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⚔️🎀 𝔉𝔦𝔞𝔡𝔥 🎀⚔️ @fiadh.bsky.social · 19/03/2026
do not ask yourself whether or art is good instead ask is it sincere was it cathartic was it fun to make is it made by me and don’t forget to stay silly
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JuliArtWorld @juliartworld.bsky.social · 03/10/2025
🔸Day 3: persistence Don’t give up. #artober2025
fineliner and ink drawing of three foxes. The art style changes and develops from left to right (young art, teen art, adult art) and everything getting more detailed
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Jessa @jessamakesart.bsky.social · 12/01/2026
My Drawfee favorite: Delete your art (aka kill your darlings). If you drew a great hand but the arm just doesn't look right, erase the hand and start over. It usually benefits the piece, is good practice, and builds confidence that your successes aren't an accident.
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Sylessae @sylessae.bsky.social · 26/10/2024
Unpopular motivation hack for drawing: Start drawing immediately, even if it feels impossible. After 15 minutes, your brain will recognize the difficult task and create dopamine to help you keep going. Agonizing endlessly before the drawing doesn't help your creative process.
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Corey Brickley * Blight's Hollow Dot Com @coreybrickley.bsky.social · 07/01/2026
oh i had this realization once
Are you actually lazy or are you just looking at the combined creative output of literally the entire internet and then comparing yourself to that
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Reimena Yee 🦇 @reimenayee.com · 21/12/2024
A new translation was recently published of a seminal manga/comics studies essay in 1995 that documents and explains manga iconography with 120 examples. It's so exciting to see a precursor of what I'm doing rn with the Comics Devices Library www.japanesestudies.org.uk/ejcjs/vol24/...
Abstract:  In the following translation of an important essay from seminal Manga Studies work How to Read Manga (Manga no yomikata, 1995), manga creator and editor Takekuma Kentarō examines the full range of manga iconography (manpu) and visual effects in this sweeping survey of over 120 concrete samples. He calls these “shape metaphors” (keiyu) and classifies them into two main branches: stand-alone icons and picture-dependent metaphorical effects. If a giant sweat mark has been drawn on the back of a character’s head, one can tell that he is in a panic just from seeing that back figure even though this image is unrealistic. This is a type of visual metaphor and the profundity of such expressions are distinct to comic books. Takekuma’s “shape metaphors” have such refined functions that express the situation or the state of mind of a character, often efficiently and even humorously. Through their use, comic book artists have been able to liberate their stories from the bare bones of plot and create additional layers of psychology and mood all through these seemingly nonsensical and excessive graphic marks. For the first time, this translation presents in English the writings of this seminal manga artist, humorist, critic, and scholar and provides an encyclopedic-like guide to some of manga’s most interesting and irrepressible visual tropes.A set of expressive lines used in manga to denote motion and feeling.
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Alice Walsh @scoutrager.bsky.social · 04/01/2025
Reposting this guide from twitter because I COOKED here. (and still refer to this at work even now!)
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Sarah LuAnn Perkins @sarahluann.bsky.social · 16/11/2024
In case any of my fellow creatives also needed this reminder:
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