At first it was because I could (no shame at 3), then because it's just because it's what I did, then it was because I had stories to tell, now it"s a combo of the three.
Only time my plurals aren't screaming at me about whatever, only time I feel connected to the whole, only time I'm challenged to make what I imagine into reality. Only time I realize I'm not there yet in terms of how far my skill and talents can go. I've learned gumption and tenacity through art.
Cause art transcends the basic primieval evolutionary drive of simple survival and proliferation, it invites us to explore and think more deeply and to connect with others, it creates beauty alien to the natural world and to be a part of that is incredible and magical.
To be an artist is to be a creator and to take one step down a path in the realm of deeper thought, art can change lives and convey ideas and feelings that words cannot, to create art is a truly divine act or the closest thing to it in a material universe.
I’ve consumed art my entire life and wether it’s making little doodles in my sketchbook or creating a D&D campaign to share my work with others and creating wonder intrigue joy or inspiring other deep emotions in them that brings me true spiritual joy.
When my players connect with a character I’ve made up and only exists in our collective fantasy world and in code on Roll20, or I can create genuine sadness or triumphs in their hearts and minds that is the sort of thing that gives meaning to my life.
If my reality were revealed to be nothing but a illusion of a malevolent coder outside the simulation that is my existence then I could still say that because of my many experiences in life and through my art that regardless I have trully lived “I have created therefor I am.”
I think I started to draw as a way to get out a lot of the feelings I had, being in denial that I am trans. Since I let myself accept that point... I actually don't know. I'm looking for that reason.
I drew as a kid. I didn't pursue it..I dropped it for over a decade. Since I got back to it, it has been healing because it's a huge part of who I was meant to be. At this point its how I both cope with and shut out the world and give me a way to deal with my feelings of being on this planet.
It's part of my storytelling compulsion 😅 I've been writing stories and drawing the characters from them since like, 5th grade? It's just part of my personality now. I'm sure I could delve deeper into my motivations, but we'll leave it at the simple answer.
I like making pretty things in my head real, the coloring process is also very relaxing to me, and it also helps me process emotions when I make vent art, there's more reasons but not enough text space lol. Can all be summed up to I like creating things 🥰🤍
There are so many gays living in my head and I have to release the gayness valve through art sometimes because I'm very worried about what will happen if I don't
For the feeling of getting more skilled at something and filling voids of things that I think need to exist. Also I think it's a little bit compulsive...
I like creating something out of nothing, I guess. Hopefully being able to make people feel at least a hint of what I'm feeling through my art. Excitement, comfort, even fear. To feed ideas into the big idea blob surrounding every one of us.
Because I have a lot of characters and a lot of stories I want to tell.
I love using a different medium to explore themes and concepts we may not always think about in our world, so maybe it’s best understood by using a different world instead.
to express myself and tell stories thru my characters- which are a source of intimacy and a deep trust with my partners to share and create with them 💞
its kinda like suffocating if I dont
like tbh I dont even want to most of the time but when I dont I get aches and pains and The Yearning and I just gotta
If you consider my Biggie eyelash from frontnuts tweet as art (a rather intelligent stance to take) than because I like to make my intrusive thoughts other people's problems
Well, was handed a pencil to write as a kid, I drew instead, then Sailor Moon came along and she has kept me in a headlock for the last three decades she's been in existence, my hand just kinda does the rest. 🫡
To work through problems and try and find a way to express a thought I'm having, and therefore improve on a hobby I've been doing as long as I can remember. A hobby that doesn't have an end point but a perpetual personal revelation.
It's a compulsion for me sometimes. I can't go too long without feeling like I want to draw. And that's how it's been since I was about 14 years, so many years ago. Being able to connect with other artists and creative is a nice bonus motivator.
Because it's really damn cool. Have you seen how cool art is? how you just do stuff and then there's *stuff* and you can look at it and say "wow, i made that"
it's like an instinctual drive in me to create things. i've been drawing pictures since i was capable of doing it and making up stories about the little characters i draw pretty much as long. satisfies an urge to have experiences outside the mundane, i think
whenever I consume any media or look at anything or think about stuff all I want to do is get involved to do some myself
it distracts me eventually to the point where I can't fully enjoy the thing
actually creating is the only time I can just do a thing without this inevitable distraction
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So, I decided to give it a go myself.
That and just the objective idea of characters and fantasies is so damn cool.
People who dont get it i feel are missing out terribly.
Also, it is SO fulfilling when a client tells me they're excited about a drawing of their character, it's the whole reason I do commission work!
I love using a different medium to explore themes and concepts we may not always think about in our world, so maybe it’s best understood by using a different world instead.
Some of it is to distract me from the world.
Some is to help understand the world.
like tbh I dont even want to most of the time but when I dont I get aches and pains and The Yearning and I just gotta
- It brings me and others joy
- It’s how I express myself
I don't have my own style just yet, so I'm clinging to a handful of artists styles that I do studies of like a life preserver 😅
And to make shit posts that I find funny.
that's cool
I just want to. I like the doing of it and the having done it and the wanting to do it.
it distracts me eventually to the point where I can't fully enjoy the thing
actually creating is the only time I can just do a thing without this inevitable distraction
calms me