sussurrus-art

an art blog with art inside

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dont trace reference images. dont even LOOK at reference images. in fact, don't ever look at anything that exists in the world, in person or in photos or in videos, even when you're not drawing, because you will still be able to use the memories of what something looks like as a reference when you're drawing it later. yes that includes yourself. destroy all the mirrors in your house. don't look down at your hands or feet. don't look. close your eyes. close them tight. forget everything. it's okay, embrace the darkness. just forget.

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@naye-et-cetera all your fics live in my head rent free at all times, esp this scene.... he checkin out dat ass 👀 (while dying)

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i think we can all make some little drawings no one else will enjoy... as a treat

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part 6 of the series where i save someone $130,000 by just telling you things i learned earning a bachelors degree in illustration-

this series is now dedicated to the university of the arts, rip you were killed by greed.

in my history of illustration class, the teacher picked out his favorite significant pieces throughout time and showed them to us on the projector in a slideshow. that was it, that was the class.

there was an entire day dedicated to one unnamed 18 year old artist who made dark line art drawings of macabre societal commentaries. the professor spent an hour gushing about the work and how much that kid could have achieved as an artist, but he had committed suicide. at the end of the day the teacher told us all "dont kill yourself". the moral of the story is that you dont know who loves you, it could be a professor in a college you've never met is your biggest fan, and you should never let despair make you forget it.

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ive been working on this shit since 2017, take it away from me.

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from ratbones' dancing around the subject:

"The song was drawing to a close, and an idea sprung up in Shen Wei's mind, and before his better judgement could catch up to the way he'd slid his hand further up Zhao Yunlan's waist, Zhao Yunlan was leaning into it. Shen Wei dipped him, not too low, and Zhao Yunlan clearly didn't have the faintest idea what to do with his legs to avoid falling but Shen Wei could hold his weight. Zhao Yunlan whooped out loud, and when Shen Wei pulled him back up, he let himself collide with Shen Wei's chest, his hands no longer in any kind of proper dancing posture but rather creeping up Shen Wei's arm and around Shen Wei's back."

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wake up babe a new valentine just dropped on redbubble

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definitely my best shen wei yet guys

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you know when we say "thats peak 90's design" or like "you can really tell its from 2000"? well this screams 2020s to me

this kind of shitty photoshop product ad is gonna be what we're known for this decade.... you can taste the 2020s in this. the parakeet representing the outdoors bird in a birdfeeder. the dead eyes of a child wearing a school uniform in a white walled home filled with shelves of moscato and 2d film of an orange grove over every window

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for ratbones' fic black scales- for a hot second i thought zyl was gonna whip his phone out to take some photo evidence of the occasion

"Now he was lying on mossy, damp rock, cracks and uneven edges poking into his back, with an ancient war hero lying on his chest in a state one might charitably describe as sleep. The whole thing was rather at odds with the sudden bluish light of his phone's boot-up screen, painfully bright even just reflected off of the little cave's ceiling. He unlocked it without looking. It would do him no good right now to see the photo on his homescreen."

But in my version he looked at his lock screen and got sad 😇

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inspired by real events

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listen i know im not perfect but someone please god teach the young anime artists proportions for arms and heads..... please i beg you....

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business moshang, from @phaltu 's fic an idiots guide to a happy marriage on ao3

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Sometimes it's like you don't even want to see my massive war club that I built myself

I even hand grinded the metal studs along the length of it. If you even care.

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Wrong.

also this is an old as fuck pic. I should recreate it tbh

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@bramble-berries your horny posting got to me

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Can I keep this drawing?

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new series where i save someone $130,000 by just telling you things i learned earning a bachelors degree in illustration-

when you are painting traditionally, mix your blacks. mix complementary colors together to make a neutral color. the more pigmented the color is, the darker your neutral will be. if its not dark enough, add a different complementary pair. it will add a huge amount of depth to your work if you mix your black. black from the bottle is boring, flat, and lifeless. mix your blacks.

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part 3 of the series where i save someone $130,000 by just telling you things i learned earning a bachelors degree in illustration-

photo reference is an irreplaceable tool if you are drawing/sculpting/creating anything even vaguely referential to reality. if you are drawing a chicken headed tiger, you search up photos of actual tigers and actual chickens to reference, or take them yourself. why? because that reference is going to hold so much extra information that your brain did not store about chickens and tigers. you may remember that a tiger has four legs, stripes, paws, and fuzzy cheeks. but reference will show you where the tigers muscles show through its coat, how its tail curls when its happy, where its skin folds when it turns its head. knowing those things will elevate your work exponentially. use reference for everything possible. when its not available, make your own. when you are planning or sketching, make sure to go back to your reference at every stage, as frequently as possible. theres no artwork in the world that this would not improve.

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“You understand what it’s like, wanting to protect someone from the whole world…“ 

 Wangji curls an arm around his always-smiling brother and holds him as he bows his head and weeps. 

 He understands completely. 

 -Upon Our Silver Bridge by @theangelmojo