okay maybe just a little bit

its all gonna be alright

[the-eternal-moonshine]

The morning song. 1883. Book cover, detail. (from nemfrog, gif by the-eternal-moonshine)

[sarahtastic-cake]

art tips post

for all the artist following me

Have two sketchbooks: One for finished and high-quality art (stuff made with Prismacolor or Copic if you use that or art for your portfolio) and the other sketchbook for more messy doodles. This way you have a place to try new things and mess up as much as you need. When I only had one sketchbook I was scared to draw in it because I didn't want to mess it up

Do studies. I cant tell you how much I've improved just by doing studies of shoes, hands, noses, and all that. This works for when you have art block too since you’re not really making stuff up and just learning how real things work.

Learn from others. I’ve never taken a real art class because 1. I can’t afford it and 2. there’s no good art classes/programs at my school. I’ve been following several artists and learning from them over the years and they’ve helped me tremendously. Just please do not steal art because that is never okay.

Break down concepts. If you notice there’s something wrong with your piece then figure out why. You can’t get better if you leave mistakes and don't try to understand whats going on. If the color is weird figure out if the values look right or maybe its the saturation of the color.

Watch youtube tutorials. Here are some youtubers I think are pretty good art teaching all things art: Draw with Jazza |  DrawingWiffWaffles |  Proko |  Baylee Jae

Have an inspiration folder/blog. Sometimes you just need a collection of starry nights or a misty forest or even a French bakery. All of those things can help you get inspired to draw. It could even be completely unrelated to what you plan to draw.

There are no dumb ideas in the creative process. If you want to draw a lizard in a dress go for it! If you want to draw various pastries with faces do it! Don’t let the thought of it being too dumb stop you because if I’ve learned anything in my several years of drawing it’s that an idea can lead to another and another and another and you may get a really good idea just from doodling dumb things.

Here’s a few things that can get you started on drawing better:

Dynamic poses | Dynamic clothes | Dynamic figure drawing

COMPOSITION | PERSPECTIVE | CONSTRUCTION

Anatomy:

Legs

Arms

Hands

Heads

Body (Female) (Male

Color Theory

Improving your sketchbook

Most importantly, don’t give up! You may not immediately get notes or followers but it’s more important you get better than to have popularity. How do you think those popular artists got to where they are now? To be good you’ve got to work at it.

[drusoona]

@neropaixao

[survivalstep]

I rewatched the OVA and forgot how much of a dick Sonic can be

[skycladobserver]

[timcnpy]

one of these days you posted you wanted to draw something dgm related, how about a longish/long haired allen with hairclips that keep his bangs out of the way? :D

one of the best ideas I’ve ever heard 

[veeranger]

bought a hoodie that amusingly has the coordinates for tokyo on it so when aliens abduct me they’ll think it’s like when a dog has an address on its collar and drop me off in tokyo when they’re done fucking me

[doesnteatstyrofoam]

Vent Post Warning

God I just want to fucking jump off the nearest high rise. My health is failing, my house is falling apart, the people I live with are fucking animals, can’t bring myself to even talk to my friends anymore, and nothing makes me happy. Nothing is getting better no matter how much time I give it.

I can barely function at this point. For 3 months I was doing great. Eating good, exercising, cleaning, studying, being an overall functioning person. But now I’ve been getting 3-4 hours of sleep a night, I have to pee every 5 fucking minutes, headaches every day, no energy whatsoever, paranoid every waking moment and also very fun are the hallucinations and nightmares I’ve been having. I’m proud of myself if I even get out of bed these days. Everything hurts and everything’s miserable. I’ve gained back almost 10 pounds in a month and a half and I’m about to start starving myself to stop it.

No matter how much of a dent I put working in to this fucking house it just gets worse every time I make it better. I scrub a fucking whole ass kitchen on my hands and knees to the point of bruising them and going to bed in pain from literally barely exerting myself, just for it to be two times worse 6 hours later. Our AC keeps breaking, our water’s been out for a week and I feel like a mud sausage, and people keep putting holes in walls and breaking furniture.

My mothers still a fucking alcoholic, and it’s gotten worse. She literally drinks a 6 pack or more a day now. She gets up at 11am / 12pm and starts drinking by 1. She’s like a broken record when she’s drunk, can’t hold a conversation, and a hazard to herself and others. She drives drunk all the time as well. One of my brothers started stealing her smokes and now he’s smoking too and of all places he has to do it in my one spot where I’m safe from everyone else. He also always starts useless shit with her when she’s drunk and she cries and screams for hours when that happens. I have to play middleman, mediator, and therapist to both my parents. My dad is right about everything he says, but it just takes such a fucking toll on me.

I love my friends to death, and they’re absolutely not to blame for any of this. All of it is me, and even though half of the situation is out of my control I still put all the blame on myself. I have almost no means to actually interact with them outside of messages anymore and it makes me fucking miserable. Not only that, for some fucking reason I’m hypercritical of everything I do and say now and if I can’t phrase something right on the spot I just don’t reply. Yet again I’m driving everyone I give a fuck about away and I can’t bring myself to stop it. I can’t think of a way to say anything without making things worse. God I’m fucking sorry I can’t do better. I started this year off promising I’d do better to them and this is the worst fucking year so far in regards to that. Another things is, I don’t want to mention any of this to them. I don’t want to drag anyone down with my problems anymore, but these days that’s really all I have to talk about and I just don’t want to do that to them. I don’t want to ruin everyone’s mood and become the person that’s just depressing to talk to. It’s probably already happened though.

I even feel fucking awful writing about all of this like oh my fucking god how sad is all this. No matter how much time or energy I put in to anything it just doesn’t get better. Every time something gets better, it then gets twice as worse. I just. Don’t know what to do anymore. I can’t do anything anymore. And honestly I don’t even want to be anymore. 

[hwainio]

Meet Koo, the little crow that could.

[sturner-artblog]

the dream 

[badeeka]

[cutinessfood]

petit_sucrier

[cutinessfood]

__mayuwooooo__

[cutinessfood]

petitbonheur.cooking

[cutinessfood]

sweets_930

[pemprika]

i’m casually watching natsume yuujinchou and i’m,, love him he is soft

[theoracleofkwangya-deactivated2]

nothing is awkward or cheesy if you dont give a fuck. im on this earth to have a good time not to be seen as cool