#skillnottalent — Public Fediverse posts

Every three years, I redraw a set of doodles from 2016.

With today's... trends, to put it lightly, it's nice to remind myself that #Art is made through #SkillNotTalent, and that it takes time and effort to get better it – but the important thing is that you do get better!

So while I was finding all my magic cards to sell off, I found my other, much larger miniatures case, with some unpainted minis (including a couple star wars mini commissions I never got around to, sorry to whoever I cheated in college). These are the painted ones. The clown-lookin guy is supposed to be a high elf holding a sword overhead, I think, but the paint job was awful and the sword broke.

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The guy on the left was my attempt to paint the guy from the cover of Weasel's Luck, which the mini was obviously based on. The pose was probably altered to make the mold easier in metal.

I think I didn't do too bad for a guy with basically no paints and no tutoring in how to paint minis.

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I was digging through post-moving boxes from 5 years ago for a specific sort of electronics cable and happened upon my old box of minis.

These minis date back to late high school, early college, when I had a few pots of Testors paints, two brushes, and had no idea what a "wash" or "dry brushing" were.

What a difference a year of practice and the internet makes.

To strip, or not to strip?

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Steps along the path, Non-Metallic Metal edition

June 2022.
August 2022
December 2022
March 2023

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Since i have no new art i thought i could share more of my ancient art, from1987 or 88. I was already 15/16 and in art school, ugh! But we didn't exercise in funny animals art so thats my excuse. Keep working, never lose determination!
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Old artwork from 2001 vs 2021 ☺️

2004 ➜ 2022
Approximately 3 hours of painting on each (not sure about the 2004 one, it was a long time ago)

It takes years to learn how to do things in a few hours.

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#Warhammer #PaintingWarhammer #miniaturepainting #miniatures

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2010 vs 2022
i remember being so proud of the first pic haha
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There was a #SkillNotTalent tag going around a few days ago that I had a lot of fun sharing old art for! I love seeing art glow-ups; it's so satisfying (and also really puts into perspective just how long it takes to gain mastery of a new skill!)

Here's 2002 vs 2022 from yours truly :)

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My OC progression from 2008 - 2015 - 2022

I know this tag is mostly for art, but why not self inserting myself (as always) with music.
2020
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J2bN1qkIjFM
2022
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=coJGt6DNTuQ
I'm so ready to finally start my fanfic album the next year c:
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2000 || 2019 (Let's assume I drew the first pic when I was p3 lol)
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For fun, here's a comparison of one of my oldest neopets art with my latest one that I did for a zine!
One of my fixations as a kid was neopets so couldn't resist doing this comparison!

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2004 || 2021
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I love improvement art memes so when I saw this trending on bird app (for good reason), you know I had to jump in on this lol

It took me a LONG time to get where I am today in my art journey and I still got a long way to go. Honestly, I'm proud of how far I've come along and if a young me could see how her art would have evolved, I think that would just blow her mind lol

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#SkillNotTalent Making a new piece every. single. day. for the last 5 months. #pixelart #art #mastoart

Feel like a good time to bring thoses back #SkillNotTalent (My previous post would have been better with the extra old art stuff but I don't have the files anymore)

2002 > 2022 #skillnottalent #MastoArt Honestly I think the most important is having fun. I always drew because I liked to, and sure I try to be better but mostly, the important part is having fun.

2009 ➝ 2022
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It's important to remember art is a marathon, not a race. We all start somewhere, and that starting point is usually pretty embarrassing. And that's fine. I can't find much of my #mecha art past 2013 but not sure I'd want to anyway.

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so #SkillNotTalent
2021 for a pixel dailie of a clastlevania redrawn // 2022 of a castlevania redrawn (not complete)

I've seen #SkillNotTalent hashtag going around.
Agreed! Practice, patience, experimentation and most importantly I feel, comfort and enjoyment in the process of the make.
Here are my first and most recent clay models and digital drawings.
Still learning and refining.

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lifelong process

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