#yesterday I was doodling him on photoshop instead of working

[captain-ghost]

Hi I miss John it's been less than a month

[lethendralis-paints]

Artist Meme

Was tagged to answer this set of interesting questions by @kourvo​

(original post is here: https://kourvo.tumblr.com/post/621355098110640128/artist-meme

Thank you so much for that!

Let’s see....

1) What is the character you've drawn the most (Can be original or fanart)

This precious boy. I can never get enough of him. One of the most compelling characters I have ever come across. Love everything about Fenris and can relate to him on so many levels!

2. What colour do you often use? 

Gray and brown are my faves. And all other colours have the same chance of appearing in my artwork :D

3. Any colour you are bad at using?

I don’t think so...I love them all, even the pinks and yellows people usually find hard to incorporate into a colour palette. Tell me in the comments if I’m wrong :)

4. When drawing people, where do you start? 

Funnily enough - either with the front of the hairline or with the left eyebrow. Don’t ask me, why - I don’t know myself.

5. What is a character only your eraser will love?

Hmmmm...any sort of villainous character. I can’t draw evil people convincingly. I’m a huge softy at heart.

6. Which of your works took the longest time? 

Big scale commission I did for @pikapeppa​, featuring all the Inquisition companions, along with Fenris, Rynne and Carver Hawke. That one took almost 3 weeks, due to its sheer scope and my relative lack of experience in such large works. Pika was extremely patient with me though, for that I am eternally thankful!

7. What techniques do you use when you want to improve in drawing? 

Classical art studies. Varying my technique, themes I choose and software I use. I try to experiment and go outside my comfort zone often.

8. What do you think of the art of the person who gave you this ask meme? 

I adore Lillymon’s technical skill, refined style and limited colours! She is a huge inspiration for me!

9. What art tools/media are you good with? 

DrawPile, Photoshop, graphite pencils and liners. That’s about it :)

10. Art tools/media you are bad at? 

Traditional paints. I have no formal artistic education and my lack of knowledge comes to the forefront whenever I have to paint on a real canvas. It’s so much trial and error, you can’t even imagine....

11. What do you think about your own art? 

Lately it’s one of the last few things that were bringing me joy. I hope I won’t lose the passion for it. Because at this point I’m not sure I’ll be able to find some occupation I will be genuinely interested in and good at it. I don’t know if me gravitating towards moody fantasy art speaks about my fear of facing reality. If so, idk what to do with that. I do hope to develop my skills and being able to support myself financially as an artist.

12. Do you consult references for your drawings? 

Yes. A lot of them. Anatomical atlases, schemes for both academic and manga art, photographs found online and taken on my own, copying colour palettes from classical art - anything goes. I think it’s essential to develop your technical skill.

13. What do you like about your art? 

Lately - consistency, both in terms of produced results and in sticking to the timelines I set to myself. I hope this lasts. I would also like to branch out to other themes and not confine myself to quirky fantasy characters, so I’m working on developing my own story behind the scenes (spoilers) :P

14. What habits do you have while drawing?

Only the bad ones, lol. Hunching forward in front of the screen, forgetting to eat, drink and letting my eyes rest. Tilting my head to the side instead of rotating the canvas....I’m an idiot XD

15. Are you good at drawing faces facing right? 

I think that’s the thing I’m good at!

16. How frequently do you draw? 

For the last 1,5 years - almost every day without fail, for good or ill.

17. What do you do when you have artist's block? 

Change occupation and work myself into a depressed state. I changed work places in the last few years a lot, working as an interior designer, draftsman, textile designer, a cook, a bartender to name a few.

18. What must you have when you draw? 

No commotion around me and a cup of some hot beverage.

19. Do you have a lot of stray lines (messy lineart)? 

In the starting stage of my work process - yes, like you wouldn’t believe! If it’s a personal doodle, I sometimes just leave in as am under layer and draw clean lines on top of that mess. It looks cool in a way.

20. What is drawing to you?

An essential part of what helped me to retain my sanity in the last year and a half. Hopefully a lasting profession that will help me pay bills and survive on my own, if my life falls apart entirely later.

21. Your art goal from now on? 

Broaden the themes I depict, improve my technical skill, work on personal creative project and not only fan arts. And most of all - not giving up on it this time.

22. Artists you've had influence from? 

To name a few: @kallielef​ @kourvo​ @shayafury​ @fairsparrow​ who I met here on Tumblr, and many others who I follow and zealously study their works for clues on how to improve my own work.

23. Artists you like? 

I am following them all either here or on Instagram, I also do my best to share their works on my side blog!

24. Which is easier to draw, humans or animals? 

It was animals earlier. But now that I started to diligently study human anatomy, I would say it evened out! I’m quite confident drawing humans/humanoids now!

25. Show us an old drawing 

My first digital drawing from 2010 when I first bought my tablet!

26. What is the charm-point of your art?

I ummm....I don’t really get the question? Is that like the the strongest suit of me as an artist? Intense expressions maybe? Idk. Let me know in the comments :D

27. What is the first thing you would draw if we're talking about fantasy? 

Broody warriors, he-he

28. Please draw your most beloved character:

Here’s a sneak-peek of me drawing him right now! :D

29. When thinking of characters is it mostly female? male? or androgynous/no sex? 

I usually gravitate towards depicting strong-willed, caring, passionate, brave, honest men and women.

30. What did you draw yesterday? 

Started cleaning up that sketch from the last question, actually!

31. What is the funnest part to draw? 

A circle. Mostly because you’d die laughing seeing my struggle to draw a believable one XD

32. What part of other people's drawings do you notice first? 

colours, mood, eyes, hands.

33. Regarding backgrounds, what is your method of making it easier to draw? 

pick your favourite textured brush, find a good reference for mood and colour scheme, zoom out, squint your eyes and start slapping colours like mad. You’d be amazed at how much you’ll be able to achieve in 30 minutes with this approach. Bare white background is the enemy - destroy it! >:)

34. What colour coordinations do you like? 

Gray or brown as a main colour and then deep, earthy, saturated colours to complement the main one. Pink and orange is the combination I strangely enjoy using lately too.

35. What character did you last draw? Fenris and Eris :)

36. Does your style change easily? 

I don’t think so. More like it’s evolving slowly into something more serious and deliberate.

37. What part of drawing do you pay most attention to? 

Facial expression, body movement, mood and light effects. Not so much the composition and framing, he he.

38. How do you feel about drawing adult art? 

Tbh, I don’t consider straight up porn to be ‘adult’ exactly. To me adult art means aiming towards serious topics, exploring complex emotions and ideas, being honest with your viewer. I did doodle a few more steamy sketches of my OTP just to see if I could, but it was definitely a tongue-in-cheek kind of a artwork that I don’t take seriously.

39. Do you like criticism from others? 

If it’s friendly and in done in private - I welcome it always.

40. How many people do you normally draw per artwork? 

1 or 2. Rarely more. Crowded battle scenes are definitely not my thing :D

This was fun! Tagging forward to @shayafury​ @schoute​ @stella-minerva​ @nug-juggler​ @kallielef​ and anyone else wishing to go through such a long questionnaire!

[go-saeng]

oooh i like to cook too!!! i bake nd cook a lot in my free time and my job contract just ended yesterday so im gonna celebrate by making dinner hehe, what kinds of stuff do u like to cook?? nd omg i used to draw but ive gotten so bad recently JDKDK i keep considering drawing again but im so out of practice so i just mess around on photoshop instead dnfkf nd ooooh!! 💘💗💘💗 those r all rlly good looks !! i for one am. absolutely in love with blonde changbin in any form at all i thought tht hair colour suited him SO well esp in the any mv i think i like. Malfunctioned when i watched it djfkfnfn i miss it every single day 😔</3 i also want hyunjin's super short lived pink hair to return nd perhaps also seungmin's cherry red hair....the blonde changbin exists in my mind constantly tho as does the silvery colour hyunjin had for the mama stage...they r all so powerful I can't choose fnfkf - 💐

oh god did i send that on anon i'm paranoid now HDKDK like i am near 100% sure you know who i am for some reason that i will let u kno on reveal day but fjfkfn hoping tht was on anon 💓💕💓💘💓💖 hope ur doin well ! - 💐

yes you did send them on anon😭😭😭 hmm i do have a slight hunch on who you might be but i can be wrong so😳😳😳 and YAYYYYY congratulations!! you've worked very hard and i'm so glad you get a break now💐💞 i hope you get to relax and have an amazing rest of the year💘 i love making sweet stuff since me and my brother both have a sweet tooth😭and i just made cinnamon swirl bread *sends you some virtually* i also love experimenting with different ingredients because i tend to easily get bored if i eat the same thing every week😔 what about you!!

awww i understand the feeling😭 but i do hope you get to mess around with some random doodles!! OMG YESSS any changbin was such a superior look😔✊ AGSGSHSHS it was such a shame that we only saw the pink hair for like a fraction😭😭😭 cherry seungmin!! i miss it so much🍒 all the good colors just tend to be there for a like a second and then they get rid of them😭😭😭😭

[worldcanbegood]

Shit. It’s starting.

Ok, some quick context: I’m like 99.09% sure I have inattentive ADHD and the only thing I’m missing is an official diagnosis but I ain’t about to pay $150 just to get a doctor to put it on paper.

I’ve always struggled to pay attention in school. I just can’t sit still for five seconds before I start doodling or fidgeting or just plain staring at a wall and daydreaming, but I’ve always managed to cheat my way around it either by cramming for the finals or by charming my way into a B.

However, I’ve learned the hard way that that doesn’t work at my new school. The month-by-month system they have here is killing me and I’ve been in serious danger of failing a class six times (I’ve actually failed several times, but manage to talk my way into a C-).

When I first saw the fidget cubes on tumblr I absolutely loved them. I immediately wanted one, but I never got around to it because, well, I would open the tab and forget about it for weeks until I saw the post again.

Eventually, the spinner posts started popping up, and honestly, I didn’t get it. It didn’t seem like much fun at all, just a dull spinny thing that I’d get over in ten minutes.

And then my local Wallgreens started selling them by the cash register. 

I decided to buy one just to see if it would help because by GOD I need help and although I didn’t get what all the fuzz was about, I learned to love the little fella rather quickly (I ended up getting anther one not a week later).

It’s unbelievable how well this things work. Yesterday, I sat down in class ready to catch up on all the work I missed from the last three days I skipped (whoops) and yet not five minutes into the first video tutorial I was already fighting the urge to close the window and open Photoshop to draw a bit instead. That is when I broke out this bad boy:

It’s just a cheap $5 plastic spinner from Wallgreens, but I swear it is a miracle worker. I was able to sit down at a computer watching tutorials for 6 hours and catch up on three days worth of work in ONE SITTING. No drawing breaks, no muting the video to play music instead, not scrolling around my tumblr while the audio played in the background. Just sitting, watching, doing. I felt so productive! 

I swear I don’t think I’ve ever been able to do anything like that in my life, so of course when one of the students sitting close by finally caught on to what I was doing I was more than happy to explain to him what a spinner toy was and even handed him the spare one from my bag so he could play with it and see how he liked it. And then the shitty part started.

First of all, he kept belittling the toy saying it was just a useless piece of plastic with some weights on it, no matter how politely or excitedly I explained to him that it was not useless for a lot of people who need constant stimulation in order to focus, like me (hell, this is provably the most useful thing I’ve bought all year!). I went on and on about how I just NEED to multitask everything, or else I get this weird energy feeling in my chest and that quickly turns into anxiety unless I spend that energy on something else, even when I’m doing things I like (draw and binge watch netflix at the same time) and that spinning that thing in my hand felt like doing something without actually stealing focus away from the important thing so that I could actually concentrate.

I think he was trying to be polite about it, but he just plain didn’t get it, and then he made the very fatal mistake of exclaiming out loud: “Oh, I don’t know, to me it just seems like I’ve been playing with this thing for a while now when I could have been working!” which of course got the teacher looking at us in no time.

Apparently, he didn’t know what spinners were either, so I tried my best to explain them to him in a very positive light, talking about how they relieve stress and anxiety, help people concentrate, help autistic people and people with other conditions feel more relaxed, you know, nice mushy stuff because I honestly don’t think I can pass this class if he decides to ban them.

After a second of quietly staring, he just exhaled the most diminishing “BAH!” I’ve ever heard and wen’t on on a 20 minute monologue about how people will just buy whatever crap you put in front of them these days and how novelty toys keep getting dumber and dumber every year. He said he should just make something like that, but it’ll be a stick, just a stiff plastic stick that you play with. He compared the spinners to pet-rocks.

At first I just thought it was annoying and close minded, but the more I think about it, the more it worries me that he literally can’t wrap his mind around the fact that IT IS NOT A CUTE NOVELTY TOY, it’s a useful learning tool that can help a lot of people get shit done a lot easier, because if he sees it like a toy, he’s gonna treat it like a toy and I don’t know yet if that means rolling his eyes and shitting on it every time someone brings one to class or straight up moving to ban them.

Like I said, the shitty part is only starting.