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Clay/Fowl | 20s | he/they/rye ! furries, nature, whatever I feel like really ! blog theme is kinda messy but I don't feel like fixing it rn

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I am Clay or Fowl, and this is my art blog

i draw furries and stuff, posting here when i feel like it or remember to

i am an adult, so sometimes I post/reblog adult things

i like/follow from @foggypirates

my other links:

Clay Links 2024

Link hub

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another day another dog

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Stop looking at art tutorials and pick up an art book

I understand the appeal of tutorials. You want to learn something in a quick and easily accessible manner, have someone break it down step by step how they do something.

However, my problem with art tutorials since their inception but exarcebated with youtube, tiktok, instagram, etc. is how much that "accessibility" is in reality watering down and removing the nuance of the topic, repeating the same basic terminology and concepts and refusing to look deeper into things. How many times have you seen a color theory tutorial talk about the same terms (analogous, triad, pick contrasting colors, 60-30-10 rule) and come back feeling like you learned nothing new? Or a shading tutorial that went on about light source, what colors to use, etc.

This is why I'm telling you, the person reading this, that you need to let go of the art tutorial and start reading art books. Because the reason all this advice is the same is because they're all repeating from artists who learned from artists who learned from artists who learned from those books, and in the jump from interpretation to interpretation, actual explanations on why things happen and why certain phenomenons exists have been replaced by "do this" and "do that" and "don't do this".

Interested in that so called loomis method? Read loomis' books where he pioneers it. Curious on how colors and light work in a canvas? Most of that is sourced from James Gurney's Light and Color.

These books can look daunting, but you will learn a lot more by accepting their size and long explanations as they are, to go into the science of why things work this way, instead of looking at tutorials removed from their context and presented as random factoids.

And if you really want to look at something as its made, which I believe is the main appeal of art tutorials in video form, seek out speedpaints (not timelapses) and ask for recordings instead of tutorials from your favorite artist. See how they piece things together and try to understand why theyre doing what they do.

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random piggy warmup doodle

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her nefarious potion of frog

i didnt notice till now that i forgot the goggle strap, but i dont feel like fixing that rn so that error is gonna be there forever lolllllllll rip

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one of my dragonite ocs who went so far off cannon that she became a normal ass dragon instead lol

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hi, blue doggy

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『 CONVALESCENCE 🌤️🍃🌱 』 ─ ✧˖°

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one of these days this dragon will get a name, but today is not that day

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sprign has sprugn

cronch is back to pink and ready for spring now!!

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this site is infested with bots soooo badly

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bunpyre

sucikng the blood

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the awful mouse detective

he's a terrible detective who never does his work properly

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whisper's scars are always inconsistent but very prominent because of how frequently he gets injured and how alarmingly fast he regenerates.

near instant regeneration, but its gruesome and messy (and consumes tons of energy)

not neat and nearly seamless over a moderate period of time like a normal axolotl from this setting. (this is how herman has essentially invisible scars despite being cut open before.)

it's the cost of doing business

COMMENTS ON PIECE:

this did start as a front view top down fisheye perspective, but that didnt look how i wanted so i went with the back-up plan (pun intended)

all the drawings in this set of greyscales were done within a 24 hr timelimit (with 1 hr average worktime) and this one took the longest because of the fucking hair tie hand position. awfullllllllllll

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her vestigial wingsd

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kai refsheet soon i swear (has been saying this for sooo long)

since drawing this, the cast has expanded by 4 lmao rip me