#I'm not that practiced with lineless lol

[sennen-pencil]

Happy 28th anniversary to one of my favorite manga ever! Dark mode version under the cut

[leisi-lilacdreams]

practicing lineless art style

alt ver under cut

maybe i'll do the other 3 at different times to play with colors

[tormentum-ab-intra]

skeledog Leander WIP

the skull here is actually modeled closely after a deer skull, just compressed to fit a dog's overall face shape. also tried to make the eyes a little less wide-set than a deer's without making them completely front-facing like a dog's. here's the rest of the (still un-rendered) body:

i'm testing out the screen recorder i just downloaded so if that ends up working the way i want it to i'll have a timelapse of this piece when it's done :)

[swimming-karyss]

remember that one time Law and Sabo went on a date at the end of Wano? yea crazy times

alternative versions, closeup and a bit of rambling under cut

a closeup. I really need to draw on a smaller canvas lol

without shadows, bc I want to brag that I picked the "cooled down" colors myself without using layer modes, so it's a bit of practice actually. I think I'm going to do a similar one in warm tones. + a lineless version. who needs lineart anyway (the true reason is that Sabo looks very soft...) adding lineart at the last steps and only in points of interest was a choice... which didn't go as I expected? maybe I needed flat colors and not adding the dark shadow outline. drawing on one layer without lineart is kinda fun (I did that once before and for quite a while!) but MAN does it take so much time

[golden-gitch979]

Mlp X Tadc crossover! This was actually my first time trying out lineless art and it gave me some really good practice for the Nequello art I did later on. For a first attempt I'm REALLY happy with how it turned out and definitely plan on making more art in this style in the future! And yes, I did swap their hats lol

[bepoucorp]

Sup bepou

Wanted to ask how long your vids and your art usually take⁉️ Not to sound nosy haha just curious i always take so long to draw 😔💔💔💔 *cue sad music* Art is so hard *sobbing crying im so tired kdkffdkfgioe idk*

Also you have delicious ahh Art /pos

-🍡

Hi 🍡 , THANK YOU! my vids and art kind of depend on how difficult it is and how much motivation I have for the piece?

"NO DONT DO THAT-" took me like 3 days to make... but "POV: Your Boyfriend falls into a Vat of Acid but its Batjokes" took me atleast 3~ months to make!

- (both are fully colored animations but one is obviously longer than the other, + the boyfriend one i tried a lineless style) the filipino batman comic took me about 1-2 days to create, while, my telltale comic took about 5~ish hours? - (both are fully colored + shaded comics, but the telltale one is shorter while the filipino batman one is like?? its lined and a little longer? I actually planned the dialogue out unlike the telltale one (and it shows LOL)) it all really depends ya know? I also *trained myself/practiced to draw faster*! I'm also one of those people who have to finish an art piece in the same day or else I'll lose steam. (of course this isn't always good/possible, but its kind of how i function with art) thanks again for asking! I love to share my process LMAO

[certainempatheticturkeymuffin]

Feeling kinda nostaligic looking through some of my art.

I drew this in 2021 and I was so proud of it. It was a companion piece for a fic that never manifested, and I loved it so much. It was my first real foray into digital art. Sure, I'd definitely drawn before, but nothing with this amount of effort put into it. It wasn't even the first thing I drew for the LU Discord: the place that got me back into art.

Looking at the results, I think it still holds up, and that makes me beyond happy. I would certainly change a lot about it if I drew it again today, but I love it all the same, because it's something I could see on tumblr and go "oh that's cute, I'll reblog" and I'm near tears.

I think it embodies what my favorite pieces are to draw: sad/angsty pieces of my favorite characters with dramatic lighting. I don't draw many of them, because they require so much effort, but they're my favorite.

I drew these two pieces in October and December of last year. I learned how to utilize glow layers, my anatomy improved, and I shifted to a lineless art style that is so much work but gives beautiful results. You can even see that between the two pieces I decided to properly learn how to draw wings.

I've improved so much in only three years and I genuinely owe it to the LU Discord. Even if I'm not as active there anymore, y'all got me back into art. I have over a hundred pieces of terribly drawn (by my current standards) fan pieces for your weekly prompts that gave me the practice I needed to improve, and I wouldn't have even bothered if I didn't want to participate in that community.

Specifically, I want to thank @ahrva, one of my best friends. She who collabed with me and encouraged me into so many writing projects and community events. Thank you, dearly. I wouldn't have had the courage to join the secret santas or art exchanges if you hadn't been right there, super excited to participate. You always compliment my art, and it means a lot when you go "OOOOOO" in response to one of my pieces /gen

I'd also like to thank @wolfy1298 whose art was a huge inspiration, even if we've never really spoken. Whenever I saw your work I was so impressed that I couldn't help trying to emulate you a little. Your colors are something I still envy to this day, your masterful highlights and lineart an inspiration to work harder and improve. Your curvy shapes are also very cute and may have infected me lmao

@author-main your diverse body types encouraged me to properly learn anatomy. I'm taking medical classes, but it's another thing entirely to try drawing the human body properly. I'm still unfortunately lacking when it comes to larger bodies, but your beautiful work encourages me to try improving, even if it's only in sketchbooks that no one will ever see. Your lines are full of personality, and I never tire of seeing your work.

@w1lmutt your compositions and poses are awe-inspiring. I struggle a lot with composing a shot, especially with foreshortening, so your work is extremely impressive. You manage to insert so much personality through body language alone, and it's definitely something I'll be striving to improve. That's not even mentioning your backgrounds! I'm generally in awe of every piece you make. I think I'd die if I had to draw a proper landscape/cityscape lol. I can barely manage a bedroom! Just another thing to work towards improving lol

There are tons more artists i want to shout out and compliment, but it's nearly 7am and I haven't gone to sleep yet lol.

Thank all of you. Even if I only pop in once every few months for the events nowadays, I'll always cherish my time in this community. I'm going to keep improving, and I'm glad to be doing so alongside such skilled artists!

[heracronite]

Kind of random pony. I'm practicing lineless again and I wanted to try my hand at character design while I was at it lol. It's cleaning day so they have lil headscarf!

I'm currently accepting requests so be sure to send some if you'd like!

[dinodogs]

Two questions, how do you do lineless art, and how do you draw faces/expressions? They are always so cute!!

ermm I am not good at tutorials but I did my best here! First lineless art. My methods kinda messy and theres probably better methods out there.

First I start with a sketch like normal, and line it like normal.

2. then I color it like I usually would. Nothing fancy.

3. Then I use a clipping mask to create the lineless look. A few rules I have for myself are to do the very outside of the lines first, then go in and do the inner bits. ONLY do darker lines if necessary, I try and keep darker lines reserved for jaw lines. In the end, the lineart looks smthn like this!

For expressions and faces uhmm. Thats a lil tricky but I'll try my best to explain.

For faces I imagine them sorta like masks on a circle, and I change the shape of those masks for different characters. Sometimes I'll even make it a mask on a square. Ruby has a long, thicker snout, Weiss has a long thinner snout that sorta leans in, and the rando dragon has a shorter one then both of them.

For expressions, subtlety is key. I did my best to draw Ruby and Weiss with virtually the same expressions, but I made very slight changes to Ruby like having her look at the viewer and adding that little triangle to the corner of her mouth. So instead of just a neutral smile like Weiss's, she looks smug.

Heres another example with Weiss, where I made her neutral face look like an annoyed one just by scrunching her snout a little and slightly turning her lip down more.

But I do like to exaggerate more sometimes! Such as to make really happy faces, or really angry ones. I'm still kinda practicing when it comes to super exaggerated expressions, but I've been following the squash stretch rule and acting kinda like a characters face is putty. I can squish, stretch, elongate, and smoosh their faces as much as I want! I'm not aiming to be realistic.

Also, eyes add a lot to the expression! I also like to get super silly with eyes, and change the size of the pupils depending on expression. I also treat them like putty.

Thats kinda all I have?? I'm not sure if this helps in anyway but here it is lol.

[gemini526sdumptruck]

More concepting

I guess this isn't really much of an object show concept and more so just general object OC concept but still lol.

So a few days ago I was experimenting with an artsyle I wanted to go through with for a new group of object characters. And using a character I now lovingly call "Practice Circle", I made this.

What's the concept in question? Well I'd love to share because me and a close friend got super giddy and excited when I first talked about it and I really really wanna share it.

So late last month, I was listening to a lot of 2000s era trance and general electronic music (two that I think are notable to mention are Flying High and Sky), because I realized how much I loved it.

Last year I had made two groups of object characters based off the 2000s in some form. The MS Painters and the Emobjects. And I wanted to make another group of objects that were in the same universe as they were (though they likely go to a different school than the other two groups lol).

I've also become super obsessed with frutiger aero and frutiger metro lately, and I've wanted to make characters mildly inspired by them (mostly metro though).

After browsing through many aero and metro pictures and listening to lots of music, an idea finally hit me.

I was thinking of making a group of object characters that were mostly based off music, and also had like a lineless, rounded kind of design. One of the things that inspired that artsyle idea was from Radio Gosha/Gosha Dole, who I had an interest in back then.

This group of objects could generally just be music fans, or maybe their own small lil band, and they have a ROY G BIV color scheme.

And when I finish them I could make a frutiger metro background that I could pose them on, like the rainbow backgrounds I used to see in like 2010.

I'm super super excited to make them.

[the-end-poem]

Week four of my 30 Day art challenge with my OC Red! For this weeks prompts and me talking about the week check under the cut!

This weeks prompts, in order, were: - As a League Of Legends Character - As Royalty - As A Villain - Pixel Art - Drawn With Non Dominant Hand - As A Splatoon Character This week posed some difficulty! Day 23 is definitely my favorite my far, closely followed by day 22! Day 21: As a League Of Legends Character - Going to be honest, I didn't really come out happy with this! I'm not really knowledgeable with LOL but I did my best with the little bit of information I know! Day 22: As Royalty - This one was super fun! I decided to practice some lineless work and I am so happy with how it turned out! This was loosely based off the song "Healers Dilemma" by Mercedes Lackey in vibes and I had a lot of fun figuring out the "royal" garb to put my boy in! Day 23: As A Villain - NOW THIS ONE I HAVE A LOT TO SAY ABOUT! So to give some backstory on this one back when GlowSMP was just a group server we had happened to make characters to represent us we played a little game called GarticPhone! Through one of the earliest rounds of us playing the idea of their being an alternate universe where it's revealed Red is actually a serial murderer and is the actual villain of the server got tossed out as a joke. Here's to say that idea hasn't left my brain! So naturally when I saw Red as a villain I HAD to draw something of Slasher!Red ! Looks like SOMEONE is smuggling information to a local Mad Scientist :} Day 24 : Pixel Art - Super simple this one, just a pixel Red ! "Hello Everynyan. How Are You. Fine, Thank You" - Red's Dialogue, probably Day 25: Drawn With Non Dominant Hand - Again not much to saw, a wobbly Red drawn with my left hand! Day 26: As A Splatoon Character - Another fun one in concept!! Not my exact favorite in execution, but that's besides the point! I am a MAJOR Splatoon fan actually and I realized Red would be a PERFECT Sea Bunny! They're fluffy, have antenna, are spotted, AND come in golden yellows!! It was a match made in heaven! Can't wait for the last week to see all of these in one place! :D

I've been doing the thirty day art challenge with my character Red :} Along with the prompts I added that I wanted to do all of these with the limitations of doing them in MS Paint, to practice poses, expressions, and such and practice figure work/drawing a pose just by looking at it ! So have the first weeks worth of art! :D

More information/rambling about the art provided under the cut!

The prompts in order were: - Random Pallet - Expressions - As A Magical Girl - Old Design - Aesthetic Swap - Different Species I had so much fun with this during the week after work, really getting my creative juices flowing! My favorite days HAVE to be, in order, Day 3, Day 5, and Day 1! Day 3 is my absolute favorite by far I am very happy with how it turned out but Day 5's pose and composition is very nice as well. Now I wanna drop some notes about each day :} Day 1: Pallet- SUPER FUN The pallet was from a generator website I just so happened to get one that looked SO GOOD TOGETHER. It reminded me of Red getting all shy and romantic thinking about his boyfriend Vitriol while out working in the field Day 2: Expressions- NOT MUCH THIS DAY ACTUALLY. Mostly just wanted to see how varied I could get his expressions while himself not being a super expressive character! Again another visit from Vitriol :} Worry and Relief: A story in two parts Day 3: As A Magical Girl- THIS DAY WAS SO SO FUN I've also been doing this with my fursona and I saw the magical girl prompt and my head went two places: Sailor Moon and Toyko Mew Mew. I went with drawing Red in Tuxedo Masks costume and decided to save the Tokyo Mew Mew idea for my sona :} Again I am super SUPER happy with the posing and perspective on this one, my favorite of the bunch. May make it my icon some places honestly. Day 4: With An Old Design- This one isn't my favorite. I really didn't know what to do with this one because Red's design hasn't changed very much, since I've only been drawing him for MAYBE a year or two! So just a headshot of how I use to draw him :} Day 5: Aesthetic Swap- ANOTHER SUPER FUN PROMPT!! Red is a country boy so naturally an aesthetic swap would be... Greaser/Bad Boy! He's got the leather jacket, the sunglasses, and he bakes bread :} Yes I absolutely ran with this idea because of The Bad Bread Boys. This is probably my favorite pose wise, I am SO happy with this pose especially cause it's without a reference Day 6: Different Species- This was a no brainer! Red is a feline minecraft origin oc and I'd already drawn him with a different origin as a one-off during a Gartic Phone game! So this is Red but if he was an ender origin ! :D And that's it! This was super fun, can't wait to do more!!

[sysig]

If it’s not one thing, it’s another

[celestial-mean-girls]

Hiya! I was scrolling through the Moondrop tag when I saw your post about lining/coloring your sketches with credit. I’ve been in a bit of art block so I thought why not try it. Because the sketch is yours I won’t post this to my own account but thought I’d at least share it with you.

This was a lot of fun! Though I can safely say our art styles are very different lol.

THAT IS SO CUTE SHUT UP

OMG

LITERALLY SAID "THAT IS SO CUTE SHUT UP" OUT LOUD AND GRASPED MY CHEST IN REAL TIME.

OMG

THAT IS INCREDIBLE!! dlkldkg OMG THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR SHARING THIS WITH ME!! holy SHIT that looks SO GOOD!! holy CRAP!! LINELESS???? FOR REAL?? ARE YOU FOR REAL RIGHT NOW??

HOLY SHIT!!!!

THAT IS PHENOMENAL!!! oh my god the finesse in here; the shading, the CLEANLINESS of your lines?? the lighting, the vibrancy of the colors and patterns? this is SPOTLESS. SMOOTH AND GORGEOUS!! the gradients on Moon's hands, sleeves, pants, just. his CLOTHES in general?? (i REALLY fucking love your Moon, i LOVE this design holy crap. i'm gonna have to go raid your art tag later, i want to see MORE of him!!) he's got the CUTEST fucking mischievous eyes, and the overall MOOD in this pic?? FLAWLESS. HOW JOYOUS AND EXCITING this is just--!! it's so PLAYFUL and it's PERFECT!! just PRECISELY what i was originally going for!!

WOW holY CRAP and you got EXACTLY what i had planned for Freddy's hands, PERFECTLY!!! omg. o m G. just PHENOMENAL

and i REALLY love that you went and put your own little twist on it by having Moon pick up Freddy's hat and hold it aloft like that. this is just. fucking superb, OUTSTANDING content op, this is REALLY inspirational to me!! wow. i seriously can't get over this. the LINELESS!! the way you shaded and shaped with colors!! i'm. i'm floored. i'm awestruck. i'm absolutely over the MOON (ha ha)

(also i gotta say: up top high five for another Moon based in purple!! my original design for Moon (aka, Moony, who you can find in tags; he's the one with the hood) is based in purple for Color Psychology reasons, and it's ALWAYS so much fun to see another Purple Moon. absolutely STELLAR stuff, what a guy!!!)

this is SO beautiful and vibrant, op. i'm FLOORED and TOTALLY humbled that you chose my sketch to practice with, i hope it got you out of your art block!! this means SO much to me that it grabbed your interest and that you shared your finished work with me, THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR ETERNITY AND BACK!! wow. WOW. i'll be riding high on this one for a GOOD while, LOL!! it seriously inspires ME, too!!

and i think it would inspire many many more, as well!! so while i REALLY thank you for your considerate, respectful thought - you have no idea how much that means to me, and how important that is, so thank you forever again - i think that this deserves to be on your blog, too. PLEASE by all means post it, just give credit back to me at this blog for providing the base sketch, and that'll be enough. i really, REALLY think you deserve recognition for this on its own. PLEASE post it to your blog and i'll be MORE THAN HAPPY to reblog it again!!

just. holy shit. holy SHIT. WOW. you really made my day. holy crap. what a fucking inspiration. WOW. this is some seriously smooth and beautiful, detailed work. the fucking finesse you've got going, here. wow.

fucking gorgeous. absolutely beautiful, top tier content OP 1000/10 A+, PLEASE DO IT AGAIN!!! DEFINITELY gonna be on the lookout for more of your work, THANK YOU FOREVER TO THE UNIVERSE AND MORE, and stay healthy and safe out there!!! 🥺🥺🙏💖💖🥚😭😭🙏🙏🙏⭐️🌙⭐️

[faithfulwhispers-art]

5 & 10 for the art asks!

5) Do you practice other styles/have you tried other styles in the past? Sometimes I like to dabble with lineless vs inked. Or I'll try doing more of a sketchy style from time to time. Another thing I like to experiment with is trying out little bits of anatomy changes with my art to see if my art will adapt to it or not. 10) What do you like most about your art?

LOL this will probably be no shock, but definitely my coloring. I LOVE to color. I will literally take my soft water color brush and blend out some highlights in Dib's jacket, and I could do it for a whole hour--just the jacket, and I'll be happy. But I also love how some of my special effects turn out when I'm trying something new. :) Thank you for the ask!!! <3 <3 <3

[goldenrosetea]

more gregg!! I love him so much omg

reblogs>likes

[ask-yanderemiku]

This is for the Anon mun thing, but I'm both amazed and a little jealous of how well/quickly you can answer asks, and I consider you to be a bit of an inspiration. Also, if you don't mind me asking, how much do you think having an askblog helps you improve? I've been on the fence about making one for awhile, I'm just not confident with my art yet lol. It looks fun. Anyways, sorry for the stupid long ask/combination of asks I suppose.

( oh no no it’s fine! thank you so much!!under the cut bc it might get a bit long–

I’m just..fast in general, I actually go with lineless over making actual lineart and coloring that, mostly because I don’t have to do proper/cleaned-up shapes, just a general shape and erase it till I get what I want -I have a quick tutorial I made for it a while back here!

If there’s any tip I can give you it’s… I don’t sketch. I draft everything in my head. I just figure out what I want and go for it, and I don’t bother with trying to perfect each small detail - esp if you want to try and go faster -also since I have my tablet on my right I set shortcuts for all my tools so I can quickly access them with my left hand so I don’t have to go clicking around Sai. I just type fast too lmao

and when I say fast I mean everybody turns and looks at me whenever I’m typing something

I guess memorizing the entire keyboard helps I can type with my eyes closed…..

also! if you’re planning on making an askblog, I’m suggesting (not telling you) to choose a muse you really like and will want to hold onto, so you don’t get tired of them easily haha…I love Miku and I would die for her so tbh I would draw her again and again and again without problem

it certainly can speed up things eventually, since you’re more or less drawing the same character over and over, and you’ll kind of absorb techniques and styles from other blogs too!

of course to improve further you’ll need to branch out your practices more, but if you’ve got the free time and willingness, an ask blog could of course help! I mean, I’ve definitely seen the improvement from when I reopened up the blog in January!

So, if you want to go for it, go ahead! Your art doesn’t matter, you’ll improve with time, and we’re always happy to have a new member in the ask blog community! unless of course you decide to cross Miku 

Just give it a bit of thought if you need, but I hope I helped a little !! )