Lyn's Sketchblog @lynayru - Tumblr Blog

Hi I'm Lyn, avid doodler of critters, dragons and other nonsense. Welcome to my sketchblog where you’ll find my attempts at art as well as sketches and doodles. Working on improving, thank you for stopping by! My Art tag.

Cara

SheezyArt

Bluesky

Ko-fi

inPRNT

#pinned post

I’m house/dog sitting right now and went on a super pretty hike today!

#hiking #forest #photos

iamyounicorn

[guy whose bedtime is approaching fast] I need to write one billion words right now. and draw everything that has ever existed.

I’m at home visiting family for the holidays and I stumbled across this old book my cousin had made for me when I was little. It’s about a unicorn taking me back in time to see dinosaurs haha. 🦖🦄

#reminders

Song of the day. Has got to be my favourite cover so far. 🤣

#music

coelasquid

Sometimes we’re unsatisfied with a thing we made because when it only existed in our head, we saw all the things it could have been and when it’s done we know all the things that it isn’t, but we can’t see the way it expands into a million new things when someone else unpacks it in their head.

Process Video of this piece.

I feel like this one is just a lot of me waffling around. Haha

#dragon #art #process video

This has been sitting in the wip folder for a while. Some things turned out and some didn’t. Hopefully I can take what I learned and apply to the next piece. Thought I’d post it anyway.

#art #dragon #artists on tumblr #digital art #my art #fantasy art

I don’t usually share wips of my 3D stuff online but here is something I’ve been slowly working on.

#art #creature art #avatar #avatar 2009 #avatar way of water #avatar fanart #ikran #mountain banshee #3dart #wip

shencomix

Art is a sport

One common thing I see among artists who are just starting out is that they are very precious about their work -- ironically, way moreso than experienced artists. They need to get every line JUST right, because in their mind, getting that line just right is what stands between the piece being bad and it being good. I was like that too, for so long that I'm still struggling to catch up because of how it hampered my progress.

Being precious about every line is kind of like a track sprinter starting a run, but then restarting every time their foot lands in any slightly suboptimal way. This is comes off as silly, because we know that the "unit" of what they are doing is a sprint, and that they would make their greatest progress by finishing the full sprints, because that's how they train.

Well, similarly, the "unit" of art is a finished piece. What stands between the sprinter and the time they want isn't 1 individual step, but 1000 sprints. What stands between the beginner artist and making art they like the look of isn't that 1 line, but, i'm sorry to say, 1000 pieces.

Taking note of any mistakes you made afterwards is something done by both the experienced artist and experienced sprinter -- this is healthy and helps you improve. But you can do that later, after you're done.

That line is good enough.