December 2011
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November 2011
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serendipitymoment asked: I, like many others, love your illustrations!! :)
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canoftoast asked you: Great sketchblog! Love your style and painting skills. Do you use photoshop or corel? What brush settings do you normally use? :3
aah, thank you! neither, i usually use paint tool sai because it blends beautifully! haven’t used corel in ages so i can’t really say if it’s better or worse. i usually use the brush tool and on the default settings.
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October 2011
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Anonymous asked: just wanted to say I luv your painting style
September 2011
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August 2011
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whenever i draw people running, they look like...
truth
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the 8 most important things i never learned in art...
so i was randomly thinking about all the stuff i’ve learned about drawing since i decided two christmases ago that i wanted to be a better artist. and i realized that funnily enough, the most useful things i’ve learned have nothing to do with how to draw lines or choose colors - but more have to do with how to motivate myself and how to not get discouraged. stuff i wish teachers...
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July 2011
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“All of you have 100,000 bad drawings in you. The sooner you get rid of them, the...”
– Chuck Jones
June 2011
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vanevanfuller asked you: Your work is really coming along beautifully.
thank you much!
anneart replied to your photoset: james gurney’s book! jealous!! awesome that you’re learning so much! inspiring :)
yah it’s a great book, jg explains things so precisely & investigator-ily (makin up wurds haha) i love reading artbooks but i wish i had more time to draw my own stuff too!
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May 2011
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Super Obvious Secrets That I Wish They’d Teach In... →
samsketch:
The very talented illustrator and cartoonist Phil McAndrew wrote an article called “Super Obvious Secrets That I Wish They’d Teach In Art School” and I think it’s definitely worth a read. There are without a doubt some very astute “words to live by” in there - this bit proved especially true for me (in regards to self-promotion): “The most effective thing I’ve done has actually been...
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How to get better at drawing
ashwara:
Think about the things you hate drawing
Think about the things you don’t draw because you don’t know how
Think about the things you have trouble drawing.
Ready??!!!
Now draw them a lot! Go go go!!
(and don’t forget to do research if you need to)
ashwara is a wise old sage
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April 2011
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akitobunny asked: U have a wonderful tumblr... may I follow u?
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