Art Blob

Ray. they/them. old. I do mostly traditional mostly fan art but I'm trying to get better. I could be convinced to do a commission or two. but be nice! this is not my real job. (main blog: trckstergods)

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Honestly I'm having a shit week so to make myself feel better I'm trying to fill up the last few pages of this sketchbook. Its basically volume training.

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Is it socially acceptable to use opaque watercolors, or is that considered gouache?

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Some teenagers appeared when I was sketching this and were so funny. One of them stood on one side of a crevice for a full minute saying "i can do it bro im gonna jump over it" before his friends talked him into going the normal (safer) way

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You would not believe the layers of ugly i had to work through on these to get to the end product

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One of my art goals this year is to do more consistent practice and get better at working on exercises like value studies and perspective work as well as capturing likeness. So far I'm doing pretty well but I'm not exactly getting many finished or even post worthy pieces out of it which is fine because the goal is skill development.

Anyway here's a kitty value study done in permanent rose and dioxazine purple because why be boring when you can be pink.

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I needed new coasters so I decided to paint some. They're inspired by the 4 suites in a deck of cards and I hope with a thick layer of mod podge they wont get too beat up when I set my coffee on them

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Couple of japan landscapes that I honestly dont know if I even like. Whateverrrrrrrr.

Kegon Falls in Nikko and the lotus plants at Uneo Zoo in Tokyo

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It's my birthday :) so I decided to pick out my favorite pieces of my year. I'm surprised to see myself pursuing landscape painting but I'm very excited to work on more.

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if i sold prints do i have any chance of selling any

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One of my favorites to paint so far. Scene is a portion of tokyo bay near the rainbow bridge.

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Edo Wonderland is such a fun place and it's so beautifully designed. This is my third painting of a piece of it because it was just a lovely place

Anyway this piece took me forever and made me want to rip my hair out but it was worth it I Guess

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Been sick so I got behind on this painting challenge but im caught back up. Unfortunately catching up produced a couple of real duds that I wont be posting but I quite like this one

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Travelling on the bullet train from Tokyo to Edo was such a lovely countryside tour. I regret not being able to spend more time outside the city

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Im already behind on the October project ive assigned myself smh. Should have done 3 paintings last week and I only did one. Oh well! Maybe it'll take me through November for me to finish all of them but I will finish them. Its been such a long time since I've done a cohesive project of original art like this.

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in the vein of all the october challenges inspired by inktober i'm going to paint my favorite landscape photos I took while traveling to Tokyo and Nikko, Japan. I had such a good time and I've really been liking doing landscapes in my sketchbook so I'm going to take it more seriously next month. I work 12 hour shifts and I don't have any energy after them so I'll just be making these works on my days off which reduces the number from 31 to 16-18 which is perfectly doable.

I'm always really inspired by people who are able to complete these challenges but for myself I feel like it needs to be a project with a theme and this recent trip has really provided me with that!

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Somehow ive become a landscape painter. I'm having such a good time experimenting with different painting techniques and capturing these scenes lately. No idea what's gotten into me but I'm enjoying being a little more loose

Himi gouache in a canson mixed media sketchbook. Plein air exercises.

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I wanted to try to design some Real Wizard Robes for Essek that he would wear for boring ceremonial court events. It just turns out that the best reference i have for robes is graduation regalia so hes giving a commencement speech i guess