[artist-refs]

[Drawing the sky in various weathers and times]

In this tutorial, learn how to draw compelling skies, including clear skies, rainy skies, moonlit nights, dawn and dusk. Comic artist Ann Maulina explains in detail how to choose colors for each scene and how to draw clouds.

[vaporwavemonk-art]

Bloom & Rage meets Haven by Marianas Trench ⛈️ 🔥

(End game)

[swagvo1d]

BACKGROUND TUTORIAL!!!

honestly, backgrounds, landscapes and all that stuff is the most enjoyable part of drawing for me so i'm gonna share how i do it

if i do a photo study, i try to make the whole piece less detailed and more based on recreating the colours and shapes that would make up the general vibe i'm aiming for rather than copying everything that is visible in the photo

(or even if i'm not doing a photo study and try to draw from my imagination, it's better to operate with simple shapes and then add details gradually)

so, when it comes to planning out the whole background, i usually focus on those simple shapes and skip the sketch phase cause it actually makes it more difficult (at least for me)

SOMETIMES though, i do a sketch but only when i have something else in mind and not only the basic landscape, like adding some characters or animals or other important objects

...but more often than not i add them later cause my process of thinking when drawing is really chaotic so i usually decide to add something in the middle of creating (like here) if a random idea suddenly pops up in my mind lmao

after drawing those basic shapes i add more and more details, shadows, lighting, etc... at this point i merge all of the layers if i decided to start with a sketch; if not - i draw everything on only one layer from the very beginning (but it's just my personal preference and also a matter of habit ig)

i like to make some aspects of my backgrounds more vibrant and saturated so that they can stand out more and the whole background isn't that dull; i usually do it with clouds, lighting or smaller details, like here

also! a little tip on blending colours and drawing a basic lighting from me - if you use this more saturated colour for, let's say clouds, blend it a little with the base colour of any object you want to put lighting on. the new colour can be used like that, it's slightly less saturated and fits better

i've probably mentioned that some time ago but i play A LOT with saturation and darkness of the colours during my process of creating cause i feel like the colours i pick at the very beginning are a bit too dim and muted to my liking and making them more vibrant makes the whole piece more interesting imo

and that's it! it's really not that complicated, mainly just playing with colours and their saturation and depth;>

[vaporwavemonk-art]

Gotta give some rep to da boys too!

[antarctic-arcanine]

Part of my day was spent making Bloom and Rage photo edits to Lightning and Thunder by Marianas Trench 🌩️

It's still weird for me to be so inspired to make fan content, this truly never happens to me! (Third and forth pics under the read more for spoilers). Also there's truly no rhyme or reason to how I made these, just going off pure vibes!

[antarctic-arcanine]

[luna-azzurra]

A writer's relationship with their own work goes: this is genius, this is garbage, this is genius, this is garbage, i should never have been born, okay actually this line is good

[saszor]

Overview of some topics when it comes to drawing characters who are burn survivors.

DISCLAIMER. Please keep in mind that this is an introductory overview for drawing some burn scars and has a lot of generalizations in it, so not every “X is Z” statement will be true for Actual People. I'm calling this introductory because I hope to get people to actually do their own research before drawing disabled & visibly different characters rather than just making stuff up. Think of it as a starting point and take it with a grain of salt (especially if you have a very different art style from mine).

Talking about research and learning... don't make your burn survivor characters evil. Burn survivors are normal people and don't deserve to be constantly portrayed in such a way.

edit: apparently tum "queerest place on the internet" blr hates disabled people so much that this post got automatically filtered. cool!

[bookwyrminspiration]

there's a common belief that artists know how to make art. this is untrue. i've yet to meet a single artist who has any idea what they're doing

[allthingswhumpyandangsty]

please please please please reblog if you’re a writer and have at some point felt like your writing is getting worse. I need to know if I’m the only one who’s struggling with these thoughts

[yogi-bogey-box]

this is a common phenomenon. the better you get, the more you recognize flaws. the good thing is you can strive to get better. but the bad thing is that you see nothing but flaws. you are actually getting better, but your editing/critical brain is getting tuned up and can see more things to improve. someone post the graph, I can't find it

[yogi-bogey-box]

nvm I found it myself:

"art" can mean any creative endeavor and it definitely applies to writing.

[swagvo1d]

LINEART TUTORIAL!!!

since i was asked to do this, let's break down my usual process of doing lineart...

....if it could even be qualified as such cause i'm not used to doing lineart in the typical sense (where most of people usually think about it in terms of drawing cleaner lines on top of a sketch and only then adding base colours on a separate layer)

i'm gonna show you the whole process on a drawing i've made a couple of months ago

first, i make a sketch. it's almost always very messy and the final piece often ends up looking differently either way so i don't bother with adding many details

then, i go straight to putting base colours on a layer below my sketch. at this point i often struggle with finding the right saturation and brightness so i adjust them A LOT in the next steps

i add some shadows and work on the background a bit (i will make a separate tutorial about my background process!)

and probably my favourite part:') at this point i often merge all of the layers so that i won't mess anything up and start drawing on a wrong layer by mistake. here, i just add more shadows, lightning, i try to cover up the sketch with colours, and kind of "give shape" to my drawing, if you know what i mean. i also make the colours more saturated and bright

(i'm not really familiar with other drawing apps, but if you have procreate, it's also fun to play with the curves tool)

and finally!!! the lineart part!

i often erase the edges and try to make it look cleaner. then, still on the same layer, i pick colours that are a bit darker than those of the shadows and do the lines. i also add more details in this step

also later i adjust the colours even more and add more and more details (sometimes i draw over the lines with even darker tone if i feel like it would fit the general vibe of the drawing better) but that's pretty much it!

hope some of you will find it useful<3

[luna-azzurra]

Writer's block is just fear with a fancy name. you're not broken you're scared it'll be bad. so what if it's bad? write it bad. write it REALLY bad on purpose. write the worst version possible just to get it out. can't figure out a scene? skip it. write the next one. come back later. stuck on a word? put in [WORD GOES HERE] and move on. perfectionism is the enemy. momentum is your friend. you can't edit a blank page but you CAN edit garbage. make garbage. fix it later. keep moving.

[crimson-chains]

Something I told myself a lot when I was younger and still remind myself from time to time now as well ^^

It's hard when you're comparing yourself to others! But, ultimately your art is always changing and improving and it's just so exciting to see what it might become <3

[iktend]

I believe part of being an artist means you never stop improving. For one reason or another, a lot of artists are afraid to paint dark complexions or Black characters. Sometimes deeming the idea too complex or difficult and they’d rather focus on lighter skin tones. If you truly want to get better on skin tones, improvement will come when you keep drawing diverse figures.

Heres few tutorials I like that might be of some help! :

- Dont be afraid of Dark Skin by Ririarts. (I visit this one most frequently)

- How to Render Dark Skin by jordynl33

- Oil painting process by Ellie Mandy Art

Older but honorable mention from Sinix: Painting Dark Skin Tones and Anatomy: Skin

I hope these tutorials help, if anyone has any youtube videos they like feel free to share as well i’d love to see! And remember that practice makes improvement.

[ghostcaterwaul]

Reblog to gain creative energy and to give more creative energy to the person you reblogged this from.

[jojo-the-dogg0]

Equiping an armor tutorial

i'll prob make more bc i love talking ab armors

[thirdity]

“You write the beginning and then you go back and rewrite the beginning, and you never got off page one. It’s kind of a syndrome, and I have a rash piece of advice which is — Go on, page two, page three, and never look back. Get something finished, no matter how lousy it is. […] Perfectionists cannot get going unless they kind of do violence to their own instincts, and just blast ahead.”

— Ursula K. Le Guin, The Last Interview and Other Conversations