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oh since it's his birthday I can actually allow myself to drop these... dragon sonic!!

I can't believe I haven't seen anything of that concept yet, it's like peak autism mix

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yes I draw on my phone

yes I use my fingers instead of a stylus

the app i use ibis paint

I mainly stick with the default brushes (digital pen) but I'm trying to branch out more

(I use the drawing paper and dirty paper textures)

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Okay, here's my humble yearly Artfight advice, because with every AF, there's always a bit of an ongoing cycle:

While you can't ever guarantee revenges, your chances of getting art back are always higher if you target people with positive ratios. There's a lot of people on site who have +75% attack ratios (meaning they've drawn way more art than they have received). Go target them! They deserve love AND are way more likely to return art!

DO NOT fall for random celeb tiktokker with 50k followers who is, for the seventh year in a row, promising they will be revenging all the art they get all while their ratio sits at a whooping 5%! There's always some people like this and a lot of younger folk fall for it again and again. And then these people don't even bother with commenting on the art they receive

In my experience, it's younger folk or people who are newer to art that will go more apeshit (affectionate) about the art they receive. If you really wanna make someone's entire week, find yourself someone who is new to AF or someone who has just started drawing and give them a lil something, they will adore it!

Artfight can be a great opportunity to make friends. I've met some wonderful people through exchanging art there. Use the search function to find characters tagged as things you have an interest in and go ham. Chances are, you may meet someone with similar interests who may end up becoming a long term friend.

While receiving revenges is great, don't try to guilt trip people for them. Don't go around posting comments on people's profiles like "If I draw for you will you revenge me??" Just draw for the person if you'd like to draw for them, don't do it expecting the whole situation to be a transaction

A lot of people will mention in their profiles whether they are revenging or not. It's a good idea to check that out if you are interested in revenges- But never take these as a 100% guarantee

Comment on art you have received! It doesn't need to be a deep comment. Sometimes gushing over it and dropping 30 emojis and a big thank you gets the point across. It can be rather daunting to not receive any confirmation that the person you drew for even saw the art you made for them.

And honestly, just be honest with yourself and how much art you can make without burning out or hurting yourself. Make your stretches, rest your hand, and try to have fun without sacrificing your health on the way!

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Victini and Pikachu ko-fi doodle for Toma! ⚡

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i am ill and barely coherent which means i can finally draw as raw and mindlessly as i please. go my reydau

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We will be there! Come say hi!

I will be at Dokomi and Dutch Comic Con with my art collective upcoming and next weekend!!! Look at my wares boy.

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Cunt(y) Malzeno

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Rey Dau Plush

Plush FINALLY completed after starting it in January, then putting it off until recently, probably because this was quite an intimidating project with all the details I can muster on this. It all worked out in the end and is now my most complex piece.

I want to thank those who have been following the progress on this. There will be more Monster Hunter plushies ahead in the next coming months.

As always, stay crafty, friends, and happy hunting!

Yes, I do commissions on a first-come, first-served basis. Information on it is pinned on my page, and my messages are open for questions and free quotes. There is a waitlist, so I will not take your commission immediately.

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Something I try to keep in mind when making art that looks vintage is keeping a limited color pallette. Digital art gives you a very wide, Crisp scope of colors, whereas traditional art-- especially older traditional art-- had a very limited and sometimes dulled use of color.

This is a modern riso ink swatch, but still you find a similar and limited selection of colors to mix with. (Mixing digitally as to emulate the layering of ink riso would be coloring on Multiply, and layering on top of eachother 👉)

If you find some old prints, take a closer look and see if you can tell what colors they used and which ones they layered... a lot of the time you'll find yellow as a base!

Misprints can really reveal what colors were used and where, I love misprints...

Something else I keep in the back of my mind is: how the human eye perceives color on paper vs. a screen. Ink and paint soaks into paper, it bleeds, stains, fades over time, smears, ect... the history of a piece can show in physical wear. What kind of history do you want to emulate? Misprinted? Stained? Kept as clean as possible, but unable to escape the bluing damages of the sun? It's one of my favorite things about making vintage art. Making it imperfect!

You can see the bleed, the wobble of the lines on the rug, the fading, the dirt... beautiful!!

Thinking in terms of traditional-method art while drawing digital can help open avenues to achieving that genuine, vintage look!

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Golden Queen

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I love experimenting with style

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Malzeno!

I've been going through all my old monster hunter art

he was my favorite fight in all of sunbreak <3

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"Breach of Dawn"

First full painting of the new year, after a very long week. 💔

Prints of Lugia and Ho-oh available in my store. ✨️💛✨️