#this is such a cool art style i adore it so much!!

[hagi-clvnk]

I'M FINALLY GOING TO RESPOND TO THIS POST!!! MY MORNING STARTED WITH IT, BUT I WAS SO BUSY😭❤️

THANK YOU REALLY SO MUCH MUCH !! 💘

fist of all, I'm so sincerely glad that you drew Hagi exactly as her design is!!! it's really very nice when you pay attention to all the details. I can safely use your drawing as a reference, and it's so cool!! Hagi looks so full-fledged!! I very admire your art style and honestly did not dare to hope for a drawing from you for me, so I'm very happy to receive this as a gift🥹🥹🥹 Shuu also looks sooo adorable and I really like the cute pose sisters are in together!! 😭💚🧡💚🧡 Jade and Azul are such cutie patooties 🥺🥺 I ador this art sm!!

THANK YOU VERY MUCH AGAIN IM SOO HAPPY!!❤️❤️❤️

Jamil for you 😳🥺❤️

Happy birthday to @oya-oya-okay and @hagi-clvnk!! ✨🎉🎉You're both very sweet & lovely people and I hope you have an amazing birthday! 💖

[nothing-impt]

hello, hello!!!

i adore your designs for the epic characters sm! <3 mostly telemachus, tiresias, and hermes because... i'll be honest, i was originally just scrolling thru the tags on tumblr and i ended up falling into a rabbithole [especially with flyingsnakes.... they're so cute and for WHAT?????]

anyway, sorry for the ramble, i just. i just love these lil guys so much and i love how you draw them and your art style is so cool and sdgssajfkasd

-> @maxcreatesthings

AHHHHH TYSM FOR YOUR KIND COMMENTS IT REALLY MAKES MG DAY!! I’m glad to have another member in the Flying Snakes club :D

[kmpshitposter]

OC Lazarus commission for @milk-crafting

[evostrashbin]

I got to fullfill myself a small personal dream by commissioning @/worvies on twitter to draw Kiran and Grima enjoying some cozy reading time together with her favorite dinosaur book 😭💖

[simplepotatofarmer]

oh, i love this, thank you so much!!

my drawing for @simplepotatofarmer as part of theee @mcyt-halloween gift exchange!! YIPPIEE!! here's cdre and ctechnoblade!! i imagine theyre talking about something goofy like going to a halloween party btw lmao,,,

[unriding]

hi evie !! how have you been ? :33 i hope you dont mind me borrowing you and moze for something ehehe <3

[spiritoast]

mightve spent a little too much time rendering this but . i love you weird time grandma

[clegfly]

GTE OUT OF MY HEAD........ every liek. second post i see is you. what is this.... what is going on

Live footage of me using DARK MAGICS to beam my WICKED POSTS into tumblr user pickledmintpie’s head

[sucktacular]

Y'all I'm so giddy, let me give you some backstory before I hit you with the thrift store find of the year:

December my partner and I watched through Home Alone to pass the time, and when they did the shot of Kevin in the attic I said "maaaan I would kiiill for that bed set, it looks so good!" Said in a longing manner, but knowing I would probably never be so lucky/have the kind of money to get such a cool, now vintage, piece.

^ The set, for context. ^

Anyway, fast forward to today. I was rummaging the thrift store looking for some cotton material for a project of mine. Went through the bedding section since it can be a lot more fabric for lower prices. On my final pass through I saw a bit of grey grid patterning peaking out under a bright red sheet. Went to pull it out a bit and saw more of the pattern and gasped... "Could it be...? No way... Is it!?" Partner helped me unfold it and IT WAS. IT WAS!!!

I did the happiest little dance!! I'm so so excited!! It's a duvet cover and I've been Desperately needing another cover. Also it was only $5.50. I'm so giddy 💕💕💕

[ask-the-totally-real-peppino]

[Hey, I've seen you in posts about Red Pep! What do you think about this cute frog?]

(I am not sure of this 'Red Pep' you speak of! Unless you mean Red and Oni of @onippep ! Since they are the only Peppis I have seen that consistently wear red, but I do not recall them ever mentioning me or this blog

If this is not what you meant, then please let me know!)

[pettyprocrastination]

sorry but I will never forget this peni parker concept art. what could have been. 

[rhinoyo]

hey cos!! what are your favorite rune factory games in order :0!! im super curious!! have a nice day!!!

helloooo!!! <3 oou thank you so much for the question.. <333

of the ones i’ve completed in full — 4 is my favorite, followed by 3, and then 5! <3

including the ones i’ve just played enough to have an opinion — it’d be 4, 3, oceans, 2, 5 :> <3

[synthbug]

happy birthday isa !!!! i hope you have a great birthday :]

have a silly guy

I LOOVE YOUR SILLY GUY SOO MUCH I DOODLED THEM FOR U !!! <333 AND BEING UR FRIEND MAKES ANY DAY A GREAT DAY REN!! :3 THANK U SOO MUCH!!!

[unriding]

hi hi evie !!! i hope youre doing swell today !!! remember to take breaks from your booth !! heres a refresher 🤲

hey … nick? hi nick! hope you’re doing great!! im picking myself off the floor right now JSNDNKC so actually this is my 5th attempt at typing a proper response (in total i have probably written about a full scientific report’s amount of info about this and decided it still did not do your ask any justice..)

gif A is me clutching onto this ask sobbing, gif B is me still clutching onto his ask sobbing, gif C is me after my tears flood my house (the ask is safe inside my pocket of course…)

[kaijutegu]

Ranking the Reptiles of Vintage Men's Magazines

Men's pulp magazines have some of the wildest paintings for their cover art, and some of those feature lizards. Let's rank them!

We are NOT ranking these on accuracy or believability, we are ranking these on how much fun I, your good friend kaijutegu, find them to look at. These were never trying to be accurate. They were trying to sell magazines. Also I'm not allowed to critique human anatomy or we will be here all day.

This man is beset by wantons who ruined a nation! These dragons he's crawling with took him for a one-way ride, and now he has to pistol whip them until they stop biting his leg. I love how these lizards have more than a hint of rhino iguana to them, as well as the Crystal Palace megalosaurus. A tier.

This man looks shocked to discover that sex can be fun. I know, I don't believe it either. The snakes are interesting- I really love the lurid green fangs and tongue on the guy in front, but I would like to see more. B tier, I'm just not all that into it but I am intrigued.

NOW we're talking, this cover has it ALL. Come to beautiful san antonio where our women are clearly wearing skin-colored shirts underneath their regular shirts so they can breast boobily without worrying about a nip slip and our turtles are pissed. S tier.

This cover gets points for the painterly style, but loses them for the rude-ass man. The sex queen of Sicily and the cannibal crocodile they couldn't kill were just having a nice dance, and along comes this man and... how did he make that shot actually? B+ tier.

See that crocodile in the foreground? My lizard makes the exact face when she's begging for sushi. A tier.

There's something so charming to me about the way GIVE ME BACK MY ARM is phrased and like, two of you are going to get what it's pinging in my head but bear with me. Back in the day (literally 20 years ago at this point, jfc), the USPS put out this "put yourself in my shoes" safety notice about controlling your dog, and the goons over at Something Awful got hold of it and decided to have some fun with it and one of the remixes they made, the thing that started a whole big ol' meme thread that got turned into a CG post, was this one:

Something about the GIVE ME BACK MY ARM reminded me of this. Anyways I loved that thread, A tier, thanks for the memories.

I know I said that these were never meant to be accurate, but look at this one, the guy CLEARLY was looking at a reference for this alligator! Don't know why he drew the glottis like that, though. A tier.

Oh this, this I love. Incomprehensible snakes taking their babies on a field trip? Adorable! A tier!

The tongue doesn't go in the glottis. D tier, I know I said they weren't trying for accuracy but come on.

These selfless lizards know that this man is unfit for married love and are trying to rescue that woman from an awful fate. She's going to wed that man, but she's making a huge mistake, and they know it and they're powerless to stop her- but they're gonna try, by god. This is Good Luck, Babe! but with lizards instead of Joan of Arc at the VMAs. It's fine, it's cool, S+ tier.

[hansoeii]

Hello! Hope you're having a great day/night! I absolutely adore your art, you are one of my favourite artists. I love the way you shade and do backrounds. Also everytime I get into a new show I immediately see your art for it??

I was wondering if you had any advice on drawing more realistically (backrounds, anatomy etc) but still keeping a style?

Hey hey!

Thank you so much!

I have a pretty good understanding of facial structures, because before I got into drawing more semi-realisticly, I heavily focused on realistic portraits. Here are some example, these are from around 2019!

(yes, I was really into danmei and kpop back then, haha)

I just always loved drawing/painting faces and it was all I did. But at some point I realized that I wanted to do more than that because just portraits felt super restricting. So it took me around 2-3 years to somewhat find my style. Thought it would be fun to show a little timeline! Advice will follow afterwards :)

2020

I began working on my OCs in 2020 and since I didn't have an exact reference to work off of, I struggled a lot. My art from this year is super wonky.

2021

Still wonky, but the Lokius obsession was the jumpstart into finding my style! My work from this year is all over the place haha, I was experimenting a lot.

2022

This first ofmd piece is pretty much the first drawing where you can see where my style is gonna go, which I think is pretty cool! This is the year I made the biggest progress cos I was drawing SO much. These two pieces are only six months apart. The one on the right was the first time I gave drawing a background a proper go, too! It was a good year.

2023

And this is where I am now! I'm still constantly learning and improving, but I'd say I have a style you can recognize now!

Now here comes some actual advice, haha:

What I highly recommend you to do is to study your favorite artists as much as you can! I have like 5 A4 sketchbooks all from 2020 that I filled with sooooo many studies, where basically all I did was look at artists I like and copy how they draw stuff, to try and figure out how to stylize certain things. Some of my favorite artists are Ami Thompson, Velinxi and TB Choi. But I also liked to just scroll through pinterest and study all the art I came across that I liked! For example, if I saw a really great drawing of a pair of pants I would copy it many times in my sketchbook and try to learn how they stylized the folds. Doing this for a prolongued period of time will naturally improve your own work! It'll be difficult at first, but you gotta push through, it's gonna be worth it!

I also highly recommend studying unique faces to try and avoid the same-face syndrome. Find some cool looking people and try to draw them as simple as you can! Maybe even draw a little timeline where you first draw them as cartoon-y as you can, and keep going until you end up with a more detailed, realistic drawing. Maybe in the middle of it you find a step that feels the most fun to you, so you can try to build on that! It's a great way to figure out what kind of style might be the best for you.

Here are some cool faces I found on pinterest!

I have a pinterest board with many more!

One REALLY important part of learning how to draw all kinds of things is to understand forms and shapes and how to manipulate them. I have so many pages in my sketchbook filled with just shapes that I drew from all kinds of angles without any references.

This is a great video on it:

6 Ways to Draw Anything by Proko

Learning how to do this is so crucial! Young artists often think they first have to learn all kinds of detailed anatomy before doing anything else, but all that's gonna do is make you tired and hate drawing. Shapes are where it's at! Once you understand how shapes work and which ones to use for certain parts of bodies or objects, drawing is gonna get so much easier! Once you understand them, you can get into details such as muscles and bones!

And honestly the most important point is to just absolutely love what you're doing! I wouldn't be doing this if it wasn't for the fact that I get extreme hyperfixations on certain media that turn me into some kind of beast where I can suddenly draw 10 detailed illustrations a week, haha. Just be passionate about what you do, find something you REALLY love and go crazy!

I really hope this was somewhat helpful! My inbox is always open if there's any more questions :)