katieshmatie

You may have noticed my recent original character art. Now you might notice the lack of it. I joined a group in the hopes of being motivated to practice drawing characters and with my tablet, but since it was something I've never really done before I was easily scared off. If anyone is involved with an active OC Pokémon group, would you share it with me? I would like to give a different group a try sometime. I've decided to go back to what I know for now, and maybe I can practice drawing Pokémon with my tablet rather than characters. To celebrate my return to the realm of safety and comfort I drew another paper child. There are mor

There's something extremely satisfying in having a day all to yourself with a to-do list. (Or I'm just a weirdo.) My roommates are all away for the weekend and I have some things due next week, so I have a very detailed to-do list for today because I barely got anything done yesterday or Friday. Once again I'm trying to set myself some artistic goals for the month. I know I don't really follow them, but it's helpful to at least get my thoughts out. I finally made another Pokémon paper child, I still intend to do many more. I've been quite involved with Artcrossing (https://www.deviantart.com/artcrossing) (at least from my point of view) but I won't be doing any more gifts

Afternoon, DeviantArt. (I want to say good morning because I haven't been up for long, but it's 2:00... Last night my friends came home at 3 and wrestled for over half an hour, then they got up at 9 and made lots of noise. I was pretty cranky until they finally settled down to sleep the rest of the morning.) Do you ever feel really dorky leaving comments on people's art? I'm under the impression that people appreciate comments, and whenever I see something lovely on Tumblr that's linked to DA I try to make a point of going to the actual work and showing my appreciation there, too. But my comments are always so dorky :/ Anyway, if anyone has