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Hey all, it’s been a while.

In case you haven’t guessed, I’ve mostly migrated off of tumblr (even before this recent bought of nonsense.) I’ll leave this blog up as a resource, but I probably won’t be posting anymore. 

If you’d like to keep up with what I’m doing nowadays (or you want to rant with me about dnd) you can find me on

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Additionally, I’ve also started streaming on twitch! I do chill art streams, as well as request days, and of course I’m still answering questions about how to art. 

https://www.twitch.tv/peabeajay

(I’m actually streaming right now :0)

It’s been real, but I think my time on this blog is done for now. - Poet

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Sketchbook Tips

Here are some things that I, personally like to do when drawing in a sketchbook. I am by no means a professional, but these tips just make drawing in a sketchbook a more enjoyable experience for me.

- Treat the first page like any other page. There’s always a lot of first page stress for me, so I’ve stopped bothering to try to create a masterpiece on the very first page.

- Practice is good, but that doesn’t mean you shouldn’t draw something you’ve already drawn a thousand times. Try doing a mix of practice and whatever your favorite things to draw are.

- Experiment! My sketchbook is filled with a bunch of different mediums. Whatever it may be, a sketchbook is a great place to experiment, especially with things you haven’t tried much of yet. I tried making a collage for the first time just recently, and it was a lot of fun.

- It’s your sketchbook. Do what you want.

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Heyyy there Anon! No that’s not weird at all!! Sorry I couldn’t answer your ask directly, Tumblr loves to completely butcher image quality if I directly respond to your ask.. but anyway, usually if...

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How do you color the lines in your art? How do you color in general?

this is how i fully colour stuff! 

sometimes i prefer using only the base + shading cheeks, then colouring the lines only because i don’t want to take up too much time (usually when making merch)

character is tori himemiya from ensemble stars!

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WHEN U SPOT A MISTAKE ON A DRAWING IMMEDIATELY AFTER POSTING IT

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Library books art hack by @danarune on Twitter

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how do you make ur art look like its glowing?? it's gorgeous!!

I’ll give you a weird secret.  After you put the glowing object on a dark background, surround the white parts with a halo of highly saturated color.  Observe:

It doesn’t have to be that blatant- smaller outlines of color, blended properly with the background, can make an equally effective glow-y look :)

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how to draw arms ? ? 

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Sketching Tips

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How do you draw noses?

I’m not sure what specific part you’re wondering about, so here’s a run-through of my process from sketching to painting!

1) The first thing I do is simplify the nose into a few basic shapes to get a prism-like block, like so:

2) I can now easily draw the prism shape in three-dimensional space depending on the angle and rotation of the head.

3) Using the guidelines/planes I can draw a proper nose in any angle! There aren’t many tricks or shortcuts for this step, unfortunately (other than practicing lots). I recommend using references, they’re always helpful :)

4) Really important to note: all noses vary greatly, especially from different ethnicities! A high-bridge “aristocratic” sort of nose or a ski-slope button nose might be accurate for some people, but definitely not everyone. Compare differences in size, width, a hooked or button nose tip, high or low nose bridge, and so on:

5) Then I paint! I have a skin tone tutorial here, if it helps. Take note of the lighting, skin tone, etc. Here are some things I keep in mind:

For pale skin tones, the nose sometimes has a redder colouration than the rest of the face because of increased blood flow.

The nose also usually has highlights (due to oil). These are located on the tip of the nose, the nostril groove, and where the base of the nose meets the flat area of skin around it!

Hope this helps! In the end, all stylistic choices are completely up to you. Art’s subjective, so feel free to draw any noses you want :)

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Sheet for lady fern and the final lineup of all three ferns together. In real life both the sensitive and lady ferns can grow to 3 feet in optimal conditions, but I wanted more height variety for the environment. 

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Eyes and butts?

the most important parts.

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if ur an artist, rb this and tag what ur favorite specific thing/feature to draw is. i’ll go first: hands

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This is a great breakdown of how to learn to do proportions by eye, as well as observation in general.

Drawing for Accuracy: Tips + Exercise

If you enjoy Art-Res, please consider saying hi at @astrikos​! :D 

Sometimes it’s pretty hard to develop your eye for seeing, or drawing more accurately from life/reference. It’s important to do this so you can draw things from memory and learn proportions. Definitely challenging and frustrating, but worth working exercises like this often.

Having intuition for perspective and proportion is useful because I find the grid method and constantly measuring stuff out too meticulously for every sketch to be annoying. Of course, when trying to mirror a reference, those techniques can be helpful.

My general tips as of now are: 

look at negative space, those shapes are surprisingly helpful

look back and forth from reference and try to spot your errors

flip reference upside down if it’s a pic you can turn over.

first establish big shapes, then break it down into more simple forms. Helps avoid huge errors in perspective and form,

Have an idea of the proportions of the subject you’re drawing to make life easier so you know what you need to double check when you measure something.

Try to guess first, then measure if needed. This helps you train your intuition and not mindlessly copy.

Exercise

Made an exercise that’s easier to do digitally, though you could do it traditionally if you print your ref photo & a lightbox or window. 

Layers have names and brief directions + an example.

Krita file | PSD file 

Actually more detailed directions

Here is a set of kind of random & chaotic steps that you can follow: 

 The first step is to find a reference photo on unsplash.com or wherever that allows you to use references freely w/o copyright problems. Then you drag that to the part where it says drag photo here. Don’t hide it yet. 

On Freehand layer, mark some major landmark like the outline of the face w/o any inner details. Or for an extra challenge, just mark a top and bottom line for some landmark of your choice. 

Hide the reference photo layer completely. 

Now draw freehand from the reference photo that’s off to the side somewhere. You aren’t tracing it. 

Now when you feel good about your freehand, turn back the reference photo layer back on. At this point, to keep things less crowded, probably hide the freehand layer. 

On corrected trace over, trace out forms and shapes and contours. 

Unhide the freehand layer and now compare how off you were. At this point, you can freehand in  another color and see if you can get closer. For my example, I tried doing it twice. You can do it a million times!

Hope this helps you!

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listen binch. no one has an original style. no one pulls a unique style of art out of their ass. we get to where we are through observing others and being influenced by them and that’s how art works

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My friend @nuclear333 asked me how I shaded hair and I promised her a hair shading tutorial, which of course became a hair…everything…tutorial.

Lots of great tutorials have already been been made on the subject so here’s me throwing in my own two cents. The usual disclaimers apply: this is how I think of hair when I draw it, and is by absolutely no means the only way, or even necessarily a correct way, to do it. I’m always happy to hear about how others approach the same subject!