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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
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Threw together one of these because I’m too lazy to go look up some to reblog, so here, for everyone to use - a whole bunch of drawing prompts! Just send in a number and a OC / character of mine and i’ll draw it~
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Decided to restart the art trade, did a little drawing of Zhou to loosen up.
He is the son of a nobleman, who has spent almost no time outside his family's grand estate in the Great North. He is quite taken with the spirit he found injured in the forest bordering their grounds, though at first his interest is like that of a child who has found a fascinating bug.
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Karn is an amphibious creature - with gills and lungs, he can go where he pleases. Where he lives is a series of islands off the coast of a jungled peninsula - all connected by a maze of sand bars and mangrove forests. He occasionally forays up the river to hunt crabs and fish among the mangrove roots.
Despite being at home in the water, Karn HATES heavy rain. While he hangs on the beaches as normal during light rain, he has a hidden, manicured den where he naps during bigger storms.
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Pet bird? Pet cat? Why not both?
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L: Forgot to share that I started learning Live2D Cubism rigging, and it’s going well so far. By “going well,” I mean I still haven’t abandoned the idea of trying to make a VTuber for myself. I chose Tilazis for his relatively simple design, but boy, why the fuck am I always trying to overdo things and start rigging stuff for toggles or using blend shapes out of nowhere? Yeah, that gave me some experience, but what kind of experience exactly—extensive pain in the ass? Yeah, that’s totally about me.
Aaaanyway, I rigged a face and hair, as well as hair physics. Since I don't have any gifs you just have to believe me.
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Crystalite- Owned by adventsuwu on FR
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Illustration art trade with @wind-tied :0)
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Came back wrong but the wrongness is that you're no longer as awful as you used to be. You're not mean anymore. You don't lose your temper as quickly, you don't say awful things, lash out, or hurt people on purpose just to prove that you can, not since you came back. It's the same face, the same voice, the same superficial tendencies, but all the rough edges have been smoothed away so thoroughly that it feels like something else is wearing you as a mask. Yet it's impossible to get anyone else to see the problem, because you're less of a problem than you've ever been before.
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Anonymous asked:
How do you draw bug mouths so easily? Im ngl I honestly go to art to try and piece everything together bjt God I wish I had ur powers
i dissect insect mouth parts and look at them very hard for a living so my main piece of advice is to do that
ok but fr what i'm drawing here is a human face with Extra Bits i am not drawing bug faces, but to get it to read correctly it is helpful to know a bit about how the various bits are put together, so that when i bs them onto a twink's face, it reads as insect mouth parts even though it's not really. to understand the mouth parts you can look up pics like this
NR is a beetle and beetles have a biting & chewing setup (this is what the word 'beetle' means). what you're seeing is the biting bits and the food manipulation bits. the labrum is the top lip and the labium is the bottom lip/chin. all of these are sandwiched up together and move independently. if you just squish the shapes around enough you can do whatever u like with it. movie magic
