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Little quick and light kimono tutorial because I’m noticing a trend of weird things non-Japanese people do with them.

Bathrobes =/= Kimonos

Kimonos aren’t sacred. They’re for everyone. Just practice drawing them, use tons of refs, be respectful, and have fun. There’s also tons of other types of traditional clothes you can mess around with. Research is your best friend

Edit: since some of you guys don’t realize you should ASK an artist (or anyone, for that matter) before reposting/using their work for things

PLEASE DO NOT REPOST, EDIT, OR USE ANY OF THESE PICTURES WITHOUT MY PERMISSION. ARTISTS WORK HARD ON THEIR DRAWINGS. WE DO NOT LIKE IT WHEN OUR WORK GETS STOLEN LIKE THIS. ALL YOU HAVE TO DO IS ASK FIRST. THAT’S LITERALLY IT.

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A bit of chalkboard art I did at work! Our company wants us to get festive so I thought hey let's have some elves painting a tree. I used sidewalk chalk since that's what we have but even so! It's adorable!

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An old soft proofing tutorial of mine that I’ve been getting requests to post again.

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RadenWA is honestly a hero for these

they're got even more than these, too!

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Vent art

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This week: Form follows function! You can tell a lot about a bird by its wings.

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Know what I’m salty about?

In all my art classes, I was never taught HOW to use the various tools of art.

Like yes, form, and shape and space and color theory and figure drawing is important, but so is KNOWING what different tools do.

I’m 29 and I JUST learned this past month that India Ink is fucking waterproof when it dries. Why is this important? Because I can line something in India Ink and then go over it with watercolors. And that has CHANGED the ENTIRE way I art and the ease I can create with.

tldr: Art Teachers: teach your students what different tools do. PLEASE.

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Compiled some basic information I know about drawing fat characters for beginners since I've been seeing more talk about absence of really basic traits in a lot of art lately.

Morpho Fat and Skin Folds on Archive.org (for free!)

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A tattoo stencil commission I just finished. This was personalized TO THEM so nobody but that person has permission to use this stencil. It's extremely personal and it's not cool to take that from someone

Anyway, DM me if you'd like a commission

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how to hit your guys with the crust rays

a friend of mine was having trouble with a character of hers, he was middle-aged but looked too young, so she came to me for help. i'm something of a middle-aged-man-fan so i whipped up this quick thing to help her out. it might be useful to somebody out there so i'll share it here too!

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im so picky with the way people draw avians. so i’ve come here to share my favourite image

this is very important to me personally, if you forget the secondaries and coverts are incredibly important when drawing wings, if you dont add them your wings will look clipped and itll make the wings look unusable

WHCIH IF THATS WHAT UR GOING FOR. great! but oretty pretty pretty please. looking at you philza artists /j

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ayo i found 2 pages with head angles of humans and animals, could be useful to anyone reading this

hoomans

animals

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i love love love when artists put a bunch of effort into like human anatomy and facial features and light rendering and drawing fabric folds and shadows and texture and then when they draw a gun they do this

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I love summons with words for codes. FACADE. BAD455.

I wonder how many words there are in hex code.

I decided to google after typing this, and found a handful

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i watched one (1) video on how to draw hands that changed my life forever. like. i can suddenly draw hands again

these were all drawn without reference btw. i can just. Understand Hands now (for the most part, im sure theres definitely inaccuracies). im a little baffled

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I’m running an Introductory Animation Workshop with creative arts students this Saturday (August 20, 2016) for The School of Creative Arts Open Day at Melbourne Polytechnic’s Prahran Campus. I’ve rotoscoped and broken down some of the greatest dance gifs to their basic poses and we’re going to collaboratively design characters then MAKE THEM DANCE!!

Come down, check out the campus and say HI!

I can’t wait to see the weird animated goofs that result from this workshop, I’ll post them in a couple of days so we can all be in awe of their hilarious spontaneity! 

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I made an art/anatomy tutorial about birds! I hope people will find it helpful!