#art talk

[tshortik]

I love you messy artstyle i love you visible brush strokes I love you textures and rough edges I love you imperfections I love you roughness and colour blobs I love you scratchy sketches and bold stylisation and dirt and imperfections I love you ugly and raw emotion!!!!! ❤️

#i talk sometimes #art talk #i made a tweet like this on twatter ages ago but i've been feeling this a lot lately #also this is the start of me writing more on this blog and not only using it as art because who cares!! i don't!! #I wanna translate raw emotion into colors and shapes. I wanna know where to ignore all details and where to go ham you feel me? #i used to dream about developing a style like for MtG where it looked like a masterful oil painting that oozes realism and details #and i've realised the last two years or so that I would actually hate that for me. I know I wouldn't enjoy doing it. For myself. #it's that pipeline from wanting to be the perfect realistic wotc artist to accepting that I will never be that #instead i wanna learn how to stylise better and get a good brush economy going yknow. I wanna be bolder. #i doubt i'll ever be as incredible as all these MtG artists no matter what anyone says. but it's ok!! i don't have to be!!! #i just luv art man!!

[akanemnon]

Hey akane MON what's inspiration you used for the Undertale Character dark world designs? I really want to know, sorry if you been hearing the same question over and over again.

It's probably easier to see and understand if it's visualized...

I'm pretty open about taking TONS of inspiration from other media. Mainly Final Fantasy lol

#ask #twin runes #art talk #dark world design #frisk #chara #papyrus #undyne #behind the scenes

[safwunnz]

a completely random question to all u artists out there

#art #art talk #idk what else to put here 😭😭

[fimbry]

Really looking at the piece I've been working on and saying "I don't like the blot liner pen anymore. I'm starting over with the round brush."

Why don't I just go back to the round brush on my next piece? Why am I redoing all these lines? Have a lot of questions for myself.

#art talk

[sbeep]

Time to demystify the process!!! This piece took 40 minutes or so, as I used the lasso tool to block out the foreground (and some texture brushes to paint in the snow) and a purchased licensed photograph* for the backdrop- "photobashed" in with airbrushed lighting and depth. Then, the whole thing was vertically mirrored to create the reflection and I sketched the figure in. A final adjustment of tone curves helped everything gel together.

This mash-up process saves a lot of time and energy, and lets me block in a whole scene quick enough to catch the mood and atmosphere I have in mind.

*Snowy Peaks pack provided on a freelancer/solo license.

#art talk #photobashing is really fun and fast and effective and I highly recommend learning about it if you enjoy concept art or environment drawing! #Photobash responsibly! Use your own photographs #or photographs you have permission or license to use. #if you are enamoured with a photographer's work: reach out to them! enquire about a deal

[amalasdraws]

Uncredited reposts are harmful to artists! 

I can't help but see a dangerous connection between posting uncredited artwork and the rise of artificial created images. 

For years now uncredited reposts have detached artists from their own work! Uncredited reposts have helped to create the idea that specific pieces and work belong to everyone. That there are no rights attached. They have helped making art big and popular without people knowing who drew it! People see all art as far game and something they can just use. Art detached from the artist! It's dangerous and harmful to artists! 

Don't repost art!! Don't repost without credit!! It is not yours to take!!

#art psa #art talk

[amalas-tutorial-and-inspiration]

All these colors are used as variations of white in different drawings of mine.

And this is why color picking won't work if you don't understand colors and how they work in relation to each other.

Even though non of those colors are white when they stand alone, within my artwork we register them as white because they work in their surrounding.

#color theory #colors #digital art #how to color #artist talk #art talk

[sully-s]

I don’t know if you’ve answered this already but how do you draw your poses so fluidly?? A lot of my drawings seem stiff

First off your art most likely isn't as stiff as you think. Sadely you have taken interest in the art of making art therefore you've been cursed like all those before you with stiff-ism. I swear all artists think their art is too stiff. I think my art is stiff. Artists who do those paintings that are all abstract and just squiggly lines you ask them "How do you feel about this piece" They say "Hmm little stiff." Lol. But to answer your question it really just takes time. Fuildy in your art comes from confidence in your art. Confidence comes from doing something a lot so often you do it well. Some of that is pure muscle memory. Training your arm (or wrist though you should discourage leading with your wrist because the range of movement is lacking so you can crutch yourself) to make smooth sweeping lines is like working out any muscle it just takes practice. Some of that is honing your "Eye" which is mainly having the mindfulness to notice how weight flows, pools, and moves in the world, other's art, and in your own art. When I say in the world you study real life when you walk about you see how a dead fall dry leaf curls in on itself having only a tiny section of its being in contact with the sidewalk. While a wet freshly plucked leaf is face plastered almost stamped on the same sidewalk. When I say other's art you can see and understand the choices and placement of movement. And can reverse engineer the same choices with various results (because it's one thing to understand but to do is whole another thing mainly because you' don't have the same muscle memory) When I say your own art you are mindful enough to locate the problem points. We've all times when we look at a piece and are like it's stiff but can't qauifty why. Eventually, you'll notice patterns and weak points in your work that you can choose to work on if you want. Lastly you think it out. Just think about the cause and effects of forces on your piece. The jacket on your subject is stuff with all manner of things that one would keep in a bag so it's weighed down so you'd make a long narrowing U where the pockets are. Thinking it out also will help dictate your line weight which is a lot of how fuild lines feel Tho it will become second nature as you mature as an artist. All of these get better with time and experience now you can do line drills to help with your muscle memory, you can do life studies to help your world eye, you can take tutorials to hone your other's art eye and you can have other's criquite your work to help expose problem points. Or you could just draw it will come in time slower but you will improve. I hope that was some what useful and I wish you the best with your fluidity in your future pieces :)

#Shop Talk #Q&A #Art Talk

[captainmera]

Im an anxious little guy so I’m keeping anon on lol. Do you have any tips for making character sheets/ keeping characters’ faces consistent? You do it so well in your art, especially with Hunter, and I’m trying to work on it with my personal works.

Well.... Actually...

I'm not consistent at all! :) It's a bit of an issue for me lol

As you can see, Hunter looks very different almost every time I draw him. Same goes for my own characters actually.

I mean just look at his jaw and cheek - Sometimes soft, sometimes sharp, sometimes long or short.. the eye-size and shape vary, the ear shapes, the hairline, where I place the scar or even how big it is.

it's like I'm constantly sliding him on a scale between my IBWR-style and the cartoony ToH-style, and I just can't land where to draw him lol!

It's like... A gingerbread-man cookie cutter, you know? You have the model and every time you dunk it down into the dough and apply the decorations, it still doesn't come out tooootally right - but close enough! :D

I think, instead of stressing too much about keeping the character as close on model as possible, focus on making it recognisable even if they're just a wibbly-wobbly-blurbo.

Also, the more you draw a character, the more your muscle memory will remember what the correct way is.

So allow yourself to just DRAW the character first, y'know for fun, and the more you draw'em, the more you'll subconciously find your style for them and the WIBBLYWOBBLYWUBBLYWOO fades out into WIBBLYWOBblleewwooowooooo.. oo...... o..!

Practise don't make perfect but it makes consistency and skill development! :D

You will not draw perfectly. You are going to kill all your passion for drawing or learning to push your limits - if what you are aiming for is to draw a character perfectly on model every time.

No cartoon would ever be finished on time if that was the case.

YOU GOTTA ALLOW THE WIBBLY WOBBLY SOMETIMES MATEY.

Trust me on this one - allow yourself to just draw the character, don't mind the funky off-model ones, and with time you'll discover that your characters are looking more and more on model anyway and aaaall without the stress over it's execution.

#ask #asks #art talk #mera asks #text post #long text

[sangoundercover]

Asking for a friend, but do you and Llama have a specific place you look for spicy art references? Or is it just lots of questionable googling, or yall are just that damn good drawing bodies? For research purposes...

Ps thank you for all your art 🙏🏽

i wish there was a magical place but yeah, don't underestimate the power of simply googling something! This really goes for all art doesn't matter if sfw or nsfw. I think i mentioned before how nsfw art doesn't always mean you have/use nsfw reference. Figure drawing sites can help you out a lot, making you better at inventing your own poses! And they often have nude models for anatomy practice.

Looking at my last 3-4 posts there's really nothing in there that I used a lot of reference for. Sure sometimes you see a picture and go oh yeah i'm gonna draw my blorbo JUST like that, but hoping for 1:1 reference of what you have in mind will make you stuck searching for the 'perfect' ref forever. I know tumblr used to have a lot of blogs that post nice tasteful images that are probably lost forever now, twitter isn't the same.

Just google the thing! try it! it can be as simple as...'person sitting in office chair' if i feel like i'm stuck with a pose. Google a tiddy, google chair sex if you want to, no one will stop you. It can be as simple as that.

Here's one example of a picture inspiring a pose, but i didn't rely on it for anatomy reference. I don't think I looked at this pictures even once while drawing. I probably scrolled past it on twitter and it simply gave me ideas.

I hope this isn't too demotivating, i wish i could say here's the magic pot of all your reference dreams. I feel like some people get a little too stuck in that thought that you need/or will find a 1:1 reference for what you wanna draw, but you wont. Stop looking for a magic place, sometimes it can really be as simple as googling! I think improving your figure drawing skill will really help you a lot more! ( Yeah that's where the getting good part unfortunately comes in)

#art talk #i know it's not the answer most people hoped for but FIGURE DRAWING FIGURE DRAWING FIGURE DRAWING #figure drawing can be your blorbos

[extra-vertebrae]

Have you done any studies on how tails of varying sizes on an otherwise humanoid build could work, perchance?

I have, Anon! Unfortunately those studies were throwaway pieces that were never saved. If you're looking to find an anchor of believeability for tails on people, the best place to start would be looking at the human pelvis and the sacrum, in my opinion:

Compare the shape and orientation to some of our genetic relatives - great apes - and move to further differentiated structures for dogs, birds, therapods, etc., and consider the differences you see and why those differences take the shape they do! Specifically, the pelvis dictates how we stand - the angle and shape of the human pelvis is a part of the reason why we are bipedal as a species. The shape of the pelvis in any animal will give you a very strong idea of where the muscles are going to be anchored, where they are going to go, and what their job is.

Putting tails on human-shaped designs in a believable way takes some experimentation in balancing design elements. You'll notice that a heavy tail, like in a therapod, comes part and parcel with a very large pelvis and the musculature to support it. Taken as-is, a human pelvis will never be able to support that sort of limb mechanically, nor would we be able to walk with it (or be able to sit).

As an aside, you'll want to consider worldbuilding around this feature as well, if you haven't already, Anon! A tail means tailored pants and altered furniture, especially since the larger / heavier the limb the less flexible it will be, particularly towards the base where all of the bones and anchoring muscles will be.

I'm sorry I don't have a more visually illustrative answer available, Anon! Nonetheless I hope this helps somewhat.

#ask #art talk

[frostycatblr-fandom-files]

Getting myself hyped up to start the Hunter helmet doodle soon by laying out my color palette~

#frosts fandom freakouts #star wars #the bad batch #tbb #tbb hunter #art talk #lol @ the spelling mistakes but the important thing is I'll know what I mean when I reference it later

[akanemnon]

Got tips for drawing hands?

Break them up into their basic shapes!

Hands are tricky, especially when doing poses and stuff! But just like when it comes to anything in art, you can break them down into simple shapes. If you know how something is made up of these shapes, the easier it is to draw.

The palm is nothing more than a squishy trapezoid with a few more bendy sausages attached to it. Of course once you got the shapes down, you need to refine it. But that should give you a basic idea how it works.

What also helps is looking up pictures of hands doing specific poses! Plenty of mangakas and just artists in general even take pictures of their own hands in poses they want to draw!

#ask #ask akane #art talk

[arteicetb]

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[improvewithtutorials]

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[sbeep]

lol

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