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Did an art style analysis of Reverse:1999 which has some of the best character portraits, hope it’s helpful to others

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what they dont tell you is that value is way way more important than color in painting, esp digital painting since you can alter the color super late in the process. like value is literally makes the entire painting

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Reminder:

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Everyone asked for it, so here it is :)

hope it helps!

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Clothes and Folds Tutorial by fakhear

Support the artist and visit their Etsy!

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ANHEDONIA REMEDIES!

GET YOUR ANHEDONIA REMEDIES HERE!

if you are lost in the rut, i am begging you to read this essay by Sasha Chapin suggesting what, essentially, my take, are potential jump-starts back into living life in real time. like actually experiencing experiences

do it now! don’t lose months, years, or decades! there is a life beyond doomscrolling, and it’s finite (sorry. sorry. i know okay)

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Final/Part 4: Messing with straight hair!

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Part 3: Combining shapes, braids, and textures! And utilizing parts and fros!

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Part 2: shape, style, and length with femme styles!

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Okay I JUST realized I never posted these on here—- BUT BASICALLY, about a year and a half ago I started doing these experimental black hairstyle posts that were threads long on Twitter, to give artists a source of inspo for their black ocs whose hair they wanted to try something new with! There’s more to black hair than just the selected styles portrayed in media, and I thought it would be fun to show people how much texture, shape, fades, length, and style can be combined when drawing black hair—-cause it’s a kind of manipulation our hair can do irl! The OG posts were lost with the hacking of my original Twitter account (@/bagels_donuts) but I’ve since reuploaded the whole thread to my new Twitter (@/ItsDonutsFR)! I hope artists on tumblr find these useful, sorry it took me so long to post them here😭🙏🏾 I’ll upload them all in parts!

Part 1: Long masc hairstyles + playing with fades

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Northern Neighbours (Patterns)

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Can i ask where you got the knitting pattern for the loon sweater ur currently making? Its looking really beautiful !

thanks so much! i got it from this etsy store, they have a couple other designs from the same source toooo

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Exercises for all the homies who want to have a long career drawing.

The true problem with being an artist and drawing all day (as I wanted my whole life) is that human backs are not designed to hold that position, so it is very common for artists and designers to have really stiff shoulder blades, creating a chain of muscle strain towards the arm AND the back… and a lot of pain.

These are some physical exercises for artists and honestly anyone who works at a desk.

(all credit to my physiotherapist)

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You have beautiful drawings, I just want to tell you how much I enjoy them

I have a question, what is “flocking”? Is it a drawing technique ?

hey thank you for saying so! :)

flocking is a group drawing activity started by @knuppitalism-with-ue on his paleostream discord server. people can propose prehistoric animals to draw, and every friday a bunch of people get together on discord/twitch to draw the four taxa that got the most votes. we have twenty minutes per piece, and then joschua showcases them on twitch and gives feedback about design and accuracy where applicable. it's a really fun way to practice paleoart since everyone is really willing to share resources and materials for reconstructions, and you get to draw plenty of creatures that otherwise might be overlooked by mainstream dinosaur fans! (i'm kinda behind on posting my flocking pieces from the past few weeks but this ask has pushed me to get them back in the queue so thank you for that also.)