I’ve been pointedly refusing to use the term “content creators” to refer to artists anymore, because I want to make art for me and the people I care about, not the endless demands of the algorithm. I’m not trying to Produce Content, I want to make art.
So it is deeply, deeply irritating when I use the word “artist” in a post and it gets endlessly reblogged with people asking “but what about writers? but what about actors? but what about musicians? but what about [x]?”
All types of art are included in the term “artist,” god damn it. “Artist” does not just mean “someone who draws pictures.”
I don’t know why so many people keep taking this post as “yeah, we should come up with a better word for content creators!”
THAT WORD ALREADY EXISTS.
THE WORD IS “ARTIST,” Y'ALL.
THAT IS THE WHOLE POINT OF THIS DAMN POST.
The word “artist” is all-encompassing! By! Definition! We don’t need to keep reinventing the fucking wheel!
Do you make art? Any kind of art? Drawings, paintings, comics, novels, songs, dances, photographs, performances, anything creative?
THAT’S ART, BABE. YOU ARE AN ARTIST.
RESIST CAPITALIST COMMODIFICATION OF ART AND CLAIM THE DAMN TITLE.
hey guys so apparently this is a thing a lot of people don’t realise but like. if you have had writer’s block/ art block for like. six months. a year. two years. that’s maybe not a block. that’s maybe depression. and you should maybe look into treating the source of the problem instead of just beating yourself up for not being able to write/draw. be kind to yourself and know that your struggle to create isn’t based in laziness or a lack of skill or talent.
You also do have like, a finite amount of energy. Especially creative and emotional energy.
The celebrate-the-grind stories where some famous artist held down two grueling part-time jobs to make ends meet and got by on four hours of sleep a night so they’d have time to write their novel or paint or whatever, so what’s your excuse are absolute bullshit. We should look at those about the same as we look at long-haul truckers doing a lot of amphetamines to handle driving for 16 hours a day or AAA game studios and crunch time.
So yeah, if your ability to make art has dried up, you really should take a good look at the underlying reasons and see if there’s maybe some self-care you need to be doing. The answer is pretty much never “laziness.”
i have fantasies where i slowly choke him with a spiky rope until hes just on the brink of death and i let him recover a minute before i go at it again and i do that over and over and over again until his body shuts down from exhaustion and then i feed his body to my backyard chickens for dinner ♡ #reducereuserecycle
haii i made one of those my ship in 5 minute memes but for found family/groups because i’ve never seen that done before ^_^ it’s not perfect but i think it’s cute and fun soo…
I was looking everywhere for a BG3-themed Inktober challenge and after not finding one, I decided to make one myself (I tried to make this as spoiler-friendly and open-ended as possible).
Disclaimer: you don’t have to do every day in this prompt sheet. I know how stressful it gets when it comes to creating a piece for every single day for the month of October. You can pick and choose what you want to draw for each day. This is mainly just a guideline.
(The idea came to me late at night and I couldn’t stop giggling at the name pun.. and I still am.)
My bestie @ruvikkin-art and I decided to make our very own october art challenge for the people that can’t stop making OCs or have way too many of them!
This challenge is all about YOU and your characters!
There are no rules except one: you need to draw your own characters.
These characters can either be already existing OCs or you can make up entirely new ones for the themes! You have complete freedom of how to tackle the themes and anything is allowed from drawing an astronaut for the “Space Theme” or just an OC who’s stargazing!
Please do share your amazing art with us and use one of the hashtags #oc-tober or #oc tober !!
To make it easier you can also tag any of us so we can reblog your art!
#insectober23 on Instagram or here if you want to participate!! I made my very own inktober prompt list y’all 😎 insects only! Check it out @ whichmoss on insta
