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Between work and school I don't have as much drawing time anymore, so I only finished one picture this week. I'm actually really happy with it though. I drew a background I don't totally hate (even if it is stupidly simple).
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I drew some plants again.  
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Jan 31, 2018 08:52
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 Spent a good chunk of time drawing this. Tried to pay a lot more attention to lighting and shadow in this piece but like many things my comprehension of it is poo poo. At least I think I drew a prominent hand without it looking awful? Its actually really hard to draw fat fingers. One thing I wonder is when you guys work on large pics, how do you avoid forgetting about minor details? Its always a struggle for me to remember what I'm doing and when I'm hours into a drawing and juggling like 10+ layers its so easy to overlook stuff. I really like this one. Sharpest Crayon posted:I found this handy chart (as a reblog on Coelasquid's tumblr) to explain art slumps that might help others! Looking at other people's art keeps me from experiencing art high because it always reminds me how much mine sucks compared to competent people.
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Feb 5, 2018 22:10
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Sharpest Crayon posted:I love that bird freaking the gently caress out like there's something worse than being attached to some sorta fat lumpmonster and it's looking straight at it. The bird is actually controlling the fat lump so it can judge sinners and determine if they are worthy of being sanctified or devoured. Demon's Souls is a weird game. quote:Neeeever let someone else's good arts get in the way of feeling good about what you've achieved! Especially since "art" is such a wide area. You might learn to be a brilliant portrait artist and end up lamenting how you can't do cartoony caricatures, or do great comic arts with a whooshy sense of movement and cry how you can't paint scenery or machines like (excellent artist you happen to be looking at). There's a ton of different kinds of art and no-one's the master of all. Good advice. I feel plenty of good about my art since I can actually draw the stuff I want now whereas last year I struggled so much to put my thoughts onto paper. However looking at other art is good for keeping perspective and also inspiring new ideas in how I can approach drawings. I'm far from a skill level I'm comfortable with (and doubt I'll ever reach it) but just being able to draw is making me happy now as long as I feel like I'm improving somewhat.
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Feb 6, 2018 03:19
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I'm gonna draw basically nothing but Demon's Souls this month since the servers are going down and I wanna pay tribute to it.
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Feb 7, 2018 07:45
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 I've never drawn fancy detailed armor before and it shows. This pic took way longer than I thought it would. Good practice though I guess. Al! posted:a couple of spooky ghosts I find these to be really interesting. Weird aesthetic.
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Feb 11, 2018 19:57
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I drew a pokemon picture for my brother's birthday.  Nothing special about it but it did teach me something. If I wanna put backgrounds in my pic I really need to plan them out ahead of time rather than winging it. I wanted this to have a background but couldn't come up with anything that looked right due to the angles I had the pokemon facing.
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Feb 15, 2018 08:24
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dupersaurus posted:Do you guys have favorite prompt sources? Drawing fanart of whatever games I like because I'm a talentless hack and can't make anything original. But that's only partly true. The main reason is because I find it a lot easier to draw something I'm interested so drawing fanart of games is just naturally appealing. It also means I can get reference pics easily by just playing the game myself and taking screenshots.
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Feb 25, 2018 11:49
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 I went into this picture wanting to do a proper background. I think it actually came out...well, okay. Better than usual I mean. Which isn't saying much since usually I don't even do a background. Keeping track of everything gets to be such a headache. Also proper lighting continues to be a subject that mystifies me. But at least I actually finished something I found really difficult. Its hard to keep drawing a picture you think is gonna turn out terribly. For fun here's the same pic before I colored it; 
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Feb 26, 2018 10:45
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Sharpest Crayon posted:I, personally, can't get enough of pics of watercreatures flying through the air and that goes double for all kinds of rays. I noticed there's an enchanted sword and a magical doorway, so is this a scene from a game? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2KBnPuncULY Like i said, I mostly just draw fanart because I'm terrible at doing original pictures.
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Feb 27, 2018 03:08
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I draw alien feesh I have no idea how to go about drawing water really.
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Feb 28, 2018 09:27
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ThePlague-Daemon posted:I was gonna do some surreal landscape thumbnails but it didn't get any further than this: I think its pretty cool.
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Mar 2, 2018 09:10
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I managed to make a drawing that I actually like. The designs in Subnautica and environments in Subnautica are really fun to draw.
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Mar 2, 2018 23:07
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To me the scary thing about being an internet porn artist isn't drawing degenerate poo poo but rather having to associate with the people that regularly commission it. There's hundreds of artists willing to draw for money right now so if you want people to commission you, you have to do networking. For porn. Might as well just get a minimum wage retail job instead and preserve your sanity, and probably make more money anyways.
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Mar 4, 2018 21:25
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Sharpest Crayon posted:Ugh. Networking is my least-favourite time-waster. Looks like I'll be slowly backing away from the abyss, pretending I never even saw it. I mean, I don't actually have any first-hand experience with this stuff so I am making assumptions. However there was a point in my life where I desperately wanted to live as an artist, and I was wondering if doing fetish commissions on the side might enable that. But from observation I'm pretty confident that making a sustainable living off of being an internet artist, no matter what you draw, has a lot more to do with networking than actual artistic talent. You could be the most amazing artist in the world and it wouldn't matter if nobody ever saw your art. Putting your art on the internet and hoping people randomly stumble across it is a crapshoot. The best way to get your art noticed, regardless of your skill level, is to integrate yourself into a community of established artists. If people that already have a following enjoy and share your art, it will get more attention than it would ever get if you just threw it out there. Becoming genuinely accepted in any community takes a lot of time, and its going to be really taxing mentally if you don't actually care about that community at all. Also I've heard from people that genuinely enjoy drawing gay furries or whatever that still hate doing commissions because a lot of people on the internet are picky fucks. You don't have nearly as much freedom as you might think and if you don't draw something exactly the way they want, they won't pay you. So you have to be in constant communication with these people to make sure they will be fine with the finished product. Do extensive studies and research on their sparkle dragon OC. Also during this time you'll constantly have a lot of people begging you to provide them with free art. If you aren't established yet as an artist though you can't just tell them to gently caress off; you need to build a good reputation. So its not actually as easy as it seems. Its also a good way to burn yourself out on art because you spend all your time drawing dragon dicks instead of what you actually enjoy. So unless you happen to enjoy dragon dicks, I wouldn't try making money off of them. (the bunny is cute though)
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Mar 5, 2018 02:03
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 Felt like poo poo so I haven't drawn much lately. Did a poo poo drawing. Whatever.
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Mar 17, 2018 08:14
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Grown man draws babby game characters  (no shame though its a good game)
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Mar 20, 2018 06:05
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ThePlague-Daemon posted:I'm not sure this is worth salvaging at this point. I mean it looks good to me? A hundred times better than what I can draw at any rate. The only thing that looks off to me is the bird dude in the foreground. I think the shading on him makes his figure look to murky. Other than that its really nice.
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Mar 20, 2018 06:40
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More Kirby. Fun and relatively easy to draw.
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Mar 21, 2018 08:12
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I watched The Abyss last night so I did a quick drawing of the only good character in that movie.
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Mar 24, 2018 06:49
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Still drawing Kirb More importantly though, my mother's birthday is this week. Since I'm poor I'm just drawing her a picture and framing it. Hopefully I can print it without mangling the quality. She liked the last picture I gave her (I think) so I think she will like this one too. Maybe.  Its a sun flower. Yeah I'm real fuckin clever 
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Mar 28, 2018 06:36
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Sharpest Crayon posted:Oh hey, I'd forgotten, did the winter sunflower print out ok then? I've found reds are super hard to get right when printing. But the flower's lovely and your mum will surely appreciate it. I actually sent that picture to a company that prints them out on wooden slabs to create the illusion of them being painted by hand. I think it came out okay, and I think my mom liked it (its hard to tell sometimes/I can never take people's compliments at face value) but I don't have the time/money to do that this time. Plus I did want to try to printing and framing something from home to see if it was something I could do more often.  I think it came out okay, though you really can't tell because of how bad I am at taking photos. I did notice some mangling of quality by the printer though. Not sure if that's because of the printer (it is 10+ years old) or the way I printed it. People in the question thread advised always painting your pics way bigger than you intend to print the. I didn't do that because I've always found it more comfortable to work with the actual size I want the pic to be.
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Mar 28, 2018 19:55
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Working on a little gif of an obscure game for fun. Its taking forever since I've manually made gifs like, twice, before now but its kind of fun.
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Mar 29, 2018 04:15
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I mean from what I understand if you actually want to make a career out of art than the vast majority of the time you won't be drawing what you want anyways. If you want consistent work you need to be able to do a variety of projects and a vast skillset helps with that. If you are ultra specialized then you will struggle if you can't find any work that deals with that specialization, and art jobs are super limited so that's a pretty common scenario. Which is why I decided pursuing a career in art was hopeless and I'd enjoy it more as a hobby. I have no qualms with drawing tons of fanart since it might not be technically impressive but I have fun with it and some people enjoy it. I'd like to do more original pieces some day but I need to improve my fundamental skills to better express those visions.
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Mar 29, 2018 08:57
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Finished the gif I started the other day. 
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Mar 30, 2018 00:42
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I put way too much time/effort into this dumb mashup.
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Apr 2, 2018 09:45
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Those are really cool and good sketches.
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Apr 3, 2018 06:15
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Why do you have to pay a monthly subscription for a program? That sounds obnoxious. Anyways I drew a spider. 
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Apr 4, 2018 08:04
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Do you ever look at art from two years ago and think "wow I've barely improved! That makes me sad." Cause that's what I did today 
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Apr 5, 2018 01:00
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I like drawing with crayons sometimes. It reminds me of when I was a kid.
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Apr 7, 2018 08:20
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Al! posted:i was really taken with this one so i animated it a bit That's so cool!
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Apr 7, 2018 19:36
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What program are you using to make all these animations?
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Apr 8, 2018 08:33
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I spent a bunch of free time this weekend working on this dumb pic and its still not done. Lineless drawings take forever and I'm already super slow   Maybe I can give it a proper background tomorrow. Al! posted:aesprite, it's really easy to use and i still like it a lot I'll have to look at it sometime. I've been trying to find a program that's good for making small gifs.
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Apr 9, 2018 09:47
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 Despite the background being simple it actually took me a few hours since I kept trying different stuff that wasn't working. Also I had to redo part of the base image because I didn't like the colors. So I probably ended up putting way more effort into this dumb picture than I intended too. Eyes are fun too draw though.
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Apr 10, 2018 09:17
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So dumb question: how do you guys draw stars? I mean the cartoony, 5 pointed stars. It seems like such a simple shape but I tried drawing some and found I couldn't get very few that actually looked goodAl! posted:i have absolutely no training and very little practice with figure drawing so im kind of winging it and that's probably the most ambitious pose i've ever tried. i think if i move the hair down a bit it'll resolve a bit better, it's a bit helmety at the moment. I'll be honest and say that if that's supposed to be a normal human the proportions look really bizarre. I was looking at it like it was some weird future monster and liked it more that way. I don't have any advice on that front though because I can't draw humans more complex than a stick figure.
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Apr 11, 2018 02:17
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I'm working on a bigger drawing but I wanted to take a break with something easier.
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Apr 12, 2018 07:37
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 Did a very simple landscape for fun. It was inspired by some weird bad video game I can't even remember the name of which is why the palette is so odd.
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Apr 17, 2018 07:25
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 Just a quickish drawing of some random thing I sketched during class.
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Apr 20, 2018 08:26
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This my friend is the Zybourne Clock
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Apr 22, 2018 22:42
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Did another crayon drawing because I felt like it.
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