Silca playing With Her Newest Fan. She Seems A Little Nervous. I Don’t Know Why.

This is something I tell people all the time. You gotta put things in your life in perspective.

The “If you’re not drawing 24/7 you aren’t working hard enough.” mentality is garbage.

When I was in college there was this ongoing competitive mindset from the teachers /students that: “If you’re not drawing all night / getting 1 - 2 hours of sleep, you’re going to fall behind.” If you’re an artist you’ve probably met this kind of thinking… I’ve heard it from so many pros / tutorials.

One of my professors said that line all the time. I loved this dude. he worked at Disney on many of my favorite movies, and my young self became absorbed in this mindset. About 3 years into my degree that professor had a stroke, and when he went to the doctor they said he actually previously had something like 10+ strokes without even knowing, brought on by stress, and that he needed to slow down. 

Since then I’ve heard tons of other accounts of sickness and divorce brought on from addiction to work.

A few years later I was listening to an Animation podcast interviewing Glen Keane. He brought up that there were other animators who would live and breathe their work, never going home, barely sleeping, etc. 

What shocked me was that Glen Keane said something like “I ignored this idea, and decided to go home every night to spend time with my family, because I could learn just as much from my life experiences with them.” 

Anyway I just wanted to take a second after hearing a statement like this again recently and let any young artists out there know that:

There’s nothing wrong with investing plenty of time studying and drawing, but also be healthy. 

So last and this month I’m doing Space themed streamathons, in which people get Space-y AU versions of their BnF characters.

Here we have @goozieart‘s Pebbles, with her adorable yet deadly B34R mech!

Check out her stats....

Just wanted to say you are one of the best in your field ;) I love that you ENCOURAGE people to draw your OC's and stuff . Gotta say Artemis is my favorite of yours though

Thanks, but Artemis isn't my OC. She belongs to @temixart. Check out her art. You'll find lots more Artemis on her tumblr page.

Hea did such a great job with my new fox girl! Thanks again!

Art of @goozieart‘s foxy girl Navah!  🖤

Silica, pebbles, and poppy are my most favorite!!!!

Hey look, A message I didn’t see from months ago. Thanks pal, Glad you like my gals. 

So on that quick commissions post you made, the last girl with cat ears (who I'm assuming is pine as mentioned in the description) is biting a hand. Is that a playful bite, or a "the fuck is your hand doing on my face" bite?

It’s definitely a playful bite. She likes to play around and tease.

make a comic.................with me

I’d love to Temix :)

Hello, I remember when I first saw your amazing posts on spider-gwen. All the different amazing variations! LOVE IT!! I was wondering if one day there could possibly a similar thing for Gwenpool? Would be amazing drawing by your skills! :D

That actually would be pretty cool. I really like gwenpools look.

Ahhh....I love it so much. Thanks Temix. I'm glad we could help.

I literally can’t find words to thank you guys.

I wish I had the capacity to do thank you art for all of you. If I wasn’t such a mess I’d have done something with more of your avatars included.

I really just… can’t… say thank you enough.

@goozieart @darkartskai @bbc-chan @crimsonkarma (I can’t even find your tag right now christ but thank you) and everyone else who I don’t even Know your tags andsfkljgadf

just

thank you