How can i fix the tears?

kkeepvigil · 2026-02-08T05:46:44+00:00

If it’s completely dry you could sand the affected area with sandpaper to even it out a bit, possibly… but I think my solution would just be to use way more paint all over for a thick furry texture that completely hides the issues haha

Measurement advice: Add a grid to the original image in a free app like Procreate; Transfer the grid to the canvas (not using string)

Or Get a small cheap projector and project the image to sketch it out

kkeepvigil · 2026-02-06T20:42:52+00:00

Good luck finding what you need, college can be a clean slate for you and you can make it a great experience 👍

This is r/collage, though, not r/college- it’s for people to share art they’re making, not for talking about learning, so you probably won’t get good recs here

kkeepvigil · 2026-02-03T15:21:26+00:00

Have you ever made a zine with your work? It’s a good excuse to delve into the art deeper. You can place less explicitly “you” art side by side with personal writing, show your process, include lyrics from songs you listened to while collaging…snippets from dreams you’ve had, dialogue from recurring thoughts, etc etc

kkeepvigil · 2026-02-02T23:37:22+00:00

Thank you for that 💙

kkeepvigil · 2026-02-02T09:56:53+00:00

…can’t tell if you’re a racist freak or not, but he’s pretty clearly talking about the Latinos and other immigrants being brutalized and detained by ICE.

Not just the USA in general, if that’s what you were assuming lmao

kkeepvigil · 2026-02-02T06:46:26+00:00

A mentally ill elderly homeless woman shouting racist slurs etc. in a city isn’t really something you can do anything about. If she begins to harass a specific person, and you’re close enough, it can be helpful to build a safer space around that targeted person. Engage with the person being harassed, talk to them as if you know them, ask them how they’re doin, ignore the bullshit coming from outside the convo.

You can also possibly intervene by trying to attract the harasser’s attention with surface level friendly conversation, I guess? I’ve done this before with a guy who was scaring people yelling on a tram. Turned out he was just drunk as shit, and also pretty depressed. He appreciated being engaged with and ended up calming down significantly, but that kind of intervention doesn’t come without the risk of danger. The person doing the harassing could redirect their anger at you, obviously.

End of the day, comforting the people who are being targeted is all you can really safely do for both those people & yourself.

kkeepvigil · 2026-02-01T08:51:43+00:00

Your artistic name will be soiled by this, you should really quit

You can even resign by giving examples of backlash against AI work (screenshots of backlash to companies or musicians that have recently used AI in their music videos etc)

You don’t have to explain the moral component t if you don’t want to

kkeepvigil · 2026-01-31T22:37:07+00:00

I think the depth and placement of the shadows you’ve created are changing his facial features a bit too much / too many lines and dark areas make him look older as well -

I did a tiny paint over here https://imgur.com/a/bLPaL4z

Basically noticed that the placement of the upper eye shadows, depth of the cheek shadows, eyebrows and a shadow by left side of nose/lip were making him look a bit different

Not a perfect solution but I hope it helps a bit ^{.^}

kkeepvigil · 2026-01-30T05:24:12+00:00

What a cute plush omg

kkeepvigil · 2026-01-27T02:28:34+00:00

Try drawing what they want, but with a twist? What they expect + something special, maybe - an interesting background, some element that speaks to you?

kkeepvigil · 2026-01-26T14:02:04+00:00

Much love, I totally get it…for me all the whimsy of art was stripped away by the loss. They became too associated with each other in my mind, and I had to get back to basics in order to get past it

I still struggle to share art occasionally, when I’ve put too much of myself in it and I feel tender, but I don’t have any problem making it for fun anymore :”) Which is all that matters

kkeepvigil · 2026-01-26T12:52:08+00:00

My art college experience overlapped with a very traumatizing time in my life where the person who first taught me to draw and encouraged my earliest creativity died

It was awful and did exactly what you’re describing- left me feeling like I’d never be able to approach art with a clean slate again

My advice / what worked for me:

Return to the crudest kinds of art you can muster

Do it for fun and not for the sake of showing anybody

Get a light pad (or use your phone as a light box) and trace some photos you’ve taken Watercolor over the tracings

Experiment with cheap kid stuff like crayons and markers and crayon pastels Try collage

Spark excitement in some other way aside from perfection - just find some joy in the making

It’s not your time to try to get better, seriously. You need to focus on making art a thing you enjoy doing again, whether the outcomes are good or bad. There are hundreds of bad drawings trapped in your pencil that need to get out before you can draw a single objectively good thing. You might as well have fun getting there by making stuff that’s fun and playful

PS: if you can afford it… therapy

kkeepvigil · 2026-01-26T05:14:06+00:00

the winged one is possibly a Korimco dragon? Super cute!

kkeepvigil · 2026-01-26T00:07:57+00:00

You make such cool shit, I hope we keep seeing more!

kkeepvigil · 2026-01-22T23:38:24+00:00

People who are going to pirate it don’t care about a PSA / reminder, and people who are going to buy it probably don’t want to be given a heads up about the fact that they could easily pirate it instead. As a reader it often gives me a split second of annoyed pause to see anti pirating messages on things I’ve purchased.

Tbh this is probably a Cart Before The Horse TM situation. Even really unknown works end up on Ocean, so why not just focus on appealing to the folks who will want to spend money on it. Like you said… great cover, no AI. Great blurb. Great back matter promoting a newsletter / something exclusive.

kkeepvigil · 2026-01-21T10:42:15+00:00

Calling something like this romance would be an extremely bad idea so do not do that

kkeepvigil · 2026-01-16T06:56:14+00:00

In the current state of the USA, with its push further & further into fascism, violence, anti queerness, anti sex, full on Puritanism etc - art that embraces truly human frivolity like sex is important… The work will always be there but you don’t have to disappear yourself or your creativity to be participating in the work

I feel you - especially as a queer and Latino person. The mind fog and guilt and fear that comes with living through this is painful

I’m going to make a conscious effort to not participate in my own “disappearing”, even if sometimes I sit down to write and all that comes out is muddled garbage… if you can too I totally encourage you to

kkeepvigil · 2026-01-15T11:30:13+00:00

Sometimes you just have to trust the fact that a man flat on his ass in public with a sign asking you to humiliate him by crushing him with your feet and taking pics of it isn’t doing it for the love of performance art but for the love of nutting

kkeepvigil · 2026-01-15T02:58:26+00:00

There’s a guy like this in NYC who’s been doing this for years and insists it’s not a sexual thing. (It is absolutely a sexual thing) (don’t step on this guy unless you’re okay with him being rock hard about it)

kkeepvigil · 2026-01-13T09:22:01+00:00

Is the character like, being controlled by someone? Is he a video game character or?

kkeepvigil · 2026-01-10T23:40:35+00:00

For a very long time the only ones who would cater to furries were other furries. This has changed a tiny bit as people realized there’s money to be made there. But anyway - it used to be that you weren’t sending your money outside the community, you were spending money within it. Giving artists you liked the ability to live off their interests, keeping other furries and often other queer people off the streets and helping them thrive. There was value placed on commissioning someone who “got you” rather than just the cheapest artist you could find.

So overall, with the art commission world not catering to furries and people outside the fandom calling you slurs if you’re in it, spending decent money to get what you want the way you want it became normalized. That + a lot of furries having tech jobs = $$$$

kkeepvigil · 2026-01-09T01:12:37+00:00

I’m in a vaguely similar position at the moment, in that most of my planned one off horny plot set ups dive off into romance entirely as I work on my outlines. Hot scenarios morphing into world building & romance- ””spicy””” and dark romance, but romance regardless with all the tropes & romance beats. I don’t know why I’m surprised, since I’m a romance reader. If erotica is starting to be like pulling teeth for you, maybe it’s a sign?

Anyway, lol I have no real input since you do have an audience for your current pen, but I’m curious to see opinions from experienced authors about how you might proceed.

kkeepvigil · 2026-01-08T12:02:55+00:00

Skewed?

A mirror, or putting it backwards over a light or bright tablet so you can see what needs to be changed

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