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Little doodle I made at work lolz. It feels good to draw again, I've seen so depressed looking at art has hurt my eyes. But I miss it, I really need to work on bettering my art and getting my tattoo license

Made with pen and sharpie 💕

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Something I try to keep in mind when making art that looks vintage is keeping a limited color pallette. Digital art gives you a very wide, Crisp scope of colors, whereas traditional art-- especially older traditional art-- had a very limited and sometimes dulled use of color.

This is a modern riso ink swatch, but still you find a similar and limited selection of colors to mix with. (Mixing digitally as to emulate the layering of ink riso would be coloring on Multiply, and layering on top of eachother 👉)

If you find some old prints, take a closer look and see if you can tell what colors they used and which ones they layered... a lot of the time you'll find yellow as a base!

Misprints can really reveal what colors were used and where, I love misprints...

Something else I keep in the back of my mind is: how the human eye perceives color on paper vs. a screen. Ink and paint soaks into paper, it bleeds, stains, fades over time, smears, ect... the history of a piece can show in physical wear. What kind of history do you want to emulate? Misprinted? Stained? Kept as clean as possible, but unable to escape the bluing damages of the sun? It's one of my favorite things about making vintage art. Making it imperfect!

You can see the bleed, the wobble of the lines on the rug, the fading, the dirt... beautiful!!

Thinking in terms of traditional-method art while drawing digital can help open avenues to achieving that genuine, vintage look!

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Chibi foliage guide: hyacinth

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Do you enjoy my work? Do you wish you had some of my work for yourself?

Well, you’re in luck, because I do commissions :>

At the moment, I do two kinds of commissions: Full Colour ($40- $15 per extra character) and ‘Tarot’ ($30), however, I can am happy to discuss pricing for other kinds of comms (e.g., Character refs). Here are some examples:

- Not limited to Homestuck/Hiveswap

- SFW & NSFW

- DM for details! Or contact me on Twitter here

If you still want to support me without buying a comm, please consider donating to my Ko-Fi below. I’m unemployed so every little helps.

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To anyone who has trouble drawing makara horns I just found a great reference

This is like, the EXACT shape I imagine ghbs to be

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Some vent art I did a while ago. Idk if I'll ever finish it lolz but it's something productive

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Art Commission Info:

Please note:

my prices are based on a general $10/hour rate (which is minimum wage where I live).

each choice will add to final cost

Art of to reference of is preferred; though a detailed description is accepted (you must provide at least one)

Please feel free browse my art! Note the dates, as it's improved vastly over time!!

Clean Sketch:

• Head Shot:

No color: $7

+$3 flat color

•Bust:

$12 no color

+$3 for flat color

No full body

•Each Additional Character:

+ $2 no color; +$3 flat color

Flat Color (will have proper line art):

Head Shot: $25

Half body: $35

Full body: $47

+ Basic background: $7

• Complex pose:

+$15 half body;

+ $25 full body

• Each additional character:

$12;

$23

$30

Full Color (will have proper line art)

Head shot: $35

Half body: $45

Full body: $60

• +Basic background:

$15 half body

$22 full body

• + Detailed background: $35

• + Complex pose:

+$25 half body; +$37 full body

• +Each additional character:

$23

$34

$47

FULL COLOR + DETAILED SCENE + COMPLEX POSE:

Note: this this will be extremely detailed and take roughly 20 hours

• $170 minimum; price may be higher depending on what you want specifically

• $75 for additional character

HOW TO HIRE ME:

Please understand that I charge the prices I do because I am a professional and this is my job.

YOU MAY DM: for additional questions; examples of my illustrations; and what you will like to purchase and can get the estimated price

YOU MUST EMAIL ME TO PURCHASE: [email protected]

AT THIS TIME YOU WILL BE GIVEN THE TOTAL PRICE OF WHAT YOU WANT

if you cannot afford it, then we can discuss what options you can afford.

Next, I will give you the time frame at this time.

First come first serve. You can request for priority, additional charges will be applied.

Half payment is due upon purchase of signing a legal contract to protect both myself and you as a customer.

(exclusing sketches) I will send you the sketch (HEAVY WATERMARK) when finished so changes can be made as desired, rest of payment will be required at this time.

Please make sure you send detailed explanations of what you want

NO REFUNDS UNLESS I FAIL TO COMPLETE BY GUARANTEED DATE - you will not receive the art HOWEVER you may opt for a 50% refund to receive the commission at a later date.

There will be a contract signed in order to protect both parties (you and I).

Payment options (current):

•PayPal (USD ONLY)

•CashApp

[examples + simplified version will soon be uploaded!!]

I DO 18+ art commissions, however you must contact me privately for all information regarding this and provide PROOF you are 18+

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The Offenderman game is out!!

So one of the fans have actually made and published a Sexual Offenderman fan game! Which me, Arc (otherwise known as the original creator of the character) made a let’s play for to help get the word out about it. So make sure to reblog this, or make posts of your own about it. So check out the video, see if ya wanna play it. And the links to download the game will be in the videos description. Along with a notice of a kickstarter for a offenderman project I’m working on that yall might wanna check out and possibly support.

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Decided to draw feferi am pleased with how it came out

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Full image to use as your screensaver!

Under cut is the image with text that was uploaded to my main account

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Nickie Zimov aka Ники Зимов (Russian, b. 1993, Crimea, Ukraine, based Saint-Petersburg, Russia) - 1: Bedtime Love Stories 4.2, 2021  2: A Kiss, 2019  3: Bedtime Love Stories 2.1, 2021  4: Bedtime Love Stories 4.1, 2021  5: Bedtime Love Stories 4.3, 2021  6: Dreams, 2020  7: Still Life, 2020  8: The Bend, 2019  9: Autumn Sessions 2, 2021  10: Bedtime Love Stories 3.3, 2021, Paintings: Oil, Ink, Acrylic Powder on Paper

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Guess who finally decided to slap together a commission sheet 😎

I don’t think I’ll put a limit on slots to start because I don’t think I’ll be bombarded with requests but I’ll be sure to message clients updates on their pieces nonetheless

Just message me if you’re interested in a slot! I’ll be accepting half payment up front (sorry if it’s inconvenient but I’ve been scorned before)

Also I know I pretty much post exclusively homestuck stuff on here but I’m more than willing to draw outside of that (OC’s or otherwise)

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Me, an artist:

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WebGL Water is a great water simulator, with a sphere that can interact with the water’s surface. It can be paused which means you can then use it as a reference for lighting, reflections, refractions, etc.

Painting Tutorials:

Water in Motion 

Ocean Waves

Water Bubbles

Water Surface

Stormy Sea Waves

Condensation

Water Droplets

More Various Tutorials

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How to draw Afro textured 4c hair - an explanation/Tutorial

For those of you that don’t know what 4c hair is, 4c hair is a hair texture type that contains coils to small and tight that the hair appears to be more puffy rather than curly ( like to photo below ) this is in NO WAY to be confused with curly hair. there is a drastic difference.

As a black artist that primarily draws characters with 4c hair, I’ve been asked many times to do a tutorial on 4c hair so here we go~

before we get into 4c hair, lets take a moment to fully understand it by talking about hair texture in a general sense first

let’s take a look at this example of straight hair vs curly hair ( 1 type straight hair vs 3 type curly hair )

If you take a moment to compare the two you’ll notice straight hair is flat, it has no texture. Straight hair perfectly hangs down similar to liquid-like silk. It’s lack of curl pattern is the reason as to why it hangs perfectly flat.

curly hair on the other hand doesn’t lie down flat and silky like straight hair, It’s more thick. Curly hair in it’s raw and unstyled state has a trapezoid like shape this is because the sides of the hair spread more outward.

So why is this? Why is straight hair flat and curly hair thick?

the answer to that question is a thing called piling up. When it comes to hair texture, the shape of the hair strands aren’t the only thing that matters, its how the strands coexist with each other, Curly hair strands coexist by piling up on top each other.

moisture also effects hair texture too, different hair types absorbs moisture differently, thus the thickness of each hair type is different. 

…..soooo, how does this all relate to how to draw 4c hair?? 

Well let’s take a look at the drawing below. Notice how the arrows go outward more as the hair texture gets curlier. As we’ve already discussed, this is because hair piles up, The curlier the hair texture, the more it piles up on each other, the bigger it gets, the more outward the arrows go.

Out of any hair texture, 4C hair has the most curls. Because of this, the hair piles up on each other so much that it doesn’t lie down flat like straight hair, nor does it make a trapezoid like shape like curly hair, it instead becomes more cloud like.❤️

This is what you need to take into account when it comes to drawing 4C hair.

Think of it as piling up a bunch of cotton balls on each other. The most cotton on top of top to lead to a bigger patch of  cotton. this is 4c hair.

How to not draw 4c hair:

Garnet fanart. Let’s talk about Garnet Fanart. I notice a trend that when artists draw Garnet from Steven universe, her hair texture is usually changed to 3 type curly like texture. This subtle form of White washing has confused me because this is inaccurate. 

Garnet’s hair is in the shape of a cube. Though 3 type hair piles up on each other, it isn’t curly nor thick enough for their hair to stay in the shape of a cube. Curly hair lies down more than 4c hair. So garnet’s hair being in the shape of a cube is a dead giveaway that it is 4C. Why do you think hairstyles like flat tops are usually seen on black men with 4c hair? It’s because, the 4c hair texture is thick and strong enough to stay in whatever shape you put it in.

please, if you’re drawing a character with 4c hair, avoid drawing it like curly 3 type hair, this is very anti-black and texturist.

So, how do you draw 4c hair?

honestly, its the most easy thing in the world

i wanna clarify that blobby looking 4c drawings ( like the one on the top left ) can work depending on how cartoony your art style is.

Another thing that I want to greatly clarify when it comes to drawing 4C hair is, YOU. DONT. NEED. TO. DRAW. EVERY. HAIR. STRAND!…..like, seriously. I’ve gotten many messages about how 4C hair is hard to draw, and it’s always left me confused; but then I find out that the same people that have trouble drawing 4C hair, attempt to draw every single strand of hair. This is unnecessarily time consuming because it’s merely impossible to get every single detail down, especially when you have a simple cartoon style. 4C hair does not require much effort, all you’re doing is drawing lumps. It’s that simple, nothing more nor nothing less.

The reason why I greatly advise all of you to avoid drawing every single hair strand is because in real life, when you look at a 4C textured Afro, your eyes don’t pick up on each individual hair strand like straight or curly hair. 4C hair, appears to be more undefined and cloud like, so attempting to draw each and every individual strand is unnecessary and will most likely end up looking inaccurate.

Anyways! that’s it for now! there will be a part 2 to this tutorial that will come out next week! i hope you guys have learned from this and apply it to your black character in your art!~

#reblogging for reference

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Breaktime doodle

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Been a while since I drew some traditional! Haha. Anyways, have a Nepeta 💕

Done by memory, so if it's messed up lmk! Feedback is always appreciated 💕

Made with ink, colored with cryola crayons, expo marker, and graphite

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