#stringbean the snakeshifter

[solhunder]

The Owl House // Battle of the Bands AU

LUZ NOCEDA

18yo // BAD GIRL COVEN // Bassist & Vocals

Currently taking a gap year after graduating high school

[selenic-heart]

they're so cool

[branmuffins22]

learning 2 draw gud (feat. the snakiesssss)

I had the (unoriginal) thought last night to try drawing all my characters & props the usual sketchy way (outlining and then coloring), and then draw my backgrounds in a more painterly fashion (just smear some color on there). So, today, I thought I'd give it a quick try.

The results were, obviously, rather skrunkly. With no regard for posing, or anatomy, or line weight, or setting (seriously, why did I put 'em on the Isles???), or pretty much anything else, it ended up looking (appropriately) juvenile.

But even just these 20-ish minutes of work helped me learn a lot! In the future, when I'm doing backgrounds, I gotta try and do it back-to-front, or at least use more than one background layer, and some texturing would go a LONG way to make it look less... like that. For characters, I aughtta use smaller lines (ideally, small enough to convey the smallest relevant details, like expressions), and probably pay more attention to anatomy (Vee's head is shaped so weird here).

I'm starting to understand what artists mean when they say you just gotta practice. I already came out of this with, like, a whole post-mortem full of improvements to make. And this was only my first serious attempt at a background! Maybe I should follow along with some Bob Ross about it...

[wheretwofacesmeet]

[selenic-heart]

IT'S VEE WEEK TIME BAYBEE LET'S GOOOOOOO

@vee-week

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