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Don’t Throw Away Your Markers
“This is just a quick and simple tip for artists who use markers to color their work. Refilling your own markers can save you money, and it’s easy to do.”
how does this not have more notes!
i… i think i can actually afford to use these, then.
reblog for my artist friends!
I don’t draw but reblog for my artist followers!
I know there’s a lot more I could have covered but with tumblr’s image limit and my own need to get back on personal projects and packing my room up, I stuck to the ABCs of understanding artists and not being a total douche.
Hope this helps a little.
#I’m reblogging this again because of the recent uprise in entitlement#there’s been about 7 posts now#containing the all too annoying question#Why won’t you draw for ME?#because you touch yourself at night.#and santa says not to#that’s why.
It’s not just tumblr that has this issue, or even the internet in general—it’s society at large.
To everyone else in the world, artists are lazy people who just draw pictures, right? Because magical elves totally design the clothes you wear, or the logos for your companies, or pretty much everything you own, consume, or enjoy.
One thing I never understood is the perception of those who draw or create cartoons are childish. Like…do you expect other kids to be drawing comics or animating cartoons?
I can’t seem to stop drawing these two… I think I’m in love.
Meeting notes from a couple of years ago.
…how ‘bout I actually make that queue I keep promising?
More art that I did last weekend at Sabakon – heading home in the morning! I’m learning a lot about markers! Honestly, I’m amazed that these still work… they’re the same prismacolors that I got in high school over ten years ago. I’m really enjoying this medium.
The little white dog girl and the fox boy were commissions, and someone bought the umbreon sketch before I had a chance to color it – haha. 
internet is too slow to download my tablet drivers, so I drew this on my laptop with the track pad.
Xander is too cute… omg, favorite eevee-thing ever <3
IN VEGAS. here, have some terrible phone cam pics of what I’ve been up to. Business is slow, so I’m just kind of meandering through ideas. BUT HEY, bear and zed are here 
Time lapse!
1 hour, 58 mins from start to finish.
I am trying to get harder, better, faster, stronger.
That little one standing up, though, kills me every time. It is my favorite thing about this drawing. Look at its little foot. ;_;
Sai + Photoshop
Tbh…I didn’t start getting better at people until I was in a position where I had to haha. Like. Basically when I started taking figuring drawing courses and was drawing them every single day. If it wasn’t during class, I had homework that involved figures of some kind. (Not to say, weLL OBVIOUSLY THIS IS THE ONLY WAY TO GET BETTER. But that’s how it happened to me. I know plenty of people who just…get better by always drawing people and using good reference)
When my anime renaissance of sorts came along when I hit like..20?? That alone fueled me to get better because I wanted to indulge in fanart and stuff. So I guess one thing I would definitely suggest is finding something that will push you and inspire you to get better. My Hetalia phase got me started forever ago.
As for the process? It’s no different than the process for drawing something non-human. It’s just different anatomy you’re dealing with is all. I start off with a gesture of some kind and hop to it. Sometimes I’ll just wing it from the beginning, often time I’ll go through my heaping pile of references before I do any drawing to get some ideas if I don’t have any.
When I’m doing full body stuff this is how I usually start off before I go in for a clean up job.
Right now I’m kinda indulging in FMA at the moment, so I used good old Edward.
Hope that kinda…helps. At least a little.
Reblogging this here because I think this is very important. Having something to motivate you to get better is, I think, essential. Be that your own internal fire, wanting to get into college, wanting to draw fanart, whatever.
Just whatever it takes to get you to practice, and practice a lot.
Also look at that full-figure sketch before going in for the details! A++
