#talking about my art

[stagelamps]

papyrus undertale art coming in a few days because he's a cool dude

#talking about my art #papyrus undertale #undertale art #mostly just a reminder for myself

[pokerninja2]

Super Mario Spikers - Artist's Notes Google Doc

Some may remember that when I initially started my tumblr account and posting my Spikers art, I wanted to go much farther in-depth with the art than I could on twitter, giving big in-depth artist's notes about my art, what inspired it, how I feel about it now, etc. This was fun to do, and one of the reasons I started a tumblr account in the first place, but over time I just kinda stopped doing it. I figured it would be much more efficient to put all of these big breakdowns into one google doc that everyone could see.

So I started slowly chipping away it it, and it was fun writing about my art! Buuuuuuuuuuuuuut I soon realized that doing Literally Everything At Once, especially when I'm still adding to Spikers semi-regularly, was just not feasible. So today I made a compromise: I made the doc of my artist's notes public for you all to read, and will be slowly adding to it game by game! Splitting it into chunks makes this feel way more manageable, and I'm honestly as excited to work on it as I am with the art itself.

Currently, the doc covers everything I've drawn from pre-NES: arcade Donkey Kong, Donkey Kong Jr., Mario Bros., and Wrecking Crew. Not a whole lot, but I think this is a pretty good starting point. I'm gonna be updating it over time with each game in release order: so the next game is SMB1, the game after that is SMB2, etc.

Give it a read if you're interested - consider it a "behind the scenes" companion piece!

#mario #super mario #mario fanart #super mario fanart #Super Mario Spikers #artist rambles #artist thoughts #talking about my art #artist notes

[aroaceacacia]

Thoughts on lineless art & limited color palettes

1) lineless art isnt Hard, per se, it's just a different process. when I draw (true) lineless art, which isnt often, I find myself thinking about needle felting. (<- link to the youtube channel of a japanese artist who needle felts anime characters. love their work, watching them helped me sculpt puppets.) it's about shapes and areas of color, and breaking down complex forms into pieces to put together

2) when you find or make a color palette, test it. doodle the character you want to draw, play with it to see how it works. if it doesnt feel right, edit the palette or find something new

3) when you find or make a color palette, have at least 5 colors (for the sake of flexibility & choice) but no more than 8 (for the sake of not overwhelming yourself with options)

4) think about what colors you'll need. for example, if you're going to draw a light-skinned character, maybe you'll want to have a color in the palette that's relatively lighter than the other colors. it doesnt have to be exactly accurate, in fact it's often more fun if it's not

5) dont choose colors that are too similar. if you want to have two blues in your palette, think about making the values very different, or having one of the blues lean toward green and one be closer to purple. this will make your job easier for tip 6

6) the biggest problem will be distinguishing areas of color, especially ones that are very similar or the same. textures and layer effects are your friends. sparing use of lines to separate shapes is also encouraged, and a bit of cheeky hatching never hurt anybody.

7) just have fun and go nuts it's your art and your world and I dont make the rules. Ignore everything I've said and make a masterpiece, sieze the day, live ur life

#bearvocalizations #talking about my art

[short-circuit-2]

need to get weirder

#talking about my art #ive stopped worrying so much about little things and just started doing shit #throwing whatever at a canvas #messing with colors and lines and going nuts with it. reckless abandon if you will #i feel like the more loose i am with what i make #the more naturally it comes to me. the better it reflects what im thinking about #ive focused too long on following my own stupid standards of perfection #i need to break away from it #and just have fun #slowly but surely #faackk its 4 am

[lunapwrites]

I drew this pic of Dora that I would love to post here but I'm very confused about how boob rules work on this hellsite so for now just know that I can't look at it without scream-singing Danger! High Voltage in my head.

#nymphadora tonks #hp #talking about my art #what are the rules #i literally don't understand lol

[nooling]

LOOK I JUST REALLY ENJOY THEIR FRIENDSHIP OK?? You can't tell me they wouldn't hang after their respective personal quests (spawn ending ofc)/emotional breakdowns over their own mortality

EDIT: I forgot to watermark these so now more than ever PLEASE don't repost

#baldurs gate 3 #astarion #astarion ancunin #karlach #bg3 #Karlach 'I could kiss his pointy little face' cliffgate #karlach cliffgate #karlach bg3 #bg3 fanart #my art #I discovered CSP is a lot better than PS for animating #consistent artsyle? I don't know her #I just like their vibes #they seem like they'd be there for each other #maybe karlach just wanted someone to talk at her about absolute nonsense while she processes her own mortality bc that girl needs some help #I JUST REALLY LIKE THESE TWO

[alta-et-astra]

April is the month of finishing WIPs!

#talking about my art

[artkaninchenbau]

A h-heartfelt reunion..?

Bonus

#Sir Crocodile #Monkey D Dragon #Emporio Ivankov #Dragodile #Crocodad #My art #One Piece #We're not gonna talk about the work I should be doing rn I have Severe Procrastinitis and I'm doing my best okay #Alternative version where it was both Crocodile and Garp beating Dragon's ass before Iva-chan joined in but that was too much effort lmao #I'm a believer in Dragon being a Wind Logia so don't worry guys he is 100% taking this beating intentionally #He knows what he did and he's dealing with the concequences of his actions. With grace. #You know I realize Iva-chan should be two whole meters taller than Crocodile but we're just gonna ignore that #Look Iva-chan taking Crocodile's side and being like ''Crocoboy is right you fucked up bad Dragon'' brings me joy #And for real I've been wanting to draw this for months. But never did because I had other shit to do. Which I still do #But. You know. Sometimes you need to draw a shitpost. It's ✨ self-care ✨ #And appearently One Piece shitpost comics have become the thing I draw for myself on occassion

[randoms-random-blog-of-random]

Hey, just so everyone knows, all my art progress and backups got deleted after switching computers.

so I had quite a few wips I was working on, but none of them made it, nor did any of the exports of my finished works make it. so people like @bubbiethesaur and @pillowspace who I was making art for will now have to wait longer for their pieces.

#talking about my art #i'm so sad about this #i had so many wips i was working on

[ash-and-starlight]

taking the crumbs of venetian agna qel’a chewing biting gnashing on them until there aren’t even bones left and then spitting out. carnevale northern water tribe style

#id in alt text #plus lil zukkini kissini bonus bc this year carnival fell the day before valentine's day #aaand posting it at almost midnight so we get the Perfect meeting point of the two dates #not bc i drew everything in a rabid frenzy & finished it NOW #anyway venetian carnival in the nwt. hi. is this thing on can anyone hear me. #and when i start talking about the marriage to the sea ceremony- [gunshot] #ough i wish i had more time to draw more masks in sakha-venice fusion style but alas. only had time & brain space for the blorbos 😔 #hope this is enough to send the Vision Wavelenghts #yue #sokka #katara #zuko #zukka #my art

[bastardiando]

posting across the targetverse here bc it did numbers on twitter

#across the spiderverse #spiderverse #miguel o'hara #hobie brown #im posting my art here from now onnnnn #maybe ill make a sideblog thats art only who knows. #bastardibujando #< thats my art tag btw. no i dont remeber what it was before so whatever art i have posted here is gone forever #hi for the love of god hello anyone wanna talk about spiderverse. #og post

[stagelamps]

nm doodle coming today because i found a cool palette :)

#talking about my art #nm

[vurelly]

new au just dropped

#vu talks shit #cotl #my art #i guess? #ive been thinking about this all fucking day

[pen-of-roses]

Do y'all ever think about how cool it is that art inspires other art inspires other art inspires other art in an endless cycle

#like someone else's creation inspired the thing that inspired me #and my art can inspire someone else's art who might inspire someone else's #like original work to fanfic to fanart yes #but also like character to character or story to story #or even just when you and a friend talk about stuff and they inspire you and you inspire them in turn #and ahhhhhhh #human creativity is getting me again

[bixels]

I watched Starship Troopers tonight.

#personal #dumb #my art #immediately after finishing i was pumped to watch some analysis vids on it #cuz i heard a lot of the drama about the original author being a pro military fascist and the director going “fuck that” and making a satir #scrolling through youtube search results was not promising. lots of male film buffs i would Not trust even on a first glance. #“The Critical Drinker” (pfp of a bearded man drinking alcohol) lol. #and then I saw cinemawins did a video on it and was like oh nice i haven't seen his stuff in a while but he's a pretty leftist creator #scrolled through the comments #second panel face #this sucks i'm outta here. #just leagues and leagues and leagues of anime pfps and right leaning people dogpiling on him for “not understanding what fascism is” #idk it's pretty alien and weird to me watching this movie and going “wow yeah that was pretty obvious huh” like literally the from opening #to the teacher preaching militance and only giving voting rights to “those who serve their nation first and earn it” #and then seeing droves of people online going #WHAT ARE YOU TALKING ABOUT? It's not anti-fascist and even if it was it's #the director's fault for desecrating heinlein's incredible sci-fi epic vision. ermm media literacy is dead.

[razzafrazzle]

i was obsessed with them when i was 8 and i am still obsessed with them now

[image description: a page of drawings of marceline and simon from adventure time. on the left is marcy wearing a white cropped sweater, a short black skirt, red tights, black fingerless gloves, and black boots. there is a caption that says "Average Bisexual" next to her. next to that is a short comic of marcy and simon, where marcy is floating over simon as he reads a book. marcy asks, "hey simon. ever kiss another man before?", to which simon replies "well sure." below them there is a caption that says, "he then failed to elaborate." next to that is a drawing of simon with his hands clasped together, with a smaller, uncolored sketch of simon looking surprised above him. the entire page is colored in a watercolor style. end id]

#if marshall gets textured hair then so does marcy!!!!!!! its equality!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! #anyways i am once again posting about sad old scientists <3 they are a top tier breed of guy #doc talks #my art #adventure time #fionna and cake #marceline #marceline the vampire queen #marceline abadeer #she has so many names huh #simon petrikov