@cloudofdust's post on Artfol

People asking to see your art is so scary because either they’ll get oc art, which you’ve gotta provide context for, fanart, which you’ve gotta explain without sounding weird AND run the risk of them knowing the character, or really low quality actual normal art, but it’s low uplift so you’ll look a lot less goodJan 8, 2022
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PEOPLE DONT USUALLY ASK TO SEE MY ART BUT WHENEVER I WANNA SHOW A FAMILY MEMBER AAARGH

TODAY I WENT THROUGH AN OLD SKETCHBOOK WITH A FAMILY MEMBER AND HAD TO AWKWARDLY EXPLAIN LMANBERG AND QHY I HAD TEN THOUSAND LMANBERG FLAGS IN THERE
AND MY FIRST LGBTQ+ OC (The sketchbook is pretty old and i didn’t know that lgbtq+ existed until like a year ago lmao) AND I DONT KNOW IF THEYRE HOMOPHOBIC OR NOT IT WAS SO AWKWARD FOR ME

VUT THEY DIDNT SAY ANYTHING AND I JUST SKIPPED THE PAGES AS FAST AS POSSIBLE SISKNDKLEKW