Hey If I May Ask For Some Advice..( I'm Not The Anon Who Sent U Whether They Could Ask You For Advice

you've probably already gotten some questions about this, but can I inquire as to your drawing process? i recently discovered that i may have been working against my own thought process in drawing and that it was hurting my ability to create, and your own work seems somewhat similar to the way i naturally go about making things, so i was curious. thank you for your time!

alright *cracks knuckles* lets give this a go

My process changes pretty much every 2 milliseconds so im just gonna try to sum it up as of right now (and i doubt it will be helpful but dammit i am gonna try)

I work from some really ugly sketches, especially now that im trying to get the hang of composition. More than anything, I think I just try to find some potentially interesting shapes from the very start, because there’s no way for me to spend actual time on a thing without it. I latch onto well-defined areas of light and dark like my life depends on it.

Here’s some of my recent sketches and thumbnails just to really drive home the point that I just don’t give a shit

Lineart is my mortal enemy (surprise), and so I take any kind of lines I put down more as a friendly suggestion than anything else. Sketching is really just a mapping tool to slap color on top of.

In the rare cases I do refine a sketch, it is only to better figure out what it is im doing. Then I promptly proceed to ignore it, and go straight to filling in a silhouette that feels good with my most recent love: the polygon lasso tool in photoshop. Then I lock that baby down and uhhh improvise

Here’s some hopefully slightly more helpful examples of my background study process:

It hopskips over the parts where I try to figure out shapes (because I tend to work on a single layer im sorry making process gifs of finished pieces is hard), but regarding my process in terms of planning out composition, light and color, it is pretty representative.

I start with the chicken scratch thumbnail, map out the major values and refine them into some interesting shapes. Then I go over with lines to figure out the 3-dimensional space, complete with some gosh dang perspective lines. I get some base colors going, and then I just go wild overpainting that using square and triangular brushes, and the polygon lasso tool.

The most important realisation for me the last year was that I don’t actually have to render stuff. The goal of my final overpainting is to reduce everything into seperate, well defined parts, because that is what fascinates me the most with visual art: abstraction and stylisation of light.

So yeah, I hope this was at least a little bit what you were looking for. If you’re stuck, go embrace what is most enticing to you in your actual art process technically speaking. It has completely changed the way I approach mine.

Here’s some bonus gifs bc why not:

Catra : "It gets better."

Catra : Vague - Passive - Civil

Catra : "Time will put your enemies in the ground."

Catra : Specific - Threatening - Goal-oriented

SnapCube’s Sonic ‘06 Real Time fandub starter pack

50 starters

« sign my birth certificate! »

« my bed is made of scorpions. »

« i will light this bitch up right now. »

« am i doing this right? it’s my first day on the job. »

« you have the chaos emerald!  »

« gimme that shit right now or i’m gonna rip it off you my goddamn self. »

« you can’t kill anybody! especially not me! »

« go read a book or something. see ya, idiot! »

« we always miss the ice cream ship! »

« how do you think i get here? i floated down on my giant battle bus! »

« [villainous laugh, fading into a violent coughing fit] »

« i can, uhm, kick your ass? right now? »

« here, come to my house. come on let’s go! to my house! »

« i just always want to sleep, you know? i’m tired all the time. i hate it. ‘cause when i try to go to sleep i CAN’T. »

« hey, gamers. were you talking about fortnite? »

« welcome to my house. as you can see, i’ve knocked over many chairs. »

« i’d like to be in the friendzone. i’d like friends! »

« that just makes you a beta cuck. »

« we’re gonna combine all the battle royales and make a battle royale better than fortnite ever was! »

« sorry, i thought i heard a cat. »

« this is the worst. this is the actual worst.  »

« why don’t you tell me your incredibly complicated backstory in an interesting long-winded monologue? »

« i’m gonna pluck you up, melt you down and make a fucking necklace! »

« i can never stop thinking. sends me to a fit. »

« … yep, i can kill ya. »

« go on, don’t you support gay rights? »

« what planet am i on? what’s today? my braincell: destroyed. my wig is gone. »

« i told you not to invite your asshole friends over! »

« let me help you! don’t do this all by yourself! »

« did we do that together? was that a gay thing? »

« i think i’m starting to hallucinate. »

« my mom’s getting back in like 20 minutes, dude. you have to finish this. »

« i leave for five minutes and this happens?! »

« i’ve been told how to think about the ocean when i’m stressed, and i’m looking at that, and i’m real stressed. »

« that’s ok baby, i know you’re lost without me. be sure to never leave my side again, ok? »

« how many times are you gonna run? i’ve captured you 17 different times! »

« if someone hacked into my fortnite account, i’m going to have a birth of cactuses out of my asshole. »

« count how many sand is in here. »

« you silly feeble-minded little gay. »

« oh god! i was NOT expecting the explosion! »

« fuck you for making me go through this! you suck, i can’t believe i used to date you. you used to be a cool dude! »

« you know what? you’re a twink. »

« i’m almost proud of you. »

« oh my god. oh my god are you ok? holy shit. i don’t think i should pull it out. i think if i pull it out you’ll bleed out. oh my god. oh my god. »

« now, this isn’t the diss that i wanted. shit, goddamn. this is fucking ridiculous. fucking shit. »

« you ready? you ready to go? you wanna leave this fucking mortal plane? »

« i understand. the friendzone is hard to deal with. »

« the flame within you shines brighter than any xbox 360 controller. »

« what does a ghost say? what does the ghost say? »

« i gotta get on that plane! wait- boat! » 

german emotions

dealing with the worst case scenario

your condom breaks

you feel a lump on your breast

your friends are ignoring you

you’re stranded on an island 

you got rejected by a crush

you get into a car accident

you got stung by a bee/wasp

you got fired from your job

you’re in an earthquake

your tattoo gets infected

your house is on fire

you’re lost in the woods

you get arrested abroad

you get robbed

your partner cheated on you

you’re on a ship that’s sinking

you fall into ice

you’re stuck in an elevator

you hit a deer with your car

you have food poisoning

your pet passed away

you fall off of a horse

you or your friend has alcohol poisoning

you have toxic shock syndrome

your house has a gas leak

Just a simple PSA

Cannon = thing that goes boom

Canon = an event that occurs within a published story

20gayteen is so fucking real

x

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