#i really like this drawing i need to do more stuff in this style

[unoriginal-and-dumb]

heello do you have any tips for noobie artists? ur art is just so very neat to me :) plz never stop arting

Never do what I do unless it is drawing all the time

Use references!! Always use them!!! Seriously please use references never let a stupid little rat in your ear take that away from you, they are always so valuable

If you see art you like, don’t be afraid to basically try recreating the same exact thing. All you have to do is not claim it as youre own, and better yet don’t post it online! It’s for practice, people don’t need to see practice in the end it’s only for you

Tracing is NOT wrong. I’m tired of people saying ohhh tracing is bad don’t do it ITS LITERALLY NOT!!!! Just don’t trace over someone else’s work/images and claim it as your own it’s that easy. If youre struggling with hands take photos of your hands and trace over it! Break them down into simple forms until you have an understanding of them in a meaningful way!

Do some studies of specific things. Struggling with leg anatomy? Draw a page full of legs, just push and pull and scribble and see what works, study images and see how you can reproduce it or stylize it

Never feel like you need to find your own art style immediately, that task is practically impossible. Everything comes from something, be inspired by others take little art bits from styles you like and only then can you create your own style!! (I mean dawg my style can be broken down into adventure time, owl house, invader zim, gooseworx, eddsworld, sr pelo, a few others im probably forgetting)

Don’t worry about broadcasting your work, not everyone needs to know all that you draw, the internet can be a hateful place and it really does suck a lot but also try not to rely on strangers online for support on everything you do, I know it is hard and that approval feel good I cannot deny it but remember to keep some stuff for yourself, a little treat where nobody can criticize you :)

Try to draw everyday! Or having a sketchbook where you make it a goal to completely fill 2 pages a week, and if that’s too much then just some doodles! Art takes a lot of constant practice, and there’s really nothing more fun than just having a little sketchbook with you where you draw random stuff all the time. When I was doing that I would make 2 page mini invader zim comics

I feel like a bit of a hypocrite because I do maybe 1 of these things but i know they are really good, I have done them before and they were super helpful! But in the end I think the best you could do is just keep at it! Don’t let people get you down, do your own thing, break rules if you want, it’s all art and art is AWESOME!!!!!!!

[olderthannetfic]

https://www.tumblr.com/olderthannetfic/748370073567313920/i-think-for-me-one-of-the-big-stumbling-blocks-i

I agree with the points in replies that it’s the pushy loli guys’ behavior that marks them as creepy and you’ll never know the people who are quiet about it, because they are not creepy and show that by respecting people’s boundaries.

But idk… people in the reblogs are insisting that there’s never any relationship between the fiction you like and your IRL fetishes and, cmon. Can we all agree that that’s oversimplified in the opposite direction? Some people do choose particular media because it gets them off. And there’s def anime that wouldn’t appeal to you unless you’re specifically into the idea of fucking lolis being a-ok. It’s different from media that has other features and that’s one element of it, or it’s specifically about that it’s an unrealistic fantasy,

I think the conversation isn’t helped when we act like admitting that means you support censorship or think things should be banned, or support anti style harassment. I mean there’s a difference between the kind of thing anon is talking about with privately judging people, looking out for red flags, deciding privately that you don’t want to hang out with people who are into certain things, vs. harassment campaigns and callouts and trying to get people fired like antis do.

Fiction rarely has an exact 1:1 relationship with what you are into IRL… but it’s also not completely UNrelated all the time, either. Especially when talking about porn. And by telling people it’s ever wrong to even privately judge people for those preferences you ARE in fact discouraging people noticing red flags and also just forcing them to deny their lived experiences.

….is what I think anon was trying to say anyway.

I don’t think erasing all nuance really helps anything but deliver people who’ve had experiences like anon’s into the hands of antis. Like there needs to be a safe space for people especially women and LGBTQ+ people who’ve dealt with abusers and creeps who used media as a part of their abuse, to talk about their experiences without being shouted down for not having the “right” rhetoric.

I think part of why antis are a problem is a lot of people aren’t finding much other room to talk about that. Anti spaces are the only ones that seem to acknowledge that. Like I think anime fandom especially younger spaces really have an anti problem because anime fandom more broadly has such a big creepy dude problem and, even if not every single person who likes loli/shota/etc. is a creep, it’s hard not to notice that the friendlier an anime fan space is to discussing that stuff or discussing rapey slavery isekai or whatever, the more it draws in higher numbers of creeps. You can be a non creep and like that stuff, but it does have an overall higher percentage of creeps who like it than, say, your average shounen action show and let’s not pretend we don’t understand why.

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[sangu1vore]

MORE starscream

#he didnt have enough screentime in s1 and my brain needs MORE so i MAKE MORE #i really like this drawing i need to do more stuff in this style #my art #transformers: earthspark #transformers earthspark #starscream #earthspark starscream #tfes starscream #tfe starscream #sketch #doodle #uncolored

[fleouriarts]

feeling bad about my art lately. will probably not post for a while. but i wanted to at least dump some stuff here before i retreat into my hidey hole

#hivemind tv #riley savage #graydon weaver #hmfcu #quadeca #jane remover #eden burke #my art #2023 #fanart #doodles #its like. augh. longtime fleouriarts followers are familiar with my eternal tango with posting art online #doing this since i was 11 has like rotted my brain and made me rely wayyyy too much on external validation to motivate myself #and every year or so it gets bad enough that i take a break. but the break usually only lasts a month before i miss the feeling #and come back and then the cycle repeats #its probably worse now bc this is a fandom where getting seen by the creators is not really that hard #so there have been times where im like 'well idk if i wanna draw this. but if i do maybe hivemind will rt it :-)' #NO!!! THATS NOT WHAT ART IS ABOUT!!!!! i cant keep letting myself get addicted to the numbers going up man i gotta get out of here #and i was reading a quad interview from around when idmthy got released. cus hes also brain poisoned like this. but he managed to get out #and now just kinda comes online to release music and then leave #i need to be like that. i need to take a break from art posting thats so long that i come back as a changed man odysseus style #idk. its been so long since i drew stuff that no one gets to see but me. all the art i keep to myself is just out of embarrassment #i need to relearn how to draw stuff just for the love of creation and not “maybe people online will like this one” #or “this new thing came out i need to prove my love of it by drawing it” #sometimes it leads to good art but more often than not it just makes me feel worse #whatever. if any of yall are in the hivemind jane or quadeca discord i MIGHT still post stuff there. but otherwise ill keep to myself and m #friends for a while i think #woooooo this is queued to post while im in orgo lab everyone wish me luck with my thin layer chromatography

[theswedishpajas]

The man truly can’t take a genuine compliment 🙄

#my art stuff #digital art #baldur's gate 3 #bg3 #astarion #astarion ancunin #this is part of a series I like to call “I’m never settling on a singular detailed artstyle” #I have no consistency in drawing realistic people/characters other than my shapy cartoon style #but I truly don’t get enough opportunity to properly shade anything with art in that style-!!! it always looks weird to me-!!!!! #I think some rude lil worm in my brain is wriggling around telling me it’s a futile attempt at still doing realism #cus I’m one of those “gifted” artists that grew up promising his parents he’ll end up among the big names or whatever #constantly training to become better at art but with realism oil paintings as the goal #you know how it is 😔 #I wanna shade my lil funky designs but they never feel good enough to really put energy into or whatever so I compromise with stuff - #- like this where I try to draw characters more accurately while still stylizing them and shading them however I feel like it #which is great and all but I should really learn to give my more relaxed and less perfectionist art a chance #I deserve to enjoy the process and the result without working myself dead #it’s so much easier and rewarding to copy cartoon styles - stylizing realism makes me too anxious of doing it “wrong” #at least cartoon styles give me a goal to reach or a reference to strive towards #man I really should just cut myself some slack altogether #either way - this man is a flustered mess and he’s embarrassed about being called adorable in public or something #being teased in an affectionate way about his sweeter side and stuff #don’t ask why he’s shirtless - anatomy is just a lot more fun for me to draw sometimes #tasteful nudity and all that is extremely gorgeous to me #i need to practice anatomy more cus I just kinda did some shit and went with it this time with a BIT of consideration for muscle structure

[supahstarrr]

rock trolls [sketches]

#trolls #queen barb #sunny's art #val thundershock #im getting more comfy drawing trolls now :D #this was pretty fun although im kinda hungry and i need sleep since i was up all night drawing #drawing them both was pretty interesting bc i loved experimenting with the shapes nd stuff since in general #i just wanna see how i can draw trolls with different shapes. thus i drew poppy (a more rounded character) and then after that #i decided to draw these queens. who would have more sharpness to their design in my style #drawing val was slightly more interesting. considering that i find it fascinating that shes like an 'edgy' character but #with more roundness to her design yknow. like she does look spunky and sharp to an extent but not as much as barb #so it was interesting to see how my design of val would balance out sharpness and roundness #im really unsure if ill do like. a final piece with these sketches. i mean it would be cool to try but idk

[lyril]

i feel like not enough people use writing fanfiction as a way to like... study and learn? outside of it being more practice and things. like sure, this is for entertainment first and foremost, but for me keeping the writing tone and characterization as accurate as i can to then transform it more into a writing style to create something good just ends up in me like, intensely studying the source material. i don't ever go off of memory i fucking break that shit down, study dialogue patterns and write down literally everything the characters i'm writing for say, observe the structure and themes and tone of whatever i'm looking at, watch and analyze things until i'm sick of them and come out a better writer because of that hands-on observation and because i simply fucking hate when other people go off of memory while writing characters i like ❤️

#talk #like what better way to study something you like than to work within it's bounds for the most part? #i can't enjoy something if the vibes are too off... if it doesn't have the same level of cartoonishness... #same reason why a lot of fan characters are uninteresting to me #if i can't make things look straight out of the show i don't see a point #i've become such a stickler for canon EXCEPT for when i think i can do better (often) #sometimes i definitely need to make vibe adjustments but i can't imagine straying too far from things unless i'm being artsy on purpose #definitely a lot of reslly great more transformative stuff don't get me wrong. lots of ways to do that right #cus i think something being really cool can easily outweigh accuracy #just as everyone has their own style #but for the most part i like to color within the lines #it's weird though because i'm always a lot looser when looking at other people's drawings and things #like i love a good shitpost but for some reason writing just isn't made for that to me #i just feel like for a lot of people it's more just playing with dolls than creating art #which is fine! but i'm too much of a perfectionist for it

[hasarjunadoneanythingwrong]

i think some of takeuchis art is really good and some of it is bad. is that an acceptable stance or is having a non-dichotomous opinion considered passé/wishy washy

#some of it is stiff and some of it is really charming #the simple stuff is really iconic but when he tries more complex designs it easily falls into looking goofy #he does make some really good expressions. it isn’t just olga and kagetora casotria had like 100 of them #like idk I feel like just saying ‘he’s a good artist’ or ‘he’s a bad artist’ is too simplistic #he has strengths and weaknesses and I think some of the issue is as a founding member of tm his weakness become in jokes that are encouraged #(Ie saberfaces) #rather than ignored or worked on #bc tbh a lot of anime art styles give everyone very similar faces but drawing attention to it does make people actually notice it far more #than if they had said nothing (like w artists like wada or nakahara) #most digital artists do reuse assets! but he has both a lot of visibility and a lot of influence in his company so people pick apart #his art for that stuff way more which isn’t really fair but at the same time #isn’t helped by the ongoing stuff w saberfaces etc #and he does need to have someone overseeing some of his designs to make sure they look good. like w Jeanne’s idol dress or 3rd summer outfit #i don’t think he’s a bad artist or designer I just think he could use more editing/less free reign on some cases if that makes sense #and idk. i do really like some of his art. castoria’s fa is really pretty #and sure he may have assistants but I’m fairly certain a lot of the prominent artists do…? #I’ll be honest and say I find his older art more lively #his newer art is much more polished but feels squarer #idk. idk I’m tired I guess #DOES THIS MAKE SENSE??? should I even post it #my post

[eggs-can-draw]

Am I projecting my love of warm weather and hiking??? Absolutely, anyway here’s wonderwall

#eggs can art #damganronpa #kaede akamatsu #shuichi saihara #hajime hinata #kokichi ouma #rantaro amami #miu iruma #changed up how I draw rantaro I like it more #also just #AAAAGH THAT BIG ONE WITH RANTARO SHUICHI AND KOKICHI??? #I’ve been feeling really sucky about my art lately (I have a habit of tying my self worth to it sadly) and that doodle kinda restored my #faith in myself and my art style #like #wow #I CAN MAKE STUFF I ACTUALLY ENJOY #in general this feels a lot more self indulgent then usual so please put up with me lmao #Kokichi probably wasn’t ready for that hike but he went anyways #he’s in denial about his current physical state he wants to be back to normal NOW what do you mean I need to take a nap after only 2 hours #of hiking type beat #he was originally gonna go on his own but Shu n Rantaro insisted on going with him (both cause they wanted to cause Fun and cause they care #about him yknow?) they decided to have lunch at the view together #I have so many thoughts about the v3 kiddos healing post game so if you’ll listen I’ll keep trying to bring them to life #they have so much life ahead of them :) #this feels like a return to form for me. I don't know. I've been in a bit of a funk lately cause of life stuff hope that wasn't obvious lol #also kaede and miu best friends is real and you cannot escape it

[whump-captain]

Cutter's reputation in the ghost hunting circles is "great guy but how the FUCK is he still alive"

[ID in alt]

#whump #oc whump #whump art #whump drawing #whump community #captain's stuff #captain's ocs #ghost ambulance #arm in a sling #sling #bruises #plasters #scars #back to my old colouring style and i do like it but it's Hard #really need to think in 3D and i'm not super confident with it yet #i have like 3 fairly complicated drawings in the works and tbh doing something simpler like this is v much a welcome break lol #i should draw my ocs more i love them actually

[dragons-and-yellow-roses]

Besties, it's clipboard season again, and not to brag but I'm really fucking good at colors

#clipboard season: when i tey desperately to paint a clipboard for all of the leadership and my staff at the camp i work at #this year it amounts to about fifteen clipboards #i choose a different cool thing that reminds me of the person or what i think they would like and then paint it on the back of a clipboard!! #today i started the first because i got the overwhelming vision while i was at work and i needed to paint it #this guy is the nature director. loves fishing and is very good at it. knows a shit ton about fish and fishing #so im painting his clipboard in the style of those educational posters with a bunch of different fish on it #yknow the yellowy beige ones with like fish or plants drawn on them #yeah. im doing that with common fish found in our lake!! #which prompted this post because. that yellowy beige was a fun color to mix up. and not to brag but i got it just about perfect #now comes the drawing. im better at painting than drawing #colors and stuff make more sense than lines and stuff. but im getting better! #im learning more and more every day. and i guess today (and for rhe next ten days) ill be learning to draw fish #(I'm giving myself ten days per clipboard) #(last year when i started i only had like three days per clipboard to finish them before camp) #(spoiler: i finished exactly one) #really hoping this year ill do better. mostly because i love painting and this is a fun way to remember to do ir #as well as challenge nyself and get better #i hope youre all having a great 2024

[unculturedswine69]

i think of him often </3

#i was listening to radioheads ok computer while drawing this i think he kinda fits it #also ARGHHH I REALLY NEED TO PRACTISE DRAWING MORE REALISTIC FACES ITS SO HARD HELP HOW DO I MAKE MY STYLE DO THAT?? #i wanna draw more yakuza stuff but omg guys its so impossible im so used to drawing anime boys #anyways #i will probably stil be inactive but im trying #but also guys ishin is sooo good #anyways yeah #yakuza #yakuza game #yakuza 3 #yakuza fanart #mine yoshitaka #yoshitaka mine #like a dragon #like a dragon fanart #ryu ga gotoku #ryu ga gotoku fanart #unculturedswine69 #mine yoshitaka fanart #yakuza art

[moinsbienquekaworu]

Entranced by a new man once again

#<- girl who is aromantic and asexual but clearly has a thing for me she doesn't really have for women #i want to do baldur's gate related stuff but crucially i cannot play it on my laptop #so i'm left like. listening to people talk about it trying not to spoil myself #this is however granting me the strength i need to push through my deep seated fear of being cringe and wrong #which usually causes me not to draw fanart #i'm not at a point in my art journey where i easily capture likenesses #so i'm just like. trying to doodle astarion a lot lol. trying to get all his feature right #trying to bend my style in ways i think would look appealing #maybe the absolute and utter fascination i have for him will get my art to look better #in other news i hadn't actively paid attention but now that i've been actively drawing him #he has that little like. artistic curl of hair in front of his forehead right #well it falls kind of like cécilia's lol #i keep drawing it and having to catch myself and not draw cécilia's instead #conclusion: the coolest guys have that curly strand of hair #other examples include hunter toh and. i don't know probably more cool people #i am also Sick. sore throat for now. sucks ass but hey it's not worse #wow i have a ramble tag now

[chiropteracupola]

more undead keith because writing this thing has taken over my life

(and a chunk of said Thing under the readmore...)

The quiet moment passes, the faint cries of night-flying shorebirds distant on the air, and Keith watches them as they drift by.  There are no boats left in readiness on Morar beach tonight, nor are the distant sails he recalled visible in the slot where the bay meets the sea.  Disappointment upon disappointment — not only is he dead, but his usefulness at this post has evidently perished for the moment as well.  His discomfort extends beyond the internal in that moment, as an odd twisting sensation curls its way through his cheek.  Keith winces against it, his mouth curling half against his will as the out-of-place, crawling feeling moves upwards towards his cheekbone. 

Looking down at his grave-muddied hands, his blood-marred waistcoat, panic fills him as understanding dawns, and he claws frantically at the source of the sensation.  He digs his fingernails deeper against his face, and with a quick harsh motion, pulls a thin grey worm free of the hole in his cheek.  Cursing, he flings it away and tries to tidy himself as best he can.  There’s not as much dripping as he had briefly worried there might be, except for that slick half-dried mess all down the front of his waistcoat.  Whoever had buried him had done it hastily, not stopping to neaten up the corpse beforehand.  And lucky for him that they had, too — it would have been far more trouble to get free had the grave been any less shallow.

Unsettled again by the revelation of his decayed state, Keith folds to sit on what was previously his grave, elbows resting on his knees and his hands beneath his chin in a manner that purposefully avoids any further exploration of the new holes in his face.  Gathering himself somewhat, he attempts to get his bearings.  How long had he been buried?  This is the question he prefers, for how long has he been dead only raises further and worse questions.

The moon has shifted significantly since he had seen it last, now stretching to form a broad arc of light against a sky as tossed with clouds as the sea might be with waves.  But that means little to Keith at this moment.  He has no idea of how long he had spent insensible and under earth, and no way of measuring out that time.  By the turn of the moon, it could have been anywhere from a few days to a handful of weeks, or even more. 

A consultation of his watch does him no good, for he has found already that it is gone entirely, as is his purse.  Whoever had buried him had taken little care enough with his body, but had made a quick enough search of it for valuables, for there is little now left of any such thing.  Wrapping his arms around himself against the sudden further chill, Keith notices that the epaulette has been cut from the shoulder of his coat.  An odd enough choice of twofold theft and humiliation, but one that cuts at him just as decisively as the knife itself had taken hold in wool and in gold bullion, for in that instant Keith recalls that in his death, he had been forced into that decision that he had been so hesitant to make in life. 

He had not known, then, that those were to be his last few minutes as a man living and breathing, hale and whole.  It was not a proper soldier’s grave he had been given, without even the honor of a coffin to protect his body briefly from the scavengers and creeping insects that would have surely come for him had he remained much longer in the grave.  Keith Windham, major though he was, has been abandoned again on the shore of Morar, hidden away out of sight to hide the failure of all involved.  And now that he has risen from that death-marked secrecy, would he be any more desired?  Would the garrison want a man with death-dripping holes in his face and a rotted, shambling walk, and beyond that, a man who had now disgraced himself twice over?

He had done the best he could for king and country, but could not say that he had given his life fully in their service.  A year before, he would have thought it a fit price and a fit gift, to die beneath King George’s banner, for such was the other side of the coin of his expected fate.  Toss the silver shilling, watch it spin in the air, catch it in sure sword-callused hands and see how it lands — one side is victory, the other side death. 

But the wheel of the year had turned, and Keith Windham has been made to turn with it, swept off his feet by the rush of it as the seasons shifted and carried him along on each battle’s sweeping tide.  Had it really only been a year?  Keith counts out the days, estimating turning to guessing once again.  It had been mid-August when he had set foot in Scotland for the first time, and mid-August again at the last.  Somewhere in that year, the bright shilling of his fate has been melted and recast, king’s-head and crest turning to images indiscernible to Keith’s eyes. 

Despite it all, it is still easy enough to put it away again, to slip the coin of fate into a pocket and carry it without feeling much of the weight of it at all.  Keith is well practiced at such things; he drags himself upright and walks on, the cold weight of the far future no longer heavy in his hand.

#em draws stuff #em writes stuff #the flight of the heron #keith windham #trying to do a) more loose sketchy stuff like this b) landscape practice #it is Difficult because my instinct when it comes to non-forested mountains is just to draw my beloved san gabriels all the time #'might as well be chapparal' says my brain as I shout that that is not in fact the case #this is a warm-up more than anything but I really like how it turned out. keef <3 #and maybe also I am procrastinating a couple of big projects that genuinely require effort and care #so instead I scribble scribble scribble this sad wet cat man #undead!keith au scribbling has been pretty much occupying my whole skull for the past two weeks and deserves more art #at some point I want to do an entire fic with section headings in this style... I think that'll probably be saved for the tam lin au though #this one's rather beyond my illustrative skill on account of the. ah. Wormsmeat. #that said. it is loud in my brain and I need to be Saying Things about it at all times or else it'll just be me waving my hands ambiently

[andthebeanstalk]

I am trying so hard to learn how to recreate junji ito's style, and I literally think that the line work is so detailed that my poor little crippled wrists are not up to the task

But! I think I have figured out a way to work around that using pre-made cross-hatching brushes in clip studio! Which means hopefully I can focus on getting down the major shapes of his illustrations, and then i can learn how to fill in the ludicrous amount of tiny tiny little lines digitally!

and THEN I am going to draw characters from the video game Don't Starve Together in that style! And vice versa. I would love to draw a cute little chibi of Tomie 😈☠🙀

Time to crack into the file entitled "scary boi jail" that I keep on both my phone and my computer, so I can trace a bunch of panels from Uzumaki.

Happy Twisted Flesh Tuesday, everyone!!

#original #junji ito #dst #tomie junji ito #Don't Starve #Don't Starve Together #my end goal is to better develop my stylization and horror skills overall and the best way #to learn is to just draw literally whatever makes me happy #can't believe it's Saturday and it's already Twisted Flesh Tuesday #both styles make heavy use of crosshatching and spirals. I think I can do something with that #oh my poor little wrists #I would never care so much about cross-hatching usually but it really does seem to make his work way more upsetting? #and that is the skill set we are here to build after all. I really like horror art. and it's important to my graphic novel #I think maybe the combination of hyper realistic meticulously shaded details with increasingly distorted and unnatural anatomy #maybe the reason his stuff makes my fucking skin crawl. more testing is needed. this basically happens every time I engage with his work #we'll see how far this particular wave of hyperfocus gets me #all I want is to be a master of Horror and also to draw the scariest version of Maxwell from don't starve that anyone's ever drawn #is that so much to ask? #scary boi jail is where all the scary art references I find live. it is 90% junji ito #in case it wasn't clear the twisted flesh is not my own admittedly janky joints it is a hallmark of this horror style i want to emulate #if I can recreate a style then I can incorporate the parts I like best into my own style.

[tittysuckersworld]

trying to finnaly figure out some more style stuffs :>

#my arts<3 #<3<3<3 #owo eheheh cant wait to fully get it so can show #ive been wanting to figure out a style in ways for a wile that i will at least really like #can draw most all of the parts just now need to figure out how they can fit on a face #and porportions to the body and such #its more detailed than any of my other styles but also looser and i want to use inks and minimal water color with it #if i could figure out online stuffs good id go do that but press so much f to doubt i can do that