Notes from HikaTamika.com
Posting art framed as art to Bluesky terrifies me. I'm afraid of being judged, or determined to be a fraud in the sense that my skill is not worthy of 7.?k followers. I'm currently compensating for this fear by posting camera photo snapshots of my sketchbook (and later on my pen display itself, probably) as life updates rather than presenting artwork. Tagged As: artThoughts, socMed
Decidedly taking up space in the comic lettering realm online bc… I like comic book lettering! I feel like that's the only credential I need. I'm typically the kind of person that seeks permission, but I'm forcing myself to stop being like that. Tagged As: artThoughts
Made some illustrator brushes that feel enough like my CSP ones :D I still wanna see if I can like, come to like pencil/brush tool by use of SilkyShark or LazyNezumi… If not… ellipse tool and… nudging stuff around I guess. Tagged As: artThoughts
My sketchbook is getting overrun with funny words. It's joever, chat. More came out… Tagged As: HK_WordPlay
Going through this book and it's spelled out something I've had a hard time articulating: 1pt Perspective is actually the most deceivingly difficult one bc you have to have an intuition for compressing the side planes or else it'll feel off. Tagged As: HKsnaps
"First Game I Ever Imported" I actually have a funny story for this. When I was living in the UK again, with my hacked USA NTSC Wii: even loading PAL Wii Sports+ with the region unlocked disc launcher wouldn't correct the PAL frame rate for the NTSC TV we brought with us. So I had to import the USA disk-only version of the game to England. So ya I own two copies of Wii Fit Plus lol. The homebrew…
Time War and Magical Girl PEAK-delion. Tagged As: HKsnaps
(This note has embedded media!) RE: artists: get a job Truer words have never been spoken (for those able to supplement their creative freedom with a non-/less-creative job). Tagged As:
Sad cause like, especially after graduating college (long time ago now but still), I feel like all my friendships are being held hostage by Social Media. But I feel like the toxic ship that is Social Media x Capitalism , and the way it makes everyone post with genuine-or-manufactured frequency as their no.1 goal, works against my burnout recovery. So my options are like, keep my Bluesky friends…
Lately I've been drawing in-bed before -bed and after waking up to "combat scrolling" But I think the real thing of note is how much easier it is to draw so close to sleep cycles because I'm not alert enough to have perfectionism. Tagged As: artThoughts