#I had to redraw so much of this in the painting

[georgiacooked]

My last repaint for a little while as I settle back into script deadlines, but I couldn't resist finishing this one. Johnny and Mina's marriage sketch, from August 24th.

I JUST LOVE THEM SO MUCH, YOUR HONOUR.

Original sketch:

[skunkes]

[gncrezan]

rereading @ataleofcrowns and remembering why i had no other choice but to love him!!!!!!!!!

[aviul]

dark type activities

[doomedclockworkdotmp3]

i drew vash doing the sonic adventure pose a while back and while i was working on that i thought "dont wolfwood and shadow look similar?" (its shadows chest fluff it makes him look like hes wearing a suit) but then i never did anything with that thought. until now because ive been watching sonic prime and i was in the mood oops

so i drew shadow as wolfwoods debut panel. ive never drawn a sonic character before. it was fun i hope i did ok

[forecast0ctopus]

which characters do you want to draw more of?

yknow i feel like this is probably more pointed towards star trek. which there ARE a lot of trek characters id like to draw more of. but you just opened a whole can of worms man theres so much stuff i love that i havent really done much fanart for..... i want to do scooby-doo fanart soooo bad but i never get past the sketch phase....i havent drawn hardly any paranatural in ten years... woould love to draw more my babysitter's a vampire fanart its been so long since ive drawn those guys....... ive wanted to do jaane tu ya jaane na redraws for the longest time... okay i wont go on any longer ill stick anythin g else. in the tags lmao

[aphoticfirefly]

"I've spent so long in the darkness, I'd almost forgotten how beautiful the moonlight is." Hwasa as Emily from Corpse Bride

[moe-broey]

Textpost redraw that only works in a modern setting, so. I gave them silly outfits (and a little bit of lore!)

Some zoom ins on the illusts!

And Lore

Moe is like. A SHUT-IN shut-in. So in any modern setting that isn't "Hey wanna visit my hometown for a sec (events so far have followed canon at least loosely)", it would have to meet Alfonse under Extremely Specific Circumstances.

And finally! Textpost under cut!

[elven-butts]

i miss her

[malk-with-tea]

Commission for my pal SolxTyrant on Twitter!

[skunkes]

Any tipsss for drawing clothes and their form?

i dont even have a good grasp on dis, i just either look up ref pics or find the most similar clothing in my closet and put it on to get an estimate of that the folds wld look like, the rest is from pulling those events out of mental library

[thelemonmaiden]

#sparkstember - Day 29 - The Girl Is Crying In Her Latte!

[justabunchofdragons]

hello o7

[bearsandbeansart]

What is your favorite thing you’ve ever drawn?

Not the best thing, prettiest, most creative, hardest, blah blah. But what piece brought you the most joy as you created it?

Favorite thing..... I'm going to have to tap into recent stuff because I've been drawing for like 30 years and I don't know if I could remember every single thing. And to keep this ask interesting to read, I'm going to answer it with examples, so it's going to be fanart because that's all I have visuals of.

The difficult part of picking a favorite is that there are so many reasons why I really like different drawings. Some things I really love because of how cool the end result is. Sometimes it's because it's a shitty drawing that makes me laugh a lot when I look at it. Sometimes it's a combination, of a crack idea well executed. So...I think I'll give an example of each.

In terms of 'holy crap this looks so good I'm so proud of this one', I've got to go with a commission I did for @orangepanic:

Like, I look at this and get a sense of pride, like 'did I actually do that? How did I do that? This is so cool.'

In terms of 'shitty drawing that makes me laugh every time I look at it', it's probably the one of Jet being absolutely horrified at slugtaur!Ty Lee

please don't ask for an explanation because I'm not sure I even have one

And then finally, the one in terms of skill plus crack, I'd have to choose the Freedom Fighters as woodland creatures, which is also the only non-digital art on this list.

[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 :)

[poorly-drawn-mdzs]

WOAH!!!

couldnt wait for the end of the semester

i was going to watercolor it but i went marker crazy

Once again based off @poorly-drawn-mdzs drawing!! Still one of my fav artists