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Hi! I draw things, sometimes.... lvl. minor they/them

[donutsbagels]

Okay I JUST realized I never posted these on here—- BUT BASICALLY, about a year and a half ago I started doing these experimental black hairstyle posts that were threads long on Twitter, to give artists a source of inspo for their black ocs whose hair they wanted to try something new with! There’s more to black hair than just the selected styles portrayed in media, and I thought it would be fun to show people how much texture, shape, fades, length, and style can be combined when drawing black hair—-cause it’s a kind of manipulation our hair can do irl! The OG thread from when I made these a year ago were lost with the hacking of my original Twitter account (@/bagels_donuts) but I’ve since reuploaded the whole thread to my new Twitter (@/ItsDonutsFR)! I hope artists on tumblr find these useful, sorry it took me so long to post them here😭🙏🏾 I’ll upload them all in parts!

Part 1: Long masc hairstyles + playing with fades

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💬 2  🔁 715  ❤️ 1008 · Part 2: shape, style, and length with femme styles!

[nattousan]

ok so, I approached my local library with a proposal to donate a mural as a way to A: build portfolio/gain practical experience and B: give back to a beloved public institution. The director was very enthusiastic about it and i've been working on it since the beginning of March. Come with me as I endeavor to paint what is in all honesty an excessive amount of birds

I wanted the birds to look like they were actually in the space so first thing after doing the draft was to do a lighting study

after that I covered the walls in letters in lieu of a projector/vr headset bc i have neither of those :) Then i take a picture of the section of wall and superimpose the lineart over top of it so I can pencil in the lines

et voila

and that was a whole week on it's own so next comes the paintin' >:)

[nattousan]

and now, the birds

Birds 1 and 2/14: Red Winged Blackbird, Male and female, Agelaius phoeniceus

[nattousan]

Bird 3/14, American Robin, Turdus migratorius

[nattousan]

hoo boy, ok *out of breath*

GIVE IT UP FOR BIRD NUMBUH 5, THE CANADIAN GOOSE, Branta canadensis!!!!

this guy took me about 4 days to completely finish, all of those freakingk coverts were a bear to render

[nattousan]

speaking of obnoxious coverts:

bird 5/14, Bluejay, Cyanocitta cristata

the friggin stripes almost got me chat, i may not make it

[nattousan]

Madam....

[nattousan]

birds 6 and 7: American Goldfinch, Spinus tristis, male and female

pleasantly simple to paint! next is the flickerrrrr

[nattousan]

*melts into goo*

BIRD NUMBER 8, (yellow shafted) NORTHERN FLICKERRRRR, Colaptes auratus

genuinely made me start questioning my sanity around day 3, it's half the size the of the goose, WHY did it take me 4 days to finish??

nothing but pain and suffering, i'm sure hope the next bird will be much easier and with FAR less barring :)

[nattousan]

in other news, I am losing my mind hairline

[nattousan]

SHE'S DONE!!

Bird number 9: Red-tailed hawk, Buteo jamaicensis

my chains are broken i am FREE. although i did have a great deal of fun with this, the barring on the wings itself took me like four days and i am READY to move on

this was a week and a half of continuous work so please excuse me for getting a little emotional in the bg 🙏

[nattousan]

*does a little jig*

BIRD NUMBER 10!!! The Male Mallard Duck, Anas platyrhynchos

the male and female ones are gonna be posted separately bc they're taking a lot longer lol but yea! super happy i was able to capture the iridescent green of the head, i found metallic green and blue paint at a craft store that really made his head POP. it looks better in person i promise

ALSO!! As this is the 10th one, BIG announcement. The end is in sight!!!!! I plan to finish within the next 3 weeks and there will be a small dedication ceremony/ unveiling happening at the library to commemorate its completion on the 16th of May. If you live in the Western New York region and want to check it out for yourself shoot me a dm!

Also thank you everyone for your kind words and support throughout this whole process, it's been a genuine treat thinking there are potentially thousands of you out there cheering me on while I paint this 🥹

[nattousan]

aaaand another one bites the duck,

we're movin right along with bird numero 11!! The lady Mallard!! Anas platyrhyncos

the 16th is looming in the distance so i'm trying to get thru these as quickly as i can so i can have as much time for the GBH as possible. i still need to do the names next to all of them so i've got about a week and a half to finish everything which is GREAT because i have adhd and nothing gets my ass in gear like a fuckin deadline, let me tell you

[nattousan]

power couple that they are, here's bird number 12 and 13,

the Northern Cardinals, Cardinalis cardinalis

and NOW that they are complete, ITS GO TIME, in the next five days (library's closed for mother's day 😭😭) i need to have the GBH fully rendered, the names of the birds vectored, weeded, masked, applied to the wall, and then painted, plus additional cattails throughout. I may be able to get away with just getting the GBH done in time for the unveiling and then just have the names and cattails added later, but i'm gonna really try to get it all done in time. BUT, i have a plan. Part of why i take so long on these is because i really am just figuring it out as I do it lmao. there have been many a time where i am sitting on top of the ladder googling "how to paint birds" but I think if i take the time tomorro to do all that figuring out how to approach it beforehand, this will go a lot faster. I may also recruit some of my artist friends to help with the placing of the names... hrmm we'll see.

Anyways, shout out to the librarian who tracked down exactly the thing i needed so i could figure out where to place the highlights in my birds eyes, ur the real mvp

[nattousan]

thanks for the reminder, kid

[nattousan]

at long last, we've reached the end...

Bird number 14 out of 14,

The Great blue heron, Ardea herodius

thank you to everyone who reached out or got excited about this project, it genuinely gave me the fuel i needed to keep going. In total, the 480+ total hrs it took me to cover this wall pales in comparison to how long its expected to spend on there, hopefully imparting a sense of beauty and love for the natural world to the next generation and here's hoping i'm only getting started with these.

i'll see y'all soon :')

[sycletree-art]

Attack I did for artfight (KittenInTheVoid)

@xxstardustamalgamationxx on tumblr

Ndyehehheheh make that moth CONTEMPLATE!!!!

Og Inspo under cut (v)

[saintskull]

u never know what u got til it’s gone

[star-messenger]

Just did a ref sheet for the main character of the story i’m working on, doing this also allowed me to redesign some parts of her design and flesh out more of the world and concepts for the story

[ruderubicante]

A Love for Ignorance

[sycletree-art]

IM FREE!!!!

[sycletree-art]

Well I was Trying to draw but now I have a cat in my lap.

Edit:

She's baby and can do no wrong. I wasn't drawing nope. I am having a cat in my lap.

[sycletree-art]

I drew my friends cat whom I'm fostering.

Everyone say hello to Archaeopteryx.

(v) photo of Her Face!

@cartoonghosts

Love this freaking dinosaur she's so weird.

[jay-rayart]

Don't wanna wake up. FLY is LIVE on Kickstarter. Help us reach our stretch goals to make more of our queer, black, and magical story!

FLY : A Magical Black Boy Series - Pilot

A coming of age story about Black kids who finally have power to fight back against systems designed against them.

[jay-rayart]

Help FLY reach its 3rd stretch goal ! On our way to more FLY!

FLY : A Magical Black Boy Series - Pilot

A coming of age story about Black kids who finally have power to fight back against systems designed against them.

[jay-rayart]

In honor of us working toward our next stretch goal, an original FLY theme song, I wanted to share the playlist that helped shape the story while I was developing it.

A lot of these songs became part of FLY’s DNA. They helped me find the story and the feeling of freedom at the heart of Eli’s journey.

Any theories about which songs inspired certain moments?

FLY : A Magical Black Boy Series - Pilot

A coming of age story about Black kids who finally have power to fight back against systems designed against them.

[jay-rayart]

In less than 24 hours over 300 people showed there support to make the first step of FLY a reality. We’ve successfully funded the production of the animatic for Part 1 of FLY.

With 33 days to go, I’d love to shoot this project into the stratosphere with our Stretch Goals!

Every comment, like, share, and backer brings us one step closer to FLY transforming into a story bigger than I ever imagined. Let’s keep pushing ! 🪽💫

FLY : A Magical Black Boy Series - Pilot

A coming of age story about Black kids who finally have power to fight back against systems designed against them.

[sycletree-art]

The Trials Tribulations and Horrors of being an artist is that I decided I wanted to do Digital Art.... And I got good at it.... Kinda.

And then my LAPTOP SHITS THE BED T^T

And I fix it! .... Buuut bc MICROSOFT is EVILL!!! I cannot get my data off it and I loose 3 yrs of art

Then I get part replaced and laptop reset, it FIX!!! I draw!! ...... Aaaand it breaks again bc the ppl who fixed it actually broke it >:C (saudered some things that SHOUDL NOT be saudered and fucked my motherboard)

Take it to New Guy! He says he can't fix it but he CAN! move my data and give me a new laptop! Yay!

New laptop works! I draw again!!! Jubilation!!!

.....

It shit bed. Hard drive fucked. Data unrecoverable.

*silence grows increasingly tense and sorrowful and aggravated*

People say they can give me fucked drive and I can ask a corporation to get my things back, but I say "yk what bro.. sure fine ig. I don't really care anymore"

Now I wait for new blank laptop. I cry. At this point I'm basically a strictly traditional artist ... I cry but at least my trusty sketchbook will never have hard drive failure and I can sew/duct tape that sucker back together.

[molabuddy]

i couldn’t think of a better way to communicate this so its this . my struggle

[bronkenj]

[daxite]

the ride never ends

[weirdstrangeandawful]

[bowenoke]

[sycletree-art]

Tired and sick and my drawing laptop is Boken

So I'm turning my stupid characters into stupid cats and making them do stupid shit on the stupid phone app

[sinn0hh]