Tag: art

elixiroverdose:

idk even know how to explains necks here is my attempt after a suggestion

line of action, bunch of lines, considering poses helps a lot in making it easier??! but have fun, take these tips and make it better. Please look at references, there is no harm when you are learning. Full res. available on my Patreon 

sorry text is so SMALLLL but click for bigger image ye :u

It’s interesting to me (and has been noted by a few others) how you can see my mental state and health reflected in my art. I drew almost nothing Jan-March, but a huge, HUGE increase in September and on. 

Medication, a change of scenery, a good job, and the support of awesome friends and family make an ENORMOUS difference! 

Thanks for everything, guys! 2016 is on track to be totally amazing. <3

Template here.

qinni:

Quickly flipping through my daily sketch planner, since I don’t think I’ll be able to finish this year properly cause I’m still recovering. I might try this tiny planner/sketchbook again in 2017 but I don’t want to fall behind on 2016 before I even start.  

Thanks again for all the support this year. I wish I could reply to everyone but my messages have piled up so much it’s giving me a bit of stress haha @_@;;. I do read all of them though, so thank you guys for the emotional support. 

(◍•ᴗ•◍) ノ ♡

ps: I got this sketchbook on Amazon (US) | Amazon (.ca) 

dA | Insta

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totallynotagentphilcoulson:

deductionfreak:

whatfulllipsyouhave:

meredithalden:

a public service announcement

I still don’t understand why none of my art teachers ever told us this.

Incorrect

There are three main color ‘models’ or ‘systems’. CMYK is one of them, but so is RGB AND the Pigment System (red, yellow and blue).

Pigment Color system is the basic one you are taught (Red, Yellow, Blue). It works with most paints because it’s based on pigments.

CMYK is a system mostly used for impression, in which the addition of Cyan, Magenta and Yellow make black. It’s called a substractive color method because the more you add, the darker it gets. The Black, or Key, is there because a combination of the three colors won’t always look entirely black, and because printing three colors over each other to make black would make the paper too wet and useless.

RGB is a system mostly used by your screens, and it’s an additive system. The more colors you add, the lighter the system becomes. The ‘main’ colors of this system are red, green and blue

All three are legitimate

Calm the fuck down.

There’s more but I don’t feel like covering them and they’re kind of not as relevant.

And if ANY of them could ever be considered more legitimate than the other three, it’d probably be RGB since that’s actually most directly based on the physiology of the human eye.

but again, NONE are more legitimate than the other

Just remember… for every sketch I post, there are 5-10 others that I don’t let anyone see. 

How long have you been arting (schooled/self-taught, etc)?

I have always been drawing, ever since I can remember. One of my earliest memories is being mad at age 3 because SOMEONE put CHALK in the crayon bucket and I bit it to test and BLECK. 

In 2nd grade, my dad told me that I would need to learn to get really good at drawing circles, squares, and triangles if I wanted to do art seriously. That’s when I started reading art books and constructing drawings with shapes.

In 7th grade, I applied for an online art archive and was utterly rejected because my stuff was definitely not up to scratch. I was pointed to Tracy Butler’s art and fell in love with art as a means of storytelling. I wanted to get good. Really good.

After that, I took every art class public school had to offer, and filled sketchbook after sketchbook on my own time. Art class was helpful because my teachers forced me to do stuff I didn’t want to do (cross-hatching, life study, learning art history), and it was all very beneficial. They also gave me access to free art supplies that I never would have been able to afford on my own– paint, pastels, illustration board, clay, kilns, etc. 

I got accepted to a university in the Animation Major, learned that my arm and procrastination tendencies couldn’t handle it, and switched to Illustration. Color theory and observational drawing weren’t at all new to me, but it was GREAT to study side-by-side with people who actually CARED about it instead of being forced to. And I probably learned more through one semester of advanced figure drawing than I had in any other class.

None of the classwork were things that I couldn’t have learned on my own; art class is not a magical thing. People can take all of the art classes in the world and won’t improve if they don’t consciously practice and observe. But they are great motivators and I am so glad that I took those classes. Even Art History, because man I have a much better appreciating and understanding for the master works now. Context really is everything.

Anyway, I still have a lot to learn, but to answer your question… if we consider 7th grade the starting point, I guess I’ve been doing art “seriously” for… 17 years? OMG… 

Now go look at Tracy’s art and be inspired: @lackadaisycats

solthrys:

No more melted tomblerones or mising skulls, yyeann!

This is my basic process for pretty much everything I draw. The key is understanding the shape of the garment you’re trying to draw and the shape of the body part you’re putting it on.

Drawing the body first forces you to make the shoe, hat, or clothes fit that body. With practice you’ll be able to skip some steps. This method works the same no matter the perspective or pose. It just relies on your knowledge of what a hat looks like from above, or what the bottom of a shoe looks like. When in doubt, just google refs. Don’t necessarily need the exact angle you’re trying to draw. Look at different pics to give you an idea of how it works in 3d.

Shoes are always a bit tricky because feet are a stupid ass shape.

It might help if you think of hats as a cylinder fitted to the person’s head to help you get the perspective right before you push in detail. note: heads aren’t circles. they’re kind of egg shaped if you look at them from the top.