#i've been thinking about that and so i tried out coloring lineless

[athanmis]

ITS ETHO DAY YIPPEE!!!! etho day!!!!! (redstone break)

[atsirdsart]

Somewhere I recall you either saying something about or making comment on "lineless" art or something of the sort, where colours touch each other rather than lines being responsible for details or separating sections. I can't find that post or where you said stuff about that, but I think about it at least once a week since I saw it mentioned.

Whenever I draw, the few things that I do draw, I never use colour, only pencil, so the very existence of my drawing is based upon its lines. Really makes me think, to me no lines is very outside the box but it makes a lot of sense! It's just like painting, painting is a composition of arranged colours.

Here's one of my drawings just to share 😂 I like coins a lot, passionate coin collector, So I scribble out my ideas for coins I may someday make myself.

(From like 2017, concept for a sixpence)

Wow! I love the composition and design of the coin. It looks like it could be a legitimate design for a mint press. Don't meet many people who like the little art on coins (I cannot stop staring at those little bastards but I've never tried designing one, so you're already farther than me lol.)

Honestly even in pencil medium, "lineless" art is still very achievable. It just takes a delicate hand. Or a really strong hand, if you're making heavy shadows.

Pencil lineless is one of my favorite things to do, and I wish I had better examples, because it's been so long since I've done it. BUT as a BAD example in my drawing program:

Ignore horrible anatomy and shading, but you get the gist. Instead of using hard pencil lines, you can lightly or severely shade blocks to give the illusion of depth, even moreso than with a pencil used normally. Honestly if you're just getting into lineless art, I absolutely recommend pens and pencils to start with because it forces you to work with light and dark only, instead of complicating and confusing it with trying to add colors right away. Then once you can make a decent looking picture with just a pencil, it's WAY easier to transition to colors.

If you don't feel like jumping off the deep end by drawing human form or objects yet, you can always start with basic exercises and scribbles with varying pressures to get an idea of how to create different shades with one pencil, like this

A ton of pencil drawings I do don't have any outlines. I just start shading on top of shading and it builds up into something recognizable. (Ex: that one drawing I already posted, below)

Not sure if any of this makes sense, but I hope it does. On a different note it means a ton that a post that long ago has still stuck with you. There's plenty of artists I love whose quotes I still remember from 10 years ago, so it's super endearing to know that what I say might stick around as long! Have a good night, mate.

[blueberrydoodles]

Tw for eyes and s/h (if triggers should be added please let me know)

Don't have motivation to start the redraw of the Christmas thingy so take this slightly ventish thing in the meantime

It also gets a little personal, so close friends I wouldn't recommend looking at the description (and maybe the drawing in general) since I don't want to worry anyone. Im ok though I promise so if you do look please dont worry!

Time taken: Just under 6 hours (Specifically 5 hours and 47 minutes)

"I should be getting better..."

"Why is nothing getting better?!"

Rambling

Ok but honestly after fighting for this pose for a good while I had so much fun with the coloring! I knew from the start I wanted to do either blue/red or blue/red/purplish or pinkish? (To reference fusion of red and blue. Also to reference the color Tom's eyes change to before he goes all monstery). I ended up going with red and blue, but I guess some bits look slightly more purple??? Idk. But yeah more ventish Tom stuff. Im sorry that the hand/claw/whatever Tom is holding up looks disgusting.

Honestly this takes heavy inspiration from Foxi Boxi's (youtuber) "Overthinking" video. Specifically the part where the character is standing with blue string on there arms/near their feet. I tried to recreate the feeling that frame gave me, as it felt very fitting for what I wanted to do and I related to it a lot (again, it was just my interpretation of that specific part. If what Foxi was trying to do was different, ok)

Oh btw Tom isn't monstery because he's mad I just headcanon generally overwhelming emotions can cause a shift (I think this is just kinda common knowledge in the Eddsworld fandom now??? Like A headcanon so widely accepted that its basically canon???)

MMM DWAH IM ACTUALLY REALLY PROUD OF THIS

I may do more lineless stuff in the future because I actually love the way it looks!

What is this?

Basically its me feeling pressured to stay in touch with the world around me and focus on things like school while trying to keep my mental health in check. I recently get out of a very difficult couple of months and I'm still recovering from the emotions I experienced during that time. I'm generally very closed off and tight lipped about what I'm going through. Especially with my mom, so I feel like she expects a lot from me without knowing its harder for me than she would assume. She thinks I'm just lazy. She was especially hard on me during the months I mentioned before. It was hell on me and I feel into one of the longest lows I've had. I struggled with temptation to return to self harm as a coping mechanism. But I made it through. Like I said, I'm still recovering from it all, and other things have been happening that haven't made things much easier, but I promise I'm trying to be more productive and take care of myself. It can be a bit hard for me to keep up with everything, but I know I shouldn't use my mental health as an excuse to not do anything. I just wish my mom could understand that I try, its just that there are days where I just can't, if that makes sense

UPDATE

Made a version with his lower legs

I think the first one actually looks better though