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andromeddog · 6 days
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I only recently discovered you art but you're honestly such an inspiration !! also I love your ocs they seem so interesting, so I just wanted to ask what happened to connor's (I think that's his name) knee? I saw in one of your art pieces there was a scar and I'm kinda curious now lol
eheheh oh what a fun ask thank youuu anon! yes that’s beloved boy connor and yes he has a scar on his left knee! lore dump under cut bc i can never shut up
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(i’ve only drawn him full body twice lol so i didn’t have the scar design down on the first pass but u can see i did at least hint at it)
the thing about connor is that he is one overly amped up middle child who craves attention in any form that comes in. he views every person he meets as a rival of some kind and that means he can always “win” in any situation he finds himself in. my beloved scottish infantrymen are all on a rugby team together before they are conscripted and so they get into a lot of physical contact with others and collect various nicks and bruises. connor usually takes this a bit further and occasionally gets into full on altercations because he can’t stand the concept of losing in any capacity to someone lol
before he was on his current team with all of the boys he got into a nasty fight with a teammate on a previous team and that’s how he gets the scar on his knee! a bunch of the team went out for drinks and some playful banter thrown connor’s way got taken poorly (of course it did) and things escalated into a full on bar fight. bottles were thrown, fists were thrown, connor ended up scrapping on the ground with some guy and scraped the absolute shit out of his knee on pavement (force of impact with ground + glass on ground + the ground on the ground) in the midst of everything. he tore up his trousers and his kneecap and his mom was really pissed at him and he got kicked off the team right then and there (in case you are wondering he did technically win the fight) (he only manages to keep playing rugby bc he and peter (another oc) are longtime family friends and peter felt enough pity for connor to offer him a spot on his team) (connor is a really good rugby player despite having the personality of a cactus that is also on fire)
but that’s the gist of it :) connor my beloved you make so many problems for yourself!!! thank you so much for asking i love any excuse to talk about my boyssssssss and connor is such a fun package of self imposed rules of masculinity and a desperate need to be seen
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andromeddog · 10 days
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lieb & web & web again
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andromeddog · 10 days
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snz
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andromeddog · 20 days
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sketchy guys
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andromeddog · 24 days
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HISTORY IS FULL OF WARS: APPLICATION closes 15th ★ for band of brothers, the pacific, masters of the air ★ beginner friendly, 16+
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andromeddog · 24 days
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checkups
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andromeddog · 1 month
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horse time
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andromeddog · 1 month
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HBOWAR ZINE INTEREST CHECK!!!
for band of brothers, the pacific, masters of the air, and generation kill. beginner friendly
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andromeddog · 1 month
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do you do any kind of commissions?!!? im so desperate your art is absolutely spectacular and perfect
hi hello!! thank u very much :3c i don’t really do comms! mostly because i work full time and like to use my free time to draw self indulgently. i am known to take requests though so if there is a particular subject matter you’d like to see send me an ask and i may get to it! i can’t promise anything but i do enjoy drawing stuff for others here and there :)
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andromeddog · 1 month
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hihi i love ur artwork. i was wondering ur opinion on this: is it considered cheating for an artist to trace what they’re going to draw? ex, someone wants to draw george luz and uses a picture of him to trace and then later on touch up details without the picture? thank you!
hi thanks for the ask! short answer is yes i think is a totally normal and good way to learn and become familiar with proportions/likenesses 👍 it’s all good with me babey. longer answer under da cut
but the longer answer. first of all calling tracing “cheating” is such bullshit because it’s been used as a method for artists for literal centuries so idk what their beef is with it. that being said i do think it should be used kind of carefully bc it can develop into a habit of relying too much on the reference and not bettering your own skills.
and maybe this is just me but also it depends on where the reference is coming from- if you’re making your own ref i say go ahead and go nuts with it. i have so many embarrassing pics of myself that ive traced to get the pose down lol. for me ive always had a hard time with feet and use my own shoes regularly to help get an angle/shape right! using like screenshots of a show or something you found online is a little trickier… idk maybe because you didn’t specifically make it? something about that sticks in my head and makes me more hesitant about leaning too heavily on it. but still i’d never say that tracing a screenshot constitutes as “cheating”
i will gladly admit i straight up do trace outside sources when i am confused about proportions or REALLY INSANE about getting likeness done but i do really try to only use it very sparingly if its not a reference i specifically made. and that’s really only in the very beginning stages of a drawing- i’ll make a loose sketch based on the ref, then refine it into a tighter sketch and THEN use the reference to adjust proportions if they are particularly off (or to see if i am off), and then im usually done with the tracing. then i usually have another refining layer and THEN i do finished lineart. i really want to improve my observation skills and knowledge of anatomy/clothing/likeness so trying to work through it without relying on tracing is my goal!
but hey thats just MY process. no one is over your shoulder telling you what you can and cannot do. even i cant tell you what the correct process is! i just think you should use the tools available to you but dont let them interfere with refining your technical skills 👍
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andromeddog · 1 month
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another speirs + timelapse under the cut
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new brush tests
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andromeddog · 1 month
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would you. consider. drawing joe toye.
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yes, for you anon- boy toy joe toye
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andromeddog · 2 months
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a few things
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andromeddog · 2 months
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i just discovered your art and just- wow. where did you learn to draw??
hi wow thanks for the ask!! this is such an interesting question let me see if i can do it justice uuhhhHHHH ive been drawing basically for most of my life but i only rly started taking it seriously/wanting to rly study and improve when i was in junior year of hs i think. then i went to art school (shout out vcuarts) and got my bachelors in communication arts (basically illustration)
since i left school its been a whole thing to keep myself learning. i do figure drawing stuff here and there, i study other artists i admire, i try to keep it fun for myself and also! the past few years i’ve been rly pivoting my professional career to a graphic design + illustration sort of thing and it’s been going well, getting more into design has rly helped with color and hierarchy and composition
THO i have to say while i learned a lot of technical stuff in school i didnt rly feel my work improving until post college… the stuff i made in school was so heinously bad im a little shocked lol (this is where id post some college stuff if my laptop didnt die and lose almost all of my digital work from 2013-2017ish) after college i just…. kept drawing! except it was mostly for my enjoyment which is where i rly began to get better. something about getting to do what i wanted to do instead of what i thought people wanted me to do was really an incentive to keep going
ALSO SHOUT OUT TO 2019 ACADEMY AWARD WINNING FILM 1917 for setting me down a path of insane obsession that years later has me averaging 3-6 hours a day working on uniform and various war related drawings. being disgustingly and obscenely obsessed with something is really how you learn and improve
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andromeddog · 2 months
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i just have to say i am OBSESSED with your art, its literally what made me choose war as the main theme for my art homework WOOPS anyway would you ever share timelapses of your drawings :0
ANON! that is so exciting wow i’m really truly honored that you’ve enjoyed my work so much! i hope you’ll post some of it when/if you can, i would really love to see what you make… also i hope u have fun drawing like five million bags and straps and pockets and helmets and whatnot. i am putting my hands on your shoulders and looking deeply into your eyes and wishing you luck
okay and as for timelapses i don’t really have any of those bc i suffer from chronic “make five illustrations on a huge canvas with 50000 layers” disease and so every video i have is either 45 minutes long or compressed down so far that you can’t even see what im doing… also i flip between layers so much i genuinely think its a seizure warning bc stuff flashes so much. my process is very messy lol. im sorry i wish i had something to give u so here is a sketchy pic of my oc getting ready to snipe someone
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andromeddog · 2 months
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two of them
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