Inspo:

make bad art or you will always feel bad about your art. Make bad art until you find joy in the crooked lines and the off colours. Make bad art because art is about expression and artwork is never ugly because it was made by someone who has lived a life no one else will ever live. Make bad art and find love through ugly. Make bad art so you make art at all. Make bad art.

Feather illustration for non-biologists! It occurred to me that some of you might find this useful. It starts with a necessary biology lesson, because I find that understanding the structure and function of feathers will greatly improve accurate rendering of those feathers.

A lot of this is general - obviously you can find all kinds of exceptions in the  natural world (penguins, ratites, I’m looking at you guys). But it should cover the bulk of the illustration needs if you’re not comfortable drawing feathers and want some ideas on how to improve.

For photo references, I highly recommend birdpixel (a very generous online art reference created by Leena and Vivek Khanzode), Cornell’s Macaulay Library, and Piranga, which is mostly aimed at North American bird banders but shows excellent close-ups of a variety of species.

a rainy journey 🌧️

[image ID: a watercolor painting of a little fox riding a hot air balloon into the sky. Stars hang off his balloon basket. The clouds around him are a bright pink and orange, raindrops hang from them off delicate strings.]

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A friend commissioned me to patch their grandpa's old Carhartt jacket <33

Hey

I was wondering if you could give us the name or link for the picture of Marinette (with the cat — the model is so pretty ;; ). And same for Adrien’s profile picture’s model?

(Miraculous ladybug twitter series)

Sure! The name of the model is Byun Jeongha (I believe that's her Instagram account?), there are a plethora of images on Tumblr as well. The photo I used was an edit of this image (I found another cute set from the same shoot here). The image used for her profile picture can be found here.

As for Adrien, the model used is Lucky Blue Smith (though that might be subject to change, I haven't decided). You can find the image used for his profile picture here.

I've made Pinterest boards for all of the characters, but they're locked/hidden. I decided to open up the one I made for Marinette since it's the least outdated one. 😅

✨marinette's board ✨

Here's my edited version of the cat image:

I’m running an Introductory Animation Workshop with creative arts students this Saturday (August 20, 2016) for The School of Creative Arts Open Day at Melbourne Polytechnic’s Prahran Campus. I’ve rotoscoped and broken down some of the greatest dance gifs to their basic poses and we’re going to collaboratively design characters then MAKE THEM DANCE!!

Come down, check out the campus and say HI!

I can’t wait to see the weird animated goofs that result from this workshop, I’ll post them in a couple of days so we can all be in awe of their hilarious spontaneity! 

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