#had to draw in lineless style :)

[autisticaradiamegido]

day 302

so APPARENTLY book of life is ten goddamn years old. which is insane. but also a good excuse to rewatch it and look really fucking hard at the art for reference because it's gorgeous SO here's aradia cosplaying la muerte.

[skunkes]

[alicenpai]

i love...wanpee...........🍊🍶🧡💚

[creakingcreek]

More 3 months AU art because I'm going crazy /pos

@hatekawa explodes you with my mind

Quote that inspired the art under the cut ^^

Colour palette

[anth4rax]

“Stars shine and twinkle in the Garden of the Queen

Spinning on, round and round, dancing in the moonlight dream

With our world upon your back, O’ four-legged beast

What do you see through the Swirl, drifting in the mist?

Look into the Swirl, and you will find your way

To where the giant sleeps, where dreams sway on the waves

O’ calm Great Ocean… Where starlight gleam and shine…

Whisper melodies of the night to the watchful gaze of the Giant

Sing songs to the coral that twinkle like a sea of stars…

May the moonlight shine on… In the Lunar Lighthouse of ours…”

Drawing with transparent bg under the cut

[sunn-mechanic]

[ID in alt]

THE VOID ATE ME

LOOK AT THE MESS I'VE DONE

THERE IS NOWHERE TO RUN, YEAH

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I got possessed or somethin' last night, made this. I couldn't get the image of Gaster surrounded by a toothy void outta my head.

[ravenxbones]

i let all that get to my head/i don’t care, i paint the town red

[kristiliqua]

what a slay queen girlboss malewife 🌟🌟🌟

[fluxydrawings]

HIT THE DANCE FLOOR! CHA CHA CHA! SALSA! RUMBA! TANGO! MAMBO! BOLERO MUY PICANTE! SPACETIME! GRAVITY! CHAMPAGNE! REALITY!

[gwinverarrouz]

Folktale week day 2: Ink

Sometimes your creations take a life of their own, you know?

[ilumel]

drawing something mostly lineless for the first time in a few years and i am having SO much fun

[tomaturtles]

I spent too long looking at old Strawberry Shortcake art

[dannypocalipse]

look who's got an inspiration to draw Danny!

i tried out lineless style (for the 100th time) and have no idea if i like it or not, what a shame, but experimenting is a good thing :]

inspo pic and skech are under the cut!

found it on pinterest. it had some Korean words for some reason?? i really like to look at it, it gives The Truman Show vibes

i just like how cute he looks on sketch! :] let the boy eat his bagel for the goodness sake

[moons-of-dewclan]

Hey, a person who is baffled by lineless styles here. You have a more lineless style and I noticed you do still use darker lines to separate overlap stuff so the cats don’t become amorphous blobs. Is there a certain amount you tend to make the lines darker? Or is it like black at a lower opacity? Also when drawing darker cats (or anything else too), do you have any tips for not making them so dark you can’t see the lines or is it just kinda trial and error? Also sorry if this is a lot of questions, just one more, is there any technique or tool or something you use to make the lines stop exactly where the overlap stops, or do you just do it by hand and kinda get better at it with practice?

(Thank you if you answer this. Stuff like this has confused me for a long time and I’ve just now realized I can just ask, hahah)

HELLO BAFFLED ANON. i hope this helps..

IF YOUR SCREEN IS DARK, our girl still looks pretty ... Dark.. BUT you can always make contrast more extreme! AS FOR THEEEEE LINE TECHNIQUE.. ogh i don't think i know what you mean. MAYBE I DO?? the 'shading' lines are pretty much just done how you'd do lineart lines! if you overshoot and they cross where they shouldn't, erase :3 ALSO GUYS WORKING WITH BINARY BRUSHES IS SOOO SMOOTH JSYK. i accidentally drew shine's face on his head layer and i just had to select and copypaste it onto a new layer to fix that. bc there's no aliasing, the lines can perfectly transfer without needing a touchup for jagged edges

[kozachenko]

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Ok yay I'm back from my vacation yipeeeeeee. I started this drawing of Keiki before I left and I was half considering just giving up on it.... until I did a short study of facial planes and then got motivated to work on this again! I'm glad I didn't give up on it though, as I'm actually really happy with this one!

Artist's Notes;

So as I mentioned in my last post about Touhou 17, I wanted to finish this by the game's five year anniversary but with how progress was going I didn't want to rush this so I decided to take a long break from it. Mainly because of the face. For a while now I was kind of feeling like I was stagnating with my drawings, not really in the clothing but in the bodies. There was something about the way I was rendering them that I just wasn't happy with, and after talking with someone else about this issue, I realized that the reason I felt this way was because the faces were too flat and didn't match the rest of the drawing and that I needed to find a way to make the rendering of the face feel consistent with everything else. So after doing a short study of the plains of the face (I used this 3D head model from art station as a reference for my short study, please go give this person some love as they are a lifesaver) I went back into this drawing and applied what I learned here. It was only after that that I finally became motivated to finish the piece, and while it started off as just a simple character sketch like Saki and Yachie's were, the moment I added in Keiki's little fire dragon I knew I had gotten in too deep and now here we are with a full on background. OK it's not super crazy or anything, but it gets the job done and it's better than there just being an empty void behind her. It's rare moments like this when I use brushes other than the Clip Studio Default Charcoal Brush and use the Clip Studio Default Paint Brushes as well (god bless the oil paint and dry gouache clip studio brushes, they were amazing). I don't know why but painting fire has always been really fun for me, there's something oddly satisfying about it y'know? I do think that another reason for this problem was because I was drawing faces like I would in my more sketchy style that didn't mesh well with my lineless style, so I'm glad I've started remedying that.

After adding in the fire dragon I had an idea to kinda make it feel like splash art in the way the composition works... probably because I have been playing Reverse 1999 again and it has taken over my brain. I do feel like Keiki's tools get a little lost in the composition, and I didn't fully render the metal parts of them mainly because I didn't feel like they needed it, but that's just something for me to improve on later down the line.

If you guys are wondering where I went for my vacation, I went to New York and got to go to the MET and the Museum of Natural History. In both places I found Kofun period stuff and I was so happy to see it you have no idea. I remember one of the Haniwa I saw had some neat face paint under the eyes that I tried to replicate with the makeup under Keiki's eyes in my drawing, though I think I'll gave to figure out how to draw makeup on characters because this reads more like blush to me than anything. While drawing this I also looked up some references of Kofun period jewelry and really liked the stuff I found, which also meant that now she has proper Kofun earrings instead of earrings shaped like Kofun tombs. I put some of the things I referenced with a closeup of Keiki's face as well down below. I made her outfit more reminiscent of the outfit I gave her at the beginning of the year with the buttons and all, though I do want to try and draw her in some more period accurate clothing like the Haniwa I took a picture of at the Museum of Natural History. I wish I could find a way to make her handercheif look better though as I wish I made it a little bit bigger, though I think I'm saying this because I've looked at this drawing for too long lmao. Once again something to work on for when I next draw her. Also want to get better at rendering hair, as some details (like the little strands in front of her ears) kinda got unreadable due to the similarities in colour lol.

Now you may have also noticed the little cracks I added onto Keiki's face, and that's because I have fallen in love with the idea of Keiki's body being made from ceramic and that she crafted her body herself. While they aren't very visible I also tried to add some doll joints to her body, which is an idea I played around with in the past but never went to far with. I also want to get better at rendering cracks in ceramic, porcelain, etc, as I'm not sure how those read in the drawing. I also have a headcanon where the cracks in Keiki's face show up because of heightened emotions, and while Keiki is aware of this and does her best to make sure her face doesn't break off.... she will still end up with at least a few cracks during any given day, and she can often forget to repair her own body quite frequently so Mayumi has to remind her quite a lot. Mayumi even taught herself some basic sculpting techniques to help repair parts of her body that are so badly damaged to the point where Keiki can't repair them herself, i.e. if both her arms broke off, Mayumi would put them back together for her so Keiki can at least have something to repair herself with rather than nothing. I also like to imagine that if Keiki created her own body, if you took a look at Keiki from the beginning of her life she would look completely different compared to now.

BTW If you guys are wondering what a very very angry Keiki looks like....ok in order for this to make sense have any of you read volume 11 of Land of The Lustrous? Am I bringing back some memories for those of you that have? Ok good, glad we all got that mental image brewing in our minds, I'll probably draw a version of Keiki that is somewhat inspired by that one day as it's an idea I've had for a little while now. And to those who haven't gotten to that volume yet and are confused.... don't worry about it, just keep reading :)

[canonkiller]

How did you find your art style?? I'm literally in love with it

I stopped doing the parts that weren't fun

I've never been aiming for anything in particular, and it's varied over time + between works. it's where it is now because it's the meeting point of my ability to make art and what I want to show in it. I had cartoon simplicity for a while, and then detailed clean line art for a while, painted for a while, had lineless geometry for a while. dabbled in clay when school allowed and digital 3d when it didn't. took up photography. looked at a lot of other people's art, peers, posted online, formally published.

there are things I know directly inspired me - early 2000's animation that relied on bulky, limited models and a strong character shapes; packaging design; graffiti of all calibers; the vivid, realistic illustrations of fantasy field guides; animation and dance; comics, many times over - but those can make any person draw anything, depending on what they choose to keep. I learned I liked the part of a painting that was roughing in big chunks of color, and liked hatching more than smooth blending, so I stopped blending. i liked dramatic shading and easy to read framing / shapes, so i limited my color palettes and used a lot of solid black. i liked how a bright light source could obscure something as much as darkness could, so i used it a lot as well.

my advice for finding a style will always be to just... let yourself do the parts of the art that you love doing, and experiment with the rest until you find things you like there, too. if a part of it is boring or takes too long or you never like the result, just don't do it. there's other ways. it's not a hobby worth doing just to be miserable about.

here's some art from when I first started digital painting. as a treat