art, took a bit longer than a decade off from drawing and decided to get into digital to brush off the rust. Gonna be posting my art journey here, starting with what I made over the last 3 days since getting the tablet. Everything from here on should be in order of completion.

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