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I think next time I'm at the studio instead of working on the Big Piece i might just find someone's sona or oc something to try and draw so. I guess taking suggestions/requests? It'll be next wednesday that i work on anything (this is mostly aimed at people with furry/animal ocs and such, if nobody reaches out I'll just go looking for someone that seems open to having their characters drawn)

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pre-multichrome scan of a moony painting. as per usual

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Continued last week's moony wip with a process recording and i think i like it better than my first video attempt, so later I'll try and edit it down into something watchable (it's currently about 2 hours long)

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Mewmie sketch to continue next week or smthn

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I've been able to restart going to the studio recently, just haven't completed anything i feel like posting yet. Maybe soon. Definitely in a better position to take watercolour commissions now so if I can make a more visually pleasing post to advertise with I might start putting myself out there again

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Windstone Editions

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Because a few have asked

Teaboot's Super Okay Guide To Developing A Brain That Makes Art Work

Or: How to get your eyes to talk directly to your hands without your brain micromanaging you

Or: How to draw better

⚠️ Warning for super fast gifs cause they all gotta be 5 seconds or less or else my phone shits the bed ⚠️

1. Do the following exercises. Don't just think about doing them or figure out a clever way to not do them, just do them. Yes even the boring ones and the ones that look ugly

2. If you have any pride, crush it. Kill it. Crunch it up into itty bitty bits and feed it to the ducks at the park. You have no talent and don't know anything and everything you make is hot garbage. Believe that. Make yourself believe that. That is where you live now. Surrender any indignation or shame you have to the void and embrace rock bottom.

3. Read step 2 again and actually do it this time. My methods will not work if you try to make this process pretty. Don't.

4. No drawing from your imagination on these. Actually draw from real life. If it's boring like eating day old oatmeal in in beige room but your usual art still feels wonky then I'm talking to you specifically. You can't write poetry until you learn words and yes learning words is as dull as horseshit sometimes but do you wanna be Robert Frost or not

5. Pick up some cheap paper and a ballpoint pen. Grab a small object, between the size of your hand and the size of a microwave. Set a timer for fifteen minutes. Put the tip of your pen to the paper and press "start".

Now without looking at your paper, only looking at the object, draw the object in as much detail as you can. Do not break contact between the paper and the pen tip until the timer goes off.

This is a continuous line drawing, and you're doing it in pen because you need to know what rock bottom looks like and rock bottom looks like no eyes no erasers no shading no do-overs.

6. Sit down in a public place. As someone walks by, draw their their body in as much accuracy as you can before they are no longer in view. Once you can't see them anymore, the drawing is done. No adding details. Pick someone else and do it again. No "base sketch". Just them. If it barely looks human you're doing great

7. Get a black pen. Put a small object on a dark, flat surface. Now draw the surface without drawing the object. Don't draw the outline of the object. Don't do a sketch. Just draw the surface that is visible around the object until only a silhouette remains. No time limit just do it.

The ability to draw accurate proportions from sight comes from learning to see what exists between a thing and the absence of a thing and if that hurts to think about then you need to do it more

8. Keep doing these until you are Ready.

9. You will know when you are Ready. It will make sense when you are Ready. You will Understand.

10. Unwind with some goofy shit so you don't forget why you wanna improve to begin with

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Now that im home i can actually scan things again. Anyone wanna help me pay for dinner with a sketch or something?

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IM HOOOOME I GET TO MAKE A REAL MEEEEAALLL

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my problem is that i need my art to be seen and appreciated in order to stay motivated in making art but also i refuse to post anything less than perfect

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FESTER'S SPECIAL PARTY TRICK!! BECOME RIBBONS!!

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It's not got a whole lot on it yet but i did make a bluesky, its averagehound :]

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our horrible game has a carrd now instead of a shitty google doc yay https://gowizard.carrd.co/

co-created with @creachr (technically probably unfinished. every game is a playtest and we are yet to not find something scrungly about it)

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idea ive been thinking about. giving an in depth analysis of your own artwork and the details in it.i think it would be very interesting to see from others

i also feel this would be a great way to comment on art from others (like i liked this part because so and so and showing exactly what you mean) but obviously most people wouldnt be ok with their art being drawn over like that

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reblog to bap prev with your paw

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You’ve seen those photos of dogs snapped through catching a treat, with just the silliest faces? I see those and raise you: a tiger catching meatballs.

This is Kali, a Sumatran tigress at the Point Defiance Zoo & Aquarium in Tacoma.