A great friend of mine (Owl and Ren) had done a couple picrew icons for an RP event in one of the FE3H RP servers, and I adored the look of Charon. So. Here’s a Charon. OuO
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A great friend of mine (Owl and Ren) had done a couple picrew icons for an RP event in one of the FE3H RP servers, and I adored the look of Charon. So. Here’s a Charon. OuO
I’m pleased with myself. LOTS AND LOTS OF DOODLES! Mostly of designs of how I would see Tiana von Riegan, Claude’s dad and the Elite Riegan because we were robbed of ACTUAL DESIGNS FOR THE ELITES AND NPCS. Can I at least have a slice of Glenn and Holst one day? Please?
Been awhile since I did a ink... AND ONE GOOD HAURCHEFANT! ( ^7^)/
Right now Oregon and California are experiencing one of the worst wildfires to date. The sky is orange and everything smells like a campfire and I'm bad at articulating but it's really serious. Thousands have had to evacuate and lost they're homes in the process. I don't like talking about topical stuff on the blog v often but I'm in the midst of the evacuation zone in Oregon and shits scary. I'm afraid of losing my home and I'm afraid for my family and friends.
Idk what the point is of this post but I feel like not many people outside of the northwest know how bad it is rn cus it's bad. The moment I find donation links I'll link them to this post but I haven't found any yet. And if you're in the northwest rn, please be safe.
Edit: here's a link to a California wildfire relief fund
And a link to an article explaining where to donate to help Oregon as well
Because I have... Very little self control and OH BOY am I not okay with the Ten Elite not having their own faces save for generic things... Have a Riegan. To be fair, he and Claude wouldn’t look too much alike, save for eye shape and facial hair. Beyond that? His Almyran heritage just takes the wheel. And since you don’t see his hair, I went “welp, anything goes so VERY SHORT!”
being a self-taught artist with no formal training is having done art seriously since you were a young teenager and only finding out that you’re supposed to do warm up sketches every time you’re about to work on serious art when you’re fuckin twenty-five
someone: oh yeah, do this exercise during your warm ups! it’ll help
me: my what
What’s up I have an actual college degree in art and I was never ONCE taught to do warm ups.
when i was in undergrad, it was kind of mentioned in and offhand way that we should do warmups, but we were never shown what that meant. And, y’know, we were young so it didn’t matter so much.
Being older now and having an art job it’s…kind of essential.
So: a quick primer for those of you who are like ‘ok but how do i actually go about doing this warmup thing.’
1) you may be tempted to do ‘a warmup drawing’ which is just a drawing that will take longer than it needed to and probably be frustrating and kind of bad because you didn’t warm up first. It’s tempting but always a trick your brain is playing on you! Do not trust!
2) warmups will vary based on what feels good to you/what task you’re about to do/what motor skills you want to practice. That being said, some good standbys:
a) circles. Just a whole page of circles on whatever drawing surface you’re going to be using, whether that’s your tablet or your sketchbook or a drawing pad on an easel. For these circles you should make sure that you’re drawing from your shoulder and not your wrist. In fact, you want to be drawing from your shoulder rather than your wrist most of the time! forever! your wrist is delicate please preserve it!
In order to ensure that you’re drawing from your shoulder, when you’re holding your pencil or whatever drawing tool you’re using, the only part of your hand that should be touching the drawing surface is part of the last two fingers–some people prefer the finger tips, but I tend to favor the first knuckles. Either way, the fingers should really be ghosting over the surface, providing guidance rather than support.
I usually start with big circles and then go to smaller circles and lines of ellipses, and then try to fit circles and ellipses inside other shapes i’ve already drawn as a precision exercise, but i don’t do that unless i’m feeling loose
b) spirals! i don’t always do spirals, but if i’m stiff and the circles just aren’t cutting it, spirals are a good fall back. I start from the center and work outward, going both clockwise and counterclockwise until i feel comfortable with the whole range of motion. Some people really care about getting perfect spirals but for me it’s all about making sure i’m comfortable with how i’m moving so who really even cares about how the spirals look. Not me!
c) lines! straight lines! in parallel! i do a mix of vertical, horizontal, and diagonal. These are often more from the elbow than the shoulder, especially if I’m working on a smaller surface. For this exercise, I recommend holding the drawing tool perpendicular with the surface
d) connect the dots. This is a precision and accuracy exercise and takes two forms. The first is to draw two dots and then draw a straight line between them. The second is to draw three dots and draw the curve that connects them. This sounds a lot simpler than it is in practice. Take time to ghost over the line you plan to draw before actually committing to your line. (I don’t always remember where I picked up my warm up exercises, but I’m pretty sure I got this one from Scott Robertson. His how to draw and how to render books are very technical but also accessible and worth checking out)
e) cubes, spheres, cones, and cylinders. These help get your brain into a more volumetric space. I draw multiples of each, rotating the forms around, and I’ll often take the time to do some rough shading on at least a few of them
f) spidermans! This one is really good if you’re going to be storyboarding or working on dynamic poses. Just fill a page full of spidermans doing all sorts of acrobatics.
g) beans. I don’t do beans too much anymore, but I know a lot of people like it so I’m mentioning it here. Fill an area with different size bean shapes without lifting your pencil off the paper.
h) short medium and long line repetition. draw a short, medium, and long line on your page, and then draw directly on top of them 8 to 12 times, doing your best to exactly trace what you’ve already drawing. Repeat with a wavy line. I’m bad at this one, which means I probably need to do it more.
And there are lots more options too! Hit up youtube to see what other people recommend, put together your own go-to list, mix it up when you’re getting bored, etc.
This is a long list, I know, but I usually don’t take more than 10 to 15 minutes to warm up, and I can warm up one handed while I’m drinking coffee, so, multitasking hurrah.
Sometimes I’ll advance to a precision warmup and find that I haven’t loosened up enough yet; it’s totally ok to go back to an earlier exercise! Also, all of this has the added benefit of kind of ritualistically getting you into the drawing mode so even if I’m not feeling it before I start, by the time I’ve gotten to the end I’m usually Ready For Drawin’. Brain hacks.
so, yeah! that’s a lot of words, but! Warmups are important! Save your joints, take less advil, do better drawings!
tag yourself: artist addition
A) has an organized list of things they want to draw, updates list daily with more ideas, neatly checks off all the ideas once they’ve been completed, has an actual schedule
B) never plans things out, ideas are hastily written down on a crumpled scrap of paper, sits on ideas until they eventually become unappealing and rot in the wip folder
C) draws out ideas as soon as they come to mind, barely ever takes any breaks, forgets to eat, holds in pee until it becomes absolutely necessary to take a break, sacrifices sleep in order to finish a piece
D) stares blankly at the ceiling. can usually be found chewing at the end of their tablet pen. blank canvas has been opened but even the prospect of doing warmup doodles is implausible
Art tutorials by Disney artists Griz and Norm Lemay
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I did it... I finished a full drawing. Took three days but IT IS DONE!
This one’s for the writers who get ignored.
This one’s for the writers who get a maximum of two notes, both of them reblogs by you.
This one’s for the writers who feel like giving up. (Don’t.)
This one’s for the writers who didn’t get any messages on the 21st. (or any other time)
This one’s for the writers who don’t get tagged.
This one’s for the writers who don’t get recommended.
This one’s for the writers who have the courage to keep going even when you get little to no feedback.
This one’s for the writers who don’t get curious anons.
This one’s for the writers who write amazing things and get hate because of it.
This one’s for the writers who are learning English as a second language.
This one’s for you.
This one’s for the artists who are learning
This one’s for the artists who are not getting much inspiration
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Thiis one’s for the artists who draw like a god but don’t get much recognition
This one’s for the artists who feel like no one is there to see their work
This one’s for the artists who have abused their backs, fingers and wrists for hours to complete their pieces
This one’s for the artists who try
This one’s for you 💜
A work in progress. I think I’m getting a hang with these paints! ( O7O)9
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"You are no longer licensed to use the software," Adobe told them.
Friendly reminder that GIMP does pretty much everything Photoshop does, and it’s 100% free. Fuck DRM and the license culture, we have plenty of open source options available to us as a consumer.
Lightworks is a freeware video editor on par with Premiere
Blender is an excellent freeware 3D renderer,possibly better than After Effects
Lightzone to replace Lightroom
Inkscape to replace Illustratr
Audacity to replace Audition (I also received a free version of Pro Tools with my Scarlett Solo audio interface)
If Adobe is going to be greedy shitheads, then fuck ‘em. Don’t use their stuff. Freeware can be just as good, if not better, than Adobe CC.
reblog to save a digital arts major
More acrylic pieces! ( ^O^)/ I’m still learning this medium, but it’s fun slapping colors all over.
Tumblr is shit for artists but I’m really bullheaded and I don’t want to move
Reblog to support artists on this godforsaken website
also reblog to support writers on this godforsaken website
none of us get the exposure we deserve
I’ve never slammed reblog so hard
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Black to me 😂
Edit: ok sorry, ah, uhm, I know people have been so very supportive. And I’m seriously so flattered! Thank you! It’s more of a thing with him ok?
Heyyyy this is exactly where I’m at man.
:D HERE’S MY SPITE BUILD! Because iS does my faves dirty.