What Do You Mean No Artblrs Following You :’) (jk I Haven’t Posted Anything In Like Half A Year,

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.

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Sketch Saturday

I'm trying to build the habit to keep this blog as active as possible and what better way to do it than to use a set day for it. So from now on I'm going to post something every Saturday!

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Sketch saturday

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little-lumen

9 years ago

this photo was taken from camp a month or so ago and i had forgotten about it but here it is.

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little-lumen

5 years ago

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 :)

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oc writing long post lore storyteller saturday lumen Alka Meihua Kujali I'm not practiced in writing and I'm feeling that so much rn

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little-lumen

8 years ago

Trying to get the hang of drawing expressions. I’m really happy with how this one came out.

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little-lumen

9 years ago

first drawing is a steven universe fanart that i drew more than a month ago. ( i am very nervous for posting my drawings online and i still need to make a whole lot of improvement but i hope that you will enjoy them)

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little-lumen

8 years ago

Because It’s The End Of This School Year For Me I Wanted To Post Some Things I Made Troughout The Year

Because it’s the end of this school year for me I wanted to post some things I made troughout the year that I haven’t managed to finish for various reasons. (These drawings except for garnet are quite old )

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my art oc steven universe garnet su lumen Oh god these are so old

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little-lumen

7 years ago