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make bad art or you will always feel bad about your art. Make bad art until you find joy in the crooked lines and the off colours. Make bad art because art is about expression and artwork is never ugly because it was made by someone who has lived a life no one else will ever live. Make bad art and find love through ugly. Make bad art so you make art at all. Make bad art.

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how do you get your cel shading to look so good and pop so well,,,, tell me your secrets,,,

My two biggest tools are the default digital pen and a strong understanding of light reflections! (I literally use the simple pen brush for 90% of my entire process.)

Aiming for sharp, clean lines will take your cel shading really far. The more deliberate and clean your strokes are, the easier it is to read. In addition, make sure the shadows are only where it makes sense for them to be. Knowing where your light source(s) are before you start shading is super important!

I use a multiply layer for my shading, using a mid-value color and keeping the layer transparency between 50-100% depending on how dramatic or strong the lighting is. Making it a little darker than you might initially helps with that "pop" you're looking for.

Final note is that I really like adding soft gradients in my flat colors. I like how it looks and I think it adds a little bit more dimension to the shading layer above it.

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how do you get your cel shading to look so good and pop so well,,,, tell me your secrets,,,

My two biggest tools are the default digital pen and a strong understanding of light reflections! (I literally use the simple pen brush for 90% of my entire process.)

Aiming for sharp, clean lines will take your cel shading really far. The more deliberate and clean your strokes are, the easier it is to read. In addition, make sure the shadows are only where it makes sense for them to be. Knowing where your light source(s) are before you start shading is super important!

I use a multiply layer for my shading, using a mid-value color and keeping the layer transparency between 50-100% depending on how dramatic or strong the lighting is. Making it a little darker than you might initially helps with that "pop" you're looking for.

Final note is that I really like adding soft gradients in my flat colors. I like how it looks and I think it adds a little bit more dimension to the shading layer above it.

#hope this helps! #cel shading #disclaimer is that I use paint tool sai #so a different layer type might work better for you!

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Harpie siblings in the coliseum au! 

I’m excited to have these two part of the story. I’m actually gonna be able to show their family relationship ~

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felt inspired by @nevs-sketchbook au design for yugo 

#I still have such huge heart eyes for this

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for @dark-raging-crescent of odd-eyes raging dragon Yuya in the au style! 

This may or may not allude to actual plot events and was a fun ask, thanks!

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The water would grow frigid denying her the ability to stay more than a few minutes. even so, he excitedly awaited those short, chilly meetings. 

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“Haha, I don’t understand you.”

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For a while, my one friend who has never seen Yugioh/arc v thought that my dragon au designs were actually canon designs so I felt a deep need to make fake screenshots of what they’d look like if it was true ^-^

these were super fun to do :3

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a sketch of yuya that turned into a fully rendered drawing!

bonus speed draw! ~5hrs

#reblog! #thank you all for the very nice tags <3

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a sketch of yuya that turned into a fully rendered drawing!

bonus speed draw! ~5hrs

#yugioh #arc v #yuya sakaki #speedpaint #speeddraw #got the screenshot from dailyyuyasakaki so ty <3 #the vid was originally 10 mins but idk if anyone would want a slower video so I sped it up #I lowered the song volume and it's still too loud sorry #I don't feel like rendering the video again

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oc asks: not-so-nice edition

alone: How does your OC deal with loneliness? Have they ever been completely alone before? How do they act when there's no one around to see them?

betrayal: Has your OC ever been betrayed by someone they thought they could trust? Has your OC ever betrayed someone who trusted them?

bound: Has your OC ever been imprisoned or captured? What happened? How did they get out? Did the experience leave any scars?

break: What would cause your OC to break down completely? What do they look like when that happens? Has anyone ever seen them at their lowest?

desire: What's one thing your OC wants more than anything in the world? Are they open with that desire? Why or why not? What would they do to fulfill it?

failure: What's your OC's greatest failure? Have they been able to move past it? Does anyone else know about it?

fear: What is your OC's greatest fear? What do they do when confronted with it? Are they open with their fear, or do they hide it away?

future: What's the worst possible future for your OC? Are they taking steps to avoid that outcome? Are they even aware it's a possibility?

ghost: Who or what haunts your OC? What happened? How do they live with their ghosts?

guilt: What is your OC guilty about? How do they handle their guilt? Do they try to avoid guilt, or do they accept it?

hate: What does your OC hate? Why? How do they act towards the object of their hatred?

heartbreak: Have they ever had a relationship that ended badly? Experienced some other kind of heartbreak? What happened?

hide: What does your OC hide? Why do they hide it?

hunt: Who or what is your OC hunted by? A person, a feeling, a past mistake? Is your OC able to let their guard down, or are they constantly alert?

mask: Does your OC wear a mask, literally or figuratively? What goes on beneath it? Is there anyone in their life who gets to see who they are under the mask?

midnight: What keeps your OC up at night? Do they have nightmares? Fears? Anxieties? What do they do in the small hours of the morning when they should be sleeping?

mistake: What's the worst mistake your OC ever made? What led to them making it? Have they been able to fix it? How have they moved on?

monster: Is your OC monstrous in any way? Is there something that makes them monstrous? Are they aware of their own monstrosity? Do they accept it or reject it?

nightmare: What does your OC have nightmares about? How do they deal with their nightmares? Do they tell people, or keep it to themself?

pain: What's the worst pain your OC has ever felt? Do they have a high pain tolerance?

secret: What's one secret your OC never wants anyone to know about them?

skin: How comfortable is your OC in their skin? Do they grapple with anything that lives inside them—a beast, a curse, a failure, a monster? How do they face the smallest, weakest, most horrible version of themself? Are they able to acknowledge it at all?

torture: Has your OC ever been tortured? Would your OC ever torture someone else?

wound: How does your OC handle being wounded? Are their wounds mostly physical? Mental? Emotional? What's the worst wound your OC has ever experienced?

#oooh i would love asks! #might do a little doodle for them too #any ocs are good

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I had to draw him at least once

#hazbin hotel #alastor #vivziepop #I read bits of his wiki while drawing him #apparently this man is mixed creole which blows my mind #absolutely baffling #he's also in his mid 30s-40s #I'm not really a fan of the show so idk if I'll draw him again #maybe once if I feel like redesigning him

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ty for the suggestions! I'll go through them in a bit so meanwhile feel free to send more <3

Give me yugioh characters to make fanart from!!

any series goes c:

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Give me yugioh characters to make fanart from!!

any series goes c:

#yugioh #I miss them and I'm tired #could use a good comfort character

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I made a BlueSky Account!

Hi Hi! Since the insect version of twitter is officially public I went ahead and made an account! Follow me over there if you wanna :3

#bluesky #it looks exactly like twitter but doesn't have hashtags yet? #they're trying to figure out how they wanna do their tagging system #and I don't really know how to use it so I'm just messing about #throwing all my art on it

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This one was even!! I'm very tempted to make a secondary poll but I also might just make merch for both.

Second place winner is Beyblade so they'll get a little something too! per usual pick your first choice and mention your second pick in the comments/tags if you have one!

Shares appreciated <3