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I hate it when people say u need to learn the basics of art before u go into it...the true way to learn art is actually going directly to drawing what you like, then being so attached to it that you have to go back and learn the fundamentals in order to make the art of what you like better.

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Do you have any art tips? Also, What platform do you use for your art?

ngl, i feel kind of silly giving art tips because i really don't know anything lol and my skills are still very Underdeveloped. but here is what I've found most helpful as I've been trying to improve. (these are more general tips rather than specific technical tips—hope that's ok!)

Oh and I use photoshop and a Wacom intuous tablet :)

Use references! I look at references with pretty much every single thing I ever draw lol I’m incapable of drawing purely from my imagination 😭 but using refs is good practice anyway. Sometimes I draw things based on a single reference but often I end up using multiple references for one drawing.

Study art that you like. This has been huge for me! I’m constantly staring at other people's art both out of admiration and for education haha. When I discover an artist whose style i really vibe with, I like to try to break it down and pinpoint exactly what I love about their art and what their strengths are so I can maybe try to incorporate it into my own art. A few of the ones I've probably studied the most are @bugaboo-n-bananoir @anna-scribbles @jooitshere @shishitsunari @celerydays @picayunearts @leviaana @masilvi @buggachat @ladyblargh @yunyin @sabertoothwalrus — all super skilled and talented and i learn a ton just from enjoying their art!

Draw what you want to draw. I don't often draw things just for practice—I draw things because I feel like it. So instead of saying, "Man, I have to practice drawing X thing until I'm really good at it, and then I can finally draw the idea I have," I say, "Okay, I want to draw this thing and it's kind of out of my comfort zone and I don't know how to draw it but I'm going to try to figure it out and learn as I go." This might seem kind of backwards so hopefully it's not terrible advice lol but I've personally found it to be a helpful approach. Drawing purely for practice will definitely help you improve and is probably the method recommended by 9/10 dentists, but I am the 10th dentist who says, "nah i'm just gonna do what i want" alsfkdafj. My skills are limited but I don't want that to stop me from trying stuff, and it's in the trying that I improve. Basically, all the drawings I post are my "practice drawings." Because almost everything I've posted (unless it's like a headshot at a 3/4 angle asdlkfjasjf) was out of my comfort zone a bit and I was not confident i could pull it off but I just tried and worked at it until I thought it looked ok lol

Don’t worry too much about “style.” I feel like a lot of artists (including me) overfocus on finding/developing a consistent art style, but I think it’s better to just draw lots and build your skills and have fun! Your art style will come through naturally as you do that. Also, there’s nothing wrong with variety. Not all your stuff will look the same, and that's okay. And chances are that your style looks more consistent to other people than it does to you. Even if your drawings look different, they’ll all still have your fingerprints on it and feel like you :)

Give yourself credit for the things you create. It's so, so hard not to compare and get discouraged. Everyone suffers from art envy and gets frustrated with themselves—I definitely do—but it's really important to be patience with yourself. Growth is not a linear journey. There will be ups and downs, and that's okay. I probably get the most frustrated with myself for struggling with anatomy/full-body drawings and for taking a million years on every simple-looking drawing lol. But it's helpful to compare my current work/skills with my past work/skills. When I feel like I'm improving at a snail's pace or not at all, it's nice to be able to look back at my older stuff and see that yeah, I still have a long way to go, but I've also come a long way, and I'm capable of going even further. There is a huge gap between where I am and where I'd like to be someday, but I'm working on being inspired by that gap rather than intimidated by it.

Sorry this turned out so long,,, im a huge rambler lol. but I hope this is helpful. best of luck and happy drawing!! 🤠💜

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how do you paint metal?? owo

first, like i always say, find loads of ref pics and have them open right next to whatever metal thing you are painting. other than that, one trick i recentlyish learned is to not be afraid of a super hard and crisp pen when coloring metals! i usually use a soft edged pen at 65% opacity in sai to “layer” colors like glaze, which is how i shade, i dont actually,,, use any blending / painting tools ^-T BUT i found using a 100% opacity crisp hard pen for bold highlights look rly gud!

idk if u can rly tell but everything there is either 1. solid color 2. with a gradient / ambient light & glow airbrushed on 3. soft shaded with the low opacity brush and, 4. hard edge coloring on the metal candle holder and the highlights on candle. see how the candle pops from the other objects? idk it looks that way to me lol

rly rough but here is a diagram:

maybe 1 can be a duller metal but for super reflective metal i suggest 2 or 3. at the very least make the highlight super hard and crisp!

it works for other reflective surfaces as well such as jewels or pearls, etc. dont forget colors reflect onto the shiny object, and the color of the object itself (esp if its reflective or translucent) will throw itself onto it’s cast shadow! if u have no idea wat im talking abt you can look up the physics of shadows and reflections~

and lastly, if u add a glow to a shiny object like metal or jewels or reflected light it looks so pleasant? just airbrush on a little bit of white or u can use a layer mode like luminosity / soft light / whatever else looks good! heres a sexi pic of madara lmfao

its kinda subtle idk if u can see but i just like it lol happy drawing!

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hhhhhhhhhey ppl keep asking me how i pick colors and ???? idk???ㅇㄷㅇ;;; its mostly a whole lot of adjusting heres a walkthrough?? unsure if these are the best links but its a start! google is ur friend >ㅅ<)9

color theory 🌈 🎨 💐  shading ☀ ✎ 🌙 shading translucent objects like gems 💎 ✨ ps blend modes 💕 ps adjustments 💖

my? shading????? 🌹

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My relationship with content creation and hobbies, in general, got a lot better when I started learning to reframe it as a simple act of human creation, and not a metric of my own self worth.

We’re taught competition, and perfectionism, and shame. If I say “I cook” I must add “(but not well)”. If I say “I run” I must say “(but I am not good at it).” I say “I code (but I mostly know frontend).” I create and express and my first impulse is to guard against embarrassment. Lest I fall so short of marketable competence. Lest I subject myself to the mockery of being caught creating poorly. I wound myself first so others may not.

Even the advice that fights against this says “your only goal should be to be better than yourself yesterday.” But why must I be in competition with her? What happens, after the initial rapid climb in skill, when I plateau? What of injury, and atrophy, and depression, that flake these skills away? Must I return feeling compelled to over-achieve? To wallow in embarrassment until I can surpass my own previous record? To hate my work until the reception, the notes, the engagement outperform an ever rising bar? I do not want to be paralyzed by the mountains I built behind me. Why should I look behind myself when there’s a wide swath of untilled Earth that stretches far out of sight ahead of me? I want to enjoy my work, and my mediocrity, moving forward with all its ebbs and flows.

At my worst, I was nothing. I was not a writer. Because I had forgone writing for all the fear and stress and damage to my self-worth that it wrought. I was not a coder. Because I was only useful for the niches of my job, and didn’t have the heart to create something badly, on my own, for fun, lest it confirm my suspicions of mediocrity. I was not even a runner - despite the extreme and exhaustive amount of time I sunk into it - because I fell short of my previous self, and I could not hold a candle to the actually-skilled runners, and I was forced to speak of this hobby in all those guarded terms - “but i am not good” - because of how much that ate at me. 

I was no cook, and no homemaker, and no creator, because when I did those things, (I did them poorly.) 

And when all these came together, I wallowed in emptinesses. (I still do, sometimes. It’s hard and complicated). Because emptiness is what was left when I stripped myself of the things and the pursuits whose lack of value could be used to hurt me.

The change for me - the change, I think - came at the time I started to recognize that I do not deserve self-punishment for my mediocrities, for the failings of my current state of being. It was not a revelation all at once. It was a slow and progressive flirting with the idea, found almost by accident on self-help youtube channels of a very particular ilk. It came with the recognition that I had trapped myself, wiling away my time and my energy, in a state of constant apology, and shame, and self-correction for the mediocrities I dare not unleash onto the world. I boxed myself up with the promise “once I am good enough, I will be allowed to come back out”, and that was a lie. I would never have come back out. I was chasing punishing metrics of self-improvement that I did not need, and would never actually catch and maintain, and which would never love me back.

It took a long time to internalize this. It took a long time to get angry on my own behalf. It took a long time to act on it, and write again because fuck you. To run on my own terms, at my own pace, for my own enjoyment because fuck you. To create with my hands again because fuck you. To lean into the happiness of creation that I had not “earned”, because fuck you.

I like creating because it fills an emptiness that used to be there. It’s so simple, and so lovely, that humans are like this. That we want to build with our hands. That we want to assemble and construct. That we derive joy from stacking pieces together, and stringing words together, and assembling colors on a page, and moving, and singing, and baking, and knitting. Humans love to build little worlds around them. 

So why must we so actively try to cut people off from it off from it? Why do we condition ourselves to fear its mediocrity? Why does this still our hands? Why do we suffocate it for ourselves, before others can? I don’t have an answer. I can only recognize the monster. 

I want to make bad art today. I want to make bad art tomorrow. If I am a worse writer tomorrow, I want that to be fine. If I am never more than a mediocre runner, I want to be at complete peace with that. Because if not, then I might box away my hobbies again, and my loves, and my pursuits. I might go back to empty. I might go back to nothing.

I hate that emptiness I lived through. I hate that nothing. I want to make bad art for the rest of my life. 

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Another illustration for that Félix/Bridgette WIP I’ve been working on. I am so close to finishing it. Ugh. Just need to get the last chapter worked out and I can start posting it on AO3!

*click for better resolution*

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A compilation of stuff I know about drawing Asian faces and Asian culture! I feel like many “How-To-Draw” tutorials often default to European faces and are not really helpful when drawing people of other races. So I thought I’d put this together in case anyone is interested! Feel free to share this guide and shoot me questions if you have any! I’m by no means an expert, I just know a few things from drawing experience and from my own cultural background. 

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shading colour tips

hey yall its me the Art Mom™ to help you shade pretty

rule 1: DO NOT SHADE WITH BLACK. EVER. IT NEVER LOOKS GOOD. 

red- shade with a slightly darker shade of purple

orange- slightly darker and more saturated shade of red

yellow- i think like..a peach could work but make it a really light peach

green- shade with darker and less saturated shade of blue or teal

blue- shade with purple

purple- a shade thats darker than the purple you’re using and maybe a little pink (MAYBE blue)

pink- darker shade of red

white- a really light lavender or blue..or i guess any really light colour??

black- okay listen dont use pure black to colour anything unless you want to leave it with flat colours because you cant really shade black lol

grey- a slightly darker shade of purple or blue (less saturated)

brown- slightly darker and less saturated shade of purple or red

aaaaand thats all i got lol. let me know if there is anything i should add to this list!!

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When your friends convince you to take up art, and you draw a scene from a fic WIP.

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This is like 900% unnecessary, I’ve just been thinking about shoe laces a lot.

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So Ummnm Recently I started drawing everyday and uhmm I've been following your tumblr for long time. Nearly a year i think. And I noticed how amazing your body drawing looks. As much as I try to practice I fail 98/100 times.Either Legs end up too short or too long or chest is too wide/small, breasts are too long or too short.Also with Male body. I never can get torso and legs to look good.Either torso looks good and legs suck or legs are good and torso is bad. Any tips? ^_^;; Sorry to bother

It’s no bother!  Correct anatomy is an ongoing learning experience for me too!  Just the other day I accidentally gave Chat Noir orangutan arms before we noticed that they might be too long, lol.  XD

Here’s one quick guide about proportions (I don’t have time to make an in-depth tutorial, but there are already TONS of really great guides/tutorials out there on anatomy and proportions, how long body parts are, how wide they are, and so forth):  (Keep in mind that female heads are just a teeeeensy tiny bit smaller than males’, about 2 cm smaller in circumference)

You just have to keep drawing every day and challenging yourself, look at tutorials, follow along with them, collect drawing references, and don’t give up.

Progress is ALWAYS slow and it IS discouraging, but if you stick to it then instead of only succeeding 2/100 times, eventually you’ll get to 3/100, 4/100, 13/100, 51/100, and so on.  You won’t see it at first, it might take months or years before you notice it.

Take a look at my progress over the past year.

I started drawing again last spring (2016) after several years of being on a drawing hiatus, so I was pretty rusty and I didn’t really have a consistent style.  I’ve been drawing every day ever since it became fun for me again, and I believe it shows.

Anyway, just keep doing what you’re doing and make sure you keep your drawings so you can see how far you’ve come after a year or two!

I hope that helps! 

Edit:  I forgot to mention, I have nore tutorials under my “Art Tips” tag on my Tumblr that you can look through”

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I love your art, especially your Miraculous art which is so beautiful. How do you draw/get the textures for clothing? Like the mesh of Ladybug's suit or intricate lace details on dresses? Keep up the good work! 🐞🐱

Thank you!  Yes, I’ll share my secrets with you, mwahaha  ;D   ✨ ✨ ✨ 

The secret is….. I cheat–  ERRR that is, I take advantage of the capabilities of the software I use.  ;D  There are brushes and textures that are available for download and I generally apply them as a Multiply layer on top of the rest.  Sometimes I do draw something from scratch (with a lot of hair pulling) but many times there are aides out there to make things a little less stressful.

I’ll insert a mini tutorial under the cut.

Keep reading

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TUTORIAL:  HOW TO ADD IMAGES TO YOUR Ao3 FANFICTION

I’ve been asked about this several times so I thought a mini tutorial might be helpful (especially since I remember my first time, how it took me a while to figure it out too).  Happy writing!!  :D

As always, if you didn’t create the images yourself make sure you have proper permission to post them.

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How did you learned to draw so beautiful and awesome like that ?? Did you learned it by yourself ?? Actually I know how to draw too but whenever I see your drawings I always ask myself if you use a technique to draw (when I'm not fangirling about the Marichat/Ladynoir ones XD). Please tell us >.

Thanks for the lovely compliments!  :D

I’m self taught, the things that helped improve the most were practice and study. Here are some other things that I also do and highly recommend:

** Draw often. Drawing every couple of weeks or once a month will eventually result in improvement, but a lot slower.** Use references. ** Watch Youtube art/tutorial videos (there are SOOOOO MANY amazing ones out there)** Study tutorials, and draw alongside them. ** Try drawing new poses. ** Try drawing in different styles. ** Go to artists’ livestreams and watch them work. Don’t be afraid to ask questions.** Adopt things you love from your favorite artists. ** Do timed gesture drawings. ** If you get discouraged, look back at your work from one year ago, two years ago, etc. and be proud of your improvement.

Good luck my friend!