Made This Lil Thing To Celebrate Hitting 1500 Followers On Twitter.

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“How do I become a better artist?”

By knowing what you want to become better at making art of and practicing.

”uh- that’s a really vague answer actually and [indignant response about how artists should be better at helping that hasn’t been original since that one post talked about it years ago etc etc]”

Okay and that’s fair but can I in response then request people ask less vague questions? Because, coming from an anonymous messenger, whom I know nothing about, not what their current level is, not what their end goal is, not what art style exactly they want to get better in… how are we supposed to help someone who seems to ask what the magic secret is to unlock their artist powers is? Which none of us know either! That’s something that’s deeply personal and subjective, something everyone has to figure out for themselves.

It’s completely different from when someone asks us for advice or tips on something specific, like how light falls on different objects, how to recreate that in different art styles and with different media. Or tips for drawings faces that are more realistic or more cartoony or more anime, etc. Or tips for drawing landscapes. Maybe a step by step guide of how a specific artist draws their specific style. What tips did we follow when we were starting out, what helped us to get to the style we use today. You can ask most of your favourite artists for any specific tips, and they’ll give them to you happily!

But this whole thing of artists getting shit because anons ask them vaguely how is become artist gooder…. We don’t know the secret either! We give you the secret we DO know: know what you want, do research, practice until it’s second nature. That YOU don’t accept that as a good enough answer is because you might not have been specific enough. And it’s unfair that artists have to take shit because of it.

this is not a tutorial this is just me rambling

I've had this little idea in my head for a while now, so I decided to sit down and plot it out.

Disclaimer: This isn't meant to be some sort of One-Worksheet-Fits-All situation. This is meant to be a visual representation of some type of story planning you could be doing in order to develop a plot!

Lay down groundwork! (Backstory integral to the beginning of your story.) Build hinges. (Events that hinge on other events and fall down like dominoes) Suspend structures. (Withhold just enough information to make the reader curious, and keep them guessing.)

And hey, is this helps... maybe sit down and write a story! :)

‪How to draw water surfaces. From Jack Hamm’s Drawing Scenery (1972).

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i love love love the way you paint back lighting!! do you have any tips/ a step by step for the way you do it?

ended up making a whole painting just to break it down and explain my general process for subjects lit from behind so heres that + a timelapse!

main thing for drawing anything with a strong light source behind is to make the main subject Darker and more desaturated to convey that the light is behind them rather than to their sides (face cant be properly lit if the light is behind). Also making the Main highlight the brightest hue in the image helps to intensify it. I tend to use teeth/eyes as a good comparison point

some people have a tendency to make the sclera white out of habit but darkening that+ the rest of the whites helps the image read as Darker compared to the brighter highlight