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I think feet are beautiful. Especially beastie foots. As a tidbit of info, the way I draw my feet has been greatly inspired by the way that BeastofOblivion draws her own feet, but I just want to let you all know that while I have been heavily inspired by her, I have spent years pouring over anatomy books and studying how the tendons in feet work so that I know for myself what I can do with the feet of my beasts and how to push and exaggerate their shapes. I make sure that I know what works and how I can play around with styles to reach something that I like for my own style. Self-study in anatomy is crucial to developing your own sense of style and what works for you, so while you may be influenced by someone, you can call your style your own because of your own knowledge.

Don’t judge popular artists too hard for being protective of their ideas. When someone takes inspiration from their work, even if they’re going their own road with it, it’s still a weird feeling for the artist.

They might find it rewarding. They might feel walls closing in around them. It’s different for everyone.

Alrighty so quick update on life: I now have a real deal art table to work at!!! My parents saw it at a garage sale for only $10; a great price so of course they took the deal! Can't wait to get cranking on art work this summer. Just gotta let school end....and get myself a chair XD

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HOLY CRAP GUYS

SINCE WHEN DID I GET 32 FOLLOWERS!?! Thanks for liking my stuff, even though its just a few pages of not that well scanned in sketches! I promise to get back at posting as soon as school stops bogging me down with homework...that’ll still probably be a while cause... hah IB classes *sweats*

Im excited to finally be able to see what replies are all about because ive never experienced them yet

Finally someone explains why to do something and not just what to do

I see this kinda advice passed around all the time here is the thing: shading with black will indeed look bad if you don’t know what you are doing. However, telling people not to do things without explaining why is terrible advice.

Shadows are the opposite of light, this includes in colour.

This means that if you have light in one colour, the shadow will be of the opposing hue, saturation, and value.

Unless the object is white, it has its own local colour -  the object’s true colour, how it would appear if the light were pure white.

The colour of the light influences the local colour of the object. so if you had yourself a brown cube and a blue light, the colours would get bluer and pinker.

now the reason shadows do not tend to be black is because pure white light is hard to find in nature.

the closest you will get to pure white light is during a really overcast day and the sun is filtering through the clouds, but even then it’ll lean towards yellow so the shadows will be slightly blue.

During a clear day, the shadows will pick up a lot of bounce light from the blue sky and have a blue tinge. You can learn more about this in this tutorial: [http://artbyriana.deviantart.com/art/Why-shadows-aren-t-gray-321656856]

But! None of this means you are never allowed to use black.

realistically shadows will have a hint of a colour to them, but stylistically you might be going for, say, a film noir look and deep black shadows are needed for impact for example.

The more you know about how light works, the more informed decisions you can make about shading and the more options you have.

If someone tells you that you can’t do something, they’re wrong! you can do what you like!

yes, black is hard to use and if you just mix a colour with black it’ll get muddy, but thats easily resolved by choosing your colours manually - which ideally you want to do regardless bc the computer doesnt have your eyes & cant choose the colours you like

basically if someone gives you some art advice and says you can’t do something, they’re wrong! you can, you just might need to study a little to figure out how to make things work.

I mean for example, people will say you must make your composition follow the rule of thirds and never align centrally, but while the rule of thirds makes it easy to create visual interest, Mad Max Fury Road is a testament to the fact that central composition can and will work if you experiment.

there are no rules in art! there are theories based on reality, this has been a post on colour theory & light theory, but they exist to inform you, not to restrict you.

Do what you like! Trust your eyes, if you think something looks good, then great! If you don’t, then research & experiment until you do.

Also if you wanna learn more abt colour theory, I go into it in a lot more depth over yonder: http://helpfulharrie.tumblr.com/post/131822744966/ http://helpfulharrie.tumblr.com/post/131958395841/

Here ya go! With the New Year comes New Sketches and Drawings! Alrighty I decided that for missing out on posting for the past couple of weeks, I would do a larger mass post of my sketchbook works. Sorry for that! First post is an angry guy reaching for you, likely for your hand in order to eat it. Second is what i presume to be the ancestor of HTTYD’s Cloudjumper and third is a coral creature from some random place in my headworld.

Heyo all! Sorry for the lack of updates, I'm just trying to figure out my scanner so that I can post even better quality pics of my drawings and sketches. Anyways with the New Year just around the corner, I wish you all a Happy New Year! And my good things come to you! I'll get to posting art again soon so don't worry.

Alrighty. Sorry for the delay this week for the monster, but school has just been trying to kill me. But I wouldn't have it any good other way. So this week, it a pretty loose dragon sketch. I think I was just starting learning anatomy from my books so it's all out of funk. Plus he is WAAAYY out of proportion. Yeah didn't really like how he turned out. But hey, all artists have off days!

This week's monster is a very loose sketch of a four-eyed biped. Unfortunately, I'm more familiar with quadriped anatomy, and so biped anatomy is wonky for me, especially the abs and obliques.

Here's this week's monster posting. I decided that this year would be the year where I branch out into different monsters, along with learning anatomy, so here's a more upper body musculature study. I'm still learning so sorry for any anatomy problems. Or foreshortening probs for that matter. I'm also trying to learn that... So much to learn, feels like so little time....

And of course, the weekly monster sketches.

Here’s some sketches I’ve been working on for the past week or so. More Undertale stuff cause I’m addicted to skeletons. Also, last pic is for @thelostmoongazerthe cause I know they like those bros in kirugumis or however you say it. Sans is a dalmation, Papyrus is a bunny and Frisk is a tiger cub.

Pretty sure I forgot to post my weekly monster sketchbook art. So here ya go.

Decided to keep going with the Undertale binge instead of drawing my normal monsters. With this one, the idea is from an anon on @thelostmoongazer and I decided that I wanted to draw it. Sorry for a couple of things: The roughness of the pics, I did them with ball point pen so they are scratchy The pics suck cause my phone camera sucks I’m still trying to figure out how I want to draw Frisk , Sans and Papyrus Idk what the heck I’m doing with the formatting of the comic……Yeah I’m a newbie… No watercolor cause it's not the right paper....

So I decided to watercolor tonight and because what I originally worked on did not really work out well because of my crappy paints, I decided to take a loead off and finally do some Undertale art First on is of Papayrus in the Reverse Undertale AU and Papyrus is using Sans' telescope to look at the stars in the cave. Second is @rotten-tears Mega-brother which I found out about thanks to @thelostmoongazer The Fusion of Papyrus and Sans is saying (papyrus' side) "Sans THIS is why you're so depressed!? Why didn't you tell me!!??" I just kinda figured that when they are fused, they would not only share emotions but thoughts, to Sans' dismay.

Totally understand this. I feel like this everyday....It's not fun.

maybe it’s just me.

I dont know if it’s just me or if my parents, generally my mom because i never bring it up to my dad, has a thing against me being transgenered.

WARNING: Transgender talk/vent.  Dont like, dont read.  I dont need your bigotry in my life.

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Sorry, crap photo again with bad lighting cause I have to use my selfie phone camera to avoid a slight pink discoloration

Contains spoilers for the game Undertale

Just a random post, but I've been doing a lot of exploration on Undertale and everything to do with it. Fan comics, Canon stuff everything other than actually playing unfortunately.....and....it just shocking how real it feels. I just feel the need to talk a little about this wonderful game with its beautifully developed characters. I've seen quite a bit of the angst having to do with some of the chars and the different ways to do a playthrough. My main thought on this game is the absolute horror that happens with a 'No Mercy' run, killing all of the main characters who show the player love and affection, and the effect this has on the rest of the characters in the game, especially in Sans' case, who is my favorite character. I believe that the pacifist run is the true ending to the game, but the other timelines, mainly the genocide timeline, and their effect they have on a select few characters just gets to me like nothing has before. The effect they have on Sans is astounding, as he has knowledge of the resets and saves of the player, along with any previous run throughs, of the game, which likely cause him nightmares should the previous games be No Mercy runs. This and how the death of his friends and especially his brother affect him just makes my guts wrench with sadness for him. A lot of people are scared of Sans as they fight him near the end of the No Mercy due to his cold rage towards the player's actions but I feel only this unbearable sadness for Sans....all those who he loves and cares about are dead and since he knows of the resets he knows that all he tries to do in that timeline is for naught. Urgh it just makes me want to take all the potential pain away from Sans, the hurt that comes from his almost omnipotent awareness and the pain from the chance of losing his brother and those closest to him in any play through other that the True Pacifist Run.....anyways....just felt good to get these thoughts that I've been wondering about all day out onto "paper." Anyways, see ya around.

Lookie at what this awesome hooman has done!! I would support, but.....I'm not in a position to donate at the moment....

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With things winding down and me getting a better grip on life I’m becoming more active on Patreon! You can support me on Patreon for as little as $1 a month! Shares around the interwebs are appreciated! Thank you so much! 

I decided that I will start going through my entire sketchbook that I got 5 months ago. I’ve grown quite a lot from when I first got it, so you will all probably see my art style transforming and getting better. I’ve focused mainly on getting more detailed. Also due to all the stealing of art on the web, I’ll only be posting with some sort of watermark. Sorry😤

Edit: Sorry for quality of photo. Using my phone camera which sucks so.....

Three guys are for a creature design project I'm working on in school. Gonna be painting and drawing them at large soon. I'm really liking this concept though!! Also, I'll be trying to post more often here instead of just doing reblogs, so stay tuned.

@crapnatters

Detail of Miniature Graves / Confetti Funerals - for the Gallery Nucleus 11 Year Anniversary Exhibition. Watercolor, gouache, & colored pencil on paper.

http://www.gallerynucleus.com/gallery/485/pieces/

My mother keeps telling me that snakes can't and won't love us back like, let's say like dogs or even cats. Can you show me some loving spaghetti? Pls, I need this.

I recommend reading this post I wrote on the matter, anon! And here are some of my favourite cuddly snake pictures.

It takes less than 30 seconds and less than 10 clicks to do all 4 links...PLEASE help dogs and cats in shelters!!

1 - gives kibble to dogs in shelters with a single click

2 - gives 10 pieces of kibble to dogs in shelters, whether you get the question right or not

3 - gives 10 pieces of kibble to cats in shelters, whether you get the question right or not

4 - gives cat litter to cats in shelters with a single click

Just a floofy dog thing I made to test out my ability of foreshortening. I think I might be getting better! Hopefully, I'll be able to get these scanned and transfered to watercolor paper so that I can finally start to color them. Would try copics but they are all so expensive and I need to save up.

Go into the arts. I’m not kidding. The arts are not a way to make a living. They are a very human way of making life more bearable. Practicing an art, no matter how well or badly, is a way to make your soul grow, for heaven’s sake. Sing in the shower. Dance to the radio. Tell stories. Write a poem to a friend, even a lousy poem. Do it as well as you possibly can. You will get an enormous reward. You will have created something.

Kurt Vonnegut (via planity) Just read his story Slaughterhouse five. The way he looks at life is amazing.

One of these things is not like the other