#art ramble

[babs-babbles]

Not sure what to call this style of me drawing couples is

But I'm loving it. There's something particular about it that gets my attention when drawing. Idk maybe it's just how much better the color shows or the different brush I use, it's so much smoother than my usual/older stuff... or maybe I just like drawing girls making love dovey eyes at each other

#my art #art ramble

[blackstarchanx3new]

How do you draw up your comics so quickly? I've been wanting to get into making comics myself, but it seems so daunting lol

Was hoping to get some tips on how you draw them so well and so quickly /pos /nf

Omf that's a tough one. My honest first response is "All I do is draw all day" so please don't hold yourself to my standards I don't have anything better to be doing.

Basically it's a mix of stuff:

My art style is simple/character designs are simple. Backgrounds are simple, overall.

STUFF BE SIMPLE.

"Gets the point across" tends to be the idea.

Anatomy isn't perfect, gradients are used a lot, shading isn't always present, I try to limit my color pallets to be pretty small.

I have a bunch saved onto the side bar in Clip Studio. And I have presets like the borders of the panels as a pre-set so I don't gotta make a new one over and over again.

Short cuts are NOICE.

Art wise:

I start with a thumbnail. Just getting the idea/facial expressions of the character down.

Sketching is 2nd step but I have no examples because I delete those pretty quickly.

More similar to this so line art is WAY easier.

I change the sketch's opacity to like 20 ish and a light blue to see it better.

Then I do line art and add a neutral color under it to make coloring easy. I change this to black after ward to fill any gaps.

Add color and ba-bam

I use "Color burn" "linear burn" and Multiply in the layer settings for shading. Just depends on the circumstance.

I guess smth else I do is go by "Chapter" or scenes.

Smth that's helpful for some is writing a script and then drawing your stuff based on that.

Often what I end up doing is writing a script but using it as a guide rather than a beat by beat thing.

Referencing manga for inspiration is smth I do a lot.

Smth I'd recommend doing is making a one shot or a comic you purposely make to be short.

Longer comics are daunting but the best way to deal with that is to complete parts of em. XD It's like going through a video game. Beating each mini boss gets you closer to the final. Like instead of one big project, see it as a bunch of smaller ones.

Smth I do to let off steam from bigger projects is making stupid shit like this:

Like there's no point to it other than to be dumb and funny.

Keeping the story entertaining or fun even while doing a part you don't want too.

Sometimes you will just have to chug through a portion you dislike but is necessary. But staying strong really helps.

Pop on a freakin' YT video and zone the hell out is what I do.

Your art doesn't have to be perfect every single time, my comics at least, are free so anyone who complains is a little bitch.

Just do what makes you happy.

Huge thing to consider: Your art doesn't have to be held to any specific standard.

You don't even have to COLOR that shit if you don't want too lmao. There's no rules. You can color a sketch and post it. It literally doesn't matter.

A specific standard of what every webcomic should be held to is a lie. It doesn't exist. Go feral.

Draw backgrounds. Even if you suck at em. It helps give the world dimension hah.

That's what I've been trying to do.

Use your comics as a way to experiment.

Ghost Soulmate I wanted to try out this weird painter style for the shading/lighting.

In FSR it was trying out a more anime style

Falling Cards is weird character designs + A FAR too ambitious story hah.

Bunny and Kitty was to see if I could do a shorter form story.

Biggest advice would be: Just try smth. You got no obligation to finish smth either. Just try it and see how it goes.

I'd recommend having an idea where your story is going before you start, but just starting ANYWHERE helps.

I tend to doodle my characters before I jump into their comic. Doodle them doing fun stuff before I go into the meat and potatoes of what I want them to do. I often have an ending in mind too before I start. You can fill in the gaps later.

Anyways that's all I got Idk if this was useful or helpful. X'D

#art tips #art ramble #ask

[awkwardosthe3rd]

/warning: senseless rambling under the influence of exhaustion and headache, just ranting abt art in general

I have reached the stage of hypercritical where I am not even sure what I am looking for exactly in regards to improvement

Looking at art ideas, styles, and my own art and scouting around and in absolute scattered confusion going "that isn't quite it" in regards to my own artistic goals for the future.

Like either I have lifted my own expectations toward myself to oblivion or I am about to figure out some big ol' artistic math for myself-

What even makes art "right", because clearly there is something that decides when it is and isn't with the amount of "critique" we know to express in response to it.

Or maybe the reality is that there is no standard to reach, that this is all just some market bs and maybe we should just draw whatever tf we want and stop pressuring ourselves to follow the guidelines.

None of us signed a TOS when picking up that pen or whatever other creative tool we use..

Fuck maybe I just wanna stop thinking about it so hard

#art ramble #ranting #text #long text #words

[4arconinoma]

genuinely believe we as a society should all make mary sue OCs again. deliberately. they are important to the ecosystem. you should all make them again you should all make overpowered neko people again to ship with all of your favorite characters and be the most powerful being in existence im so srs go ahead and do it again you are fucking alive do what you want thrive and have fun. do anything. peace and love on the planet earth

#and if you hate mary sues you are Weak and you will not survive the winter. #art ramble #ocs #txt

[carbonatedjem]

I don't know about ya'll but one of my favorite things to put on in the background while I'm working to help me focus is old commercials. I already love watching those for the vibes but there's something about working on a job and having an hour of like, video game commercials or just a bunch of random commercials from 2004 that really keeps my head in the game

#art ramble #ramble #i dunno #i just like the 2000s a lot

[catofthemcuartandwriting]

do ya’ll ever forget you know how to art and then when you art successfully it’s like ‘wow holy crap since uh 👆✨when✨’ but then you look away and look back and it’s still good but because you’re the artist who made it you only see the flaws?

#Same with writing #story of my life tbh #💀 #cat’s art #ramble #art ramble #art #artists #relatable #artists know #And then when someone else is like ‘oh this is so bad’ about their work you immediately say ‘nope’ #‘No this is perfect’ #‘Stop it’ ‘don’t talk like that’ #But when someone says that to you it’s just ‘um yeah sorry ok’ #*proceeds to keep criticizing work* #artists of tumblr #random art #random art ramble #Rambley ramble

[mibkid]

Hello, haven't actually posted art in a while, i've been working, and i have been focusing on doing my art for school too, funny thing:

said thing is a sk8 fancomic(bc i'm allowed to do fancomic stuff :D)

Sooooo we'll see how that goes! :)<

#sk8 the infinity #ramble #art ramble #life ramble

[greenleafo]

Some late night art ramble about freelancing / art balance and a thank you!

Last night inbetween work trying to find something among the pile of poorly named psd files I ended up coming across some WIPs of paintings - so hard to believe I actually spent hours just painting pieces before I really started focusing more on creating "commissionable" styled artwork. Something that I was able to make in a relatively quick manner whilst still enjoying it AND being able to market it as a commission format. Its been so much trial and error and I'm so grateful so many people have given me the opportunity to draw for them ! But man I sort of miss the freedom of painterly pieces like that too. It feels like that was my roots. I guess it was that trap of time constraint whilst also selling relatively low for a very long time. To make any livable amount of income from commissions at those prices I really just had to sell A LOT. And to complete those without spending ages on them they also got a bit more simplified to save on time and manage the quantity. I really hope in the new year, or just near future in general, I manage to finish more really painterly illustrations - hell, even finish the ones I've already started but never got around to finishing because of being too exhausted / burnt out from commission work. Not to mention scrambling to find the energy or time to try and make something for a portfolio to look for a studio job... I love being able to draw so many people's beautiful characters and bring them joy with it , but I never truly realized how difficult the balancing act would be between work art and personal art. Freelance is rough. Happy to be able to do it - but rough. Especially having next to no art mutuals to share with and the reliance on the non-stop mangled social media to push my work out there... Anyway thank you to everyone who's supporting me really. Without your kind words of encouragement and compliments to light my way in the days I feel like giving up I really wouldn't be here. Thank you!

#might delete this later who knows #art ramble #truly thank you to all the people for the support though <3 #you guys are legends

[bespectacled-bookwyrm]

Nothing quite like needing to make a hasty correction once you've finished the lineart and started colouring to make you hate drawing hands. And thumbs.

I now hate drawing thumbs. Ugh. DX

(The only positive is that I draw digitally, so it’s easier to correct than with traditional art. Still a pain, though.)

#Art ramble #I suck at hands and the thumbs make it even harder DX

[preludes-and-prufrock]

I really need to just *doodle* more. Actually draw. The problem with all my crafts is they each take a fekking age to complete just one, it's exhausting. But with doodling I'm so bad and get these frustrated paralysed feeling. A little like Dming for D&D. Every time. Executive dysfunction stylee.

I want to do the things. Making yourself do the things is so hard!

#art ramble #executive dysfunction #wah #poor me etc #hehe

[lycansprites]

This is an appreciation post for every fellow artist who lets people reference their commissions website for when that person is trying to design their own. For every artist who's given resources or tips when someone's trying to figure out prices. Who's given someone a starting point to build their commission tracker, to-do lists, or formatting something official. None of you ever had to do that, you weren't obligated to and would've been well within your rights in some to not, but you DID and though you might not always get a thank you for it you are the backbone to so many and literally just holy shit. Thank you.

#lycanspwrites #rambles #artists on tumblr #artist #art ramble

[fogsy-feel]

Damn I love Stiles but how do ya’ll draw that mf? Dylan O'Brien fluctuates between cute and hot that I can’t seem to ever accurately capture it. Ah well

#Stiles #teen wolf #art ramble

[4arconinoma]

i think a part of my art block curse is just me being absolutely obsessed with getting anatomy right lol i need to let myself just do it wrong because mastering it is quite literally impossible for everyone on this earth

#ive been making a few drawings trying not to worry about it and minimally using references and its so relieving #and like significantly easier for me to do #mfw i become unmotivated to draw when im making myself not enjoy the process (no fucking way) #txt #art ramble

[rielzero]

Been doing some sketches for more oc icon headshots. Sketching and rendering are two different moods to be honest.

My Artfight Gallery will have some updated icons soon, but idk if I’m going to work on these today. I really need to do something else so I don’t burn out.

I’m probably gonna add some more characters later to artfight, but undecided which ones. Gloomy Rose, Apollyon, Maybe Hermes... Those three have pretty recent refsheets.

#artfight 2023 prep #oc #original character #art ramble #oc icons

[teraserperior]

I just wanted to draw a quick sketch of my pokemon violet mc but I drew hre simping instead

#art ramble #pokemon violet oc

[mibkid]

Artfight artfight!!!

First artfight, and i got help finding the banner thing! Here’s my banner thing. 

I’m still working on putting more featured characters! But there will be more i promise!!!!! I actually do have oc’s (surpriseeee to everyone who knows my art from my constant spamming pf persona fanart and sk8 and- you get it)

All my characters are humanoid, just not all of them are human ... for example Yor! Yor is my only featured character at the moment, and they are a Ção, a Ção is a paranormal being, created as a... manifistation of sorts, from a past person’s desire, (I’m not gonna go into heavy lore details, that’s for the future)

I’m thinking of also adding North, but i don’t know if he counts as ‘Humanoid’ or if he is considered ‘Anthro’ (considering he is red and has horns... he’s half of an alien species that kinda looks like devils and or tieflings(it’s complicated)...)

also here is the link to my artfight page! 

https://artfight.net/~mibkid

I’m still adding stuff that’s why it’s barren!

But attack me if you wanna,,,, as fast as i am able to upload my chraracter sheet for Yor...... which might take a while considering 504 is happening. That’s ok tho i’ll be patient!

#artfight #team vampire #art ramble