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ololord => anna-lord Yo! I'm Anna, 20, she/her, Russian, and this is my arty art-blog where I post my arty arts (header says "tomorrow will be a better day") It's ok to repost my art off tumblr, use it as avatars/etc and tag it as "kin"! ~Commission info~

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Howard has freckles and Randy has pimples

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Hey I really love your art! would you ever be up for sharing your art process (hopefully your watercolour process since that's the most exciting) I would love to see how your art is made!~ and if you don't feel up for it don't worry about it uwu

Hi! Sorry so much time has passed, I got your ask after a r&m comic and assumed that’s the drawing process you’re interested in, and finished another one only recently <:3 Anyway! The drawing process of my previous post (lots of pictures):

Usually for things that’s, like, more than 3 frames I make a quick sketchy thing, mostly to not forget what to do with the frames and dialogue

Then I draw it prettier on proper paper with a pencil (all the next pictures will be photos ‘coz I was too lazy to scan :P)

The next step is to take a real bid brush and a Lot of water and make everything watercolor-y and pretty, let colors blend into each other! This is a comparetively new technique of mine so every time I do it, I do it differently, this time I left skin untouched so it won’t all turn green or grey or anything (next time I’ll try to take even more steps in the coloring proccess I think). It’s also the hardest part for me because I can think in advance of composition or face expressions but when I try to think what colors to use my mind turns blank and I just go with what feels right and hope it won’t be ugly <:D

Then I color the uncolored parts, remove visible pencil and draw over a lineart with a small brush. For the colors I also go with what feels right

The final step is white gouache. I just love how things pop up after that :3 And it’s finally finished! (wow, the scanned thing is really... saturated compared to how it really is, in my defence it’s how the machine scanned it and it looked good enough to me not to do anything more with it <:D)

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Have you ever felt like sometime along the years you took a wrong Morty from a daycare?

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If you don't mind, what is rc9gn? Judging from your fan art, it looks like something I might be into.

The whole title is Randy Cunningham 9th grade ninja, it’s an animated series about a boy who was given a misterious ninja costume (and a 800 years old book with ninja knowlege) that grants him super-powers to guard the school from monsters and giant robots.

I also got curious about it because of other people’s arts but the description sounded like something I’d not be into, but I gave it a shot and it turned out so good! Like, the story-telling has a nice, fast pacing, characters’ designs are eye-catching and characters’ interactions are so interesting! The main characters are jerks flawed, and there isn’t any sub-plot about them trying to get themselves ~significant others~ (I’m just really sick of “hightschool bros experience a violent awakening of heterosexuality optionally treat all hot female characters like a potential trophy and all non-hot ones like shit” trope so it’s a big selling point to me at least). Also there’s a lot of good humor, I literally watched it smiling all the time!

Wow, I wrote a lot, didn’t I? <:D I just recently finished watching it and IN LOVE. I hope you’ll give it a try!

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Oh my gosh welcome to the RC9GN fandom :DDDDDD It's great here~

Awwwww, thank you! It’s already a forth or fifth time someone greets me here, this is so sweet<3<3<3<3 

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Are you new to RC9GN?

Yep!

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For a half of first season I assumed that all those pointing arrows and texsts were for a vewer’s sake but what if Randy actually sees them??

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I may soon get a job at a local animation studio????? Some days ago me and my roommate were drunk and she was like ‘why don’t you apply too’ and I did, and now we’re being tought at the place the work of clean-up and inbetweening (that’s what the job will be), we’ve been doing it for only three days and today people in charge told both of us that they like us and we are 90% hired like holy shit that’s my dreams come true??????

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(Is this show as gay as I feel it is? Like, I don’t have straight googles anymore and can’t really tell hints from punchlines but even if it’s only punchlines aren’t there a little Extra of them??)

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One of the things I love about coming into a new fandom is all those side-fandoms-of-people-in-the-main-fandom you also sell your soul to, ahh

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I bought a fancy pricey brush pen thingy and turned out some sudden money spending decisions can be good ones, it looks great on pencil sketches :) Also, crossdressing Chibita because it’s a light of my life rn

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Ahhhh, thanks to everyone who answered me! I thought I’d get like a couple of notes but you actually shared words of advice <3 I decided not to apply anywhere this year at least, but draw everyday and try to make friends with local people from internet to go out for sketching in the city (так что если кто из Питера читает, я была бы не против затусить!) Who knows, maybe I’ll loose my hair and gain the ability to finish a drawing with a single pencil stroke by next may :)

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An owerwatch commission :)

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I don't know much about your circumstances, but as someone who left off going to uni (probably) longer than most, if you are worried about not being ready for it and can get away with putting it off, my advice would be to do it. I'm glad I left it for a few years because if I had the maturity level and mental state I'd had straight out of high school, uni would have been a train wreck for me. Maybe instead of going to uni, you can spend the year considering your future career/study options?

(continued from last anon) I know my uni has free careers counselling services for prospective students, so maybe you can look into stuff like that? It makes me super sad to see so many students who, for whatever reason, sabotage their ability to thrive at university because they are already in a terrible mental/emotional/physical position when they start.

I know what you’re talking about, I went to an art college at the gentle age of 16 with a mindset “nah I’m here to just get better at my hobby and then apply for a Real Profession” and “all our art teachers/professors(idk what a right term is) are talking about drawing/painting being the only valuable thing in their lives ahaha how silly” and if I went there like I am today and frikkin took it seriously I’d be Da Vinci now or something, and I don’t want it to be repeated with uni, going there all “nah I’m here just to keep parents satisfied”, plus as you’re actually, I realised, saying - the mental stability aspect, which at this time I do not posses :(

I kinda have an inkling to what I want to do career-wise (animation, or game/characters concept/design, or illustration) I just really not sure how to get there, in my whole country (which is russia) only, like, one-two places teaches the skills directly, but otherwise I heard you still can get a job like that if you draw like really well, so here’s that. Thank you for the advise, tho, it is much appreciated! The more I actually talk about it instead of having vague ideas the more putting it off seems like an actually best decision 

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Don't mean to butt in but I feel that,, I just graduated college last year and my mom decided to sign me up for a job I wasn't prepared for (skills-wise and mental health-wise), and it really messed me up. Some things are worth the wait and should be done at a pace you can keep up with!

You are not butting in, every input is much appreciated! Your situation kinda looks like mine, I graduated from college last year too, and from then to now was supposed to be my ~relaxin year~ but it was really Much Not and I can’t imagine how worse would it be if I went to uni right then (as I was gentlier-but-still persuaded by my mother to do) hhhh Thank you for sharing! I hope things will get better for you too!

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I don’t know what to do... My mum keeps insisting upon me getting in uni but the previous year was a real hell for my mental health and rn I finally feel somewhat stable and I’m not sure it’ll be a good idea to put More responsibility on myself (I also have some serious procrastination problems so it’s not gonna be, like, just attend lectures and do homework! it’ll be not doing my homework ever, feeling guilty and worthless and getting screamed at a lot), but I never feel like doing anything, and maybe I’m just being lazy and activity and goals will be actually good? Why can’t I know myself good enough to choose what will be right :’<

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I wanted to draw follow-ups with Chibita in that gifted underwear but drank too much coffee and somehow can’t concentrate on the task :( But while drawing his whiskers thingy I realized what animals he and Iyami will look v good as: