My 2025 Resolution Is To Draw Sakuma As Cutieful As Possible

I know it's a meme that Shindou cries a lot, and I'm totally guilty of snorting at it, but to be completely fair, I don't exactly recall him ever crying without a very good reason to. Most of the time he's crying from frustration and helplessness, which is very understandable, especially given he's, like, 14. The adults all around him are failing him, all the while he has enormous responsibility put onto his shoulders. He's forced to comply with Fifth Sector's orders or risk not only literally getting beaten up, but also risk getting everybody else beaten up through sheer association with him.

Aside from that, instances of him crying in other seasons that I recall are:

Crying while thinking about the kind girl that helped him that he would never see again, because they're literally from different time periods.

Crying after the first match of Shinsei Inazuma Japan after being utterly humiliated in front of the entire country, and having no idea why any of this was happening.

the idea of your own art style is both unattainable and stupiddddd. ive noticed i draw more when i allow myself to take from others. you can never be fully unique. you have to have fun + let the inspiration take hold.... ..

i remember watching "how to find your art style" videos when i was younger and wondering when i would 'get' it. you dont get it. . thats not how that works. everything anyone has ever made is an amalgamation of everything theyve ever seen and felt and loved. and that is awesome 👍 who gives a fuck

Acrylic gouache painting + small review

Sakuma painting I just finished + WIP of him and an older Hiroto I've been wanting to post but I don't have a complementary piece to post him with. More talk under read more

Supplies used:

Holbein acryla gouache set curated by Rebecca green

Art Philosophy gouache (underpainting only)

Daler Rowney and Lyra synthetic brushes

Makeup brushes I no longer use for makeup purpose but performed better than my painting ones

I'm practicing painting again. This time using the Holbein Acryla Gouache set I bought for my birthday this January. I got myself acrylic gouache than regular gouache because my painting style is closer to acrylic and oil's than watercolors' (I'm really not good with watercolor)

Holbein's acrylic gouache performed really well so far. I love how opaque the paints are except for the gold color. I think it should serve a different purpose, like say, for glazing, than the opaque paints.

One complain I have for the Holbein arylic gouache is how quick they are to dry and the stickiness of it, so I had to pick more paint and use a bigger brush to fill a big area. I read a review that the Liquitex paints are less sticky and I wanted their set but they're too expensive in my country (Indonesia)

I really wanted to try the dry brush technique and I'm glad I did it pretty well on the left Sakuma painting. I rely on it to create color transitions because of how the colors laid previously show under the dry brushed paints. Honestly it's not that different than my digital art style where I keep brushing to create a feeling of gradient. Speaking of which it was a painting of this frame but I chose the wrong colors so the vibe ends up different lmao

The Sakuma on the right was rushed because I got too tired to continue further so he looks wonky with muddy colors. He's still my son even if he's a bit fugly. But yeah I had so much fun with this piece, I'm planning to do more traditional arts from now on, maybe I will try soft pastel too? Perhaps

No one owes artists anything.

But existence is lonely and sometime you throw hours and hours of effort into a void, on the slim chance it will say something back.

i see fanart reposting especially uncredited both on tumblr and twitter which has been upsetting me lately. you can't be against AI generated images when you don't put respect in works made by others like that

We are approaching the middle of Ramadan, and our memories return to last year when we broke our fast to the sound of explosions. Today, despite the deafening silence, we find ourselves facing the same suffering due to the closure of the crossings for the 12th consecutive day. Gaza is on the verge of famine due to shortages of basic goods and interruptions in gas, water, and electricity. We are in dire need of wood to power the clay oven purchased thanks to your donations, as the lack of wood means we cannot obtain bread and food. Our goal is to raise €4,500.

✅ Vetted No #219

2:30 AM and can't sleep thinking about how sakuma has 0 selfish bone in him and his "i can't see your world" @ kidou line in shin teikoku arc is him venting his desperation over not knowing what is in kidou's mind 💔💔💔💔 even post shin teikoku he's beefing on fudou never about what fudou did to him but instead over the risk he could do to kidou. sakuma who is made of 100% pure love for better or worse

heeheehohoo

So I finally finished him, but Instagram ruined the sole reason I wanted to draw him TwT

When I'm in the pretty princess competition and my opponent is GO!Sakuma

(under read more because i'm embarrassed but i really want to add this)

sakuma's so pretty even when his face isn't shown... what is this sorcery......