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some small practice things

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Do you make timelapses of your art? Your scenery stuff has blown me away, it makes me wanna try to actually learn art stuff

I don't normally make timelapses but I do have this one I made to test CSP's timelapse function! don't believe I ever posted it here, so here it is!

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a quick grass tutorial

I’ve never really wrote a tutorial before so apologies if this is bad

1. okay first thing I do is pick three colors, a mid, dark, and light. I like to check the colors in greyscale to make sure there’s enough contrast between each one.

I then plop down a blob of whatever my middle tone color is.

2. next, I take my dark color and just sort of randomly place it around. I try to make sure there’s a good amount of both the mid and dark tones spread throughout. I personally like to keep it kinda messy. I also have pen pressure on for both brush size and opacity, so I can have some blending action going on.

3. for the next step I do the exact same thing as before, except with the light color.

4. aight this is where we start adding details. see how you just have a bunch of colors and edges where two colors meet? use the eyedropper and go to an area where two colors meet, eyedrop a color, and then use that color to draw in your grass blades. I do this at every point where colors meet. should note I personally like to use a square brush, but you can really just use anything.

5. you can technically stop at the last step if you’re going for a more simple look, but to add more details I go to the “empty” areas of solid color and just draw in random strokes using a color nearby. it’s just a way to fill up the empty space.

6. basically more of the same idea of eyedropping and drawing. for more variety so things look interesting, I like to add random plant shapes.

7. and so the grass doesn’t look too plain, I add random dots of color and pretend it’s flowers and stuff.

and there you have it, this is how I approach drawing grass.

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Artists are so afraid to make human body hair references, but since I'm not a bitch, do you want a direction map? Like the ones furries make for animal fur directions, but for humans.

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witch's soup

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Art by Eldar Akmanaev

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Naelan & Naelan & Naelan (& the cat)

Consider this your formal introduction to the Head Gatekeeper of Arai (and Master of Language & Relations in Taevalear).

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Lonelystar City

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Just like in video games, it's always worth checking beneath bridges for lil treasures- if you look hard enough, using spells and looking for cracks in the walls to blow up, your DM might just throw you a bone to keep the story moving.

Patreon

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posted on tweeter as well but ill try here, any other illustrators have experience with looking for an agent? ive got a book that lists a ton of childrens book literary agents, but isnt there somewhere that lists only illustrator representation? these kids book literary agents mainly want illustrators with manuscripts, which i dont have. i just wanna illustrate book covers but the big dogs wont even look at you without representation

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Making birthday mugs for friends and getting to test out some Baldur’s Gate 3 art?! Because that game is taking up nearly all of my brain space at present 😅

Scratch is bestest boi.

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What if object heads are just dullahans who searched for a head and took an object?

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“Float”

Expect to see this piece again in a new project, because I cant just sit down and do a simple little illustration, I have to make it this whole thing. (I’m very Storyteller-brained.)

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Biblically Accurate Astronomers (pt. 2). Boyle is a pompous piece of shit but he does like Galileo (he’d never admit that though).

See pt. 1

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Some sketches of two characters for my upcoming Arai Chronicles short story The Stars Are Drowning.

Say hello to Isaias and Sal, Draqa and Krystal’s fathers, respectively.