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Happy plagueiversary

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Guess who's back.

Miku, my emotional support voice bank🩵

Opening the year with Miku Fanart

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Dress

I was also

Running

Out of time on this one lol

*badum tss*

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Day 2.

Fuck working on the garden, my homies and I hate working in the garden

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Day 1

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Meshuggah Obzen miku

Saw the trend on Twitter, and couldn't resist

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I absolutely love choso, he is one of my fav jujutsu kaisen characters, please follow me on insta, I need the validation haha

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I forgot to post this here weeks ago, now is irrelevant, but I'm glad he is ok :)

I just love to draw him.

Maybe I should mention that my intent for this drawing was to make hill look un alive, as that one chapter, that why I made the eyes without any glow, like when he is usually alive lol, and the shadows were completely intentional! I wanted to have the same area of his face that was destroyed, but without light

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If I saw it, so do you

i bet the dick is insane

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For artists who have problems with perspective (furniture etc.) in indoor scenes like me - there’s an online programm called roomsketcher where you can design a house/roon and snap pictures of it using different perspectives.

It’s got an almost endless range of furniture, doors, windows, stairs etc and is easy to use. In addition to that, you don’t have to install anything and if you create an account (which is free) you can save and return to your houses.

Examples (all done by me):

Here’s an example for how you can use it

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fun fact! google image search allows you to search for images that you are legally allowed to use for example as textures for your art or as assets for your blogs and websites

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I've never actually understood how to do a color study, but I've always wanted to try! Do you have any tutorial recommendations or tips yourself?

it’s such a simple yet hard concept to grasp, right? i’m having loads of trouble starting since there’s no exact tutorial for it, so you’ve gotta broaden your search for the topic.

recommendations:

i recommend watching speedpaints to get a better understanding on how other artists do it

the color study tag on here has loads of pics to take inspiration from

this book called ‘color and light’ by james gurney i’m borrowing from a coworker has tons of stuff that goes deep within the understanding of color (it’s a LOT to take in, i’ve had this for 3 weeks and i still haven’t finished it)

or if you can’t afford buying books there’s also his channel on youtube and you can watch how he picks his colors for his paintings

he has this method on making a really advanced color palette to harmonize your piece together called “gamut masking”

here’s a playlist on color theory which consists of a lecture by richard keyes 

and an entire school session on illustrating and designing, how to get into a better mindset as an artist

tips to getting started on color study:

1) don’t use the eye drop tool if you can. i have a pretty basic understanding on choosing colors so i usually eyeball it instead from reference photos. but if you’re a beginner you need someplace to start, picking colors off the pics would be good, but don’t rely on it too much. it often leaves your drawings pretty bland since you’re straight up copying from the camera lens.

2) keep things quick and simpleyou’re doing a color study, not an environmental study. i’m having trouble with over detailing my pieces but i’m making a conscious effort to stop caring since the main focus here is the colors, their relationship with the surrounding (even the sky has fricking layers i need to properly understand)

3) pick a picture that inspires you!

i usually pick out photos who has a clear contrast on stuff, so you’d wanna work on something that really attracts your eyes. google is a friend, don’t forget that. it’s better to reference of real life photos than fanart, and plus movie still/screencaps are a good place to see how the colors work out together

4) study your fave artist pieces

pick a piece you like the most and study it. what makes it attractive to you? why does this shade of pink go well with this sort of blue? you can color pick the piece and study their pattern in picking colors, some artists are using the same sort of color palette and it makes them stand out. try to find out why and experiment that method on your pieces of artwork. 

so these are the only things that i have on my plate right now, and i still have a loooong way to go, lol. hope it helps!

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I've never actually understood how to do a color study, but I've always wanted to try! Do you have any tutorial recommendations or tips yourself?

it’s such a simple yet hard concept to grasp, right? i’m having loads of trouble starting since there’s no exact tutorial for it, so you’ve gotta broaden your search for the topic.

recommendations:

i recommend watching speedpaints to get a better understanding on how other artists do it

the color study tag on here has loads of pics to take inspiration from

this book called ‘color and light’ by james gurney i’m borrowing from a coworker has tons of stuff that goes deep within the understanding of color (it’s a LOT to take in, i’ve had this for 3 weeks and i still haven’t finished it)

or if you can’t afford buying books there’s also his channel on youtube and you can watch how he picks his colors for his paintings

he has this method on making a really advanced color palette to harmonize your piece together called “gamut masking”

here’s a playlist on color theory which consists of a lecture by richard keyes 

and an entire school session on illustrating and designing, how to get into a better mindset as an artist

tips to getting started on color study:

1) don’t use the eye drop tool if you can. i have a pretty basic understanding on choosing colors so i usually eyeball it instead from reference photos. but if you’re a beginner you need someplace to start, picking colors off the pics would be good, but don’t rely on it too much. it often leaves your drawings pretty bland since you’re straight up copying from the camera lens.

2) keep things quick and simpleyou’re doing a color study, not an environmental study. i’m having trouble with over detailing my pieces but i’m making a conscious effort to stop caring since the main focus here is the colors, their relationship with the surrounding (even the sky has fricking layers i need to properly understand)

3) pick a picture that inspires you!

i usually pick out photos who has a clear contrast on stuff, so you’d wanna work on something that really attracts your eyes. google is a friend, don’t forget that. it’s better to reference of real life photos than fanart, and plus movie still/screencaps are a good place to see how the colors work out together

4) study your fave artist pieces

pick a piece you like the most and study it. what makes it attractive to you? why does this shade of pink go well with this sort of blue? you can color pick the piece and study their pattern in picking colors, some artists are using the same sort of color palette and it makes them stand out. try to find out why and experiment that method on your pieces of artwork. 

so these are the only things that i have on my plate right now, and i still have a loooong way to go, lol. hope it helps!

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i told ya we’ve canceled discourse n we’ve moved on to homesteading skills

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HEY ARTISTS!

Do you design a lot of characters living in not-modern eras and you’re tired of combing through google for the perfect outfit references? Well I got good news for you kiddo, this website has you covered! Originally @modmad made a post about it, but her link stopped working and I managed to fix it, so here’s a new post. Basically, this is a costume rental website for plays and stage shows and what not, they have outfits for several different decades from medieval to the 1980s. LOOK AT THIS SELECTION:

OPEN ANY CATEGORY AND OH LORDY–

There’s a lot of really specific stuff in here, I design a lot of 1930s characters for my ask blog and with more chapters on the way for the game it belongs to I’m gonna be designing more, and this website is going to be an invaluable reference. I hope this can be useful to my other fellow artists as well! :)