little-lumen

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Oldie that I hadn’t had the chance to upload yet, can I just say this is the best nose i’ve ever drawn. Can’t wait to improve some more but for now it’ll be me vs college

I’m doing portrait studies :0

I’m a cryptid that appears for a short period of time every year apparently

Artfight attack for https://twitter.com/Shimmerpup with her character Lora

The first pride was a riot, more specifically a riot against police violence. Trans women like Miss Major and other people of colour paved the way for the celebration of pride today. You cannot celebrate your pride this month, or any month if you aren’t also supporting Black Lives Matter and the riots going on against police violence right now. Us white LGBTQ+ need to stand up for our black siblings and their rights, their struggles. We need to amplify their voices and show any support we can. (Edited to add links and make the image clearer)

Extensive BLM Google doc including places to donate to, education resources, etc

List of 75 things white people can do right now

Simple way to donate to the cause if you have no money to

Thank you for tagging me @focusdumbass​ this was fun to do :)

you want to do this @scowling-owl-photography​?

hey how about make yourself with this picrew and tag some mutuals

i’ll start :^)

and i’ll tag @kazz @fair-y-child @tenthprinceofhell @qlecs @sarcasticmalecfan @jazzkaurtheglorious

Okay for storyteller saturday, what is the kindest, most softest memory your characters have? Do they try to get a moment like that again and chase after possibilities or do they acknowledge it as something they turn to when they need comfort by themselves?

You instantly went for the deep stuff! 

So, Alka and Lumen share the same one namely their first meeting. Alka had been travelling alone for quite some time and wasn’t in the best place mentally. Meanwhile Lumen had existed in the same sort of limbo, hanging around the swamp floating around aimlessly (and maybe accidentally lead some misguided travelers off the path, like will'o'whisps do).

For Lumen it’s that first moment, when their vision clears, floating somehwere above the ground now granted a body. The ability to perceive new things, left such a profound impact that then and there they decided that they were going to follow Alka in a personal quest to experience as much as they can sunsets, falling stars, the sound of fresh snow. Though nothing can ever replace that first moment.

Alka’s was a bit later, when they realized that the little will'o'whisp they so impulsively gave a body, was now creeping behind them, hiding behind a tree everytime they stood still or turned. The pitter patter of small feet however followed them for the rest of the day, after that the steps were much closer, as Alka had invited Lumen to stay by their side. In current times Alka can’t really imagine life without their trusted companion and wouldn’t trade it for anything else, except maybe seeing Lumen’s childlike wonder for everything around them turning the mundane into something extraordinary.

With Meihua it’s the day she received the crown of roses from her wife, Kujali as a reminder of her love for her. She imbedded it with magic which prevents them from decaying over time. Meihua is not one for staying in one and the same place for long periods of time and will go wherever the wind blows just to make discoveries and see new places. The flowers are a part of her wife that will always be with her even when theres mountains and sea’s between them. It’s her most precious possesion and there is nothing else that could replace it.

In contrast to her wife, Kujali (who’s name I changed from Mirembe) can’t manage to pinpoint a certain memory or event that is most precious to her, it’s the culmination of so many things, Meihua fervently waving as a small speck on the horizon before she dissapears out of view again or that ear to ear grin when she tells what happened on her travels. Everything is just so precious and Kujali wants to see how many more of these sort of memories she can create.

The fact that I don’t write much except for papers for college is coming back to haunt me xd I hope you like it :)

I’m doing an 80′s themed zine with my college class and I couldn’t pass the opportunity to get some robots in there. 

Found a piece that I made for artfight that app I didn’t appreciate enough back then but here it is!

The Oc is Frey from @minhanas

Still very much alive and kicking!

This time bringing you one of my works for this year’s artfight.

Characters belong to: https://twitter.com/FunkySpaceAlien who has improved so much during this last year, woah :O

What do you mean no artblrs following you :’) (jk I haven’t posted anything in like half a year, too busy so it’s no wonder)

I think the first picture was from when I was around 8 too I think. What really intrigues me is how similar it looks to your daughters, especially the headshape and how the neck connects to the face.

Your daughter got quite a good feel for colors, red and blue are complementary and purple is next to blue so it’s a solid color pallete with a pop of yellow. The bright red of the cape pulls your eyes towards it instantly and you just know this is a heroine.

The way she used a thicker outline and a thinner pen for the face? That’s a technique used by many cartoons and comics to make a character pop. The rainbow with thin lines? Makes it look like it’s further behind the thickly outlined superhero, that’s some perspecive right there!

Also for me personally it feels like her girl is in a more dynamic pose than the book one, if you trace an action line from the straight leg to the head you can see it’s nicely curved. The one from the book however is just straight as a board.

The concept of the hero is also very creative, never seen anything like it before in the many superhero mediums I have consumed. Marvel and DC the two biggest superhero comic book creators in the world, who combined have over 2000+ hero’s. There isn’t one with tulips.

Drawing isn’t easy but through perseverance you will go forward. As long as you keep drawing, you will improve automatically and if you improve you can make your idea’s real. Everybody has bad art days where they think that it’s never going to work out, that you failed but guess what that’s not true. You are your own worst critic. Van Gogh thought his painting “night café” was “ one of the ugliest pictures I have done “ and yet we see it as a masterpiece, imagine that.

Never give up, keep going even if you stumble and you will flourish. Not a single gemstone or diamond comes from the earth perfect, it needs to be cut, polished, inspected and much more. Currently, you are that rough diamond but if you keep going you will become that radiant stone that everybody loves.

I know I know I am on a hiatus-ish sort of break so why do you have to see this?

My daughter (8) just picked up drawing recently. This morning, she tried her first superhero girl. She has a book (the left picture) with step by step instructions but as you can see on the right, her drawing is different.

She’s devasted and sad that her supergirl doesn’t look “so good” and that it’s “wrong”. I suck at art and she knows so when I tell her that it’s amazing, she mumbles I say that because I can’t draw either.

I am pretty sure there aren’t any artblrs following me but I know that some writerblrs draw as well so would you be so kind to reblog this with a picture of your oldest drawing or any beginner drawing you have and one of your recent ones?

She’s so sad about her supergirl and I want her to see that no one starts out perfect and that the people who put these step by step books together are really just people who’ve drawn a long long time already.

(btw the orange writing is German and means “Rainbowtulip”. It’s the supergirls name because she likes rainbows and tulips but hates yellow tulips so if she spots someone not friendly she shoots yellow tulips on them. But if she spots someone who is friendly she makes a rainbow for them and also takes a picture for her wall where all the kind people have a picture)

Due to the move I might not be able to react to any reblogs immediately but you can be sure I will show her each addition to this.

I regret to inform you I’m #transformers trash.

I just couldn’t resist drawing them but due to being short on time it had to stay a sketch. 

College is hard but finally I can draw something for an assignment, have a mouse that also happens to be a maid from the great kingdom that also happens to be your cellar.

The design was made by @glitcherrii and I translated it into a Tim Burton-ish style.

Have a drawing I made in the train!

Even after reading this last preview it hasn’t really quite set in that tomorrow will be the last time. It feels so surreal that it’s ending, having read Lost Light since it first came out. I was somebody who really joined the fandom and the monthly wait when MTMTE just ended, though I knew of it beforehand having seen the panic issue 47 sparked.

It’s bitter sweet, the joy of completion and yet the emptiness it’s going to leave. It feels like I have grown up so much while reading and waiting, I graduated high school and even got my driving license. The month long wait every time again has kept me going through harder times. Though it might have given me some harder times like that one brand new issue that I read right before one of my exams and one of my favorite characters got mortality wounded. Good times.

I mourn the characters we’ve lost over the course of these years but in a more hopeful light maybe we’ll see them again in all their glory in the new universe!

Add me on cookie run: MNDLV7521 :D (I'm interested in friendly runs but have almost no friends on there so...)

It has been so long since I’ve drawn them but while Alka is still the same as before some minor details have been added such as freckles and a scar from a cleft lip

I’ve been a fan of tfa since the begining but I could never draw any of the characters in a decent manner.

Since the creation of the tfa discord my motivation to try again has skyrocketed, so have the first decent bot I have ever drawn. Hopefully one of many more to come.

The ball is still rolling!

An artfight attack for https://artfight.net/~DanisWhite

Another artfight attack! I feel like I’m on a roll now :D

This picture was made for https://artfight.net/~ExtraRare

A piece I did for artfight, the thick lines and pastel colors where something I had never done before but I’m quite proud of how it turned out.

It was made for @ msplebeian with their character Bon

I’m doing artfight this year for the first time and I’m very exited.

You can find me @ https://artfight.net/~LittleLumen (currently I have not been sorted anywhere because of the known problems artfight seems to have been experiencing since it started...)

When you get this you have to post 5 things you like about yourself, publicly. Then, send this ask to 10 of your followers (non-negotiable, because self-positivity is wonderful and good for you)

This was quite difficult but here we go:

- I like to think I’m quite creative

- Things have been rough but I always have managed to persevere

- My patience has greatly improved in comparison with a few years ago

- I managed to become at least a half decent artist, if I showed my work to myself when I was like 10 years younger. I would have probably lost my mind if I learned that I could do these things

- I try to be as kind as I can to everyone (though there are exceptions) because I value kindness

Managed to finish this right before the end of mermay :D

It seems that I only manage to finish big pieces when my exams are near... 

This piece gave me the challenge of painting textured hair but I’m happy with how it turned out :)

Backgrounds have never been my strong suit but I’ve always had a weakness for forests.

I want to thank everybody that followed me and liked/rebloged the silly drawings of Fukumaru.

I had not expected them to get this amount of notes and you all just made my day/week/month/year.

Catloaf extra fluffy

Fukumaru blep

Blood, sweat and tears but it is finally done! 

I’m so proud of how this turned out.