#i should do a redraw sometime

[saildraws]

hi, you don't need to respond to this, but i wanted to say that the your art progression has been so lovely to see! 💙 awhile back, i went to your store to check your splatoon goodies and i was pleasantly surprised to see the akechi sticker set bc i remember seeing those when u drew them back in 2020 (i didn't realize u were the same artist...) and your colors have leveled up so much since then! 📈🚀 thank you for drawing and sharing your work- i hope that it's been fun and rewarding for you! ✨

hello! thank you so much 😭 this is really sweet of you to say!

i have been feeling like my art hasn’t improved as much as i want, but your comment reminded me of the bigger picture, i can’t believe my akechi phase was only 4 years ago lol….. it’s all been fun! and hope to experiment and create a lot more this year ^.^

#talks #akechi gone but not forgotten #i should do a redraw sometime

[bigbrainbiology]

Her reaction was too cute not to redraw!! <3

#fanart #death is the only ending for a villainess #villains are destined to die #penelope eckart #digital art #my art #SHE'S CUTE OK #and also so fun to redraw #I should do more panel redraws ehe #I feel like my ipad sometimes washes her colours out a bit?? So I adjusted it #but it might be either washed out/desaturated or way too bright and saturated now haha #Procreate colour settings are wack lol I just doodle for fun

[peterofthedrakes]

redrew an old piece of @demilypyro bc. it was Old and it Bothered Me that it was Old but tbh i kind of like the energy of the old one better which is, sadly, always the chance you take with redraws. sometimes its just hard to capture the original charm of a drawing and you end up with something you like less even if your technical skill has improved. this entire spiel has nothing to do with the actual piece but its here now. anyways. demily maid dress ive done it again i need to draw demily in something else before this becomes my Thing.

if you enjoy my work, please consider commissioning me!

#art #digital art #graphic art #vtuber #demilypyro #fanart #peterofthedrakes #if you want to see more redraws you too can continually dig up old pieces i originally did as a joke #until i get bothered enough by people seeing my old art that i just straight up redraw it #this isnt negative btw i feel like i have to say that i love reblogs theyre so appreciated i love that people like my older art so much #but also. sometimes. it Bothers Me when im like #no but i can do better now you should look at my new stuff :(

[dobythealpaca]

YOUR ART HAS IMPROVED SO MUCJ AND I LOVE IT

AHHHHHHHHHH HAS IT- i dont like looking back on my old art so as ive progressed it just feels like ive been at the same level for ages ajdgajwdajwd but THANKYOU!!!! <3

#maybe i should do some redraws sometime #maybe redo some ideas i had that were awesome but lacked the skill to really capture what i was imagining #it happens a lot like the idea is so cool guys i promise im not lame i just #sometimes i cant art what i think as cool as i think it- #idek if that makes sense but YEH maybe some redraws or smth soon to actually compare my progress 👀 #if u guys wanna see any in paticular u can always let me know!!!! :3

[paruecake]

Another installment of my Studio Ghibli redraw practice.

#art #fanart #studio ghibli #spirited away #redraw #my art #.png #chihiro #man it took me so long just to do the lines T_T #just cause i kept fucking up her head shape #sometimes it’s hard to not feel discouraged #esp when it feels like i should just be faster/better #i know that stuff comes with time and practice #but rn it’s frustrating sometimes #i just want to be better

[blizzardstarx]

old (2022) oc art dump

halfmask, blizzardstar, and gingerstar v

eclipse and gingerstar my lesbian cats <3 v

aura and i forgot her name the silver bengal

and paw anatomy

#blizz's art #warrior cats oc #ocs #Blizzardstar!!! #Gingerstar!!! #Halfmask!!! #not gonna make a tag for eclipse cause i only came up with her two years ago and then proceeded to abandon all my ocs 😭 #they all got some trauma lmao #except that silver bengal i forgot why i created her #halfmask is a war hero and spy with ptsd #blizzardstar…. poor poor baby #explained in another post but he witnessed his parents and one of his siblings being killed in front of his eyes in a coup detat #basically had to be on the run for most of his childhood too #gingerstar got run over by a twoleg monster (car) #when she was a warrior #i love her sm i was gonna write a book for her but stopped to do blizzardstars #i created a whole new warrior cats role for her too as ambassador #i should redraw halfmask and gingerstar sometime #also toe beans <333 #the reason why the first beans look blurry is cause the stupid website i used glitched and i had to restore the drawing and redo the lines #fuck you sketchpad #and eclipses parents were homophobic 😭 so she escaped and found gingerstars clan #aura!!! #aura haha..... #very complicated story

[jellyboy-arts]

yearly redraw! <3

^ past years' pieces + another old piece I took inspiration from because I realized the colors were looking similar lol

#gozumaru #mezumaru #artists on tumblr #nurarihyon no mago #fanart #i sometimes wonder how people in the nuramago tags think of me. do they recognize me. hey there goes that fucker posting the same 2 dudes #gozu and mezu are easily just my guys of ever nuramago is cool but like...them....them though...... #i should redraw them at burger king. that shit was the Beginning #not the first ever art i made of them but it was the start of the insanity #jellyb arts

[spiritofjustice]

just remembered how some of my old friends used to act about art. it was wild because they basically believed that if you were bad at something, you should never post it or subject anybody to it, and you should only stick to things you’re good at.

how do you get better at something if you aren’t allowed to engage in it or show it to anyone. why does this matter in the first place anyways

#Psy's no punctuation posts #this barely scratches the surface of how deeply unpleasant these people were but i still think abt this sometimes #this was mainly directed at a small disabled artist they obsessively hated and followed #and they wanted that artist to stop drawing or writing forever because they thought it was bad and wanted the artist to stick to their good #skills... which was costume design #granted the costume design was great! but like why should they only be allowed to do stuff people deem good enough #for the record the reason the artist's art was so bad to them was because the artist has pretty big motor skill issues bcs of hand tremors #yes they spent countless hours making fun of a disabled artist for being disabled while saying it wasn't bcs of that bcs reasons #who cares if an artist makes bad art. if it makes them fucking happy who fucking CARES #it was wild too bcs one of my friend redrew a piece they did to fix it and the redraw was bad KRGF #no self awareness fr #i felt bad for that artist bcs my friends would go out of their way to interact w them or like go in their discord servers #it's weird as fuck. i've never met people so obsessed with the folks they hate before. they'd belong right on kiwifarms if they werent trans

[iknowwhereyousleepatnight]

so i had a couple ocs as a kid (made for a story that i never wrote a lot for) and i haven’t drawn any of them since i was like. 14. so it’s been a hot minute but anyway i realized the other day that out of the 5 main cast i have gotten 3 of their haircuts. i remember vaguely thinking that one character always seemed to have the haircut i wanted and i had that haircut for years but recently i got rid of that haircut and had another one’s haircut then i changed it a bit and dyed it and now i have another one’s. so i’m like man 12 year old me had great taste in haircuts. i should go down the list and do them all

#sometimes i think i should redraw the characters but then i’d want to redevelop their story bc it’s not to my taste atm and that’s a #lot of effort but i might do it anyway who knows #but i’d have to open my box that deals psychic damage (the sketchbooks in there are so soaked with alcohol that opening the box #makes me nauseous lmao) for refs. hmmmm. i dunno #the characters don’t really speak to me anymore their whole dynamics and designs aren’t to my taste i’d have to *really* re-do #everything but hm. maybe #though perhaps i should just start from scratch. i wouldn’t mind having ocs again. idk #also on unrelated news i have purchases 4lbs of baking soda to mix with my acrylic paints i want to see what kinda texture i can #get out of it because i! am! in! the! mood! to! paint! #but unforch i have to sleep? taking away my valuable painting time? ridiculous but i think i’m going to legit pass out at some point #i’ve been getting real tired of sleeping #well. i love sleeping but i feel like it’s wasting all my time because i always seem to sleep 10-16 hours a night which is ridiculous #that’s so much time i’m wasting i have shit to do man so i’ve been staying up 24-34ish hours once every week or so to make up for lost #time but still i feel like i am making this all worse because now i can’t even fall asleep + it’s been messing w my mood but i don’t #know how to fix it #anyway that was way off topic goodnight i think i’m going to bed now bye

[aphroditenyan]

small wip of my next drawing while i try and figure out how to simplify the background...

#i mean hey i'm referencing/tracing from a 3d model this time and not just photos so i say it's a slight improvement... #i should probably go to bed before that though lol #it's like 2am right now #also unrelated but i want to redraw my earlier space kuromi drawing sometime... maybe i can do it next year!

[rexscanonwife]

Ok I've had this idea in my head a while but....Your Name/Kimi no na wa AU for me and Toshi 👉👈

#jane journals #self insert talk #❤️ scars and stripes 💙 #SOMETIMES I THINK ABOUT THAT MOVIE #AND OUGGHH SOMETIMES RED STRING OF FATE SHIT GETS TO ME!! #plus it has an awesome soundtrack!! i have it on my spotify hehe #i should watch it again soon :3 #maybe ill do some redraws idk #just gotta return to form and not think about....you know who > . >

[jestersarts]

thinking about her

#these are both ooold but i still like the one on the left #the eyes were from an art assignment I did in college w/ a bunch of effects layered on #deca #dodechaos #she's a god of entropy and builds up power by driving humans mad #which she does individually by randomly selecting one and putting them in a quiz game show #(a video game I wanted to make when I was 19. still kinda do...maybe someday) #my art #i should redraw her fullbody sometime #body horror #eye horror #eye strain

[argentoau]

ok idk how to word this properly, but sometimes it's not "bad" comic art, sometimes it's just an artstyle you're allowed to dislike

#sometimes it's just stylized shading #sometimes it's just stylized anatomy #and yes sometimes a lot of the times it is influenced by misogyny and racism and other isms #but i think there's nuance to it and i keep seeing people “fixing” bad comic art but they just make it #idk more homogeneous?? #idk i think maybe we should sometimes let art be ugly #also i can't help but notice that nobody is trying to “fix” belen ortega's plastic cutout same face dolls #just do a redraw bro #show us how you would do it fully #bahiara rambles

[holytrickster]

sitting there like has my art gotten better over time or do I just add way too much unnecessary detail now

#but lineart becomes honestly really meditative for me at times especially if im adding texture to something #i will say at least i dont pick such ugly colors anymore. i used to always have reslly bright colors and then i thought it was too much #and overcorrected imo so everything was desaturated and boring #oh i also used to color in the lines for like every single color on the character? idk how to describe it but it was tedious #i like it on other people's art but i dont have the patience and i dont like how it looks when my lines are “cleaner” #sometimes i do miss how i used to not care if what i drew was “cringy” #but i think im coming back out of that considering all i draw is like. gay shit and elves and various iterations of myself and also my ocs #i should redraw some really really old art after what im working on maybe #i almost started working on a redraw of when i drew yavanna in likr 2017-18 but i dont like the design i gave her at all #minus the weird branch ears those were cool #mostly im just frustrated it still takes me hours to draw lol. i dont know why i get insecure about it or about art in general #i guess bc no one in my family really does so they have this idea im good at it #and i wanna grab them and shake them sometimes and explain all the reasons im actually not and all the mistakes i regularly make #i dont know if that makes any sense and i dont know why i struggle to just take the compliment #i guess because i know im not good enough at it for it to be a job? except thats not it either because ive almost always wanted to write #its very dumb and weird. especially considering i dont really draw for other people. i mean i like when people like my art but unless its #for somebody specific im not necessarily going to take it very hard at all if its not to their taste. i just do it because i enjoy it #and because there are things i only know how to express through writing or drawing. and when one doesnt work sometimes its the other #maybe i just get frustrated i cant be good at everything #its not realistic but i always end up wanting to do so many things and getting frustrated when i dont pick them up right away #because OF COURSE i dont #ok where was i going with this #its nearly 2am and my head is pounding again i dont even know what day this makes it. at least a week? #i dont know

[phantomarine]

Clam's Quick Tips for Starting Your Very First Webcomic

Howdy! Here are the three bits of advice I tend to give people who ask me about getting into webcomic-making. Maybe they can help you jump into the fray with a little less fear.

1) Make Your First Chapter a Pilot Episode

You will be told by webcomic veterans to start with a short, simple comic idea first - which is wise - but if all you can think about is your big magnum opus, then you might as well hop in, right? Otherwise you'll just be glancing back at the other cooler project forever.

But if you can't start with a small simple story, start on a small, simple part of that larger story. Your first chapter should be a snapshot of the main conflict - show us a simple scene with few characters, ease us in slowly, keep things clear and focus on emotion/impact/clarity. Get the audience to care by offering something easily digested, but full of promise.

Once you're done with that 'pilot' chapter, and you're feeling more comfortable with the whole comic process, you can open the gates and show us the larger world. At that point, you'll be way more ready.

2) Simplify Your Art Style For Your Own Sanity

Always try to make your webcomic's art style as simple as possible - the standard rule is to use only 75% of your artistic skill for every comic page you make. Otherwise you will burn out quickly and terribly.

But you also need to be PROUD of your art style. If you're really feeling itchy, add a couple bells and whistles to your style so you can look at the finished page and say "Yeah, looks cool." You'll find the right balance the more you draw.

Also, don't be afraid to change your art style as you go along. Ultimate consistency is often impossible in webcomics anyway - so embrace your desire to try new things, streamline your work, whatever you feel needs to happen to be happiest. Sometimes the coolest part of reading a webcomic is noticing that style change - so don't hesitate to embrace it!

3) Resist the Reboot! RESIST!

The curse/blessing of drawing the same things over and over is that you'll inevitably get better at drawing those things. The trouble comes when you look back at old stuff and start thinking "Damn, I could draw that way better now."

You must recognize that this feeling never goes away. Not after a hundred pages. Not after three hundred. Not after a thousand.

I think everyone should be allowed one soft reboot for their first webcomic. Redraw some panels that bother you. Change up some dialogue if it doesn't make sense with your new story ideas. Do maintenance, basically. One of the beauties of webcomics is that they can be easily edited, without reprinting a whole book or remaking a whole game.

But if the ultimate purpose of a webcomic is to tell a story, then constant reboots will just be retelling the same story - slightly better each time, but the same at its core. We've heard it before. Most audiences would rather you save your strength and just keep going, rather than circling back year after year and going "Wait wait wait! I'll do it better this time."

Reboot early, not often, and only when you absolutely must! You're a storyteller, and you're constantly getting better at telling your story. Don't be ashamed of it - look back how much ground you've covered, and keep walking!

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That's a good start. Happy webcomicking - don't be afraid to jump in, but be prepared to learn a lot very quickly. And if this advice doesn't work for you or adhere to how you did it, that's absolutely fine - webcomics are diverse by nature, and so are their creation processes. Feel out what works best for you, and good luck!

#phantomarine #webcomic #advice #just talking #writing

[moon-insanity]

You know what, maybe I should sometimes post stuff I do lmao (first is a screenshot redraw!)

#tmnt 2003 #leonardo tmnt #leonardo #tmnt 2003 leonardo #Yeah I haven't checked this account for one and a half year what do you mean #tmnt 2003 leo #baxter stockman #this design lives in my head rent free