Artsy McChucklefuck

Kelley. 21. I'm a mess but at least I can doodle. Complimentary depressing sentiments included.

[loveage-moondream]

Celestial dress by Alexander McQueen

[nightmaskart]

Inktober day 1: Coriander: Hidden Worth

[mindpalacestudy]

ideas of exercises to help with your practical art skills, as well as things to keep in mind while making art and new ways to find inspiration:

draw every day

recreate a drawing you did before, but better

draw something using only simple geometric shapes

do studies of famous artworks

listen to artists explain their work, it’s super interesting

take life drawing classes (or use online photo resources)

find an artwork you love, and work out why

draw caricatures of friends

set a 1 minute timer and draw an object as quickly as possible

draw something you can’t see, eg. music, emotion

research artists you admire and find out how they work

think about composition: what stands out, what recedes etc.

find a famous artwork you hate and work out why

sit outside and draw the landscape

copy a photo exactly

draw a scene from a film

draw the contours of an object not the outline

visit an art exhibition near you

draw your bedroom

look up tutorials online - there’s so many useful ones!

practise creating contrast between light and dark in pictures

research colour theory

do a self portrait

learn about art history! Research different movements etc.

try a new medium

consider the feeling you want to portray with the artwork

draw without looking at the page

draw a character from a book you’ve read

draw something you don’t usually draw

look at your pictures in the mirror to help you see problems better

follow artists and galleries on instagram for inspo

draw an ugly object in a beautiful way

try using only bold, bright colours

plan your colour palette before starting an artwork, and stick to it!

if you usually work in 2D, make something in 3D

always remember to add shadows

draw an object which is important to you

use 5 lines to depict an object, make every line count

draw using negative space

always draw from life when possible!

think carefully about which direction the light is coming from

study proportions and anatomy!! 

draw your pet

research items symbolic meanings in art

make an art blog to compile images that inspire you

draw using only straight lines

try accentuating any subtle colours in an image

draw models from fashion websites

sketch with friends! They always have great ideas

keep drawing even if you find it hard, you improve with every mistake!

{my art masterpost might also be useful to you} 

Good luck! xx

[lady-redhaired]

A friend asked me how I draw feet/shoes so I made this quick thing for them on how I breakdown feet when drawing. Thought it might be useful to someone else.

-Red

[mostlyuk]

Boulder cottage, Leek, Staffordshire

[jjetsam]

For all the artists out there

[imgonnafuckthetriangle]

Youre telling me I threw away 10 dollar markers FOR NOTHING

[sebatticus]

REBLOG to save a life and a wallet!

[imthesaltydad]

Plus copics are actually refillable and you can buy more colored ink online for pretty cheap! So yeah dont throw out copics.

[discretelyobvious]

NO NO NO NO!

Never refill a Copic with regular isopropyl alcohol unless you have absolutely no other option.

Copic markers have their own ink refills to go with each marker,

They look like this and cost around the same price as a Copic Sketch maybe slightly more however they can be used to refill a marker several times

By using isopropyl alcohol what you’re doing, in fact, is diluting what little ink you have left in your make, therefore changing the shade of it.

Of course the one exception to this rule is the colourless blender 0 which is a marker that is full of regular isopropyl alcohol.

As a side note, DON’T throw away your marker if one/both of the is damaged

Copic also make replacement nibs for all of their markers

Which are much cheaper than buying a new marker as you get multiple in a pack.

[celtic-pyro-deactivated20230725]

Reblogging to save an artist. Copics are meant to be reusable and I know how hella expensive those things are. NEVER throw out your Copic markers!

[everythingfox]

Fox noises are the best

[autodiscothings]

>>>click the random generator here for your artists<<<

You can seriously pick any character you want from any franchise, or an OC of your own creation. 

Draw the OC/character in the style of whatever artist you get.

“tag as #artroulette when you’re done. Feel free to tag me to your post so I can see your beautiful work.

Don’t cheat and hit the randomise button over and over.

Have fun!

[heartsnmagic]

[iraville]

I put these two illustrations as limted and numbered giclèe prints into my shop: https://www.etsy.com/de/shop/Iraville They are professionally printed with archival pigment ink on wonderful bamboo and cotton watercolor fine art paper for archival fine art prints…. I also want to announce that i have to close my shop for a couple of weeks again, so if you want to buy something, i recommend to do it now, because my shop will be only open until next friday. I hope you will understand that.

[ghibli-collector]

The Floral Art Of Studio Ghibli

[chaoticresources]

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[walllflower-art]

This is Bluetooth. She's my drone. Follow my insta! @walllflowerart

[erikamoen]

Oh Joy Sex Toy: Sexy Drawing Lessons with Jess Fink!

Drawing dicks is hard work!!!! And kissing and vulvas and blowjobs and cunnilingus, too. Thank god we have veteran smut artist Jess Fink here to show us how it’s done!!!!

This comic was brought to you by my patrons on Patreon. Thanks, guys!

[jessfink]

Hey I did a drawing tutorial comic for Oh Joy Sex Toy! Check it out!

[glitchedpuppet]

i made this to help out someone who was having trouble with palettes and picking colors! maybe it’ll help you guys out too (I hope so anyway)

[iceygazer]

I need all the help i can get…

[walllflower-art]

dude

i’ve spent more time watching color theory videos than i have anything else and this helps more than like 50% of the vids i watch 

[kikidoodle]

Prepping your print from file to finish: I always hear people complaining about how much better the piece looked digitally, SO, here is a run down on how to get prints that look more like your original piece. First of all, every printer is different.  Every paper is different.  Make sure you take the time to do test prints and become familiar with how your printer and paper combo work, as you’ll rarely nail a print your first try.  This one took about 5 test prints before I was confident to print on the expensive large paper Every time I mess up on a print, I save the remaining paper to use as scraps for test prints. As you can see, the original piece looks very nice!  The focus is super strongly on the tiger, and all of the vibrant colors are still super evident in the background.  That said, when I print it as is, everything about 85% gray or darker turns BLACK.  And this is high quality paper designed to get accurate vibrant colors, too. The best way to fix this is to do layer effects.  Brightness/contrast is my favorite, as a typical piece will generally print about 5x better if you up the brightness to around 15-25, and adjust the contrast up or down by 5-10 points.  That said, if you have a HIGH contrast piece (Darks against brights) like this one, you typically need to do a few more steps. Often I’ll do a second brightness/contrast adjustment layer and push brightness to an obnoxious level so the darkest darks are closer to a mid-dark range.  From there, I’ll create a mask and use a transparent gradient tool to slowly pull back the brightness on all of the lighter areas of the image. Additionally, due to printers using CMYK and your screen being RBG certain colors just physically CANNOT print.  Some people will always work in CMYK because of this, but honestly I like my saturated colors and most of my work is intended to be seen digitally so I only ever work in RGB.  Photoshop has a nifty toggle (Ctrl + Y) where you can toggle between CMYK and RGB view to see how your piece will appear when it prints.  It’s useful to check this because if you worked in a color that cannot replicate in print, you may want to shift it entirely before you even bother printing. Artwork tends to desaturate a bit as it prints, so I’ll often make a Hue/saturation layer to play with, too.  In this case the image was already pretty damn saturated, BUT some of the shadows on the tiger were printing more brown than orange, so I adjusted the saturation a bit to keep them vibrant with the rest of the image. **DO NOT use “Lightness” to lighten your image!  It basically adds a white overlay to your image.  Always use Brightness, instead. After all of that, I have a final print that much more closely captures the essence of the original painting.  I could have tinkered even more, but to me the goal is a good print rather than an exact copy.  For ULTRA high contrast images, like a dark room looking out into a snowy exterior, expect to do a LOT of adjustment to get it to print correctly.  Printers just aren’t too fond of super darks right up against super lights. I could make a proper tutorial on this if people request it.  Mostly, just wanted to put my thoughts down in one spot!

[noirsnow]

Daramis Riann Corbray - Gilnean Lady