Tag: drawing

keycrash:

okay let me just say something. don’t think you’re worthless if you’re an artist and you don’t draw every day just cause big time artists say that you absolutely must or you’re gonna crash and burn and never make it in the industry or something. art is hard and you don’t have to draw every day. you don’t have to draw every week. it helps if you do, sometimes, but some of the best improvement for me has been while i wasn’t drawing for long periods of time… i’d come back after not finishing a picture for months and over that time i had absorbed so much artwork and information that i came back more efficient and with a better style than ever. working is good but rest is important too. it won’t make you a worse artist and you’re not worthless for it. be honest with yourself when you need a break. making art a chore or forcing it is gonna do so much more harm than letting yourself take a break

Art Challenge: 30 Important Expressions

theblamegabe:

shpdoinkle:

sephiramy:

Draw ‘em all, or have someone send you a character and a number… it’s your wonderland, Alice. Reblog, add your own. Have a good time.

  1. hasn’t slept in 48 hours
  2. tasted something gross
  3. in a long, slow line at the DMV
  4. listening to blind date talk about their ex
  5. reading YouTube comments
  6. favorite song just came on
  7. song they hate just came on
  8. had their favorite show spoiled
  9. just fell in love (a.k.a. “Dreamweaver face”)
  10. saw a wasp
  11. had a fist fight (they won)
  12. had a fist fight (they lost)
  13. food coma
  14. hello darkness, my old friend
  15. “was that Batman?”
  16. forgot what they were about to say
  17. “oh no, they’re hot…”
  18. their best friend’s cooking is not as good as they think
  19. brainfreeze!
  20. texted the wrong person
  21. check out this box of kittens/puppies/bunnies/ducklings/whatever’s cutest to them!
  22. their favorite TV show character dies
  23. having an increasingly awkward conversation with Bob of Modus Operandi
  24. parent/guardian is showing their baby pictures
  25. stepped on a Lego
  26. stepped on an Eggo… you know… the waffle
  27. 102 degrees indoors and there’s no A/C
  28. watching the end of The Iron Giant… or maybe the opening to Up… or w-when Shadow is stuck in Homeward Bound…??
  29. woken up out of a dead sleep
  30. nailed it.

(some suggestions were lovingly crowd-sourced from kayzig samwisedamgee marianascosta geekysideburns briandanielwolf sarahfu and indigoats.com!)

these are soooo good, i might just do these all on my own w my own charas when i take breaks, but maybe send me anything you’d like to seeee?

Yesss

pridetothefall:

wolveswithhats:

eliciaforever:

Why do artists refuse to use references why why why.

It’s not a contest to see who can get by without them. It’s not cheating to look at a thing in order to know what the thing looks like.

You don’t get stronger or better by pretending. Nobody is impressed by the awkward whatever-it-is you just drew. Use references.

I don’t think a lot of people know that it’s not cheating. I recall seeing so many piece of art called out because they referenced a pose, someone recognized it, and then proceeded to shame them for it. There’s this belief, both by creators and the audience, that artists should just be able to translate the ideas from their head to paper, and if they don’t, it’s plagiarism, or not true originality (spoiler alert: there’s no such thing).

I myself didn’t start using references until very recently, because even I was under the impression that it was frowned upon. And that belief has seriously crippled and stalled my ability to improve as an artist.

As a restarting artist, I can confirm. I just never knew. I thought you were just supposed to know how to draw the body correctly and if you didn’t you had no talent.