#doodled this on my sketch pad and colored it digitally

[sator-the-wanderer]

Oh no he's surrounded

[arinmoss]

Hatsune Miku doodle

[frankiesmileshow]

Hi! I'm a new fan of your work and I'm interested in starting pixel art. I would love your advice! Could you recommend some tips for a beginner like me? Tks!

Advice for getting into pixel art:

1- Use a program meant for pixel art like Aseprite (the one I use now, about 30 USD$) or Graphicsgale (the one I used before, its free) , not a general-use image editor or a digital painting program.

You dont need a tablet to do pixel art, I only draw with a 10$ optical mouse, but if youre already used to drawing with a tablet, then go ahead; many people draw pixel art with those.

2- Start small. Think NES and the like, where there aren't many pixels or colors to work with.

Take screenshots or sprite sheets from NES games or Sega Genesis games (find these on https://www.spriters-resource.com/ ) , and edit them, or try adding things to them using the same colors already in the image.

I used to run a little weekly activity on my live stream where we took screenshots from old NES games and modified them for fun. The appeal is that it gives you a limited set of colors and a bunch of examples of how to use them, so it helps you learn to make color choices.

3- If you don't already draw by hand or digitally, start drawing. Get into the habit of sketching and drawing.

Try to do it every day if you can, even if its not a lot of time, and even if youre not very good. Maybe get a drawing pad and carry it around with you if you can, so you can doodle in it whenever you have time.

The skill you will develop drawing on paper will help you grow much faster as a pixel artist.

This is because sketching on paper is very fast, you can sketch ten different things in a few minutes with a pencil. But pixel art, when you are starting out, is very slow. This also makes it slow to learn, unfortunately. So getting into pencil drawing or digital painting will help speed things up.

I got a drawing pad in college and used to draw in the bus, two 30 minute rides every day for a few years really helped me improve.

4- Join a community of pixel artists, that can be motivating to get into art, they might have events and things that could give you prompts to draw and feedback.

5- Be careful about posture when drawing, you can mess up your arm and your back after a few years of furious clicking while leaning forward or slouching. Learn to move your whole arm from the elbow instead of moving just your wrist.

Good luck!

[draco-after-dark]

2!

2. How long have you been drawing?

That's actually a tough one. I've always been drawing since I was very little. Classic caveman hand painting. I never had the opportunity to take any form of art related education until high school. So i would say that when I really started to devote myself and learn to improve my artistic skills. That was when i started to genuinely consider the potential of building an art career and one day doing it full time. I never started creating art digitally until 2016-2017? It was very cringe. Look at the block headed cringe

I then proceeded to not touch or attempt digital art again for 3 years... I didn't understand how people doodled on iPad or computers. Tried a Wacom pad. Hated it. Tried sketching on phone but squinting at the tiny screen for hours hurt my eyes. iPad seemed to be the best equipment suited for me but i was still unhappy with the end result. The whole zooming in zooming out specifically really fucked with my brain and distorted how i drew things.

After that I didn't create any more digital art until 2020? The pandemic basically provided me with endless time and Minecraft only held me over for a few months. Then I gradually transitioned from sketching physically on paper and colorizing/line art things digitally to doing all my art fully digitally.

The only cool thing I can show is digital progression from 2017 to 2020 and then 2021. Btw these are all the same OC except for the last one which is his son but since they look similar but i added him anyway.

So to make a long story short. Been drawing my whole life but I would say 7 years fully invested in it. Best decision I ever made.

Link to where the question is from!

[enbyneti]

Lil doodle and line of Vash and Rollo from my new fic "Dionysus' Scattered Pieces" on ao3

Desc :

A grayscale digital sketch of Vash the Stampede, following his 2023 design in Trigun Stampede by the studio Orange, and of his companion and adopted son in the canon of Dionysus', Rollo the Gale. The only elements bearing color are Vash's red coat and Rollo's red sash around his torso, Vash's green prosthetic left arm and Rollo's green prosthetic left leg, as well as Vash's gold-yellow glasses and a piece of lost technology on Rollo's pauldron.

Vash's design is the same. We cannot see his eyes behind his glasses in this illustration, he is waving and his position is very open, with a smile (reminiscent of promo material)

Rollo's design is my own, as it is neither him as a child nor Monev the Gale (in the show). This Rollo is about 20yo, taller than Vash by about a full head and about twice as wide on a good day. He is dressed in a simple shirt with the sleeves ripped off, darker pants tucked into kneecap protection gear, one calf-high boot, elbow pads and fingerless gloves as well as a shoulder pauldron on his left arm. His hair is the same as his child version, simply longer and not, in this image, tucked into his cap. A large weapon is visible on his back, reminiscent of Milly Thompson's gear in Trigun (Manga and anime, 1993-2003).

Link to the fic :

[super-kristuff]

Daily Doodle - Anime Girl

Based on this.

So, I managed to find some time to do some digital art. This is a pretty rough drawing. There's a LOT of little things that I could probably have avoided if I drew things regularly. Like, the fact that the eyes are a different line thickness than the rest of the drawing? That one really bugs me. You can see it in the other parts I forgot to draw in the sketch like the hair below the shoulders.

I am really happy with the shadows though. And like, all the coloring? And the proportions honestly. Like, I've been trying to draw faster, and like, relax more when drawing? Like, not worry about all the little things I could be doing better, and instead just finish a drawing. Or like, not finish a drawing. I just want to draw more, and for that to happen, I need to stop putting myself under so much pressure.

So like, I think I'm happy with how this turned out. I think I might need a new drawing pad though. Like, my drawing pad keeps cutting out, and it makes drawing anything really frustrating. I've tried doing some physical drawing recently as well, but now that also feels weird, and also, I'm worried about the permanence of it? Like, I can't just undo a bad line.

Also I might be getting a bit sick? Like, now that I'm done drawing, I feel tired and I might be running a temperature? Idk. Maybe i just need a nap.

Anyway, enjoy.

[kiiingsnake]

this dude was criminally underrated 

[ennaku-sirri-da]

I’m as busy as a spider spinning daydreams,

I’m as giddy as a baby on a swing.

I haven’t seen a crocus or a rosebud

Or a robin on the wing,

But I feel so gay—in a melancholy way—

That it might as well be spring…

It might as well be spring.

[ ID: Traditional art that has been colored and edited digitally, featuring Kamal Bora and Dr.Habit from Smile For Me the game.

In the artists interpretation Kamal as a kid is much shorter than Habit. He has short straight hair. He wears a oversized dark purple sweater. Then he has a frilly red skirt which sparkles. Ending with light blue socks and pink crocs. Blue-magneta headphones are worn.

Here Habit is a really tall kid. He has a muppet-like appearance with yellow-greenish fur, very long rose-pink curly hair, pink blushing cheek patches with three freckles, ears stuffed with cotton fluff , deep red nails. His eyes are orange, circled below by red ruffles and have some pale purple eyeshadow. He wears a teal buttoned shirt with wavy darker pants that have yet darker stripes on them. Basically it's Kamal’s outfit from the game. His feet are bare.

We are viewing them from above. Kamal is braiding lillies of various colors and shapes- multicolored, freckled, painted- into Habit's huge hair, now he's at the end of it. He sits with folded legs. Besides Habit's ear lies a Tooth Lily. Habit lays his head back, supported by hands on the ground, and looks at the viewer with a devilish smile-a glint in his eye, one blue snaggletooth showing. His feet are thrown about casually. Between them lies a half-open book titled 'Science Of Constipation' in loud colors and fonts. It shows a page titled 'Importance of taking a dump by Bob Smith' that has been absolutely vandalized by Habit. Bob Smith's photo now sports a hat, devil horns and a mustache. ' Preface' has been struck out and replaced with 'Peeface'. Skull, flowers, star, eyes, and a silly emote with its tongue out have been doodled with a red sketch which lies nearby.

Nature surrounds them. Most of it is springtime flowers that can be found in Boston, USA. Daffodils, crocuses, peonies, roses, azaleas, pansies, tulips, black-eyed susans, trailing arbutus. Among this lush greenery- snails, ladybugs can be seen underneath while dragonflies, butterflies, bees fly above. Some young black sheep graze. One looks ahead, with a white heart-marking on its head. Beside Habit's left leg is a large light orange-brown rabbit, curled up and sleeping. Somewhere among the flowers are two small white red-eyed rabbits nuzzling.

To the far right swaying bushes of cattail grow. Beside them is a clear stream running, host to a male and female mallard duck leading their ducklings, bladderworts, white waterlilies with their pads. Among these waterlilies, a brown frog and tadpoles in various stages of life can be spotted. One duckling catches a tadpole in its beak. To the very front are Habit and Kamal's paper boats engaged in a race-- Kamal appears to be winning. One is pink and crumply, heavily decorated, a submerged tag attached to it reads ' B.H'. The other is neat and streamlined with a little teal flagpole announcing it as 'KB'.

The first version of the drawing is overlaid with a very warm orange filter, the second is unedited. End ID]

Talk below the cut!

PLEASE LOOK AT THIS I WORKED ON IT FOR MONTHS NO JOKE THIS IS MY CHILD WHOM I WAS PREGNANT WITH AND NOW I HAVE PAINSTAKINGLY BIRTHED AND CLEANED HIM FOR ALL OF TUMBLR TO SEE

[ Plain text: Please look at this I worked on it for months no joke this is my child whom I was pregnant with and now I have painstakingly birthed and cleaned him for all of tumblr to see]

🥸[ Glasses-and-moustache silly disguise emoji ]

aNYWAY this is part of a series of drawings where Habit and Kamal are just playing as kids really LOL

I listened to Vashti Bunyan's 'Just Another Diamond Day' album a LOT while coloring and drawing this HAHA also some vintage springtime songs! They were so lovely!!!

This also taught me a lesson to plan out my drawings more I guess but also WITNESS THIS BEAUTIFUL CHAOS AND MAY YOUR HEART BE OPENED TO ALL THE JOYOUS POSSIBILITIES MY FRIEND

[ Plain text: Witness this beautiful chaos and may your heart be opened to all the joyous possibilities my friend]

----

A stranger would not have noticed the change, but Molly could see that the withered earth was brightening with a greenness as shy as smoke. Squat, snaggly trees that had never yet bloomed were putting forth flowers in the wary way an army sends out scouts; long-dry streams were beginning to rustle in their beds, and small creatures were calling to one another. Smells slipped by in ribbons: pale grass and black mud, honey and walnuts, mint and hay and rotting applewood; and even the afternoon sunlight had a tender, sneezy scent that Molly would have known anywhere. She rode beside Schmendrick, watching the gentle advent of the spring and thinking of how it had come to her, late but lasting.

"Unicorns have passed here," she whispered to the magician. "Is that the cause, or is it Haggard's fall and the Red Bull's going? What is it, what is happening?"

"Everything," he answered her, "everything, all at once. It is not one springtime, but fifty; and not one or two great terrors flown away, but a thousand small shadows lifted from the land.

Wait and see."

-- From The Last Unicorn by Peter Beagle

:-) [ smile emote ]

[saijspellhart]

14?

14. How has your art changed over the years?

Hmm, well growing up I drew an obscene amount of dragons. Horses, robots, magical creatures. But mostly dragons. So many dragons.

Then in middle school I learned about anime and became enamored with the art style. I started trying to draw humans. And learn how to draw humans. (Not just in anime style mind you. I practiced drawing real people, and learning human anatomy as well. Because you need a good foundation and understanding before you can really do stylization.)

I went from only drawing dragons and animals to being able to draw humans. But for most of my life I only worked with pencil and paper. Only drawing in traditional medium. My dad never allowed me to use the computer so I made do with paper.

I dabbled a bit in digital when I became an adult. But all I had was a laptop with a tracking pad for your finger. And so any dabbling I did in digital art was done with that. I would draw and color with my fingers using the tracking pad.

It wasn’t until about 4 years ago, I think, that my husband bought us a computer, and I was able to really do digital art. He got me a drawing tablet with a stylus. And got me a drawing program, Clip Studio, and I was able to start drawing digitally. I still draw traditionally here and there, and doodle in my sketch books, but a lot of my art has moved to digital because it makes a lot of things simpler.

And well it’s inevitable that my digital art looks different than my traditional art.

So I guess those would be the biggest changes in my art over the years

[meganshinsou-tm]

Sugarcoated. (m)

↳ chapter fourteen: muse

❧ genre: pro-hero hitoshi, adoptive siblings, happy ending

❧ chapter warnings: slight n/sfw at the end

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The feeling of your stomach eating at the back of your spine woke you from a warm and deep slumber. Your eyes fluttered under your lids and slowly opened to see gloomy sunlight filling the room. As hungry as you were, you were still utterly exhausted from the day and night before. You sighed and nuzzled the warm body you were wrapped around, eyes wondering to the man next to you.

A smile crossed your face as your hand on Hitoshi's back ghosted from his shoulder and to his soft, relaxed purple locks. He laid there fast asleep on his stomach, arms wrapped under his pillow. You were on your side, leg hiked up and wrapped around him. Your fingers slowly twirled and played with his hair and you hummed. Your sleepy heart was so full at the moment looking at Hitoshi. You couldn't comprehend how lucky you were to have such a beautiful soul in your life and to have them be all yours.

Your lips started to brush against the skin of his strong bicep as your fingers softly caressed Hitoshi's cheek. His face twitched in response making you giggle into his arm. He groaned a little bit as his eyes started to flutter open, slowly adjusting to the light until they looked right at you. You marveled over how stunning his purple hues were, not sure if you'd ever get used to the color and depth they held. When he looked at you, it always made your body tingle with excitement because there'd always be the slightest hint of cockiness behind his brows.

An extremely lazy and attractive smirk crossed his face, your finger-tip now running down to touch it. His lips were warm and soft and he kissed the pad of your digit. 

"Good morning sweetness," he finally spoke in a raspy and tired voice.

You smiled and kissed his arm again, until he raised it and turned on his side pulling you close and into his chest as he wrapped around you. His hair and nose tickled the sensitive skin of your neck as he nuzzled and kissed. Your hands rested on his chest, nails slightly gripping his skin as he continued to tickle and make you sleepily laugh.

"Toshi-ah!"

Finally pulling back Hitoshi looked down as your head rested in his arm. Your (h/c) locks splayed out in a mess across his skin and pillows. You were both still nude and he loved how warm and soft you were against him. His hand under your head twirled your hair in his fingers as he leaned down and kissed you. Your own hand wrapped around the back of his head and played with his hair as the other touched his jaw. The first morning kiss was sweet and soft and so warm. Everything about Hitoshi was warm. 

Smiling against his lips, your teeth captured his bottom one and nibbled. He groaned, letting his free hand rest on your throat, his thumb tracing your jawline as he bit you back before kissing you again. The two of you went on like that, kissing and biting softly as you made out. Your hands strictly stayed on each other's face, gripping and caressing. Hitoshi's mind was buzzing as you'd sigh and coo, he adored the sweet little noises you made because of him. 

He finally left your lips and started to kiss your cheek and temple. You were literally melting under him, humming and grinning. He kissed your forehead and looked at you, all sleepy eyed yet your senses were wide awake.

"You'll stay right? You know, after Eri leaves."

You quirked a brow and held Hitoshi's cheek, he seemed to melt and relax into it, placing his own hand over your own. "Hitoshi, I'll stay as long as I'm needed."

"So that's forever?" He asked with wide and hopeful eyes.

You awed at him and brushed your thumb over his purple brow. Forever was a long time, but if you got to wake up to this gorgeous man, that could drive you insane and make you want to pull your hair out but at the same time make you melt, then what was so bad about it?

"You really think you'll need me for forever?"

Hitoshi scoffed and leaned closer to kiss you, his lips enveloping and dominating yours. You hummed and let your lashes flutter shut, his arm under you wrapped you closer to him tightly. Once again he felt like you'd dissipate and slip through his fingers if he let go. Of course he needed you forever, he needed your scent all around him, your sounds, your breathing on his mouth and skin, your smile and laugh, everything. When he finally broke the intense kiss you were panting beneath him, lips swollen and cheeks pink.

"I know I'll need you forever, every day and every night. I'll protect you, keep your cute little hands warm from the cold, and most of all I'll love you with every single atom, cell, fiber, and everything thing else that makes up my body! Just promise, you'll stay."

"Okay Hitoshi, I promise to stay with you, but there will be terms."

Shinsou laughed and laid on his side, sitting up on his elbow and laying his head in his hand as his free one caressed your stomach, "And what are they halfling?"

You smiled and turned over onto your stomach, making his hand glide with your skin until it rested on your back and you sat up on your elbows looking at him.

"One - you feed me all the food I could ever wish for!"

"Of course!"

"Two - even after Eri leaves, she stays with us at least 2 weekends out of the month!"

"That's fine with me."

"And lastly, we split the bills!"

"Whatever you – wait what? No, absolutely not!" Shinsou looked at you with a serious face.

"I'm not living here like some kind of bum Hitoshi! You already have spent so much money on me and it's not fair to put all the financial strain on you. I'll get another job after Eri leaves and I'll –"

"Hey -" Hitoshi raised his voice making you shut up and stare. "You promised not to bring up money again, remember that? I've already told you, I've got it! You won't pay a fucking thing to me, you don't even have to get a job."

You cut your eyes at Hitoshi, making him return the glare. You'd be damned if you stayed at home all day not doing a thing while he was out being a hero. It wasn't in your nature to really be lazy, you needed to have a job. You were a hard worker and you had aspirations to achieve.

"Hitoshi that's not how a relationship works, we're a team and we work together! You want me happy right?"

"Don't you fucking pull that on me (Y/N), it's not fair!"

"You know we seem to keep going back and forth on what's fair and what's not. Toshi, I won't feel right living here if I'm just some sort of freeloader. At least meet me halfway with something!"

You pouted your lips and gave him the biggest puppy dog eyes, the same as last night when you interrupted the meal he was making of you. He groaned and rolled his eyes.

"You're such a pain in the ass sometimes!" He sighed, you stuck your tongue out at him and he returned the gesture, "You can help pay one bill - one! That's it!"

You smiled and leaned forward kissing his cheek, "I guess that'll work for now. Pinky promise or it doesn't count though, I don't want you backing out on this!"

"Fine, pinky promise to your terms and to you staying forever!"

You nodded and held up your pinky to him, he removed his hand from your back and wrapped his own pinky around yours. You both kissed your hands to seal the deal and smiled. Hitoshi chuckled and pulled you closer into him and kissed your lips. Pulling away, he ran his fingers through your hair and smiled.

"So, now that's out of the way," you blurted and moved from Hitoshi's side and got on your hands and knee's as you crawled towards the end of the bed and reached out for the notebook still in its same spot from the day before. Hitoshi's eyes widened and he hurried to halt you.

"Stop right there halfling!" He laughed out as he tackled you to the bed.

You squealed as he laid his chest on top of your back, making it impossible for you to move further, his forearm rested on your head as he reached for the notebook himself and snatched it from your reach. You whined and squirmed underneath him, your hands flailing and pushing his face while also trying to reach for the forbidden object.

"Hey, you said 'tomorrow' a day ago! Let me see it!"

Chuckling, Hitoshi flattened his palm on the back of your head and pushed it down onto the mattress as he looked over the notebook then to you, you laughed and kicked your legs but he placed his own leg over them. "Why do you want to see it so bad? It's nothing, just some shitty doodles."

"So? Show me ... I'll show you!" you singsonged and cackled.

Hitoshi quirked a brow at you, "What?"

"Nothing, nothing, you wouldn't get it. Back to the point. I'll make you a deal, let me see and I'll go down on you."

Hitoshi choked on air and dropped the notebook as he looked at you with a humored expression, "I'm sorry what?"

"You heard me handsome, let me see the goods and I'll wrap my pretty little mouth around your c –"

"Okay - shit!" Hitoshi breathed out and eased up off of you.

You giggled and sat up as Hitoshi shook his head with a smirk and scooted himself back to sit up against the headboard. He looked at the notebook in his hand and motioned you over with his free hand. You clapped and crawled over to him, between his legs with your back to his chest. You pulled the blankets up and wrapped them under your arms to cover your chest and waited patiently. Shinsou chuckled and kissed the top of your head before dropping the notebook down on your lap, his arms wrapped around your waist and his chin rested on your shoulder as you grabbed it eagerly and opened to the first page.

Sure enough there were doodles, random ones. Some of cats, food, faces. As you turned the pages they progressively got better and grew to a different difficulty. You started to get to a few sketches now, legit sketches. Your eyes widened at the amazing art work of Eri, how he captured the sparkle in her little eyes and even used some red pencil colors to fill in their hue.

"Wow, you can do everything huh? Hero, photographer, art –" Your words suddenly stopped as you flipped to another page with a different subject matter.

Your heart started to flutter and your lips parted as you look at the sketches closer. Your fingers trailed over the lines of charcoal that made up your face, eyes and hair. On one page were small sketches of just your eyes, giving different glances, there was one where your pupils were in the shape of hearts and it made you chuckle. The next page had multiple random sketches of you in your old work outfit, Hitoshi took it upon himself to add a tail to it. You continued to flip through nothing but sketches and portraits of your face, hands, lips - you; all dated over the past few months. You couldn't help but smile and feel flattered, this whole time Hitoshi drew nothing but you in his spare time.

"Sorry if you're freaked out," Hitoshi finally spoke after you were silent for an unnervingly long time to him.

"What? Not at all, Hitoshi – these are really incredible and beautiful! I'm so jealous, you're so fucking good at everything!"

Hitoshi chuckled and closed the notebook, taking it from your hands to place it on the bedside table. He turned you to face him and sit in his lap, your thighs straddling his hips. You smiled at him and kissed his lips, when you pulled away he held your hip and brushed your hair out of your eyes.

"Having an incredibly beautiful muse helps."

"Aww, stop it. You're just saying that so I'll blow you!"

Shinsou laughed and shrugged his shoulders with a smirk. "Well I won't deny that, but I'm serious. You're my favorite subject, it's like you're a work of art yourself. My future students will probably get tired of seeing so much of you!"

"Pardon?" You blurted out with a curled lip.

"My students, when I start teaching," Hitoshi smiled and wrapped his arms around your back and pulled you closer, his lips brushing the skin of your collarbone.

You started to fall under his spell as he kissed softly along the bone before his teeth nipped, making you gasp. Hitoshi hummed and kissed up your neck, making you tilt your head to the side so he could have better access. His tongue licked up the side, wet and warm against your cool skin. Your fingers dug into his chest and you rolled your hips forward. 

"What was he saying," you wondered as he continued to kiss, nip and lick at your throat. "My students," his words then echoed in your head, making your eyes widen and causing you to quickly push him back against the headboard. Your forearm holding him back as his eyes shot open and he held up his hands.

"Fuck – uh, okay. Do I need a safe-word?"

You squinted at him and rolled your eyes as he had a shit eating grin on his face.

"Once again Hitoshi, you play too fucking much! Now, stop trying to seduce me, what are you talking about?"

"You know what I'm talking about sweetness, I told you I'm going to be teaching at UA in a few weeks."

"What exactly are you teaching that involves me?"

Hitoshi let an 'ah' escape from his mouth, as if he simply forgot to let you in on such vital information. "I didn't tell you? I guess it slipped my mind."

"Oh I guess it did, now tell me!" You growled and pressed your arm harder against him.

Hitoshi's eyes grew darker as he smirked and bucked his hips under you and gripped your hips, pulling you against him roughly. You gasped when you felt that he was growing hard underneath you.

"I don't think you're in the place to be making demands right now baby-doll, you still owe me something!"

You rolled your eyes and quickly crawled out of Hitoshi's lap and between his legs as you laid on your stomach. He quirked a purple brow, your mouth only inches from his dick, hardening more and more by the second as your warm breath fanned across his sensitive skin. You smiled and sat your chin in your palm and your fingers trekked down the thin trail of purple hair that started at his navel, making him shiver under your touch. 

You giggled and he smiled, his fingers brushed your bangs from out of your eyes.

"I pay this debt then we talk over breakfast?"

"You pay your debt, sit on my face for a while after and then we talk over breakfast!"

The hero grinned and threaded his fingers through your hair as you slowly started to lick up him like a piece of candy, pure hunger in your (e/c) eyes that looked up at him.

You smiled from ear to ear and bit your lip as your fingers wrapped around the treat before you. "You got a deal Toshi!"

[mykalarosestar]

Four years ago I quite trying to make art (one of the many reasons why was) due to how many teachers stated to not doodle in class. Even if it wasn’t on my phone, laptop, notepad, etc. I also had high anxiety, high stress (due to having to go for Forced Unification Placements with my abusive mother for 4 to 6 hours AFTER school), high stress levels, depression, and a few other things that the school district ignored completely.

Doodling was my escape, but it helped me to learn too. I had four sketch pads (like the really good kinds) ripped, shredded, burned, and tossed out growing up. The last one I had was 4 years ago and it was tossed into the dumpster.

Before COVID-19 locked us inside, I was at my college bookstore getting notepads to new pencils for the online full-time courses (was taking 9 classes at the time and still am). I saw that the art supplies had discounts and I really did want to buy them, but I remembered what the past said and I went up to the counter. Someone that knew me (since I frequently went to the bookstore cause they had a bit more snacks that were Gluten-Free since I’m allergic to Gluten) saw me looking at the art supplies and wondered if I was going to get any. I immediately replied with “No, just getting these.” They immediately shook their head, looked dead center and stated: “I can see it in your eyes. Whatever happened in the past, just go grab them. They’re calling for ya.” And so I did. I grabbed like 10 Prismacolor markers, a Gauche paint set that had 20 colors, a painting sketch pad, inking pad, drawing pens, and some new inking styluses.

Since that event, I honestly don’t know what to say. I’ve tried all of them and they just feel...natural to hold again. I felt like that piece that was taken away was back and literally when I started to do the gauche paints as a fun thing to do (since I didn’t know how to paint irl, though digitally-)...I started to cry. I felt so happy and free....but also could finally release a lot of emotions into the pieces I could finally create.

I also started to get back online, making a Tumblr Ask Blog (to help with drawing people in general)( @detectivethinman ) as well as an Art account ( @realmykalarosestar13 ). But most of all, I did my very first collaboration piece! And I am so damn proud of myself... 😭

But yeah, if you read this all... I just wanted to say thank you for reading this all. Here is a rose and a cookie!!! 🌹🍪

I don’t really know how to describe this feeling other than stressful, so I decided to draw it

Please let me draw and “sketchnote”

[anapedias]

How To Draw A Laptop 21

The most commonly used device to write on a computer with a pen, is a separate writing pad & stylus, without a screen, that connects to your computer or laptop. When you have everything onscreen that you want to capture, click or tap the windows ink workspace icon in the taskbar.

How to Draw a Laptop

There are many free drawing software for pc

How to draw a laptop. Setting up a pc to use the touch screen feature. To calibrate the system, touch the stylus to each marker as it appears on the screen. For example, in the cube drawing lesson, the kid additionally learns to draw straight lines, and in drawing a person the young artist learns to create realistic proportions of a face.

Kids drawing hub is an online coloring and drawing app developed for kids. Cute, kawaii school supply computer cartoon drawing.thanks for watching!! It has no pressure sensitivity but there’s ways to get around it.

And you can learn in a couple of months by drawing for 60 minutes a day! How to draw chemical structures in word using chemdraw. All the best drawing anime on the computer 39+ collected on this page.

Launch the ms paint program by clicking on the 'start' button and choosing the 'accessories' category under the 'all programs' option. I recently bought a new laptop hoping with a touchscreen hoping to use it with photoshop. Use the sketchpad tools to mark up the screen.

I started drawing from scratch. I understand that you would like to draw on touchscreen without pen. The screen draw tools include:

How to write and draw on screen: To calibrate a display, click the “calibrate” button under the “display” tab. How do you draw a laptop screen?

Click or tap screen sketch. Finally, i want to end with a chemdraw bonus. How you can draw with a pencil after 50 hours of practice, and how to learn it.

Prior to starting any drawing project, the user must have a clear picture of the final output image. Using screen sketch open the app or apps you want to use with screen sketch. With this new feature, you can now write on your laptop screen.

I thought i knew how to use chemdraw, but after i saw these series of videos (not much it is just half an hour of runtime) everything changed. Drawing is a skill that is trained like driving a scooter. @peggylgb welcome to hp community!.

Line, arrow, pen, brush, rectangle and ellipse, and you can choose from different width pens to draw in your choice of color. We will be using this to detail the outlines of the feature and add minimal shading to the cartoon you are creating. My laptop is a hp envy x360 15z with windows ink capability and a touch screen display would i need to.

Proper proportion, lighting effects, shadowing, textures and so forth are often easily handled by imaging software than by hand drawing. This can be done by sketching (or doodling) on any blank sheet of paper. How to draw a laptop cartoon.

Drawing is a copying skill. If you're the type of user who wants to learn how to make concept vector art on a computer, you should try working with specialized programs like inkscape, autodesk sketchbook pro, adobe illustrator, mypaint or krita. I did not draw regularly, on average 15 minutes a day, for six months.

The power of computer imaging has made many of the most difficult techniques of drawing much easier. I’m wondering if i can draw on the touchscreen with my finger or with a passive stylus while in photoshop? You can use a mouse, especially if you’re using a vector program like illustrator or inkscape (even photoshop has a pen tool).

What are some ways to draw using a computer? Create digital artwork to share online and export to popular image formats jpeg, png, svg, and pdf. To access the tablet pc settings, click on the start menu and select “control panel”.

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ART SCHOOL | Q&A with Martin Ontiveros (PDX)

The art wizardry of Portland based Martin Ontiveros has appeared in various galleries, albums, posters and has even been transformed into diabolical toys and figurines. Ontiveros’s graphic ink and brush style is meticulous and bold, transforming his horned and demonic creations into fun and bad-ass pop occultism. We’re excited to chat with this ink sorcerer in our latest Art School where we talk about technique, studio days, and what is coming up for him the rest of this year. 

Photographs courtesy of the artist.

Introduce yourself?   Hello, I’m Martin Ontiveros, also known as Martinheadrocks, illustrator and wizard. “Marty” to my closest friends and family. I live in Portland Oregon, I’m left-handed/ambidexterous and I have a large ginger cat/familiar named Zeus. Nice to meet you.

How do you describe your art to folks who have never seen it before? Pop-occultism? Creature Chic? What you might find inside an ancient tomb or temple from a previously unknown civilization.

Who were some of your early artistic influences that really inspired you to draw? It started with Star Wars in 1977, and Mad Magazine, especially the work of Jack Davis. Childrens book art by Jim Flora. Books and movies about UFOs, cryptids, phenomena, ghosts and black magic when I was a kid. Later it was Heavy Metal Magazine and the underground artists of the 60s and 70s, S. Clay Wilson, Greg Irons, Spain, etc. 80’s punk and metal pioneer artists like Mad Mark Rude and Pushead. Derek Riggs and his Iron Maiden covers. 

Lots of rock album art. Fantasy/conceptual artists like Mike Ploog, Boris Vallejo, Frazetta, Richard Corben. That was all the stuff that built up the desire, but what really got me drawing were the indie comics of the 80s with people like Marc Hansen, Matt Wagner, the Pander Bros, David Boswell, Dori Seda, Mary Fleener. I really really wanted to make comics by the time I was 17-18. I’ve since discovered it’s not for me. Art of the Ancient World, Mesopotamian and Mesoamerican in particular. There’s more to this list, I’m an old man now and have seen a lot, but we don’t have all day.

What’s a day like in the studio for you? And take us through your artist process –from start to finish on a piece. I used to start work when it was already well into the evening and would go until after the dawn, but in the last couple years I’ve reversed that schedule. Now I usually get up around 4am. I still get the benefits of nocturnal studio time that way, at least until the sun is up—no one bothers me and it’s quiet. I’ve become a Daywalker—I have all of the vamipre’s strengths and none of the weaknesses.

 A typical day is trying to stay focused while fending off my own distractions (I’m ADD) and steering around having to leave the house for anything, ha. I always start with a bit of doodling to warm up a little, then jot down a thumbnail sketch of whatever’s on the agenda that day—usually very small and rough, just to set the composition and borders. 

Sometimes I’ll spend extra time fleshing out details on certain aspects of the drawing, say a helmet or insignia. Then I’ll figure out my dimensions and either draw to size or use my trusty proportion wheel to do it smaller if need be. Next is the hard pencil stage. I like using 2H or 3H lead which is rough on the paper but much less messy than a soft lead. I don’t work with a loose outline, I need a solid and tight map to work from and when I have it on lock, I’ll transfer it to my final surface. 

That method goes for both a black and white ink piece or a painting. I’ll warm the brush up by laying our some strokes on scrap paper and when I feel like I got a grip on it, off I go. If it’s a painting, I lay all the color and shading out first, then put down the linework. And even if my pencils were tight, there’s always room for improvisation, a tweak or two, especially when I’m inking—some happy accidents come up now and then. I should mention that I sometimes have to chuck a drawing and start the process all over again, even if it’s close to completion because if it isn’t working, screw it. It seems wasteful and time consuming and I could probably avoid it by going digital, but I choose to do it old school.

What’s your tool of the trade medium-wise? And is there a new medium you’re looking to try in 2018? I swear by my brush and ink. Nothing gives me more satisfaction. The artists I’ve always admired most are handy with a brush line. Not to say I don’t like pens, it’s just that I’m not as steady using one and leave them for doodling. I love papier mache, it’s not a new medium to me, but I’ve yet to know how to make the time to do it more so let’s say that that is my goal for 2018. If there was any other medium that I’d choose to do over drawing, it would be that.

You’ve worked on many collaborations with bands and created some awesome cover art and posters. What has been your favorite collaboration and what would be a dream collaboration be? Oooh. That’s a toughy. I did a tour shirt for Mastodon this past year and I have to say that was likely the pinnacle so far. When I caught their show later, it was thrilling to see people buying it at the merch table and to know there’s maybe hundreds more out there wearing it. Dream collaboration…probably the Melvins. Or Alice Cooper? But with the Melvins I know I could just probably do me and not worry about whether or not I’m a good fit. I’m not what you would call “conventional”.

What are you listening to when you’re painting your various creatures and demons? Give us five bands you’re checking out at the moment. I listen to music when I sketch/conceptualize and switch to podcasts or play a favorite movie or show when I’m really into the process, it’s comforting to hear people talk during the heavy work for some reason. It’s another long list but some of my go-to bands are High On Fire, Sleep, Windhand, Black Cobra and Slayer. That’s if I want it crushing. If I’m doing something trippier, it’ll be Om, Black Sabbath, Pink Floyd, Dead Meadow, that kind of thing. Podcasts are generally true crime or comedy.

What’s been the hardest challenge being an artist? What do you tell folks who want to travel down a similar path? I don’t recall the artist’s name who said it, but to paraphrase, the quote was that art can often be a dark and lonely pursuit for us. I believe he was referring more to the fact that we spend a lot of our time working in solitude which is inherent, yet it can also weigh you down emotionally. That really speaks to me, even more so because I’ve also wrestled with depression for most of my life. 

Your work can be so entwined with your sense of self-worth, so I suppose the hardest challenge for me is to not let my heart sink when something I make doesn’t receive the attention I hope to get for it. People can be fickle though. I try to remember that, and move on to the next thing. With that in mind I guess I tell folks to make sure they get out of their lairs when possible and share their frustrations with other artist friends, foster a support group of sorts because it helps to know you aren’t alone out there with all these feelings. That and maintain a regular paying job when they start out, because man…it can be tough making a living at it.

In another dimension, what would you be if you weren’t an artist? I’d be that weird old sorcerer living somewhere in the woods that the villagers speak of in whispers. Benevolent, but not to be trifled with. So, not too much different from what I am in this dimension, just with blue skin, maybe.

What are your favorite Vans?  Chukka Low? Old Skool? Era? (I had to look up the actual names). Basically low padded ankle with laces, and always dark colors with a black toe because I don’t like my vision being drawn down to my feet moving under me. I honestly don’t wear any other brand of kicks. I keep a pair of Slip-Ons for doing things around the house. Vans makes good jeans too.

What’s the art scene like in your part of the woods? What do you like the most about where you’re living these days? The scene that I know here is primarily illustration, at least that’s what I keep my eyes out for. Lots of sweet, supportive people without attitude and many that are good friends. There aren’t as many galleries as there used to be but there are other venues to get your work out there. I’m now in a part of SE that I’ve never lived in before, at the edge of being outside of Portland proper but only just so. It’s mellow and quiet here and most things I need are within walking distance. I got a couple stores, a good Mexican food place, a bar, you get my drift. I do wish some of my besties lived closer by though. And a decent art supply store.

Since this feature is called Art School, can you give us your most helpful art tip? This probably won’t make me popular by saying it, but learn the difference between homage and theft. Yes, it’s fun to pay tribute to an artist’s style or someone else’s pop culture/intellectual property now and then, I’ve done it, we’ve all done it, not shaming that…but the difference is, if ALL you’re doing is copying, it comes off as creatively lazy. I don’t care how many followers you may gain from it. Come on. If you’re skilled enough to copy someone else’s shit, you’re skilled enough to make up your own content. Raise the bar, people. Don’t lower it.

What’s on the horizon for 2018? New merch in my shop, a group show in Mexico City, more band stuff, my first trip to NY ever, toy releases, designs and customs, a collaboration or two, hopefully a couple of conventions later in the warm months. I’d like get back into painting on a larger scale and figure out how to take it slower in general, make my work really level up, you know? There’s always room for improvement!  

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Meed4: The Power of Identity - Meet The Applicants

Gallery19 is excited to start introducing our applicants for our fourth annual juried competition, Meed4: The Power of Identity. A call for entries was put out, and a wave of applicants answered our call! We’d like to thank all that have answered us so far.

Now introducing Tony Halstead

Tony Halstead was born and raised in California.

He graduated from the prestigious Art Center School of Design in Los Angeles, California.

During many years as an art director / creative director, spending his time in large LA & San Francisco ad agencies, Tony took classes to learn how to work in leaded glass. After learning the craft, he opened his glass studio in an old high ceiling brick loft in downtown Hermosa Beach, CA.

Tony took a sabbatical from the advertising world and began designing and building leaded glass art statements. The art is framed in 5 inch deep hardwood light boxes that bathe a room in amazing color.

(work pictured: Gene Pool Drawing)

Today, Tony is creating new work in a very different medium and he finds the new approach is truly similar in expression. His use of line, color and texture are very related. The selection of subject matter and tongue & cheek attitude is present in all of his work.

On paper Tony creates line drawings better known as “doodles”. They are created in conference room meetings, bars and many other places. Some drawings are more complex than others.

The drawings are highly influenced by his environment and lifestyle. Some negative and some positive moments captured in time. He selects past doodles or newly created doodles as the base to kick- start each of his creations. He scans the line drawing into his Mac and embellishes it with color, more line and sometimes photography to create his work.

Tony is a true a Fantasist. Creating colorful analogies to life experiences and findings.

Doodling. Visual notes.

“I am called to the conference room to join in on a meeting with anywhere from a few to a roomful

of my colleagues and clients gathered to solve a problem or exchange ideas. The room is a mixture of smart and not so smart executives with good and not so good ideas. Politics is always present, sometimes light and sometimes heavy. In this environment of the meeting place, I start to doodle on a note pad or any piece of paper I might have on hand. I have absolutely nothing in mind about what I’m drawing on paper or where it’s headed. No previous concept or plan that I know of. I am watching, listening and even giving my verbal opinions as my doodling continues. It is like my senses collecting the input and my hand produces the visual or the interpretation of the meeting. Of course, always from my personal point of view.”

It is between Tony’s brain and his hand. Add the draftsman skills he’s learned over the years and the doodle becomes a more sophisticated sketch. By definition: a doodle is an aimless or casual scribble, design or sketch. Also: referred to as a minor work.

“Do I have opinions about what is going down on the paper? I must. Is there a beginning and an end- ing to the doodle? I think there is a beginning but, maybe not an ending unless I just stop working on it.

When the meeting is over. The doodle is finished.

(work pictured: Gene Pool)

Tony’s new series is created on the idea that the doodle is the beginning of organizing thoughts, or releasing a visual message. He suspects a very personal time and very personal observation of what’s going on around him. “Let’s call it a snapshot or recording of a certain period of time related to the doodler only. This of course is what all artists do.”

“When I took an advanced class in psychology at UCLA with a well known psychologist that I admired a lot, instead of writing notes the traditional way, I decided to do a drawing or doodle during every session. There were about a dozen drawings at the end of the series of classes. Looking through my drawings, with a huge smile, the psychologist, said, “you are truly nuts.” Somehow I felt okay about that. I recorded his entire lecture series in visual notes. Strictly my interpretation of his words.”

One of Tony’s doodles from the class has become the base drawing for one of his new finished cre- ations called Gene Pool. Gene pool is about the family / DNA make-up of every person alive. Generations of family talking to you about what is right and wrong. Ways of the family. Directing you how to act, how to deal with God, your ego issues, how to stand and pose, how you feel and act about violence & passiveness. In- structing you to live a certain way. Lots and lots of advice.

“I don’t really need a conference room today and as you’d guess, I produce doodles just about any- where I happen to be. Also I can use my digital camera to capture slices of life I want to work with.” Tony has created 30 digital paintings since 2006. In 2007 he exhibited five leaded glass statements along with five of his digital paintings at the Kaos Gallery in Florida.

In 2002 he and his wife Patti moved from Hermosa Beach California to Sarasota on the Gulf Coast of Florida. In 2008 they left Florida and headed back to the West Coast and settled in the Puget Sound area of Washington where Tony is now creating his art with a passion.

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#12 Doodle pad

Q1: Why did you choose this ?

A1: I like to draw and am looking to learn or relearn on a virtual platform since I prefer and am used to pencil and paper. I also want to look at free or other platforms I can learn to use for designing while I am on the poorer side and can't get into adobe yet (except at the library of course but ). Obviously haha from my sad sketch above I still have a long way to go (and fyi that actually took me ages haha no lies) !

Q2: How does it work? 

A2: You open new projects you have a tool bar on the bottom you can paint, use the bucket or eye dropper or other tools to create a drawing. Once you click on a tool like paint brush a color bar and another size bar that looks like a volume dial appears so that you can change size and customize your ink and color palette. If you want more tools and features you can also upgrade. Very much like idk if anyone remembers paint on Microsoft computers except its virtual and a bigger digital finger signature fun board haha. 

Q3: What do you think? 

A3: I think its cool great if I can learn how to really use it well! A little time consuming I did like the app on Google apps that I used a few weeks ago for class better than this but its kinda nice as another sketch option to learn while I am looking to transition! 

Q4: Would you use it in the future ?

A4: I will probably keep looking at other applications but maybe not sure.