#art hacks

[troythecatfish]

[cowsabungus]

Art Hacks for Physical Disabilities!!

I know art can be inaccessible to physically disabled people for a lot of reasons, and I think art should be accessible to everyone, so here’s a couple of the things I found to help for a few different issues you may face that stop you participating!

I have a link to all these items (UK) in my link tree!!

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Slide one: illustration of a white woman with pink hair, wearing a pink outfit, sitting in a power wheelchair, looking at the viewer with thumbs up. Text Reese “hacks to make art more accessible”

Slide two: illustration of three different kinds, using three different types of pencil grips. One hand uses a circular grip. 100 is a large, rectangular grip. Another uses a grip that is ergonomic and fit into the hand. Main text reads “Paul, grip, strength and dexterity”. Subtext reads “there are loads of different types of pencil, grips or design for different disabilities and conditions. Increasing the width of the pencil can give more texture for a better grip using a pencil with a thicker with also reduces the amounts of pressure needed to hold a pencil you can make your own using items like pool noodles. KT tape an air dry clay. You can also put these groups on things like paint brushes.“

Slide three: illustration of a hand using a tool that looks like a wrist support with a paintbrush connected to it text next to it reads “this talk next a paintbrush to your hand in a way that means you don’t need to hold the paintbrush with your fingers and you will need to move your arm around“ on the bottom right hand corner is in photograph of a guided hand device. Text read “regarded hand as a tool designed to reduce the need for moving your hands and fingers and relies on the movement of your shoulder and upper arms and can be used with different materials like paintbrushes, pencils, pens and styluses.

Slide four: main header reads “when in bed“. Illustration of an iPad pillow with a iPad in it is next to text that reads “iPad pillows, put your tablet at an easier to access level when sitting or lying down“. In the bottom left hand corner is an illustration of a girl sitting in bed in her pyjamas with a pillow behind her and a bed table as she is drawing. On the left hand side is a photograph of a bed table with the text reading “bed tables are used to give you a flat tire up surface while in bed, and are often height adjustable”. In the bottom right hand side is a bedsit, a pillow with the text underneath, reading “ bedsitters of specially shaped pillows that you put behind you in bed to help you set up and give you a soft surface to lean back on”.

Slide five: maisie had a read out “at a desk left”. On the left hand side is a photograph of the document holder with the text “document holders put your paper at an angle to help prevent crane in your neck down”. On the right hand, middle side is an illustration of someone using a armrest and on the bottom left hand side is a photograph of the armrest. Text next to them reads “economic arm rests clip onto your table or desk and give you a surface you lean you’re forearms or elbows on. This can be used to steady your arm and reduce pain and fatigue while sitting at a desk”.

Slide six: maisie reads “foot and mouth painters” . on the right hand side is an photograph of swapping Augustine, an Indian woman with no arms, wearing a sari painting with her left foot. In the bottom left hand corner is an illustration of a woman with green hair painting using her mouth. Text reads “foot and mouth painting is a technique used by artists who do not have, or cannot use their arms so hold the paintbrush in their mouth or using their foot. Swapna Augustine is a foot painter who has painted with her feet and participated in multiple exhibitions of foot and mouth painters. Her art is stunning and I would definitely recommend checking some of help work out.“

Slide seven: main text reeds “art without brushes and pens”. On the left-hand side is a photograph of a spin art device. Text next to read it reads “spin out involves using bottles of ink and squirting them onto a spinning piece of paper to create spiral art. On the middle right hand side is a illustration of a laptop with coding art written on the screen. Text me next to it reads “coding art involves making programs that design and create art pieces digitally. This could be used in conjunction with an eye tracking software.“ On the bottom left hand side is a photograph of a child in a power wheelchair with paint on their wheels painting onto a large piece of paper. Next to this is text reading “wheelchair painting involves putting paint on your wheelchair wheels and moving around and large piece of paper. Sometimes you can connect a roller to create more marks.“

Slide eight: text reads “what do you do to make art accessible for you?”

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[machabre]

hmmm been thinking about stylizing ear shapes to draw super quick and brainless ears. Uploading it on the slim possibility it helps someone other than myself

disclaimer: not a teacher, not a pro artist or anything.

[starklike34]

Haii!! Just wanted to drop in and say how much I love your work. I spent a good chunk of my night scrolling through your blog heh! I absolutely adore how you color and on that, I was wondering if you had any tips you’d like to share to keep the palette cohesive? Perhaps tutorials you watched or observations you made.

I hope you have a wondering day or night!! Lots of love 💕 (Can’t wait to devour more of your art!)

Hi! Thank you so much! ^^

One of the most reliable ways to keep your values and composition in check is by constantly checking your work in grayscale and at a tiny size. If you shrink your image down to the size of a battery and convert it to black and white — and you can still tell what’s going on — then you're on the right track. But if it turns into visual chaos or becomes unreadable, that’s a sign there are issues with tone or too many unnecessary details.

As for color — I really like working with analogous palettes and adding one accent color. I’m also a big fan of "glowies" and often try to include them in my art. Combining those techniques, you can get things like blue-purple interiors lit by warm yellow sunlight, or beige characters standing out against green backgrounds.

An accent color doesn’t always need to be the light source either — sometimes placing a cool color like blue in the shadows of a warm object (like red) can make the whole thing feel more vivid and interesting.

And one last trick that helps me a lot is "color unification." If your palette feels messy or disjointed, you can simply glaze everything with a single color. It helps pull the image together and sets the mood: a yellow glaze creates a sunny feel, blue gives an underwater vibe, and brown or grey can make it feel grounded and indoors.

[teakip]

In my few years away from tumblr I came across a number of art resources that I’d love to share, they’ve really helped me out more times than I can count:

Photo Reference for Comic Artists

Human Anatomy for Artists

Sketchfab (3D model site that’s great for references, here’s the link to my collection of poses)

AdorkaStock (live model poses)

Paletton (color palette website that uses color theory)

Fontspace (downloadable fonts for art programs)

Free Procreate Brushes (it’s a thread someone made and there’s so many brushes listed that I’ve used myself)

If I think of any others I’ll add them to this post, happy drawing!

[velocitygirl5]

If you suck with color harmony make a limited color wheel.

additionally if you suck with values and saturation use color sliders.

I havent used the traditional color wheel in over a year lol.

[fulcrum-97]

Drawing 101 !!!

Yes, there will be tutorials! The point here is making this genre accessible, well-catalogued and easily repeatable. I encourage each and every of my followers to try replicating it on your own. The spice must flow and the well-being of the genre oughtn't ever depend on a single individual!

In the first sheet, I touch upon the three distinct art styles developed in the original blog by the everlasting Dreamy-94, what made them work, and how can YOU incorporate them into your works. Good luck, have fun, and as usual, stay tuned for more~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

[idunno-4]

Uhm, errmmm, yyeeaaahhh doing this with uhm tt art hacks that I found-

[uselesstherapy]

[riftclaw]

quick little doodle of a scene from a fanfic i'm in the middle of writing that is absolutely not finished enough to share that wouldn't get out of my head--gold finishing up shaving lance's face for him bc he's not allowed to get out of bed yet since he has a habit of tearing stitches if they let him get up too soon. takes place after lance gets shot that one time i briefly mentioned in the scar ref

they're not even dating at this point gold's just that annoying about not letting lance use his cheap shitty electric razor. lance won't let him buy him a better one and one of gold's love languages is making the people he cares about feel pretty so the end result is gold using his own razor on lance bc lance sure as hell doesn't know how to use a classic razor 🤣

[lonelysheepling]

Drawing symmetrical shapes in Procreate

Short guide, also I’m assuming in this that you already know of and how to use the quick shape tool in procreate (draw shape -> hold -> quick shape)

For a perfect circle you draw an oval, hold to do the quick shape, and while holding tap on the screen and hold with 1 finger to snap to a perfect shape. 

Make sure that you let the pen (or finger) that drew the initial shape leave the screen before the one snapped it to a perfect shape or else it’ll revert.  You can do this to make perfectly symmetrical squares and triangles as well. When rotating them they’ll snap to a 15° rotation circle

This also works for the ellipse selection tool (but not the rectangle one)

Sorry for the low quality in the last two gifs, had to compress them

[rellwo]

I know it seems obvious but I didn't do it in my last sketchbook and I regret it sm 😭

[vyrtuosoart]

Please tell me this wasn't common knowledge coz SINCE WHEN IS THIS EVEN POSSIBLE

SO APPARENTLY YOU CAN COLOR OVER ERASABLE PENS WITH MARKER AND THEN STILL ERASE THE PEN AFTER ?????

[pg--animation]

A tip I've really been appreciating lately with character/costume conception.

CHECK YOUR HUES!

Throw a black layer over the entire image, then change the layer style to 'hue'

If your colours are blending into a mush of similar looking greys/whites/blacks, change your hues to make things 'pop' more.

I leave now

[zombie-jed]

Going to pornhub for anatomy references