#team-indigo

[rosebloodcat]

About bringing back tumblr ask culture I have a wild question

What's your favorite color?

Ooo! I haven't been asked that in ages.

My favorite color is green. Olive Green to be specific! I especially love it in clothing, because it goes with a ton of other colors and patterns comfortably. I have two jackets, three sets of shorts, and a bag in that color!

I also like deep purples.

[geminid]

The other ask about college reminded me, I just brought a physical copy of superbright to my college professor, I took digital painting with him and now he's letting me sit in on his life drawing class. He did a quick flip through and he liked it! He also immediately said "yeah if you like this art get into the history, who did they learn from?" I've only been following you for 2ish years? And it's just been what's landed on my dash. But I looove your pieces, the coloring on the backgrounds versus how Leo and Takumi are drawn, and then the pieces like the mainly pink diner.

So yeah mainly wanted to say you're super cool! Things that you learned from would be neat to see but no pressure.

hi i was honestly very shocked to read that you would show this to your professor who is probably a really great artist but im glad he liked it? ???

i answered the rest of this under the cut

as far as my art history goes, i have no academic background in art so i'm just making stuff up. i think like a lot of kids I got my roots in wanting to draw like shoujo manga, particularly the big eyed round faces of the early 2000s. I would just try to copy the eyes or something. To this day I honestly don't really look at tutorials or watch speedpaints i kind of just look at finished art and try to emulate the things I like about them. It's very simplistic I think and perhaps means I don't make art that's as clean or efficient as people who actually go out and try to learn how pro artists actually draw.

i went on pixiv a lot as a teen and followed like 1000+ artists and looked at a lot of art all the time. I was really enamored by people who could draw characters and backgrounds, like fuzichoco. (this is a super weird fun fact but one of my favorite artists in like 2011-2012 who specialized in like drawing beautiful girls with beautiful backgrounds ended up getting into leokumi under a different name/account and i was their mutual! and i didnt realize this until rather recently. im too shy to share the name tho. my teen self is throttling me btw). I Really wanted to learn how to draw backgrounds so i had to go through the struggle of teaching myself perspective and later on downloading 3d software so i could see boxes on the same plane at angles lol.

When I see art I like I try to capture the essence of what it is I liked about it in a piece (maybe one time its desaturated colors, and the next its dramatically long legs, or adding blur to the foreground), and i decide if it worked out and I want to keep doing it. Some stuff i definitely continue to use is i draw upper eyelashes the way i do because of Sata (touken ranbu, feh artist) and i started drawing leo with weird non-blond hair colors because of Araki (the jjba mangaka, who often colors his characters in alternate palettes than their "canon"). Even though i think there are stuff im a bit rigid about, like i always kinda stay in the realm of anime style, I'm still trying to keep trying out stuff I see in other artists, not just even anime artists but everyone's favorite Leyendecker or Mucha, or I'll take photos of random stuff to file away as an idea. Like I have a photo of leaves my coworker collected that have a nice green to pink gradient that I took for inspiration.

As far as the diner picture goes I think to pull off that piece I needed to practice making art with less colors and also less contrast. Similar shades of pink take up most of the picture with teals being a secondary color and avoiding adding other colors in large amounts. I think the linework is doing a lot of work in that piece. I had to google a photo of a person sitting at a diner table for the perspective.

idk if this answers anything but it was fun to think about?

[rabbitbatthing]

Jay was the nonbinary Espurr right? I don't remember if you made them as a side character or a PMD thing, but I remember loving them and being super interested in their story. :0

yes, they’re the nonbinary espurr (the nonshiny one)! 

i made them for a pmd group initially, but i’ve been expanding on their’s and robin’s backstories and junk in general behind the scenes. i’d been considering making a blog for the both of them but with the way tumblr is right now, we just don’t know

[asktheprinceralsei]

how are you!! so cute!!!!

* C-cute???? Smooch????

* T-thank you????????

[sixsmolsouls]

Hey Wren, are those roller skates on your ballet flats? How fast can you go with them?

Wren: I go as fast as I wanna go, that’s my deal.

[braixendaily]

Hello, I hope I'm not being a bother by asking this but, do you have any advice for starting an askblog/dailyblog for the first time? I don't really have any RP experience so I'm not sure where to start. Don't worry about it if you're busy, but thank you for your time!

No problem! I’m happy to help! ovo

Overall you can get a great idea of how to start a successful daily/askblog just by looking through your favorite blogs themselves, but here are some main pointers!

Make your blog a main blog, not a side blog. If your blog is a side blog you won’t be able to directly follow or send asks, which are both huge parts of askblogging/dailying! It’s not a gamechanger but it does make things WAY simpler. 

Pick a Pokemon species that YOU like and that YOU can see yourself being able to draw... a lot. Don’t worry about a species being overused or overrated. Who cares! Just do what you want to do! 

Tag your posts! Personally I tag my stuff after the species, the general pokemon tag and then all my organization tags (#doodle for art, #ooc for out of character posts etc) to keep things easy to sort through and visible, too!

Start simple. You can always add a story later if you want once you have more experience, but it’s always better to work with something simple and fun first to get into the groove of things. 

Send asks and get to know your fellow blogs! 99% of the people in the community will be happy to interact with you, so don’t be afraid to put yourself out there! Streams are a GREAT place to get to know other mods, so I recommend them!

Have fun! And try not to worry about numbers! Generally all blogs start slowly, so don’t get discouraged by note or follower count. Instead work towards content that you can be proud of, and will help you develop your art skills! 

Hopefully this helps! And let me know when/if you start your blog! OvO I’ll be happy to follow you and interact with you!!

[sunshinesoda-m]

Hooow about Antique Land with Peyton?

Destiny palettes

its my cyan bby

[buttersketches]

Hey, on your cactus thing you said you were insecure about your art, and well, I am too. So I was stopping by to ask if you'd be up for talking about it or something? Just to help each other work through it?

Thanks sweetie! I’m sorry for taking a few days to answer. Real life has been kinda busy and I’ve been stretched a little thin. (I wish I’d thought of that metaphor before I drew yesterday’s inktober )

Anyway, I guess I’m insecure because I see other artists posting amazing stuff for Inktober and then I have like, 15 minutes to scribble something out, so I haven’t been able to do my best art this month.