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[cptkay]

I saw the cutest pic of a cheetah and had to draw 2D

[rileyav-moving]

artist tips

don’t save as jpeg

[suchirolle]

as a former yearbook editor and designer, let me explain this further

if youre only planning on posting your art online, them please save it as .png ;this is also better for transparencies as well

BUT

please, if youre planning of printing your art, NEVER use png. it makes the quality of the image pretty shitty. use jpeg or pdf instead. and always set your work at 300dpi to get a better printing quality - this means, the images are crisper and sharper and theres no slight blurriness. i had a talk with my friend who is currently taking design, and pdf is much better to use when youre working with a bigger publishing company because it still has the layers intact, but if youre only planning on printing your stuff at staples or at some small publishing store, the jpeg is the way to go.

this has been a public service announcement

[inactive-ironic-ken]

Want a good picture to save as? PNG

Want a good printed picture? JPEG

[rikebe]

honestly? starting to flip the canvas during the drawing process improved my art so much yeehaw

[rikebe]

top 10 art tips from chaboy in no particular order: 

1. canvas flipping good even if painful 

2. draw whatever makes u happy. be self indulgent. draw nonsense that caters to only you personally 

3. just fucking fake being able to draw things like hands and eventually you can actually do it without even thinking about it 

4. take breaks when it doesn’t come out right 

5. remember that you’re the god of this reality and can draw WHATEVER THE FUCK. be absolutely drunk with power. nobody can stop you. unless its like morally wrong like dont draw incest or whatever. incest is bad still

6. use references 

7. originality is a myth and literally every artist started copying their style from something or someone, that’s how you develop your own style. everyone does it. people who make fun of kids for copying the styles of their favourite shows/artists can choke 

10. litchrally just have fun 

[electroslime]

i had a poll on DA so i will be doing basic how to stuff of the results

[aztechnology]

a little respect goes a long way

we’re not machines that dispense art in return for kindness, maybe try to keep that in mind about how we might feel instead of feeling bad because you’re not entitled to free art.

[galacticjonah-moved]

Everyone struggles with this feeling. 

But you know exactly how much work you put into your art, how many hours and how much care and love went into your pictures and no matter the amount of likes or retweets you get, you KNOW the worth of your work.

[askfordoodles]

Me on drawing backgrounds

[yefimbobrov]

Sera doodle I did at work today

[cptkay]

Wanted to draw Parov with Fen’Harel vallaslin and found a good reference! I will link it as soon as I find it

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[cptkay]

I like how this came out!! even though these are wayyyy too big

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[itsc]

don’t delete captions off my art

[itsc]

like I don’t care if it says “mmm drawrings” or is actually a link to my online shops! either way you’re obscuring the source and the artist, Me, and making it harder for people to find me. I don’t care if it’s for ur blog aesthetic! I don’t care. don’t do it. do not do it. how many times do I have to tell people… do not do this….

[cptkay]

Super quick doodle before I have to go to work

[cptkay]

My Lavellans plus colour variations on their outfits! They are siblings uvu

I was going to do braids for Soleil’s hair but i already took 2 weeks finishing this

[cptkay]

Updated version of this WIP

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[cptkay]

I will probably maybe finish this at some point but I just loved that in Dragon Age there were green wings when you resurrected and I found this pose that set the gears turnin

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[cptkay]

Of course I had to draw my Inquisitor, Parov, who do you take me for

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[cptkay]

Check it out it’s the bae

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