Hi! At work I often have a few minutes of downtime while the computer does it’s thing and I want to use some of that time to improve my drawing skills. Any little exercises you can recommend?
Anonymous
Absolutely!
What comes to mind first is something I did as a part of a ‘how to improve’ tutorial.
Post it notes are usually found around the office, so this is a great way to use company money to further yourself. I recommend trying to do this quickly, as well. The idea is to un-train your brain from throwing down incorrect details.
The steps are:
- Think of one (1) thing you wanna learn to draw.
- Draw that thing from memory on a post it.
- Look for a picture of that thing on Google, or in a book. Think about what you got wrong in your first drawing.
- Take another post-it and draw that thing again. (Without reference.)
- Look at a reference again. Check for mistakes again.
- Rinse and repeat.
This exercise was inspired by the How to Draw Anything tutorial by Xuu on DeviantArt. I recommend everyone give this a read. It’s an excellent approach to drawing as muscle memory instead of some unobtainable ‘talent’ that you have to magically happen upon.
- Mod Chekhov
Aahh this is will really come in handy for me! Gonna reblog this thing here in case anyone else wants to try as well!
Mostly to start following other artists I look up to before tumblr begins its unnecessary purge. Might be my main drawing platform in the future depending on how many artists I follow end up there:
Poison-specs (@SpecsPoison): https://twitter.com/SpecsPoison?s=09
Ok so, since Tumblr is being an over protective Christian mother int he worse possible ‘Carrie’ sort of way, I’m going to ask that ya’ll reblog and spread the word about your favorite writers and artists again. Likes are nice, but reblogging is way better. And with the way things are and tags and searches being literally nonexistence, we need you so much! I know activity has gone way, way down for me and other writers and artists, and now, it’s gotten so much worse. Tumblr has literally fucked up being able to search for anything at all. Your reblogs mater and are so important. If you want to keep seeing content from us, please, for the love of god, reblog. I hate asking this, but it means the world to me to be able to keep creating here. If Tumblr keeps fucking up then a lot of your fvaorite artists and writers may move elsewhere. Hopefully Tumblr will get everyone back to working order soon, but for now, YOU are the most important thing to us creators.
Agreed. Nobody likes or wants to guilt trip but the reality is that, especially if you create mature content or content that could be deemed risky (such as LGBT content) most specifically to advertisers, creators need help in getting their works out there because as we are seeing in real time the built in tools of the system are falling to pieces. Algorithm, what algorithm?! Thus we rely on others to reblog, moreso now than normal (and we already rely on them a lot) to gain exposure and, in the case of those of us who are selling art, pay the bills. It’s why I constantly re-reblog my work: I love making art but as a creator love isn’t eyes on my work or money in my pocket or food in my stomach.
So please consider, if you like someone’s work, reblog it–it goes a long way.
update on shield’s scar (and a slight hair change maybe?)
was going to be just a blank slate w/out any clothes, but with the whole safe search tumblr drama going on i decided to play it safe and just draw on clothes (wish i hadn’t though since you can’t get a full on view of the scars up front :/)
I forgot i even finished this weeks ago asdfjklsdk-!
loved an avatar i made in a game i played at the time so I drew a full ref of her :’D
two baby girls fully dressed up and ready for winter!
I made an expression meme! :V Enjoy, yall!
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Really tempting to do this in my free time 9n9
background and color is tricky to pick out, but i’m satisfied at how this turned out! <3
one of my few kitsune ocs i have that I rarely shown to anyone lol
she doesn’t have a name yet, but shes a blind kitsune who can be terrifying with that bow of hers. more on her later!
background and color is tricky to pick out, but i’m satisfied at how this turned out! <3
one of my few kitsune ocs i have that I rarely shown to anyone lol
she doesn’t have a name yet, but shes a blind kitsune who can be terrifying with that bow of hers. more on her later!
what iva would look like as a full grown adult, but even as an adult freckles would protect this child like an overprotective parent lol