#studio technique

[3liza]

i mean the truth is that we do not need and should not have all this stupid plastic clutter in or houses. no one should be producing or selling this shit. everyone make your own merchandise and charge a living hourly wage to sell it 🤷 sorry to be so simplistic about this but it's one of the results of the lack of class unity specifically in the means of production-owning creative class, who is not mentioned or dealt with by the core Marxist texts as far as I know (i asked about this earlier on here, did marx ever address in his analysis people like, for example, a professional photographer who owns a camera ans prints his own dagguereotypes? or a portrait painter or idk, independent milliner or seamstress? these people all own the means of production and do not employ anyone, and the answer from better educated people than I was that no, Marx didn't mention them), I'm not well read on this at all, there is just a big void where leftist analysis of what modern economists call "the creative class"

I'm getting off topic. my point is make your own keychains in your kitchen. it's actually not hard. you can even mass produce (on a small scale) little plastic crap if you want, with resin and a UV lamp, or a 3d printer, or a laser cutter and acrylic sheets (or just use balsa wood damn, at least its biodegradable and less tacky).

all this stuff is available to little creators AND there are hundreds of people who already own these machines who will take work for you and produce your designs. you just have to actually find them and know them and email them. that's what I mean about the class unity issue with creatives. we have no large scale union, we have no large scale class consciousness, and we're all sending our orders for little plastic crap to sweatshops instead of emailing a guy with a laser cutter in his garage and saying "hey Keith can I get uhhhhhhhhhhh 50 laser cut keychains of this twerking Diggler design I made, like how much would that cost" and he's like sure here's the work and materials cost and tbh it's always always less than i think it's going to be. you just have to do some basic arithmetic and then order shipping, and I hate order fulfillment with my life but you can actually pay or barter with someone to do that for you too. learn to delegate and then factor that into your unit cost. this is basic shit every commercial creator needs to know. they should teach you this in art school but they dont

don't give me crap about "I can't afford a laser cutter" either because I just told you to email Keith. and all these machines get sold secondhand when a manufacturer or hobbyist needs to upgrade. i got a color laser printer perfect for making zines and wheatpastes and shipping labels from a retired lesbian on capital hill for $75 and it was still full of ink. my friend gave me her 20 year old canon dslr because she just didn't need it and didn't want to bother selling it. it works fine because I spent the time finding the right drivers and shit for my computer. and card readers exist. Craigslist. Facebook marketplace. nextdoor sales section. eBay. everyone always forgets eBay. eBay lets you save searches and will email you when it finds a guy selling his vinyl plotter in your city with local pickup. I'm serious

[aj-lenoire]

this whole night at the museum meets assassin’s creed narrative is so bizarre and then they just had to throw in the notoriously french minions for some reason

[leona-florianova]

Vulpes Inculta

|ko-fi|

[nouverx]

Was originally just supposed to be a quick painting sketch but I got carried away 🙈

[krmayerillustration]

Kodama in the forest, with the Great Forest Spirit walking quietly behind them. Growing, private things, with no mind to keep the scars of war.

On Etsy

[galactic-feelins]

This’ll probably be my last submission for @green-with-envy-phandom-event this year. This line art is from @wynterfay (I hope I have the correct @ down)

For once I tried manually placing stars for accuracy! Bet you can guess which two constellations I managed to fit in there, but it may be a bit tricky :3 It may not be 1-to-1 accurate, I did eyeball it after all, but they are in fact next to each other!

Final thoughts under the cut.

This event has been a great learning experience for me and I had so so much fun! I’ve learned a lot about how Procreate works, how to use the tools it provides, and to stop using procreate and go back to Sketchbook. (Took a whole year to figure that out TwT) You might be able to tell I colored this and the Inkling Danny in Autodesk Sketchbook! I’ll probably continue to use Procreate for animation until I find a better software I can use on my iPad, but for now it seems Procreate is not for me after all. The past week of using Autodesk Sketchbook has been freeing and I hope it brings better quality with it!

Also I’ve never done ambient soft lighting like this before as far as I can tell! Any drawings I could find from the past several years have had distinct and direct light sources and an overall direction the light is coming from! I hope I did this one the justice it deserves at least!

[smtown-tourist]

SHINee heard the ai Jonghyun voice allegations and were like

“Bitch, WHERE?????”

[velvetcake96]

Lil sleepy Tyo Nen illustration that I made while sick:

Notes: Yes that’s Jjuf’s Shirt, and yes Hamil did her hair when she woke up more. :)

[fyllophobia]

[ultraviolet-ink]

Diversity Win: The Burglars are Gay Lovers!

I've been messing around and I've created how I see both Raffles and Bunny while I read the stories! I really wanted to experiment with different shapes, and I think it really came together!! :D I've been messing around and I've created how I see both Raffles and Bunny while I read the stories! I really wanted to experiment with different shapes, and I think it really came together!! :D I absolutely love how Raffles came out, he really does have this sort of mischievous energy around him, and Bunny's eyes are so wonderful!! Whatever you say princess!! <3 The mini comic is actually a reference to the 1977 series! It's very good, I highly recommend it!! I'm always down to infodump about them, so if you're ever interested, please feel free to send an ask! :D

[sigomaru]

mario, the referee

[nadiadibaj]

These brushes are painted in a messy way so that they can be used in the work from distance and small size.

they give the work more detail and impressive visual effect without the need to spend any time. Download HERE!

[emeraldoodles]

Good Morning.

Wanted to be nice and draw Serizawa getting a good night's rest. I imagine Serizawa is really into some classic retro animes/media so I added Space Battleship Yamato and Super Sentai posters.

I could have just decided on a light source like a normal person, instead I did a layout of Serizawa's studio apartment.

[bufferingbabe]

Nicki knew Megan was a Special Grade Sorcerer, but she’d ate Special Grade Sorcerers up before and thought this would be no biggy…

What Nicki didn’t know was Megan activating her innate technique ‘Megan’s Law’, whilst inside her ‘Hot Girl Summer’ cursed domain, allows her to access her shikigami technique ‘Thee Stallion’ for as long as the prison sentence bestowed upon her victim by ‘Megan’s Law’ is active.

Nicki’s prison sentence was 8 years.

And with that, Megan left the fight with no crumbs…

(Saw this tiktok of Megan Thee Stallion and Nicki Minaj’s beef in the Jujustu Kaisen universe and just had to expand on her technique. Because what’s a JJK fight scene without at least 3 pages explaining the characters next move?)

original tiktok link: https://vm.tiktok.com/ZGehU6JxR/

[ismyteadoneyet]

Okay so

Um

Gang I think I might be out-doing my throne room fanart for Legendborn soon 💀

The thing I'm working on rn has me in a bit of disbelief actually. A little insane, even.

It's gonna take me a lil bit to finish bcs I want it to be a three-part comic-panel kinda thingy (so far, the vision is vision-ing), but I feel the urge to yell about it because I'm once again asking myself how the fck did I do that

Sneak Peeks/WIPS under the read more because, as always, I am very impatient and way too excited to wait to gush about this until they're finished jdjdjdbd 😭😭😭

I also want to apologize in advance to my fellow Legendbornians who have read Bloodmarked and will, upon opening the read-more, know exactly what scene this is from lmao

[dawnthefluffyduck]

I think i doubt my ability to work faster under stress too much