I like the idea that you'll be sticking around

She/her●I draw stuff●animation major trying not to have a mental breakdown

[maid-photographer]

The more I get back into doing creative stuff the more I understand that one Fujimoto quote

[malpensante]

[letatlin]

for anyone wondering about the second quote:

[wraithillustrates]

also highly into the speedpaints so if you want to i would love to see more of those as well :))

I made a speedpaint compilation of some of my art! Included references!

I used way more references i wanted to add (cloth folds, diff face angles, multiple hair refs, etc) but the video would be too crowded, so i only added the “essential” ones.

[secondbeatsongs]

:(

[secondbeatsongs]

once again I am on the hunt for glasses for weird little freaks, but this time I've found some cool ones pretty easily! so in case anyone else is looking, I stumbled across some real weird and gay frames at all of these sites:

eyeshells aoolia zeelool lakoh vooglam lens alter

like, eyeshells in particular has a startlingly vast collection of asymmetric glasses:

(this isn't even all of them)

and also this steampunk nonsense that I love so fucking much and cannot justify spending any money on:

while aoolia has...tbh a lot of the frames the other sites have, but more expensive, but also, a collection of the gayest people you've ever seen:

though tbh not nearly as gay as whatever lens alter has going on:

and vooglam has uhhh...whatever this is!

huh.

(I can't vouch for any of these companies ofc, though I think I'll get something from at least one of them. ideally not the slime glasses, but hey!)

but honestly the absolute best thing I found in all of this is this site that makes vintage fashion, and which happened to have:

these replica victorian railway glasses like the bisexual guy in Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter had, AND WHICH

you can even buy with prescription lenses, jesus fucking christ you have no idea how hard it is to not immediately drop $180 on this shit, I'm having to physically restrain myself, I want them so fucking bad

and hey, if you don't need prescription lenses, y'know what else you can buy from this site?

the glasses from national treasure 😭😭

anyway, I'm having a gr8 time! and now I know I can definitely find glasses that are weird enough for my very high standards

[astrikos]

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[coffinvows]

some food art !!

[cloudmancy]

dear august cloudmancy, do you have any horse drawing tips and if so, would you be so kind to share them with the class if you have the time?

I'm still in China, so stuck on mobile + without my drawing tablet, but I'll post my horse sketches and a modified version of my general animal drawing tips:

Horses, like any other animal, are 90% shapes. You want to get good at drawing these shapes. The most important place to start for a horse are at the SHOULDERS. You want to draw starting with the intention of the ENTIRE horse in mind. Don't do a bunch of disconnected hooves and legs and horse head shots until you're actually comfortable knowing what connects where. Doing a bunch of piecemeal 'studies' before you understand the whole animal's shape is a trap and a copout! You can see in my cleaned up horse lines that I always always draw out the shoulders, hips, and haunches.

Horses are hard for people to draw because their legs are weird. So this seems obvious to say, but get good at understanding their legs. You wouldn't believe the amount of people who go "horse bendy noodle legs hard" and leave it at that. It's best to look at a diagram of horse and human homologous limb structure, because then you can understand why they bend in the places they do. Like in math, actually understanding horse leg anatomy than simply memorizing what they look like at one angle is better, because then you can extrapolate what they look like from any angle using fundamental theorems.

In general, tracing over photographs of real horses is VERY helpful. Try tracing over an image that's been lowered to 20-30% opacity, then get rid of the photograph and redo your lines until it looks 'right' to your eyes. Drawing any animal, including horses, competently isn't about ACCURATELY FOLLOWING every single curve and crevice, it's about getting the shapes right.

[nkim-illustrates]

More ways I paint plants! This is how I paint to make my plants look less muddy. I use bolder colors to help me out. Again, this is how I like to go about it! 😀

[crackshipsandregret]

damn u are fast

how u do facial hair? I’m struggling man all I want to do is draw my sillies and they look like poo 😭

ARE YOU TIRED OF DRAWING CHARACTERS WITH POO SMEARED ON THEIR FACE INSTEAD OF FLUFFY SCRUFFY BEARDS? WELL TODAY IS YOUR LUCKY DAY! WELCOME TO: HOW TO BEARD YOUR BLORBOS!

Step one: BALD

Complete your drawing of your blorbo!

Step two: COLOR AND BRUSHES

Be sure to select the darkest part of their hair (ideally should match the shade of the eyebrows) and select a texture brush of your choosing. Any will do, as long as grain is visible! An additional textured blending brush to buff out any hard lines is beneficial, but not necessary for a good beard. WHATEVER YOU DO, DO NOT USE A SMOOTH BLENDING BRUSH! The goal is to maintain grain!

Step three: BEARD LAYOUT

DO use a reference image for this step! Draw out the general shape of where your blorbo's beard naturally grows, making sure to leave space around the chin under the lip where patches of hair are typically absent. Once you lay out the shape, turn the opacity down between 20-30%. I personally aim around 24%. This is a base layer, so don't go too dark!

Step four: SECOND LAYER

With the same brush and color, add additional layers ONLY in the areas that have the most hair (as circled in red) on your reference image. Mess around with the opacity until it gives you the look you want. The darker the color, the thicker the hair in that area will seem. NOTE: blond beards are typically much less noticeable than darker colors, typically because the hair has less contrast against the skin tone.

Step five (optional, depends on your style): HAIRS

Using the same brush as your line art with the opacity lowered to 60%, draw out lines along the same general shape as the beard using the same color you've been using. They should be slightly curved along the jaw like contour lines; this helps prevent the chin from feeling flat, but that's more of a personal preference/stylistic choice of mine. Don't think too hard on this step. The lines should be laid down quick and loose as beards are typically scruffy!

CONGRADULATIONS! YOU HAVE SUCCESSFULLY BEARDED YOUR BLORBOS!

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[nkim-illustrates]

How I Paint Grapes! 🍇

[movedtocinnimani-deactivated202]

black history month is coming to a closeeee but i have something that’ll help you draw black characters in any month! if it was helpful then hey… here’s my kofi consider commissioning me on vgen! 😏

[cinnimani]

mostly made this account so i could make sure this post still lived on when i deleted my account!

[almakrowan]

Part 1 of big "how to chibi-fy this flower????" guide is here!!! 🥰

[wraithillustrates]

can we please get a drawing tutorial from the bloodymary master because I struggle with making them look that recognizable (thank you in advance)

Here is a (somewhat) tutorial i made, hopefully it can be of help to any of you

tbh idk what im doing 90% of the time this was really hard to make

Tut below!

[tuherrus]

Your Coloring choices are so gorgeous do you have a process when approaching it or do you just go off of vibes?

i wanna say i go off vibes but i have done studies throughout my life to grasp it a bit more, i found an example by katfishdraws on insta that is pretty close to how i think about the process!

you push colors by upping the saturation as well as kinda moving around the color wheel and it can be as much or as little as you want!

[s1ck0]

Juliette Brocal

[careydraws]

No, seriously,

[gogeyama]