Day 7: figure drawings – one was a daily and another was a different body type

A) Artistic nudity figure drawing of a lady with a bun, lounging and staring into the distance as well as some torso, hand and portrait studies (staring intently). I won’t post artistic nudity figure drawing that’s not even sexual here just to be safe.

As I post to this void, dailies makes me less precious about posting. Definitely pushed me past the doubts/discouragement to post my progress more 😤

This, Cara & my blog is all I have to share my art journey, studies & art (youtube is rare) :’D
Thanks! :’) <3
Trying to not overthink about sharing to the void and that there is some hope in sharing eep It is much more encouraging to post at Cara – makes bluesky interactions rare and appreciated too!! Thanks so much for supporting my slow art journey!! (what I posted at the time)

B) Figure drawing study sketches of a lady in a pretend skateboarding pose, holding a dagger. Angle is foreshortened.

I could only do a sketch for the first study as I had little time :<

It was then I learned to not post artistic nudity because the automod disallows it or labels it sexual anyway :S

Day 8: Elegance 💅 figure and hand studies

Figure and hand studies of a lady dressed up in a black dress and corset.
I’m super sleepy and tired right now 😭

Day 9: man with a stick & drawing upside down too!

One of those overwhelming, distracting days

Man looking back at to the side, holding a long stick. Upside down figure drawing and head study too. He looks wary.

Drawing upside down slowed me down oof

Day 10: Goddess 👑figure drawing and value study

Feeling behind on things :<
Skipping posting dailies tomorrow/my Sundays

I skip because it was tumbleweeds for me on bluesky on Sundays based on last week ;P And I want to space things out and take a break from posting.

Figure drawing studies of a lady posing with her arms in the air and index finger and thumbs touching. Also doing my own figure and hand studies of her in a different pose and portrait study with wings.

Day 11: ominous lighting figure drawing

I can only share this here because of artistic nudity :0

Day 11B: In your embrace 💕

Sleepy & in pain; pushing through :’)

A couple in each other’s arms and other stylisation and portrait studies of them.

Kimo Quest Week 1: Sienna and Tera

One sister Sienna is standing and another is Tera who’s kneeling and both are caring for each other and each other’s art journeyOne sister Sienna (the traditional painter/artist) is standing and another is Tera (the digital painter/artist) who’s kneeling and both are caring for each other and each other’s art journeys.

Sisters through thick and thin.

I barely managed to finish this properly just now!! Didn’t know if I would make it.

I had to redo the whole thing because I hated what I did earlier this month :’D

Reflecting and rambling about dailies

Making money, going viral and being liked can be achieved by other things that are not art. Large followings/virality doesn’t equate to financial success, mass appeal, connection and an engaged community.
If you want to do art for yourself, then you need to accept that a lack of audience doesn’t matter. When people conflate personal expression with expectations of recognition, jobs, or validation—that’s just shoehorning a wish and imposing it upon others. Learn to be honest with yourself.
Successful artists I know all understand which paths they’re on and then put in the work and prerequisites/marketing/PR/management to make what they want to achieve a reality. It’s hard work to achieve what you set out to do.
Self awareness in this is important & there are many paths to take to achieve what we want, as long as you’re critically honest with ourselves.
– Jingna Zhang (see full version & for comments, above is a summary)

Personally what drives me is doing art for myself and learning. Sometimes recognition, validation, jobs and “number go up” affects me too emotionally to a smaller degree but I don’t go all out for it too often because I don’t want to chase moving, fleeting targets, trends, numbers, others’ accomplishments. I would like people to follow me if they’re actually interested in what I do.

Someone brought up that posting daily art/content is not a good use of time/skill. And quality > quantity.

That taking a whole month (however little spare time you have around life/work/etc) to do one project/illustration is more valuable due to the finite time you have in this world.

I do agree that quality > quantity!! And finishing something meaningful can be important!

At the moment daily or regular practice is my focus!! And currently it’s Day 26 of 31/32 (but I’m posting my buffer right now except for the Week 1 quest). Just striving to enjoy the journey and focus on what interests me.

I’m not trying to do this just to make “content” (hey I waited 12 days before I posted about it because I’m not that motivated by social media) but to make practice a habit, to stay alive in the daily challenge while being inspired by online artists, chip away at learning new things and pushing my comfort zone when able. And share with interested artists and peeps.

Kimo is more about being around other artists and get motivated to study that way :’) I’ve been doing some quests and am hoarding acorns (the server currency for art trades) but I’m just hoarding haha. I don’t think I’ll do Pleinapril as you get kicked out the challenge if you don’t post daily also and I don’t have it in me to do another month of art dailies.

Gosh there’s a bunch of sessions and things I missed that I’d like to actually go through properly so these studies will keep going after March is over :’D It will just be more spaced out and not daily!! Otherwise I’ll definitely burn out as I need to get some sleep time back.

It’s probably at least once a week (or 3 to 4 times a month) but no more than 5 times a week. Not sure how I will go though with my trial and error. I do appreciate that posting more makes you more likely to be visible/followed but I am no “content machine”. Definitely will be trying to find a good balance for myself after kimo ends.

Tired, sleepy from juggling life, things and this challenge!

Also I was actually sweating and my stomach was tense into knots after a doing demonstration oof :’) My nerves with performance anxiety is bad…

Whelp going to be a busy and stressful week ahead too (ahhhh) so let’s do our best!

I hope this blog post is coherent too as I don’t have the luxury to proofread too many times :<

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