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Anybody else got that Evergiven sized writers block

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I wanted to try redrawing my old and current Sonic Oc's, it's just been a while since I've drawn them, and it was nice seeing my first designs through an old drawing notebook.

Even now looking at my current one, I still want to make changes lol. She just seems a bit plain compared to the redrawn ones I did

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I have been obsessed with Chappell Roan's songs for 2 months now! Red Wine Supernova is such a good song and I love the cover art for it! It's what inspired me to draw the Queen herself... The best I can anyway!

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Sonic is now my mental stability coach and keeps me in check.

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Here’s some cringe!

My first drawing of Sonic!

Was created in the fourth grade! And was trying to draw him from memory! I hate it, but love it because of the memories.

Back then, I would make a Sonic oc of all my class mates. There was this one kid who requested that I make him a Sonic comic. It was a small series that I made just with his and my oc. To this day I still have the unfinished comic I was making for him before we graduated from fifth grade.

I forgot your name, but if you went to Desert Willow in Tuscan, Arizona and your fifth grade teacher was Mr Derik (or how ever you spelled his name), I STILL HAVE THE UNFINISHED COMIC!

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Someone just hacked into my Twitter account and changed the email. Now I can’t even access it!

It’s not even that special either! Just a few art pieces, dumb videos from me playing games, a few followers, and that’s all!

I need to find a better place to upload my artwork and get some recognition.

This blog is to upload my art, yes, but for professional use? Nope. Twitter was to help expand that just a bit with my goofy art.

Then there’s my Professional portfolio, which is for when I’m looking for a job. I use ArtStation but now I’m thinking it’s not even that safe because it supports Ai and I don’t want that contacting my work.

I dont know want to do from here. It feels like Tumblr is just a safe zone from this point on for me since I’ve been here forever.

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I’ve never done a MerMay before. So I wanted to draw my favorite house warden with his “friendly” eel friends!

The twins were teasing him to the point of tears lol. Poor baby

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Was messing around with some brushes and I created something for my girlfriend.

She was pleased.

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So, I recently started getting into DND and decided to draw three of the characters I'm using during the campaign. I always wanted to get into DND but never have because When I learned that some math was involved or that I would have to keep score of everything even though I suck at that. But I got the hang of it real quick. here we have the Blight Family.

Kramgrum Blight, who is the Dwarf Mugezall Blight, the tall Orc And Tevaga Blight, the skinny orc before you ask, yes, Kram is a female dwarf.

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create your own home!

i found this great site that lets you create 3d models and floor plans of custom homes! you can even put in furniture and customize wallpapers/floors!! it has everything you could ask for!! you can use it make ref pictures of your oc homes or just make your dream house!

this is what i manged to make

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It’s been awhile, and I created a drawing of me and my girlfriend!

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art hack for drawing sleeves (twitter)

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I'm currently doing an online art school program and I thought I'd share some notes on clothing pieces for anyone else whose like me and for some reason can't understand objects with free from lol I hope you find some of these observations/ notes useful for any of your art journeys!

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...that your audience won't hate.

This is a method I started using when NFTs were on the rise - thieves would have to put actual work into getting rid of the mark - and one that I am now grateful for with the arrival of AI. Why? Because anyone who tries to train an AI on my work will end up with random, disruptive color blobs.

I can't say for sure it'll stop theft entirely, but it WILL make your images annoying for databases to incorporate, and add an extra layer of inconvenience for thieves. So as far as I'm concerned, that's a win/win.

I'll be showing the steps in CSP, but it should all be pretty easy to replicate in Photoshop.

Now: let's use the above image as our new signature file. I set mine to be 2500 x 1000 pixels when I'm just starting out.

Note that your text should not have a lot of anti-aliasing, so using a paint brush to start isn't going to work well with this method. Just use the standard G-Pen if you're doing this by hand, or, just use the text tool and whichever font you prefer.

Once that's done, take your magic wand tool, and select all the black. Here are the magic wand settings I'm using to make the selections:

All selected?

Good.

Now, find a brush with a scattering/tone scraping effect. I use one like this.

You can theoretically use any colors you want for this next part, but I'd recommend pastels as they tend to blend better.

Either way, let's add some color to the text.

Once that's finished,

You're going to want to go to Layer Property, and Border Effect

You'll be given an option of choosing color and thickness. Choose black, and go for at least a 5 in thickness. Adjust per your own preferences.

Now create a layer beneath your sig layer, and merge the sig down onto the blank layer.

This effectively 'locks in' the border effect, which is exactly what we want.

Hooray, you've finished your watermark!

Now let's place that bad boy into your finished piece.

You'll get the best mileage out of a mark if you can place it over a spot that isn't black of white, since you'll get better blending options that way. My preference is for Overlay.

From here, I'll adjust the opacity to around 20-25, depending on the image.

If you don't have a spot to use overlay, however, there's a couple other options. For white, there's Linear Burn, which imho doesn't look as good, but it still works in a pinch.

And for lots of black, you have Linear Light

Either way, you're in business!

EDIT since this has escaped my usual circles, and folks aren't as familiar with my personal usage:

An example of one of my own finished pieces, with watermark, so you can see what I mean about 'relatively unobtrusive'-- I try to at least use them as framing devices, or let them work with the image somehow (or, at the very least, not actively against it).

I know it's a bummer for some people to "ruin" their work with watermarks, which is part of the reason I developed this mark in particular. Its disruption is about as minimal as I can make it while still letting it serve its intended purpose.

There's other methods, too, of course! But this is the one I use, and the one I can speak on. Hope it helps some of you!