Allen

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[shellblades]

Wibbly wobbly wibbly wobbly wibbly wobbly ooooooooo

[evostrashbin]

Entrapta! ✨

[finley-myself]

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[thecollectibles]

Art by Sibylline Meynet

[crimson-chains]

Royalty AU! Now with Prince Roxas and assassin Axel~

[saphizzle]

Hey,,

pls enjoy your new pancake hat,,

[saoirlen]

smol doodle of my drag queer character, yet to be named. They first came to be on this month Pride march 🌈

[saoirlen]

my latest artwork, BREAKEVEN

[saoirlen]

BREAKEVEN 🥀 piece done during the month of May/June.

Lots of bottled up feelings tried to be translated into the composition. Apparently listening to 2000s sad songs, in this case Breakeven by The Script, is a good coping mechanism for artists!

🎼 And what am I supposed to say when I'm all choked up and you're OK

I'm falling to pieces, yeah

I'm falling to pieces

They say bad things happen for a reason

But no wise words gonna stop the bleeding

'Cause they've moved on while I'm still grieving

And when a heart breaks no it don't breakeven even, no 🎼

[saoirlen]

childhood crush and trans inspiration, I love ma boi

late for the dannyversary but hey I did something

[saoirlen]

"This is a love story." ✖️ movie! symbrock / veddie sketches

[theowlburrow]

Video games 🎮

[itsrazzer]

Hey!!! I’m a young trans teen living in an extremely sexual and and emotionally abusive house hold, here in about a month I’ll be moving in with my boyfriend down in Texas. I need your help until I can get a job down there, I’ll be taking commissions (or if you want you can donate to my kofi ;3;)

I need the help not just for me but for my boyfriend who is making this escape possible. He is literally my rock and idk what I’d do with out him. Until I could get this job I would really love to support my babe as much as he supports me.

It’d really mean a lot to me if you’d just reblog this!!!

I’ll do pretty much anything at this point,

I’ll take $30 for full body (lined, colored, and shaded) and $20 for full body sketch

(Everything is half for half body ;) )

Contact me here or at my email ([email protected])

I only accept payment through PayPal ;0;!! Please reblog!! I would honestly love the support!! I’ll answer any questions you have!!

[itsrazzer]

Hey yo!!!! Everything is 25% off for a little bit!!! Ref sheets are also added for a good $30 and honestly, I’m willing to haggle the prices down!

[saoirlen]

as an artist can we talk about that suddenly high-quality animation boost after boxing ladybug? damn

the animation was a lot more fluid and the textures more sharp

[biilpotts]

There’s a fire in the brazilian National Museum, in Rio de Janeiro. The flames seem to have reached everything. The Museum turned 200 years old in 2018 and it had over 20 million items, including the oldest human skeleton ever found in the Americas (over 11.000 years old). The Museum was also the house of the royal family when they came to Brazil as a colony, and the residency of the emperial family after that. This week, on September 7th, we celebrate the brazilian independency, which was signed in that building. I can’t put in words how sad I am, or how huge this loss is for Brazil and for humanity. The government has been cutting funds from education and culture, which includes most of the money for the Museum’s maintance. This tragedy is very simbolic of the crisis Brazil is facing in many forms. Our history is burning to the ground, and this is no accident. 

[saoirlen]

i have no words to describe how shattered me and my university are. as scientists this is how hell looks like to us

[saoirlen]

a hamster (or squirrel?) kid with golden shoes

open for selling their design

[kintatsujo]

“Don’t trace” originally started as a warning against tracing as art theft (as in, tracing someone else’s art without permission or credit is art theft) and then over the intervening years turned into “you can’t use references because it’s cheating” and I think that’s one of the worst cases of the telephone game I’ve ever personally experienced

you are allowed to trace as practice

you are allowed to trace your own work (for example photographs you took yourself or to keep architectural consistency)

you are allowed to trace things the original artist is encouraging you to trace

you SHOULD use references

you SHOULD be allowed to pick up other artists’ artistic tics you like (…as long as they’re not offensive, like blackfacing, but that’s a different kettle of fish)

you SHOULDN’T go around moralizing at other people about how they learn best because you can and will lose friends that way and you can and will hurt other artists’ development that way.

Also other than art theft there IS no such thing as cheating in art okay use sparkle pens and fan brushes to your heart’s content why is that even a thing I have to say (…and yes I’ve had conversations in the analog world about fan brushes as “cheating” I’m so tired of snotty artists who think you shouldn’t be allowed to use tools that make things easier because they can do it the hard way)

[mr-braindead]

But honestly, this need to be said louder, as an artist you end up feeling like you aint getting better, trying to draw in perspective without having a guide line . And when others shame artist for using references its like they are expecting the artist to know by memory how everything works on every perspective.

To Consider that fan brushes, or custom brushes are cheating and expecting the artist to do everything in the “original” way is like wanting the cashier to charge you without using a calculator to do the sum. Tools are invented to be used.

[kintatsujo]

“tools are invented to be used” well put

[niuniente]

Not allowing using references is same as telling to a chef they can’t use recipes but they have to pull any dish in the world out of their asses just like that. The first thing, the very first thing my photography teacher told us was “When photographing was invented, ARTISTS took pictures of cities and traced them on their paintings because hey - easier work! Why bother to work hard when you can make it easy for yourself and save your time and energy?”

[ailisisuli]

I’ve been drawing for years, and I still trace. It helps me learn relationships between shapes, and to understand perspectives that are difficult. Other days, I eyeball it until it looks right. 90% of what I have on my computer is reference images. 

Thing is, use what makes you learn best. Don’t steal, but don’t suffer because someone says references aren’t getting.  

[lady-feral]

Lots of this.

[keyblack-hl]

I work in animation.  My boss encourages the whole team, every day, to learn how to draw the characters by tracing them over and over, before trying to draw them freehand.  It helps commit their shapes and proportions to muscle memory and actual memory.

Tracing is an invaluable method of learning.  As long as you aren’t tracing somebody else’s work and calling it your own, you’re in the clear.  TRACE YOUR LITTLE HEART OUT.