God. This Bit Of The Season 5 Opening Kills Me. The Posing, The Motion, The Surprise In His Face, Everything

god. this bit of the season 5 opening kills me. the posing, the motion, the surprise in his face, everything flying past him. like the memories are flooding through him in a tidal wave, consuming his perception of who he is, what he was. His burdens, his destiny literally pulling him backwards and forcing him to confront the enormity of his existence and his life and what it means for him to exist as a separate person from 'yami yugi' into 'pharaoh atem'. he is a paradox. a ghost toeing the line between oblivion, past, present, and future. a child forced to play the role of king. a contradiction of a human being. The universe tearing him into shreds and forcing him to face the fact that he isn't yugi and must construct an identity separate from it or doom the world- no, himself - into complete and total annihilation.

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Shockwave the Mad Deception Scientist

it's a little late but happy year of the dragon~

A bit of rant:

So weird that many people who were interested in my commissions would go with the 'I'll buy one when you open colored digital ones" but any time I ever open those I never got them sold.

I know colored it's more attractive, specially if it's digital, but ugh... Why people ignores pencil and black and white art so much?

It's because looks easier? Cheaper? Unfinished? I used to call my art 'sketch' too, because back in the days I wasn't giving the value it deserved it... That I deserved. So I stopped calling them that way and gosh it felt good.

Now I feel more confident and I can see other's art with more respect.

Even my art has improved in so many ways!!!! I'm so happy! Like LOOK!😭💕💕💕

There's something so beautiful about pencil art. It's so expressive and sensitive, the way the white of the sheet shows up under the black of the lines. The stain it leaves once you touch it. The play between white and gray values.

I wouldn't change it for anything.

But it feels like people is asking me to. And it's sad. Makes me deeply sad.

I don't feel comfortable with digital. I use it a lot, don't take me wrong, but I don't get the same genuine value that traditional art always gives me.

Anytime I do digital I feel I'm trying to be someone else.

With pencil I feel genuine. I feel free. It's something that comes right from the heart. Like writing a letter to someone you deeply love.

And that's what I want to keep doing. I want my art to focus on the pencil. Create my own way to express emotions.

I'd love to express more of how to appreciate pencil art, like from other artists, because well we're so little. But I think that'll be for another occasion.

Old Chica drawing I did in 2021 of September