Aunum's Art

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[leodewijs]

Some images from my last tutorial on background art. If you’re interested you read the full article here: http://bakenius.blogspot.nl/2015/11/backgrounddesign-how-to-look-for-visual.html

[fatsoupy]

Hello! May I ask what brush settings you use?

[aunumwolf42]

Art Woes pt.2

Sees artist using thin lines: Amazing! So pretty! I should do that!

Sees artist using thicker lines: Amazing! So pretty! I should do that!

Sees artist using varying thicknesses of lines: Amazing! So pretty! I should do that!

Sees artist using no lines: Amazin-

[eliciaforever-deactivated201906]

Why do artists refuse to use references why why why.

It’s not a contest to see who can get by without them. It’s not cheating to look at a thing in order to know what the thing looks like.

You don’t get stronger or better by pretending. Nobody is impressed by the awkward whatever-it-is you just drew. Use references.

[wolveswithhats]

I don’t think a lot of people know that it’s not cheating. I recall seeing so many piece of art called out because they referenced a pose, someone recognized it, and then proceeded to shame them for it. There’s this belief, both by creators and the audience, that artists should just be able to translate the ideas from their head to paper, and if they don’t, it’s plagiarism, or not true originality (spoiler alert: there’s no such thing).

I myself didn’t start using references until very recently, because even I was under the impression that it was frowned upon. And that belief has seriously crippled and stalled my ability to improve as an artist.

[priderising]

As a restarting artist, I can confirm. I just never knew. I thought you were just supposed to know how to draw the body correctly and if you didn’t you had no talent.

[reapergrellsutcliff]

(( I am going to say this again, loud and clear for everyone:

USING REFERENCES FOR ART IS NOT ‘CHEATING’!!!

If you can draw/paint without references, great!  But if you need to use them, and feel that your art can be bettered by using references, please, use them!  This is one of the biggest tips I can give to artists, is USE REFERENCES! 

Anyone who would dare to attack someone for using references after ‘recognizing a pose’ is a dipshit, who doesn’t know a thing about art.

Do you know who else used references for their art?

Norman Rockwell

Alphonse Mucha

Gustav Klimt

Toulouse Lautrec

Vincent Van Gogh

Paul Gauguin

Edgar Degas

Gil Elvgren

Frida Kahlo

Pablo Picasso

Disney Studios

And thousands of others!  So, artists! Go forth, and use references!!! ))

[armellin]

What do you think artists do when they ask someone to stand infron of them for 6 hours and then they draw this person. Do they cheat? Or when they place a still life and then paint it, cheating again? LOL

[euclase]

#literally one of the biggest fears I have #is for some douchefuck to dig out my reference #and point at it and say that I’m not a real artist #I don’t want you to dig out my references to prove that I didn’t make up a realistic picture out of fucking thin air #that’s not how art works #but especially on this site it happens CONSTANTLY #it’s so fucking scary #when people who’ve never touched a pen in their lives think they’re qualified to judge you #and ‘reveal’ how you’ve ‘scammed’ people

Soooo. I made this post originally on my personal blog (I’m eliciaforever), and it was nothing more than a little rant about a specific incident that I deleted after five minutes. But before I could delete it, it took the hell off on me, and now it has all these notes. And LOTS OF AMAZING INPUT.

And I just wanted to add in response to the above tags in particular, that shaming people for using references is something that happens to so many of us SO OFTEN. It doesn’t matter how skilled you are. People think art is supposed to be magical or whatever, and anything else is a crime. The reality of course is that art is a thousand times more deliberate than a lot of people think it is.

So yeah. Good info to pass along. Use references, kids. <3

[lindblut]

Reblogging because I think it’s important especially for young artists to gain the confidence to use references.

Seriously, references are esssential! Use them!

[makro-prinz]

HEY GUYS I NEEDED 28 YEARS TO GET THIS AND THAT’S WHY I AM NOT EVEN CLOSE TO THE LEVEL I COULD BE SO PLEASE DON’T PUNISH YOURSELF! <333

[washuuchan]

I cannot stress how important this is.

[quartervirus]

Posting this here because I know MORE THAN A FEW PEOPLE (@somereddame I’m looking at you) who need to see this.

On a side-note but still related: I occasionally get messages from people trying to shame other people for “copying” a pose or expression from one of my own pictures. Newsflash: if you’re trying to grovel for brownie points by putting down another human being for pursuing their talents, it won’t work. I don’t give a shit if they use my poses or expressions as reference.

If they copied the entire character and design then that’s another story entirely, but how do you think I got to where I am today? It wasn’t by pulling everything out my ass without references, that’s for sure, and I wish I used them more often. I feel like then my colour theory (or blatant lack thereof) wouldn’t look like eyebleeding oversaturated rainbows every single time and I might actually understand perspective.

Alas, one of my earliest artistic references was Neopets.

[phuijl]

Couldn’t have said it better myself!

[it-a]

[unpredictableaunum]

Finally got around to coloring this little cutie! :D

You can find “rawr?” For sale on redbubble By searching for #redbubbleartist aunumwolf42

Or follow this link:

A http://www.redbubble.com/people/aunumwolf42/works/22282859-rawr

#aunumwolf42 #digitalart #wacom #drawing #raptor #dinosaur #dino #Redbubble #art #forsale #advertising

[unpredictableaunum]

Alrighty everyone! I tallied up all the votes from the “What should I draw” poll from both instagram and twitter and the result was Sci-fi Tiger for the win! So here you are! Thank you everyone so much for participating, I really had fun working on this, I hope you enjoy what I’ve made for you as well! Will definitely make more polls in the future! :D

#aunumwolf42 #randomconcept #poll #animal #drawing #twitter #furry #anthro #furaffinity #tiger #scifi #syfy #tentacles #space #spacesuit

[cyborgraptor]

quick proportion tips

- eyeballs are an eyeball width apart - ears align with the top of your brows to the bottom of your nose, and are the center-point of a profile view - lip corners line up to the center of each eye - hands are roughly the size of your face - feet are the same size as your forearm - elbows are aligned with your belly-button - your hands reach down mid-length of your thighs - both upper and lower legs (individually) are roughly the same size as your torso  (this is all rough estimates for proportion! feel free to add more to help others)

[retrogamingblog]

Shocking photo from the back of Professor Oak’s Lab

[the-enfrcr]

Second brush :3

[eskiworks]

A small rant

Destroy the idea that digital art isn’t art, or is somehow lesser than traditional mediums. 

You are a painter of light.

You delicately move data and photons into images of hope, horror, love, pain. 

Your hard earned skills are not lesser because your work cannot be touched by physical hands. 

Your ideas, which you painstakingly execute with those skills and all that experience, touch the minds and hearts of the thousands who may come across it. 

Their impact is not lesser for having been absent a physical body during their creation.

Get your hands dirty with traditional media or delve into the possibilities of digital media.  Do both!  But don’t let anyone convince you that your work is lesser because of the medium.  I think we as an art community should be long past that archaic idea.

[forgetmeparanoia]

Reminders to myself (and any other artsy people who follow me i guess)

-You don’t get better at drawing by avoiding drawing until you are better at drawing.

- You don’t have to make a new masterpiece every day it’s okay if all you drew is a doodle of a bug. You are now +1 bug doodle better at doodling bugs. 

- Also it’s okay if the thing you drew didn’t turn out very good. Everything you draw makes you one step closer to being able to draw good. You are still +1 step better at drawing whatever you drew no take backsies.

- You are the only person who knows if your art didn’t turn out as good as you wanted it to. You are the only person who can see the things in your art that weren’t what you imagined in your head. No one else will know unless you tell them.

- Comparing yourself to other artists just isn’t fair. You get to see all of your art, the best stuff and the worst stuff. You usually only get to see the best stuff other artists make. You don’t get to see that half drawn badly propotioned face they drew at 2 am and immediately scrapped. So don’t compare your badly drawn 2 am face to their best work.

- Just keep making art. The only way you can really fail is if you give up. 

[unpredictableaunum]

A bust of my character Aron in a type of Steampunk Art Nouveau style border.

Just having fun when I can x3

#aunumwolf42 #sketchbook #sketch #drawing #wolf #anthro #anthropomorphic #furry #art #doodle

[aunumwolf42]

Tea Time by Aunumwolf42

Finished commission of Rowan the Amur Leopard and his mate Cabby the Cabbit having a lovely tea party together. Rowan and Cabby belong to their respective owners.

[stevetwisp]

just gonna leave that there

[aunumwolf42]

Clover has been needing a ref sheet for a long time now and since I'm almost done remaking her suit I figured it was time to officially get it done. Ain't she a cutie!! xD Here's Clover's original suit: http://www.furaffinity.net/view/7612551/ Art and Character belong to  aunumwolf42

[unpredictableaunum]

Another commission done! I adore loltia fashion so I had alot of fun working on this sassy bunlita, and all the dresses I had to research while working on it xD

#aunumwolf42 #digitalart #drawing #commission #anthro #furaffinity #furry #bunny #rabbit #wacom #wacomtablet #painttoolsai #photoshop #lolita