reminder to submit your art to tumblr radar it's like a free blaze + they will usually accept it
link to submit if you're not sure how:
Wait submitting your stuff to the radar is a thing???? All these years I assumed it was chosen by staff only :O
i don't do bad sauce passes
wallacepolsom
will byers stan first human second
"I'm Dorothy Gale from Kansas"
let's talk about Bridgerton tea, my ask is open
trying on a metaphor
AnasAbdin
Keni

Product Placement

shark vs the universe
Peter Solarz
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cherry valley forever
Cosimo Galluzzi
he wasn't even looking at me and he found me
Jules of Nature

blake kathryn

titsay
Monterey Bay Aquarium
we're not kids anymore.

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reminder to submit your art to tumblr radar it's like a free blaze + they will usually accept it
link to submit if you're not sure how:
Wait submitting your stuff to the radar is a thing???? All these years I assumed it was chosen by staff only :O
...that your audience won't hate.
This is a method I started using when NFTs were on the rise - thieves would have to put actual work into getting rid of the mark - and one that I am now grateful for with the arrival of AI. Why? Because anyone who tries to train an AI on my work will end up with random, disruptive color blobs.
I can't say for sure it'll stop theft entirely, but it WILL make your images annoying for databases to incorporate, and add an extra layer of inconvenience for thieves. So as far as I'm concerned, that's a win/win.
I'll be showing the steps in CSP, but it should all be pretty easy to replicate in Photoshop.
Now: let's use the above image as our new signature file. I set mine to be 2500 x 1000 pixels when I'm just starting out.
Jotaro Kujo - Winter 2021
I felt that the foil piece my cousin asked for wasn’t enough. So I had asked him for another favorite character of his. He told me Jotaro and I began. The background is inspired by Star Platinum to give a pop of color to the piece as well.
Joshua Graham- Winter 2021
This here is the line-art for a foil piece paired with the quote of the character that one of my cousins asked me for for Christmas this past 2021 holiday. So here we have Joshua Graham from Fallout: New Vegas.
Art Improvement
2014 2021
I was looking back at old art and realized I’d ended up using the same photo reference recently as I worked on one of my favorite fanart pieces.
Once I found my art from 2014 I was shocked to see how much my art has improved. I knew my art had improved over the years but to have an a piece to be able to more accurately compare my current art to truly put it into perspective. Granted, one was on a sketch book and one was on a cardboard box/tape that I painted matte white acrylic over, but still.
Side note: sorry for the old art tag sticker on the art, I haven’t added my new one to my phone yet so I was working with what I had.
inktober is trending once again this year so just a heads up for anyone unaware: please do NOT support Jake Parker (creator of inktober) and do not use the official inktober prompt list!
Jake Parker plagiarised the work of black artist Alphonso Dunn without any sort of credit whatsoever
you can still do a drawing challenge, just don’t use the official inktober prompts! also avoid using the name inktober too as it is still associated with him
drawtober, goretober, OCtober, etc are all totally fine, just please don’t support inktober
please reblog to help spread the word!
(and please do NOT send hate to artists participating in inktober - they most likely have no idea about this, so please just politely inform them if they’re unaware, ty!)
Art Style
Y’all, let me tell you the realization I’ve just had at 11:16pm this adequate July 19th of 2020. I have spent the last like 8 years thinking that I didn’t have an art style and then it hit me my art style is the kind of semi realism I do. It just hit me that whenever I go to draw, especially when working with human shaped subjects, I always end up drawing them in this kind of style and have the last 6 years of my life.
In summary: It took me 6 years to realize my own art style. If I’m not trying to replicate a specific style, my style is, at base level, semi realism.
Kass for Christmas
My cousin’s favorite character from Breath of the Wild is Kass, I drew his name this year so to add to the gifts that I’ll be sending his way, I decided to paint a semi-realistic Kass for him.
Welcome to art version of the League of Villains Band au fanfic I’ve been fleshing out since January.
Lineart for a Sugawara foil print!
Posted this on twitter already but uhhh here we go again
PSA to Inktober Artists:
As of August 27th, 2020, it was revealed that Jake Parker (the creator of inktober) had plagiarized the work of black artist Alphonso Dunn in Parker’s upcoming book ‘Inktober All Year Long’.
Alphonso’s video breakdown of the similarities
Proof Jake Parker was aware of Dunn’s work beforehand (01-21-20)
Parker’s publisher puts his book on hold (08-28-20)
DeviantArt suspends their Inktober Awards (08-28-20)
Alphonso Dunn’s book: Pen & Ink Drawing
2020 Inktober alternatives:
Drawtober (6 prompts for 31 days), OC tober (Original Characters), goretober, kinktober, witchtober, drawlloween (spooky), sketchtober (pencil sketches), Dungeons & Inkwells (dnd), whumptober
Have some Dabi.
Kankuro: I'm donating my body to science
Gaara: Okay but don't come crying to me when they donate you to Goodwill
Just gonna leave this here.
I had a lot of fun with this one by using the bottom two shelves to reference the six other drawings I’ve done of Shadow’s prompts plus the bonus of drawing Haku’s mask. (Three references per shelf)
And let’s not forget the usual of sending my best friend various stages of the process.
So I drew Dabi.
This here is the coloring process I went through. I also wanted to draw focus to his chest being shown because we know that that boy is lean enough and most likely sick enough from his quirk running him ragged with the intense blue flames that his ribs are on the verge of or are showing.
I also want to note that most of the flowers have specific meanings behind them. The Queen Anne’s Lace means haven or sanctuary, which I believe the League became for Dabi. The Anemone means fading hope and a feeling of being forsaken, which I believe falls in line with Dabi’s thoughts on a hero centric society. The Yellow Carnation mean rejection and disdain which again, I believe falls in line with his ideology from Stain about a hero centric society. The Dahlia means standing strong in one’s sacred values, which I believe can represent Dabi’s desire to eliminate the hero centric society.
As I often do, here is my commentary I send to my best friend as I work on my art.
Shino: We need a distraction. Kiba?
Kiba: *Putting on fur suit head* On it
Just gonna leave this here, as I often do late at night.
Shikaku: So Shikamaru went missing for two days but then I found him in a playground passed out and handcuffed to the monkey bars with a tattoo shaped like a pair of sunglasses on his thigh, but I found him so I'm a good dad.
Inoichi: But a good dad probably wouldn't have let his kid gone missing for-
Shikaku: I'M A GOOD DAD!
Just gonna leave these here, as per usual
Gaara: *Jumps from one emotion to the next* Parkour
I am once again just gonna leave this here.