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Ladies and Gentleman, he’s done. Fintan says “hello”

#Fintan #demigod oc #this man stole all his mother’s genes #he’s quite handsome and knows it #he’s also one of Dune’s older brothers #and one of Inaros’ younger siblings #and wait there’s more #this family is huge #oc artwork #original character #oc #oc art #drawing #illustration #digital art #my art #art #lildrawingapple #🍎

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My advice to every artist (and honestly, everyone, but it’s especially relevant if you want to make art yourself) is to learn to appreciate everything other people make. Especially things you don’t like! Look at weird, ugly, bad art, with clashing colors and weird proportions and botched perspective and tropey subjects. Look at things made by amateurs an hobbyists and children, with shaky lines and incomprehensible detail. Look at everything you might find cringe or unpleasant - look at furries and gore and fetish porn and all the niche fandom crossovers. Look at art from cultures you don’t know well, look at things made hundreds of years ago, look at paintings from art movements you don’t know or don’t like at the museum. Look at photography and sculptures and fashion shows and murals on buildings and the design of everyday objects like chairs or lampposts or cars. Look at animation and comics and advertising, even the design on your cereal box.

And each time you look, try to find one thing you can appreciate about it. It’s fine if you don’t enjoy the art, but try to find something in it that has value, something you can respect about it, something that moves the world. It can be mastery of a technique, it can be the emotion conveyed, the thought it provoked, it can be color choice, composition, originality, or it can simply be the act of creation itself. Even in art that makes you uncomfortable, art that you find disgusting or bland or vile or ugly or just lame. You need to learn to see it. It’s ALWAYS there. Really look for it. Because you can learn from every single one of these things. Ask yourself why the artist made this, why they made it in this way. Wonder what someone other than you might see that you don’t see, if it has a meaning you just can’t grasp.

You will learn about the value of art, what it means to create, what it means to be human. If you can appreciate those things, it’ll reflect in how you make your own art. Not only will it deepen your relationship to art as a whole, but it’ll allow you to jump past the initial instinct to look away and give you the opportunity to notice techniques and patterns that you maybe wouldn’t have thought to use otherwise! You can learn from the masters, but you can also learn from everyone else. Learn to see the soul in art! I promise it’s worth it.

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Great tags on this one so far, you guys GET IT!!

Sometimes I forget I can post little teasers of unfinished work :)

#I have to render this and I’m scared #but that’s lowkey future me’s problem #current wip #art wip #wip #boob window #Fintan #oc #oc art #drawing #sketch #illustration #my art #digital art #art #ipad art #lildrawingapple #🍎

Some whiteboard drawings from last year ~

#I miss drawing on whiteboards #it was an integral part of my happiness #drawing #sketch #sketches #illustration #portraits #expo marker #whiteboard art #traditional art #animal art #my art #art #lildrawingapple #🍎

Sketch Dump from my mini composition notebook

#sketch dump #sketchbook #sketches #sketch #drawing #art #my art #animal art #hand reveal 👀#lildrawingapple #🍎

“My men have scars to tell of their battles and victories, I have their songs and praises to tell of mine.” - Inaros

Here’s another one of my OC’s a war general named Inaros. Though he doesn’t have any obvious past injuries due to the divinity he inherited from his mother, he is a skilled warrior and an even better leader.