#nettle speaks

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Trick or Treat!

Sorry, I left the treats by the front door

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Your animal is black diamond cichlid

✨🌼🍁 what a splendid creature!

Very elegant, it's shape is very nice

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I've been seeing your 2024 IB artwork pop up again and I always have to stop and stare at it! And really zoom in and look at all of the little details!! Your artwork is so inspiring and breathtaking, and I know I can't begin to say this enough times XD Traditional lineart and inking is my favorite art medium and you just... nail it... every time !!! <3 <3

are you kidding?!!! I'm the one who should be sending that picture, all of your tags and messages mean so much to me TT-TT

Thank you so much, I'm so glad you enjoy my artwork. It's been a while but I really want to make something to post again

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Booty McTooty

Gasp! I wave my handkerchief to the chivalrous knight who passes by upon his noble steed in his armor shining.

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What’s your art process like?

I’m sorry I’ve been sitting on this one for so long, because honestly I feel like I have a pretty typical process. But I’ll do my best to explain what I do with a few pictures!

Thumb-nailing is always a good idea and will help you know what the heck you’re doing. It really helps with value and composition! Here’s my thumbnailing for the christmas truce comic I did (you can see a random warm up doodle I did before starting something else XD

You can see how loose it is, and also the dialogue is just off to the side XD

for comic making this is maybe the hardest part, but once you have it, it’s pretty smooth sailing to sketch it out and make it bigger. I don’t have a photo of that part unfortunately because it’s quick. (I usually just loosely pencil in where the people are with more attention to the structures and panels around them, and maybe what they’re expressions are) Then I make it pretty:

The actual pages are fairly small because most people are going to be reading it on their phone. Then I line it with pen which always goes really fast.

For colored things, I am still often figuring things out. I usually put a base color down first and then layer on top of it. Also, I try to keep my color pallets fairly limited, sometimes by picking out before hand the colors at my disposal. Once you have those colors if you mix them the whole piece will look more interesting and cohesive as long as your initial colors play well together (don’t have to worry so much about this with colored pencil, but watercolors play best with others the fewer pigments they have already mixed inside.)

Here’s one that I’ve only put a base color down, usually I don’t leave blank spaces unless value or glow is really important

The wirt and greg pictures have a hot pink wash behind them

You can see the layering easier in this gauche painting

I think most traditional artists would describe something similar. In my opinion, the most important part is practicing and doing so on a regular basis. For me, even if I do nothing else, once a week I go to church, sit down in a pew and get out my sketch book. If you can find a time like that for yourself it really is valuable! I won’t say anymore because there are so many more awesome tutorials and explanations elsewhere on the internet! If nothing else, I hope to leave you with the impression of how doable this is, even with something simple like a ball point pen or crayola pencils

here’s some bonus doodles for reading to the end ✨⭐️🌌

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I just wanted to say.

Everytime I see your art I just wanna ... you know...

With all the love I can give.

thank you!

Someone told me my art would taste like pistachio ice cream once, so I hope that the experience is very sweet despite the shredded paper texture XDXD

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Saw you got a cool costume, so...

Trick or treat!

Oh what a lovely costume, here have a----

No! That goat just stole your treat!

Look at her go!