too much canvas

not enough time...

[gottasketchfast]

Haha looking back at my old art makes me want to throw up. I have been gone far too long I fear.

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Tanamil Sketch

It is important to understand that he is an art nouveau woman to me.

(Also I hate drawing hands. Suffering and suffering only to realize one is conspicuously bigger than the other, but it's too late. If you erase and start over you will lose it.)

[gottasketchfast]

Pre-Wilton Leslie Piper!

I don't think I got his face shape quite as I imagined, but I am proud of the grin (I had no idea I could have such a tricky time drawing a smile)

[gottasketchfast]

Thomas Lynn Margin Sketch

(Idk about his glasses)

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MORE MARGIN SKETCHES!!

Charmed Life

[gottasketchfast]

Witch Week margin doodles

[frontmansdefender]

“How’s life?”

Me:

[puniper]

ethics of making AI images aside, I do find a bit amusing the kinds of sob stories and mental gymnastics people make up to pretend like drawing is this super technical skill with an impossibly high barrier of entry when its like one of the first hobbies toddlers pick up

suddenly a lot of people think they got the next Lord of the Rings in their head but they were never able to turn their stories into anything tangible because the evil elitist artists are hogging all the talent and skill and they need a bajilion years of training or something as if one of the most popular manga and anime of the past decade wasn't made by a guy that draws like this

[chic-a-gigot]

L'Art et la mode, no. 8, vol. 25, 20 février 1904, Paris. Initial letter. Bibliothèque nationale de France

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L'Art et la mode, no. 8, vol. 22, 23 février 1901, Paris. Initial letter. Bibliothèque nationale de France

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L'Art et la mode, no. 8, vol. 22, 23 février 1901, Paris. Initial letter. Bibliothèque nationale de France

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L'Art et la mode, no. 8, vol. 22, 23 février 1901, Paris. Initial letter. Bibliothèque nationale de France

[belovedapollo]

quiet life these days 🌾 reblog is ok, don’t repost/use

[derovalfnolem]

[rocatex-deactivated20260317]

this feels like dragging around a mummified corpse thats dressed as a clown

[leebrontide]

I want to tell a story to the artists and would-be artists out there.

When I was 19, I made a large oil painting of the nerd I would eventually marry. I poured all my attention and care into this painting. It's the only art I have from back then that still holds up as a work I'm proud of today.

I entered it into a judged show at the local art center. It got an honorable mention. I went to see the show with my beloved model. One of the judges came up to talk to me, and highlighted that all the judges really liked the painting. It would have placed, except, you see, the feet were incorrect. They were too wide and short, and if I just studied a bit more anatomy-

I called over my future wife, and asked her to take off her shoe. Being already very used to humoring me, she did. The judge looked at her very short, very wide little foot. Exactly as I'd lovingly rendered it. I would never edit her appearance in any way.

The judge looked me in the eye, and to his credit, he really looked like he meant it when he said "Oh I'm so sorry."

Anyways the moral of the story is that all of those anatomy books that teach you proportions are either showing you averages, or a very specific idea of an idealized body. Actual bodies are much more varied than that.

So don't forget to draw from observation, and remember that humans aren't mass produced mannequins. Delight in our variation. Because it's supposed to be there.

[chic-a-gigot]

L'Art et la mode, no. 3, vol. 22, 19 janvier 1901, Paris. Initial letter. Bibliothèque nationale de France

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L'Art et la mode, no. 3, vol. 22, 19 janvier 1901, Paris. Initial letter. Bibliothèque nationale de France