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PSA: Discord Chat
If you’re looking to join a group of artists and writers to give or receive critique on work, get support with art related issues, or just want to find more artists friends to hang out with, feel free to join the Art & Sterf Discord Chat!
Follow the link to join!
NB: The link will expire in 6 hours so that we don’t have an overload of too many new people at once, but new links will be released in future if you happen to have missed this one.
- Admin Pasta
DISCORD!
We have one! Ask for it! :D
Art Therapy: Reference list
Sometimes, the solution to your problem just won’t come into your head, yet your thoughts are spinning at a 100 kilometers an hour, and you feel like your brain is going to explode.It’s times like this that you could do with trying some ’art therapy’. At its most basic, the only preparation you need to carry out for this is to grab a pencil and a sheet of paper. Then, just start drawing. It doesn’t even matter what you draw. Within a certain amount of time, your thoughts will become more harmonious and you’ll calm down.
To help you get started, here’s what to do if you’re feeling…
Tired: draw flowers
Angry: draw lines
In pain: build a model
Bored: color in a sheet of paper in various colors
Sad: paint a rainbow
Scared: knit something
Worried: make a doll
Indignant: tear a piece of paper into small pieces and arrange it into a pattern
Anxious: do some origami
Tense: draw patterns
Nostalgic: draw a maze
Disappointed: copy a portrait or painting
In despair: draw your way out
Confused: draw an Indian mandala
That you need to restore your strength: make a landscape painting
That you can’t make sense of your feelings: paint a self-portrait
That you need to remember this moment: draw some colored patterns
That you need to put your thoughts in order: draw honeycombs or squares
That you need to take the time to make the right choice: draw waves and circles
That you’re stuck in a rut: draw spirals
That you need to make sense of your most important goal: draw target symbols.
JANUARY IS STILL BORING, LET’S DRAW MORE COMICS!!
In 2014 @noordzee, @internetkatze, and @pigeony decided to start a chill little comics challenge because it looked like our Januarys were gonna be quiet. A lot of people seemed to agree, and it became a fun little event with a lot of participants! SO while it’s a little short notice, WE ARE INVITING YOU ALL TO JOIN IN AGAIN/FOR THE FIRST TIME!!
The gist of JCM: Write and draw a 15-page comic, all within the month of January! There are no rules or prizes, just people havin fun makin comics. Wanna use color? GO AHEAD! Wanna collaborate? GO BE COMIC BROS! Wanna make way more than 15, or worried you can’t milk 15 pages out of a story? NO MATTER! 15 pages was chosen as a not-too-scary goal, you can decide to do however many you like. This is a chill comics challenge! No worries, man, just comics.
This year let’s post progress shots, character sheets, finished pages, etc to the tag #January Comics Month. This blog will be a central location where we’ll post tips and tutorials and other cool stuff, and you can ask the mods questions about the event. We hope you join in! GOOD LUCK!!
I wish I was one of those people who could just draw a million things daily. Like, how do people do that??
I draw a small sketch and I’m done for the rest of the week and I wanna sleep for 10,000 years. It’s so rare I go on a drawing binge.
HOW DO YOU NERDS DO IT??
You start small. Daily. You doodle daily. Literally ‘doodle daily’.
Not ‘make a masterpiece daily’ or even ‘finish a sketch a day’ daily. Just literally train your brain to want a stylus in your hand for 5-10 minutes a day. Doodle lines, doodle eyes, doodle bullshit poop emojis or watch speedpaints and trace over the screenshots or doodle tongues or teeth or full bodies or whatever. Anything that is literally a painless doodle.
It takes about two weeks for you to start feeling the effects of it, but it works. And the more you keep at it, the faster it is to lunge into it.
I also name every canvas I draw on the current date, that way I am constantly looking at whether or not I really AM drawing every day. After a while, you start ‘affording’ yourself days, because you find yourself wanting to doodle more and more daily, so you wind up doing 5 sketches one day and pretty much affording a week of art block because you did all that in one day.
This was the first New Years resolution I made in 2013 and stuck to because I was sick of the whole ‘drawing one doodle every 2-3 months’ and I wanted to do something with my art. It is still to this day the best thing I ever took the time out of my year to do. I don’t draw daily now, but when I get back into the drawing gig, I can binge on it like crazy for 2 weeks before going on another rest. Trust me. It is SUPER WORTH IT.
This is my current 2015 year, and these are only the raw files of finished pieces I’ve done, or pieces I never plan on working on again. I have a separate folder for WIPs, and the folders I listed above are exclusively for pieces I made a final copy of to post online/give to a client/sell/print/whatever. I tend to keep a month’s worth of WIPs in the WIP folder solely to give me motivation to try and finish as many as I can, and also to keep my momentum up when I feel like I’m not doing enough.
Nothing makes me happier knowing I can actually fill out one of those fucking ‘A picture a month’ memes that goes around every year now. It is so worth it.
Start small. Start today. Start NOW.
An open call to action to ALL artists everywhere!
Announcing WORLD ART DROP DAY on September 2nd
All artists, (that means students and professionals, painters and cartoonists, sculptors and illustrators, animators and fine artists, EVERYONE who creates) this September 2nd is World Art Drop Day. Wherever you find yourself that day, drop a piece of your art and tell someone where to find it. The world needs this right now. We need to feel a little more connection to each other and there’s nothing like the bond two random strangers can make through the act of creating and giving.
I recently just finished a cross-country art drop this summer and it was exhilarating. The emails and responses I received from the finders ran the gamut of funny to touching. I want that for everyone!
Here’s how it works:
Draw a picture and hide it somewhere.
Take a photo of either the art or the hiding spot or a combination of both.
Post the image, the city you dropped it in, and a hint on any social media of your choice. Be sure to included the hashtag: #artdropday
Then move on, hoping someone finds it. OR hang around and meet your new friend.
That’s it!
I need your help spreading the word on this. Reblog it, retweet it, facebook it, or even tell someone in person!
September 2nd, lets connect the whole planet with art!
art improvement checklist
this is a lot more of a memo for myself, but I have been asked a few times on dA about improving art. The process is different for everyone, but I hope this will be helpful for those who need it!
draw a lot, draw every day.
be mindful of the basics: anatomy, perspective, angle etc. there’s a lot of freedom in how you can vary these up, but they are very important in giving your art a realistic touch
try something new for every picture you draw. it could be a different pose, different bg, different angle etc. vary it up! don’t repeat what you’ve already done before
challenge yourself. even if something you want to draw looks beyond your skill level, try it anyways. look up references, edit a lot. if it doesn’t turn out well, that’s ok, this is yours to keep! it’s the learning that matters
details and cleanliness! these are personally what i think are very important in determining how polished a picture turns out.
look at your past works. it’s hard to spot mistakes when you first finish a picture. take note, and improve upon your next work!
practice with photo reference. again, there’s nothing wrong when you’re copying for practice. (just don’t post it saying it’s 100% you)
look at others’ works and learn from them. it’s fun to browse art anyhow
if you find that you’ve hit a block, take a break. sometimes it takes time to absorb what you’ve learned.
Before You Hate Your Art Or Stop Drawing
Remember that all those people you think are classic artists and amazing? Yeah a bunch of them did that same shit.
Monet shredded canvases because he didn’t want them shown. He claimed that it was better to show nothing than to show such “mediocre” work.
Gerhard Richter destroyed art that he made that, today, would have been worth hundreds of millions of euros.
Michelangelo made tens of thousands of drawings. We have about 600 left. Because he burned most of the rest.
This is prevalent among the people many of use would consider to be the best of us. Even people like Monet suffer from the idea that their work isn’t good enough or that their work doesn’t meet their expectations.
Do the work anyway. Bad art, art you hate, art you’re not satisfied with? It’s still art. It’s still worth making. And even if you hate it you DO get something out of it.
Trust me, I have gigabytes of sketches on my pc that are never going to see the light of day but they were worth doing.
Everything you do doesn’t have to be perfect. Statistically everything you do simply won’t be perfect.
That doesn’t mean it’s not worth making or that it’s not valuable.
WAE June 22, 2015 Product Redesign!
Take an item you love (or hate) and redesign it. Anything, from beds to bottles power tools to hair accessories. Rethink the box then put something in it! Take a walk in your kitchen or the super market.
Inspiration and tips under the break.
http://www.buzzfeed.com/danmeth/artisinal-re-branding-of-junk-food#.oa3plW8dY
http://www.lifehack.org/articles/lifestyle/these-20-redesigned-everyday-products-will-greatly-improve-your-life.html
Super helpful information. :)
DrawingDen Artists Improvement Challenge: Week 10
This week the aim is to draw a creature with wings which could be a human, fantasy creature, or a new kind of winged animal you've designed. Try and think outside the box for new materials wings could be made out of, it doesn't have to be realistic! Remember to check out the wings tag for inspiration and tutorials as well as the examples, I can’t wait to see what you come up with!
Example 1 | Example 2 | Example 3 | Example 4 | Example 5 | Example 6
Please tag your artwork under #ddchallenge and a winning artwork will be chosen to be showcased on the blog along with a link to your art blog or other account if desired.
Need more challenges in your life? Try these ones too! :D
Hands study. :3
WAE Haaands.
S.T.A.G.'s WAE Monday, June 15, 2015!
Welcome to week two of the new and improved WAEs! Don't worry you can still turn in your feet from last week. However, it got me thinking. We have had a lot of artists come and go over the year, so how about we get to know each other and draw at the same time. So this week's theme is “Meet The Artist.” Take a look at the specific tag. Take a look at how other artists tackled the template. Its pretty simple, you draw a self portrait in any style and medium you wish, then list a few likes and a few dislikes. Done! Simple as that! Break out those tablets, pens and pencils its time go get going!
As always, under the cut are some useful references/links etc.
Keep your pencils up and welcome to the herd!
~Ronyo Events Moderator
Hands WAE
anyone here that wants to trade artist cards? :D
outside of germany is a-okay too since i informed myself on how to stabilize them!
[ACEOs/ATCs] are miniature works of art about the same size as modern trading cards,baseball cards,or 2 1⁄2 by 3 1⁄2 inches (64 mm × 89 mm)
i only accept traditional originals (since this is what you’ll get from me!) if you’re new to this: on the backside you’ll have to write the number/name of the card (maybe the date) and also your artist name!
you can check out the cards i made here /tagged/atc
when sending them out you usually put them in ‘ultra pro sleeves’ or wrap them up in plastic or the like ! stabilize them with 2 postcards on the outside and you’re done and ready to go !
I’d say since it’s quite the effort so we should trade more than one card! 4 is the maximum i will do per person!
MY ARTIST TRADING CARD COLLECTION :
I LOVE EACH AND EVERY ONE OF THEM AND I STARE AT THEM CONSTANTLY ,thanks to all of the artists that swapped with me !!!
if you’re interested write me an ask or (even better ) fanmail !
S.T.A.G.’s WAE Monday, June 08, 2015
Because I'm an evil sadist, I'm going to start us on something I feel every artist says they have trouble on. Hands. Queue the evil laughing and the lighting, yesss YESSSSS! So to kick off the reboot I want to see hands, lots of hands, pages of hands, HANDS FALLING FROM THE SKY...ok maybe not from the sky but I do want to see a lot of hands. Man hands, girl hands, kid's hands, monster hands, old hands, broken hands, hairy hands, bulky hands, cartoon hands, realistic hands, hands hands and more hands.
Under the cut are some useful references/links etc.
Keep your pencils up and welcome to the herd.
~Ronyo Events Moderator.
