i like pickles (the food)

its me @ghost--synth but i do art :) i take reqs!!! please send asks lolz i should get an award for worlds most inconsistant artstyle (and posting) my blog seem abandoned?! i promise it isn't i just don't post regularly XD asks? requests? SEND THEM i will eventually get to them i promise!! no i did not use a base for the manner but i di use one as a ref for it

[ghost-synth-art]

I like your art, hope you’re having a good day. Also you take requests? Any rules I should know of

just characters I'd know (ocs are ok) + no ships that are proship/darkship etc, you know

(check out my main acc the pinned post has a list of fandoms im into if u wanna know like the stuff I could draw yeah)

thanks for the ask!! ^^

[succubusboyfriend]

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

[succubusboyfriend]

someone: oh yeah, do this exercise during your warm ups! it’ll help

me: my what

[suave-eddboy]

[thepioden]

What’s up I have an actual college degree in art and I was never ONCE taught to do warm ups.

[sparksel]

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! 

[concerningwolves]

[t-c-art-inspiration]

How on earth are you supposed to draw from a sholder? might as well tell me to draw from the foot. It makes no sense

[justpickupthatpen]

https://youtu.be/pMC0Cx3Uk84

https://youtu.be/NBE-RTFkXDk

:3

[stupidlittlesideblog]

Reblogging to save a wrist

[justpickupthatpen]

[briarbramble]

Hi I have a literal animation degree and I learned fucking ✨none✨ of this

[fishatthebottomofthesea]

[oobbbear]

The angel and devil on cross’ shoulder would probably be Dream And Kills, and ink, he’s in the middle, he just be telling cross random bullshit

[oobbbear]

Do you see my vision

[maimaitheartist]

DO YOU WANT TO BE MUTULS!! I love your art!!!!!!!!!!! my art blog is @ravensarts36 sgjklhgjlsa ok bye!

SURE! I WOULD LOVE TO!🤗💗

Thank you for liking my art!💗💜

Okay I understand! Hehe see ya! ^^

[viveela]

Can't wait to see my little guy again

[skinny-dipping-sasquatch]

Reblog daily for health and prosperity.

[ghost-synth-art]

krusie height difference is EVERYTHING to me. cant even see kris's face

The Girl eating chalk btw

also I did this with like my computer touchpad bc my stuff broke :( which is also why I havant been posting art much :/

measuring from the top of kris's hair is,, generous

[fishatthebottomofthesea]

One of ma favorite drawings @ravensarts36 has made me

[ghost-synth-art]

doodle (inconsistent designs? me? never)

[ghost-synth-art]

You see what I mean right

butcher belongs to @strwbrsncrm

[squeakitties]

how it feels to challenge yourself to an exceptionally difficult drawing and it turns out fucking awesome

[ghost-synth-art]

More eye strain because I said so (it’s really old)

[herssian]

online numbers can really fuck you up when it comes to your creative work because you're sharing something you worked on with all your heart but it's very important to remember there's actual people behind those numbers. even if it's 1. that's one whole actual person. that's a human being who said "haha nice". that's a connection with a REAL person with a REAL life and REAL thoughts and feelings and experiences. like. damn. that should mean something

[ghost-synth-art]

I miss them

[ghost-synth-art]

Doodle sheet…… uhhhhh I have no excuses

[ghost-synth-art]

Do you do yumeships or characters that dont have human bodies?

I do!! It might take me a little more time to get the anatomy right for a specific request but I’m.l will try my best to get it right haha

TLDR yes but it might take a bit longer for me to finish the req

thanks for the ask!!