art reblog/inspo blog

daze. they/them. 23

[micahruiz]

transfemme and transmasc solidarity! (prints, stickers, digital download, and tattoo tickets available)

[Start ID/ Digital art of two hormone vials that have been repurposed as flower vases sit next to each other. On the left, there's lavender sprigs sprouting from the estradiol valerate vial and on the right, purple pansies sprout from the testosterone cypionate vial. /end ID]

[iraprince]

gonna show u guys a little opalescent highlight hack i threw together today

rainbow gradient above your main figure (i usually have all my main figure folders/layers in one big folder, so i can clip gradient maps + adjustments to it!). liquify tool to push the colors around a bit. STAY WITH ME I KNOW IT LOOKS STUPID RN I'M GOING SOMEWHERE WITH THIS

THEN: set it to add/glow (or the equivalent in ur drawing program), lower the opacity a bit, and apply a layer mask. then u can edit the mask with whatever tools you like to create rainbow highlights!!

in this case i'm mostly using the lasso fill tool to chip out little facets, but i've also done some soft airbrushing to bring in larger rainbow swirls in some areas. it's pretty subtle here, but you can see it better when i remove the gradient map that's above everything, since below i'm working in greyscale:

more granular rambling beneath the cut!

u could also just do this with a brush that has color jitter, but what i like about using layer masks for highlight/shading layers is how simple and reversible it makes everything. i can use whatever brushes i want, and erasing/redoing things is super low stakes, which is great when i often approach this stuff with a super trial-and-error approach.

example: have u ever thrown a gradient w multiple colors over an entire piece, set it to multiply etc, and then tried to erase it away to carve out shadows/highlights? it's super frustrating, bc it looks really good, but if u erase something and then change ur mind later, u basically would have to like. recreate the gradient in the area u want to cover up again. that's how i used to do things before figuring out layer masks!! but masking basically creates a version of this with INFINITE undo bc u can erase/re-place the base layer whenever u want.

anyway, back to rambling about this specific method:

i actually have TWO of these layers on this piece (one with the liquified swirls shown above, and another that's just a normal concentric circle gradient with much broader stripes) so i can vary the highlights easily as needed.

since i've basically hidden the rainbow pattern from myself, the colors in each brushstroke i make will kind of be a surprise, which isn't always great -- but easily fixable! for example, if i carve out a highlight and it turns out the rainbow pattern in that area is way too stripey, i can just switch from editing the mask to editing the main layer and blur that spot a bit.

also, this isn't a full explanation of the overall transparency effect in these screencaps! there's other layer stuff happening below the rainbow highlights, but the short version is i have all this character's body parts in different folders, each with their own lineart and background fill, and then the fill opacity is lowered and there's multiply layers clipped to that -- blah blah it's a whole thing. maybe i'll have a whole rundown on this on patreon later. uhhh i think that's it tho! i hope u get something useful out of this extremely specific thing i did lmao

[ponydoodles]

humans forever will love funny little horses. love and peace and ponies runs in our blood

[l3o-lion]

This man has a concussion, be nice to him ok? He's probably not gonna be nice to himself, and Harry is passed tf out with a gunshot wound, so someone's gotta do it.

Fyi: Disco Elysium has me in a chokehold. It's seriously one of the rpgs of all time.

Yummy colours nom nom

[keymintt]

he seemed impressed by the way you came in “tell us a story, i know you’re not boring” i was afraid that you would not insist “you sound so sleepy, just take this, now leave me”

[cyprakantha]

its the end of the world

[dogattheparty]

first art of 2023

[granaatvlinder]

“I am currently in between names.”

[czl]

what if they were SOOOO old

[pumpkster-deactivated20250205]

ayo i found 2 pages with head angles of humans and animals, could be useful to anyone reading this

hoomans

animals

[netheritenugget]

Holy FUCK, this is an amazing tool.

[scrabbleknight]

Reblogging for my artist fellows.

[i-imade-a-thing]

Reblog this!

[butchlinkle]

The creator of the original, the animal reference tool, made their own human reference tool which allows you to search based on different body parts and poses!

https://x6ud.github.io/pose-search/

[maroonracoon]

You Were My Joker That Night

[artofmaquenda]

My sister is having contractions now and soon will be in labor. Such a huge transition for her and honestly for all of us. I hope everything goes well. 🙏

[bisclavaret]

Werewolf History Project- Medieval

Part 2 of my werewolf history project!

Chose to focus this era's piece on Bisclavret, or the Lay of the Were-Wolf written by Marie of France in the 12th century. It's a very unusual story for its time, where the werewolf is not a force of evil, but sympathetic and cursed. And also smooches the king.

[bisclavaret]

maybe we should take a trip to Jupiter 💫

[lylahammar]

When I first played, I thought the shading on Kim's cheek was a port wine stain birthmark 🥰

[leylses]

fyi if you do figure studies, the croquis cafe guy is a trump supporter so here’s some figure drawing resources that aren’t that: 

senshistock sketch tool

senshistock’s deviantart (queen of queens tbqh)

fatphotoref (password protected, you can dm the creator for the password or ask me but i will only answer if i can see by your blog that you are an artist)

figurosity (free, kinda wild)

jookpub stock

photoref.org (paid packs, run by jenn ravenna tran, so you’d be supporting a woc artist/filmmaker!)

scott eaton’s bodies in motion (paid subscription and kind of pricy but good if you want to spend some time Really Focusing on Anatomy)

posespace (big library, also paid)

drawthis channel on yt

anatomy for artists course on proko (pricey but good)

always gotta mention schoolism

books:

force: drawing human anatomy

morpho books

figure drawing for artists: making every stroke count

andrew loomis books (ALL FREE!!!)

constructive anatomy (haven’t personally read this one but heard it’s good)

[visualc--x32redistributable]

two (2) people asked how i did the matchbook thing so take this

this is just a simple idea but if you spend some more time you can get real krazy with it:

making fake prints is so fun please do it immediately free resources under cut xoxo

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