Author: willowwormwood
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Art from June 2025
This month I continued prepping for Artfight, drawing fullbody illustrations of my characters others can use as references!
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Art from May 2025
This month I made my own art challenge as an excuse to draw selkies, practiced an art style study of Mike Mignola the creator of Hellboy, and made a lot of art of my characters!
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Art from April 2025
While I didn’t make as much art as I did last month, I was happy looking back and feel like there was an up in the quality of the work. I found myself a lot happier with how the drawings for this month turned out, and I’ve started to get a better idea for what…
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Dealing with Art-Block and Burnout
The last blog post I wrote was about handling Self-Doubt and Insecurity as an artist, and these two blog posts are intended to act like companion pieces. The two share advice and tips I’ve learned that help me when I’m struggling with my artwork. This blog post is focused on art-block and burnout. Maybe you…
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Handling Self-Doubt and Insecurity as an Artist
When talking to other artists about self-doubt and insecurities with our art, I found that I tended to repeat a lot of the same points of advice and ideas, so I figured I could just collect it all in one blog post to look back on! I’ll be talking about some things that have helped…
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Art from March 2025
I’m finally able to share the artwork I made for the second volume of Hallow Home, a Hollow Knight fanzine! You can access it as a free digital pdf to Download Here, and if you’d like more information this is the link to their Carrd Page. This fanzine is dedicated to the different locations and…
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Art from February 2025
An online text rp group I’m in is starting up so I went ahead and drew a full illustration of my character for it, Oliver Wright.
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Parasitic Aliens and Body Horror
For a while now I’ve had a character I knew would involve some body horror but… never really got around to drawing it. So lets change that!
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Art from January 2025
One of the characters I play in a text rpg recently got some new abilities, and I wanted to make a design for it. Basically it allows him to summon magical armor, so I got to have a lot of fun with the design.
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Designing my Sona
Last year in 2024 I decided I’d like to design an avatar in case I ever ended up making Youtube videos- the Youtube thing hasn’t happened yet, but I figured it’d still be nice to outline how I designed the sona for it in the meantime!
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Year in Review: Art from 2024
Happy New Year! Each year I like to look back on the art I was most proud of to share and look back on the progress I made.
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Art from December 2024
I didn’t make a lot of drawings this month, and not with the usual amount of work I try to put into them, but still wanted to show some of the stuff I made.
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Favorite 2024 Music Albums
I just thought it would be fun to share my favorite music albums that came out this year:
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Art from November 2024
At the beginning of the month I continued the work I did with my character lineup, I took the one I did to study shape language and then blocked out the silhouettes that each made. From there I went back and forth making changes to the sketched out lineup and the silhouettes until I liked…
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Parasociality and Audience Expectations
Recently I’ve noticed more discussion online around the relationship between artists and their audience. It’s ranged from discussing celebrity culture and parasociality, to talking about whether an artist has an obligation to speak out on political issues, to the unspoken trust and social contract between artist and audience. There’s been a lot of heated debate…