#it’s been fun figuring out how i want to draw them

[stagefoureddiediaz]

I was reading your tags on the Eddie and Catholicism post you made and 😘. I have been thinking about that bts of Marisol and Chris and how she is dressed so much like Eddie. Such a clear difference from how she has appeared so far. And your thought of her being the physical representation of religion and Eddie’s feelings around them. He has to let go of a part of himself in order to move forward in his journey. I just am 🤯

Hey Nonnie

Thank You 💜💜💜

I too have been musing on that bts of Marisol and Chris - an how it reads very much like she's babysitting him once again (the whole thing is just screaming at me that she's a defacto Carla at this point!!)

They really have set her up as a physical representation of catholicism - especially in Eddie mind - with the virgin Mary visual we got last episode - the show did not want to be subtle! I am here for it - I'm hoping its actually going to be a bit of a fun slightly silly arc for Eddie rather than the darker more intense arcs of pervious seasons - and so far everything is indicating that to be the case - a confused slightly stupid Eddie bumbling along and figuring it out as he goes is a fun contrast that I'm looking forward to getting to see - because he is my blorbo and he is a bit of a dumbass when it comes to himself - man is a master of not peeping over the walls he has built until forced - so comedy forcing him to look would be wonderful!

The fact they have kind of dressed her like Eddie is an interesting one - because she's kind of dressed more like Athena than Eddie to be honest - Eddie doesn't wear balck and khaki all that often- Athena however wears black boots, khaki green trousers and black tops a. Lot! In fact I think if I went and did a count over her costumes in relation to Eddies she would be far far higher inn the khaki wearing department in relation to other colours!

That to me is where the interest lies - because Eddie and Athena have been paralleled a fair amount - especially from a costuming perspective. So the choice to put her in a costume that echos that parallel is a really interesting one to me - especially if we go back to season 1 Athena - an Athena who was dealing with the fall out from Michaels decision to come out of the closet he'd been kept in his whole life - and when they have been making very pointed comments about closets and armoires and moving too fast .

The potential of a parallel of having a partner who is in the closet whilst being in a relationship with you is a super interesting one to me - it speaks volumes for where things could be headed - especially as May and Harry ended up in the middle of that season 1 arc - and we have Christopher going through his own thing in relation to girls and dating and also now having scenes with Marisol.

I may well be drawing a parallel too far with this, however the rest of my reads on how they've dressed her thus far (especially considering they've given her a glow up on s6 Marisol!!) have been pretty close to the mark. So I'm putting it out into the world and we'll see how things play out!

#kym answers things #nonnie asks #costume asks #911 costumes #911 spoilers #marisol nolastname #eddie diaz #911 abc

[spottedgardeneelstan]

(1) new message from svsss cast

#svsss #bingqiu #moshang #luo binghe #shen qingqiu #shang qinghua #mobei jun #have a happy new yuri!!!!! #i strive to create more sillies in the coming year #so please continue viewing! i am very thankful #it’s been fun figuring out how i want to draw them #i’ve landed on my preferred designs #anyway happy new year #good luck everybody #i love you mutuals chu #(that’s me respectfully kissing ur heads)

[lunarharp]

more phoenix wright situations

#ace attorney tag #maybe i should tag this narumitsu or something. but i dont really care. #gearing up to rereading/illustrating bits of my fic i suppose...i think nick really is too dense to realise he's in love with edgeworth #without some scheming fop trying to intrude. i love villains like kristoph..villains can be fun..witnessing their pathetic folly.. #or more like edgeworth would never have mentioned his feelings ever in his life if he wasn't sure phoenix reciprocates. #i want to see it this way because Falling in love during childhood with the person you're going to end up with. is not relatable #there have to be Situations that make you Realise. #as with orufrey i adore the idea of people not working out their romance with that person until their 30s+ #but... i mean. even with orufrey i often think how alaira could be qifrey's ex. and oru having been pursued by noble fops through his work #there is that delicate sliver of time before orufrey start living together that such believable situations could have happened. #Then the relief of politely and amicably extricating themselves from those untenable situations #the idea of falling in love age 7 and saving your first kiss for age 35 or something is all very well but more relatable is #people realising how they really feel whilst trying something that ends up feeling wrong. #The comfort and joy of living with your dearest one as if it's platonic - much preferable to trying anything more with anyone else. #But i doubt i will ever portray that or mention it further. it is indeed very delicate to me. #and i really am an OTP FOR LIFE!!!!!!!!!!!!!! kind of person who can barely bear to consider this anyway...NOT a polyshipper i'm afraid ! #so i wouldn't mind either if they do have their first kiss in their lives age 35 with each other either. I would not mind that at all. #i love bi/gay couples apparently... bi father figures & their grumpy gay men waiting for them to work it all out... #not used to using colour in comic-style drawings..or at all..so this is messy and awkward looking..but colour is refreshing #i imagine i will go back to witch hat art soon btw. my destiny in life. #i still remember writing my nrmt fic expecting to write their first kiss & then partway through twas like Umm No. They have kissed prior. #does that really line up with this comic though... i think i had their early dinner dates/first kiss BEFORE disbarment. #so i guess this comic doesn't line up with my ficverse.... No..... U___U Oh well. sorry kris! <3

[daily-ethoslab]

[461] rewatching terrafirmacraft and nothing will ever be funnier then what happened to nuggets #1

#etho #ethoslab #ethos terrafirmacraft #etho fanart #ethoslab fanart #day 461 #man I've been feeling a little dissatisfied with my own art #i kinda like this one tho #this one is fun #i tried using foliage brushes for once #i always avoided them cause I had this weird thing where everything I drew I had to draw myself #which is stupid #i should just let myself do them #idk #I'm still figuring out what I want my art to look like #i like how people add texture and like grunge?? to hair art but I can never make it look right #i try to add noise and stuff but like idk it's not the same effect

[bluebird-ascended]

Rainbow dragon

my first art post of 2024! the time is just past midnight

#i would have posted it while in 2023 but the file wouldn't load and i had to jump a through hoops to get it ready. but it's here now! #anyways i figured out how to use gradient maps just for this drawing and i love them. downloaded a holographic pack and it's lovely. #i haven't been excited to do digital art in a while but every time i opened this file i really wanted to work on it #so that must mean something about how much i love jjk #speaking of this show is soooo good. rip rainbow dragon fuck toji #i added more rainbow because in canon that is straight up just a white dragon no rainbow in sight #sorry for spamming in the tags but i have a lot to say about this drawing #jjk fanart #jjk art #jjk #jujutsu kaisen #geto suguru #rainbow dragon #fanart #artists on tumblr #my art #jjk season 2 #jjk geto #getting geto to fit into this drawing was so hard. he does not want to be there ughhhh #the background was so fun to do though #enough talk! posting time

[slavhew]

Duwang gang

#jjba #jojos bizzare adventure #jojo's bizzare adventure #jojo no kimyo na boken #diamond is unbreakable #jojo part 4 #diu #okuyasu nijimura #josuke higashikata #koichi hirose #admin draws #fanart #a bunch of sketchy sketches because i havent been feeling like rendering anything #and have also been looking at araki's sketches a lot to figure out how to draw them. josuke's hair will be the end of me #also i was super bothered that his jobros dont have earrings so i gave them some because theyre epic and deserve them #this style is super fun to play around with so expect more at least until i get bored or struck with enough inspiration to render #might be a hot minute because i want to post sketches in bulk like this more often #oh yeah this is like a late edit but ! everything is platonic ! i enjoy all of their friendship sm ! #nothing against the jos/uok/u shippers i just dont see them like that :') the intent here is platonic but you know #death of the author and all that. not gonna riot or anything but id still prefer this to not be tagged as ship

[beebmo]

the designs in danganronpa v3 bug me so MUCH why are so many of the girls wearing different color variants of the same goddamn sailor school girl uniform. why does rantaro just have a regular ass t shirt on. why is shuichi, a literal detective, somehow a less visually appealing protagonist than makoto, Just Some Guy. why is kaito. they were literally all given outfits SPECIFICALLY tailored to them and their talents at the start of the game. to make them all more interesting to look at for the viewers. and yet they are all somehow the most bland looking characters out of any of the danganronpa games how does that WORK how did they MANAGE

#the designs in this game could've been so FUN they literally could've been as outlandish with them as they wanted. why #i guess the in universe explanation could just be Tsumugi Running Out Of Ideas or whatever but i don't think this was done intentionally #i wanna redesign so many of them so bad. maybe i will at some point #you know if i can figure out how to draw multiple characters at a time without feeling Ungodly smounts of Fatigue #danganronpa #i feel like so many of them have the potential to be really good designs but they're just MISSING something. #its not specifically a v3 thing its just worse in v3 for some reason #brody.txt

[attaboy-art]

Your art is really cool!!! Also your pin post says requests are open so if it’s ok 👉👈 Luke with littol Kat? Or Luke with Flora? They are fambly

thank you!!! AND THEY ARE FAMILY INDEED!

ty for this request... i loved every moment of it i love the puzzle kids so much

[Image ID: A collection of digital drawings of Flora Reinhold and Luke Triton. On the left is a large, fully colored, full-body portrait of Luke and Flora wearing detailed and fancy outfits and admiring them in the mirror. Flora, who is drawn black in every drawing, is standing straight up, facing the viewer, and is in awe at her outfit. She has her hair in a set of parted twists, with her signature curl in front of her forehead, with a large red bow at the back. She's wearing a short-sleeved white button down shirt with a red and green striped tie with a brown icon of an apple at the end, as well as a long, poofy, burgundy skirt with thin gold double stripes at the hem and gold leaves embroidered across the skirt, with multiple white frilled petticoats beneath. She's wearing calf-high pink and green argyle socks and white platform shoes with brown soles and accents. Luke is beside her, also facing the viewer, is wearing a blue beret with a dark blue paw print on it, a long light blue overcoat with a dark blue bird embroidered on the right lapel, a white button down, a red bowtie with thin gold stripes, white tights, and white and brown saddle shoes. The top right drawing is a digital painting made with a chalk-like textured brush of Flora, in yellow shorts and a red bowtie with her hair half up and half down, and Luke, in his usual outfit, on a large grassy hill. Flora is leaning back against the wind and flying an orange kite with a rainbow tail. Luke is semi-obscured by the hill, smiling and holding onto his hat with one hand and waving with the other. There is a large white cloud behind them. Below this painting is a simple drawing of Luke and Flora, drawn monotone in blue and orange, respectively, lying down on a rug and staring at a puzzle. Luke is defeated and Flora is deep in thought. A caption, pointing to the puzzle, says that the puzzle is worth 70 picarats. Finally, there is a small drawing of Luke and Flora, in their regular outfits, pointing to the screen together in the same form as the "Correct" screen one gets when solving a puzzle in the Professor Layton games. There is a gold shine around their joined pointing hands. /.End ID.]

(reblogs > likes!)

#literally. thank you so much anon #ive had a rough september so far n drawing flora and luke be happy together has been a mood lifter for sure :') theyre so siblings... #i love them so much you dont understand. flora deserves to have fun goddamnit #also sorry ive been so slow with these but auuugh. homework 😭 #i hope u guys enjoy per usual #art #fanart #illustration #painting #professor layton #flora reinhold #luke triton #also. gonna maybe try to figure out how to be more concise with my ids because idk if its like. Proper or not for them to be this long #ive read that the more detail the better though? so we'll see #i just want my work 2 be accessibke #accessibile. fuck

[rivilu]

Final (re)designs for the BOYS (until I inevitably decide to change something superficial like Orion's vallaslin color or something again. Give it a week ghjgyhfjy)

#dragon age #grey warden #hawke #dragon age origins #dragon age 2 #warden mahariel #riverdraws #orion mahariel #einar hawke #i wanted to write about blurbs for them too but i've been in a bit of a STATE this past week and couldnt find the brainpower in me ygfjfujy #But i just want to note. While I was drawing Einar I realized his red tattoo business makes him look chasind a little bit? #Which is just hilarious?? Can you IMAGINE how much kirkwall nobles would hate that??? #and some extra fun facts while I'm at it: #Orion's 23 at the start of the blight Einar's 25 #-Orion was estranged from his clan even before his origin kicked off and left with duncan willingly #-but before that too he'd often disappear without a trace for weeks on end to visit cities and villages to figure them out #-Including Lothering. These two knew eachother before the blight #-fwb in fact. Though Einar doesnt realize the same dalish he knew was the hof until a solid 6 or o years later #the comedy of it all #dfgjkg #anyway

[drawnecromancy]

Sometimes my dad's friends are kind to me and it beats up the imposter syndrome in my brain a little bit

#like. #i showed some art i'm working on. #and apparently it's obvious i'm trying to tell a story in One Picture #and im glad it shows through!!!!!! because i'm just winging this!!!!!!! i'm mostly self taught in art!!!!!!!!! #i will always always vividly remember all these talks i had with my dad and his artist friends #either just about what we like in art #or that one time. that his friend was like 'oh yeah values and lighting are REALLY IMPORTANT' and he proceeded to explain why #and how a lot of people don't always consider this first ? #and this has been living in my mind rent free for almost a decade i think #i am only STARTING to get to the level where i want to be drawing wise #and the next step i want to figure out is how to use lighting and values to make shit super readable and cool #but also on good days i love my art so much because i have my characters all here!!!! #and i can look at them !!!!! #drawing is fun and good #and i love drawing for me and ai also love drawing for other people

[piplupod]

i feel a feeling that is genuinely intolerable and go "okay what do i do with this"

therapist brain says "feel ur feelings, its unhealthy to suppress all the time." rational brain says, "hi if we sit with this emotion then we are going to either be bleeding or dead in approximately ten minutes. so whats another option." therapist brain goes "wellll i guess in that case maybe u can distract urself idk, that can be a coping strategy sometimes." rational brain glances at emotion, shakes its head and shoots back "yeahhhh no can do there bud. this one's a real whopper and distractions ain't gonna cut it this time."

both sections of the brain shrug at each other and then The Disorder brain raises its hand smugly and simpers out "hiiii remember me? yeah this is the reason i exist teehee :) give me five minutes and I'll have an amnesia wall erected and another part of the brain shoved into the forefront and then we'll be right as rain! and this emotion can go rot in the locked cabinet of horrors until another part accidentally stumbles upon it again in the future or until the lock breaks. :)"

#girl help I've just been drawing and then BOOM. unbearable feelings drowning me !!!! drownding !!! i am drowndinging !!! #i dont wanna do this anymoreeeee im so tired of this #i go ''wow this sure is intolerable! how have i ever dealt w this!'' and then the DID does its thing some more👍 #''gee that sounds so helpful!'' my body is in shambles from the overwhelming amounts of undealt with trauma :] #there are many other downsides but . i ain't getting into all that dhfjdldl #im just . grrrrr. maybe its bc i was drawing another part of the brain but c'mon 😭 i was drawing them HAPPY !! playing!! having fun!! #trying to make smth nice for us !!!! god damn this is so ridiculous #i want to go to bed fjfkdl im so tired and frustrated w everything man im trying so hard and it all seems to go towards nothing #im just not doing well idk also this counselor i have has been so flaky and its making me feel so ... eeurgghh #i understand they dont think im a suicide risk so im low on the priority list but I'd like to just... be a priority for somebody just once #boohoo poor me etc etc. other ppl need the help more than i do i know. im just. tired. #there isnt rly a lot anybody can do anyways to help i guess #still makes me insane thinking abt how the social worker had nothing for me except ''well ... u could go to the homeless shelter'' #im just... theres so many fucked up things abt that. sigh. oh well oh well oh well. #just keep making my shitty art and trudging thru the days and finding good things in a day when i can scrape em together !!!! #argh. sigh. I'll go figure out some food to eat tonight. #pippen needs 2nd breakfast #suicide mention #self harm mention

[alchemiclee]

my little skrunkly furina sketches are coming out so cute 🥹

#i always like the idea of doing little sketchy arts and usually cant figure out how to do it and fail #usually by ending up doing a full drawing with color and stuff #but this time i managed to get the sketchy style i always want to do and its been so fun #i wasnt really planning to post them but maybe i will since i really like how theyre coming out #its just a collage of skrunkly little gremlin furinas mostly doing domestic every day things (and failing)

[poltergeist-coffee]

it’s almost 4am but that doesn’t matter i’ve been looking at so many refs and shit for inspiration for a royalty au me and vert are working on

#💬 one new message #i’m such shit at coming up with outfit designs TT #esp for medieval setttings? although ours isn’t very medieval i just love that sort of aesthetic and want to use it #knight etoiles and prince pac are coming back but only when i can figure out how to draw them cool outfits #etoiles is gonna get armor inspired by chinese hanfus i’ve been looking at because my brain is empty and i hate actual armor #yippeeeeee fun times!!! designing outfits!!! #okay i go to bed now fr bye

[kellystar321]

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#periodical life updates #hi! still sleepy as hel!! thank you for being kind to my poem!! :) #i go back to college on the 6th; ive been thinking of opening ko-fi requests? i already have requests open for free but if people wanted- #to tip me for it it'd be available. im running low on funds and i still need textbooks :'/ not to mention getting lunch sometimes #college is so expensive u-u #i'd be pretty chill if no one requests; i still have enough to scrape by for now but its nice to have the option open #it's mostly going to be sketches; yall know the ones. what i usually do. high effort commissions are a bit overwhelming for me #especially with college work?? bleugh;;; but sketches are my specialty; i could do that probably. just gotta make example sheets #figure out pricing. i might make them 5$ bust/halfbody sketches and if you pay more i'll do more; like draw more of the body or- #add some color and/or simple shading or just draw more shots/add more characters; but it'll be up to how i feel #also how do i get them to people;;; hm. much to figure out. but yeah!! ko-fi requests! seems fun <333 #im not /as/ stressed about college this year but we'll see how it goes folks :P the household is a bit of a mess at the moment. #anyway! might make some food now; or draw; or go back to sleep <33 i love you <33

[bitchfitch]

When my current fixation on that minotaur thing fades i think it's going to be that vampire thing that gets attention next. Idk when it'll happen but I've been giggling to myself about Chase the arcade vampire's name for a few days and the question of what type of monster Silas is keeps popping it's head up.

so like be prepared for that i guess.

#swinging from vaguely historical bullshit to modern neon bullshit #no clue what ill get done with them #Maybe ill finally figure out their story for real? #maybe ill just give silas the redesign he needs #chase is perfect as is but silas is So Boring. #i think he needs to be fatter. and have more facial hair #drawing these buff assholes has been fun but i need a bear #Bear.... are there any bear monsters? cant be a werebear bc i #wait no that might be good #Arlo makes werbears to try and live up to his mothers legacy/have something big and furry to cuddle and protect him again #but it fails for whatever reason and instead its more of a hulking out situation #which isn't what he wanted At All so he just casts his werebear out and eventually Silas gets infected or something #But i also like the idea of silas being fairy esque #bit i also Really want to keep the reason silas is a monster related to one of the 3 main sources of problems in this setting #hes too young for it to be the Queen who made him the way he is #and hes too mundane for it to be Haze's fault #so it Has to be arlo in some way #but How.

[vetyr]

hi, i ireally love your work and i don't know if you've answered this before but, what kinds of studies do you do or how did you learn color theory? i wanna get better at rendering and anatomy but im having trouble TT TT

Hi! Long answer alert. Once a chatterbox, always a chatterbox.

When I started actively learning how to draw about 10 1/2 years ago, I exclusively did graphite studies in sketchbooks. Here's a few examples—I mostly stuck to doing line drawings to drill basic shapes/contours and proportions into my brain. The more rendered sketches helped me practice edge control & basic values, and they were REALLY good for learning the actual 3D structure behind what I was drawing.

I'd use reference images that I grabbed from fitness forums, Instagram, Tumblr, Pinterest, and some NSFW places, but you could find adequate ref material from figure drawing sites like Line of Action. LoA has refs for people (you can filter by clothed/unclothed, age, & gender), animals, expressions, hands/feet, and a few other useful things as well. Love them.

Learning how to render digitally was a similar story; it helped a lot that I had a pretty strong foundation for value/anatomy going in. I basically didn't touch color at all for ~2 years (except for a few attempts at bad digital or acrylic paint studies), which may not have been the best idea. I learned color from a lot of trial and error, honestly, and I'm pretty sure this process involved a lot of imitation—there were a number of digital/traditional painters whose styles I really wanted to emulate (notably their edge control, color choices, value distributions, and shape design), so I kiiind of did a mixture of that + my own experimentation.

For example, I really found Benjamin Björklund's style appealing, especially his softened/lost edges & vibrant pops of saturated color, so here's a study I did from some photograph that I'm *pretty* sure was painted with him in mind.

Learning how to detail was definitely a slow process, and like all the aforementioned things (anatomy/color/edge control/values/etc.) I'm still figuring it out. Focusing on edge control first (that is, deciding on where to place hard/soft edges for emphasizing/de-emphasizing certain areas of the image) is super useful, because you can honestly fool a viewer into thinking there's more detail in a piece than there actually is if you're very economical about where you place your hard edges.

The most important part, to me, is probably just doing this stuff over and over again. You're likely not going to see improvement in a few weeks or even a few months, so don't fret about not getting the exact results you want and just keep studying + making art. I like to think about learning art as a process where you *need* to fail and make crappy art/studies—there's literally no way around it—so you might as well fail right now. See, by making bad art you're actually moving forward—isn't that a fun prospect!!

It's useful to have a folder with art you admire, especially if you can dissect the pieces and understand why you like them so much. You can study those aspects (like, you can redraw or repaint that person's work) and break down whether this is art that you just like to look at, or if it's the kind of art that you want to *make.* There's a LOT of art out there that I love looking at, probably tens of thousands of styles/mediums, but there's a very narrow range that I want to make myself.

I've mentioned it in some ask reply in the past, but I really do think looking at other artist's work is such a cheat code for improving your own skills—the other artist does the work to filter reality/ideas for you, and this sort of allows you to contact the subject matter more directly. I can think of so many examples where an artist I admired exaggerated, like, the way sunlight rested on a face and created that orange fringe around its edge, or the greys/dull blues in a wheat field, or the bright indigo in a cast shadow, or the red along the outside of a person's eye, and it just clicked for me that this was a very available & observable aspect of reality, which had up until that point gone completely unnoticed! If you're really perceptive about the art you look at, it's shocking how much it can teach you about how to see the world (in this particular case I mean this literally, in that the art I looked at fully changed the way I visually processed the world, but of course it has had a strong effect on my worldviews/relationships/beliefs).

Thanks so much for sending in a question (& for reading, if you got this far)! I read every single ask I receive, including the kind words & compliments, which I genuinely always appreciate. Best of luck with learning, my friend :)

#answers to asks #illustration #art advice #art help #drawing #digital art