#just need a good textured brush

[welcometogrouchland]

im so predictable. time skip huntlow

[ID: a digital drawing of Hunter and Willow from the owl house in their epilogue designs. The image is a redraw of the "girl kissing guy against a fence" meme. Willow holds Hunter up against a wall of vines and kisses him, while he grabs onto the wall behind him. There's a cartoonist "smooch" onomatopoeia written between the two and the background is orange. End ID]

Had to fulfill this request in the most obnoxious way possible. This is what timeskip Huntlow was made for, in my eyes <3

#the owl house #toh #hunter toh #willow park #huntlow #watching and dreaming #i wasn't originally gonna use my texture brush for the lines #but it got me out of the ''dont wanna go past the sketch in case i ruin it'' stage. so ultimately I'm cool w it #also listen I'm. not good at drawing kisses #i do not understand how 2 draw them. but i tried VERY hard here 😭 #yeah she's kinda just kissing his mouth and hes not really kissing back but it's fine. it's in character #i think this is good huntlow art bc when i showed it to izzy she leaned forward until her face touched the screen #and then she started air-punching me #that's a top tier friend review and that's all i need #also no shading bc ha. hahahaha. hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahah #no <3 #<- i am very tired <3

[dawnthefluffyduck]

Small doodle from yesterday that turned into me learning new things about a brush I already adored

#i am not good with clothing design but I just wanted to draw ralsei #today i learned that it i don't actually need a blending tool to blend two different colors together with this thing #i only used a blender to add a little extra texture on the ralsei #when i tell you i use this brush for almost everything omg #the only thing that i dont like about it is that it's transparent #if i want to change the background color then i also change every other color in the picture #but that's kind of like the no-takesies backsies appeal that i get from traditional art so it works for me #sorry i had to gush a little bit i'm just happy i found it while it was free #ralsei #deltarune #ducks

[curiosityschild]

Amphibiuary Days 11 + 15: Painted and 3D

A holdable friend

#amphibiuary2023 #hoo boy I put this one off for so long because I started it and was like #ehhhh this is not as fun as I was expecting lol #still had fun! just not my favorite thing to do #which is a good thing! #because I bought this at work a few years (!) ago and I keep having to stop myself from buying more ceramaic figures #every time we get more in because they are SO CUTE but I DON'T NEED THEM #and I think actually painting this one has cured me of that desire lol #this is a flattering angle and doesn't show his flaws lol #I put some of that snow texture paint on the back intending it to look like toad skin but it looks more like he is diseased #also! he lights up! but! when you turn the light on you can see all the poorly done brush strokes D: so the light will stay off :) #oh shoot I just remembered I meant to do a gloss top coat oh well I'll get to that later have a matte frogge

[bishopony]

I’m also really mad cause I think it was the vegan Mac and cheese that did me in. I ate it bc it was supposed to NOT give me a stomach ache and indigestion like what 😭😭

#it was a frozen meal and the texture was off from usual but I just brushed it off cause it tasted fine #mistake……. 😔 #I’m 90% sure it was that cause I did not feel that great almost immediately after finishing it lmao #technically I started feeling bad during but just assumed it was one of those ‘I’m hungry but my stomach is hurting but I’m actually hungry’ #it was still delicious. but I will be avoiding those for a good while lmao #the curse of being lactose intolerant and also a billion other intolerants and allergies and sensitivities #hence the doctor reminder :) i need a vulture stomach that can digest anything

[derpu-doodles]

him boye . love hie

#Firealpaca had some new brushes put in like. at least six months ago. but I never really fucked around with em until right now and lemme say #they definitely look good I Like Le Texture #the one I used specifically is ''pencil (canvas)'' #Just In Case Someone Wants To Try It Out #anYWAY YES ASUKASEI I LOVE HIM I NEED MORE CONTENT IN HIS TAG SO DAMMIT I'LL DO IT MYSELF #LOOK AT THIS MAN BEHOLD MY SON #Danganronpa #DR3 #DR3 Despair arc #DR3 Student Council #Asukasei Hino

[un-pearable]

heyo anyone looking for art resources or just generally interested in comics, check out halftone hospital!! all their resources are designed to help emulate + celebrate tangible comic style in a digital medium and there’s a ton of useful (free!) stuff, including micron, ballpoint, and sign pen brushes and a VERY useful set of halftones, personal favorite atm is their speeches and cream font that’s got a ton of useful variations for comic lettering :]

#i like the one i’d been using (adam warren pro) which was also designed by a comic artist #but this one’s got a lot of useful styles so i’m probably switching now #i’ve got way too many brushes and fonts accumulated for someone who uses a single pencil brush for almost all of hir lines and lighting #these day. hmu if you ever need stuff i’ve got a bunch of free ones to recommend #and a few others i’m willing to…. share :] #text✨ #HEY ALSO. IF ANYONE HAS A GOOD WOOD GRAIN BRUSH I WOULD VERY MUCH APPRECIATE IT #i have a ton of textural stuff i enjoy using bbit my current wood grain strat is just cutting up bits of a larger texture and it takes SO #long. i need a brush so bad #also we’re posting in green now bc my app hates me and i can’t see what i’m typing. i could change back but master emerald momence

[noisolpxe]

personally i think if you hate lineart you're not doing lineart correctly

#★ #like . lineart needs line weight variation & texture & all the things your sketches have but more refined #if ur just hacking away at it with no nuance and a 10px brush for everything ofc it's not gonna look as good

[deus-ex-mona]

keeping your thoughts to yourself is ✨hard✨ sometimes ngl

#long and unhinged rant (that has become typical of wednesdays) incoming— #i just really really reallyyyyyy wanna tell certain people to shut up lol #and i really want to tell some people that their works aren’t as good as they think and that they’re actually pretty incompetent #and i superrrrr wanna tell someone that they should just. at least put in the effort to appear to be doing their work properly??? #(i may or may not be talking about a certain intern at my workplace. keyword: may) #(a while back she was capping samples，left some samples uncapped bc ‘i couldn’t find their caps lol’) #(but when i checked in actuality she had??? used the ‘missing’ caps to cap other samples instead????) #(pls that task was the most basic of basic tasks. if she can’t even do that i’m worried about the other work she has done) #(tbf to her she’s a really friendly intern. she just. needs to be a lot more careful with her work) #but aside from that the temptation to shove slow walkers on the escalators is very hard to resist #especially when they stop walking in the middle of the ‘walking side’ of the escalator. like???? yo??? we’ll miss the next train bc of you?? #oh! and i also find it really really tempting to slap every single person who swings their arms widely when they walk #why do people swing their arms when they walk anyway? you’re just gonna end up hitting someone else in the solar plexus or something #(that someone is me btw. some arm swinger smacked my inner thigh and didn’t apologise >:( the salt remains) #and also!!!!! those ladies with long (and dry) untied hair who like to brush said hair up against other commuters? can you not??? #i never knew how much i despised the texture of someone else’s dry hair until the hair of this random lady brushed against my throat #but being touched by other people in gen just. isn’t fun tbh. but no one cares bc ‘lol you’re a girl you should be fine with random hugs’ #lady coworkers whyyyyyyy ಥ‿ಥ y’all don’t hug/touch the dude coworkers unnecessarily so?? why meeee? ಥ‿ಥ #covid quarantine turned me into a haphephobe (real) #wait this was supposed to be about me wanting to scream at the people i know #how did it turn into an admission of wanting to inflict physical harm onto complete strangers who annoy me during my commute #it is suiyoubi my dudes #inedible blubbering

[omaano]

My art and art style sure have gone through something this past month and I’m not sure how to deal with this realization

#I’m not dealing particularly well if anyone’s interested #it is so weird and is forcing me out of my comfort zone and I’m confused most of the time #it’s not fun #I want to go back to it being at least some kind of fun and feeling like I know what I’m doing #like I know at what point and what layers and settings I need to have to be able to call the drawing done #I don’t do flat colours or intricate lines #but this seems to be where we are going #and I’m not doing well with flats and multiply layers and airbrushing #I’m distressed where can I put my favorite little messy textured brush?? #and my drawing style didn’t get all that stylized to match so my brain screams for texture now that I had the tiniest hope to learn it #Alex rambles #I should. e a good little guy and save these rants to journaling probably #but that’s just not the same #gotta throw it out into the void that’s the right feeling

[raveartts]

Day 5: Too much blood

I hate backgrounds, I hate them, I hate them, I hate them!!!! Too much detail, too little? What colors do I use? How do I line you? Why are you out of perspective, I literally traced you????? How do I shade you???

#raveartts #goretober #blood #self harm #akudama cutthroat #akudama drive #bathtub #digital art #HEY CHLOE HERE'S YOUR BATHTUB SELF HARM ART <33333 #I'm gonna just...never draw a bathtub #or background #ever again #TBH I THINK I COULD DO A GOOD BACKGROUND WITH OIL PAINTS????? OR EVEN ACRYLIC????? #just...digital backgrounds are uhhhhh #I don't know what to do with them #I have gouache but I hate water based paints #i need to get more than 1 paintbrush too :( #for backgrounds I think I just need the looseness of paint and the texture of brush on paper #but for characters I need my computer (or just a ballpoint pen)

[leatherbookmark]

BECOMES HORIZONTAL, i know there’s no such thing as perfection but i was looking for good watercolor sketchbooks and it’s helllllll maybe i shouldn’t check reviews on am*zon because Everything Can Happen Over There (my favourite etchr lab watercolor sketchbook had one star, included one photo and no text and the title was “THERE WAS A SHRIMP IN THE PACKAGE”) but. sits and suffers

edit: ironically i think i kinda like the way watercolors look in my. talens sketchbook. which is like 140gsm and so Definitely not watercolor paper lmao

#i sat down to test some papers and to my endless surprise i liked canson student the most for a casual sketch #yes arches basically does a smooth wash for you. you don't need to try at all the paint just Does That on this paper #but good luck trying to paint a shape with smooth borders. they're always feathery and i think it's because of the paper texture #i mean yes you can minimize the feathering by being v e r y slow with your brush but like... come On #and i don't want to use hot pressed paper because i LIKE the texture! cmon! i just don't want it to do This #canson is textured as well (although differently) and the borders are nice and smooth but the washes aren't as flat and. well. it's paper #meanwhile w&n... i kind of hated it because the borders were not only feathery as fuck -- the paint sat on top of the paper as if it was #oiled and didn't want to cooperate AT ALL. you'd think my brush was dry as a bone with how the paint behaved on this paper #so like. 'you don't need to spend much money to have fun doing art' does apply! just. not to watercolors #unless you have an irl friend who'll show you around and you only buy what you're 100% sure is Good #and so far i remain sketchbookless. i wanted to try the etchr one but ahhhh i don't know. what if it does the same thing as w&n #shrimp thoughts

[snackugaki-jestsjapesjokes]

Mikey + hanafuda

november suite, lightning card

Leo hanafuda

#god the bulk of time for this went into searching my goddamn brushes #cuz i download so many #because i am both a brush WHOAR #and i need them textures man #i'm not the one who knows how to use layer affects or fkkn filters #but gimme a brush with that good good tExTuRe #also i learned ben schwartz plays with those game grump dudes #just had to listen to him play Castlevania IV and let my hand art #teeeeechnically my turtles since my Mikey and Raph got into tagging in their teens #playing with hanafuda is fun cuz the cards are so thin and teeny like wafer cookies #forbidden wafers

[xitsensunmoon]

HOW TO GLAZE YOUR WORK WITHOUT A GOOD PC(or on mobile)/TIPS TO MAKE IT LESS VISIBLE

Glaze your work online on:

Cara app. It requires you to sign up but it is actually a good place for your portfolio. Glazing takes 3 minutes per image and doesn't require anything but an internet connection compared to 20-30 minutes if your pc doesn't have a good graphic card. There IS a daily limit of 9 pictures tho. Glazed art will be sent to you after it's done, by email. It took me 30 minutes to glaze 9 images on a default setting. Cara app is also a space SPECIFICALLY for human artists and the team does everything in their power to ensure it stays that way.

WebGlaze. This one is a little bit more complicated, as you will need to get approval from the Glaze team themselves, to ensure you're not another AI tech bro(which, go fuck yourself if you are). You can do it through their twitter, through the same Cara app(the easiest way) or send them an email(takes the longest). For more details read on their website.

Unfortunately there are no ways that I know of to use Nightshade YET, as it's quite new. Cara.app definitely works on implementing it into their posting system tho!

Now for the tips to make it less visible(the examples contain only nightshade's rendering, sorry for that!):

Heavy textures. My biggest tip by far. Noise, textured brushes or just an overlay layer, everything works well. Preferably, choose the ones that are "crispy" and aren't blurred. It won't really help to hide rough edges of glaze/nightshade if you blur it. You can use more traditional textures too, like watercolor, canvas, paper etc. Play with it.

Colour variety. Some brushes and settings allow you to change the colour you use just slightly with every stroke you make(colour jitter I believe?). If you dislike the process of it while drawing, you can clip a new layer to your colour art and just add it on top. Saves from the "rainbow-y" texture that glaze/nightshade overlays.

Gradients(in combination with textures work very well). Glaze/nightshade is more visible on low contrast/very light/very dark artworks. Try implementing a simple routine of adding more contrast to your art, even to the doodles. Just adding a neutral-coloured bg with a darker textured gradient already is going to look better than just plain, sterile digital colour.

And finally, if you dislike how glaze did the job, just try to glaze/shade it again. Sometimes it's more visible, sometimes it's more subtle, it's just luck. Try again, compare, and choose the one you like the most. REMEMBER TO GLAZE/SHADE AFTER YOU MADE ALL THE CHANGES, NOT BEFORE!!

If you have any more info feel free to add to this post!!

#xit shh #anti ai #fuck ai art #fuck ai #ai art is not art #ai art is theft

[wall-e-gorl]

AUGH

WENT BACK TO THE ART I STOPPED DOING TO THINK AND SUDDENLY IT WAS AFTER 8

#good news: art has become a style exploration #seeing if i can do greyscale and also use my texture brushes to mimic traditonal in a way #progress so far says i need to fiddle with my pencil brush the minmax sizes are too wide and its not as reliable as i want it to be #bad news: im not done i couldnt show it if i could AND its way past bedtime!! shoulda been in bed 45 minutes ago AT LEAST!! #oohm. was watching a show at the same time that has 45 minute episodes. didnt think that one through til just now #REGARDLESS! I SHOULD BE ASLEEP SOON!! #the sun is going down later and later and i have not adjusted yet ill blame the sun for this one

[vanessagillings]

I’m posting the ever-so-rare photo of myself alongside one of my characters based on my childhood because today is World Autism Acceptance Day, and I wanted to show my little corner of the internet who this particular autistic person is:  

I was officially diagnosed in February, at age 38 (I’m now 39). A lot of people thought I couldn’t be autistic.  Some people who know me in real life still don’t.  And until around 10 years ago, I didn’t think I could be either, because I was nothing like the stereotype media portrays. I was told that autistics lacked empathy (untrue), and never played make-believe (also often untrue) and only enjoyed STEM.  I was — and am — an empathetic artist -- and make believe?  I can spend days sketching finely bedecked bears brewing tea or carefully choosing the right words to weave tapestries of fiction — though perhaps my hyper focus was a bit of a red flag.  Even so, how could autism describe me?  I was a good student.  I got straight A's. I didn’t act out in class.  I can make eye contact…if I must.  And lots of girls hate having their hair brushed with an unholy passion, right?  Clearly I swim in sarcasm like a fish, so autism couldn't be why I was so anxious all the time, could it?

If someone had told me when I was younger what autism ACTUALLY is — instead of the nonsense I’d seen on screens — I would have seen myself in it.  I didn’t hear that autistics have sensory issues until I was in my mid-twenties, which is when I first began to really research autism symptoms, and I had almost all of them:  sensitivity to light, smells, fabrics, temperatures, textures, and certain touches, all of which make me feel anxious, I fidget (stim), I never know what the hell to do with my hands or where to look, I talk too little or too much, I have special interests, I have entire animated movies memorized shot-by-shot and can remember the first time and place I saw every movie I've ever seen but I often forget what I'm trying to say mid-sentence, I echo movies and tv shows (my husband and I have a whole repertoire of shared echolalias, making up about 20% of our conversations), I was in speech therapy as a kid, I have issues with dysnomia and verbal fluency, I toe-walk, I can't multitask to save my life, I like things just-so, I’m deeply introverted but not shy, I need to recover from all social interaction — even social interaction I enjoy — and I find stupid, every day things like grocery shopping, driving and making appointments overwhelming and intensely stressful, sometimes to the point where I struggle to speak.  It turns out, I am definitely autistic. My results weren't borderline. Not even close. And while these aren’t all of my challenges, and not everyone with these symptoms is autistic, it’s definitely something to look into if you present with all of these things at once. 

So why did it take me so long to get diagnosed? The same bias that exists in media threads through the medical community as well, and because I'm a woman who can discuss the weather while smiling on cue, few people thought I was worth looking into. Even after I was fairly certain I was autistic, receiving an official diagnosis in the US is unnecessarily difficult and expensive, and in my case, completely uncovered by my insurance.  It cost me over $4000, and I could only afford it because my husband makes more money than I do as a freelance illustrator — a job I fell into largely because it didn’t require in-person work; like many autists, I have been chronically underemployed and underpaid, in part due to physical illness in my twenties, which is a topic for another day.  But it shouldn’t be like this.  It shouldn’t be so hard for adults to receive diagnoses and it shouldn’t be so hard for people to see themselves in this condition to begin with due to misinformation and stereotypes. Like many issues in America, these barriers are even higher for marginalized groups with multiple intersectionalities. 

It’s commonly said that if you’ve met one autistic person, you’ve met one autistic person.  This is why it’s called a spectrum, not because there’s a linear progression of severity (someone who appears to have low support needs like myself might need more than it seems, and vice versa), but because every autistic person has their own strengths and weaknesses, challenges and experiences, opinions and needs.  No two people on the spectrum present in the same way.  And that’s a good thing!  No way of being autistic is inherently any better than any other, and even if someone on the spectrum struggles with things I don’t — or can do things I can’t — doesn’t make them more or less deserving of respect and human dignity.

But speaking solely for myself, the more I learn about autism, the happier I am to be autistic.  I struggle to find words and exert fine motor control, but my deep passion and fixation has made me good at art and storytelling anyway.  I find more joy watching dogs and studying leaf shapes on my walks than most people do in an entire day.  More often than not, the barriers I’ve faced weren’t due to my autism directly, but due to society being overly rigid about what it considers a valid way of existing.  My hope in writing this today is that maybe one person will realize that autism isn’t what they thought — and that being different is not the same as being less than. My hope with my fiction is to give autistic children mirrors with which to see themselves, and everyone else windows through which to see us as we actually are.

If you’re interested in learning more about autism or think you might be autistic, too, I recommend the Autism Self Advocacy Network  autisticadvocacy.org and the following books:

What I Mean When I Say I’m Autistic by Annie Kotowicz

We're Not Broken by Eric Garcia

Knowing Why edited by Elizabeth Bartmess

Unmasking Autism by Devon Price, PhD

Loud Hands edited by Julia Bascom

Neurotribes by Steve Silberman

(trigger warning: the last two contain quite a lot of upsetting material involving institutionalized child abuse, but I think it’s important for people to know how often autistic children were — and are — abused simply for being neurodivergent).

Thanks for reading 💛

#autism acceptance day #actually autistic