#it's lazy and based on refs from pinterest

[spitzobsessed]

Chiss drawing because at some point human skin becomes boring

[doodlingwren]

It's 2024 can we please stop saying it's normal to trace or copying an entire drawing and pretending it's 100% your work? Just bc you changed the character or added clothes on a base you found on pinterest it doesn't mean you created original art

[laserbobcat]

Yo, my dudes, trace art. I was thinking about it because of this post about mental health and running the dishwasher twice, and my version of it is tracing art on photographs. Despite knowing that taking parts or all of a photograph as ref/base is common practice in the industry, I still have that stupid block about tracing being lazy and you have to redraw the whole thing to learn. I LOVE studying anatomy and learning shit, but when you’re burnt out, you just want to have a nice drawing that makes you happy at the end of your drawing session. Which is hard when you’re tired af. No brainpower for anatomy today? Trace the fuck out of a photo to make your OCs. Bam. Art is done. Sometimes you just need to thirst on half orcs you know. These are traced from a shirtless dude I found on pinterest. Thanks shirtless dude from pinterest.

[toasttbutt]

When you were developing your own unique style (which, btw, i adore) what were some of your inspirations? Which artists did you study and what kind of tutorials did you use to springboard off of?

Oh that’s so sweet of you!!Oh dear so this is gonna be very long, so I’ll put a little ‘keep reading” thing so this isn’t a whole book on yalls’ dash. xD(EDIT i dont think it worked and im too lazy to fix it so sufferrrr)

So growing up, and as a VERY young child I gathered quite a few art books, most of them anime based. I think through middle school and maybe freshmen year of high school I did have a lot of inspiration from Manga like styles mainly from artbooks that I just so happened to get over the years. However, I did always have a draw to style that were similar to Disney, but not as perfect, if that makes any sense? I remember having a Deviantart, and there there was artist under Pookadoodle. I adored their work and always wanted my style to shift from a not so great anime style to something that what I could best describe at the time as “Disney, but way more creative”. I loved it when artist really push character expression, make a nose big or someone ridiculously square and short. for years I tried shifting my style into something like it, even more expressive, but never did because I wanted to develop my own style at the same time. Sometimes it made things even more frustrating because my style was INCREDIBLY inconsistent. (Here’s some arts as far back as 2014 to 2017, using pictures of an oc I’ve drawn over the years)2014:

2015:(lmbo my art got worse in some spots)

2015 Honerable mention (I DREW GF BEFORE I EVEN WATCHED THE SHOW?? IT WAS A REQUEST):

2016:

2017:

From this point forward, is when I started drawing an absolute unhealthy amount of GF, and I started putting my art on Tumblr. xDIf you want to see more of my older stuff (tho some of it is hidden lmbo), check out my rankin’ old DA here.From here I started taking college level classes and so my artwork improved immensely, but it still wasn’t quite what I wanted? I felt that my character design was bland, not enough of that body and design variation that I wanted? So overtime I began to discover artists that were leaning in the direction of the art style that I always craved. Some examples that I can think of on top of my head that really inspire me today are:Tom BoothSam Nassour(And so many that I can’t remember right now, but I’ve got a huge pinterest folder with art that inspires me art style wise and what not here)AS FOR TOOTERAL DO I HAVE THE THING FOR YOUI have SO MANY REFS that I have used over the years literally through pinterest and I have 90% of it organized into folders and such on thereHere’s my tooteral folder, in it are subboards that are labeled pertaining to what they teach you about!!!I hope this answered your question, at least just a little! Really for a while most of my inspirations are found on whims and finding random art, but lately Pinterest has been my tool to sort it all. xDI really recommend looking at that tooteral folder because there is stuff in there that I reference CONSTANTLY.Have a lovely day bean