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main blog : @smallandknowingdyke

commission info : rn it’s fast and loose and pwyw ( pay what you want ). any kofi donations will get you something! just keep in mind that effort and time will reflect the amount spent, leave your social media handle and your request and i’ll get to it as soon as i can! <3 (standard commission rules apply, no nasty shit, etc) absolutely feel free to dm me or shoot me an ask if you have questions

about the artist : alex, 26, she/they, self taught graphic designer and freelance artist working as a caregiver in california! i’m a lesbian who’s really into the mechanisms, the magnus archives, grishaverse, and darkest minds books at the moment :)

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yyshcul

could you please do a tutorial on how you do your risograph style drawings? they look so cool 😭😭

lureofthesea

Source: yyschul

trans rights are human rights, protect the dolls

redbubble

#protect the dolls #protect trans lives #trans pride #transisbeautiful #trans #transfemme #transgender #trans positivity #trans joy #photography edit #cute #findyourthing

pumpkster-deactivated20250205

ayo i found 2 pages with head angles of humans and animals, could be useful to anyone reading this

hoomans

animals

netheritenugget

Holy FUCK, this is an amazing tool.

scrabbleknight

Reblogging for my artist fellows.

i-imade-a-thing

Reblog this!

darrencalvert

People often say to me: “You draw like some kind of inhuman machine. If I eat your brain, will I gain your power?” The answer is yes, but there is another way. The key to precise drawing is building up muscle memory so that your arm/hand/fingers do the things you want them to do when you want them to do them. Teaching yourself to draw a straight line or to make sweet curves is just a matter of practice and there are some exercises you can do to help improve. If you’re going to be doodling in class or during meetings anyway, why not put that time to good use?

lycanboots

This is so important to mention to all artists. The reason PRACTISE improves drawing ability over time is it increases the literal, technical movement in your hands and arms through /muscle memory/.

gorillaprutt

THIS IS VERY GOOD, to all the people that like my lines. I do similar but less constructed doodles like these in my sketchbook all the time, it basically just teaches your hand how to move

midwinterhunt

hot artists don't gatekeep

I've been resource gathering for YEARS so now I am going to share my dragons hoard

Floorplanner. Design and furnish a house for you to use for having a consistent background in your comic or anything! Free, you need an account, easy to use, and you can save multiple houses.

Comparing Heights. Input the heights of characters to see what the different is between them. Great for keeping consistency. Free.

Magma. Draw online with friends in real time. Great for practice or hanging out. Free, paid plan available, account preferred.

Smithsonian Open Access. Loads of free images. Free.

SketchDaily. Lots of pose references, massive library, is set on a timer so you can practice quick figure drawing. Free.

SculptGL. A sculpting tool which I am yet to master, but you should be able to make whatever 3d object you like with it. free.

Pexels. Free stock images. And the search engine is actually pretty good at pulling up what you want.

Figurosity. Great pose references, diverse body types, lots of "how to draw" videos directly on the site, the models are 3d and you can rotate the angle, but you can't make custom poses or edit body proportions. Free, account option, paid plans available.

Line of Action. More drawing references, this one also has a focus on expressions, hands/feet, animals, landscapes. Free.

Animal Photo. You pose a 3d skull model and select an animal species, and they give you a bunch of photo references for that animal at that angle. Super handy. Free.

Height Weight Chart. You ever see an OC listed as having a certain weight but then they look Wildly different than the number suggests? Well here's a site to avoid that! It shows real people at different weights and heights to give you a better idea of what these abstract numbers all look like. Free to use.

narrettwist

Homie gonna share this

jeanjauthor

OMG, that Height Weight Chart is magnificent!

Pick a height, pick a weight! You can see what a person could look like!

...I would also like to remind folks of this wonderful ad from Australia several years back, which showcases how weight is NOT tied to any one particular height:

Note: These ladies all weigh the exact same. (I think it was like 165 pounds?) They are all reasonably fit and healthy, too, fully capable of handling daily life tasks. Some may have invisible disabilities (either now or later), but if they can all change into the same outfit for a photo shoot (at whatever pace it may have taken), they can handle life.

And honestly? That's all you need to consider.

Mix it up! Use different body types!

This goes for writers as well as artists.

organicclownfarm

Ko-fi Commissions Open! Click to see Alex ✨'s commission menu.

commissions are open! they start at 5$ <3

organicclownfarm

hey hey, things are getting a little tight with the holiday season. if you would like to buy an art thing from me I would be so grateful 💕

possessedpasm

Something I try to keep in mind when making art that looks vintage is keeping a limited color pallette. Digital art gives you a very wide, Crisp scope of colors, whereas traditional art-- especially older traditional art-- had a very limited and sometimes dulled use of color.

This is a modern riso ink swatch, but still you find a similar and limited selection of colors to mix with. (Mixing digitally as to emulate the layering of ink riso would be coloring on Multiply, and layering on top of eachother 👉)

If you find some old prints, take a closer look and see if you can tell what colors they used and which ones they layered... a lot of the time you'll find yellow as a base!

Misprints can really reveal what colors were used and where, I love misprints...

Something else I keep in the back of my mind is: how the human eye perceives color on paper vs. a screen. Ink and paint soaks into paper, it bleeds, stains, fades over time, smears, ect... the history of a piece can show in physical wear. What kind of history do you want to emulate? Misprinted? Stained? Kept as clean as possible, but unable to escape the bluing damages of the sun? It's one of my favorite things about making vintage art. Making it imperfect!

You can see the bleed, the wobble of the lines on the rug, the fading, the dirt... beautiful!!

Thinking in terms of traditional-method art while drawing digital can help open avenues to achieving that genuine, vintage look!

possessedpasm

ALSO!!

YELLOWING!! Digital art is very blue-light based. Cold, clean, flat. But traditional art has warmth to it. Why?

Over time, paper gets yellowed with dust, oil, dirt, and nicotine from cigarettes! So colors got warmer. This makes art look pretty aged, on top of the slight toned papers and hand made/factory made inks they printed with.