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United States! I’ve just been studying Mandarin on and off since late high school. But I’m not as good as I should be OTL

#I did study in Chengdu for half a year though!#favplusle

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The mint chocolate is a personal favorite of mine, too. Good choice!

That’ll be 300 P, if you please!

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favplusle reblogged your photoset:Meedle: Filling in the Professor

Why does the prof have Hoenn pokemon with him though?

If you mean Zigzagoon, they also live in Kalos

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Hello! favplusle here :3 (this is my other blog btw) I'm taking my O'Levels this year, and I'm taking art as a subject. Any advice?

Wah I'm flattered you asked me, but considering that I've never taken O'Levels Art (or O'Levels lol) and that there are at least million and seventeen artists who are way more skilled than me, I don't know if I have the qualifications to be giving advice but I'll do my best :'DOk so to start with basic school related stuff that are very common sense but I thought I'd just say anyway because I heard from friends who were either serious art students or art lecturers that problems happen a lot anyway:

Start on your homework early. You will need all the time in the world.

Listen to your teachers (but also know when your teacher says something limiting/problematic e.g. I heard of some cases where teachers would insist that certain art forms are superior to other and it's just not good for your growth to be narrow minded in such an expressive art field (also I had a teacher who was extremely homophobic and banned us from breaching the subject in one of our projects =___=)). But generally, most teachers are there to help you in the right direction in your journey.

This one is super obvious, but do your work yourself. It's okay to get some help from friends sometimes, but don't pay your friends to do your work for you =__= (I'm only adding this because I knew two people in my class who paid people to do their work throughout the short 9 month course).

During tests/assignments, it's a bit of a pain, but follow the theme and instructions properly ok? ;u; You can of course aim to make it different/unique, but make sure that the theme/instructions are clear.

Work hard (but work smart by knowing your weaknesses and working on them). In class stuff is fine, I found that but most of an artist's development comes from the work and study they put outside of class. (but remember to take care of your health).

Okay on to more artsy fartsy stuff (aka things I should be doing more)

Before focusing on developing your own style, a strong foundation is really important. You really can't skip this, all good artists will have gone through some basic studies regardless of their style. I'll list out some important basics in the next few points.

Form - There's no point in having beautiful colours if your characters/backgrounds/still life etc looks like a melted omelette dish (unless you happen to be drawing a melted omelette dish). I suggest drawing from life to practice, it really helps a lot and you'll learn to pick up forms faster and in time commit to memory and so on. A good book I'd recommend on studying the human form is Bridgman's Complete Guide to Drawing from Life. I also like Proko's Youtube channel which has lots of anatomy tutorials. I also would recommend visiting the zoo to sketch the animals (but my God do I know how expensive the SG zoo is).

Colour and Light - Both are interlinked, and both play a part in showing form, so a strong understanding of both will really help. I (as well as the industry artist who recommended it to me) strongly recommend James Gurney's Color and Light: A Guide for the Realist Painter. Also, I really like Marco Bucci's free video tutorials.

Perspective - Understand the basic concepts of perspective and sketch some backgrounds for practice. The only way to really learn perspective is to copy it. What a lot of my friends did was to take some screencaps of animations and they drew the perspective lines and attempted to redraw the scenes. (I really should be doing more of this myself lol) Just don't post and claim the artwork as your original work of course ;u; I heard that Tekkonkinkreet is a good source.

When you feel like you're ready, try out various styles. A lot of good artists I know would draw inspiration from other people's styles to apply to their own. It's important to look at other people's works so as to not keep your vision limited. As Picasso said, "Good artists copy, great artists steal". //poofs away Lupin style

Don't give up, you will always improve as long as you keep drawing! Don't compare your progress to others'. If you feel like you have an artblock, don't force yourself and go out and do other things that you enjoy. You can also warm up by drawing simple things that you enjoy first to ease in to the harder stuff.

That's all I can really think for now, hope it helps!

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