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All of your OCs with their epic revelations and plot twists while my main OC's biggest twist is that he's able to read and write ¯⁠\⁠(⁠°⁠_⁠o⁠)⁠/⁠¯

His name is Francisco by the way.

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Hi, long time no see ◖⁠⚆⁠ᴥ⁠⚆⁠◗

After an awful lot of time here I'm again with a Princess Tutu fanart, this time of the great Princess Kraehe!

It is not my best painting but I started to draw it in February and it was time to finish it.

But you know what? I'm pretty proud of the lineart so here it is:

Months after finishing Princess Tutu, I still recommend it.

I seriously can't believe so few people know about this gem (⁠ ⁠；⁠∀⁠；⁠)

By the way, I'm looking for fics to read, so any recommendation is pretty appreciated.

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AI disturbance overlays for those who don't have Ibis paint premium. found them on tiktok

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This month I read The Infernal Devices and I thought a friend might like the setting so I recommended them to her.

My friend doesn’t read, my friend watched that weird Shadowhunters movie years ago and thought it was weird and never got interested in Shadowhunters again, the book wasn’t in our local bookstore so there was to be the ebook or nothing.

CAN YOU BELIEVE SHE READ THEM?!

And she loved them and for the first time in my life I had someone to talk about books with and fangirl over Will Herondale and James Castairs 🥹

I can't believe how lucky I am. I just read an amazing trilogy and got a reading buddy in the process (⁠≧⁠▽⁠≦⁠)

I think being able to share the books with a friend made me enjoy them even more.

Anyway these are two simple drawings of how we imagine Will and Jem.

Someday I want to make a proper fanart of them with better faces and a less monochromatic look.

Sorry, I can't help but imagine Jem with the fluffiest hair in London.

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Hey, has anyone else seen Princess Tutu?

You know, the surreal anime about ballerinas having ballet battles that seems to have been erased from history?

Well, all this time I was watching it while taking a break from Tsubasa Chronicles and I couldn't resist drawing Ahiru. She's so cute!

Maybe I went too far with the lighting and effects but I don't regret anything (⁠~⁠‾⁠▿⁠‾⁠)⁠~

Seriously, if you don't know Princess Tutu give it a watch, it goes far beyond ballet battles 😉

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I recently read the entire Sakura Card Captor manga for the first time and I had the urge to make a fanart of Yue.

In case you haven't noticed, this is my banner for now.

Now it's time to read Tsubasa Chronicles, I was warned that it will break my heart but it looks promising.

Thoughts?

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Just now I discovered that Ibis Paint has an ANIMATION FEATURE

Yep, pretty late...

Anyway, here is a little animation test I made, I have never animated anything so it is not the coolest thing but I'm a little proud :3

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This is so helpful! It would have been nice to have this when I started but the resources are always welcome

Thank you so much :)

Can't afford art school?

After seeing post like this 👇

And this gem 👇

As well as countless of others from the AI generator community. Just talking about how "inaccessible art" is, I decided why not show how wrong these guys are while also helping anyone who actually wants to learn.

Here is the first one ART TEACHERS! There are plenty online and in places like youtube.

📺Here is my list:

Proko (Free)

Marc Brunet (Free but he does have other classes for a cheap price. Use to work for Blizzard)

Aaron Rutten (free)

BoroCG (free)

Jesse J. Jones (free, talks about animating)

Jesus Conde (free)

Mohammed Agbadi (free, he gives some advice in some videos and talks about art)

Ross Draws (free, he does have other classes for a good price)

SamDoesArts (free, gives good advice and critiques)

Drawfee Show (free, they do give some good advice and great inspiration)

The Art of Aaron Blaise ( useful tips for digital art and animation. Was an animator for Disney)

Bobby Chiu ( useful tips and interviews with artist who are in the industry or making a living as artist)

Second part BOOKS, I have collected some books that have helped me and might help others.

📚Here is my list:

The "how to draw manga" series produced by Graphic-sha. These are for manga artist but they give great advice and information.

"Creating characters with personality" by Tom Bancroft. A great book that can help not just people who draw cartoons but also realistic ones. As it helps you with facial ques and how to make a character interesting.

"Albinus on anatomy" by Robert Beverly Hale and Terence Coyle. Great book to help someone learn basic anatomy.

"Artistic Anatomy" by Dr. Paul Richer and Robert Beverly Hale. A good book if you want to go further in-depth with anatomy.

"Directing the story" by Francis Glebas. A good book if you want to Story board or make comics.

"Animal Anatomy for Artists" by Eliot Goldfinger. A good book for if you want to draw animals or creatures.

"Constructive Anatomy: with almost 500 illustrations" by George B. Bridgman. A great book to help you block out shadows in your figures and see them in a more 3 diamantine way.

"Dynamic Anatomy: Revised and expand" by Burne Hogarth. A book that shows how to block out shapes and easily understand what you are looking out. When it comes to human subjects.

"An Atlas of animal anatomy for artist" by W. Ellenberger and H. Dittrich and H. Baum. This is another good one for people who want to draw animals or creatures.

Etherington Brothers, they make books and have a free blog with art tips.

As for Supplies, I recommend starting out cheap, buying Pencils and art paper at dollar tree or 5 below. For digital art, I recommend not starting with a screen art drawing tablet as they are more expensive.

For the Best art Tablet I recommend either Xp-pen, Bamboo or Huion. Some can range from about 40$ to the thousands.

💻As for art programs here is a list of Free to pay.

Clip Studio paint ( you can choose to pay once or sub and get updates)

Procreate ( pay once for $9.99)

Blender (for 3D modules/sculpting, ect Free)

PaintTool SAI (pay but has a 31 day free trail)

Krita (Free)

mypaint (free)

FireAlpaca (free)

Libresprite (free, for pixel art)

Those are the ones I can recall.

So do with this information as you will but as you can tell there are ways to learn how to become an artist, without breaking the bank. The only thing that might be stopping YOU from using any of these things, is YOU.

I have made time to learn to draw and many artist have too. Either in-between working two jobs or taking care of your family and a job or regular school and chores. YOU just have to take the time or use some time management, it really doesn't take long to practice for like an hour or less. YOU also don't have to do it every day, just once or three times a week is fine.

Hope this was helpful and have a great day.

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Hi, I'm just a little new artist here, nice to meet you :)

This is a little portrait I made the other day to study colours.

She is a princess with no name but maybe one day she'll get one, maybe you can help...

Hope you like it ^^