🦇OujiBat's Art Blog🦇

⚠️I HARDLY POST HERE ANYMORE AND WILL BE POSTING ART TO OTHER SITES INSTEAD⚠️ Links to those accounts over on my main blog.

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Because you guys wanted to see new art, have a lil me a drew in anticipation for haircut 🖤

[oujibat]

One of my best buds just opened up commissions!!! Go grab yourselves some sick art!!!!

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MOVING TO FURAFFINITY

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contact info is on my main

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Sorry I haven’t been posting much at all lately. Things have been super rough at home and real life has been kicking me in the ass. However, I’m finally, FINALLY crawling out of this years-long art block, so hopefully I’ll get back to posting, open comissions, and finish up a ton of gift art I’ve been meaning to get done!!!

I’m incredibly sorry I’ve been slow and quiet on here but hopefully that’ll change very soon! Things are finally looking up!

[mothdogs]

God remember when u were 12 and you would just Make Art on like spare copy paper with crayola markers and an old pencil and even though you didn’t know anything about anatomy or perspective or anything you were jus happy to b Making Art and u didn’t constantly belittle your own efforts or feel like ur drawings weren’t good enough

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Experimenting with drawpile. Gotta get back in the groove of drawing so I can finish up some gift art and then work on finally opening commissions. Have a Belf 🚬🦇

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fucking around in drawpile(signature added in post via photoshop so that’s why the brush is so wildly different) to get back in the swing of drawing 🥑🖤 hail Satan and all that

[gahdamnpunk]

YOO SPREAD THE WORD PEOPLE

[ryokoson]

Save a marker, SPREAD THE WORD!!!!

[oolathurman]

It’s called the crayola colorcycle program! As on its FAQ, they mention the following:

“Crayola ColorCycle will accept all brands of plastic markers, not just Crayola markers. That includes dry erase markers and highlighters! ColorCycle will eliminate placing hundreds of tons of markers into landfills.”

There do seem to be some limits, however, as far as I can tell, anyone can ship in a box of markers. “Any sturdy cardboard box with minimal outer markings will work. The more markers you ship, the more efficient this program will be. We suggest a minimum of 100 markers and a maximum of up to 40 pounds.”

[lizzieinthesky]

Also, look for the Crayon Initiative. 

Their whole things work with used, donated crayons they melt and make new ones to donate to children’s hospitals. 

[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.

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I haven't seen many posts from you in a while, friend! I hope you've been doing well!!! Belfrys new ref is great!! I didn't know he had a monster mouth!

Sorry abt that! I’ve had a lot of stuff going on irl; for future reference you can always message me if I’m getting distant! It just means I’m distracted, I’m not ignoring you!Yeah! He’s got a nasty ol’ monster mouth based off of the Reapers from Blade II lmao

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hmmmmmmmmm i might be opening commissions soon….. idk

what do you guys think?

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Here have some WAY overdue ref sheets for my fursona, Befry. Original colour scheme + his alternate colour scheme. These are a bit outdated in that I’ve changed the positioning and style of his fangs, but I’ll just post a little updated mini teeth ref asap.

[ribbonstein]

just a lil pet peeve i’ve seen around artists !!! i hope this helps!! (note: i like using cartoon-y 4-fingered hands, but this applies to 5 fingers too !)

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That's some nice art ya got there buddy- keep it up!

Thank you!!! <3

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i know i’m late as fuck to the clownsona party but here’s Clover he’s horrible and his eyebrows are heart-shaped

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Dicking around with sharpie. Sorry I haven’t been posting lately, honestly my life’s just gotten really busy and I haven’t really been drawing much at all. Hopefully that changes soon. Sorry about the inactivity, have a shitty Belf