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half-winged

#fukami hikari #krad #dnangel #watercolor #fanart #myart #i really tried to finish my wips with other characters before this one but #he's so blorbo orz #also im happy with the background #granulating pigments are my true enemies-to-lover

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D.N.Angel Volume 19

(I started this piece three years ago to practice gouache with random panels and I've finally, finally finished the last panel!)

#dnangel #fukami hikari #yuu niwa #taize niwa #kei hiwatari #dark mousy #krad #gouache #postercolor #fanart #myart #redraw #dark was last to be finished if you can't tell #so his is the fanciest~

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amaryllis | pride | How far I'd go to prove I love you.

#fukami hikari #taize niwa #dnangel #watercolor #fanart #myart #flower prompts #fukaize #im so used to thinking about them as ot3 it doesnt feel the same without yuu lol #how about them watercolor GRADIENTS <3

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present for amika~ ^^

#daisuke niwa #friendoc #dnangel #watercolor #fanart #myart #warm colors =v=

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party hard

#satoshi hiwatari #dnangel #watercolor #fanart #myart #important backstory: this is based on a photo of my grandma #at a birthday party several years ago #and its the best photo ive ever taken~

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goldenrod | encouragement, good fortune | I'll always be your number one fan

#fukami hikari #krad #dnangel #watercolor #fanart #myart #flower prompts #one of these days im gonna stop breaking promises to myself and Use. The. Cotton. Paper!! #soon soon!! #in the meantime how about more krad and his favorite miserable hikari~? #uhm uh i think this was a prompt by #niwatari-rei #so thanks for that!

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present for @keikotwins ! here's two handsome guys being dudes.

#kei hiwatari #inspector saehara #dnangel #watercolor #fanart #myart #keihara #keikotwins #thanks again for my glorious checkmarks as well~~ #<3

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background boys unite~ present for @niwatari-rei ! ^o^

#rokuto hazumi #masahiro sekimoto #dnangel #watercolor #fanart #myart #niwatari-rei #sekimoto wins over rokuto through his sheer normalness #cant devour someone whod rather look at his phone than into your magic mirror~

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year of art - 2023

This was a year of big challenges! Finishing my WIPs, artfight, half of whumptober, and winning nanowrimo. I posted less, but I feel like the quality improved with some active study in paint techniques and composition. I'm cheating on the wheel by using my realism art for the last two but I didn't finish any of my fanart projects in either month...

I don't actually know what to resolve for 2024! (￣▽￣*)ゞ There's still a million things I need to improve, of course, especially complex compositions. I think I'd also like to go back to simpler pieces, like doodles and plain character shots. That's very contradictory~ I'll just make up goals as they come.

As always, thank you to everyone for your likes and reblogs and lovely comments. I really treasure them. ^^ Have a great new year~!

#notfugitiveart #personal #i am proud of quite a few of this year's pieces #tbh real life stuff and projects have taken up a lot of that time that was used for fanart #so i doubt i'll post a ton next year either unless some powerful inspiration hits #fingers crossed that it does hit though #is it too much to hope for a fandom revival or the drama cd to be super cool~?

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Glad to see your still making master pieces and I hope you don't ever lose motivation for the craft, and have a wonderful holiday fu-chan🌼 if you still talk with kei-chan tell them hello for me.

heyyy long time no see! i hope you've been doing well! ;;v;; thanks, i still have lots of ideas left, though i've been distracted by writing and holiday prep lately. next year for sure. probably lol. thanks a lot, you have a great holiday too!!

#rasmintscat #response #<333 #notfugitiveart

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Whumptober 13. Cold Compress

#fukami hikari #dnangel #digital #procreate #fanart #myart #whumptober #whumptober2023 #verse: frostbite #fukami is a mood right now lmao #i wanna lay in bed!! #(and that's as far as i can go this year!) #(i might do some of my remaining ideas later anyway) #(but this is me tapping out~)

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Totally! I was surprised to see an old post like this get noticed 😳 but I love talking about this stuff so if you don’t mind lots of rambling…~ /o/

And 22k!?!? (I know how long sorting can take so I hope it’s not too painful for you omg. That’s impressive though!!) Having inspirations at hand like this has been unbelievably helpful. When I feel stuck or need a push, I just flip through the pics of a certain category until I find one that fits my needs. There’s thousands of artists out there who helped me make my art, just thanks to studying their works…

I hadn’t thought about a folder for shape but that’s a good idea! Shape language can affect everything from characters to backgrounds… :0c

Do you have a category/folder that you find the most useful? ^^

My general categories are: Color, Lighting, Face, Hair, Clothing, Poses (split into number of people and whether it’s a hug, kiss, or everything else), and Tutorials!

Medium categories: Watercolor, Gouache (which includes digital pieces that I think can be emulated in gouache), Digital, Ink, and…. folders with those same names but “FAVE” at the front to separate the pieces that I think are absolute Goals.

I have some temporary folders that come and go. Like there was one that was “Hanako-kun style”, back when I was studying that. I had a big collection of hands at one time but it’s archived now since google or my own hand is usually good enough these days. But I still have character folders for things related to their specific traits that I need help with (lots of wings for the angels now, but also muscular men for the Inspector folder and suits for the Kei folder and so on…)

Now improving composition is my main goal so I’ve reorganized my “Style” folder to have more specificity like: Close-up Complex, Close-up Simple, etc for Middle, Distant, and Environment. These probably get the most use, just like Style did. It’s where it all just came together in artworks with line style and thickness and backgrounds and… yeah, hard to put anywhere else haha.

I personally have to copy into several folders if something fits more than one category or I’ll worry about it being forgotten. orz It makes them even more cluttered, but if I like the piece that much then I figure I won’t mind seeing it again! And… there’s definitely a lot of unsorted pics floating around. Those are useful for stuff that’s just generically inspiring, right?? And then once I’ve moved on, they can be deleted or sorted easier.

How did you learn to draw so well? Like was it from classes or a book on fundamentals or just trial and error?

//// thanks for the kind question!

I guarantee you I would have improved faster if I’d taken a class, but I hope some of the materials I’ve used over the years can be of use to you too:

Andrew Loomis’ books - I never made it past the first chapters, but those had some great advice.

Youtube - Proko’s bean method. Figure drawing references will greatly improve anatomy and “drawing what you see”. It’s boring imo, so doing just 5-10 minutes a day can keep one from burning out while still seeing improvement. Speed painting videos are a nice way to relax and study.

Will Terrell’s People Drawing series - He’s a humble man with personal advice for artists. I watch his videos when I feel discouraged or lost.

Art, art, art - Whenever I see an artwork that I like, I figure out exactly what pleases me: line thickness, nose shape, finger positions, composition, the way the hair bends in the wind, etc. Then I try to incorporate that specific characteristic into my own art.

I have growing folders of (I’m a bit embarrassed) almost 8,000 pictures, organized by characteristics, for the sole purpose of studying their prettiness. Sometimes we don’t need a tutorial to spell everything out, just an example can help us envision our own works’ potential. Also, staring at pictures is a relaxing way to study too!

And of course, trial and error~ I don’t post my sad, failed paintings or all the weird sketches I make, but they exist and teach a lot!

#personal #notfugitiveart #response #tepperz #/// thanks a lot #for your nice words and for the fun topic~ #and sorry i wrote so much LOL #i do keep my recent pieces displayed for a while 🙈 #there's so many now tho so #into a storage bin they all go eventually haha #or in the mail to keiko~ #(aha! I fixed the spacing problem in the text!)

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Whumptober 12. Red

#riku harada #dark mousy #daisuke niwa #dnangel #digital #procreate #fanart #myart #Whumptober #whumptober2023 #i actually finished this one before 11 #as a warm up before that tough pose haha

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Whumptober 11. “All the lights going dark and my hope’s destroyed.”

#dark mousy #Krad #dnangel #digital #procreate #fanart #myart #Whumptober #whumptober2023 #Krad sure had a rough time in the finale huh

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Whumptober 10. “You said you’d never leave.”

#risa harada #riku harada #dnangel #digital #procreate #fanart #myart #Whumptober #whumptober2023 #and here’s the number I stopped at last year! #not sure I’ll be able to finish the whole month this time either #but I do have a few more pieces in mind

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sorry for spamming you;;; your art is gorgeous!

no no it made me really happy! thank you for the spam and message!! ^^

#response #myart #memoonlemon #it’s always fun seeing familiar names in the notes

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Whumptober 09. Mistaken Identity

#taize niwa #dnangel #digital #procreate #fanart #myart #whumptober #whumptober2023 #verse: return to sender #we’re still so far away from it but #this scene is devastating for both pen pals trust me =v=