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The One And Only Brainless Cat Thing™

@flustersyou.bsky.social

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18+, minors need not apply i flirt w/ my joyfriend (💜 @after-bark.bsky.social‬ 🧡) • personal account from 2003 • they/them genderfailure • gay as hell • kitty :3

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Morgan "Strap slinging Slasher"🗡️ 🛡️ @girlnextvore.bsky.social · 1d

JERMA IS SO FUNNY

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The One And Only Brainless Cat Thing™ @flustersyou.bsky.social · 1d

if you made it this far through my ramblings, congrats, i suppose! take this doodle of me eating a sandwich i did a few weeks ago that i wasn't super happy with, and that kinda started these thoughts to begin with.

me eating a sandwich, on a distorted golden background. i tried some new things with this piece (revised collar and ears, as well as giving the hoodie actual fluff to it) but i'm not super proud of the end result, mainly because of the perspective of the sandwich being wonky due to it being too challenging to properly draw on such a small scale. the paws, too, are very goofy; i'm not sure where on the scale of paws-to-hands i want my characters to fall, so this drawing as a weird middleground that i'm not sure if i like. while i'm at it, i REALLY don't like how i do the glasses/eyes, i'd love to do something better, but it's VERY hard to do on such a small scale. the low-nosebridge idea my partner and i had is silly, but doesn't really make sense and, quite frankly, looks kinda bad.all in all, i think i'm getting there, i'm just not all the way yet... and i'd REALLY like to be, because i'm very insecure about things.

The One And Only Brainless Cat Thing™ @flustersyou.bsky.social · 2d

if anyone has any good sources of reference material, or advice on how to reference things better, or just advice in general, that would be appreciated

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The One And Only Brainless Cat Thing™ @flustersyou.bsky.social · 2d

and so, between my limited physical ability and my lack-of-understanding of my own desires, i'm really stuck in a rut, i don't really know how to start "properly" doing art, as badly as i want to

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The One And Only Brainless Cat Thing™ @flustersyou.bsky.social · 2d

my partner's suggested "cleaning up" drawings using line tools, but that kinda feels like cheating to me, not to mention the fact it wouldn't allow me to replicate the kinds of effects i'd like to, anyway.

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The One And Only Brainless Cat Thing™ @flustersyou.bsky.social · 2d

all i have to draw with (comfortably, without concerns of privacy) is a mouse, and quite frankly, i kinda suck at it. i'm left-handed, but grew up using my computer right-handed, so i've adapted to that, but my precision still isn't great. it's REALLY hard to draw straight lines and smooth curves

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The One And Only Brainless Cat Thing™ @flustersyou.bsky.social · 2d

i'd LOVE to borrow some stylistic elements from some artists i follow (particularly cherrypillowz/bsky/social), but that would require drawing on a much larger canvas to achieve, which is something that i'm not really capable of doing at the moment

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The One And Only Brainless Cat Thing™ @flustersyou.bsky.social · 2d

on top of this, i just... don't really have an art style? i've just kinda been mimicking my partner's artwork, because it's what i've been most exposed to, what i know best, and it's simple enough for me to do. it hasn't really left me fulfilled, though, my work feels rather... amateur

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The One And Only Brainless Cat Thing™ @flustersyou.bsky.social · 2d

i don't have any ocs, i've never really had a use for them, honestly. i could draw my partner, but he has their own struggles with his form (and besides, i'd be really, really shy about asking for direct references). i just do not know what to do

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The One And Only Brainless Cat Thing™ @flustersyou.bsky.social · 2d

my somewhat fast-and-loose gender identity and self-perception don't help matters, either. some days i'd like to be totally androg with a twinkish body, other days i'd like to rock a chunkier, post-hrt form. what even *am* i, to begin with?

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The One And Only Brainless Cat Thing™ @flustersyou.bsky.social · 2d

i... don't really know how to find good reference material, in all honesty, so the main reference i can use is myself. but, if my form doesn't quite match what i want to draw, how do i learn the ins and outs of me?

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The One And Only Brainless Cat Thing™ @flustersyou.bsky.social · 2d

my relationship with my physical body is estranged; it's not the worst thing in the world, but it's not the best, either. do i want to draw myself reflective of that body, an ideal body, or do i mix-and-match?

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The One And Only Brainless Cat Thing™ @flustersyou.bsky.social · 2d

my sona is a weird middleground between an ordinary sona and a truesona; it reflects elements of both myself and an idealized, more affirming version of myself. this begs the question of: how do i draw anything below the head?

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The One And Only Brainless Cat Thing™ @flustersyou.bsky.social · 2d

i want to draw, and learn how to do it better, but my main subject matter is myself, and i don't know how to draw myself

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Erin Reed @erininthemorning.com · 3d

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Leo @leopalazi.bsky.social · 4d

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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 3d

Why would someone pay $20k for a robot controlled by a human in a remote location to do things more slowly and clumsily when the median wage for a maid or housekeeper is $33k per year, which is typically spread across 10-20 households?

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onion person @junlper.beer · 3d

the reality is that a minimum of 50% of republicans would be overjoyed to let 1/5 of the american population starve if it meant they’d pay $20 less on their annual taxes