#i used the marker and it smeared the pen ink....

[8bit-mau5]

What started out as a little doodle ended up being so much more, as to be expected when I put pencil to paper

Breaking in my new sketchbook with some quick sketches when I can’t sleep, but I liked the sketch of this one too much to not do anything abt it. Turns out this paper handles inks better than i thought too! So here’s a quick Jester, my fave of the Chaos Crew 🥺💙

Sketch + process under the cut!

#artists on tumblr #critical role #critical role fanart #cr2 #jester lavorre #traditional art #Gabriel's arts #okay i really love how she looks SOOOO id appreciate plenty love of my fave girl ; v ; <333 #i did the inks last so it wouldnt smear with my inks #i used a combination of copic sketch markesr. shinhan touch twin brush markers. nd artists loft brush markers #for anyone curious #i only used a lil bit of posca paint in teal and pink #for the outline of the green + some pink strands in the hair #i KINDA like how the hair looked more in the flats stage/before i brought my brush pen in #but its still good and i like it

[fruchtchen]

your father passed away

it was a beautiful day

#metalocalypse #toki wartooth #my art okay #fucking noodler's bulletproof black #idk if i'm just really bad at using it or what but ughhh #i LOVE their flex pens but i can't find any other ink that doesn't feather #but my markers or watercolors always pick up excess particles from the bulletproof black and smear 😭 #anyway the struggle continues

[trilobitepunch]

I really really really like your art!!

ITS SO SKETCHY it also feels so… creative? Idk if that’s the right word but it feels like it’s the raw art and you can kinda see the process? Idk if that makes sense but your art makes me feel things and I’m very happy about it

Also I LOVE the eyes SO MUCH!

+ I have a question… what are the grey shaded spots? Like are they watercolor, markers, or something else?

I hope you have a fantastic day/night! Your art is incredible ^-^

Aaaa thank you so much! /)>u<(\ I'm happy that it makes you happy!

The gray shading is usually fountain pen ink in a water brush. I like keeping the sketch lines because it looks kind of weird to me when it's clean, sometimes, like something's missing. It's probably just me.

I use a gray Micron for the initial sketch, and then a pen for the outlines. Most of these I just use my Uniball One, the ink goes down smooth and it dries pretty quick and doesn't smear when I go over with my waterbrush.

<3 Hope you have a nice day/night/week too!

[shelbyinubakilee]

The Date of Doom! -based off chapter two and three. I love these two so much! @bbasmos is amazing!! I love all their stories!! I found these pens that just wash out the moment water makes contact. So I use it like inking. Cause those pens can not go with anything else! Smears and marker ruiners!

sorry, rant over.

#rocket raccoon #gotg fanart #peter quill #guardians of the galaxy #peter x rocket #marvel shipping #fanart #roquill #star lord x rocket #ao3 link #bbamos story #Peter #rocket #rocket x quill

[mithclearwell]

Just out of curiouse, do you have any tips for beginner artists? I would really appreciate one

Of course! ^-^ I'm more than happy to help!

Let's see...without the ability to have a conversation, I'm not sure where exactly you are in skill level, so I guess I'll start with some basic quality-of-life tips.

General:

You don't have to go to college to get good at art. I didn't go to art school!

Watch youtube videos from good artists, or those you admire!

What kind of art do you ultimately want to produce? This isn't an instance of "I can only pick one thing", it's more like...each type of art requires different skills, and if you know ahead of time what you want to do FIRST, you can narrow down what you have to learn.

learn proper sketching and use of circles and other shapes to build the figure, don't just jump in making the final lines right away! It's not a "cheat", it's proper technique. It's "caring about your work".

Same for references. Google up some images of what you want to draw and look at them while you draw your own picture. It's not only okay, it's what professionals do. You need to train your EYE as well as your hand.

It's okay to mimic styles you like! But be aware that each artist may stretch or squish or exaggerate proportions to fit what they personally like to see. This is why it's IMPERATIVE that you learn realism alongside any manga style you want to try. Once you learn where the eyes sit on the face, the different facial planes and what bones they relate to, and different sizes and builds for the face, you can then manga them up to any style you want!

For real paper:

Use a protector sheet, or wear a glove on your drawing hand. You want to make sure you don't get graphite or colored pencil on the side of your hand, and then smear it on your drawing. Placing a piece of paper under your hand will protect your work!

Don't touch your art with your fingertips. Fingertips have oil and gunk on them, and will smudge your drawing. (If you're working with charcoal, this could work to your advantage! But you're probably not using charcoal. It's messy and usually limited to college art students.)

Get the right tools! You can buy a small eraser set in the art section of Wal-Mart for like $3 -- it has a polymer eraser, a smaller white eraser, and the all-important KNEADED ERASER. This thing can be squished and torn apart and it'll pick up graphite like a champ! Do not bother with hard pink erasers, they're trash.

You don't need special paper to learn. I used to draw on the backs of my dad's extra math photocopy papers. Copy paper is smooth and not too fussy and I like it. "Sketch pads" usually have a rougher grain, and I hate the way the paper feels. Also there's a lot of ugly white spots when you try to shade or use colored pencils. Only use that if you're keeping a cute little book or using pastel crayons or something (or it's all you have). Don't fuss over it too much while you're learning. It won't make much difference until you're ready to specialize!

Blending stumps are cool and even pros use them.

Get a small electric pencil sharpener. They're less than $10 at places like Dollar General, and those stores are literally everywhere.

If you get a manual sharpener in an "art set", that's fine, too, but it hurts my hand to do it manually. I like the ones that have little covers.

It DOES matter what kind of ink pen you use. Gel pens will smear. Most markers are washable, and you better believe they will run at the first hint of moisture. India Ink also smears and runs with water. I recommend Sakura Micron pens, Zig Mangaka pens, or my favorite --- the Kuretaki Bimoji felt tip brush pen. You can get all that on Amazon, and it's like $6. I got the superfine tip.

LET YOUR INK DRY BEFORE YOU PUT MARKERS OR WATERCOLOR OR ANYTHING AT ALL OVER IT. It takes maybe 20 minutes.

If you don't plan to color it, you CAN draw with a ball point pen and it'll look just fine.

Do a tiny little water streak test with any markers you plan to use with watercolor. Just brush a tiny bit of water over the mark after it's dry to see if it bleeds. I use that bleed to my advantage sometimes, but you just gotta be aware of what's what.

Digital:

You can buy a small, cheap tablet from HUION for less than $40. MAKE THE INVESTMENT. IT'S WORTH IT.

Clip Studio Paint is EXCELLENT. Well worth the $50-$60 price tag. I think you can try it before you buy it, too. It gives you access to the Asset Store -- which is the single greatest artistic sharing tool I have EVER seen, and I've used SAI for ...probably a decade... I've used dozens of custom brushes and even made my own, and I just can't even believe what is available with CSP. Do yourself a favor and get it.

"But I can't use a tablet! I can't look at a screen while I draw!" Yes you can. YES you can. Yes you can, if you'll just try it. "but I tried once and it didn't work" Well YEAH, if you only tried a handful of times, OF COURSE it didn't work. Do you know what practice is? HUION screen tablets are over $300!!!!! Do you have that kind of disposable income lyin around? (plz donate some to me if you do lololjk =u=; )

Start saving a folder full of refs.

Ask people to tell you what to draw. Let them request something for free. This makes you draw things you wouldn't normally draw, and there is INCREDIBLE value in stepping outside of your comfort zone. You will level up in no time.

Whew...that covers most of the basics, I think. If you have something specific you want me to go into more detail on, please let me know! I love helping ;w;

#mithart #tips #art help #asks

[skunkes]

i know the effect in question can be done with things like old dry pens but i need them to make some permanent, ink utensil that has the texture a pencil does right out the gate....i love the way pencil Looks but when i do trad art i like using markers and pens bc of the Lines Have to Be Deliberate part...also pencil smears...cant exactly line over a loose marker base with pencil etc

(but then pen/ink not rlly textured (again unless old and dry or on specific paper) and i need some texture thats out of my control/not dependent on my hand)

#this isnt serious btw obviously there wont ever be some all in one but. the spirit of it....is real #ykwim. i love using pencil brushes in digital and then i wanna use pencil in trad and its like #you will never be Ink.... #talkys #but then ink will never be pencil either

[legolasghosty]

Oooh for the WIP game tell us about Willex Soulmates Ink Style!

@beencryingfor25years

Hello! @beencryingfor25years, thank youuuu for sending this! I'm so in love with this AU and it's a crime that I haven't finished it yetttt! Someone else also asked about this one so I already explained the general concept here! But double ask means I get to go into more details!

Alex is kinda freaked out when he starts getting paint smears all over as a kid, cause he definitely didn't do that. His mom is like, "Nah that's your soulmate, this great girl God has designed just for you." Which is highly problematic but gets the idea across to little kid Alex. He immediately latches onto the idea of having this built in best friend and learns to read and write a lot faster than most kids so he can talk to them.

His parents are... not impressed with how his soulmate 'obsession' lasts past first grade. But Alex and his soulmate are besties by that point and are not even remotely interested in stopping their daily pen pal-ing just because of the parentals. Though their conversations move to more concealable parts of their bodies once Alex hits middle school. He hated being yelled at and Pancake (his soulmate) didn't want to get him in trouble.

Julie and the Phantoms gets a gig playing some rich kid's birthday party up in the Hollywood Hills on the same day as Pancake's birthday. Caleb Covington's house is crazy fancy and Luke is freaking out about how this is gonna get them signed. Apparently Covington's son is a huge fan of their music. Alex is kinda wondering if his soulmate will be when he hears it too.

And then they meet at the party and it's very cute and I'm dead!

Here's a lil snippet!

Alex woke up slowly on February 19th, squeezing his eyes shut to keep out the day for a bit longer. It was a Saturday, he could afford to stay in bed a bit longer. But then he glanced over at his phone and noticed the date. Smiling softly, he reached for the black pen he kept on his bedside table, one of many spread around his room and in his backpack and fanny pack. Happy birthday, Pancake! He scrawled on the skin just above his hip. Congrats on surviving to 18 ;-D Love you, - Hotdog He grinned at the message, especially when a few red marker strokes made a little heart beside it. Alex used his pink marker to return the heart, then forced himself out of bed. He wished he could spend his day with his soulmate, celebrating their birthday properly, together, but he’d still never met them in person. The bond resisted any details on location or contact information, and none of the workarounds Pancake had tried had made it through. He hoped they would meet soon. He always fell asleep wondering what their voice sounded like, if he talked how he wrote, whether it would feel as natural as he dreamt to wrap him up in his arms. But his gig tonight with his band would have to suffice.

I might see if I can't work on this one a bit on the plane... it's too cute to leave unfinished! Thanks for the ask!!!

#legolas tag #julie and the phantoms #legolas answers asks #jatp #jatp fanfic #willex #alex mercer #willie jatp #yes I'm answering asks in the airport #what else am I supposed to do? XD

[bluebeetle]

first two art fights!!! my skin toned copic i used the most died after this tho so i may switch to using pencil crayons or paint for a few art pieces bc some people rly dont have a lot of options for not-pale white characters :/ i was gonna mix it up anyways tho esp since my good inking pen also died, the one that doesn't smear with the alcohol markers sniffs sniffs.

anyways hoping to get more done soon, its been a rough start of the month with the whole unemployed thing really hitting hard now

#my art #artfight #art fight #team vampire #team werewolf #i have 3 more revenges i wanna do for sure and then hopefully ill do some more drawings #txt

[mouseratz]

on pens: my favorite writing pen is I think called signo? I use it for my journaling, it's got that smoother flowing ink of the ritzier style pens without being quite so wet.

the best lining pens that aren't art pens (microns do kind of knock it out of the park there, but you're not going to want to line every drawing with the fancy stuff) are those fine tip papermate marker-y ones like the blue one in the photo, or fine tip sharpie pens (like, the very skinny ones). in a pinch for thicker lines, regular fine tip/skinny Crayola markers will also get the job done- for lining, you want thicker and drier lines, honestly, which isn't what you usually want for writing. (Which is why the microns coming in very small sizes is such a boon.) however the nicest writing pens are still too wet-feeling to me and I'll smear them everywhere, so the g2's are a good middle ground I like.

[kat-ravencroft]

Soo... I was trying to re-learn how to use pen and ink, and it was a (very minor) disaster. I spilled ink all over myself, and managed to splatter it all over the picture just as I had finished inking it. THEN I guess waiting 24 hours wasn't long enough for the ink to dry completely, or I overdid it in a few spots, and I got a lot of smearing when I went in with marker (this ink is supposed to work with alcohol markers, and it did for the most part, I think it was just user error).

Anyway, I guess it was good practice. Though I may take another try at this one, because I really do like the original sketch I did. And the water color paper I used was easy to work with and the lines didn't fuzz out. I'm just wayyyy out of practice. :)

#sketch #drawing #art #oc #sketch book #oc art #kat foxglove #pen and ink #marker drawing #marker art #redhead #red hair

[fionnaskyborn]

Yesterday, I drew something with my two black markers I've been using for pseudo-inking. The big one feathering isn't news - it's a standard issue permanent marker with the tip shaped like that of a highlighter, so it is to be expected. What surprised me was that my not-so-old reliable 0.7mm also started to feather as of last night, which was strange, considering it... hadn't done that before. Usually, the paper would just absorb all the ink.

Fast forward to tonight, I was trying to doodle some stuff for a meme of sorts and ended up doing an actual art study on accident (common "Fionna taking even the silliest of things seriously" L). When I started switching between my marker and the pen I use, I found that there was ink smeared all over my fingers. I suspected the large marker was the culprit last night, but nope, the whole area around the tip of the 0.7 one is glossy from ink. :c

On the bright side, though, I still think this turned out pretty neat.

#logs #i was planning to do a fullbody but a) it's taking too long and b) my marker's busted so i'll probably just end up messing the whole piece #up #better to leave it as it is for the time being

[dragonmuse]

what's everyones handwriting like in the Leda verse. (and if you have opinions what kind of writing utensils do people use)

Ah great question to end the night on! (Nearly bedtime for me). For the record, I'm disgraphic and pretty much type exclusively, so no handwriting judgement from me!

In writing this list, turns out Izzy notices handwriting the most.

Stede- Absolutely lovely slanted script, very legible and he loves a fountain pen complete with ink cartridges. He has Opinions on ink.

Eddy- According to Izzy in You're Awful, I Love You where he collects her notes, it's got 'odd loops and swirls'. Eddy likes writing in script, but adds a lot of flourishes and doubles back a lot to make corrections. She'll use whatever is around, but naturally steals Stede's nice pens on the regular. He buys her her own which she loves and goes on stealing his too.

Lucius- Very functional and neat, his signs in script, but otherwise uses print. He likes a good blue ink pen with a rollerball for notes. Black is for sketching.

Pete- Moderately legible mix of script and print. He likes a good pencil, useful for marking things when making patterns and he likes the feel of having one behind his ear.

Frenchie- Pretty script, but rarely writes anything down so that's hard to prove. Uses whatever is at hand and has dashed off notes in eyeliner and eyebrow pencils more than once. Usually adds doodles.

John- Print only, messy and rarely in a straight line. He bought a pack of cheap black stick pens years ago and somehow they still work. Life's little magic tricks at work.

Izzy- Eddy describes it in 'just like a one-winged dove' as 'unmistakable spiky handwriting' and Izzy himself describes about Lucius' tattoo 'the sharp spikes of his handwriting'. So yes, very spiky print and he also likes a good black pen and will buy packs of the good kind for the office.

Jim- Izzy describes it as 'copperplate'. It's perfect print, all the letters even and straight, like it was typed. They'll use whatever is around, but they like the office pens and often take them home.

Oluwande- Serviceable print with a bit of a slant to the letters, everything listing to the left. He likes a good fine tip marker because he thinks it looks better, but the stolen office pens are good too.

Roach- Just a massacre. He can write neatly if he goes slow, but he never does. Letters crash together or are separated by a mile with no rhyme or reason. He likes whatever free pens he has around.

Read- Izzy describes it as 'crowded like she worried about running out of space' and 'hard to make out'. She has godawful handwriting, and going slow doesn't help. It's just bad. She smears the ink from the office pens and it annoys her, so she just uses pencil. And highlighters sometimes, but that's mostly to give Izzy twitches.

Anne- Very nice script, almost as good as Stede's and probably more legible since she uses fewer flourishes. She has gotten used to the pens from the law office which are also high quality, but on her own, she'd use whatever was handy.

Alma- In Sing a New Song, Frenchie describes it as 'spiky, letters jabbing up and down like the paper was someone that just wouldn't listen'. It's also a spiky print, though hers is both less legible and more bearable to look at than Izzy's. She likes her father's pens and has also stolen them. Eddy gets blamed and she gets new pens.

Charlie- Izzy describes it as 'chipper' and 'chunky script'. It's very bubbly basically and fairly easy to read until he gets rushed and then it's impossible. He like pencils because Charlie has a deep need to be able to erase.

Felix- Very tight cramped together letters. Not impossible to read, but too small to be easy. He favors mechanical pencils.

#leda house and the kraken verse #ask answered

[iwilltryalittlearter]

Do you have favorites? Like, notebooks, pens, paints, etc?

I keep using those canson xl blue multimedia sketch books because I feel like it gets the copic markers to do what I want. Those Robert Bateman goat ones are pretty good for the copics too, and I like that I can get them really small. That’s what I’ve been using for my pokedex challenge.

I’d started using micron fine liners when I was inking for copic work but find the staedler ones less likely to smear. Still use both though.

I don’t know if they’re my favourites per se, but for acrylic paint I’m usually using Golden.

If it’s just going to be a pen sketch I don’t think anything can beat an old fashioned blue ballpoint pen, I can actually shade with those lol

I’m starting to enjoy Posca, mainly as touch ups or for highlights to copic work. I want to explore using them straight up more though.

Gellyrolls would be so much more useful if they didn’t… clog all the F’ing time 🥲

For coloured pencils, the Prismacolors were good, I don’t have a problem using Crayolas or Laurentiens, anything else cheaper tends to be weirdly faint or waxy.

For coloured ink linearts either the micron or the triplus fine liners is what I’ll use. I got some pastel LePens that are ok too. I have to be careful though cuz the triplus will run if I get it too wet.

Hope this wasn’t too tdlr 😅

#arter answers #art supplies

[altermay]

Hello ! I recently found you on YouTube and I fucking love your art it's scrumptious

I wanna ask though , we use the same materials , ( same sketchbook and even the same ink pens ) but I have come across one dilemma, how long do you leave the ink to dry after you've lined a drawing ?/gen

personally, I dont really wait any specific set period of time, if I had to guess Id say that with tombow pens I only have to wait a few seconds, those hardly smear for me (Except for sometimes when im using a light colored marker, like yellow, sometimes it will smear if I color over the lineart, so im always careful about that)

The jellyroll pens that I use for white lineart do, however, take a little longer to dry, I find that I can usually tell when the inks not dry with those pens, but Id say that depending on how big of an area youve inked, it generally takes 1-2 minutes to dry (like, when I do the square highlights in my characters hair, those usually take a little bit longer to dry because its a bigger pool of ink yk)

Hope this helped lol

#altermays asks #answered asks

[mainstreamelectricalparade]

fountain pen, apple juice, dream guy, bus ride, mario kart, snow day, learning drums, so cuddly, gay crisis, 10 & 14, avengers = nightmare

omg

thank u

2. fountain pen — what type of pens do you prefer to use?

i have a lot of Pilot gel pens and they're pretty good but lately i've also really been liking Micron ink pens because they don't smear when you write over them with water-based marker, sooo.... new fave?

4. apple juice — what is your favourite fruit juice flavour? brand?

hm... orange juice? ooh, or lingonberry... lingonberry juice is really good

8. dream guy — do you have 'the ideal partner' in mind? have you met them already?

i honestly have very little clue who my "dream partner" might be. someone cuddly, i guess, because i am a girl of very few spoons and have many days where i end up in bed or on the couch needing to recharge and just cuddle up either by myself or with someone else and watch something or read a book or play a game on my phone. someone who's not horribly averse to the smell of dishwater would be a plus, because i nearly threw up last time i attempted to do the dishes. i'm, like, kidding, but also >.>

just someone i can have fun with even if all we're doing is nothing, really. because there would be a lot of that. and also they have to like dogs.

9. bus ride — how do you prefer to travel?

i really like the train! i sound very much like my father's daughter right now, but honestly we took a metrolink into the city once when i was younger for a day trip and the train ride was my favorite part, it was fun to just sit and people-watch and look out the window at the world. things looks different through the window of a train.

14. mario kart — what's your favourite video or mobile game?

Star Stable Online, Hogwarts Mystery, and Happy Color (which is literally just a color-by-number phone app lol it's very thought-clearing)

15. snow day — you wake up to blankets of perfect, untouched snow outside, what is the first thing you do? e.g. snow angels, snowmen, take a photo etc

definitely photos! then snow angels. then i'd try to throw a snowball at either my sibling or my dad, whoever was closer.

17. learning drums — is there an instrument you wish you could play well, or better?

guitar and piano. i have both, i just hate practicing piano because it's in the room where my mom hangs out and she's nosy and a little teacher-mode-judgy, and my fingers are really small so both instruments sort of hurt my hands anyway

18. so cuddly — how many pillows/blankets/stuffed animals do you have on your bed?

uh, four pillows, a body pillow, and the stuffed animal count varies depending on my mood. sometimes when i'm sad or sick my sibling piles them up on me and then i just leave them there for a while

27. gay crisis — if you want to share, have you ever gone through a 'gay crisis'? are you still going through it?

i'm not really sure i'd call it a crisis tbh. i spent my entire childhood and young teen years thinking sex sounded sort of unpleasant, then i heard the term "asexual" and thought, "oh yeah that's me". it took me longer to realize i was probably bi, and honestly i'm still not entirely sure i've ever had a proper crush on a girl, but i do think girls are really pretty and the thought of having a female partner isn't off-putting in the slightest.

33. 10 & 14 — do you have a favourite and/or lucky number?

yeah, i have no idea where it came from but i've always been sort of drawn to the number 35. no idea why. no clue what the significance is

35. avengers = nightmare — favourite marvel and/or dc character(s)?

iron man and spider-man will always hold a special place in my heart, and i also currently have a soft spot for oscar isaac's moon knight performance. also have a great appreciation for all the batman posts going around right now

#thank u for this. good temporary distraction from satan's sacrificial waterfall

[lamps03]

Just finished making three mini sketch books,or something to sketch with. I have a habit on making mini projects,first it was a miniature diorama of a camping trip I went a few months ago (November). It was a nice meet up,and we played a few songs. Took pictures together,but I have to find it. It's somewhere in my office,but yeah it's super easy. Wether you're; bored, tight on your budget,or interested. I have list of projects you can do,but all you need to make this is-

Materials

• Blank paper (Any brand)

•Ruler

• Flash card 4x6( for the side)

•Scissors/paper cutter

• Super glue or Elmer's glue

• Stapler

Side Note: If you're a beginner on drawing and love using a pen,I recommend a fine tip marker(Uni ball,Sharpie,pigma micron) and a gel pen (Paper mate,Sharpie). Since a gel pen has ink that drys faster,and won't smear. When your coloring with a marker, anywho enjoy the mini project. ☕✌🏻

#arts and crafts #crafting #inspire #paper craft #my artwok