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#signal boost

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The Dragon Flies Off with the Empress, from The Violet Fairy Book by Henry Justice Ford (1901)

#inspo #fairytale tag #dragon tag

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Draw badly. Write nonsensically. Embroider messily. Burn what you bake and cook. Get paint everywhere. Read half a book. Lose your mind for a bit. Plant things. Have faith in the process. Abandon 70 wood-carving projects. Get a kit and do some of it and never return to it. Get comfortable with sucking and losing motivation. Continue to create with reckless abandon.

#reminder #art reminder

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Birds of the Unicorn Tapestries

#fiber art #inspo #art history

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#malice mizer #visual kei #mana sama

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Fairy Bugs Keep Watch (2022) oil pastel & pencil on paper

Instagram: @suhaylah.h Shop: suhaylah.bigcartel.com Patreon: patreon.com/suhaylah_h

#fairy tag

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A sticker sheet featuring flower fairies interacting with mushrooms and tiny woodland creatures. They are drawn in soft colours, reminisant of childrens book illustrations.

They were made in 1983 by Hallmark, and were mushroom Scented.

#fairy tag #stickers

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In the cat garden 🐈🌷

#cat tag

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Art by Ethan Davies

#inspo #witch tag #fairytale tag

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Rafael M. Milani aka Strange Old Things (Brazilian, b. 1989, São Paulo, Brazil) - 1,2: Untitled from Fata Morgana series, 2016  Photography

#photography #inspo

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I tried doing a digital collage for the first time ever and it was so much fun!! I'm definitely gonna do this type of thing more often. This one in particular is a devotional collage to Venus in Pisces, which happens to also be my natal Venus placement 🫧🪷🦢🪸🪐

All of these images were sourced from Unsplash, Pexels, and Wiki Commons

#collage #digital collage #art #artists on tumblr #astrology #astro community #venus #pisces #venus in pisces #lgbt artist #nonbinary artist

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Light of the Fairies 🧚✨︎ Two fairies gather around pouring magical light dust onto Sampaguitas for healing properties ✨ Inspired by Pixie Hollow and Filipino culture, the fairies' dress design is inspired by the Filipino Terno dress! The flowers around them can be found in the Philippines including Medinilla Magnifica, Santan, and hairy lotus flowers!🇵🇭 🤍

#fairy tag

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Can't afford art school?

After seeing post like this 👇

And this gem 👇

As well as countless of others from the AI generator community. Just talking about how "inaccessible art" is, I decided why not show how wrong these guys are while also helping anyone who actually wants to learn.

Here is the first one ART TEACHERS! There are plenty online and in places like youtube.

📺Here is my list:

Proko (Free)

Marc Brunet (Free but he does have other classes for a cheap price. Use to work for Blizzard)

Aaron Rutten (free)

BoroCG (free)

Jesse J. Jones (free, talks about animating)

Jesus Conde (free)

Mohammed Agbadi (free, he gives some advice in some videos and talks about art)

Ross Draws (free, he does have other classes for a good price)

SamDoesArts (free, gives good advice and critiques)

Drawfee Show (free, they do give some good advice and great inspiration)

The Art of Aaron Blaise ( useful tips for digital art and animation. Was an animator for Disney)

Bobby Chiu ( useful tips and interviews with artist who are in the industry or making a living as artist)

Second part BOOKS, I have collected some books that have helped me and might help others.

📚Here is my list:

The "how to draw manga" series produced by Graphic-sha. These are for manga artist but they give great advice and information.

"Creating characters with personality" by Tom Bancroft. A great book that can help not just people who draw cartoons but also realistic ones. As it helps you with facial ques and how to make a character interesting.

"Albinus on anatomy" by Robert Beverly Hale and Terence Coyle. Great book to help someone learn basic anatomy.

"Artistic Anatomy" by Dr. Paul Richer and Robert Beverly Hale. A good book if you want to go further in-depth with anatomy.

"Directing the story" by Francis Glebas. A good book if you want to Story board or make comics.

"Animal Anatomy for Artists" by Eliot Goldfinger. A good book for if you want to draw animals or creatures.

"Constructive Anatomy: with almost 500 illustrations" by George B. Bridgman. A great book to help you block out shadows in your figures and see them in a more 3 diamantine way.

"Dynamic Anatomy: Revised and expand" by Burne Hogarth. A book that shows how to block out shapes and easily understand what you are looking out. When it comes to human subjects.

"An Atlas of animal anatomy for artist" by W. Ellenberger and H. Dittrich and H. Baum. This is another good one for people who want to draw animals or creatures.

Etherington Brothers, they make books and have a free blog with art tips.

As for Supplies, I recommend starting out cheap, buying Pencils and art paper at dollar tree or 5 below. For digital art, I recommend not starting with a screen art drawing tablet as they are more expensive.

For the Best art Tablet I recommend either Xp-pen, Bamboo or Huion. Some can range from about 40$ to the thousands.

💻As for art programs here is a list of Free to pay.

Clip Studio paint ( you can choose to pay once or sub and get updates)

Procreate ( pay once for $9.99)

Blender (for 3D modules/sculpting, ect Free)

PaintTool SAI (pay but has a 31 day free trail)

Krita (Free)

mypaint (free)

FireAlpaca (free)

Libresprite (free, for pixel art)

Those are the ones I can recall.

So do with this information as you will but as you can tell there are ways to learn how to become an artist, without breaking the bank. The only thing that might be stopping YOU from using any of these things, is YOU.

I have made time to learn to draw and many artist have too. Either in-between working two jobs or taking care of your family and a job or regular school and chores. YOU just have to take the time or use some time management, it really doesn't take long to practice for like an hour or less. YOU also don't have to do it every day, just once or three times a week is fine.

Hope this was helpful and have a great day.

#art resource

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Started this back in January and finally got around to finishing it. I loosely based it off of Irish Celtic folklore that connects the Hawthorn plant to fairies🌷🧚🌿

#fairy #fae #faerie #fair folk #hawthorn #celtic #celtic folklore #folklore #celtic mythology #whimsical #whimsigoth #art #art nouveau #artists on tumblr #support small artists #illustration #illustrator #queer artist #romanticism #fairies #my art #clip studio paint #digital artist #drawing tablet

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Launching my first art blogs with a small comic based on the amazing words of Ursula K. Le Guin!

#comics

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Euphoria

~When you turn to the side and see your new chest for the first time~

#queer joy #trans art #trans artist #lgbt art

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Ppl: “Glaze and nightshade all your art!!”

Also ppl: * does not mention that you need to have a fucking NVIDIA GPU and running nightshade on one image takes at best 20 minutes*

Like the online version of glaze/nightshade requires an account. And last time i checked they arent accepting new accounts because of the high pressure.

Like i make my art on my ipad. My MacBook is from 2014. If i tried to download and run nightshade on my decade old macbook and go throufg 10+ years of artworks i might as well just set it on fire.

#art resource #art help #ai