Take It.

daily pose challenge from my brother @lord-nitekon, so i decided to draw our two oc's joshing around, figured they work with one another in our stories my bard would have played a prank on him and got caught and this is the end result

the redesign of my test comic character, i thought, but what if fat? and since i am fat, i made main character fat, i like the design better, more to come

Invisible Artist

I never really wanted to make this to be a blog-blog, like write anything other than describe my art and put hashtags to the pieces. Yet, here I am, midnight, nearly 1 am; and I just couldn't wait to write this out.

I am afraid. I am lost and afraid, yet this feeling drives me more. I don't feel like an artist. Maybe it is because I never was formally trained, my skill has always been self taught mostly with guidance from other artists and my father. Maybe the lack of formal training is why I never pursued a career with my art? I have always regretted that and nearing 40, who knows if that will ever happen. This thought causes dread, depression and anxiety. I don't know if I should continue to draw, I feel lost. I am afraid to pursue my art even as a freelance, I don't take judgement well or criticism. Yet I know if I do not, I wont grow or gain more skill. I digress.

I write this because I post my art on various social medias and get nowhere. I don't know if I am doing this correctly. Should I network more? It's ok to ask for help. I see my posts get very few clicks, likes, etc. and others seem to explode with popularity. I have tried fan art, OCs, progress art, revisit old drawings. I haven't tried the DTIYS stuff, but I want to because it looks fun.

To those that read this, to the artists who feel invisible because you don't get the traffic you deserve, comment below so we see you. I will follow. It's ok to feel invisible, we all have to start somewhere. Even if you are near 40 like myself. There are so many artists out there who have been rejected or never found their style, medium etc. until later in life.

Carmen Herrera Rose Hilton Mark Rothko Phyllida Barlow Wassily Kandinsky Betty Tompkins Claude Monet Vincent Van Gogh Johannes Vermeer El Greco Paul Cezanne Georges-Pierre Seurat Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec Edouard Manet Paul Gauguin Alfred Sisley

Don't give up and don't draw for the likes, the fame or the notoriety. Draw because you want to create. Create because it is worth doing. In a world of destruction, chaos, hate; we need beauty. Things that inspire, drive us, give us awe and make us feel. Keep drawing. I see you, because I am you.

new profile pic, rebranding under Hipster Gnome for 2024 and onward, this will be my year; this was drawn using Clip Studio Pro on an Asus Zenscreen Ink

test comic for a webcomic idea i have, still in the works, charcters are being redeigned(i keep telling myself ill get to it)

this is my warlock character from a TTRPG adventure, he was pact with radiance and goodness, he was basically a good cop idea, lawful stupid warlock and also did not like fighting lol

my favorite go to TTRPG character, i play him in multiverse conceps too; his name is always Valdo Udvardy except in certain universes the first name changes; hes an eccentric wizard design is based on Eugene Hütz from Gogol Bordello

while watching The Witcher season 1 i realized Geralt says "hmmm" as much as Bob Belcher and decided to combine the two lol

New character concept, a half demon(tiefling for you D&D folks) named Bedlam, I chose four arms instead of horns and cloven feet instead of a tail, he's a thief/rogue . Lately after I draw a character I've been enjoying drawing them in what I call my "children's book style" but it's basically chibi lol

I'm looking for ideas to draw. Anyone want me to draw their art in my style?