The Gay Colony's Art Blog

Hi you can call us the colony and this is our art side blog. If you wanna talk about our art, fandom stuff, or anything really don't be afraid to! Our ask box is open if anyone wants to use that. I would feel better if only people 18+ followed me (I don't post nsfw often, but I do sometimes)

[greelin]

i’m a lover. AND a biter

[femmelated]

[mymelody-sapphic-deactivated202]

reblog if you would let a 5’2” girl put you on a collar and a leash and dominate you

[adustoflove]

Born to be clingy and obsessive, forced to be cool and nonchalant about things

[pigeon-cave]

Diagrams are helpful to me

[cl0ckw0rk-c0ntrivance]

I KIND OF JUST REALIZED THAT JESSIE FROM TEAM ROCKET FORMS A FUCKING R WITH HER HAIR AND BODY

WHY DID IT TAKE ME OVER 10 YEARS TO REALIZE THIS

[xviistars]

JAMES YOU LITTLE SHIT NOT YOU TOO

[wonderfulandterriblethings]

I never realized this until you pointed it out

[angryqueershakespeare-blog]

holy fucking shit

[i-restuff]

they love doing this btw, here’s a small compilation

[rhinco]

knuckle tats that say WIZZ ZARD

[argumate]

showing people your cat like

[shmothman]

[inkskinned]

I have been thinking of the ways we tell people things. My father's hands shake, but he holds the phone up so I can watch the video from six feet away. My mother emails me the recipe of her beef stroganoff at 6 in the morning with the comment - woke up and didn't want to forget to do this! On the highway, we sing so loudly my voice grows hoarse; on the beach I sneak nice rocks into people's hands so they have something to hold, on the floor we all sit quietly in the same agreeable silence. We are all saying the same thing.

My friends say "Oh you know, keeping busy." This means they are having a hard time but making themselves survive it. I ask them to help me walk me dog; this is me telling them it's okay sometimes to just be present and talk about young adult fiction. When I cancel again because I can't get out of bed, she tells me she's on her way with cookies.

I point out the sunset. She shares her fork before I ask for it. He calls me at 1 AM just because I'm on the road alone, we talk about stupid shit. She waits for me to get indoors safely before driving away. He says - nah, forget it, I'm happy to do it for free.

People are saying it, you know? They say it often and loudly. Sometimes, you know - you just have to be listening.

[colonyart1234]

Going to be moving my art over on to twitter, tumblr doesn’t seem like the right place for it anymore

[alithographica]

This week: Form follows function! You can tell a lot about a bird by its wings.

[saltmalkin]

Was getting some of my images ready to be made into prints today so I thought I’d make a guide for anyone else interested in making prints of their work :D

[galoogamelady]

Hey there! Random question but I'm curious, how would you go about drawing chainmail? I have a D&D character that has chainmail under their armour and every time I try to draw them I'll start off by drawing all the links by hand then it gets way too tedious so I go look for chainmail pattern on google and paste it lmao but it feels like I'm cheating by doing that, and it clashes with the style I'm going for. I was wondering if you had any tips or tricks?

I don’t feel particularly great at drawing chain-mail either but there’s a technique I learned from a tutorial a bunch of years ago that I think makes a pretty good texture. It’s fast and the end result is cartoon-y enough to match a less photo-realistic style. I can’t for my life find the tutorial so I’ll recreate it here (using Photoshop):

1. Fill your canvas with black or white. Filter -> Render -> Clouds

2. Filter -> Filter Gallery -> Glass (under the Distort category)Keep smoothness as low as possible, play with the other settings

3. Find a filter in Filter Gallery that you like and apply it. Combine them, if needed.

4. When applying texture to the drawing, use Edit->Transform->Warp to make it fit the shape you’re trying to convey

You can stack more filters on after the texture is placed or draw over it with a textured brush to make it look less uniform if that’s what you want. Add a shine to it with a big soft brush, colorize it, go crazy. I go with whatever looks best to me atm.

This is how I did Geralt’s armor too, though since I knew the final print will be smaller than 1.5″ I didn’t worry about details much. 

Hope that helps!

[dsamuelsonart]

A quick flip-through of my Drawlloween sketchbook. The originals will be for sale tonight (Nov. 12th) at 5:00 pm EST at dillonsamuelson.bigcartel.com for anyone interested 🎃

[anistarrose]

Normally I don’t like bringing this up, but: Tumblr is making it increasingly difficult for writers and artists to get their posts to show up in tags and searches, meaning that our fics and art are being exposed to fewer people. 

Yes, it’s still possible to get posts to show up, but in the case of the search function, it’s only if they have no links - not even links to other Tumblr posts. For people like me who include links to other chapters in my fic so readers can get caught up on chapters they might miss, this is a huge problem. I basically have no choice but to include those links, or else I would make things massively inconvenient for my readers.

So why am I telling everyone this? Because this means reblogs are becoming more and more important to creators. With posts so difficult to find in searches and tags, reblogs are one of the few other ways for people to find new artists or writers.

You’re under no obligation to reblog my stuff, of course, but I want to put it out there why reblogs are so important to those of us who write/draw/create content.

(Also: While I’ve personally verified the stuff that’s going on with searches, I have no clue what’s going on with tags. Some of my stuff is showing up there, some isn’t, seemingly with little correlation to the links included. So tags might not be quite as strict, but they do seem to be less consistent.)

[drawingden]

How to paint gold - tutorial by LenamoArt

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[mkjay-art]

20170226

Drawing Study of February - Light and Shadow