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A quick coloring practice tip I made for Patreon

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Some of the best writing advice I ever got was if you’re stuck on a scene or a line, the problem is actually about 10 lines back and that’s saved me from writer’s block so many times.

melindawrites

I feel like I need an elaborate explanation

ittybittytatertot

Often times, I find myself stuck on what a character should say next or what should happen in a scene to connect A to B or so on. When this happens, I fall into the trap of writing and rewriting the same few lines over and over, and becoming more and more dissatisfied every time until I give up.

But problem is almost never actually whatever line I’m trying to write at the moment; the issue is the stuff leading up to the line. Maybe there are structural issues with the set up, maybe I wrote a bit of dialogue that was out of character leading to a discussion that doesn’t make sense, maybe I’m missing a vital piece of exposition or expositing too much. It could be a lot of things, but the important part of the advice is to look back and be willing to consider changes to something earlier in the work (even if you’re really attached to like a piece of dialogue or a particular sentence or something) instead of trying to find a way to force out a scene that’s not working.

melindawrites

That makes a lot of sense. Thanks for explaining!

softestvirgil

This is really helpful!

thatdisasterauthor

Hello, I have discovered that paint swatches are a stupidly fun surface medium for colored pencil. I brought a big bag over to @gallusrostromegalus’ house and now we’re doodling.

gallusrostromegalus

It’s true they’re really great! they take both ink and color pencil well (and you can erase color pencil off them with baby oil!) and they also act as prompts: if you don’t know what to draw the color name is usually silly and suggestive!

vixcon

Give!! Me!! More!! Dragons!! In!! Shawls!!

I had this idea that some dragon tribes share the tradition of wearing wedding shawls, humongous elegant shawls either hand made by the mother-in-law of the betrothed for more poor class dragons, or and handed down over generations and crafted by ancients or animus for the royal families.

Above is displayed a smaller, less intricate and somewhat poor class shawl crafted by a skywing mother-in-law for her young daughter. The silk that Skywings use is expensive and imported, so only royal families can afford to have shawls that stretch over their wings, back, and trail behind them in some cases.

Only the upper class Icewings have a few beautiful shawls stored away for royal weddings, an ancient gift from an animus dragon which are said to give the gift of fertility to those who wear it during their vows.

Rainwings hand craft their shawls from vines to form narrow and small but elegant drapings entwined with beautiful rainforest flowers and leaves. The male often will present a shawl that he hand crafted to his mate as proposal.

Queen Coral wore a shawl on her wedding night to Gill, though it is not a tradition in the seawing kingdom.

Nightwings, Mudwings, and Sandwings don’t partake in this tradition, each for their own reason.

fareeeha-remade

fellas do you mind if i

bonus bc i’ve seen people doing this

biohazardia

A couple designs I made as gifts for friends over on DeviantArt! The top is a Night/Ice and the bottom one is a Silk/Sea

deviantart

“Some brief drawing tips” by Vetyr: http://bit.ly/2G154CH

Some friendly human drawing tips from Vetyr!

maxpawb

*rampaging

sticksandsharks

evangel of the stars

my D&D character, Prisma, a Divine Soul Aasimar Sorcerer. they are p much my favorite tabletop character I’ve ever played

skulldog

I couldn’t stop thinking about this meme and this same feeling. Artist mood.

dimepaw

In the old days, the three moons were loved and revered as deities by all NightWings, but only moonborn dragons who received the gift of mind reading, prophecy, or both were able to experience the intense feelings of overwhelming joy, exhilaration, and peace that radiated off a full moon. This is why they started holding full-moon festivals–- so that the moon-gifted dragons could expend their carnal, raw energy in the form of dancing or sparring to avoid being driven half wild with the intoxicating power of the moons. Blowing smoke at whichever moons were full during these festivals was considered a show of deep respect and gratitude for the generous gifts that were bestowed onto the moonborn dragons at their hatching. After the abrupt disappearance of the NightWing tribe, the full-moon festivals were adopted by the SandWings and the tradition lived on. Two thousand years later, unable to sleep with the wild humming energy of two moons running through her veins, Moonwatcher has a full-moon festival of her own, alone and in secret.*

*this is all headcanon I just wanted an excuse to draw Moon blowing smoke

Alt. caption: Moonwatcher gets lit in the high school locker room while her teachers are sleeping, like, two caves over and doesn’t even get caught

whycantidraw

LOVE this

magpiesketches

Reblog to save a life

zooophagous

Note from a graphic designer who has to fix this shit all day: rich black is prettier sure but for the love of the gods don’t use it for text if it’s going on newsprint. If its anything other than solid black it will bleed out and become unreadable.

Half my job is fixing this mistake all day from people who really really should know better. And now you know!

catsdelightful-deactivated20240

Hey artists, C. Spike Trotman, founder of Iron Circus Comics, just posted an invaluable thread on depicting different types of black hair. I’d do the thing where you screencap the whole thread and post it but it’s just too long (which is great because it’s a whole lot of useful information!) Give her a follow while you’re there.

Anyway, go check it out. I just wanted to save it and share it because I didn’t know how much I didn’t know!

biohazardia

A couple commissions for folks on Deviantart! Wolfwood (IceWing) - owned by ArbitraryRenaissance Windrider (NightWing) - owned by Bryte-Eyes Currently my commissions are closed but info on them can be found HERE - these were both bust commissions.

whycantidraw

Aaaah I love these ❤️❤️