Lyrak's Art Blog

Art blog so I have a place for my "lazy uploads" to hang out alongside more serious art. All original content posted here is mine unless otherwise stated. Reblogs welcome! Just please leave credit intact.

[lyrarts]

Buy Lyrak a Coffee. ko-fi.com/lyrak

Become a supporter of Lyrak today! ❤️ Ko-fi lets you support the creators you love with no fees on donations.

Like my art? Consider buying me a coffee!

[lyrarts]

Trying to make something. Anything.

[lyrarts]

I still see my fluffy little boy wherever I look.

[lyrarts]

For the last several years like clockwork every damn pride month I feel worse instead of better as the world seems like it's burning down around me and I feel less and less able to be myself offline.

I miss when shit felt hopeful.

I'm tired.

[lyrarts]

Continued coping through artwork.

I've had this little pencil case sitting around for ages intending to paint it. Finally got around to it.

[lyrarts]

Got the Krylon spray on to seal it. I forgot to prime the nozzle so it got a few globs on, but my partner pointed out it looks a bit like dust motes which Night loved to watch, so it works out in the end.

[lyrarts]

Couldn't quite get the highlights due to an overabundance of what I would consider "warm blues" in this watercolor set, but I am trying to at least sort of get myself painting again. Trying to just get shapes and let go of detail sometimes.

[lyrarts]

[lyrarts]

Continued coping through artwork.

I've had this little pencil case sitting around for ages intending to paint it. Finally got around to it.

[mistercrowbar]

I see all the cute hellspawn art with Astarion cuddling on top of Karlach but consider: she deserves to cuddle on top sometimes too

[lyrarts]

Toyed around with different brushes than usual, the result of which being I captured his color well, but I still think I like the sketch version better. Might retry coloring it later but… not tonight.

[doodlemancy]

hello fellow artists. google has fallen. pinterest/duckduckgo AI filters don't work. do not despair; here is a list i made of places to find reference images without having to sift through piles of worthless garbage. (for future editing convenience i am just linking my blog post on dreamwidth.)

✨ good places to find art reference that are not full of AI trash 🌈

[super-autism-death-ray]

reblogging for personal use

[theunsureartist]

ART REFERENCE NOT FULL OF AI?! YESSS

[fangirling-and-making-stuff]

THANK YOU

[lyrarts]

Finally finished this piece of Tenjin, one of my dragon characters for a still-in-planning-phases fic set in @authorjessowen's Silver Isles, several generations after the events of the current series (so I have room to sandbox it a bit).

Glad I got the shading on the white right on the first go because I PUT IT ON THE WRONG HECKIN LAYER.

[comixqueen]

Who remembers Windsonde? I'm relaunching it as a discord server that is open to all! Create a character and grow them through your medium of choice!

Check out the Windsonde community on Discord - hang out with 48 other members and enjoy free voice and text chat.

[lyrarts]

Because Tumblr is weird and won't let you upload more than one video per post.

[lyrarts]

Noodling around with all 5 filled fountain pens and watercolor paper tonight. There's a bit of shimmer lingering in the sun and trees.

Colors used include: Wearingeul Captain Hook, Lamy Amazonite, Diamine Bah Humbug, De Atramentis Velvet Black Gold, and whatever cartridge came with the Lamy (color looks like maybe a match for Bentoite?)

[kayfedewa]

Style test for The Blackblood Alliance 2026

[followthepaintbrush]

I'm a bit stuck and need suggestions

I received a sketch pad for Christmas ... it's ... unconventional to say the least

The pages are ...brown, not white

I dont know what to do with it, or what media to use

Help!

[soniabigcheese-deactivated20260]

Reblogging to main

[captaindibbzy]

So brown paper can take normal pencil, charcoal, things like that AND white. So it's a great medium for sketching cause you can do highlights. Oil pastels are another good option, or some kinds of paint (acrylic or goulash).

When I did some theatre work we'd prime our set background grey rather than white before whatever colour/pattern we needed cause it helps a wider range of colour stay true to their colour and not need so many coats.

[lyrarts]

Going to second the suggestion of charcoal and add chalk pastels/pastel pencils to that list:

Some high-pigment colored pencils work well on brown paper too. I think??? the second image there was a mix of pastel and very pigmented colored pencils but for whatever reason I don't have it written down anywhere (usually I put medium in my artist descriptions back when I still posted on DeviantArt but it's not there).