art blog

whats up my name is phoebe. this is my art blog i post my art sometimes. its easier to reach me on my other blogs,,, check out the links

[mlmlmlmlmlmlmlmlmlml-deactivate]

[bonkalore]

Trying to draw buildings

[archive7481465]

yo here’s a useful tip from your fellow art ho cynellis… use google sketchup to create a model of the room/building/town you’re trying to draw… then take a screenshot & use it as a reference! It’s simple & fun!

[moorecolinart-deactivated201810]

Sketchup is incredibly helpful. I can’t recommend it enough.

There’s a 3D model warehouse where you can download all kinds of stuff so you don’t have to build everything from scratch.

[vanjestic-deactivated20160131]

reblog to save a life

[bludragongal]

This is an incomplete tutorial, and it drives me crazy every time I see it come around.

We live in a pretty great digital age and we have access to a ton of amazing tools that artists in past generations couldn’t even dream of, but a lot of people look at a cool trick and only learn half of the process of using it.

Here’s the missing part of this tutorial:

How do you populate your backgrounds?

Well, here’s the answer:

If the focus is the environment, you must show a person in relation to that environment.

The examples above are great because they show how to use the software itself, but each one just kind of “plops” the character in front of their finished product with no regard of the person’s relation to their environment.

How do you fix this?

Well, here’s the simplest solution:

This is a popular trick used by professional storyboard and comic artists alike when they’re quickly planning compositions. It’s simple and it requires you to do some planning before you sit down to crank out that polished, final version of your work, but it will be the difference between a background and an environment.

From Blacksad (artist: Juanjo Guarnido)

From Hellboy (Mike Mignola)

Even if your draftsmanship isn’t that great (like mine), people can be more immersed in the story you tell if you just make it feel like there is a world that exists completely separate from the one in which they currently reside – not just making a backdrop the characters stand in front of.

Your creations live in a unique world, and it is as much a character as any other member of the cast. Make it as believable as they are.

[shatterstag]

Great comments and tutorials!

I’m a 3d artist and have been exploring the possibilities of using 3d as reference for 2d poses. I want to add a couple of tips and things!

Sketchup is very useful for environment references, and I assume it’s reasonably easy to learn. If you’re interested in going above and beyond, I highly recommend learning a proper 3d modeling program to help with art, especially because you can very easily populate a scene or location with characters!

Using 3ds Max I can pretty quickly construct an environment for reference. But going beyond that, I can also pose a pretty simple ‘CAT’ armature (known in 3d as a rig) straight into the scene, which can be totally customized, from various limbs, tails, wings, whatever, to proportions, and also can be modeled onto and expanded upon (for an example, you could 3d sculpt a head reference for your character and then attach it to the CAT rig, so you have a reference for complex face angles!)

The armature can also be posed incredibly easily. I know programs exist for stuff like this - Manga Studio, Design Doll - but posing characters in these programs is always an exercise in frustration and very fiddly imo. A simple 3d rig is impossibly easy to pose.

By creating an environment and dropping my character rig into it, I have an excellent point of reference when it comes to drawing the scene!

Not only that, but I can also view the scene from whatever angle I could ever want or need, including the character and their pose/position relative to the environment.

We can even quickly and easily expand this scene to include more characters!

Proper 3d modeling software is immensely powerful, and if you wanted to, you could model a complex environment that occurs regularly in your comic or illustration work (say, a castle interior, or an outdoor forest environment) and populate the scene with as many perspective-grounded characters as you need!

[askoursquad]

reblogging to save a life

[bludragongal]

!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Look at this amazing addition! This is fantastic!

[jovishark]

saw this tweet and i laughed so

ask meme: tell me what my top 3 kinks are based on my art??

[baneismydragon]

I’m actually curious what people think based on my writing/drawing. Feel free to ask here or if you want to guess as to anything particularly explicit I can also post answers on my NSFW blog

[thelastpilot]

Oh man anybody got some guesses

[drawingden]

Skin Tutorial by acidlullaby

[glubtier]

I saw these poses from the How To Draw Manga series while going through my references and I thought they’d make a fun meme. Scans originally from here.

[rightyeti]

no frauds!!! is!!! so good pls nicki<333

[toonimated]

COFFEE QUEST CONTINUES!

Join our coffee adventure!-  Or at least check out more Art Goodies here:

[Check out Toonimated’s Coffee Quest]  <Take a look!

[bonnieventure]

hey!! so i made kind of a combo of those ‘send a letter and number…’ expression n pose drawing prompt memes, and just in general chara / oc outfit ask box drawing memes…but visualized! i thought it’d be fun if there was a sheet like that, but with fun cosplay n outfits. as a note, it doesn’t have to be exactly the same as shown, it can just be a general jumpin off prompt if you’d like! go wild with ur outfit design!!!

if you wanna use this elsewhere besides tblr, please feel free to repost on twit, insta, etc. all i ask is if you could link back to me and not edit or crop out my name in any way, thank you. if you see versions floating around with my credit cropped out please DO NOT use them. and of course, if you do it i would love to see your results! 

[drunkenfixx]

Mawl you to death

[aryll]

ive had people asking me recently what kinds of brushes i use for my colouring, so here’s some of the ones i’ve picked up over time! (*´・ｖ・)

[rightyeti]

missed u guys will post more art soon

[creepykinaesthetics]

Black cat monster kin aesthetic requested by anon.

(Lived in an abandoned house)

[rightyeti]

im off to college at the end of this summer. wish me luck!

[rightyeti]

i got markers

[rightyeti]

sketch dump

[gemini00s]

attention all art do-ers! i decided to do an art supplies giveaway for all the lovely artists on tumblr :-)

WINNER WILL RECEIVE:

- one Kanken backpack ( color chosen by winner )

- one Copic Perfect Primaries marker set

- one “Raise boys and girls the same way” t-shirt ( size chosen by winner )

- one large Moleskine notebook

- one Prismacolor pencil set

- one Angora watercolor paint set

- a note & a follow from me!!

RULES:

- must be following me ( artpunko )

- reblog this post! 1 reblog = 1 entry!

- likes only count as bookmarks

- if under 18, you must have legal guardians permission to give any personal information

- this giveaway is in no way affiliated with or sponsored by tumblr! this is my own giveaway!!

- inbox me if you have any questions!

EXTRA ENTRIES:

- follow me on Instagram: @ kalearmpit - subscribe to my YouTube! the link is in my bio :-) - draw me! any art about me/my blog will count as an extra entry!! make sure to tag me in it!

* message me so i can keep track of your extra entries *

this giveaway is international! i will be choosing the winner with a randomizer on August 27, 2016! good luck bees! 🐝

[otp-kylux]

Star Wars, “First Order” Colour Palette.