#and their art style is so good and stylized

[snowwoofxd]

@ezgurple's turts

[en-ben]

some doodles closer to the show's style

[theswedishpajas]

The man truly can’t take a genuine compliment 🙄

[nitw]

i'm actually sorry but that "how can people watch one piece when it looks Like That" post is so real because i keep seeing like screenshots of character deaths or other moments that are supposed to be genuinely sad and i just cant take them seriously because every character looks like this while crying:

[starfacedstudio]

ID: An illustration of three stylized vehicles, each having one central headlight (or 'eye!'). To the left is a boxy, jeep-like car with a kayak on top and a license plate that reads 'SUR-V3' (survey). In the middle is a rounded mid-century styled car with an '3Y3R011' (eyeroll) license plate, and on the right is an orange and yellow truck with the text "Outta Sight, Outta Mind! Moving Service" painted on the side. Its license plate reads 'N0-P33K1N' (no peekin'). End ID

Some vehicle exploration for Visible Spectrum :) did u know drawing cars becomes a lot more fun when you think of them as little guys. its true i swear

(Additional studies and sketches under read more! These will be using ALT text for IDs and I also included some additional info on each set)

Some of my initial loose car studies, mostly referencing photos of older vehicles from around the 50s since Visible Spectrum's world is partially inspired by a lot of midcentury aesthetics!

These were really fun and I actually enjoyed the process a lot more than I thought I would. I found it was helpful to try and not think of cars as being constrained to box proportions or straight lines.

my initial ventures into attempting to stylize cars into having one 'eye!' Not referenced from any particular photos, but instead cross-referencing different vehicles and pulling aspects that I liked / that I thought would work for these designs. Experimented in some of these with how tail lights might look (vaguely. lol) as well as how to make these cars look expressive (one of the more fun parts of this process)!

I don't like how a lot of that last set looks but I think its fun to look at where the initial planning began to where the final image ended up

[cozylittleartblog]

Just wanted to mention this to someone who does art and get their opinion on it:

Sometimes I see some artists do redraws of their old artworks or characters and think "Wow, uh... their older art looks better." Sometimes it's only mildly better, but other times it's vastly better. Like the Upgrade, Go Back! meme.

I understand that art skills are supposed to develop and change, hopefully for the better, but sometimes it just feels like they got... worse? Somehow? Idk. Maybe it's because they were copying another artist's style while finding their own, and it's their own style that doesn't vibe with me? Just curious what your thoughts are about this.

Also, your art has consistently been great, so this isn't directed at you.

I do see this on occasion yeah! usually (in my experience anyway) its because people take a sharp turn towards a stylization that either isn't to your or most people's tastes, or that they don't understand or are still developing. switching up how you stylize your art is like starting over in a sense, you're changing from what you have practice with and that's always going to cause you to revert some as you have to re-learn things you understood in your previous style. i had a pretty big style shift in 2014 when i took up the basis for how my art looks now, and i remember feeling like some of the stuff i was drawing might have looked better if i was using my older style instead. that's something artists just have to push through and figure out, and they'll likely come out of it a better artist than they were before. constructive critiques are a good way for them to figure out why their art might not be as "good" as it used to be, if they're open for those.

art is not always a linear journey, and i would also say things like passion and motivation have a part in it too. feeling inspired sparks you to make something the best it can be, if you're not feeling it (and esp if that feeling lasts for a long time) it'll leave you making decisions you otherwise would not have let fly, and that can result in worse art. and some of it is just personal preference! it's not that their art is better or worse, it's just different now, and maybe that doesn't vibe with you the same way their old stuff did. and that's fine 👍

(thank you! :3 i admittedly struggle a bit with Not Feeling It sometimes like i just described, so it's nice to know people still enjoy what i make when that feeling hits.)

[kikuism]

gachiakuta's art style is actually insane

[brionnnne]

"Chainsaw Man is ugly". Yeah, I think that's kind of the point, actually. Hell, I think the griminess, the ugliness of it, is actually what adds substance and character and feeling. Like. Whatever. You don't like it. You think it's ugly. Fine. Okay. What I can't really understand is... Why is that a bad thing?

[gameyface46]

Ok. Challenging myself to be better, and I’ve been drawing everyday for the most part now! This week I’ve decided to draw a random(ish) word each day, but I can only work on a new piece after the last one. I have to finish what I start, you know?

Anyway, I’ve done 3, but I’m only posting two, because these are pretty simple stuff, but improvement is improvement, I guess.

Anyway, wrong is inspired by this listing I found on Mercari.

Was tempted to buy it, but it’s 99 dollars… a little much for a little plushy, right? It’s probably super rare, though. How does this even happen?

[willfool]

[loregoddess]

"the lack of UO fanart of my favorite characters who I am So Normal about is fine, bc I can make my own," I say to myself as I proceed to repeatedly forget to factor wings as a piece of anatomy into the composition multiple times

[merry-the-cookie]

GUYS!!!! GUYS!!!!!!!!!!! i commissioned the incredibly talented insanely cool and radical jay @tacogrande​ to draw my favorite dudes and im so happy loOK AT THEM........ ashtons lil smile 😭 michaels sleepy eyes 🥺 all of it so gorgeous

pls go give her a follow and check out all her socials and if you can commission her i cannot recommend it enough, i mean look at this dreamy lil portrait 🥺🥰💖💖💖

alt version under the cut cus yea i got tWO VERSIONSSS

jay has been an inspiration to me for so many years since i was a wee little teenager and ive learned soooo much from them and to commission her again after so long whilst still being a huge fan of their art felt like a full circle moment hehe will definitely do again <3 maybe complete the 5sos set dfhjGHFD

[happiighost]

Just a dumb thought about zelda art style

I love the new links to the awakening art style and toy-like aesthetic. But a part of me wonders why have not returned to the windwaker artstyle again. It was used for other games not connected to windwaker like Four Swords and minish cap. I just miss the art style a lot and would like to see it again.

[kjzx]

An important thing to remember as an artist that started out drawing characters crudely and then started learning the fundamentals, at first your art will not look nice.

At first, drawing faces and bodies in different positions will make your characters look weird, then poor perspective will make your characters look weird, and finally when all the kinda things I mentioned above will be dealt with, just the hype of finally knowing how to draw anatomy will bite you in the ass because you can do all these things, you can draw them correctly or close to that, but whether that's figure drawing knowledge gaps, or awkwards poses/composition, or just not a very harmonious combination of realism and stylization in facial features or in general, but your before and after pictures might get this look of "clear objective technical improvement but many would consider it a downgrade"

That's a very common thing. I used to be in this before/after art community, and it was so toxic it was a meme within the community that no matter how much you've improved there will be people that will say that the before is better. There's a seed of truth to these words though, what they fundamentally get wrong is this implication that you "ruined your art"

That's a big example of why you shouldn't listen to non-art people for art advice. Keep going. You're closer to your art dreams than you ever were, you just need to look into all these things like the remaining knowledge gaps or personality to your art you might've lost as you were on your anatomy grind.

Keep creating, keep looking at art that inspires you and try to think of how to make yourself like your art better. Don't get stuck on it, if it begins being unfun, please do take a breather. Also, none of that is objective, people will still prefer things different to what you find beautiful. It's alright, create what you like, that's what this post is about. If you don't wanna, don't focus on aesthetics, just the process of creating art is fun and will eventually get you in the right place, that's what I do, I just occasionally throw in things I like and sometimes they work. Take care.

These are my current thoughts on the topic. I wouldn't take them too close to heart, this is just a blogging site and I'm blogin 👍

[vampthropologist]

Get clowned on before I go to sleep mf

[bingus35]

I’ve been on a Hachi binge lately and holy shit it’s literally impossible for this guy to write one bad song. Seriously all of them are so good