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sum limited palette painting studies

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can science explain the reason why i cant even bring myself to pick up this mf eraser on the ground, i literally just need to bend down and get it but nah...ill do everything but pick this up. ill get up, make a sandwich, get water, but picking up that eraser is too much work, ill do it later

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when r you coming backk??

coming back from where 🤣

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so

…kirishima

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Hello 😇👋,

Our family is facing incredibly difficult times due to the ongoing war in Gaza 💔. Our dreams and future have been shattered, leaving us feeling lost and without purpose. Anas and Ahmad have launched a GoFundMe campaign to help them escape Gaza, continue their education, and support our family.

Making a small donation or sharing the campaign would mean the world to us.

Link: https://gofund.me/8eb29f87

Thank you so much for your kindness and support 💖

With gratitude,

Anas & Ahmed Family

Vetted by @90-ghost & by association

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Quick little video tutorial! This is a method I use to block in shapes when I’m fighting the urge to polish my lineart at an early stage, especially in rough concept art that doesn’t actually need polished lineart.

I group two layers in photoshop—a rough sketch, and a flat color—and then carve out the negative space by painting into a mask on the group, instead of filling in the positive shapes. From there I can start painting and adding shading into that group, knowing that I’ve already locked down a good initial silhouette for the object/character:

It feels like oil painting, and I end up finding silhouettes/shapes in a way I wouldn’t if I was obsessively cleaning up the linework first. Digital art has a tendency to veer towards cleanliness/polish, so I love finding little opportunities for happy accidents and a bit of mess!

I used it on my unicorn piece last month, for instance, which I think would have lost a lot of its dynamism and charm if I had worried too much about doing a full ink pass:

Hope this is at all helpful!  It’s not a method I use 100% of the time, but it really helps move my process along when I do need it 👍🏼

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to those who were asking abt my twt acc, just lyk that im in bsky under the same username as here (cynicallyneutral) so...yep

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this drunksuke in my puter from a year ago

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Honestly it boils down to reparenting yourself & rewiring your own neuronal pathways & telling yourself a firm “stop” when you notice your mind slipping down negative loopholes & being present in the moment & enjoying being mid task rather than waiting for it to end & not thinking of inertia as your baseline and natural way of living

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any other artist out there feeling like they're fundamentally uncreative. not in a sense of being unable to make art, but in the sense that the results of your artistic labour are predictable, stagnant, a dime a dozen. like the creativity flowing through the artists you admire is a bone in their body that you were born without.

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sometimes i think abt how i’d haunt ppl when i turn to a ghost…maybe you’ll hear me cry over how much i want to draw even in the afterlife, or i’ll cry abt my yaois

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bad news! i have no idea what im doing. good news! i will continue nonetheless.

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you know the drill, op disabled reblogs etc etc etc

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I wish it was easier to talk about mobile phone addiction without sounding like a boomer

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Said it a year ago and I’ll say it again.

Pirate all your favorite shows, movies and games while you still have the chance.

Oh, and never stop supporting physical media.