⭑.ᐟ Navisludge ⟡ ݁₊ .

before you read...

My art history:

Just as with my music, I've been creating art my whole life. By that, I mean drawing and writing specifically.

Having started as a toddler just drawing shapes on books to making fan-art of my favorite youtubers and characters, that's how I learned. I would fill sketchbook after sketchbook. school notebook after school notebook, filled to the brim with doodles and drawings.

I've always had a horrible attention span. But doodling and drawing in class always helped me stay attentive to what the teacher said, as ironic as that sounds. I'd get scolded and yelled at often for it but they just wouldn't get it. Anyway, that used to be my way of practicing.

In 2016, I downloaded IbisPaint on my phone, and half of my doodles turned into digital doodles, that way I had art both traditionally and digitally. I am not sure if any art from that era survived.

In 2017, when we moved out, my parents trashed a lot of the notebooks and sketchbooks I had because they used too much space, so most of it was lost. But in that era, I was a massive twenty one pilots fan so rest assured because 90% of the drawings were made about that.

In 2018, things got more serious, and I got my first drawing tablet. I wasn't great at it, but I managed. Around this time is when I decided to join the furry communnity, and therefore, make a fursona of my own.

I did, and only a few drawings from then survived. See below:

This tablet lasted until 2019 (I still have it, however the pen broke and I never was able to find any replacements for it online.) and I drew enough, but not a lot, so I didn't massively improve, but it was okay enough.

At the end of 2020, I started drawing noticeably less, focusing mostly on game-dev (Also lost the projects I made) and music.

However, in 2021, I started drawing again, but it was different characters, Nero wasn't the focus anymore, instead, I focused on two other characters of mine. 01 and Yaki, a humanoid who I would use to vent my relationship issues at the time and a wild dog that turned into my main fursona.

In 2022, at the end of July, I picked up the pen again. And this time, I started drawing like there was no tomorrow. I would stay up all night, drawing either mine or other people's sonas, improving day by day. In late 2022, I had already built up a network of people that knew me. Sure, there weren't that many people, but they were a good few. And that was good enough for me. That is also when I started selling commissions, and getting officially into the world of living as an artist.

I spent most of 2023 drawing non-stop as well, selling commissions left and right, and getting to know more and more people who were interested in what I drew.

Now in 2024, I still sell commissions, although the flow of them has been slower, as drawing non-stop for two years has left me with noticeable burnout. But I try regardless.