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Any tips or tricks for a beginner artist?

I love your art so much but I need to be able to draw my own transition goals

number 1: i always feel better doing a drawing vs. looking at someone else's drawing (you gotta find your own language, u've got a voice - and it's important! - and the way to hone that is to use your voice all the time!! don't just listen to other people! i.e. You gotta draw, not just take in other people's drawings, if that makes sense. looking at what someone else is doing is great for inspo sometimes but too much of it will make it hard for you to value your own voice and even if your voice is bad it's good, trust me)

number 2: dont be embarrassed by anything, let your pencil/pen/brush wander and dont judge yourself (having a style is about your hand learning muscle memory, draw whatever you want whenever you want and leave ur inner critic at home and then you'll turn around one day and wont be a beginner at all!)

number 3: if you're digital artist and have photoshop download kyle t webster brushes (free), procreate: jingsketch brushes (cheap), if you're a traditional artist find a really nice soft pencil (4b+) or charcoal and Be Really Confident and Not Precious and even if you make mistakes it'll look like your style rather than mistakes :^)

number 4: draw what you find fun! honestly. like, just have fun. follow the passion, dont beat yourself up

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on the walls of the monastery

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sam and eileen: tichel wives!

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sam and eileen: tichel wives!

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archivist sasha pls open my texts

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lorefreak. lawgirl. top of her class. she deserves a big heavy jean jacket that feels like a hug.

(longskirtnatural inspired by @skepticalfrog)

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lorefreak. lawgirl. top of her class. she deserves a big heavy jean jacket that feels like a hug.

(longskirtnatural inspired by @skepticalfrog)

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i completely forgot to mention: longskirtnatural was completely inspired by @skepticalfrog's amazing sam art <3

lorefreak. lawgirl. top of her class. she deserves a big heavy jean jacket that feels like a hug.

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lorefreak. lawgirl. top of her class. she deserves a big heavy jean jacket that feels like a hug.

(longskirtnatural inspired by @skepticalfrog)

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i hate how this scanned so i’ll upload a better version tomorrow but here have sam in the most lesbian of outfits. i picked it out for myself to wear tomorrow and then realized it was very samcoded of me.

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getting too cold to paint outside so I’m making do around the house

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Yo my dude, what's that fat bodies anatomy book you have called? I need refs and google is NOT helpful. Thank you!

Morpho: Fat and skin folds by Michel Lauricella ✌️

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Eyes details in art.

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The Butcher’s Wife 

#7c171d | #d61a2b | #f4e8e4 | #ffb2b2 | #331515 

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oh yea just throwing it out there but. if u are a beginning digital artist PLEASE i am BEGGING you to experiment with different methods of making your drawings because i see so many of yall suffering for no reason using what you’re taught because you don’t know to try a different way. like SO MANY PEOPLE people make jokes about how much worse their lineart looks from their sketch and how much of a pain it is to do lineart… if that’s you, then, don’t do lineart! just clean up your sketch a bit, or keep the bits from the sketch that you like the most and only do a separate layer for the things that really need fixing, or just paint right onto it!! endless possibilities. if u keep having troubles trouble with layers? u don’t need them, just merge them and keep going. better at sketching traditionally than digitally? take a picture of ur sketch and draw on top of it. there is no One Right Way to do anything in art except what’s fun and satisfying for you. be free

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(Saint) Mary (Winchester) - inspired by concepts by @pietacastiel