Hellooo hey narantaran👀👀 Gosh gosh gosh I have so many questions but I don wanna bother u. you’re literally the coolest artist I know and I admire your art more than u can ever imagine I’m a HUGE fan and I frickin love your ocs!!!
Pretty sure a bunch of people have already asked you this already but how did you practice art? All your designs are extremely creative and you’re style is super unique, how exactly did you build your style? Do you have any specific artists that you follow? Anything that helped you form it as you learnt how to draw? My main question is about where and how you learnt anatomy,character design and colour-picking, (or how u got your style/learnt to draw in general) since that’s what attracts me the most about your art.
I’d love to hear about it and I wish to be as good at drawing as u someday give me ur knowledge oh cool and enlightened narantaran
please DO "bother" me *itisnotabotherreallyyy*... keep asking stuff im entertained xD
aw eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeheeehehe thank you so much im glad to be in your mind.. i still have so much to learn x)
*here are my old characters that i still would like to give them use some day* for starters i used to draw like this:
i still like this artstyle.. it fit what i was drawing in the moment... these teen characters having fun... but i still wish i had made more art in these times... way more so i could have a lot of stuff to look at now because i didnt make that much art as i wish i had of my characters. i really wanted them to be famous and i did 3 little comics and i wish i had made more
so yeah i used to have this cartoonish style directly inspired by SPIROU! Im still a big fan of the spirou comics and wish to learn french one day!!
one day i found myself listening to mano negra *sidi h bibi* as i had found the song out of nowhere and seriously listen to this song!! something changed in me when i heard it i tell ya!!! SOMETHING CHANGED!!!! I LOVE MANO NEGRA!!!!!! MANO NEGRAAAAAA MANO NEGRAAAAAAAAAA MANU CHAOOOO
i pictured some beautiful scenery when i heard this song!!! so then i decided out of nowhere that i wanted to make cowboys. Never was i so interested about making something western related until now!! so...
i made these guys! chilly and viyone! this is a drawing from december 2023,, my second earliest drawing of them!! one thing i really liked about making characters was the kind of clothes they would wear so with these new cowboys and their story i decided i wanted to make something more fashionable... in a way... i want every character to look GOOD... explore how far i can take my designing skills... so yeah...
because obviously hirohiko araki has some INSANE stylistic choices that i wanted to learn about... *i havent read steel ball run yet...*
and then i watched a lot of movies!!! im still on my journey to keep watching movies!!! find more weird stuff that reminds me of my own story!!! i can mention to you some big movie inspirations like The Fall (2006), Zardoz (1974), Forbbiden Zone (1980) ANDDD the whole filmography of director Alejandro Jodorowsky hehe god i LOVE him and his art oh WOW the man is VERY VERY OLD now and im sad i wont get the chance to ever meet him... but yeah....
the book BLOOD MERIDIAN also got me very intrigued as a lot of visual descriptions of passersby in the book sound a lot like characters id make... i havent finished that book...
but the main inspiration *visually* for my art which revolves around my story has to be my city TIJUANA!!!! sadly but for the best i dont live there anymore, the moment i started making more cultural looking stuff i really wanted to grasp tijuanas cultural influence over me, i dont think i can explain it here but theres something about tijuana, this city sucks, it is not safe, that somehow makes it cool... theres a lot of diversity, a lot of surrealism, a lot of REALITY.... I dont even understand... but thats how my story feels like to me, and i wont say a word no more
did i even answer your questions :0 I got carried away blah blah blah lalalalalalaal
to make this post even more longer ill directly answer them here:
"how did you practice art?"
i am a visual learner everything i make is based on what i think looks nice and thats based on art ive seen, i just go with the flow with what i can do and if something doesnt look right i change it and if it still doesnt look right i kill myself
"how exactly did you build your style?
this one is what the post is about! hehe but i truly believe that like every person that creates in anyway i have something inside of me that has its own shape its own color and my job is to learn how to GET IT OUT EXACTLY THE WAY I WANT IT TO
"Do you have any specific artists that you follow?"
why is my mind blank sorry i wish i could think of some good answer hehe
"Anything that helped you form it as you learnt how to draw?"
"My main question is about where and how you learnt anatomy,character design and colour-picking"
i learned copying and studying other artists anatomy style... the artist "gunkyfrogs" on tiktok is who im talking about! i was hooked by how fluid their drawings were.. i think that helped a lot! IM NOT THAT GOOD AT ANATOMY HONESTLY HEHEHE NOT REALLY NOT REALLY THAT GOOD MAN and sometimes in a blue moon i practice drawing real human bodies
Colour picking comes just from inside my heart which is warm. I like warm colors. I actually like the yellow mexican filter people hate... i like it for my own reasons... thats why my drawings are yellow... and i just really like colors... i play with them until they are pleasure to my eyes...
I HOPE YOU LIKE THIS GODDAMN LONG POST! you made me think a lot now im tired hehe but its a pleasure to be able to speak this much to someone whos interested! toodles!