Art Insp - Blog Posts
Okay I JUST realized I never posted these on here—- BUT BASICALLY, about a year and a half ago I started doing these experimental black hairstyle posts that were threads long on Twitter, to give artists a source of inspo for their black ocs whose hair they wanted to try something new with! There’s more to black hair than just the selected styles portrayed in media, and I thought it would be fun to show people how much texture, shape, fades, length, and style can be combined when drawing black hair—-cause it’s a kind of manipulation our hair can do irl! The OG posts were lost with the hacking of my original Twitter account (@/bagels_donuts) but I’ve since reuploaded the whole thread to my new Twitter (@/ItsDonutsFR)! I hope artists on tumblr find these useful, sorry it took me so long to post them here😭🙏🏾 I’ll upload them all in parts!
Part 1: Long masc hairstyles + playing with fades
YALL I HAVE THE GREATEST IDEA EVER FOR ANOTHER FUN LIL HOBBY CRAFT
KINTYPE SOCK PUPPETS!!!
the doodle is just a messy ref i did for the looks n concept but im plannin to try my best and make it happen >:D
TIP: u should prob use velcro for like antlers n stuff cuz magnets are heavy-
ARGH DANG I GOTTA FIND BROWN SOCKS THATS LIKE THE LEAST USED SOCK COLOR EVER T_T
I'm obsessed with them
rator from an assignment that's worth a bazillion% of my year grade and that I didn't take seriously enough
Mia Bergeron (American, 1980) - Winter Bardo (2024)
now selling stickers of Bugs such as weevils death's-head hawkmoths mud daubers frank iero and gerard way. and borzoi too which are not unlike bugs if you think about it. get some for yourself! i have many many art prints as well
drawn traditionally in ink 🐛 but they kind of look digital here, that's neat!
Som neon tetra i drew at school in ms paint.. in all fairness i’ll probably delete this later :-)
Kim Jakobsson, Harbinger Oil painting
Many thanks to @amourduloup to sending me this artist!
https://kimjakobssonart.com/
William Mackinnon, Landscape as self-portrait, 2012 Acrylic, oil and automotive enamel on linen
i think your creature-of-the-night brother wants to hang out with us
The tutorial of how I achieve watercolor effect in Sai! :) I highly recommend using real watercolor paintings (your own or ones found on the internet) as reference.
And here you can find a few useful links:
You can download the Sai file of this picture here: link
Video process of painting another picture: link
The old watercolor tutorial: link
Sai brushes (none of them is made by me) link + file you need to open them in Sai: link
Awesome watercolor brushes made by Kyle T Webster: link
Here’s the finished painting: link
Cradle carousel taur idea by @crazysodomite
cw child death under, the way cradle hunts (if its too upsetting dont consider as canon, i just wanted to speculate on why would they evolve to look like kids toys)
"face" plate moves away and big retractable jaw unhinges, smth like that yeag
girl & cat - 2024 annual redraw
(↓ older versions under the cut! ↓)
annual redraw of my first piece ever to celebrate 5 years of digital art (holy moly)! thank you so much for 1k :)
rambling a bit, but i can't believe it's been half a decade already since i first picked up a stylus and created the monstrosity on the far right!
i've struggled throughout the years with loathing my own work, comparing myself to others, and so much more; but looking back now, there's consistent growth—and that's all that matters.
to all other artists out there (or non-artists) dealing with something similar: yes, there will always be more to learn ahead, but don't forget to be proud of how far you've already come once in a while! no matter how stagnant it might feel at times, where there's passion, there's progress.
see you next year, girl & cat; aven out!