#art grumbles

[amongthegentlymad]

me posting my artwork on tumblr

[chuffedchough]

Love it when I forget a character is supposed to be wearing gloves until after I've drawn their fingernails

[tentacleonastick]

Color corrections my detested.

[skidar]

Not gonna lie, I totally wish I’d have had an anime phase as a kid to grow up drawing in that style and get a better sense of expression, proportions, etc.

I never had an anime phase. I had a ‘watches Animal Planet all day’ phase and drew nothing but animals until I was 18. Then I started drawing people (really badly drawn people) then took life drawing at now I draw ok-people in ‘my style’ whatever that is.

Now trying to catch up with humans I wish I could have had those years of trail and error done before now so I could move on to honing it. But now I’ve got to start from square one constantly and its annoying. 

So yeah, I wanna draw better people and get better at hard cel shading. 

Personal homework

[blueberryraptorcrumble]

I think I'm in a weird art block atm... but it's different?

Like usually it's lack of inspiration. The I wanna draw but I dunno what feeling. But lately I've been having the exact inverse. I have all these different ideas for this, that, and that other thing... but whenever I try to put it down I'm disappointed and frustrated with drawing that I usually scrap it before it gets out of the rough sketch phase. And because of that I naturally haven't been drawing as much as I should, and it feels like my skills have suffered because of it- leading to more frustration and continuing that cycle.

It also feels like my preferred art program isn't working the way I remember it. About a couple months ago Clip Studio did a major overhaul and changed a bunch of shit, mostly cosmetic. But I think some of the functions are just ever so slightly different, and some of the frustration is having to essentially re-learn this damn program. The impossibly small scroll bars are so fucking annoying to deal with too, but that doesn't really have any bearing on my art.

It's just so aggravating. I know I gotta just draw, I really really want to, but for whatever reason I seemingly can't.

[blueberryraptorcrumble]

You ever look at your old art you still really love but it needs some fixing so you go to fix it finally and be like..

How did I do this? Seriously how tf did I do this?

Just me? K.

[jodeeeart]

Hear Ye, Hear Ye  All re-posters!

Now, I know I can’t do anything to stop you re-posting my artwork and in most cases, If it’s credited back to me, I don’t mind so much, this is why I add a small watermark but if you’re going to start cropping that out - things are going to have to get a little obnoxious and no one wants that . . . do they?  I mean, it actually takes more effort to open a file, crop it, heinously wazz up the saturation and then repost it. I don’t get it. 

[kugisakiis]

I love seeing art that is so damn good it makes me want to get off my ass and draw and realize I took 2 long weeks off it’s time to get my head back in the game. And it makes me want to draw all of my characters namely: Arno (because I have never drawn a male before), Cressida, Lumiere and Katerina.