ziphi renata @ziphi@vulpine.club

Heya!
If you like my art and want to show some support (or even if you like my ramblings), I have a Ko-fi!

https://ko-fi.com/ziphiren

Any contributions are greatly appreciated!
And if you want to show support in other ways, boosts, likes, and comments are always welcome!

Thanks,
Ren

I'm officially opening up commissions for digital art.

Sketches start at $5.
Line art with flat colors starts at $15.
Digital paintings start at $50.

Backgrounds and multiple characters will raise the price.

If you're interested or have any questions, you can contact me here on Mastodon or via email at ziphiren.art@gmail.com

🖌️​​

#art #commission

#Introductions !
Hey! I'm Ren.

I'm a grey fox, an artist (primarily with watercolor, ink, and acrylics), a nonbinary trans girl, and I dabble in just about everything creative. I also struggle with severe depression and use platforms like this to discuss and process it.

I have a terrible tendency to avoid initiating social interactions, but please, feel free to talk with me! I'll open up rather quickly.

I just realized that precedent is grammatically related to "antecedent." Heck, I feel like I should have figured this out sooner.

Now if, instead of preceding something else, it went in the direction of something else, would it be an accedent?

Ah yes. The four genders.

I often wonder when I see someone type "macos" what exactly they are talking about.

I am under the assumption that it is "Mac OS." And not a macaroni and cheese taco.

Apparently it's possible to get more than one thing done in a day?

Yeah, I don't really understand it either.

Did you know that "dude" and "bourgeois" both originally meant the same thing?

Well I would walk 804.7 kilometers~
And I would walk 804.7 more~
Just to be the fox who walked
1609.4 kilometers to fall down at your door. 🎶​

Okay, I really want a lens like this for my DSLR. I love macro shots like this.

Image content warning: vivid colors in a repeating pattern

I need to learn better restraint when it comes to opinions. Because I know that if I engage with people on certain topics, I tend to get a bit more heated than I would like.

I do not want to be a source of debate. Or even opinions or insight.

I want to be a fluff.

It really annoys me that, with all of these suggested queries from a search on the reasons behind the popularity of crystal healing, none of the answers when expanded are a straightforward "There are no measurable benefits from crystal healing." A few of them at least have a disclaimer that there is "no scientific evidence" behind it, but that's still buried under paragraphs about chakra and some nebulous and undefined "energy."

Mysticism as an emotional and spiritual tool is perfectly fine by me. But misleading people into thinking it can be used as an alternative medicine is dangerous.

I need to fool my brain into believing in the magic of tails and whiskers. By which I mean I want to have the somatic sensation of having a tail.

My brain just isn't working right now. I want to get page three of my comic done (yes, I am working at the pace of a small, shelled, terrestrial gastropod on this), but I just can't picture anything or come up with words.

And this same inability to *do* has been a major part of my life recently. It has been a source of significant stress.

Heck. Why do I always have this feeling that I'll never belong?

Minecraft is now a good game!

A lot of people who want to learn art give up very quickly, believing they don't have the ability to learn.

Talent is a lie though. It doesn't exist.

Sometimes people will try and not learn as quickly as they think they should. Yet nobody would pick up a violin and expect to learn to play all on their own without anyone or anything to guide them. There are scales and techniques to practice.

For art, this involves re-learning how to see things, so you can form specifics about the shape, rather than just creating a symbol of it in your mind. And this involves developing the coordination for mark making. And how to construct shapes so they look like something.

It's no wonder people get frustrated and give up when they try to figure out the entire history of art on their own.

Use some resources and learn! I promise it's a lot more effective to practice *well* than to just hope that scribbling on paper will make you better.

xkcd is now at 2112 comics.
🤘​ Rock on.