#art musings

[kueh-lapyx]

Song of solitude 🌿☀️

Please bear with me as i give yall a whiplash w my range of styles, im exploring techniques to see what i enjoy making djjfnencnd

let me know if you like this :D had a lot of fun drawing this one

[meghanzbinden]

Kind of messy school sketches of Ninja Turtles. I like these enough to let them try to bring joy to other people too.

Philosophical musing of the day: not every drawing one makes is gonna make you happy. For every one on here, there's a hundred pages of ones I'm unwilling to show anyone. So yeah. Amateur to other amateurs, y'all are doing great. Keep those pencils moving.

[starlightarchery]

y'all ever start drawing your own character and then sit there looking at the canvas going ".........what the fuck do you even look like"

[alackofghosts]

i also really liked this meme from last year, so here's a 2023 version :]

[red-jaw329]

You know?

I'm just gonna say it. If you draw a muscular person, and their waist is half as wide as their shoulders (or less), you just don't... "get it".

[no132-ditto]

for me, no matter how advanced ai art gets it's always going to be uninteresting on a fundamental level

art is a conversation between artist and audience, and im just not interested when the artist is saying "anime, human female, refine hands 3x, -tag:nsfw"

[liongoatsnake]

That action all artists know where you walk back and forth from the place where you a drawing over to the place with a large enough mirror asking yourself "now, how the heck does this limb attach to that other limb again?" Back and forth. Back and forth. Back and forth.

[creations-of-a-certain-no-one]

Darker skintone without a dark marker?

You want to draw your dark skinned fave but have no marker? That's very sad but I see sometimes (really sometimes because who does traditional art in 2020s?) people just settling with what's basically just whitewashing. Which is even sadder.

And - in case of alcohol markers like Copics, Promarkers or Ohuhu - usually completely avoidable.

Let's see. I'll take two markers and I'm going to make photos on a cloudy day with a potato so pardon the quality of the pictures. The value change of the colours tho should be still clear.

From the set below I take the colour number 121 for super light and 148 for light brown.

The one that's basically cream coloured obviously won't be fitting ever. The one of the pale pinkish brown is obviously also not sufficient to draw a dark skinned person, right? Maybe tan would go, but actual deep shade of brown? Nah.

Or....?

Well, actually... you can work with it. Because markers can layer. And they layer pretty nicely. Look what happened after one additional layer after it dried:

Better, right? Let's apply more after it dries. 3 layers look already pretty promising, no? And even more. 5 layers! After the third layer the difference is gradually getting smaller but it's a huge improvement from what it looked at one layer.

I actually got a decent brown there.

You can see as well that the super pale cream colour that'd be only useful for something like ghostly pale or shading a white sheet turned into a quite natural shade too and now can be used without making the character sickly pale. You can work on every colour like that. If you have an average light/beige skintone marker, there are still good chances that a bit of trial and error with layering colours on top of each other would eventually give you a more accurate tan/brown colour.

Imagine the possibilities with a mid value marker like the one I used. You could for example make a nice dark skin tone. You could make a tan skin tone. You could make a light brown skin tone. There are plenty of skin tones you can cover with something that looks like some uninspiring beige.

Now look.

I used this colour as a base colour for this guy. That pale brownish, pinkish marker that had no right to give him the right colour... until it had. You can still see its unlayered tone on some highlights but the rest is a nice saturated brown on the reddish side.

While pencils or watercolours might indeed make it impossible to get any darker than what it is marked as (but you still can mix and blend colours, y'know), alcohol markers give you plenty of options to darken the colour - one marker can provide you with a whole spectrum of tones. The basic tone it has is just the beginning and the lightest value out of the whole range. Just use this unique advantage of this medium and you won't "need" to whitewash.

Edit: do I have to recommend reblogging? It's not going to reach anyone without that.

[tilbageidanmark]

A trip to the museum.

[kueh-lapyx]

Have you ever felt how absence can not only be the lack of something, but the presence of another?

When something leaves, another fills its space

It's the unfamiliarity of this new presence that we name absence

And sometimes, the presence of absence is so strong it suffocates and threaten to swallow all that was you and leave yet another absence behind-

Until you learn to live with it, enjoy its embrace, and see it as a presence awaiting your befriending.

[moriche]

Have some Art Journey Stuff. To get a better grasp on working in 3-d space, I'm following a free course called DrawABox. It goes hard on the fundamentals underlying art. It's hard work. It's mind-numbing at times. It sucks... And it also works because I am seeing myself get better at the concepts that are taught in the course. I'm progressing through it slow as hell, because Real Life gets in the way, and I have a young kid, and then I also want to write and do other hobbies in my free time, and if I don't draw for a while I just tend to forget about it, and. and. and. But anyway. I am still keeping up with the damn course. I drew 250 boxes for it, freehand, according to the way we're supposed to draw 'em in the course. Above are two ellipse-exercises for warm-up - a table of ellipses and elliptical funnels. And the nicer looking one, up in the top left, is about looking at a texture, identifying the cast shadows, drawing those, and then drawing a gradient with those cast shadows from left to right. Haven't finished the full lesson 2 yet, so I don't know if this one is going to pass or not. But hey, still wanted to share it. This is the behind-the-scenes stuff, I guess. The building blocks. The ugly warm-ups. The raw practice. Drawing, for me, unfortunately is a skill that doesn't improve with leaps and bounds merely by doing it. It's something I've got to learn. So learn I will.

Box 1-5, and box 245-250. Yep. While I'm not quite nailing all the convergences, they are so much better already.

[peterartmuseum]

Introduction

Hi! I'm Peter (20 he/him) and I work as an art TA, studying to become an art teacher!

I'm currently obsessed with art history, the different movements and obviously some of the bigger names in its rich and complex history.

Come say hi!

[ari-grace-the-space-case]

I keep meaning to use my art tumblr more as a progression journal and documentation of thoughts and process. I had fun with a mix media study on trying to figure out how latex shines. I used Colored pencil,paint marker, Water colors, Felt tip water based marker.

It was fun layering and adjusting to get the overlap I liked, Blue Base, Dark Teal overlayed then while the teal was still wet, (about 1 min after painting) in the darker value areas I did dense amount of a magenta marker and then with a fresh, wet brush tip, pulled from there.

The idea using the marker at the densest points vs water color was More control with a deeper hue that allowed it's self to work nicely with wet brush blending.

This is most likely one of the better guns I've drawn too. getting better at figuring out how to break things down in to easier shapes.

Not happy with the hands. I need to do more focused studies on just hands, I need more variation in the kind of hands I draw especially.

Background could have been more interesting as well, it's bland, even if it's just a sketch.

Also not my strongest ink work, Too shakey, I wasn't feeling confident in my strokes as I did this as I was too worried about mucking up the paint.

My line width isn't consistent and could use more contrasting weights to match the light source.

Overall I am very happy with this study, and it was nice to sit down and mull over parts of my thinking process into words as well as improvement notes to keep in mind going forward.

[alackofghosts]

(template) this is the first year in a while that 1) i've been able to do this at all (i think the last one might have been 2019?) 2) got to fill up every month AND 3) was absolutely spoiled for choice every single month!

i've talked about this before (and many of you have witnessed it firsthand), but i've had an absolutely rotten relationship with my art for years and years, so it's hard to put into words how it feels looking at this and knowing (and SEEING) that i've had so much fun drawing this year? putting together these art summaries often made me feel awful, even if i managed to maintain some semblance of peace with my art for the year, but this time around i... i think i still kinda do feel like crying, but out of sheer happiness for a change. i've spent so long thinking that finding joy in art is impossible. and yet! here it is!

i also want to say thank you to everyone who has cheered me on this year and your kind comments, i read them all and then reread them some more for good measure (i think it's probably very telling wrt my relationship with my art that in the nice tags screencap folder that i've had for a decade, half of those are from this year alone)

[lovewritteninthestrands]

artmaking is valuable in itself.

what do i mean by that. what i mean is actual finished art doesn’t actually have to be your focus. artmaking can be about the process of exploration and discovery that you engage with when you create something. is making something really technically impressive awesome? yeah! but making something in general is awesome. even if you throw it away, you have created art. that is more than enough. listen to me you have tapped into a practice that is literally older than human civilization. that is so fucking cool.