Art Stuff

Just some art that I’ve made, nothing much, but I had fun making it so I figured you guys should see it too (Byrd)(he/they)

[drawing-prompt-s]

Draw some mobility device representation!

[cactusringed]

But seriously though. Learning to draw fat people will make you a much better artist. Understanding how skin and fat behaves and folds in certain poses, and being able to adapt complex poses to fit a fat body (as usually references are with thin models) will help you TREMENDOUSLY. Drawing fat being properly affected by gravity will aid you in ALL figure drawing in the future. Like if you have any sort of interest in drawing humanoid figures (AND furries) you really ought to learn how to draw fat of all kind.

[mayakern]

I started inking my grape sketch. Actually, that’s a lie; I’d already inked it and started painting it (2nd image), and I absolutely hated what I was making, so I started over. I’d tried to be lazy and save time by reusing the same leaf over and over. It just looked stiff, awkward, and bad. I hated the style I was painting in.

Now that I’ve started over, I’m liking it a lot more!

[mayakern]

not even joking this is great art advice. it can feel frustrating in the moment but starting over can sometimes result in the best work you’ve ever made

tho personally instead of deleting my art i prefer to duplicate the file to keep a version of what i didn’t like just in case i end up liking it later

[incorrect-anatomy]

Felt like drawing some mushrooms on a log and so I drew some!

[tsulasgi]

Ppl can talk about indigo all they want but turquoise is such a difficult color to get right unless you already have a pre-made

[why-are-you-asking-me]

WHY ARE WATERCOLORS SO EXPENSIVE RAAAA

[thickness-protection-program]

My art hot take is hyperrealism haters and modern art haters are two sides of the same spectrum. On one end you have "why draw that when you can just take a photo" and on the other you have "anybody can make that" and I'm in the middle just here to enjoy well made art regardless of the process

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Kin to Ophelia

A piece I made on the suggestion of my therapist to reflect on the shape of my passive suocidality

[elisecairo]

[katherynefromphilly]

As someone who was alive when Bob Ross (and William Alexander before him — that’s where the approach is from) was on PBS, I can 100% testify that you can paint along with him.

You may need to learn how to set up your paints and such… but this is what people did, live, while the show aired. That’s what the show was for. I had family members create lovely works of art they enjoyed, which I still have on my walls, because William Alexander and Bob Ross both said:

SCREW METICULOUS CLASSICAL ART PRACTICES — JUST GRAB A PALETTE KNIFE AND BIG OLD BRUSH AND PAINT!

They freed a whole generation of people who were taught to paint detail and realism and exact representation of reality — people who largely gave up this kind of thing because it got tedious.

I watched the joy of family members as they rediscovered art as a messy fun spontaneous half hour activity.

Give it a try.

[crookedtines]

Finally bought some dye and have been having so much fun with optical color mixing. I decided to start with cmyk primaries to get some vibrant color options.

So far I've only mixed up the main batch of colors, but I'll split them up and create a palatte of tints and shades once I have access to a scale again.

I don't have any fancy tools and have been blending the fiber by hand, so it's probably best I have a forced break for the sake of my fingers. Once I'm done I should have a very useful set of 57 2g swatches to play with! (Plus 5 more for a set of grayscale swatches)

If I'm still up for it, I might repeat the whole thing with my classic red, yellow, blue primary dye set. For a truly massive set of heather swatches.

[crookedtines]

I'll create a comprehensive guide to all the color mixes and my process once I'm done, but in the meantime here's a mixing guide for the colors I've already done!

The ratios are presented in the same order as the wool swatches in the photo above it. I didn't simplify any of the ratios so you'll have to deal with 2:2s instead of 1:1s, oops.

For anyone curious, I used brilliant yellow, deep magenta, and caribbean blue from Dharma dyes on their corriedale wool for my base colors.

[crookedtines]

Finally finished weighing out and blending all the tints and shades! Each color got a swatch mixed with 50% white, and 50% black.

Plus some pure black and white mixes to compare to my cyan/magenta/yellow midtone gray tint and shade.

I really like the oil slick quality of the color based grays!

[incorrect-anatomy]

It's been a minute, but ive been back on my bullshit and made another furby spread with some more amazing furbies!!!!

Furbies featured were posted by: @gremlin-does-art @foggyshamblerhideout @superdeadkidz @sylvs-furbs @tapwaterenthusiast and @fishandferbfriend

[tapwaterenthusiast]

Honda Civic 🥰

This is Honda Civic. He's a furby of the Nightwalker Long Stabby Leg breed. He just sort of crawled out of the woods one day and entered my home. He seems nice. But be warned fellow furby keepers, Nightwalker Long Stabby Legs can be very aggressive...

They creep around at night, their long legs looking like branches or twigs, and stab their prey (Usually a Worm on a string, or regular furby) to death with their sharp feet...

Only experienced furby keepers should try fostering these creatures due to their unpredictable and eratic nature. This one seems pretty chill though 🥰

Side angle! 😊

Where he found me 😱

Honda Civic getting aggressive with a knife...

[incorrect-anatomy]

Honda Civic is one of the most delightful creatures that I have ever laid my eyes upon

[superdeadkidz]

🏒materwelon

[incorrect-anatomy]

Very frustrated that my markers don't have quite the right shade of pink but honestly with some saturation boosting on the photo I think I've gotten pretty close! Absolutely in love with this furb

[fishandferbfriend]

Princess Quasi Star has been finished! She rules her new subjects with grace and wonder

[incorrect-anatomy]

Hello madam princess I hope that you dont mind that I drew your portrait of your gloriousness

[sylvs-furbs]

A Wild Chikorita Appeared!

This adorable chikorita furby was my latest commission! I have been a pokemon fan for a long time so this one was so much fun to work on! It also has me thinking that I want to make a furby based on my favorite pokemon drifloon!

[incorrect-anatomy]

The big leaf was so plush and lovely I just had to draw it!!!

[foggyshamblerhideout]

One of her feet is bigger than the other one. She stepped on a bee and the swelling is yet to go down. I made her chug liquid Benadryl, so she should be alright. Makes me feel like a bad furby parent.

[incorrect-anatomy]

Her glasses are so iconic!! I just had to draw her!!

[gremlin-does-art]

Meet my cursed furby child blerp

[incorrect-anatomy]

What a delightful little worm creature!!!