A Niko Doodle I Did Today. Drawing The Sleeves Was Really Satisfying And Niko Is Such A Cutie!

As a kid, I used to really like drawing.

I had a big brown sketchbook I would draw in all the time. I would draw mostly random things, but I would also draw these cute little stick figure comics. It was really fun just drawing whatever came to mind whenever I had a few minutes to spare.

I was never very good at it. I have dysgraphia, a learning disability that makes it hard for me to write, and it also makes it nearly impossible to draw clean lines. I was always kind of insecure about how my drawing would always turn out wobbly and lopsided, but I still kept drawing.

I don’t really know what changed, but eventually I just kind of… stopped. It was probably a combination of my self confidence being trashed during quarantine and constantly comparing myself to better artists my age. I kind of stopped drawing as much as I used to. I still doodled on occasion, but it wasn’t the same. Sometimes I missed the old days where I drew all the time, but the fear of my art not looking the way I imagined it in my head always stopped me from picking up my pencil.

But then, a friend of mine taught me about sketch lines, and showed me how a bunch of wispy pencil lines could create a smooth picture. I was skeptical, but he was also inexperienced, so I thought that it wouldn’t hurt to try it out. When I had some free time, I grabbed my pencil and a sheet of paper, and using those sketch lines, I drew a good circle.

It wasn’t a perfect circle, but it wasn’t a lopsided oval, and that was good enough for me.

And with the help of these sketch lines, I learned that I’m actually not half bad at drawing as long as I’ve got a reference in front of me. I’ll need to learn how to draw more from memory, but I can do that later once I’ve got a better grasp at anatomy and all that stuff.

So I don’t really care for now that it’s not in perfect proportion or if the hair doesn’t look the same as the reference. Now people can recognize who I’m trying to draw, and that’s nice. It’s nice that even if I’m only just starting and it’s messy and unrefined, people still like it and can see what I’m trying to do, so I’m not totally hopeless.

I’ll get better at anatomy and drawing from memory later. For now, I’m just going to keep drawing.

Because above all else, drawing is fun and fun is good. I hope I don’t forget that again.

This character is named Sun Chips. I hope you love him. I certainly had fun drawing him. I think im gaining a new appreciation for graphite brushes.

Anyway, this character belongs to a friend of mine, SharkOutofWater. go check him out on art fight he's cool.

artfight.net

Art Fight

An art trading game

@xmintycreme thanks for being a great friend. Please accept this nugget as a humble token of my appreciation. Thanks for helping me keep my sanity and reigniting my passion for project sekai.

This is the Nugget of Friendship.

It is not given lightly. Yet I give it to you.

Yes. I mean YOU.

Now shoo.

Pass on the Nugget of Friendship.

I just moved all my stuff from my secondary blog to my main blog and redid my main blog so most of my art is reblogs from my other blog right now. if stuff looks a bit weird around here that's why.

Here you go, have some of the abstract art I made in ms paint during middle school.

Today I learned that screen recording is much harder than it looks.

Anyway here is my song. I hope you like it. I certainly had fun making it.

Finishing this gave me the sudden urge to go compose more, so I’m now working on even more fun stuff.

Hello there fellow humans.

I am Veggiesaurus. You can call me Veggie or Snips. I use he/him, they/them, or ey/em pronouns.

I like to write stuff and I make music sometimes. I’m also learning how to draw.

I am currently still in school (and drowning in class work please send help).

I am neurodivergent and disabled. Because of this my work schedule is kind of sporadic and I work VERY slowly at times. I’ll try to post things somewhat regularly.

please ask me stuff. I can't promise I'll respond, but I do read every ask I get.

I am a human being just like you. Please be nice.

My Carrd: https://veggiesaurus.carrd.co/

My YouTube: https://youtube.com/@veggiesaurus27?si=t-1lHZWUd-isSkfX

My artfight: https://artfight.net/~Veggiesaurus

My Ao3: https://archiveofourown.org/users/Veggiesaurus

Art tag: #veggiesketches

Music tag: #veggiesounds

Writing tag: #veggiestories

this is the offical ‘i care’ symbol this is how it works: basically you reblog this and your followers know that you care and that they can message you about anything anon or not and you will reply back or at least look at there message. if you care about your followers please reblog

I finally figured out how Krita works

This character is named Scribbles. I hope you love him.