#10/10 Pinterest find

[rebelbagel]

Thank you Pinterest, I'm now deceased.

[father-killjoy]

[xreanimatedcorpse]

Someone put me out back and take me out

[flowersandfashion]

view the graphics below for a basic guide

[anxiouslowercase]

SAS ROGUE HEROES + text posts i find on pinterest

[epiph-annie]

source : Pinterest

[daily-akito-memes]

Day 56

[bisexualadamparrish]

made myself a 2025 vision board <3

[writtenwillows]

Piracy starts on Pinterest actually

[king-of-kaoss]

[gammija]

boy, i do love seeing a post full of unsourced art in the tma tag with an amount of notes akin to an upcoming artists/s. especially when, after being called out, just two sources are added in the alt text instead of in the body of the post, even though most if not all of the artists have tumblr accounts themselves

[krispiecake]

on the search for a crochet jumper pattern that isn’t ugly… this could take years…..

[twabbisforever]

Marcel Roux, L'Avarice

[drawnecromancy]

For Le Prix du Sang,

6, and 10 from the pinterest game?

From this ask game !!

6. Is a quote a character would say ?

If Atropa was like, a bit more corny - she could say that because that's literally her entire character arc.

10. Is a meme/joke from a character's board ?

...I... uh... I don't have memes in their boards. Or jokes. Just clothing. Uh, I do have this reference picture that I think is moderately funny :

It's still essentially a drawing reference though ! jogs my memory of stuff i learned in class

[vetyr]

hi, i ireally love your work and i don't know if you've answered this before but, what kinds of studies do you do or how did you learn color theory? i wanna get better at rendering and anatomy but im having trouble TT TT

Hi! Long answer alert. Once a chatterbox, always a chatterbox.

When I started actively learning how to draw about 10 1/2 years ago, I exclusively did graphite studies in sketchbooks. Here's a few examples—I mostly stuck to doing line drawings to drill basic shapes/contours and proportions into my brain. The more rendered sketches helped me practice edge control & basic values, and they were REALLY good for learning the actual 3D structure behind what I was drawing.

I'd use reference images that I grabbed from fitness forums, Instagram, Tumblr, Pinterest, and some NSFW places, but you could find adequate ref material from figure drawing sites like Line of Action. LoA has refs for people (you can filter by clothed/unclothed, age, & gender), animals, expressions, hands/feet, and a few other useful things as well. Love them.

Learning how to render digitally was a similar story; it helped a lot that I had a pretty strong foundation for value/anatomy going in. I basically didn't touch color at all for ~2 years (except for a few attempts at bad digital or acrylic paint studies), which may not have been the best idea. I learned color from a lot of trial and error, honestly, and I'm pretty sure this process involved a lot of imitation—there were a number of digital/traditional painters whose styles I really wanted to emulate (notably their edge control, color choices, value distributions, and shape design), so I kiiind of did a mixture of that + my own experimentation.

For example, I really found Benjamin Björklund's style appealing, especially his softened/lost edges & vibrant pops of saturated color, so here's a study I did from some photograph that I'm *pretty* sure was painted with him in mind.

Learning how to detail was definitely a slow process, and like all the aforementioned things (anatomy/color/edge control/values/etc.) I'm still figuring it out. Focusing on edge control first (that is, deciding on where to place hard/soft edges for emphasizing/de-emphasizing certain areas of the image) is super useful, because you can honestly fool a viewer into thinking there's more detail in a piece than there actually is if you're very economical about where you place your hard edges.

The most important part, to me, is probably just doing this stuff over and over again. You're likely not going to see improvement in a few weeks or even a few months, so don't fret about not getting the exact results you want and just keep studying + making art. I like to think about learning art as a process where you *need* to fail and make crappy art/studies—there's literally no way around it—so you might as well fail right now. See, by making bad art you're actually moving forward—isn't that a fun prospect!!

It's useful to have a folder with art you admire, especially if you can dissect the pieces and understand why you like them so much. You can study those aspects (like, you can redraw or repaint that person's work) and break down whether this is art that you just like to look at, or if it's the kind of art that you want to *make.* There's a LOT of art out there that I love looking at, probably tens of thousands of styles/mediums, but there's a very narrow range that I want to make myself.

I've mentioned it in some ask reply in the past, but I really do think looking at other artist's work is such a cheat code for improving your own skills—the other artist does the work to filter reality/ideas for you, and this sort of allows you to contact the subject matter more directly. I can think of so many examples where an artist I admired exaggerated, like, the way sunlight rested on a face and created that orange fringe around its edge, or the greys/dull blues in a wheat field, or the bright indigo in a cast shadow, or the red along the outside of a person's eye, and it just clicked for me that this was a very available & observable aspect of reality, which had up until that point gone completely unnoticed! If you're really perceptive about the art you look at, it's shocking how much it can teach you about how to see the world (in this particular case I mean this literally, in that the art I looked at fully changed the way I visually processed the world, but of course it has had a strong effect on my worldviews/relationships/beliefs).

Thanks so much for sending in a question (& for reading, if you got this far)! I read every single ask I receive, including the kind words & compliments, which I genuinely always appreciate. Best of luck with learning, my friend :)

[endless-ineffabilities]

Chemical Override

Ewan Mitchell x actress!reader

The reader is a new addition to the cast of House of the Dragon, and she immediately captures the hearts of audiences, along with that belonging to one Ewan Mitchell. Falling in love can bring such bliss, even with all that comes from being in the public eye. But what happens when the pressure mounts and one of them has to make a difficult choice? Will they ever find their way back together?

themes/warnings: language, angst, jealousy, mutual pining, falling in love, celebrity and all that comes with it, breaking up (and maybe getting back together)

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main masterlist ▪︎ our mixtape ▪︎ submission board ▪︎ zero context spoilers ▪︎ Ewan's playlist ▪︎ Mallorca moodboard ▪︎ timeline ▪︎ Pinterest board ▪︎ submissions

minishots : In Your Modern World ▪︎ For His Eyes Only ▪︎ Double-Edged Seduction ▪︎ Snapshots of Desire ▪︎ Aaaand, CUT!

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Part one

Part two

Part three

Part four

Bonus chapter one

Nocturnal file

Part five

Bonus chapter two: August!

Part six

Part seven (+ cut scene)

Bonus chapter three: In the Modern World

Part eight

Bonus chapter four: Above The Gods Eye

Part nine

Bonus chapter five: Never Have I Ever, Darling

Part ten

Part eleven

Part twelve - (preview)

Part thirteen

Part fourteen