Mess around and make art! @cyancreatescrap

Dear Diary,

I've been drawn to art ever since I was a child drawing with chalk or crayons, but I really started taking it more seriously during the pandemic. At that time, I would doodle on my mother's phone sometimes and I also used pencil crayons and alcohol markers to draw traditionally. Around 2021 I started to get more into digital art, and I've drawn using my phone ever since. It's really convenient for me as a disabled artist to be able to draw whenever I want, which is why it really stuck with me.

A variety of things have sparked my creativity lately, but especially other forms of artworks that I am exposed to. A beautiful drawing I get to see, a musical I go to, a song I hear, a design someone has made, anything like that. Creativity to me is sort of like an energy, spreading from person to person in this really cool cycle.

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What keeps me showing up online? The art community. I've made a whole lot of friends through art, and they keep me coming back. Admittedly though, I also like the attention

that being an artist brings. I love being told my art has made someone happy, and I love being seen. I struggle with pervasive feelings of loneliness, and that extra way to be seen and heard and understood is everything to me.

Originally, my art style started from artists I looked up to, especially LavenderTowne and Kasey Golden. Nowadays I think it's changed based on the people I know — a change in how I draw noses from one, eyes from another. It's a mix of all the things I love and also myself. I've always felt that the best art comes from loving the process and result deeply, so that's what I try to accomplish with my style.

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Lastly, an advice I’d give would be: every so often, make a piece experimentally. Don't stick to your style, maybe even consciously avoid it. Chaining yourself to one static, unchanging process and style is really likely to cause burnout or artblock or general displeasure with your art. Let yourself breathe and mess around and try whatever comes to mind sometimes.

Until then! 

Crimson

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