🎨 This is a space for artists and creatives of all levels to come together, support each other, and build a drawing and painting habit that lasts. whether you are picking up a pencil for the first time or returning after a long break, you’ll find encouragement, simple tips, and a community that cares about progress, not perfection. ✨ Why Art With Courage? Because showing up in art is an act of bravery. It takes courage to face the blank page, try a new medium, share your work, or admit you’re struggling. Every step forward, no matter how small, is celebrated here. SAFETY FIRST 👉 After reading this post, before you dive in, please first read our Community Guide + Safety. 🌱 How to Get Started — Give First The easiest way to settle in is to connect with others. Before you make your first post, take a moment to comment on three other posts first ... it’s a simple way to show support and start feeling part of the circle. When you’re ready to share your own first post, it doesn’t need to be big ... just a hello, a sketch, or a note about what is your current challenge or what you’re working on. Posting is an act of courage, and every time you do, it encourages someone else to share too. Here are a few simple ideas: • 🌍 Share where you are in the world • 🖼️ Post a photo of your art or workspace • ✏️ Upload your first sketch, even if it feels rough • 💬 Tell us one current challenge in your practice 🎨💪 DO THE ARTGYM Check out the Daily Prompts for our ArtGym challenge. The first one is fun and light, designed to get you moving without the pressure of making a masterpiece. These little challenges are a secret hack for building consistency and muscle memory. Not every prompt will be silly, but each one will train your hand and eye in ways that add up over time. Art should feel playful. Sometimes the best progress comes when you just let go and enjoy it. 🤝 WHAT’S COMING

I thought I'd drop a quick intro, hello everyone! I'm a UK artist based in Dorset on the south coast. I'm super excited to join Sarmed's new art community. Painting more than I draw, I feel I should revisit my drawing practice and I think it will be great to feel inspired by fellow members. My website is https://www.tinapeacockart.co.uk/ Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/tina.peacock.artist/

Hello world, I’m an artist or something, I draw, paint, do whatever medium I feel like if I got it, I guess. Now I’ve been trying to make my own sorta style, or rather I did something and like it so I keep on doing it. Anyhow, I want your TRUTHFUL opinions, because it sucks to suck and think you’re decent. So be honest, I probably won’t cry, and If I do you won’t see it anyway. Jk but seriously I want people’s thoughts. Hope you enjoy!

Thrilled to be joining you beautiful humans in a creative community led by such a generous and talented artist, the one and only @Sarmed Mirza! I recently started a creative community myself, aimed at developing skills and sales, sharing as we learn, so I am excited about sharing experiences in both creative groups. I am a multi-medium artist--that means I am into a LOT! 😁🙃😎 My biggest-main things are Megasculptures, functional works of art (I aspire to build even bigger--Agriscuptures!) explorations in passive temperature control, natural and alternative construction (including domes, cob, cantonary arches, lime concrete, bottle walls, tire walls, and more!). I've written and published books, music, and am recently getting back into painting, with a brief interlude in a great beginner's sketchbook, which I am using to prepare for a beginner's sketching course. Meanwhile...I never did quite get the knack of portraits, even though I focused on faces/busts in ceramic for a decade or so and have been somewhat obsessed with faces. SOOOO I am Super Excited to break that old limiting belief and gain a new skill set! Thank you Sarmed! Here's some of the sketches I been doing, and some of my sculpture work (my first, smallest Megasculpture, The Foo Dog).

Hi everyone, I’m Aaron, and I joined this community because I’ve learned that art is humanity, emotion, and intention made tangible. I discovered this through studying works like Death Stranding 2 and Arcane - pieces where every frame carries deliberate meaning, where creators chose artistic integrity over commercial safety. Hideo Kojima, who created Death Stranding, says his body is “70% movies” - meaning he needs constant input from other art forms to create. I’ve realized I need the same. As someone building systems for human alignment, I need to witness how artists maintain intention through their practice. I’m working on something called AlignCore, which tries to do with human purpose what you do with visual observation - capture something essential before it disappears. The challenge I face is the same one you face: how do you preserve the human element when everything pushes toward efficiency and mechanization? This morning, listening to a song about someone who gained everything but lost their humanity in the process, I found myself unexpectedly moved to tears in my car. It hit me that artists are the ones who refuse to let that happen. Every piece you create is proof that intention still matters, that taking time to get something right is not inefficiency but necessity. I’m here to learn from your practice of maintaining humanity through repetition, through showing up even when inspiration doesn’t. Your courage to make something meaningful in a world obsessed with metrics is exactly the kind of courage I need to witness and understand. I work in systems and code rather than paint and canvas, but I believe the act of creation with intention is the same. In the coming days, I’ll share more about what brought me here - including the song that moved me this morning, and why I believe we’re all fighting the same battle against the mechanization of human expression. My hope in sharing this journey is that it might spark courage for someone here, or perhaps even inspire an art piece. After all, whether we work in pigment or purpose, we’re all trying to preserve what makes us human.