#waaah full colored drawing

[raechannau]

thinking of Reinhard kidnapping some fellow teens (< felt camp route)

[realjem-art]

quick little mashup of sonas

couldnt decide which version i wanted to post so you get both

[cosmic-ships]

That clucking anon was jealous or doesn't actually understand art or something, because your art is gorgeous. Your lines are clean, you draw faces beautifully, the expressions are so full of emotion. And what tf was that anon on to have some kind of problem with flat colors? Not everything needs to be fully rendered to look good, and I find that sometimes flat colors look better. There are many different art styles, and yours happens to be one of my favorites.

Not only that I'm still learning, albeit slowly but still learning nonetheless! I appreciate that not everyone's art looks the same no matter how long or how much you've been drawing/studying things. I would hate everyone's art to be carbon copies of each other! Mine is one of your favourites? For cereal? Waaah 💜 Aksbsksbdks

Thank you my friend, I appreciate you!!!!!!!

[bloodtreachery]

4 + 7 + 10 + 14 :>>>

sorry for taking so long WAAAH self-inflicted agonies

4. Fav character/subject that’s a bitch to draw

FAERIE WINGS!!! I love drawing Faeries. Aligning faerie wings and making them symmetrical but still visually interesting isht a Pain

Very rewarding though <3

7. A medium of art you don’t work in but appreciate

OBVI I DON’T HAVE EXAMPLES FOR THIS BUT. I would love to get good at Watercolors and gouche! unfortunately the workflow is anathema to my pen and inkwork so it’ll be a struggle. One day though…I’ll commit to it. Especially the work of Alphonse Mucha and Scott Christian Sava. I wish I were them.

10. Favorite piece of clothing to draw

TBH I JUST LOVE DRAWING CLOTHING THAT FLOWS….Dresses capes jackets …I love drawing things that billow and are full of movement! It’s really easy to draw characters with momentum that way and its fun to see how light and gravy effect them <3 But I think my FAVORITE are big sleeves. like so.

14. Any favorite motifs

I ALREADY ANSWERED THIS (its elf ears, striking colors, and pieces of nature) so here’s a free piece of art encapsulating the two sides of my art that I like :D

[omoriboii]

ok i couldn't find a way to say this on ao3 so i'll just bust down the door to your ask box

your art for dreamscape is genuinely amazing!!! i am in love with its character designs, and OOOGH the colored+rendered art pieces really pop out i love them so so much. the art for chapter 3 caught me off guard in the best way, god DAMN my boy isn't okay

aaahhh i wanna ramble on more about it but i can't find the words

WAAAH reading these things gives me so much euphoria?!!!! Such a big positive emotion holy shit wow.

Something that doesn’t go noticed, but most of my designs always take a lot of internal mental contemplation, which honestly can take me anywhere from a few days to full on months. For example; I only recently got around to designing Kim, but the thought process that went into her design before drawing it goes all the way back to last summer- isjfjskfkldkd.

To be completely and utterly honest, almost all the chapter art is done within an hour or less. I always have massive guilt of drawing art for myself that isn’t my commissions, so it’s hard to let myself have this ‘big detailed piece’ that doesn’t swallow up all the time I would’ve used doing my work. I have been trying to balance it better though- so later chapter’s art is starting to slowly look better.

Ngl chapter 3’s art was one of the fastest rushed pieces I ever did. Still ended up working because it kinda foreshadows what’s to come- iskfkskfjdkdk

Honest to god ramble away, hearing people’s thoughts on my work is what pushes me to continue every day.

[swagdinner]

As a fresh install, Tumblr is SO fun to have a personal page on (compared to pre-Musk Twitter and Reddit, which I know of). Sorting is cool, and all the tags allow me to make my page as readable as I want it to be. With all the markdown and the gay ass colors you can make your text be, I think I'm experiencing the same joy as people did in 2004 or smth when they realised you can personalise your page.

My biggest gripe with Twitter was that seemingly nobody would notice me. With regular shitposts, funny original stuff and tons of activity I kept hovering just above 20 followers, receiving 0 likes on average on a good (by my standards) tweet. Tumblr seemingly doesnt have this problem with the tag system being more prevalent than Twitter's hashtag system and with the lack of algorithm to favor likes and follower count, rich-get-richer style.

Reddit throwing itself right into the trash sucks. In terms of making your original content gain traction, I think I've figured out the formula there - it's posting time. The more people see your post in new, the more initial upvotes you get, so more people get to see it in hot, and here comes the exponent. Division on thematic subreddits rather than separate users meant that everybody got to see what they enjoyed without half of their feed being irrelevant. I guess Tumblr's tags are the solution to both of those problems?

Reddit used to be my main platform, but besides the api ban one thing I HATED was the comment section in meme subs as of recent. Any post featuring smth SOMEWHAT questionable (cute anthropomorphic animal drawing, obvious satire, fake 4chan greentext - how the hell do you consider that weird enough in the year of our lord 2k23???) had the comment section FULL of dumb reaction images. I HATE reaction images. "waaah you need to touch grass" "waaaaaah why did you post this" is 2016's "this post is gay and r worded" but with a funni haha face attached. Fucking twitter all over again. Tumblr seems like the place with little unassuming tags instead of that rubbish - correct me if I'm wrong ofc.

[rapidhighway]

the sort of like sharp or angle-y look and like the way you stylize characters so well and with colored pieces your amazing use of light and shadows

WAAAH thank you!! >_< I feel like I’m just now figuring out how to make full colored pieces and I am walking blindly in the dark xddd. And yeah whenever I make anything sharp it’s my 2000s cartoon monkey brain screaming out into the world. I felled like I often just do that when I draw Cas, just because he’s a lil dangerous guy, tiny tho

[avaantares]

An experiment in art feedback

A while ago, over the course of one week, I posted four pieces of art to this blog: A watercolor painting, an ink drawing, a full-color Copic marker piece, and a silly comic drawn (badly) in pen. All were fandom-related (all but the watercolor were the same fandom), so in theory the content should reflect similar interest levels among my followers. All were tagged with the relevant fandoms, etc. and appeared in tag searches.

To make sure the results weren’t skewed by how long they’d been up, I waited several months before tallying how many notes each piece had received:

Watercolor: 25 notes

Ink: 2 notes

Copic: 1 note

Silly pen comic: 270 notes

...Well, then.

This is not a new phenomenon; the feedback disparity between serious art and (for lack of a better term) shitpost art has been documented frequently, on Tumblr and elsewhere. But I was posting the pictures anyway, so this was just a chance to evaluate the difference with actual numbers from my own blog.

Now, I don’t expect to see hundreds of notes on my artwork. I’m aware that the traditional-media drawings I post aren’t as visually arresting as the digital work that has become the new standard, and I totally get why someone might reblog a funny comic even if the art isn’t that good. But it isn’t just me -- there is a widespread lack of feedback on ALL types of creative works. I’ve seen some utterly jaw-dropping artwork on this site with only 20 or 30 notes. One of the best-written stories I’ve ever read on AO3 has only four comments -- two of which were left by me. Why don’t more people engage with the art they consume?

To be clear, this is not a "waaah, validate my art" post. It’s more of an "I'm not sure why I bother putting time or effort into making finished art when people only respond to the silly doodles I draw on the back of a napkin" post. It really seems like the amount of feedback I receive on a piece of art is inversely proportional to the amount of time I spend on it. (For the record, I spent a full week working on the Copic marker piece that got only one note.) Time and energy are precious resources, and while I definitely do make art for myself rather than public acclaim, I’m less likely to invest hours and hours polishing something that nobody but me cares about.

So I suppose this is just a reminder that if you like consuming creative works like artwork, stories, moodboards, etc., you should drop a Like or Reblog on them occasionally so the artists are motivated to keep giving you free content.