#learning tutorials point

[deathdovesong]

It's Mustache Cody Day!!!

[samaspic31]

My growth as an artist was heavily stifled by the dogmatism in the online art community I was subjected to as a teen (aka by rhetoric implying or straight up saying art has to be made a certain way to be valuable, which discouraged me from experimenting and developing for my own methods, customising my artistic process felt illegal) and i will forever be mad about it

Anyways if any young artist follows me : the only good art advice is get weird about it and fuck around a lot. Also be honest

[cattysapien]

It honestly bothers me when someone is struggling with specific things when drawing and people just say “just practice more” in response. Like. okay? What does that even mean. you can practice the same things for years and still get the same outcome if you don’t know what needs work in particular. At least recommend something specific.

my go to recommendation when people are struggling is to always recommend gesture drawing. it helps with line quality because you learn how to be confident and decisive with your lines… which to me is always the mark of inexperience. you can tell when an artist lacks confidence by their line work. It helps you have better intuition when it comes to proportions, and you start having a better understanding of pleasing silhouettes and poses. it also helps you to loosen up which in turn makes your poses less stiff (which is again the mark of an inexperienced artist to me). stiffness vs fluidity is how you can judge someone's skill level imo. and the best way to combat stiffness is learning how bodies move, which is the whole point of gesture drawing at its core. on top of all of this, you are learning from life instead of learning from other people's drawings. You are training your mind and your body to take in information and draw in extremely short periods of time. and you are learning how to observe a pose as a whole rather than think of them as body parts moving in a vacuum. And also (depending on how long you spend on a pose) you are learning the relationship of light and shadow by simplifying the values in the poses.

Basically you are killing like a hundred birds with one stone by doing maybe 30 mins to an hour of that every day. There are so many videos that explain the process of making great gesture drawings and it’s very accessible information. It’s a great place to start if you feel like you’re stumped with your skill level and in my opinion it’s very fun (in a challenging way).

Love life drawing has some great videos simplifying the elements of gesture drawing and new masters academy has an amazing playlist of timed poses to get you started. if you are struggling improving your skill, trust me on this!

[reanimatedgh0ul]

because i've seen that there are some dp artists that struggle with how to draw fat ppl i'm now going to share some sources that i have found that i think could help other ppl out

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a link to how you can access morpho: anatomy for artists (fat and skin folds) for free

lastly this website is also another great reference source but you will have to request permission by the ppl in charge of it in order to gain access first as it's protected

this should be a good starting point and i encourage y'all continue to seek out other sources where you can👍

[ganondoodle]

back on my zelda thoughts

idk about you but i got sick of zelda running after people with big sorrowful puppy eyes begging them to listen to her(they wont) or to help link in totk pretty fast

[vladdyissues]

Also unintentionally getting people to look over at your website has me so happy, I'm gonna go look over at it now actually bye

Haha, thank you, I hope you enjoy browsing! There isn't much to see right now other than my gallery—once upon a time I had a fanfiction archive (pre-AO3 days, different software), but the software was abandoned years ago and soon became obsolete—but I hope to one day build it into something bigger. Maybe resurrect my old Invision Power Board forums or install some oekaki software, put up some javascript games for people to enjoy. Of course, I've been saying this for years lol.

For now, though, it's a good place to store my art, especially in these days of extreme censorship and fandom hostility. I've always got a backup. There's also the added benefit of not having to sign up for an account just to be able to view it. (Though there's quite a substantial DP and Pompep community growing on Bluesky.)

[emeraldblonde]

I tried to mod something and the good news is, it didn't crash the game. 🥳 The bad news is, not what I was looking for lmao.

Like, don't get me wrong. I've seen way worse (the stuff of nightmares) on a modding channel I've been teaching myself this stuff lately, so. It's not like I completely fucked this thing up or anything like that.

It's just... I still gotta ask though.

What went wrong here?

[daisywords]

@ me it's time to stop having a complex about doing digital art "wrong" and accept the influence from your oil painting background as a feature of your style, not a bug

[roguelioness]

Man when my therapist told me to "rediscover the joy found in the journey" and "relearn how to play" I thought it was the easiest thing ever, except it's really not and now I'm wondering when I lost my fuck it we ball energy 😭

[i-just-wanna-read-03]

*as someone who can’t draw faces to people who can*

Me:……sorcery………

[irishbreakfst]

My boyfriend convinced my to play a little bit of baldur's gate 3 and then immediately called me cruel and got mad at me for mutilating the brain during the tutorial 😭 so now of course I feel so terrible that I don't wanna go back to playing it

[t-eaowl]

They’re wondering why all the sinners have such small waists

[keeps-ache]

okay, my plotting

[tibialtybalt]

Have an unlisted sekiro speedrun before I psyche myself out of it

[meringuejellyfish]

the music for the colgera battle is quite delightful (wow i just need to say i like it. goodness) its a shame i couldnt really properly hear it while actually playing on account of having to sit right next to a loud ac but listening to it fully the other day was nice. took me a few weeks but i can appreciate it now - and listen ... im a simple guy, the rito village theme being incorporated into a section of it is just wow :-( ....... big leitmotif fan. walking into zoras domain is going to kill me

[champselysees]

Tempted to remake some of my older graphics because me being rusty really shows there. Specifically the Logan COTA one and Charles Monza one cause yeah