Rushed Scribble I Did To Get Down An Idea. New Casual Outfit For Twinkelen. She And Rote Have Been Away

Odette, my queen

Candle Witch

Wanted to do more digital painting.

I was drawing some sphynx cats, but they turned into aliens somewhere along the way

Reimu ft. windows 98 reimu

My Venom print for the @zinezyme ‘s empower zine. This was such a trip. The first zine I really showed up for myself and didn’t get lost in perfectionism and second guessing, hence my first zine like ever. Despite the curveballs of life and self-doubt, I look back at this with so much pride. Thank you so much for having me!

I always avoided using references, but couldn't point out what exactly made me avoid it. I have finally realized that due to being unfortunate enough to be surrounded by people boldly claiming "real artists draw everything from imagination without any references" [now i know it's bullshit] in my early years of artistic journey, I developed fear of being too dependent on references and fear of being completely unable to draw anything good without "copying". Any ideas how to overcome that fear?

It's not something I hear at all in professional spaces. We've straight up traced weird angles of our arms before. I use lots of references. You will naturally get better at drawing intuitively with the more references you use since we learn by example. I draw intuitively much more accurately than I did many years ago, but I still use references because my idea of a polished drawing is a moving goalpost.

Jason Rainville is one of the best of the best, paints MTG cards and he often posts his references. You can see how closely they mirror the final image:

If you want to get good at art, you have to look at things and that's all it boils down to. Those who say it's bad to use references are either 1) never getting good at art, or 2) are insecure and are posturing in front of other artists. Hope this helps!

unsorted rodent people

A wizard can be anything, you know.

some touhou draws