Art Stuff @finval - Tumblr Blog

Is there a place where you still post art? I've been really missing it.

im only on tumblr now, used to jump between the other platforms to try them out but tbh i think social media just isnt for me these days. still, here’s a link if y’all still interested

FINVAM YOU'RE BACK??? HOW WAS SASUKE RETSUDEN? I loved it so much novel is better cause not deleted scenes but the manga was soooo good. Miss you so much been a fan since your 2015 era.

I enjoyed it a lot! It made me super nostalgic lol. I was in a daze while reading it and was constantly asking myself “Is this real life? Am I actually reading a doujin? This is canon, with the stamp of approval from Kishimoto, the mangaka who famously seems to regard portraying his characters showing overt romantic interest in each other as akin to pulling out his toenails? That Kishi? Whaaaaaaaaaaaaaat?!?!?!?!?!?” And then I reread it again and it was real. 😭

…i read sasuke retsuden

Will you be updating/sharing links to your work whenever you post on Instagram?

I’ll be posting new artwork on my Instagram and sharing links to my Instagram artwork on Twitter. Hope this clears up any confusion.

Twitter

For those asking, my Twitter is @finvalion.

Moving to Instagram

Welp, after some thought I think I’m gonna start posting on Instagram instead of Tumblr because:

a) from my experience of it, Instagram’s reporting function actually fucking works and reposts do get taken down

b) as someone who works on and posts mostly from mobile devices, tumblr’s mobile app has gone down in quality over the years and every update seems to break its functionality even more and/or add useless shit I don’t want to see

c) the commenting system is still messy af (yea I read your guys’ comments, they give me life) I usually have to wind up checking comments, reblogs, and tags individually to see what people are saying. The fact that I need XKit (which I can only use on the desktop) to conveniently see them all in one place grinds my gears to no end

d) i’m a lazy fuck and don’t feel like managing any more social media accounts than I have to

I’ll still leave my old art on it but no more new content will be posted on it from now on. If you’d still like to follow me and my art, go to: https://www.instagram.com/finvalion/.

It’s been a good ride folks, thanks for following this dirty little blog while it was choo-chooing along.

is anybody able to report stuff?

it keeps telling me there’s an error right after everything’s filled out/captcha is done and when i close it it tells me it hasn’t been submitted yet.

obnubilant

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finval

this is the type of repost that makes me paranoid about posting my art online. even putting my URL on the art doesn’t help, people can crop it out all they want to.

take this down please, or at least have the decency to credit me. i’m tired of this shit

#Art Theft

feekins

Has this been done already or

finval

never hurts as a reminder

#Reblog

eyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy

#Naruto #Jiraiya #Digital Art

was looking through some of my old sketchbooks today, sometimes it’s good to take a look at your old art and see where you started at. i’m pretty embarrassed of my old art but it serves as a good reminder that progress, although slow, is not nonexistent and to keep on keeping on

#Meta #Art Improvement

Its totally unfair how amazing you are at your sketches and your work and detail is just phenomenal! How did you get to this point? I know you had to have practiced, but what kind of practice do you put in? I can only hope to be as good as you, but I’s love some pointers on how to get going on practicing and making myself better!

Thanks! Making me feel like hot shit yo haha

as for getting to this point, like u said, i got to this point by practice. started out by imitating my favorite artists/art styles and failing miserably at that, but it gave me the drive to keep on drawing at least. Most people that want to get into art start drawing for a bit but then quickly get discouraged and stop once they see how crappy their art looks. i was kind of a mix of “delusional about the quality of her art” and “turbo fangirl mode” so i never really hit that stage while i was starting out.

there really wasn’t a moment when it all clicked together and i started drawing better, more of a gradual realization that my process was all wrong and the steady course correcting that came after that. the best i can explain it is that I focused more on “how do I draw?” more than “how do I draw a person” or “how do I draw a dog?” or “how do I draw a house?”- using the same process for everything I draw instead of each little thing having its own process. Also, contrary to what most people think, art isn’t always powered by talent or inspiration handed down to you by your muse at the right place at the right time. it’s still a technical skill that has to be mastered. There are rules and problem solving involved and tons of hard work. you still gotta learn your fundamentals (color theory, design, anatomy, perspective, rendering, light, etc.) before you can fuck around with them.

for now id say just focus on what you like to draw and go from there. seek out pieces from your favorite artists/art styles and try to study what makes them appealing to you. is it the line art, coloring, style, composition, design etc you’re into? copy that. practice until you get it. it may seem like bad advice to take ideas (read: steal) from other artists but i bet those very artists would have done the same in your position or are still doing it to this day. one of my profs from art college said something that still sticks with me: the best artists out there steal all the time, they’ve just become good enough to cover up their tracks and make it into something that SEEMS original.

another tip would be to seek out resources on the internets like videos, painting tutorials, brush sets, palettes, pdfs, most of them can be had for free if you can find them. deviantart has a ton of downloadable stuff. conceptart.org has a lot of advice from working professionals. id even add try studying comics, TV shows or movies for composition, color, costuming etc etc as well. half of getting better at art is being able to observe the world around you and looking at your art with a critical eye. in art the big picture is still important but imo it’s the little details that can make a piece of art go from good to great and you learn to add those little details the more you observe things.

#Anonymous

Sasusaku doggystyle please when ever you have time 🙏🏻