The artists have been picked!
Please click here to see the entire roster.
This is just a small sample of the 75 artists creating new content for the Crystal Gem Club, an art book donating proceeds to
which helps homeless children.
Hosted by cyanatar and amphypop
Top diagonal row (all credits left to right)
lazlovillage | ravennowithtea | goowo | honesk1 | eirloo
2nd row
Mar Spragge | zoestanleyarts | retreatcoast | asieybarbie | vanduobones | owlieclawdraws
3rd row and bottom row
emmettdraws | zobobafoozie | routexx | panthra | 3drod
So this is happening. Super excited to be a part of this!!
Anonymous
do you have webcomic? :)
Not at the moment, though I’ve had a project in the outlining stage for a while. I wanted to get some smaller original stuff up here first, though. : )
Believe me, if/when I put a webcomic up, I’ll let you guys know!
Anonymous
I'm sorry I'm on mobile but what's your Twitter?
My twitter handle is the same as here on tumblr!~ Here’s a link, though.
Recent twitters (lots of watercolor practice + fake marker brushes).
My mind’s been in some weird places this Stevenbomb, apparently.
Yellow Diamond’s Master Plan
Twitter was particularly wacky tonight, and it led to this.
(It’s hard drawing characters that have little more than a silhouette to base things on…oh well.)
Anonymous
how do i get people to notice my art? i draw constantly but im afraid that my art isnt good enough for people to care about. i saw something like "you deserve the popularity you get" and im scared of that being true. often times i see a lot of artists who are honestly less skilled or original than me but theyre incredibly popular, and im scared that im doomed to fail in obscurity forever. its really disheartening when i see my art just get ignored and it feels kinda hopeless. what should i do
Oh man, I dunno if I’m the best person to ask about this - even with recent events I wouldn’t call myself a “noticed” artist by any means - but I’ll try my hand at an answer.
I feel like being noticed as an artist is a really precarious balance between luck and skill. Sometimes you get lucky, and sometimes you don’t, but either way you have to try your best, hokey as that sounds? The one thing in all of this art craziness that you can control - can’t control luck, can’t control other people, and controlling insecurities is often a tug-o-war sort of battle - is how much stuff you make, and what stuff you make that you put out there in the public sphere.
I’m in a pretty constant state of flux about whether I like or hate any given thing I create, honestly. I feel like a lot of artists go through that, though? You’re pretty much always your own worst critic, I’ve found, and art is no exception. But I decided a short while ago that if I wasn’t meeting my own standards, I would just have to keep drawing or writing or whatever it is until I do, even if by that point my standards have risen and I don’t meet those new ones. Even though that’s a lot easier to say than do a lot of the time.
So when I’m feeling really down about my work, I try to channel it in to something productive. Take all that pent-up frustration (at yourself, at others, at whatever) and make something really awesome with it!
I don’t know about “deserving the popularity you get,” or anything like that, but I do think effort is rewarded. Even if it’s just in the self-fulfillment sense.
…I’m not sure that actually answered your questions, but I hope it helped? I feel like this was kinda rambling. I really don’t consider myself to be an artist with that much exposure…but again, you’re always your own worst critic. I’m flattered that you thought to ask me, though. : )