Celestial Sugar's Art Blog

Yuri/ 26/multi-media/ I am very depressed and haven't made much lately

[fatartappreciation]

A divine work by Uruguayan artist Laura Acosta

[necronatural]

Compiled some basic information I know about drawing fat characters for beginners since I've been seeing more talk about absence of really basic traits in a lot of art lately.

Morpho Fat and Skin Folds on Archive.org (for free!)

[tuttle-did-it]

draw more fabulous fat people.

[plus-size-aesthetics]

[13utko]

How to render hands

That was supposed to be an art study. But I learnt a lot. Sharing it with you, guys

[celestial-sugarart]

*Happy 4/13*

Here's my favorite gal after collecting fresh paint for her wall! :33 x33

[ink and marker on watercolor paper]

[thepoisonroom]

loudly going "YOU'RE GOOD YOU'RE GOOD" to myself to ward off the memory of every embarrassing thing i've ever done

[countesspetofi]

I do the same thing, only it's "OH, YEAH? WELL FUCK YOU ALL!"

[barnlarn]

Revising some of my horse drawing tips pages, starting with necks!

Corrected some muscle names and added more explanation/ method.

[barnlarn]

Hip page update!

[barnlarn]

Here are a couple more sections! Going to put all of these into a poster format soon

[creatingblackcharacters]

Q6.3: "a 'good' servile Black man who cares about his community, but is kind and doting to his white oppressors" defines what trope?

The Magical Negro

The C**n

The Uncle Tom

Voting ended onDec 7, 2025

You would know this if you read: Lesson 6 part 3

Post by @creatingblackcharacters

💬 2  🔁 574  ❤️ 916 · "Is He the Threat (Or Are You?)"- Stereotypes, pt 3 · Unlike the last lesson, which was very personal for me: I am not

[creatingblackcharacters]

Not including the applications, I have 21 total lessons on this blog! How many have you read?

None (today's a good day to start!)

1 or 2 (testing the waters... keep going!)

3-6

7-9

10-12

13-15

16-18

19-21 (all of them?! a diehard fan!)

Voting ended onSep 1, 2025

When my ask box is reopened, I'll be pinning my Syllabus back at the top of my page. When you follow, I do hope you stop to actually read my resources. While their length may seem intimidating, they're just a peek into a much larger scope of ideas that will strengthen not only your Black character design (which includes but is not limited to art AND writing!) but even if you DON'T create, will strengthen your media analysis and racial awareness when it comes to Black characters.

The goal isn't just to design or see if a Black character "checks all the boxes", it's to check YOURSELF and if you would even know if there was a problem!

You don't have to be designing a Black character to read my resources. You only have to 1) care about Black characters, your Black peers, and our humanity, and 2) WANT to learn to understand us better! If you're willing to get uncomfortable for the sake of growth, check it out 🙏🏾

[adorkastock]

Feeding the Polytrix artists today 🍴🍲

[possessedpasm]

Something I try to keep in mind when making art that looks vintage is keeping a limited color pallette. Digital art gives you a very wide, Crisp scope of colors, whereas traditional art-- especially older traditional art-- had a very limited and sometimes dulled use of color.

This is a modern riso ink swatch, but still you find a similar and limited selection of colors to mix with. (Mixing digitally as to emulate the layering of ink riso would be coloring on Multiply, and layering on top of eachother 👉)

If you find some old prints, take a closer look and see if you can tell what colors they used and which ones they layered... a lot of the time you'll find yellow as a base!

Misprints can really reveal what colors were used and where, I love misprints...

Something else I keep in the back of my mind is: how the human eye perceives color on paper vs. a screen. Ink and paint soaks into paper, it bleeds, stains, fades over time, smears, ect... the history of a piece can show in physical wear. What kind of history do you want to emulate? Misprinted? Stained? Kept as clean as possible, but unable to escape the bluing damages of the sun? It's one of my favorite things about making vintage art. Making it imperfect!

You can see the bleed, the wobble of the lines on the rug, the fading, the dirt... beautiful!!

Thinking in terms of traditional-method art while drawing digital can help open avenues to achieving that genuine, vintage look!

[possessedpasm]

ALSO!!

YELLOWING!! Digital art is very blue-light based. Cold, clean, flat. But traditional art has warmth to it. Why?

Over time, paper gets yellowed with dust, oil, dirt, and nicotine from cigarettes! So colors got warmer. This makes art look pretty aged, on top of the slight toned papers and hand made/factory made inks they printed with.

[possessedpasm]

Comic History: Color and Print

Learn how to simulate retro artwork in this three-part series dedicated to the history of printing methods and how to recreate them digitall

A Brief and Broad History of Post Golden Age-Pre-Digital Comic Book Coloring

If I told you to think of a Silver Age comic book, what image does your mind conjure? Chances are, you’re picturing a comic with bold lines…

Dang y'all like old art!! Here's a couple resources too for those who wanna learn some more :]

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ADDITION: I KEEP MEANING TO MENTION THIS-- YOU CAN SET YOUR CANVAS TO CMYK INSTEAD OF RGB FOR BETTER COLORS! :D

CMYK is meant for printing, while RBG is a light spectrum color setting.

You can look up how to do this for whichever drawing program you use since it can change from program-to-program!

[nyxnaiastock]

Resting, with @adorkastock

[antiqueanimals]

Paul Bransom (1885 - 1979). Bear Head Sketches / Bear Paw and Claw Sketches. Charcoal and pastel on paper. 1952.

National Museum of Wildlife Art, x / x

[donutsbagels]

Part 2: shape, style, and length with femme styles!

Post by @donutsbagels · 10 images

💬 7  🔁 779  ❤️ 1177 · Part 3: Combining shapes, braids, and textures! And utilizing parts and fros!

[celestial-sugarart]

more 👏 napkin 👏 doodles 👏

Rahhhj really really quick break room sketches I abandoned

[celestial-sugarart]

HAPPY 16th ANNIVERSARY HOMESTUCK!

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My hands stopped wanting to hold things so this is this years art!!!! I hope i did the math right on June/Johns age!!

[sabertoothwalrus]

You probably get asked this a lot, but how do you draw hands? Even when I'm tracing, they look so weird 🙃

I could probably go on and on and on about hands, but here are some key points I compiled! I LOVE drawing hands, and I never hesitate to use my own as a reference