#give art advice please!

[bobbybutterfly]

Elliott art dump!

These pictures are quite mid so I decided to post a whole bunch of them at once. Back when I was starting Tumblr I really wanted as much likes as possible. Yeah. It’s cringe. But I’m a furry. I’m all cringe. It’s especially cringe because likes and followers don’t matter much on Tumblr. You’re never gonna make any money on here! Oh boy. Isn’t being disabled and incapable of work fun!

Well. Now I got some stability with responses. About four per non Squirrel and Hedgehog related stuff. In the past I would spit these three into separate posts. Thus gaining about 12 likes if I’m lucky all together. But now I will post them all together because I’m not such an attention whore anymore.

So now about these fellas. The first Elliott is actually the last one with the sea background. I wanted to impress with the best one so I put the latest one to show first. But this sea background one. He was an attempt at the jelly art style. I still have a long way to go, don’t I? He’s kind of cute. Though he could use more polish. They all could. He was supposed to be more realistic but after I finished the sketch I didn’t pay much attention to the reference photo. A lot of the time my painting don’t have the best of anatomy. That’s quite strange because anatomy in my sketches while not perfect is pretty good. My art teacher said that it’s because I get so engrossed in painting I forget to pay attention to it.

I did learn something on this piece though. Using the blend tool. I first block out under my sketch with a flat base paint. Then I add (lol I wrote ass by accident!) a clipping layer onto the flat base. There I do all the colours. Then I merge the base and the colours to blend it. Don’t forget to use alpha lock! Then merge that with the sketch layer on top. Blend away the lines. Switch off alpha lock and do the polishing.

Got all that? No? You didn’t understand a word what I just said? Ehm. Moving on.

The middle one. I quite like this one. Even though I didn’t do enough blending around the eyes so he got some sick eyeliner. By now you noticed that Elliott doesn’t look the most like his in game appearance. I really love the earlier designs. He’s just so dorky! I also base my head cannon version of him from the actor Haruma Muira. I’ve got a whole bunch written about my head cannon if you’re willing to scroll for two hours down my blog. There’s not much to say about this drawing. It’s sketchy. It works. I went lazy with the sweater. It turned out pretty good.

Now the top one. The eye catching furry version of Elliott. I drew him as antro lion before. But then I remembered that lions are supposed to have a collar like mane. Not just hair on top. For the life of me I couldn’t figure out how to make him a twink though!!! I did challenge @32girassoisdevangogh but it seems they chickened out! That or they have more important stuff to attend to…

IMPORTANT!!! IMPORTANT!!!!

@32girassoisdevangogh is not a chicken!!! They drew Elliott as both a lion and a Iriomote catand did and incredible job doing so! Really taught me not to do cheap jabs at people because they will make a big fool of you!!

INTERMISSION OVER!

So I changed the species to a Iriomote cat. Which works far more for the story I have for him. My head cannon is he’s a 2nd generation immigrant from the Gotoro Empire, which is like Stardew’s version of Japan in my head. Everyone thinks he’s white because though he has monolid eyes and bronzish skin (when he dares to go out his cabin) he still got ocean blue eyes and red hair. Iriomote cats do look like your usual street cat unless you look close. I won’t have him be a furry if I ever get around to writing the fanfic about him. I don’t want Zootopia 2 Bad Racism Allegory Boogaloo.

This picture looks… alright. I have a lot of learning to do when it comes to digital paintings. Do you have some suggestions for what I should work on? I draw in Procreate.

Bobby out!

[vyunok-obyknovenniy]

For some reason I couldn't add a video in a reblog, so I had to make this into a separate post

The original drawing is by @svetochey

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Video description below cut

[Video description: a short video edit of svetochey's drawing. The original image description was: "cursed emoji style drawing of Odysseus with big head, exaggerated tearful eyes and cartoonishly small body, wearing a t-shirt that says "if lost return to Penelope"".

The video starts with a still image while a robotic voice reading the text on the shirt saying "if lost return to", then, when the sound from Jay's "EPIC funny misheard lyrics" starts playing, sayings "banana peels" instead of "Penelope", the drawing starts slowly zooming in. When "banana peels" sounds for the second time, the drawing is in a sudden close up and shaking violently.

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[taydaq]

Okay... hear me out... Jey lookin' Pretty Deadly...

I SAW ONE OF THEM IN THAT TOP AND BOTH MY SISTER AND I WERE LIKE... YOU KNOW WHO COULD WEAR THAT...

@darthsyd-ious, @samijey, @jeysuso, @jeonmahi1864, @imabillyami... ;)

[bonefall]

post/734733274896809984/do-you-ever-worry-your-own-writing-might-come-off that makes sense. i was asking because i'm afraid of accidentally writing misogyny myself and i kind of admire what you do

Hmm... I wish I had better advice to give you on this front, but honestly, the only thing I can tell you is to consider the perspective of your female characters.

Women are people. They have thoughts and feelings of their own, so like... just let them have their own arcs. A lot of the worst misogyny in WC comes from the way that the writers just don't care about their girls (or, in the case of tall shadow, actually get undermined and forced to rewrite entire chapters), so they're not curious about their lives, or WHY they feel the way they do or what they want, or any direction for their character arcs.

Turtle Tail as an example. She'll often just end up feeling whatever Gray Wing's plot demands. She's gotta leave when Storm dumps him to make him feel lonely. She shows up again to love him in the next book. Lets her best friend Bumble get dragged back to Tom the Wifebeater, but is sad enough about her death to be "unreasonably angry" with Clear Sky, and then calms down and accept Gray Wing is right all along.

And then she dies, so he can have his very own fridge wife.

In this way, Turtle Tail's just being used to tell Gray Wing's story. They're not interested in why she would turn on Bumble, or god forbid any lingering negative feelings for how she didn't help her, or even resentment towards Clear Sky for killing her or Gray Wing for jumping to his defense. She isn't really going through her own character arc.

She does have personality traits of her own, don't misunderstand my criticism, but as a character she revolves around Gray Wing.

So, zoom out every now and then, and just ask yourself; "Whose story is being told by what I wrote? Do my female characters have goals, wants, and agency, or are they just supporting men? How do their choices impact the narrative?"

But that's already kinda assuming that you already have characters like Turtle Tail who DO have personalities and potential of their own. Here's some super simple and practical advice that helped me;

Tally the genders in your cast. How many are boys, how many are girls, how many are others?

And take stock of how many of those characters are just in the supporting cast, and compare that to the amount you have in the main cast.

If you have a significant imbalance, ESPECIALLY in the main cast, fire the Woman Beam.

It's a really simple trick to just write a male character, and then change its gender while keeping it the same. I promise women are really not fundamentally different from men lmao. You can consider how your in-universe gender roles affect them later, if you'd like, but when you're just starting to wean yourself off a "boy bias" this trick works like a charm.

Also you're not allowed to change the body type of any girl you Woman Beam because I said so. PLEASE allow your girls to have muscles, or be fat, or be old, or have lots of scars. Do NOT do what a cowardly Triple A studio does, where the women all have the same cute or sexy face and curvy body while they're standing next to dwarves, robots, and a gorilla.

Or this shit,

If you do this I will GET you. If you're ever possessed by the dark urge, you will see my face appear in the clouds like Mufasa himself to guide you away from the path of evil.

Anyway, you get better at just making characters girls to begin with as time goes on and you practice it. It's really not as big of a deal as your brain might think it is.

Take a legitimate interest in female characters and try not to disproportionately hit them with parental/romance plots as opposed to the male cast, and you'll be fine. Don't think of them as "SPECIAL WOMEN CHARACTERS" just make a character and then let her be a girl, occasionally checking your tally and doing some critical thinking about their use in the story.

(Also remember I'm not a professional or anything, I'm just trying to give advice)

[qeggyinjail]

happy new years and happy holidays from jyyyuuugooo

[burgerspeople]

Hemita at prom 💜

[artofluffy]

[anubiarts]

I managed to find one of my first ever digital art! (dating back from 2018). Putting it next to one of my more recent ones for comparison

After looking at them side by side, I just wanna say that you shouldn't give up with your art if it looks bad. Sure, it may not be the best piece ever, but every art you do helps you learn more along the way. Art is a journey, and it has its ups and downs, but the results are far more than worth it.

[stardew1enthusiast]

don't judge me ok i did this all with my finger

[nervous-alien]

ok so like ive been drawing things and i just havent been happy with most of them. so i tried to take my time with this one and i still dont like it. anyone who sees this, do any of yall have advice or things you suggest i do differently. id really appreciate the feedback. i just wanna get better <3 (ignore the devas)

[giro-art-128]

Hide and seek. I did a little bit more experimenting with brush. I definitely want to use this brush more. If you have any comments, share, I will gladly learn from my mistakes.

Until end of the may you will most likely not hear from. Bye~~~

(I apologise if you can't understand a word I just said, my english skills left me for today)

[krakenshaped]

Primadonna gurl

[zareleonis]

bro i'm so serious if we don't get the final installment in the nufu cat's tail gathering art trilogy where fu wins the rematch like the cyn0 trilogy last year i'll cry 😭😭😭

[psychobones]

Does like...your art keep changing constantly like artstyle — and you don't know what to do vene though you like one of the art styles and wanna stick with one — but at the same time it won't let you so then your like..man what the hell

Live Laugh Love art guys...

Also, totally not some sneak peeks on some art I'm working on ! Hopefully, you guys like it !

Some of it is unfinished

[airbus-a350]

how come every single 'art tutorial' about adding line weight like that... "no line weight? your drawing sucks! try THIS" *draws a slightly thicker line in one place, entirely to the op's taste* "MUCH better!!"

[zr-art-world]

this is what goes on in my brain when trying to design a character and my perfectionism and self doubt will just look my in the eye and tell me to go fuck myself