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How did you learn to draw as well as you do? Do you have any tips or advice?

Ah, thank you! I’m still learning a lot myself, but I can try to give some tips! Take me with a grain of salt though because I’m not a great teacher.

1) Simple volumes help so much during planning/sketching. Drawing a few circles and lines just to know where things are can help so much with proportions and posing.

Though of course people make use of them in many ways. Like drawing 3D boxes to get the volume down or just drawing 2D circles to get your bearings.

2) Have fun! Draw what you like, and indulge in whatever you’re interested in. I have also found that fanart is so good for exploring your style and enjoying yourself. I draw my OCs and UTDR stuff a lot because I just love them so much, and I’ve been seeing improvement.

3) Use reference! Also it’s crucial to remember, because I struggle with this so much, (this applies more to a stylized look) you don’t have to copy every detail you see.

For the longest time I avoided reference because whenever I drew it, the drawing look nothing like the image. You are not using reference to just draw the image, you are studying how certain things look in that image. How clothing folds, how you can show those folds in a simpler way. How the body bends and overlaps, and how you can try to visualize that in a way that’s easy to draw.

I have found that drawing my OCs doing or wearing whatever I’m studying to be so helpful.

4) Get feedback! If you don’t like how a drawing looks, even a sketch, it can be hard not to just trash it. Maybe from time to time if you’re struggling with something, ask around in friendly communities with artists. It’s helped me before, but I need to do it more often.

5) And last but not least, every artist is unique and special in their own way. Yeah, their styles are all different, but beyond that is our process.

Everyone draws in a different way, down to how we start a drawing. All tips and tricks you hear from artists are based on their own experiences and stuff. I’ve tried so many different methods and they just don’t click with me.

I can’t get the hang of using 3D shapes, so I just don’t usually. I don’t use the line of action a whole lot because it just doesn’t work in my head yet.

It’s all about that sweet practice so you can experiment with a bunch of stuff and figure out what is best for you.

I hope these help, at all?? I’m not great with advice, as my own thoughts are constantly shifting. But I’m very confident in my answers.

Also thank you again!!!!

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last night i had this dream where shrek was turned into a lady ogre and fionna was asked if it was cool with her and she said “yes i am bishrekual” and i woke up crying

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You know, an interesting tumblr transformation that's happened gradually, and which I've seen no one talk about: ask-culture has essentially dropped off to nothing.

By which I mean, asks used to be WAY more of the tumblr economy. They used to be more common to send, and receive, and see. They were integral to the collaborative, forum-like behavior of old tumblr communities, not even to speak on the HUGE number of ask-blogs that used to exist to only be interacted with in ask-form.

I'm not saying this in a vying-for-attention way but instead in an observational way: I used to get way way more asks in like 2015, even with a fraction of my follower count. I wonder if it's due to the homogenization of social media sites? There's a lot more of this divide between "content creator" and "consumer" instead of just a bunch of peer blogs who would talk to each other. "Asks" aren't really a thing on twitter, are they? And as I understand it, the closest thing to an "ask" on instagram or tiktok would be a creator screenshotting some comment and responding to it in a new reel or video or whatever those content mediums are. Are asks just too tumblr-specific? Is that aspect of the site culture dying out as more and more people converge to using all their social media sites in the same way?

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So I must talk about this sooner or later.

Hello everybody.

There's something I've been meaning to tell you.

Last month, during the rollout of "The Stars Shift Every Million Years" EP, I sent the album for review to my friends, a few of them being musicians with more experience and advertisement agency friends. While the reviews were lukewarm, they offered to help me in future projects, becoming a group of advisors. 

While it means better production and overall sound, it also means that my output will become slower, and due to recent analysis and back-and-forth decisions, I decided to put more attention to my side-projects.

Don't get it wrong, I still will make music under the jioni name, I won't be as active as I used to be anymore. Please understand that this doesn't mean I will stop being part of the fandom; I've made my closest friends in this fandom, and it's been the community I call home for years. I won't retire my music made under "Jioni was here" from Spotify and Bandcamp; it will stay there for the foreseeable future. 

And as for my new main project? Well, you will find them out soon. I know most of you won't follow me through this new path. But I'm still going to be thankful for your support.

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Palindrome!

4/20/24

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Gregg

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Fun fact: Palindrome is also a palindrome if you spell it in a wildly inaccurate way

Palindrome!

4/20/24

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Does this imply other colored iPod shuffles aren't allowed? What about Nanos, classic iPods, other non-Apple MP3 players, PSPs and 3DS systems since they can also play MP3s?

Trains love physical media and hate your streaming, that's why the wifi is always broken, they want you to bring a portable DVD player or a Walkman or a cd player or something for the media you consume to be owned by you, it's an act of love

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if the universe were not so cruel the "Tailor Swift" would be a beautiful bird that elegantly sews its nest together

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this weekend I modeled about 80% of this really fuckin awesome custom character design i got from @obscure-entity : )

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Someone please redraw the forty cakes meme but with Mojo Jojo

What

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Reblogging cuz @wulfums came up with the term Crittersona and it has inspired me, I am definitely considering redesigning them now

Just remembered my Smiling Friends oc named Krayben and honestly they're a mood

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Crittersona is such a good name for a Smiling Friends oc omg

presents my crittersona and scurries away but i smack into a wall and die