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Putting Sun where he belongs, in the garbage.

Featuring Suns Cosplay as Sun and StarryShyroo as Yang!

Photography by Strider Studios

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What are they up to now? Getting into trouble, probably.

Featuring Suns Cosplay as Sun and StarryShyroo as Yang!

Photography by Strider Studios

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Sun and Yang’s photo adventure is finally finished! Featuring Suns Cosplay as Sun and StarryShyroo as Yang!

This is the more casual photoset, stay tuned for part 2!

Photography by Strider Studios

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Go Figure: You Can Draw is back at Colossalcon again this year! Come join us for more cosplay fun and drawing shenanigans at 1 PM on Friday in Events 10!!

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Cardcaptor Sakura private shoot at Ohayocon 2017, featuring 

@ninjayoshi28 as Cardcaptor Sakura

and @bocchansword as Clow Reed

Photography by @strider-studios

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Nature photography, September 2016.

Photography by Strider Studios

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Went on a photo adventure with @ninjayoshi28 a few weeks back. She’s pretty <3

Happy halloween everyone!

Photography by Strider Studios

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Youmacon Panel! Go Figure: You Can Draw!

Hey everyone! I'm happy to announce that I'll be hosting my figure drawing panel at Youmacon again this year! Come learn anatomy and basic drawing techniques with this workshop! Sketch live models dressed in cosplay and learn with experts and novice artists alike as we go through the aspects of drawing from real life! Here's the details- 7 PM Friday, November 4th Cobo Panel Room Workshop 141 It's pretty much the coolest thing you can be doing on a Friday night before the rave, so I hope to see you there!

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Hey guys, not sure if I ever mentioned I’m part of a Let’s Play channel, but I am and we’re doing a cool thing! If you can’t make it tonight check out more of our videos on our blog and on youtube!

Join our Overwatch stream!

Hey guys! Mitch & Strider are going to be streaming Overwatch through Twitch in a few minutes, come join us here!

-Strider

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Listen up

You don’t have to like or reblog my art to show your support - I just ask that you print it out and eat it every once in a while. Thanks

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Things I Learned In Drawing 1 Class

If it looks wrong, it is wrong.

Draw what you see not what you know to be true

Everything is broken up by shapes and lines. Don’t look at the image look at what makes up the image

You can use grid paper to help you line everything up while you’re learning. Grids are okay

REFERENCES ARE YOUR BEST FRIEND. THEY ARE NOT CHEATING

When using references; there is the quarter rule. If you change more than a quarter of the original image (such as pose, backgrounds, movement) then it’s yours. It’s not stealing.

Only trace to learn, do not trace and post as your own art

Don’t just color over someone else’s art that’s stealing

It’s okay to make mistakes

Try new mediums as often as you can. Charcoal, pastels, crayons, markers, graphite, ink wash, paints (of all kinds) ect. It will help you grow as an artist and find what you like

Figure out what you like in someone elses art, why you like that art. Try to make it your own in your own art. It’s like art genetics

Surround yourself with other artists who will help and encourage you.

Draw for friends! Seeing them get excited that you drew for them will keep you drawing

Art block happens. Try not to stress

Draw daily

Draw from life

DRAW WHAT YOU SEE NOT WHAT YOU KNOW TO BE TRUE

Play with lines and shading: contouring, crosshatching, stippling, blocking.

Experiment

Have fun

Form a small community of you and your friends who like to art. Give each other feedback, give each other advice, and get excited everytime someone draws

Do projects with someone else

Take part in collabs

Realize you’re not perfect and you will never be perfect. There is always something to learn, always time to grow. That’s fun of art

Enjoy the journey and the process

Realize it may not always look like you pictured in your mind

Be proud of your progress

Take breaks

Look at things from a distance

Enjoy what you make

Learn from your mistakes

And lastly: love what you do and do what you love. Don’t change your art for anyone but you.

Artists feel free to add on to this for new artists!

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Part 2 - I find it great that my first photoshoot under the new banner of strider studios happens to be a good friend and strider cosplayer :D

The last one is kind of a bonus, it looks a bit like an album cover... neat.

Featuring madiboohoo as Dave Strider from Homestuck

Photography: Strider Studios

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Part 1 - Finally finished the private photoshoot pictures from Colossalcon! This was a fantastic opportunity we found on the bridge late at night, glad we had the chance to shoot! This was fun!

Featuring madiboohoo as Dave Strider from Homestuck

Photography: Strider Studios

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It’s official! I’m now going by Strider Studios, so while my tumblr url may be broken for a bit, everything is still findable on my tumblr under strider-studios instead! 

Thanks everyone for hanging in here with me! 

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Colossalcon preview! I'd also like to take this moment to announce a revamp of everything- soon, I'll no longer be Strider Photography, but instead I'm branching out into Strider Studios to bring you guys all the best news on everything nerdy and awesome I've been working on lately. From my photography to panels at conventions to collaborations with other artists and cosplayers and YouTube let's play channels, this is going to be the new one stop spot for everything great. Plus maybe some memes. Don't rule it out. Thank you everyone for hanging around so far, and stick around for future awesomeness!

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Hey! I absolutely love your work and I was wondering if you got any pictures of the miraculous ladybug photo-shoot from colossal con ?

I definitely did! I ended up helping out running the Miraculous photoshoot and got lots of great stuff! It's going to take a few days/week or two for me to go through everything and post the best ones though- I took over 700 photos during Colossalcon and have quite a bit to get through. Stay tuned and I'll post a few preview shots soon!

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Colossalcon Speedruns!

Hey everyone, I'm thinking of doing some free speedrun shoots, 10-15 minutes each for about an hour in a few locations around Colossalcon. Basically a "show up and get your picture taken for free" kind of thing. Anyone interested? I'll post more deets as I figure them out.