#i was experimenting with traditional sketch and digital coloring

[howlinghound11]

It's the boy!!!

He's just so funny to me, i love him <3 the silly little guy who's taken over everybody's heart @:)

Character belongs to the wonderful @/partycoffin ofc

#welcome home #welcome home wally #ive really just fell in love with all of clown's beautiful characters theyre all so cute #ive like never made fanart of something so fast or this much fanart like generally #its crazy and they just come so easily its insane #btw this is my first time trying to digitally color one of my traditional sketches #so i was just experimenting with my drawing app #but i think it came out pretty good #it took like 8 hours lol #also i made this like 2 weeks ago but i kept forgetting to post it lol #anyway lol #my arts #my posts #me #more on the way probably like i said i cant stop drawing wally and im workin on the rest of the cast #wally darling #welcomehomearg

[non0zec-art]

this is the way the world ends. (annnd thats the end of febuairy lads! this was a fun sort of experience for me :])

#art #artists on tumblr #hfjone #airy hfjone #and my commenting on the drawing process: #this drawing was made with the restriction of just using the default colors! #it was fun to mess around with them to figure out how i wanted this and in the end i settled for going with an all warm palette- #as for the whole experimenting during this month #it was pretty fun trying out different ways to go about digital art! #especially as i usually prefer to do sketches traditionally and dont often do more complete(ish) drawings like these #though i do run out of idea juices pretty quickly. #which did make somewhat harder to figure out how to draw this darn lamp several times in interesting ways :') #i think after this ill try to digitalize(?) some of my traditional doodles and sketches

[transgender-catboy]

Family photo!! This is my goodnight post, ily guys!! See ya tomorrow!

#i get to see a friend I haven't seen for a whole month finally tomorrow #its gonna be awesome #he's actually the guy who triggered my spiderverse phase because he took me to see the movie #and now he's gonna have to deal with the consequences of that when we finally catch up #eheheheheheh #i still have the movie ticket #i use it ad a bookmark in my spiderverse art books #i plan on getting a proper bookmark tomorrow (fingers crossed i can find it) #I'm kinda spamming long tags because i have a horrible confession #that involves cereal #but you're gonna have to wait just a teeenyyy tiiinnyy bit more #so #let me tell you what I've done so far today #i did dishes! I washed my counters and stovetop #and i did some character sketches #and experimenting with coloring styles in both traditional and digital art #(but i cant share them yet because I'm not done them. theyre in gift art for my friends :3) #I might actually sell the ocs I've been making lately because i have absolutely no need for them. theyre just experimental work #okay sin time #i tried cereal...with water. choco fruity pebs. i dont have milk currently #.........it wasn't bad #anyways goodnight!

[nn-ee-zz]

I don’t really have a lot to ask I just want to say I love your art style! It kind of reminds me of like Eldritch Horror meets Celestial Divinity type of thing so with that said I was wondering on how you came to this type of art style you do and how long did it take you to experiment until you found the style that you wanted? Sorry if that sounds kinda confusing 😅 thanks for taking the time to read this and have a good rest of your day!

Thank you! I did not found my artstyle, my artstyle found me. Here is a timeline of my digital art/illustration journey

2014 - The beginning

I finally took my tablet and bit the bullet that was digital art. I remember specifically forcing myself to draw (because it was not fun) because I wanted to learn digital art no matter what it took.

2016 - Experimental

Boldness seems to have dominated this phase, not because of the themes but because I rendered without any under sketch (example above of how the first draft looked like vs the end)

2017 - The breakthrough

It was only from here that digital art began feeling RIGHT. The most important things I've learned were how to render texture variation (especially softer things like hair and fur) and how to color a drawing from greyscale. I was slowly settling onto my desired artstyle

2019 - Happy accident

We were tasked to design characters based on chess pieces during college. 1 week deadline. With the mindset that no one will see my designs except my teacher and I, I did things boldly and rendered them (trad ink plus digital shading) to emphasize shape and design, rather than texture variation.

I began mixing traditional lineart with digital rendering.

2020 - Fallen from heaven

My friend and I decided to attempt to design angels based on widely popular tumblr emoji mashups. It was the first time I colored one of my character design drawings, using similar methods to the ones I've learned in 2017.

2017 - 2024

I cannot name nor describe my artstyle nowadays. I haven't seen many people with something similar either. I use what I've learned in all my phases; the spontaneous boldness of 2016, the texture variation of 2017, the sharp shapes and design mindset of 2019, the mix of traditional and digital from 2020. It all melted together and keeps evolving.

The way I approached art changed too. I was so worried about making things beautiful and technically outstanding when today I only worry about making things interesting and readable.

#art ask #long post #digital art #art timeline #art progress

[ssavaart]

heya!!! so excited to see you use tumblr. i have a question: what’s a painting you used to dislike but now find joy in? a lot of my old art i used to dislike and tried to think of all of the ways of fixing it, but now in the present i’m starting to grow really fond of it. kinda like a “wow i’ve actually improved so much but i still like the way i did this work” if that makes sense? have you ever had an experience like that?

Hi. Great question.

I think this piece of Marion from Raiders of the Lost Ark that I did for my friend Charlie back in 2002.

I had pretty much given up on traditional art at this time. I hated my art. I hated colored pencils. I literally took 10 years off (away from traditional art) after this piece.

Charlie was a good friend and he loved Indiana Jones. So... I slapped some watercolors down on bristol paper and did a REALLY quick sketch of Marion for him... and... never thought of it again.

For the next 10 years, I worked mainly in 3D/Digital doing my webcomic The Dreamland Chronicles. I didn't touch traditional art until 2011 when I decided to learn watercolors.

I look back on it now with a sense of nostalgia as this was the last colored pencil illustration I did before that long 10 year break and even though it was just a quick little sketch for a friend... it's not that bad.

#art #traditional art #artists on tumblr #watercolor art #watercolor #drawing #art advice #colored pencil #colored pencil art #indiana jones #raiders of the lost ark #marion jones #marion ravenwood #margot kidder

[alittlecrow]

Portrait study from the Solitary Cyclist.

I started this in July with the intention of finishing it before the Letters from Watson substack finished SOLI and that did Not happen.

I’ve been gradually chipping away at it ever since with it being about 20hrs just for the digital rendering. And it only took that long because I had to keep scrapping and restarting Holmes’ face and hand. All my love for Jeremy Brett, but his face is so specific that it was the greatest struggle to get his likeness any decent. And I still find it lacking. But what can you do.

I appreciate the learning experience this gave and it’s made me increase my efforts in digital painting in the weeks since I started it. And my complaints aside, I really did enjoy the process. Frustrating at times, but very rewarding. And I’m quite proud to have finished it instead of leaving it in my wips folder for eternity.

Anyways, bonus traditional sketch with too big Holmes Head and too small Watson Head and initial color comp.

#sherlock holmes #holmes posting #granada holmes #john watson #letters from watson #the solitary cyclist #jeremy brett #david burke #watsholmes #johnlock #definitely one of those moments where my college art teacher was right and I Do need to practice color if I want to get better #he’s not dead #but if he were he’d be looking down at this and telling me how to fix it #but since he’s alive and can’t see this I’m just gonna call it done #my work #sherlock holmes art

[possessedpasm]

i just found your account and i'm so so so so so in love with your ocs and your artstyle and it's all just so AMAZING!!!! leave some swag for the rest of us fr!!

i've seen some of your traditional stuff and wanted to ask what pens/pencils you use to sketch?? and have you ever tried coloring/making finished illustrations traditionally?

i'm a traditional artist (i just fill sketchbooks and never make anything finished) and everytime i see tutorials for comicbook/misprint/vintage-y art it's always digital (probably because of the aging and editing possibilities). so I'm curious if you've ever tried it (or if it's even possible lol)

thank you so much for sharing your art with us!!

Oh thank you so much!! 😭

I do make lots of traditional art, and I looove working with ink. I gravitate towards Pilot fine points and Speedball for making comics, but really just experimenting with different ones on different media is the best :]

And it is totally possible to make hand-drawn misprints! Once you got your linework, get yourself some alcohol markers (preferably in cmyk colors) and lay them down individually in layers, staggering each color to one side/outside the lines a little! Also tracing over your lines with a different color pen gives you a chromatic aberration appearance, too!

Also, even if you do a little ink wash/water color over your work, it can really make it pop! You can even add "stains" to the art that way...

Also, lastly, solid blocks of color and linework over it reflecta the UPA style, which is SUPER fun to do with paint and pens!

So there's tons of ways to get your traditional art to look vintage :D I'm glad you asked, thank you!

#my art #talkin pasm #art advice #onyxisnotuniqueenough

[schmoedraws]

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[southsuns]

internet begging (womp womp)

hi!! i’m known as percival on here, i recently moved out due to family issues & while i am working, i am having a hard time.

my cashapp, paypal, and venmo are all s0uthsuns! if you dont have cashapp, but want one, if you send me a dm i can send an invite that will give me $5 at no cost to yourself !!!

right now it’s me and my grumpy baby, nivea

BUT I AM NOT ASKING MERELY FOR SPARE CHANGE!!!! i also draw, and write!- i don’t have many recent examples for art due to Procreate Issues, but here are some examples! from landscapes to full color meme pieces to traditional pen sketches, i’m willing to do anything, including nsfw (includes writing.) i am not averse to creating kink/fetish art as long as you’re clear that’s what it is.

$5 mecha, heavy armor, or furry sketch (i don’t have a lot of experience, hence the low cost).

$10 fountain pen or digital sketch

$15 sketch sheet, +5 to add flat colors

$35 for fully colored art, +10 for a detailed background or extra characters.

again, my cashapp, venmo, and paypal are s0uthsuns - if you want art, please include your tumblr user as a note on payment and dm me!!

#e begging #artists on tumblr #cheap commissions #commissions #emergency commissions #give me money

[illu-sarah]

Experimenting with digitally coloring my traditional sketches 🤔 anyways I am the president of the Gesicht Fan Club actually.

#gesicht #pluto anime #pluto manga #pluto netflix #procreate art #digital art #traditional drawing

[ash-and-starlight]

any tips for a beginner digital artist who is having a really hard time transitioning from traditional? (and YES I have been practicing but it still just Doesn’t Look Right). I’m currently working on Procreate. Thanks so much ash!

ohh man this is a difficult one haha I personally found it very easy to adapt to digital art (currently having. the opposite problem as you actually lmao) but right off the bat I'd say to uhh- dont be to hard on yourself & give yourself the time to adapt the creative process to a new tool? Experiment with brushes until you find one that you really vibe with, start with low-effort and low-expectation sketches so that your muscle memory adapts to the new format and once you found your footing with that move to a little more complex artworks (I remember smth that frustrated me a lot in the beginning was coloring and like. it's still a process but I'm coloring things on the reg now!!) and watch digital art tutorials or process vids to see how other digital artists use that same tool & which cool tricks u can learn from them! I hope this was helpful & that you keep having fun <33

#ash replies

[ribbonetteart]

Tribute to one of my favorite movies of all time + the franchise that has me in a death grip 💖

a bit late for Christmas but at least Valentine's day is around the corner ^^;;

Process below if that interests you:

AS I SAID EARLIER, I had been working on this piece as early as December of 2021 😱!!!

This was the original sketch! I was inspired after learning about Blaze's own design inspiration coming from Takarazuka theater, as well as it being the Nutcracker season so this film was in bouncing around in my head.

and this was allllll the way back in 2021 ^^; I had put the idea to paper to capture the image in my head immediately. But the idea in my head was extravagant and beautiful and would certainly take time to complete, as well as the patience and skill to work with watercolor 😔 I've certainly done my share of watercolor, both physical and digital, but I still feel like my physical watercolor work is a fluke, and I was still a novice digital artist at the time of this sketch.

In short, I was confident my skill could live up to the vision.

So I would put this on the back burner. It wouldn't be ready in time for Christmas, and I could use this as an opportunity to hone that digital art experience so it could be ready next year!

2 Years Later...

It's December 5th. Fuck it. Let's crack this open again, I tell myself.

SO starting with the line art, it's actually 2 different brushes layered over one another.

I also changed Sonic's expression to be more love struck-looking, because I'm a sucker for romance.

The image on the left is a watercolor line brush, while the right is a pencil brush. The reason I wanted a water color look was because I thought it would make the illustration look dreamy and fantastical, and I wanted that to extend to the line art as well. However, my usual lines on traditional usually veer more towards thick and cartoony from years of studying the Sonic art style, so I really felt like I was working against myself here. I had also asked friends for their input and they preferred the lines on the right as well. If my followers actually do read these blog posts, I'd love if you could comment which line art style you prefer drawing or looking at.

The happy medium was to just combine the 2. Here's a better look at that:

I like it! I think it combines the solid line with the rustic water color grain. Best of both worlds :]

For the actual painting, The most notable thing I can say is that getting the right pastel-y color was VERY difficult to achieve for someone like me who often loves to use bright and saturated colors in her art. I feel like I really set myself up to do one of those "evil art style" or "opposite art style" challenges I've been seeing around. I had to repaint Sonic at one paint because the blue of his fur was WAY too saturated for the style I was going for:

I started with painting Sonic and Blaze in first and then working on the background. I think that's probably the backwards way of doing it but one of the perks of digital art is you can do stuff any order you want when you have layers.

The background wasn't actually as difficult as I thought it would be. I wasn't going for any difficult perspective, and I was using a reference so that could be it. I'm usually averse to backgrounds but I really wanna tackle more of my weak points in art. I actually had way more fun than I was expecting, painting the sky and adding texture to the grass. I think I had the most fun rendering the water coming from the fountain (which you can't even see too well anyway, lol).

Funny enough, I had just about finished painting the characters and background by early January. So why am I posting this in February?

The Flowers...

In case you don't know. I love flowers. I love looking at them, I love learning about flower languages, I love drawing them. so seeing that my reference image showed flowers circling the fountain, I was excited! I was already having more fun than I expected to be, working against my usual style, rendering a background, so how could this be a pain in the ass?

Well, I am my own worst enemy 😞I couldn't exactly identify each flower offhand from this screenshot alone. The texture of the flowers is kinda grainy, since I don't think the animators were expecting viewers to look too closely at the set piece to use as reference for my lovingly crafted crossover fanart. If anyone has this in high quality though, please tell me.

(I think I actually got this reference from a tumblr post but I can't find it on my blog for the life of me nor can I find it in the tags I'm so sorry)

I'm a huge stickler for details so I really wanted to be as "accurate" as possible in my illustration. I can hardly identify some of these flowers with confidence. I think there are roses in there? or tulips? I'm not sure if those yellow flowers are roses or some kinda petunia or if I'm way off.

I'm sure these details won't matter to most viewers but it was EATING AWAY AT ME. Eventually I decided to try drawing in flowers that might look similar to the ones in the reference. Or some based on their flower languages. I was certainly overthinking it ;;;; It led me to going "fuck it" and just throwing in whatever I wanted. There are no irises visible in that screenshot but I made it the centerpiece of the flower ring. Who give a shit.

I made some guides for me to follow: The blue ring was so I could make sure the flowers make a half circular border around Sonic and Blaze. I was envisioning how it could look as like an icon or sticker or something, which is why it's framed this way. then the second guide is the sketch of the flowers I made. I always do line art and I'm not great at just improvising with color to paper, or color to screen in this case.

The rest of this process is then just working on each flower piece by piece (with the help of the mirror tool of course) with varying degrees of detail. Some flowers are more abstract than others, and I had debated if that would look jarring and disrupted any kind of harmony I was trying to maintain with the style parameters I set for myself. And then I decided I was overthinking it once again which is why this was taking me nearly 2 months to complete.

At some point during this process, my wifi went out for a whole week! Of course, I could still work on this illustration offline, but I had a lot of tabs open with a bunch of reference images on there (plus I like to listen to music while I draw otherwise I lose focus and I had neglected to download a varied selection on my phone or laptop 😭 Learn from my mistakes).

The most tedious of this process was making each set of gladioluses a unique color.

Was it worth it? You tell me! I think they're pretty, at least.

Along the way, I repainted the grass because it wasn't symmetrical (It didn't need to be but I had been using the mirror tool for a lot at this point and it was bugging me). I made other little final adjustments, like color adjusting the leaves on the flowers, lowering the flower ring border, and so on.

Ultimately, I'm extremely satisfied with the final product. I had my heart set on doing something like this for a long time. I had so much fun just experimenting throwing on color or not worrying about technical stuff. Of course, I did do what I usually do and overthink it at some points, but I'm working on it!

I've wanted to do an extremely indulgent AU illustration and other drawings for a Sonic x The Nutcracker story for a long while. I will be totally honest, I'm still a little embarrassed to share stuff like this, even after years of posting fan art online. It feels like the more self indulgent something is, the more people might judge me for it ^^; But I wanna practice what I preach and kill the thing inside me that cringes at my harmless attempts at joy and whimsy.

I would love to do some more drawings for this AU, but maybe post them around December when it would be more seasonally appropriate. I hope you'll stick around for it!

If you read this whole thing to the end, thank you. Whether you follow my blog or not, I hope you have a lovely day :3💝

#Barbie in the Nutcracker #Sonic the Hedgehog #Blaze the Cat #Sonaze #Jess's Digital Odyssey #Sorry for not posting frequently it may happen again

[minipisi-is-dumb]

silly page for practice :) there's no au or anything behind it i just wanted to make something cool

this is a little experiment that i quite liked so if you wanna see the process is under the cut

for me is quite hard to draw from scratch in digital, it's really slow and/or in general doesn't look like i want to, unlike traditional which is way easier for me. specially lineart

then i thought "hey what if i scan one of my lineart pieces in traditional and then use the multiplication layer to color it" and well here we are

so again there's not any au or general idea behind it, i only wanted to draw tails in the leones del caracas (venezuelan baseball team) uniform and i figured a comic would be fun to do so

but yeah here are the pics of the process

from the sketch to the lines and the final scan before coloring the entire thing took around 3 hours (which is quite quick since im Really slow drawing) and that's really it

showing the progress of stuff feels a lot like my amino era and it's weird but it was a fun thing to do :) ty for reading

#minipisi.art #miles tails prower #tails #sonic the hedgehog #sonic #tangle the lemur #belle the tinkerer #minipisi.txt #<- kinda because the explanation is a bit long #vzla tag #????? #idk

[winged-wheel]

martlet!

another experiment with digitally coloring traditional art; certainly not the cleanest or most efficient thing in the world but with my limited tools and skills it's what works for me at the moment, so i'll own it and enjoy it until i eventually sell my soul for a drawing tablet or something

original sketch:

#uty #undertale yellow #uty fanart #martlet #uty martlet #martlet uty #martlet undertale yellow

[rapidhighway]

howd u do that lil graph paper effect in ur recent knuckles and sonic art

i just drew it on paper first! excuse the grammar xrffgfsf

these stick notes weren't there intentionally i just messed up a lot of times xddd i just took a photo of this and everything else was a one big experiment, i just knew i wanted to mix the look of a traditional sketch with digital art so i fought to achieve that. I played with lots of settings, used color range in photoshop to extract the lineart so i could draw under it, many many things. It was al very spontaneous, the file is a mess frgfdbf i had to redraw knuckles entirely his leg is broken :'(((

#sonic #knuckles the echidna #sonic the hedgehog #art #sketchbook #doodle

[celerydays]

What program do you use to make your fanart? Is it on just an average ipad or is there special ones just for art? Your work looks so good! I’m wanting to try digital art but unsure where to start :)

I use the Procreate app for all of my digital art! ✨

It should be available on any iPad 💗 I personally invested for my birthday this past year and I have the 12.9" M2 iPad Pro, but I'll even occasionally use my fiancé's iPad Mini and the Procreate app on there in a pinch since it's so small and portable~

The only real difference is that performance might suffer a bit, the larger an art piece is or how many layers your work has, depending on the iPad. But if you're just starting out, I probably wouldn't find that to be much of an issue!

(More rambling about digital art origins under cut ✨)

There's definitely a learning curve, especially if you're more used to drawing traditionally! It can help to still sketch traditionally (if that's what you're used to) and then upload a photo of your drawing to your tablet to work over digitally (this is personally how I started out and I used to just make little digital doodles by tracing and coloring over my traditional sketches.)

A small doodle from my sketchbook that I traced and colored digitally, from around 2011-2012, I think? Uh, happy Doctor Who day today!

My very first digital art set up was actually a tiny Wacom Bamboo tablet where the drawing space probably wasn't even bigger than my hand, and a super old bootleg version of Photoshop CS2 which was already a version that was 7 years too old for the time (CS5/CS6 was the most updated version by the time I had started on digital art).

Everyone else in my class had the bigger/fancier/professional-grade Wacom Intuos and I remember my professor taking one look at my baby tablet and just going like "how tf are you drawing on that" lmao.

But still! Experimenting and doing little exercises can get you a long way – I would say to approach it with similar exercises you would do as if you were learning to draw traditionally for the first time.

Shade in circles/nail down basic lighting. Gesture drawings. Random scribbles. Just things that help you get used to the feel of digital art!

Test out different textures you can achieve with one brush, then expand it to see how other different types of brushes can behave and add to the experience.

For proof that even just one brush and not the best/most updated tools can work: these are two of my first more "serious" digital art projects I did in college (with my tiny tablet and mega outdated version of Photoshop) and 99% of the rendering was just done with the "soft airbrush" brush.

But even then, we were taught to create our base sketches traditionally and upload them to the program to work over.

Then one day I decided I wanted to just be able to also do all my sketches digitally and just worked on getting used to sketching straight on my digital program. It was then that besides the all-powerful undo-redo buttons, I started to really make use of the transform/canvas flip/liquify features which I don't think I can live without now lol. (Caveat: I'm now a little too dependent on those features so I keep a traditional sketchbook to do silly doodles in occasionally to exercise my hand because sketching traditionally without the buffer of those digital tools is pretty difficult for me now lol.)

That was a little long-winded, I'm so sorry hahaha. I hope something in this rambling could be taken as somewhat helpful for starting out on digital art!! 💗

#ask #anon #celdraws