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[blumineck]

When one arrow isn't enough...

[dot-ravn]

And how do we know he’s not just another fantasy archer? My guy might as well be CGI, I refuse to believe there’s a real life Robin Hood.

[seazulle]

🍀🌱 After playing nahida’s story quest… I feel like she has a sharp tongue and pretty blunt, but always try to hold it back lol

[brokenstick]

she ate

[dot-ravn]

Slay

[dot-ravn]

“I’ll post something next week”

*disappears for almost another month*

FUCK

Anyways, I’m working on stuff rn so take this kinda filler post of art from a few months ago. I’m working on a piece for Tết (even tho it’s late aaldklsv) and some portfolio work, so I’ll actually have stuff to post!!! So uh, yea Avery, whatcha workin on?

[stardust-devi]

an absolutely insane way to end this year 

[smallpwbbles]

Watching Puss in boots the last wish and then the frames start dropping

[dot-ravn]

*disappears for almost a year and changes username*

*comes back suddenly as if nothing happened*

I write an entire essay about why I was gone on ig but tbh I have no excuse other than school and college apps are tough and life is not pulling back with its punches. As for the username change? Tbh I just didn't like my old one and this is an easier user :')

ANYWAYS!!! HAPPY LATE HOLIDAYS? IDK THEY HAVENT STARTED FOR ME HAHA (I'm Asian, so I don't celebrate anything until Tet) I offer you a piece anyways that I was doing amidst college supplements and honestly forgetting Christmas and New Years existed. So yea :) I love her hehe

[vulcan-moon]

hey, been a while. anyway, here's garfield and hatsune miku being besties (:

[maarple]

keep popularising the body neutrality movement gang i wanna see how the makeup and weight loss industries try to capitalise on 'i literally do not give two shits about how i look'

[remnri]

[dot-ravn]

Happy (late) Pride Month gays! I am,,, so swamped with work,,,,

Anyways here's more ocs! Just a bunch of mostly Ren doodles and Avery bc he's too pretty not to draw

[iguanodont]

Throwback Thursday: a helpful chart describing the major behaviors of dragons I made when I was 7

[ratingpostsbasedonhowmanydragons]

10/10 this rules

[flanneldragon]

[i-will-help-you-swim]

Reblog if you think asexuality is a legitimate sexuality.

I’m trying to prove something.

[cmoon-rabbit4-blog]

Reblog if your blog is a safe place for asexuals.

[dot-ravn]

I approve as an asexual

[princeofmints]

have you ever thought about making tutorials? maybe even small step by step videos or such? the way you draw hands is so funky i love it 😍😍

thank you !!! honestly my art style is not. dependent on steps very much outside of "do sketch then line then colour" but i can give you the gist of how i've developed drawing hands !!

aside from studying/looking at your own hands or the hands of a model the way i shape and draw them is entirely just a weird memory game. step 1 is learn how the different shapes ~go~ and what hand shape you think a character would have. these are not the only three options it's really more of a weird scale for me

as you can see here i didn't even stick to the shape guide i set for myself.

after finding style and shape i literally just. have memorized ways that i draw different/each finger position n the different angles. i tend to omit the topmost knuckle but i find it's only in rare cases that i really need it (ie. the pose is dependent on the hand position being very refined)

i find once you have like... a way of drawing fingers bent in different ways at different angles it kind of just becomes like a mental mr potato head of sticking on the right shape to vague-hand-square/circle

bonus: hand drafts from a rig i was working on

n of course my favourite thing is just... simplifying the shapes to hell n back. sometimes you don't need to define the space between each finger that isn't important

just get the mass there maybe with some shading to spice it up n define the shapes/angles further and BAM ur golden

at the end of the day what i always tell myself is to just go in confidently and pretend i know what i'm doing- like yeah i have a vague idea. but the thing is. everyone else only has a vague idea too- with art in general but like especially hands. just embrace the learning curve and eventually you're gonna go from Faking it to actually just straight up Making it and no ones gonna call u out on weirdly drawn hands bc no one knows what they're doing.

ps.i prepped all these images and my brain thoughts before i came back n read this ask again n realized u were not necessarily directly asking for a hand tutorial... oops <3

BUT TY ILYYYY

honestly i have thought abt doing mini tutorial videos before outside of the general speedpaints i used to do it's just a matter of sitting down n doing them.

[f-ai-n]

Main Team(s) Cuddle pile!

(Found Family dynamic) I just want them to sleep on each other :) My current teapot has 3 beds combined into one for maximum surface to cuddle. I wish Genshin has futon tho ngl

[dot-ravn]

I drew from reference :000 I don't do this a lot, but I wanted to get better at painting and lighting :) it turned out pretty decent, but I could have been more expressive with the face. I... I have no idea where the reference image came from I found it while scrolling through Pinterest :sobbing:

[dot-ravn]

Part of a failed lighting series that I did, which I didn't finish, but I liked this one the most so I'm posting this :')

I think this is the second thing about my ocs on here??? ANYWAYS THIS IS REN HAHA

You're probably gonna see more of him soon, since I do draw him a lot. He's... such a mess, but I love him nonetheless and he's also one of my oldest ocs that I've still kept around?? Like 4-5 years wow

Before anyone says he looks like Kaeya, I've got enough people who said that and it's really disheartening to hear that from people about someone that I put so much effort into for literal years before the webcomic even came out (Genshin's manhua launched a year or so before the game). He's kinda mostly stayed the same design-wise, too.

Sorry for the little rant, but gah! I hope you enjoy this kind of attempt at overcast lighting?