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surveillance-0011 · 11 months

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*speed walking around in circles arms behind back folded up all nice* The creatures need enrichment. the creatures need to draw.

Hierophant does so often with whatever it can get its hands on on whatever surface possible whenever the urge to do so comes along. It does so with a sense of urgency. I feel they’d be in a similar style to the Civilsation I + II (KKB albums) art if a bit stiffer and not as clean. They are... prophetic? In nature.

I think it’s the only one who would make a habit out of it/draw often but it’d be interesting to see others try too

Magician would struggle with his claws if he tried and Im thinking it would turn out messy. Simple but there would be an attempt to be elegant or at least presentable. But would press too hard or too light. Would color things in if it fit. Exact style hard to pin down, i think it’d look oddly fuzzy. Would also find angrily scribbling and straight up grinding pencils to dust therapeutic.

Hangedman would be ok with drawing I don’t think it would be a hobby but if he had to visualize something or express somethng without words maybe he’d draw it out. Also very messy and simplistic but it’s. Blockier? everything is more like big shapes, the simplest you can get to recognize shapes. Everything is angular and there’s a decent sense of form. Lines are very very thick. Would use bright colors or black yellow and red alone to color in. Something may be a little disturbing abt it

Star would draw simple figures, more like silhouettes. sketchy and would not use color much. He would try it for the sake of it.

Empress could scribble something down if prompted (or if she wanted to try it out tee hee). Also very basic forms. smudgy. EIther featureless blocks/blobs or just cutesy but very simple. The would maybe look like those stylistic drawings i posted of her and emperor as that was meant to be a look of them in her mind’s eye or whatever...

While we’re at it! The people too :)

Lisa and Daniel both tend to doodle when bored esp the latter as he ran out of stuff to do in the facility quickly. The former draws eyes over and over in note margins and flowers and her style is kind of anime ish. Like. Chibi toon whatever. Daniel’s is like a simple realism or a comic style with shapes blocked out.

Kate would say she can’t even draw a stick figure but!! She has great handwriting. Could and would probably take up caligraphy. Sophie also has rlly pretty handwriting

#the house of the dead #house of the dead

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actualsunflower · 3 years

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ur art is rlly inspiring for me... I struggle a lot with line art, would u be ok giving advice? I rlly love ur art

I'm really sorry I left this in my inbox for long, I've just been trying to figure out how to answer fjdfskf but first that makes me very happy that you find my art so inspiring 🥺 really, I've worked so hard on my art for so long, and I struggle so bad to see it as good and worthy of even sharing. Looking back at old art I can see the progress, but it's still hard to look at it and call it good myself. I have a bad habit of comparing myself to other artists out there and I never compare in my eyes :/ it's really hard unlearning that but I've been making a lot of progress, and actually spending almost a year not sharing any of my art really helped with that. (I'm not saying do the same thing it's just my experience!!) Now it doesn't bother me quite as much.

See I left this ask in my drafts for so long. I was going to make a little tutorial on how I do things, see if that helped but I just kinda... Never did it, executive dysfunction and work and all. So I'll just give some tips instead

1- My first advice is to give up the tiny lines, the one teeny line at a time thing, and go for full lines. It doesn't have to be like the entire face shape at once, but do bigger chunks because the more lines the more shaggy and jagged it looks. You won't get a smooth cohesive line like that if you're going for a clean and smooth look. It's hard to get over habits like that but once you do your art And your wrists/arms/shoulders will thank you. (This only applies if you want a clean look, if that's your thing and what you're going for disregard that. But this is about my art specifically.)

2- always stretch your wrists, it really does help. Give your hand a good pull back (not to where it hurts) and make a fist and roll your wrist, it helps A LOT and feels good lol stretching your whole body is good as well, if you've got bad posture like me you'll start hurting halfway through. A lot of times though you won't even notice you're in pain until you try to sit up.... Ouch

3- USE REFERENCES!!!! It is not cheating, it's not cutting corners it is essential to learning!!! And not just learning but it's essential for just enjoying art, it takes away so much frustration of "why doesn't this look right?!" And something else nice, is if you're really struggling with something, just take a picture of yourself and trace it. I do it all the time and it has saved me many a frustrating breakdown. Just make sure you own or have permission to use the photos you're tracing over. Just don't use it as a crutch, as in for every single thing because it can at some point hinder growth. My advice is just sketch over the general shape, and then do the rest yourself. Just having that shape/position will help way more than you know. And don't be afraid to just cobble together references, paste and reshape and move whatever you want or need.

4- Play with and make brushes. I have a special brush that is used Only for Jay's vitiligo and it saves me a lot of time, pain, and just looks really cool and helps me keep it consistent. And you'll be surprised at how you feel by just changing the brush you do line art with. Softer/harder brushes can change everything

5- literally who cares about shading. If it looks cool, put it in. If you don't think it looks cool, erase it. You are the god of lighting and shading in your own art, it doesn't matter where the light is coming from. Just say there's multiple light sources even, it really don't matter

6- learn to use multiply and add layers, they are super helpful and fun. Multiply layers are great for shading AND blush, I use one clipped over Jay's face for blush, just clip, watercolor over cheeks/nose/ear tips, slight transparency and bam perfect blush (for color, I pick base skin tone, slide bar to red, deepen a bit, perfect) (I use the color box/w the side bar) add layers are great for glowing things and bright lighting. (A tip for glowing things, use the desired color, blur a bit, then use a dot of white in the middle, blur that. Extra glow!)

7- warming up is a great idea. I just scribble a bunch, do little doodles of my pets, go from faintest to hardest in pressure and back again in on line, then I usually do something a bit more substantial, which is typically drawing Jay or Nick lol that's why I always have so many Jay and Nick drawings. It helps though

8- this one I feel is very important. Don't ever feel like you're copying someone else. People add and remove things from their style subconsciously, I have seen more than once where I post in my style and later see someone else who did something that incorporated that specific thing I did. It just happens. You do it without thinking, and you can do it while thinking it too. Don't trace people's art, but if you love the way someone draws eyes, just draw them like that too. Nobody owns an art style, no one can stop you and you will not get in trouble from doing that. Eventually anyway it will evolve into your own unique way, and people will do the same when they see your art. It's and endless cycle in the art community and it is one of the treasures of sharing our art. Whether we think it or not we are all influencing each other and it's a beautiful thing.

That's all I can think of rn so, I hope this is helpful and I apologize for taking forever lol

#sorry it's kinda long #hope it helps though #sunflower asks #art advice #if you find typos no you dont 💖

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