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when a few points of lightness/saturation are the difference between a skintone looking wildly tan OR wildly jaundiced

You know those artist mutuals (bonus points if you also know them in real life) who keep reblogging those “If you really appreciate your artist friends, you don’t just like but also reblog their art!” posts?

And even though it feels a bit passive aggressive and pushy, you think “Sure, I want to be a good friend, I’ll do it!” - even if it’s not really your taste, or fandom.

And yet, every single time you post art, they never even spare a second glance and after a while, it just gets frustrating and you stop reblogging their stuff as well.

And then, they start whining about how none of their friends ever supports them.

I love that.

Because no, I don’t think you should only do something if you get something back in return. But if you keep trying to guilt trip people into doing something that you won’t do yourself, that’s hypocritical at best.

auressea:

peachkinn:

sarahlumweejee:

theshitpostcalligrapher:

spookyscaryscouticus:

thattallnerdybean:

Know what I’m salty about?

In all my art classes, I was never taught HOW to use the various tools of art.

Like yes, form, and shape and space and color theory and figure drawing is important, but so is KNOWING what different tools do.

I’m 29 and I JUST learned this past month that India Ink is fucking waterproof when it dries. Why is this important? Because I can line something in India Ink and then go over it with watercolors. And that has CHANGED the ENTIRE way I art and the ease I can create with.

tldr: Art Teachers: teach your students what different tools do. PLEASE.

WAIT INDIA INK JS WATERPROOF ONCE IT DRIES????? THE ENTIRE REASON IVE AVOIDED MARKERS MY ENTIRE LIFE IS BECAUSE JNK BLEEDS AND YOURE TELLING ME INDIA INK IS

F U C K I N G W A T E R P R O O F

yall calligraphers out there this is extremely fuckin important if u wanna get into illumination shenanigans because i swear to you there will b discoveries like these^

heres some of mine, pls take with a grain of salt im a total gotdamn amateur:

  • a lot of the time, the ability for colored ink to bleed will vary wildly WITHIN A SINGLE BRAND OF COLORED INKS. my cobalts bleed like fucking CRAZY compared to my reds, which, when u reference manuscripts that tend to put white ink ON TOP of either red or blue… you see where shit gets real and real annoying. 
  • u can buy an aeresol, fully transparent workable sealant for like 5-10 dollars at your local art store. when i realize a piece ive been working on needs a color on TOP of a bleed happy ink, i give it a layer of this stuff. trouble is it CAN warp the paper so its important as soon as it dries to use heavy things (paperweights, books) to counteract the paper curling.
  • ink solvent, like koh i noor’s rapido-eeze, is only compatible with SOME inks, but will work on most acrylics. If you happen to be working with sturdy vellum that you have pre-sealed, it can be possible to literally use ink solvent to wipe away your calligraphy mistake like a goddamn bounty commercial

Shit I Learned Working At Dick Blick: 

  • WD40, found at your local hardware store, will remove Sharpie marker from almost any hard surface. 
  •  Acrylic inks will show brush strokes in large areas but are waterproof and quick-drying. 
  •  Acrylic gouache is vivid, fluid, dried matte, is UTTERLY opaque on black paper, handles exactly like watercolor, and is waterproof. 
  • Putting an oil painting in the sun will turn the yellowed portions back to their original white and wont hurt the painting. 
  •  Cheap acrylic paintings will bleach out if left in the sun - get UV protectant spray or varnish. Nicer acrylic paints are less prone to sun bleaching, but they still do. Plan accordingly. Oil paints are much less prone to this. 
  • Solvent-based markers blend together MUSH MORE SMOOTHLY than alcohol-based markers. 
  • There is an acrylic paint medium for literally every effect you can conceivably think of (fabric paint medium, gloss medium, fluid medium, sand medium, fast-dying/slow-drying medium, etc.). 
  •  If you’re going to buy student-grade paint to save cash, buy earth-tones (burnt sienna, ochre, etc.); they are made with cheap pigments already, and you wont tell a difference. You WILL tell a difference between student-grade and artist-grade bright colors (all yellows, blues, and reds). 
  • If you’re working with markers but aren’t using marker paper, you need to switch. Markers don’t blend on printer paper, they just layer (even expensive markers). 
  • If you want a glass palette for paint mixing but don’t want to shell out the cash, buy a giant picture frame at Goodwill, take the glass out, and electrical tape it to a piece of foam board the same size for stability. 
  •  Hog bristle brushes are for oil paint, sable brushes are for watercolor, and synthetic brushes are for acrylic and oil (but not watercolor because synthetic bristles can’t absorb water). 
  •  If you’re going to splurge on any aspect of your creation, splurge on the paper. Get the good stuff - crappy markers/paint/pencils look good on good paper, but not the other way around. 

    (There is more, but these are the big ticket items)

Some more, also from working at Dick Blick:

- Palette knives are for mixing paint and TRUST ME you want to learn how to use them. When you mix with your brush you loose paint and it’s hard in your brushes.

- DO NOT FIX YOUR ARTWORK WITH HAIRSPRAY. If you’re proud of your work and want to keep it, buy the actual spray fix. Hairspray is not archival in the slightest and will damage your work.

- On top of that, be careful how you store your work. Newsprint is handy and cheap, but also not acid-free and it will yellow your paper. Foamboard? Matboard? Also not always acid-free (but you can get them acid-free).

- There is no food-safe paint. Period. There are lots of ways you can decorate pottery that aren’t glazes, but only glazes are food safe (and even some of those aren’t).

- Also not food safe: Polymer clay (sculpey), air dry clay, oil-based clay, ceramics that have not been glaze fired, oil pastels, sharpie, glues of any kind, or mod podge (even the ‘dishwasher safe’ kind).

- Don’t even get me started on mod podge. It’s not consistent. It’s not archival. It’s not a sealant, it’s a glue (setting aside some of the weird hyper-specific ones they make that I’ve literally never seen in real life).

- If your glue isn’t archival or at least acid-free, don’t use it in your artwork.

- There are so many different kinds of paper out there, just go try them. But also make sure you know if it’s acid-free or not (it probably is).

- Marker paper is usually 15 to 20 lbs. News print is usually 30 to 35 lbs. Tracing paper is usually 25 lbs. Rice paper can range from 20 to 50 lbs. Printer paper is 20 lbs. Vellum paper is usually 48 to 55 lbs. Sketchbook paper is usually 50 to 60 lbs. Drawing paper is usually 70 to 80 lbs. Cardstock can range from 50 to 110 lbs. Charcoal paper is usually 50 to 65 lbs. Pastel paper can range from 70 lbs to board. Bristol paper can range from 50 lbs to board. Mixed media paper can range from 90 to 140 lbs. Printmaking paper can range from lbs 90 to 300 lbs. Watercolor paper can range from 90 to 500 lbs.

- The heavier and rougher the paper is, the more it will absorb. If you’re using a paper too smooth for your medium it will take forever to dry and may smudge. If you’re using a paper too light for your medium, it will warp and curl.

- If you’re working heavily with water, you need to stretch your paper (aka seal down your edges of the paper to a hard, water resistant surface). If you don’t like doing that because it’s a hassle, buy a watercolor block instead of a pad/individual peices.

- If you’re working on a thicker paper, and make a mistake that your can’t erase or cover- you can scrape and/or cut it out! With a really sharp exacto knife, you can very CAREFULLY remove the top layer of paper fibers on most paper.

- DO NOT USE ACRYLIC AS BODY PAINT. It’s plastic.

- If you paint with oil, buy a silicoil jar. It’s the best $10 you’ve ever spent.

- Acrylic paint is basically water-based plastic. It will basically fuse with anything plastic (like a plastic palette), and will not stick to anything oil-based.

- Acrylic paint and house paint are not the same thing and you cannot mix them together. Acrylic paint is made from a water-based acrylic polymer, and house paint is almost always latex and can come both water-soluable and not.

@pamelab has this amazing reference crossed your dash yet?

Credit Artists 

I wish people took the time to actually credit artists, or reblog/ etc versus making a new post on their page. Its gross.

 Most People: -stares at attractive strangers for the usual reasons-Me Who Has A Problem: -STARES AT

Most People: -stares at attractive strangers for the usual reasons-
Me Who Has A Problem: -STARES AT EVERYONE AND EVERYTHING, LOOKING FOR THE PERFECT ART REFERENCES-


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This mostly concerns my HTTYD fanarts, but I’m sure my other works have been reposted without proper credit as well. It has been bothering me for quite a while now. I know there are many people who repost my art, but these particular reposts on Instagram really got my attention:

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She/he cut out my signature and watermark…

I know she/he isn’t the only one who reposts my art. I have also seen various recolours and edits from other people. But this person gets hundreds, sometimes even thousands of likes without giving proper credit.

To anyone who does this as well: it’s not fair to the artist. I love to share my art with you, but cropping out my signature and/or watermark is insulting. I put a lot of time and care into my paintings and seeing them resposted, recoloured, cropped, etc without my permission is really upsetting. Artists deserve more recognition than this.

If you want to repost my art, please ask me first. And NEVER repost without giving PROPER credit. Simply saying “credits to the artist” is not enough. You must provide a link to at least one of my social media pages and mention my name, always.

I would really appreciate it if you could do me this favour: please send anyone who reposts artwork without giving proper credit a link to this blog entry, just to let them know how I (and probably many others) feel about it.

Be fair, and give credit where credit is due. It doesn’t take a lot to add a link and mention a name.

Don’t be lazy, and respect the artist.

my computer crashed and took 5+ hours and 2 days of work down with it so I drew a comic and now will go cry

To be or not to be ‍ I wanna do art bc my friends are all amazing artists but also I don’t wanna do art bc my friends are all amazing artists

risqueybusiness: aileenbayaca: Steven Universe, Gravity Falls and Over The Garden Wall crossover! He

risqueybusiness:

aileenbayaca:

Steven Universe, Gravity Falls and Over The Garden Wall crossover!

Hey, it looks like your work is getting ripped off over on Redbubble.

http://www.redbubble.com/people/sirorin/works/14673681-over-the-gravity-falls-universe

Well. Fudgeballs. I’ll have to take care of that ASAP. Thanks for letting me know!


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 This happened. Like an hour ago.

This happened. Like an hour ago.


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Posture so bad I’m on an OSHA watch list

headspace-hotel:

headspace-hotel:

what people think is hard about writing: describing the joy, love, beauty, grief, loss and hope that form the richness of human experience

what is actually hard about writing: describing basic actions such as turning, leaning over, reclining, gesturing, saying something in a quiet voice, breathing, getting up from chairs, and walking across rooms

I’ll spill out a brilliant, wrenching portrayal of a character’s struggle with grief over a loss and his complex regrets and guilt and then a page later I’ll have to write that a character who’s lying prone raises his head and shoulders up to look at something without fully getting up and I’ll get so angry I want to strangle an eagle with my bare hands

cadaverkeys:

cadaverkeys:

no okay so yes i make all my backgrounds in minecraft first im bad at perspective please dont cancel me

for those interested in how the process works

hawkeyedflame:

hst3000:

hawkeyedflame:

i love listening to my fiancée drawing

“no stop”
“oh no i didn’t mean to do that”
“wRONG LAYER”
“wait go back”
“what line is that?!”
“cAN YOU– [irritated noises]”
“oh you…bastard”
“what..layer is that on??”

she’s so cute djksfh

A gift for your fiancee

oh my god dkfjdhgksdjk

I want to feel like I’m good at drawing again. So unsatisfied with what I’ve drawn recently.

For those who have no idea at all, for each of these “pics” there is a person who spent For those who have no idea at all, for each of these “pics” there is a person who spent For those who have no idea at all, for each of these “pics” there is a person who spent For those who have no idea at all, for each of these “pics” there is a person who spent For those who have no idea at all, for each of these “pics” there is a person who spent For those who have no idea at all, for each of these “pics” there is a person who spent For those who have no idea at all, for each of these “pics” there is a person who spent For those who have no idea at all, for each of these “pics” there is a person who spent For those who have no idea at all, for each of these “pics” there is a person who spent For those who have no idea at all, for each of these “pics” there is a person who spent

For those who have no idea at all, for each of these “pics” there is a person who spent at least from 10 to 30 HOURS of head on a monitor to create all of this.
{and not only me, but for EVERY fan art you see on the WEB.}

And, you see all of this?? All the time I spent on this piece of - art, time of that my ONE life, spent on something that I tried hard to enjoy?
(Because yeah, I could have trash it everything and instead of spent my time on “drawing” painfully and frustrating like all the other artist I hope can understands, I could have play some videogame instead. Or read.) But no, I choosed to draw cause they say to us to keep trying, to keep fighting for what we love and?…  

Well, time that somehow has been shadowbanned :D until today :D when finally I’ve got a real answer from Tumblr :D finally resolving a “glitch” that hided all my recently posts from the research.

And what can I say… I’m sorry very sorry but I’m just a little bit frustrated. Yeah.
But I don’t want to speak about me, I want to talk about who likes me is in the same situation:

Artist all around the web are really, really trying hard to shows the world that they exist but biggest social media are keeps cutting off any chance of visibility and in other ways, emotionally human speaking, this lead to a lot of people dropping off every hopes.
Then what you say?
“It’s their fault that they’re not trying hard”
Well, I’m gonna tell you what this mean: sh1t.

The kind of SH*T you say when you heard that they company X want to make a remake of “that series X” and the only thing you can think of is  "theres no more original ideas today. Cinema is becoming trash because they don’t know what to invent anymore. Bleah, there’s nothing new nowadays".

The truth is:  THERE IS BUT ALL THE CREATORS ARE BEING DROWN DOWN BY THINGS LIKE THIS KEEPS HAPPENING.
And not only shadowbanned accindetally by bots, (that ok can be understandable, moderators bots are not humans but still they should be fixed a little more.) but by also people that see things and just hit “like” and nothing else.
((((Click “Like” it’s ok, but it’s a wrong, WRONG system to support the artist you like. It’s just like say “hi” and turn your shoulders to them.  
From the principle, click a like is a single one-way “support” that works  mostly as a save for later than anything else.
And PLEASE, don’t get it wrong, I’m asking you sorry if this sounds rude to you, but with the recently visibilities issues all around the major social media, the best you can shows to support youjr favorite artist is sharing their art,  share share and share.

Out there, there ARE people with very, very beautiful ideas!!! Very lovely art, very brilliant stories that are praying for that little chance to be known, but how do you thinks they can be noticed if nobody knows them?
And saying “knows them”, I’m meaning: have chance to visibility on web.
That’s how basically “get informed” works, sponsor works, and all possible supporters get to know the next fandom they would love.
By: sharing.
But if social media keeps cutting off artist that can have a lot of potentials and good materials to offer, it’s inevitable that time passing they lost hopes and will to create.

Every kind of artists are still humans, not “money” machines.

I don’t care for me, but please, support your favourite artist!
SHARE!

Now, said this, and sorry for my little rant, I’m grateful that Tumblr supports helped me with this issue but I still not able to see my lasts posts on researches, so since I am not neither in mood neither have enough phisically forces to re-post all of my art from last year, I made a big one post with some of all the major pieces that receveid less attentions.
I just hope you like it, and if even not please, give it a chance to be seen by someone who would, share this to spread an artist cry!

Here’s all the single posts, and if you have Xkit with timestamp you can even check yourself the dates of each post.

Thanks for reading this, sorry for all the english errors, and please stay safe out there!

In order:

Transformers:
- Backhold+Skyrush (first pic)
- Skyrush+Backhold+Psycast sunrise
Good Omens:(here X)
Invader Zim:
- Dib single shot
- Professor Membrane + Dib movie screenshot redraw
Original Character:Derek (here X)
Overwatch:
-Sigmoira cell wallpaper lab (left)
-Sigmoira cell wallpaper (right)


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I wanna continue drawing but my tablet pen dropped off the face of the earth a few hours ago rip

Me: I wanna make a comic book

Also me: *literally cannot keep a single idea in my head long enough to put it to paper and not hate it*

these are literally my two favorite pieces i’ve done in the last year, and they’re so ridiculously different in vibe but manage to at least share that teal color i’m addicted to. idk what this says about me as an artist.

i started making an addie larue animatic, took a break to do twitter things, and then ended up doodling more very weird ML art oops. why does this keep happening?? i shouldn’t even be focusing on art rn at all!

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