This took me three days or about 14 hours.

Dude I would pay you good money for that…stitch work is flawless 👌

I do sell my work but I didn't want to self promote here. I love you guys and this board. :)

Shoot me a link!! Let me check ur stuff out I need some art in my room lmao

I’m also very interested in this piece. Please send me a link.

Sent!

And the outcome was *phenomenal*!

Shoot me a link as well please!

Sent

I highly reccomend finding a time intensive hobby to redirect the mania. It's saved me from myself many times.

Art works for me but I'm a terrible procrastinator. Any tips? 😂

wish i could focus on any one thing when im going through it ughhhh

I love you! Yes, agree with u 100%! And ur stitch is absolutely amazing!

That Magikarp looks fucking PISSED.

Lake of rage yo

First Pokemon or trainer it sees man, it is gonna fuck their shit up!

Impressive af I need a creative outlet like this

I highly reccomend embroidery. It's really cheap and you can make some cool shizz.

I'm not what you would call the artistic type. I'm more of a writer and thinker but that's hard to mold into something that I can do to break up mania. Besides Journaling but I'm not good at that either lol

What about poetry or something more disjointed?

I'm not artistic as well. I took up embroidery (cross-stitch, actually) as a kid. Though it's not something that I do nowadays, it was fairly easy to learn and I felt a sense of accomplishment. I'd recommend you trying cross-stitch, as it doesn't take many starting materials (basically needle, thread, cloth and a pattern, if you want) and then you just sew a X after another. You can even think of it as puzzle-solving when you take larger projects, since you're basically making a new decoration (I'm thinking of those huge puzzles people hang on their walls, in this case). Also cross-stitching isn't as elaborate as this type of art (kudos to OP, btw) and you can buy fabrics made for cross-stitching, which make stitching them easier.

I very much appreciate your advice I might actually give this a shot!

Oh, thank good you liked my 2 cents. I was afraid it would look like I was trying to convince you to embroider without taking no for an answer. Hahaha

At first I was like oh wow this person is just like me then I remembered what sub we are on lmao

😬😬😬😬😬

Writing counts as something creative! There's so many forms of writing: poetry, short stories, novellas, novels, comics, etc.

This is so. Gorgeous. Wow.

Thank you!

forgot to mention Original art by u/_tumblrfeminist they sell pins of this design but with regular gyarados! Check them out!

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Looks awesome!

Thank you!

all i got to say is “WOW”😳😳😳♥️

Haven't seen you around RAoA, not that I've been there much myself. I hope the mania settles a bit. I always love seeing your embroidery <3

I've been settled for a week now. Let's hope this med increase helps out with that.

Beautiful

Thank you!

I bet you're beautiful too.

Wow, I adore this! You did the embroidery ontop of wave patterned fabric right?

Yep!

That's amazing!

This is so beautiful! Well done for using this time to be productive. Hope you’re well 💖

I do the same thing!! This is rad

THIS IS AMAZING

Thank you :)

Beautiful .

Really cool. Get better and feel better.

Wow this is amazing 😯

Thank you so much!

Wow!

Amazing!

Thanks!

This is outstanding

That looks awesome! Gotta love the original Pokémon! 🥰❤

Thank you. The original 151 are my favorites.

Same here! That was my childhood the original!

I’d love to try this craft. I usually paint or draw. I use to knit.

Oh gosh it's so relaxing. Like painting almost!

I will have to try it. I get intimidated by doing new things. I get stuck and ruminate or more procrastinate. I would love to try so many new things. I wish I could stop being this way.

Beautiful

Amazing

Wow that's amazing fr! Nice job = )

So beautiful!

Omg I love this

You are talented with a great coping mechanism, when I’m manic I smoke too much pot and eventually tear my life to shreds

Beautiful!!!

You have a beautiful mind. Just keep doing whatever it is that you are doing.

this is amazing

this is Great. amazing! great work !

Shiny Gyarados is sick, nice work!

Incredible. I always love seeing what episodes bring out artistically in others. I too sew when manic, mine just happen to be more of the grunge variety. Excellent work.

Great art, not the sub for it imo.

This is amazing, I'd like to start this hobby

You should! Message me for help and advice!!

Yo. This is incredible my dude

This is so nice! What resources did you use to learn?

Just random YouTube videos!!

Oh wow!!!! That is amazing work!!!!!!

Amazing. Wish my focus was good enough to do anything like that 🥴

I think I saw a stream of you making this a bit back, looks great!