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Ur dirkjake.. 😳😳😳😳🫣🫣

i hope this was a positive comment and not a "you went too far you fiend" comment because i inked and colored that one too

#dirkjake #homestuck #meruzart #one thing about me ill give a composition of two characters a dutch angle and put some eye burning color behind it

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i hope this hasn't been asked before. what size do you make your canvas? and do you crop it to fit other socials (like Instagram for example)? i hear that 300 dpi is standard. i never know if it's good to make my canvas big or not.

hi i think this ask is like at least 4 months old but i was scanning my sketchbooks from last year and i abruptly remembered i had gotten this ask because i had made a little chart in my sketchbook trying to figure out how to answer it

anyways theres pros and cons. and the size of your canvas is really going to depend on personal needs + preference. how good ur computer is, how complicated ur art style, how comfortable drawing feels, how much disk space you have to spare, what youre gonna end up using the art for in the end...300dpi is standard for PRINTING specifically, if you only plan to ever post things online then 72dpi works great and will save you space (fun fact a lot of professional animation files i deal with are 72dpi. and those eventually go on your tv screen). but personally i make everything i draw 300dpi because i am always printing stuff for cons, zines, etc and its nice to have the option even if i dont end up printing.

when I was a teen I used to draw on a rly shitty laptop and i made everything 800x800px 300dpi because big canvases would cause a lot of lag and also the resolution on this laptop was pretty small so 800px was a lot of the screen already. now i have a slightly better laptop with a bigger resolution and i sketch on giant 10000px-40000px canvases with the hard round brush and no shape dynamics or transfer whatsoever to minimize lag. when it comes to making a final illustration when i know ill be using a bunch of layer effects/blending modes/colors/mixing brushes etc etc ill generally crop the canvas down to the 6000px range. most illustrations i try to make sure are comfortably printable on tabloid size paper so thats pretty much anything hovering around or above 3000x5000px w 300dpi (so 11x17in). HOPE THIS HELPS?

EDIT: OH ALSO re: socials. i always ALWAYS size down my art to post on the internet. i think its crazy when other artists dont. because why would i ever let the internet have my hi-res file for free. also in general i think it looks better if you do the resizing yourself because if you don't then many social media sites will compress your file for you! a lot of people will post a hi-res file to twitter and then go "Wow twitter killed the quality of this img!!!" UH YEAH because they have an automatic image compressor. because they need to save space too lol and they dont want your image to take 248263895 years to load. same with instagram and to a lesser extent tumblr. when i post anything on social media i resize it down to 1200px-1600px on the longest side... its a little arbitrary but im kind of basing it on the smallest resolution of widely available screens. mostly because i think it looks stupid when u open up an image file fullsize and u have to scroll to see the whole thing... also iirc instagram only takes images up to 1080px before it resizes them? granted if you upload something smaller than that itll also resize it up which will look worse so I think bumping the numbers just over 1080px is pretty safe.

I should really be bringing the dpi down to 72 too when i post online but often im too lazy to do that. but it will technically help ur image load faster and stuff. and make it less likely for people to yoink it off the web and print it themselves.

#ask

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colored this one

#davesprite #jade harley #meruzart #homestuck

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if you're still taking requests, I'd love to see sollux and aradia!

#homestuck #ask #delete later

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If you're still doing requests, have you ever drawn Sollux?

it feels Crazy to get a question like "have you ever drawn [insert beta troll here]" when like. the homestuck art tag on this blog goes back 40 pages and 12 years LOL. yes ive drawn sollux before. heres another one for the books

#hes also my patron troll lol! depending on ur definition of patron troll but. im a gemini #im an old old oldhead homestuck i was drawing fanart in 2010 #homestuck #ask #delete later

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Johnkat, naturally

this drawing is so whatever but youve seen me draw johnkat 294723985623 times

#homestuck #i might do another one in a sec #ask #delete later

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I love your art....abt request...I would love to see Davepetasprite... have a nice day :33

here ya go i love davepetasprite but i do feel like my interest in them begins and ends at jade shipping

#ask #delete later #homestuck

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#john egbert #meruzart #413 #homestuck

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zooming in with my eyeballs. runawaystuck...

YES Lol i was thinking abt runawaystuck but as i was drawing i was like damn i rly dont know how to draw ppl with wings like i never went thru that particular phase as a child sgfkgsdgns

heres that drawing a little closer up

#ask #delete later

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does anyone wanna send me homestuck drawing requests im kinda just doodling

#no idea if im gonna line and color any of these but yk #i will take suggestions #ask #delete later

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i luv the junior ectobiologist lab suit soo much...

#it needs boots and gloves!!! thus i added some #june egbert #homestuck #meruzart #ill try to draw smth else 2morrow but if i dont get to it happy 413 yall

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GLIMM*R Magazine is a yuri anthology for comics and illustration. Our Kickstarter campaign will be launching on May 6th please follow along for information coming soon!

#many buds on this so im sure its good

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sam & frodo

edit: someone on twitter asked for them kissing

#rbing for the edit LOL #reblog

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another figure drawing dump. going to life drawing sessions is like my hobby right now

#that and biking #meruzart #life drawing #figure drawing #studies

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i realized i basically havent posted anything for the past month so heres some raidens

#raiden #metal gear solid #meruzart

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sam & frodo

edit: someone on twitter asked for them kissing

#i might do merry and pippin too.. miss these guys #meruzart #samwise gamgee #frodo baggins #lotr #lord of the rings #tolkien #i had a pippin drawing of him wearing faramirs old clothes that i liked but now idk where i put it

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complicated feelings abt the change of era aside, im hyped to see my fave kids in a new book!! love the new ryan stegman designs too

#these kids have had bad outfits for the past couple yrs bc they couldnt get another designer to match bachalos anime energy #UNTIL NOW ❤️thank u stegman #x-men #x men #quentin quire #idie okonkwo #marvel #comics