#improve your artwork

[thereweredragonshere]

Ive already posted a few of these blorbos on other socials, but BANG have some fury ocs

[vavoom-sorted-art]

🩵💛 5000 Follower Celebration & Draw this in your style Challenge! 💛🩵

This blog vavoomed from 0 to 5000 in less than a month! If that‘s not ineffable, I don‘t know what is. Thank you for all the love and support you showed my silly, smutty, angsty brainrot corner, for every reblog, comment, incomprehensible scream in the tags (yes I read them all). This community means so much to me.

So, to celebrate, we are having a Draw This In Your Style Challenge!

🩵 The Rules:

Recreate this image in your style! Interpret it however you see fit! 💛🩵 (I will love every single one of them)

Post it with the #vavoomdtiys (and @ me if you like, so I don’t miss it!) OR send it to me in a DM or an ask if you're not comfortable posting it in your account. (Let me know if you're okay with me sharing it or not. I will treasure every entry!)

The deadline is the 25th of december! I will pick two winners, the first place will be one I like best and the second place will be a randomly selected one.

The first place gets to request a full comic page!

The second place gets to request a sketch drawing!

Have fun!!!

I will of course reblog every entry and make a compilation post at the end!!

💛 Bonus Gift!

As a little bonus, I am releasing the procreate brushes I use for free! (Now, you should draw this in YOUR style, but feel free to use them for your submission!)

Here‘s the download on Gumroad (just put $0 to download it for free!) :)

You are all amazing! I‘m so excited to see what you come up with!

[demaparbat-hp]

hi dema! i’m learning how to do digital art, would you mind sharing your coloring process? coloring (and lineart) is the hardest thing for me to do T_T… what brushes do you use for coloring and how do you not make it look muddy? i’ve been trying to follow tutorials from different artists on youtube but i find my work to look so muddy… thank u in advance >__<

Hi, and thank you for thinking about me for advice! I'm honoured to share a bit of my process, nerve-wracking as that is for my shy self, and hopefully help you out as much as I can. Forgive me if I don't express myself very clearly—I have a bit of a hard time explaining these things. Now, let's get started, shall we?

I'll be using the first panel of this artwork as an example.

My process is pretty straight-forward for most artworks. Make a sketch, draw the lineart, and follow a self-made guideline for coloring and rendering.

Sometimes I'll throw the guideline to the trash bin and start experimenting with brushes and chiaroscuro and color palettes, but that doesn't happen most of the time and, when it does, it's more a challenge than anything else, and not really what I think you're looking for.

I'll include my usual steps here, however, and like I said earlier, these steps are more like what you'd call guidelines than actual rules.

(I just realized I didn't save the sketch for this artwork. Oops)

This is the lineart!

I tend to think that details bore me and are actually pretty exhausting to do, but then I go and make things as clear and detailed as I can. Because I'm a hypocrite like that.

I did try to keep things simple here, though, mostly because I had to go through three other panels and didn't want to burn out my fuel mid-process.

Base colors! The blush (and Zuko's scar!) I draw in a different layer in case I need adjusting the brightness or saturation later.

It's time for shadows!

Pick a color depending on the atmosphere you want the artwork to have. Is it a cozy, warm scene in a honey-tinted room, or is it a moment shared under the moonlight? The color choice should come as an answer to those questions—deep red for the first one and dark blue for the second.

Choose a color and make it dark and saturated. Then, play with the layer opacity! A darker shadow means harsher light, while less opacity works best for a softer look. See the difference? It's subtle, but it's there.

Of course, this is my personal choice. The way shadows are drawn and color is chosen depends on the artist and the artwork. I choose to play with a more simple coloring style, keeping shadows from blending into each other, but you may like a more realistic approach to shadows and colors.

My best advice? Try doing it every way you can, but in the end choose what works best for you. Whatever feels more comfortable, whatever you enjoy drawing the most. And then work to improve it. Love the little proof that you've gotten better, even if it's subtle.

And talking about subtlety...

I love to play with gradients. I use them mostly to give the artwork some form of atmosphere, and make it look cohesive and whole. A light gradient in the color and direction of the shadows will help the characters blend with the background, as will another gradient in lighter colors for the light.

Get creative with gradients! Use them so the lights feel brighter and the shadows darker.

Now it's time to work with the lineart again.

The pure black lineart makes the artwork look harsher, sharper, so I tend to give it some color to soften its edges and compliment the rest of the drawing. In darker shades as the rest of the colors, growing more saturated as the light comes closer.

I love to make the characters' eyes pop and glow! It's really fun what you can do by just messing a bit with the tones of the lineart.

Finally, I play with the level correction. A high contrast will help your artwork stand out and look brighter. See the difference?

And it's done!

Sometimes I like to add other effects or details, but this is the very, very rough shape of my usual process, and thus what I thought you'd like to see.

Once again, I'd like to point out that this is what works for me, and a large part of improving as an artist is just fooling around and messing up until you find the tools and tricks you're most comfortable with.

So keep drawing those muddy shadows and colors! They're only a step of the process.

[twoa-plus]

flan i just finished vs flan i drew in 2018 (age 11)

2024 ver without filters under the cut :)

[techutones]

[ninjautizm]

Sam!- i didn’t know you had tumblr 2! :O

I DO!!! Hello!! I also have a bluesky! Since people were moving over there from twitter, I made one in case twitter actually started crashing down and everyone was removing themselves from twitter!

I mainly shitpost about Ninjago on twitter, which I use to do on here as well but then I eventually got lazy 😭

[thatnerdydino]

currently going through a rough patch of art block, so I busted out the ol painting skills and doodled my two favourite doc designs by @potionofinstantdamage and @theoctagon. had lots of fun doing all the loose brushstrokes for the fur and the shiny parts of the metal. feels good to be drawing again :]

[kittehbiscuits]

Old art that I didn't post here for whatever reason or I didn't have Tumblr yet (if I did actually post some of these already, my bad.)

I am doing this on my laptop which as far as I know doesn't let me group images together so every image will be its full size; this is a long post!!

(NOT IN CHRONOLOGICAL ORDER!!!!!!!!)

Trigger warning: old art, blood, body horror, maggots, unfinished art, drug use, old art, gore, sandworms, corpses, nudity, self harm scars, etc.

MY FIRST DIGITAL DRAWING OF BEETLEJUICE this is when I knew the short hair wasn't going to work for me

^^I started a drawing of this weird au beej a long time ago and never finished it so I planned to post this sort of sequel after I finished it but as far as I'm aware I never posted it

I thought the shirt would be a funny thing for him to wear when he moves into the maitlaind's attic

First Bettyjuice drawing!

^^Featuring my ocs as Lydia and BJ

That one Ralsei image

^^ This one is in the tour's fanart binder!

Drew him with short hair for the (technically second) time

I forgot his beard. Inspired by the Haunting of Hill House (love that show)

I miss drawing his nail polish

^^art trade (design belongs to ohwowhumans)

^^Ok I probably have posted this one but it's my Donnie redesign and I think he needs more attention.

I think I drew this the night after seeing the final show

This one is also a celebration of the final performance

And this one

This is Beetlejuice from a really weird fucking dream I had (my mortician character was his coworker at a grocery store in the dream fun fact)

The premise was he caught her smoking weed in the back of the store and there was a big montage of them doing weed every day at work and then she said something that made him think she was gonna tell the boss and get him fired so he got a gun out but didn't end up shooting her and the dream ended (artstyle was vaguely south-park-esque??)

IT'S NOT LETTING ME UPLOAD ANYMORE WAHHHHHHHHH SCREW THIS.

[beatrix33]

Just a reminder that it’s ok to not like your art, even if everyone says they love it. Just don’t spend all your time hating art you already did, it’s over move on to the next project.

[billythephoneguy]

Yay! About two months of improvement

[yourtransfemboy]

I dont know how, but with in a week my art has went from this

To this

With in a fucking week, and I haven't been using bases. This is all free hand.

I'm so fucjing surpised

[unknownhyperial]

Jaxs design annoyed me so much I realized I also didn't like my sonas design that much anymore and revamped it. I basically just gave them a slightly different hair style and different clothing (big PANT).

They still have their fox tail, but now they have pawed feet instead of hooves or ig triangle ones when I doodle them.

Anyway I like how they look a lot! Its me!! The silly!! I may do colored lineart so their lineart is easier to see compared to the black tho unless Im doodling cuz thats kinda annoying.

[adoralea]

Redraw of Beta Luz because I like seeing my art improve and all that fun stuff.

[naanznommz]

Video about my childhood drawings...(PT 1)

[lizasim]

Yoshi-kun and Kaito are making taiyaki!💕✨️

Today on the menu is taiyaki with custard and ice cream!

Since Miku and Len won't let him eat in peace, Yoshi will happily start working miracles in the kitchen. In exchange, he'll just need an extra pair of hands.

And also a silly sketch, heh😋✨️

[xerayn]

Angels do dance. Just only in the right company