✧ Digital art dump // august 2024

HELLO PATRONS I am very excited to share some of the art I've been working on for the past couple of months! I've been doing so much drawing and creating lately, I'm so happy to have gotten back into loving making art and doing it on a regular basis again :') ❤️

for a while I was having a lot of complex feelings of guilt around making digital art instead of traditional -- it's kind of hard to explain and it has taken a lot of talking myself out of it to move past that mentality. I've felt guilt for putting so much time into digital yet keeping traditional on the back burner for SO many reasons that don't actually matter. I'm filling my sketchbook less quickly, I personally had a higher value for my traditional work than my digital work (I love the way physical art feels to both make and own), I feel very out of touch with traditional art, etc etc etc.

I don't have anything against digital artists/I don't believe that traditional is "better than" digital work but I guess that's kind of the mindset I had towards my own art? but recently I've been really trying to simply have fun when making art to enjoy whatever my brain wants to do in the moment! I've been trying to be way less hard on myself when it comes to art and to explore things out of my comfort zone and I'm really happy with the art I've been making! I am trying to incorporate how I felt making art as a child into how I am making art as an adult.

the art I made as a kid was done with such a wild and free mindset. I just.. drew whatever I want. there was a base level of thought put into things, but I had a lot less mental restrictions to creating compared to now. I'm very lucky to own a LOT of physical art from when I was younger and I love looking through them occasionally to see how much my art has grown, but something I realized recently is just how free I was in making art. even if I didn't know what something looked like, I would just... draw it. little me had some regard for anatomy but there are so many things that I didn't know how to draw/didn't have a reference of but I would just draw it anyways. did it look great?? not necessarily. but I was having a blast and I think the art conveys that despite any flaws it may have.

so that's something I've been trying to find again and put in my own art and it has been so so nice :') ❤️❤️

♡ Chrissy