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the way you use shapes in your art is absolutely phenomenal... is there any particular way you approach shape design? or do you just go off of intuition?

Thank you lovely anon for your kind words! I do everything on a wing and a prayer but I’ll share my process with you!

Initially I just try to get everything down in blobs. I don’t use references so this is all a terrible, freehand mess, but at this point I am prioritising colours and placement and not thinking too hard about the final design. Here are my initial sketches for this stage:

Now it is time to think about the shapes. To avoid tears I use a grid - here I’m using an isometric one. You can think of geometric motifs in terms of shapes being pieced together, in much the same way a quilter would. (If you have procreate there are two lovely grid overlays that give you nice straight lines if you turn on drawing assist.)

Here is what things look like with the overlay and after fixing into place; you can see I did this in two parts in the drawing process after randomly changing my mind about the colours.

Now I’ve got everything neatly in place I can turn off the grid to add detail or move things about - all I’ve done here is curved some of the straight edges and added some gradient detail. Here is the overall process all together:

I hope this helps but please do let me know if you need further clarification! Also bear in mind that pre-2017 I did all this in photoshop on an intuos 3 without grids by coping and pasting the shape tool (I categorically do not recommend this method.) If anyone else has any questions, I’ll try my best to help whoever who needs it. 💖

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🍄 🐸 🌷 🥀 🐌 // poison garden // gouache on hot press paper

everything pictured in this piece is a poison: henbane in blue, belladonna in green, amanita muscaria in red, rosy bonnet in pink, lily of the valley, strawberry poison dart frogs, hickory tussock moth & caterpillar, ladybug. not the snails, though! they're just hanging.

[id: an illustrative gouache painting on a dark background. lush intertwined botanicals with textured blue and green leaves weave between red, white, and pink flowers. red frogs and ladybugs perch on stems, colorful pink and red mushrooms burst from the ground, and a moth hangs off a leaf. snails stroll quietly over the tops of mushrooms and along the ground. /end id]

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makeup by Monticha Sriyoschati

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Mary Sully, John Philip Sousa, 1927–1945. Colored pencil and ink on paper; 12 7/8 by 18 inches (top panel), 12 by 19 inches (center panel), 9 ½ by 12 inches (bottom panel)

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Funky this was supposed to be a doodle how did it end up like this anyway I got a lot of the funny scavs here on tumblr because everyone either kills them or loves them.

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Inktober Day 04: Dodge Also, with these - Tumblr's GIF system sometime compresses them in odd ways. To view full-quality check out my Instagram

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Paper Mache Bee Models by Dr. Louis Thomas Jerôme Auzoux (1797-1880)

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invertober day 4, emerald green snail!!

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1972 fashions from Japan

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i hate that every time i look for color studies and tips to improve my art and make it more dynamic and interesting all that comes up are rudimentary explanations of the color wheel that explain it to me like im in 1st grade and just now discovering my primary colors

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New Coraline design drop

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Day 17: Blue Morpho (derpy mode)

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John Cooke (British, 1929–2018) - Winter Evening, My Studio

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More Leandra 💀

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same old, same old

[ print available here ! ]

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G: My beautiful creepycat, Sandwich.