So- explanation for anyone who doesn't know about the current dabloon thing:
It's a trend that started only a couple of days ago on TikTok. The original meme, the "base template" I guess you could call it, is that people would post videos or photo slied where they say something along the lines of "Hello traveler, would you like some warm stew? But it will cost ya... four dabloons" and then they would post this specific image of a cat holding up a paw showing four paw-toes:
For some historical context, dabloons (or rather doubloons) was a real form of currency that used to exist. I couldn't find too much info in my search that I spent a grand total of 5 minutes on, but they seem to originate from the Spanish Empire around the 1500-1800. In modern times they are mostly associated with pirates.
Anyway, back to TikTok! This trend escalated quickly. It started with the fact that people began joking about being in dabloon-debt after coming across so many of these posts, so people starting making posts where they were instead giving dabloons to others. So people started keeping track of their dabloon savings. The dabloon posts started evolving even more. People made "shops" where you could choose how to spend your money, some decided to become theives and would steal others' dabloons. Dabloon-cops started showing up to stop the dabloon-thieves' shenanigans.
Then the inflation happened. People started handing out crazy amounts of dabloons, which led to spiking prizes. Stew would go from 4 dabloons to 20, people became dabloon-millionares from simply one post. The Dabloon President (yes, really) made a call for action to prevent this impending economic crisis. There were restrictions put in place on how many dabloons could be handed out at once, and taxes were introduced. Some people did not like the direction the dabloon-society was going with all these laws and rules. A dabloon-restistance was formed to fight against the dabloon-government.
.... yes there is basically a dabloon-civil-war going on, this all happened within the span of a few hours, shit's wild.
People have also started making dabloon-sonas though, so that's fun!
Your art is so cool!! Can you share you digital art process sometime?
Ask and ye shall receive:
(Also thank you!!😭)
Aight so I have A Few digital art processes due to me being inconsistent and not being able to commit to one thing (I prefer calling it ✨having a creative and curious mind✨ but eh) so my processes are subject to change, but here are my more recent methods of drawing digitally.
First of all, my art software of choice in the last couple of years has been Procreate, with some of my most commonly used brushes being these:
Spectra is my brush of choice when it comes to sketching, I really like the texture and it has a nice feel when it comes to both size and opacity based on pressure.
Next up is lineart, what brushes I use in this stage goes hand in hand with what type of colouring process I'll use. When it comes to drawings with more flat shading (such as cellshading) I'll usually use Narinder Pencil. Again, nice texture, and I like it for situations where I want thinner lines with less variety in line-thickness.
When I use a colouring and shading process that's more complex/fully rendered of whatever tf you call it, I tend to use the Niko Rull or Eaglehawk (first drawing is the Niko Rull, second is Eaglehawk)
They are also the brushes I use for the actual rendering process of this particular colouring style (yeah guess we're going into to colouring stage now)
I have no idea how to describe my actual process on how I render my drawings lmao sorry I guess?? I kinda just improvise and hope it ends up looking decent haha. As you might be able to guess though, I am HEAVILY inspired by Arcane's art style (that show Awakened something in my istg) so uhhhhh go watch other people's tutorials on how to emulate the Arcane art style or smthn I dunno.
I will say though, the rendering process and the final look of the piece ends up being slightly different depending on which brush I use.
Niko Rull is rectangular as a base shape, and it doesn't really shade that easily on it's own. Because of that it takes a while to make the shading look good (trust the process!!) but I really like the end result (textureeeeee)
Eaglehawk is easier to blend and shade with (as in it takes a shorter amount of time) which leads to the end result being more smooth
Back to the drawings that use mainly flat shading! Here I will often use Eaglehawk to add that sweet sweet texture I keep going on about, basically I will just colour the areas that are either darker and/or more saturated (for example the cheeks, nose and ears in the latter case) with what is usually a warmer tone on a layer set to multiply, then I adjust the opacity to my liking.
Then I'll just cellshade using the Medium Hard Airbrush. I like using a cooler tone like blue often (like I did here in this example) but that changes a lot depending on what I think'll fit the art piece. Draw that on a layer set to multiply and again adjust the opacity to whatever looks good.
In the final stages of the drawing process I'll just add a bunch of filters until it looks good lmao. I am Bad At Colour Theory™, even though I KNOW the theory part of it, I have such a hard time actually using it practically. Basically, making the colour palette look good is HARD so I'll just CHEAT by using layers that's filled with a colour (whatever fits) and set it to like multiply or overlay or something like that and lower the opacity a bunch and BOOM people will think I know what I'm doing. One of my favorite is covering the entire drawing with a layer filled with a light blue colour, set that layer to Difference and lower the opacity to like 5%. The effect is subtle, but I like it.
Also, MORE TEXTURE!! Static texture!! Well, in procreate it's called "Noise" but it basically adds this static like texture to your selected layer. Use it on a layer that's filled with gray, set it to overlay lower the opacity a bunch and it gives this really nice grainy feel to your art. The colour filters I tend to use on all my coloured drawings, but the noise texture I mostly use the art with flat shading.
So yeah, sketching - lineart - colour flats - shading/rendering - add a bunch of filters - finished art piece, nothing really unusual there.
And lastly, some extra things I do:
In the lineart stage, I'll colour the sketch like red or something to differentiate between the sketch and lineart more easily.
I'll also lower the opacity of the sketch layer to help avoid accidentally drawing the lines on the same layer as the sketch (iykyk)
When filling in the flats, I'll first use a deep, saturated red or blue, and when I'm done filling in a section then I'll change the colour in that area to what it's actually supposed to be. This makes it easier to notice if there's a spot you missed to fill in because it'll contrast more!
I tend to prefer lineart that isn't pure black in my illustrations. With thinner lines I'll colour them a dark brown, blue, green etc, while with thicker lines I'll do the same but also lower the opacity slightly so that the colour underneath effects the lines colour as well.
You know how some people draw everything on like 1-3 layers? Yeah I'm the opposite, ONE MILLION LAYERS BABEYYYY you can never have too many!! (actually you can there's a limit but eh)
Sometimes, when I need to come up with a pose, I'll try posing in different ways myself to get ideas. I wont take any reference pics of myself tho because yikes
That's all I can think of for now! There's quite a lot to go into when it comes to art processes and I'm not great at explaining things, so if anyone has any questions just ask! :,)
redid my ipad wallpapers again and I just want you to know that your art is being used for great stuff lmao (don't mind all the covered up stuff akshajha)
Hey, I'm new to tumblr so sorry if the answer's obvious, but why are you so against reposts? Isn't that a big part of tumblr? I mean there's a button for it and everything.
Haha that's because you've gotten the terminology slightly mixed up, my friend ^^
Reposts are not the same as reblogs
Reblogs are the tumblr feature you're thinking of, the one that has a button. And yes, I absolutely appreciate reblogs they're great!
Reposts are when you screenshot or download someones post/artwork and posts it on your own account, often even on other social media. That's what I'm against people doing to my art.
Reblogs are a way to share someones art around while still making it so that the original post gets traction. Reposting something is making a seperate new post. So if a repost of my art gets a bunch of likes and attention, none of that is garanteed to translate into my original post getting in on any of that attention.
I hope that clears it up! It's not that uncommon for people new to tumblr ro mix up the two words so I hope I could help :]
Can you explain me how was your process to find your drawing style? And good afternoon 😊
-Layla/stupid mizutsune :D
Waaah thank you!! :D
Anyway there's been quite a few artstyles that have influenced my own throughout the years, at this point I feel like my current art is a mix of both western and japanese art styles. My first big influence was from when I was around 10 and I was constantly borrowing those How To Draw Anime books from the library lmao (the girls who get it get it).
I started being more active on the internet and in fandoms around age 12, and there's so much art on here that my own style was changing a lot during this time. Basically, whenever I found a drawing or an artist that I liked I would try to copy that style, which led to my own art being a bit inconsistent during this period haha. Which is fine btw, I think it's good for newer artists to experiment with their art.
Some of the main influences during my teens though were from all the art tutorials I found on Youtube and uhhh....... the hamilton fandom...... NOT JUST THat though ya'll know all those bazillion musical animatics on Youtube back in the late 2010s!?!? Yeah those specifically had such an impact on my artstyle lmaoooo (THE GIRLS WHO GET IT GET IT!!!)
In my late teens though I feel like I finally developed more of my own art style..... I mean it's still pretty inconsistent hehe and of course I still take inspiration from other people's styles but there hasn't been any big influences aside from ONE thing! I mentioned it in this ask a couple of weeks ago but the show Arcane has had such a big impact on my art it's not even funny.
Regardless like I said, my current style is a bit of a mix between both western and japanese art (best of both worlds!) that being said I feel like the japanese influences are more obvious in the way I draw comics. Manga have affected me a lot in this aspect (not that ya'll would know that since I haven't really posted any comics on here oops.) I also like having a healthy mix of both semi-realism as well as more cartoony influences. I feel like I would have gravitated more towards realism if it weren't for my love of comics, it's easier to draw comics when you keep it a bit more cartoony.
This is kind of a ramble man idk how to explain these things, hopefully you got something out of this haha 👍
you said in bio not to repost your art does that include reblogs?
Oh no, reblogs are very much appreciated ahaha! 😁
By reposts not being allowed, I mean that I don't want people to like screenshot/download my artwork and post it on their own account or other social media and such. But using the reblog feature here on Tumblr completely fine, ^^
