2017 creators tag

Rules: It’s time to love yourselves! Choose your 5 favorite works you’ve created this year (fics, art, edits, etc!) and link them below to reflect on the amazing things you’ve brought into the world in 2017. Tag as many writers/artists/etc as you want (fan or original!) so we can spread the love and link each other to awesome works. ❤

tagged by @skadventuretime and @ahshesgone

this year isn’t/wasn’t one i would call a happy fun time, and i didn’t get to write even a fraction as much as i had not only *intended*, but even just the barebone minimum i think i need just to feel like a person

upside, i did more digital arting than usual, so that’s something. have some gratuitous thumbnails.

1) the one fic i updated

i updated QE once. it has a lot of feelings. i wrote a few other things but my levels of investment pale in comparison to QE

2) this little angel soul doodle

which isn’t a masterpiece in any shape or form but it spawned a LOT of worldbuilding and madi knows the big hell tableflip of my heart

3) this present for eis

i’m not happy with soul and maka at all but you know what? this path.
i love this path a lot, forget the rest, i like the dirt. i missed painting things that aren’t, like, people

4) i had a nightmare (again)

it’s probably common knowledge; i have bad dreams on a regular basis, but sometimes they give good creative fodder. also it was nice to do something abstract again 

5) the bat witch

i had tried making the bat witch from Ask No Questions on 4 separate occasions – i wanted her to be human enough to know what she’s thinking but not human enough to give you a sense of the inevitable– but that’s really hard to do when you hobble yourself with references because you think you’re worthless and have no inherent vision. at wit’s end, i said fuck off to references and just made some strokes in grey and said that’s it, you don’t get anything else, put on your big fungus pants and get to work. is this totally polished? no. do i totally polish anything? no, and i keep forgetting and i need to stop beating myself up over it because it’s only the overall impression that matters, the foundation, the frame. fuck you reference folder, i use u, i don’t rely on u

anyway thanks for tagging me, i’m not really up for tagging others; i’m the end of my meme family line, my bad.

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