pixlsugr

fanart + ocs + sonic

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gimme gimme more ✨🔥

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three little birds sat on my window 🍎✨

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Updated Bellanova for some cyberpunk shenanigans

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Oh god hi hello I have a LOT of updating to do

[katiemonz]

something I animated for fun last night! id love to clean it up, but we’ll see. busy busy busy schedule

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Twila, of the Moon

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I am a filthy shipper

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RIP Goblin King

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angsty plant fox

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crying hedgehog child

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Commission 2 for someone on twitter!

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Commission for someone on twitter

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“.. Leave my brother ALONE, you jerk!” “.. Who said I was here for your brother, Blondie??”

[not-a-satanist]

Why is this a thing? Why do people make this a thing? I’m not part of this shipping but because of how little I know on how to use Tumbler this the only way I know how to comment. And this the part where angry fan girls/boys come to my door and brutally murder me

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I don't know, bc people ship what they want? Leave comments like these in the tags.

[eliciaforever-deactivated201906]

Why do artists refuse to use references why why why.

It’s not a contest to see who can get by without them. It’s not cheating to look at a thing in order to know what the thing looks like.

You don’t get stronger or better by pretending. Nobody is impressed by the awkward whatever-it-is you just drew. Use references.

[wolveswithhats]

I don’t think a lot of people know that it’s not cheating. I recall seeing so many piece of art called out because they referenced a pose, someone recognized it, and then proceeded to shame them for it. There’s this belief, both by creators and the audience, that artists should just be able to translate the ideas from their head to paper, and if they don’t, it’s plagiarism, or not true originality (spoiler alert: there’s no such thing).

I myself didn’t start using references until very recently, because even I was under the impression that it was frowned upon. And that belief has seriously crippled and stalled my ability to improve as an artist.

[priderising]

As a restarting artist, I can confirm. I just never knew. I thought you were just supposed to know how to draw the body correctly and if you didn’t you had no talent.

[reapergrellsutcliff]

(( I am going to say this again, loud and clear for everyone:

USING REFERENCES FOR ART IS NOT ‘CHEATING’!!!

If you can draw/paint without references, great!  But if you need to use them, and feel that your art can be bettered by using references, please, use them!  This is one of the biggest tips I can give to artists, is USE REFERENCES! 

Anyone who would dare to attack someone for using references after ‘recognizing a pose’ is a dipshit, who doesn’t know a thing about art.

Do you know who else used references for their art?

Norman Rockwell

Alphonse Mucha

Gustav Klimt

Toulouse Lautrec

Vincent Van Gogh

Paul Gauguin

Edgar Degas

Gil Elvgren

Frida Kahlo

Pablo Picasso

Disney Studios

And thousands of others!  So, artists! Go forth, and use references!!! ))

[armellin]

What do you think artists do when they ask someone to stand infron of them for 6 hours and then they draw this person. Do they cheat? Or when they place a still life and then paint it, cheating again? LOL

[bonearenaofmyskull]

Not my usual reblog, but this is so needs to be said. I sometimes wonder if it’s a product of the availability of the internet for people to see or stumble upon the references, and if they just imagined that artists didn’t use them before. I honestly never once in my life sat down and drew something out with a reference right next to me and had anyone tell me I’m “cheating.” But now I see it said to people on Tumblr all the time. For Chrissakes, people, what do you even think is taught in formalized art classes? Among other things, they teach you a buttload of techniques for how to work from references. 

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".. Leave my brother ALONE, you jerk!" ".. Who said I was here for your brother, Blondie??"

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old oc

spooky secret werewolf spy

Annette Gardinier

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painting practice