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well this one took a more reasonable amount of time... 5 hours 😭

i loooove my square canvases man its the easiest way to do composition

ive literally just discovered the hack for shading and drawing hair and clothes and i cant stop thinking about it, it's so easyyy

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新年快乐!!!!!!!

erm today was literally crazy tho idk what happened I woke up so late and had to rush so much

im so excited to eat yummy food

i saw the teeniest hummingbird just now anyone know what species this is?? it was so small it could fit in my palm and it flew by really fast, oh this was in California bay area btw, the green part was iridescent that's what that shine is lol

never seen this before thats why im asking usually I see the green and pink one, it especially caught my eye cuz its neck was SO red like bright scarlet red

also cuz... you dont usually see hummingbirds in winter idk whats up with this lil guy do hummingbirds get lost 😭

im not a zoological artist (or anyone who can draw animals in general ngl) don't judge but it was chubby so that part is intended

ignore the hand we dont talk about it its for size comparison

obligatory addition of my CHUBBY year of the snake decoration its not even a snake anymore its just a little toothpaste blob

i got it from daiso lol how do they have literally everything

Hello! You commented on something I posted in the art critique community, and since I don’t really want to flood that space with asks about the same thing, I figured I could ask here, since you have a post saying you like doing critiques?

Since this is just a base drawing, I haven’t done textures and shading yet, but I did adjust some anatomy bits (including the sets of hands you pointed out) and made the foreground characters larger, but I’m not sure if the perspective is much more obvious.

Of course, I’d like to hear about other things you think I should revise. Thank you :)

person in suit at the top's hair is really close to touching the purple light person in the dress, its called a tangent when two objects are touching like that and it messes with differentiating foreground and background. i think it would be important to either make it clear that the characters on the bottom and the characters on the top are separate, or to make them overlap a bit so we know which ones are in front.

i know you havent done shading yet, but when you do, you should consider making the characters in the bottom brighter so we know that they are in front. also, theres a blue gap on the bottom of the image (its a yellow gap in the first image and blue in the second image) that you should probably fill with clothing or something because it's negative space and inadvertently draws the viewer's eye to it.

i think the drawing overall looks a bit dim, especially the characters which are meant to be the focal point. i HIGHLY recommend turning the image to greyscale and seeing how you can make things stand out more that way. its a strategy i use all the time, and even when your image is blurred and in greyscale, you should be able to see many different values and understand whats going on in the piece.

honestly, this is something you dont have to follow, but you could push the perspective even more and make the characters in front even bigger and the characters in the back even smaller. but then some of the characters would be less visible, so thats why this is just a suggestion.

also the background text/constellations should be much brighter/thicker, at a glance i cant see it at all and it just looks like negative space.

this is something i do A LOT in my drawings, but it really helps, and that's to add a gradient to the background making the bottom of the grey background part darker would help push contrast and make the characters stand out even more, I've just done it in my most recent artwork, it works wonders.

very long post, hope i helped. this is a very complicated composition and organisation, so well done, I don't think I could do much better lol

puma guy reference for my artfight i gotta draw more of these but they're kinda a pain but they help me figure out stuff about the character!! lock in their proportions and stuff so I draw them consistently and know what I'm doing

i hate drawing symmetry i mean im not aiming for it to be perfectly symmetrical cuz that's creepy af and unnatural and some elements of his design are purposefully asymmetrical (barely noticeable but his eyebrows for example I hate how I put small details no one will ever even see or think about)

but this took so long to correct i was constantly flipping my canvas… now I'm thinking about how I'll have to do like 9 more of these and probably have to redo them by july cuz I'll have improved and will hate my old art

crossing my fingers that i can just do small edits or liquify by the time artfight happens I don't wanna have to redo everything

my most masculine OC has unicorn toothpaste hair

lowkey cooked when i made his design I love purple he's literally just a flipped version of jayden though

i been so stupid, complaining about tumblr's horrible compression, but it turns out... it was cuz I was accidentally exporting all my drawings as jpeg 😭

obligatory repost of this image i cant believe the very first appearance of him and his OG design is a badly sewn cat plushy

rn i have THREE mangoes!!!!!!!!!!

now i have two mangoes....

sad update: no mangoes

Hello again, I’ve “finished” that drawing I asked you about a while ago! I think I’ll add some lettering to the bottom and make the green-lighted lady’s arms larger, but aside from that, what do you think I should revise? I also wanted to add a glitch effect to the characters at the top (for lore reasons), but I can’t tell if it looks horrible or not. I also am a bit worried about compositional readability.

Please let me know what you think! If context helps, this is a project which will be included in my school portfolio. Thank you for answering my ask before also ☺️

the glitch effect is cool, but id stick to red, white, and blue for the colours of the glitch, as the green looks out of place and muddy. the characters at the top are also very dark and at first glance I didn't see them at all. if they are meant to be hidden that's fine, but I just want to let you know they aren't very visible, so if that's not your intention id make them brighter or the lighting on them stronger.

the shading looks great for most of the characters but I cant understand where the light source is coming from for the yellow character on the right (not the one in the middle). the shading is also very soft, which for some surfaces makes sense, but in this drawing, everything is shaded very softly with an airbrush. id include some more hard edges in shading since those are important, especially in the face. there should definitely be harder shadows/highlights on the noses too. the hair needs harder highlights especially, all of the hair here looks very soft like a pillow, and not shiny like hair actually is. darker skin is also more reflective and has more contrasted shading, but in this art piece the lighter skin and the darker skin are shaded the same.

the strong coloured highlights really swallow up the colours of the characters clothes and skin, which is why I prefer to use multiply and overlay blend modes, since it retains the colour underneath all the shading.

if I blur my eyes and look at the drawing as a whole, the lightest and most eye-catching part of the drawing is in the middle with the white character, but it seems the characters in the very front should be more emphasised. so i'd say to make the bottom of the image even brighter, simply an overlay layer with a white airbrush can brighten it up, also putting the overlay over the characters at the very top can make them brighter, its a very easy fix.

the pink and light blue character's skintones are looking rather grey, a little bit more orange/red can help with this. i would say the grey character's skin also looks grey, but that's their colour so I'm not sure if that's intentional.

also I'm not sure if the white text is important, but I do want to point out that I have no clue what it says, I can't read it. (I see starry mask on the left, but what does it say on the right? I'm seeing "cplouge") also this is optional but I really like to do it and it adds a lot of life to art, just adding a small white highlight in the eyes

hope i helped!

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one day I'll open commissions but rn I've got way too much work to do

highkey terrified of deviantart, the things i've seen there...

anyone wanna do OC art trades?? (closed for now, will update when open again)

i got some time (no guarantee for how long it'll take but it'll prob be a week or less) since no one (on reddit or artfight at least jk but not really) can draw asian characters ima try my luck with puma guy since he's... well it depends on the person race isn't real anyways

refs are the images in this post, DM or comment with some refs and basic info of your character (can be long or short, but I just wanna know like the vibe of the character)

you do NOT have to draw all the details (I have super complex OCs feel free to simplify) or follow exact palettes and stuff just don't change it too much

dont really have that many rules for what you do I'm fine with pretty much anything I just love any art I receive (even the lewd art lmaoo ppl are simps for my other OC yilin, straight up got art of her in a bikini once and honestly the only thing stopping even that from being removed is artfight rules)

also i prefer less cartoony OCs (i mean... look at my art style its kinda hard to draw a stick figure in a realistic way since the more simplified a design is obv the less info you can get from it) but it doesn't have to be as realistic as mine just know I'm gonna end up matching the simplicity/style of the OC since I don't wanna just make stuff up, I like to stick to designs closely

i gotta DRAW my brain is making meee and i don't have any good ideas rn

photoshopped tf out of my old drawing of him you can tell the pixels get cut off/blurred I'm too lazy to redo it

btw check out my previous art pieces with the tag art trade on them for an example of what you'll get

omg... new blend brush in magma is INCREDIBLE

it saves so much time omg this took 2 HOURS this looks like it took more than my usual 4 hours, im shocked rendering hair and doing lineless art is actually easy now??

also i ate with my colours look at that classic warm highlights cool shadows style

i use so much less layers too... i cant understand how i did digital art for so long without a blend brush

OCs i made when I was 10 (we're moving up from age 9!)

crazy to see how much things changed in terms of character design in just one year, they became so much more complex

colour wise, i was still an amateur lol, I had to change the colours slightly for some of these characters to make them look more unified cuz I was still just putting every single colour in all my designs

patterns went even crazier this is the SIMPLIFIED version of the designs so imagine what the originals looked like

def was my armour era boy everyone had armour i rarely made "normal" OCs

space era is exciting ngl i love drawing aliens and getting loose with it, I don't have to constrain myself as much I can just do whatever I want

its so funny cuz you can tell that I LOVED colour like the bad guys are literally the ones who are all grey and monotone (those two guys are good now tho)

the 3 ppl in the image that includes the red alien (and the blue alien) are the main OCs of a comic I made in 4th grade the plot is INSANE like actually ridiculous its so crazy it almost becomes satire

im crying why is my old art so bad this is from when I was 11 when I was just starting digital art on chrome canvas lmaooo

amethyst looking rough here

my steven universe obsession was crazy i mean I lived breathed slept steven universe i have very few OCs from this time period cuz literally all my art and MULTIPLE SKETCHBOOKS were just filled with steven universe

THE FEEEEET

btw i used to draw ALL my feet like that... potatoes

posting this cuz i recently found a goldmine of old art from my old account I managed to save it even tho the account got deleted by the school after I left elementary

can you tell i REALLY couldnt draw hands or no

still working on redrawing all my OCs but its taking longer cuz I have so many freaking paragraphs to write I hate essays

gonna just see a jump from 10 years old to like 12 years old lol again cuz of my insane steven universe obsession

i still absolutely LOVE su it has a special place in my heart but I'm not this crazy anymore although it def has influenced some of my character designs and stories ngl