#rlly great question!!

[crowkip]

hi there!! i came across your art recently and love how you simplify forms for your style!! Do you have any tips on what you did to learn art and develop your current style? Did you take figure drawing lessons or just hyperfixate on an anime?? Any materials/exercises that were particularly helpful for learning how to draw humans? Thanks for your time!

thank u so much!!! i do have some handy info but im gonna put it under the cut so it doesnt clog up ppl's feeds bc it's gonna get a little long, hope this helps out!! ꉂ(ˊᗜˋ*)

ok so!! my top tip is to try out some life drawing classes! you'll often be expected to capture a full body gesture in 5-15 minutes which really helps you learn break the body down into its simplest forms since you wont have time to work on all the details. i only ever did a few sessions since they were part of a design course i was taking but even that alone definitely helped me streamline my process when it comes to planning out poses and making sure things arent looking too stiff

as for developing a style i honestly dont have a super clear answer bc i still find that i feel like my art is vERY very inconsistent, but even with that being said i do still have a few things that've helped personally!! easiest place to start is finding the tools you enjoy working with, for me i have a handful of brushes in csp that i tend to default to which helps form a little bit of consistency across my drawings (ofc dont be scared to branch out!! it's just handy to know what brushes work best for you). the other thing that's influenced my style is reading lots of comics and spending a lot of time looking at other artists' sketches, if you see a specific feature you like in their work try giving it a go yourself!! i remember noticing the contrast of soft and hard shadows in old oil paintings a few years ago n thinking 'ooh ive gotta try that' and ive been using it on my own art ever since. in the end your own style is greatly just a reflection of little things you've loved seeing in other peoples art and once you combine all those you end up with smth uniquely yours which i just think is awesome tbh

and as for shows n stuff that got me drawing, i dont have the coolest answer but as a kid i got super into drawing my friends as my little pony characters lmao i would spend every minute between classes drawing these stupid little rainbow horses and it actually really got me into picking out colour palettes and helped me build up that muscle memory which was what led into me drawing things that were a little more challenging. even if whatever motivates you to draw is considered kind childish or 'cringy' or whatever, dont stop drawing what you enjoy!! i wouldnt be drawing now without the years of pony doodles on homework as a kid and im glad i embraced it. i hope this can be helpful to you, so sorry for the long read but thanks for getting through it all!! good luck as dont be scared to dm me if you ever have any questions, i'll always do my best to help out :D

#omg this got so long but i did my best to keep it concise #rlly great question!! #ask crow

[grvntld]

yung notes app ko here sa phone ko puro kalungkutan tots and feels laman kasi tbfh sobrang lungkot ko lately. i know it's important that i go through tough times and not run from them, but damn it, im just so tired of going through it. im so tired. im exhausted. i feel depleted. i just feel so weak and defeated all over.

#i wanna write all my sadness away on an actual notebook slash journal but im the kind of person that categorize slash organize things lmao #like the journal that i hv are for happy days or normal chill days #i dont hv a journal dedicated to sadness kqsi lately keri ko naman imanage mga kinakalungkutan ko #but ever since this recent great loss happened hindi ko na kaya imanage yung lungkot galit tampo sa circumstances sa buhay sa mundo sa laha #umiiyak ako kung saan man ako abutan ng lungkot like di ko mapigilan yung luha #a few days ago nasa bgc me kasi may three resto features kami tapos umiiyak ako habang nagshshoot shutangena #pero ayun sobrang lungkot ko talaga na gusto ko magpakalayo layo muna but also ayoko umalis ng bahay kasi kakauwi niya lang samin ulit #unfortunately umuwi siya in an urn na and i just cant gahd bakit parang ang highlight ng buhay ko ay death and grieving #pagod na pagod na pagod na ko #eniwey ayon nga i tried looking for a journal sa nbs nybg nakaraan pero nafrustrate ako kasi wala lang basta sobrang wala ako sa sarili ko #soayon sa phone ko lahat binubuhos tapos sobrang wala ako energy to do home stuff werq stuff #i just wanna drop all my responsibilities and wallow in sadness and anger and resentment #im avoiding questioning things but damn it bAkeht ba to kailangan mangyari #bAkeht ganito bAkeht kailangan may bawi parati #ang hirap maging thankful lately but im rlly trying my best and hardest #donut #p.s. binasa ko ulit tong post ko lalo na the tags and i saw grammatical errors pero wtvr malungkot ako ngayon kiber na nyeta

[arty-cakes]

i finally got around to centaurworld's finale and holy fucking shit??? they can go that hard??

#god i cannot put into words just how fantastic that finale was #it just makes me so... disappointed that the rest of s2 was so boring #like i had to rewatch s1 when it came out before i could actually appreciate it because its so far from my kind of thing #BUT THE FINALE FELT LIKE IT WAS AN ENTIRELY DIFFERENT SHOW? And it was RLLY GOOD #that last episode practically carried this season holy fuck. #the nowhere king is such an amazing villain and i am just so confused . #i wishhh s2 focused more on picturing the past for us and answering s1 questions and maybe even developing characters like the princess #(where did she even go actually i didnt see her in that last scene) #because i still have questions about some things but they come from a place of pure interest in the world only because of this last episode #girl i dont know how to word this at all. i feel like we couldve had something great #anyway s1 is fun as an introduction to the show s2 is boring because i expected more answers about the past and im not #as interested in the centaurs anymore but i liked the main casts backstories i guess and the finale was pretty amazing all around #this show just keeps bouncing around for me lol. also it feels like the cast had so much fun with it. i wouldve too! love that

[themyscirah]

This is technically a Diana's age poll but I framed it partially around Julia's rescue because that's the event I need to contextualize and whether or not Diana is a thing yet is p important for my purposes. I would keep the Pérez run and postcrisis continuity in mind when answering this bc that's when this is relevant but I'd keep in mind that even though Diana is very young there (like early 20s) we don't know I don't think if she ages differently as a child (esp as a themysciran AND being made from clay) and in some versions she is older than she looks and was made earlier

Edit: I accidentally logic-ed this out in the tags lol 🤦‍♀️but feel free to still vote however you want. Going to publish this anyway bc I think I made some good points later in my tags

#blah #the 45 years is a guesstimation of julias age w her being in her late 40s #bc she has a middle school aged daughter which would make you lean a bit younger but shes also highly respected prof at harvard (is she the #dept head? i think so. and has a career that would suggest older. and shes also drawn middle aged so 🤷‍♀️ #i would say late 40s early 50s for her honestly. but i moved it down a lil bit bc of vanessas age #wait shit i may have contradicted logic here bc wasnt the diana trevor stuff supposed to have happened before dianas birth. and that was #wwii. which would be btwn 42 and 45 years. BC PÉREZ!TREVOR IS OLD I FORGOT THAT #okay so actually there still could be a question of what happened first the timeline would just be much shorter #but then wouldnt julias family be boating during wwii? that makes no sense #im definitely thinkimg too hard about this probably. logically it would make the most sense if diana was like 20smth in reality. but thats #its own basket of worms honestly. like what do you mean hippolyta only had like 20 yrs w her daughter out of a lifespan of thousands of #years. what do you MEAN she became champion and ambassador so young like #like also thats the point though. she had to wear a mask in the challenge for a reason. her inexperience with men is what makes her the kind #of ambassador they need. and her youth and relation to hippolyta and role as the baby of the amazons is one of the things that makes her #ambassadorship SO important is bc she fulfills that role in an ancient sense. where it would be a sign of great trust and respect to send #someone close to the crown as an envoy bc it shows you mean business and arent going to reneg on whatever the deal is. bc if you do they #shoot the messenger #god anyways i very much answered my own question here in the tags like 100%. esp in regards to the pérez canon bc he very much laid this out #and i was trying to weasel my way out of it. only that didnt work and the decisions he made he made for a reason and they have huge #narrative importance. damn. okay then #i always write the shittiest posts and the best tags and then have to keep the post to keep the tags #i rlly need to make these tags posts ugh. anyways keeping this up bc of my tags abt diana and ambassadorship #also sidenote I LOVE HIPPOLYTA #just though id mention that. i love how much shes motivated by love and i also love when she makes fucked up decisions bc of that and has to #live with them. woman of all time FOR REALS #god this is making me want to reread historia again lol bc its the one ww comic i own. also its fire. and hippolyta gets to make shitty #decisions motivated by emotion and live w the consequences. and the comic is actually good unlike when that happened in the messner-loebs #run. which was the other instance of that ive read rlly. 10000% sure there are others but i havent fully gotten there yet. #i mean ive read other comics where she makes painful decisions thats like her whole deal but there are different vibes to those than the two #i mentioned. like the exile thing in ww year 1 or rlly anytime she has to send diana away

[michaelnotholden]

how are you rlly rlly good at art?

I’ve been drawing my whole life, I’ve gotten good at it. Also I’m autistic I view things differently and I pick things up pretty easily bc of my observing skills 🤷‍♀️

#idk how I did it #can’t rlly tell if this is a rhetorical question or not #Thank you tho #and don’t get me wrong I’ve got a lot to learn #I’m not that great LOL

[trans-xianxian]

I have become so frustrated w the job search process for an education position that I've finally broken and just started applying for food service jobs again 😭

#infinitely fucking easier #would rlly love to work in conservation education but the job search has been so infuriating and degrading #that I've become completely disillusioned with the idea #like okay actually maybe it would be nice to just work at a bakey making fat tips for awhile #instead of continuing on this horrible journey of cover letters and essay questions and convincing managers that I'm fucking great at my job #for the sliver of a chance of an interview #in a job pool where everybody with a bachelors degree looks better than me despite my experience #maybe I just need to sell doughnuts or something for awhile #oh my god and get free food all the time too #I forgot about that #and then I can just volunteer at some nature reserve to build my resume ig 😭 #filled w rage all the time btw #ghost posts #text

[beeapocalypse]

just met the lady of the moon. her and pocketcat both wanting the girl rlly reaffirms the whole idea of rher meddling in human affairs and attempting to undercut advancement

#AND she straight up says that both her and rher do not trust humans and do not think they should be on equal footing w the old gods #taking all that and funneling it into that other idea that pocketcat specifically targeted daan bc he knew somehow of his upcoming possible #--connection to the sulfur god thru elise+the baron #also got to ask the new gods three questions. her being the child of a new god+a man of prophecy giving her great potential and nilvan-- #--wanting the player 2 take her to the darkest depths AND the god of the depths not showing up in termina is all rlly interesting. does she #--somehow supplant / possess that old god and use her power to become the god of fear+hungrer ?

[hyvee]

I’m so happy i took this new job lmao. Turns out they’re only in-office 2 days a week???? I thought it was fully in office lol, My old job was 3 days. And my cubicle is a lot bigger even tho it’s less private. The energy is super laid back, everyone seems chill.

#it also seems to be even easier than my old job if thts even possible???? but also since it’s customer service i’ll never run out of things #to do #and since its customer service specific to product info #i dont deal with questions abt pricing and orders etc #ONLY questions abt the products specifically #i’ve already learned so much abt art supplies #one day i willl be a wealth of knowledge #this is a great gig i think #ive rlly lucked out

[mattodore]

💌 | Forget about sims, lets learn about YOU! Tell us one fact about yourself, and then send this to 5 other Simblrs to do the same🕊️🤍

i look like this while blogging

#river dipping #asks #servospawn #WJKDGSKDJ neû i'm fr just like you idk what to say to this question #i'm not great at talking abt myself like at alllllll #ummmmmmmm idk. i'm a pisces... my birthday's march 12th so it actually already went by a few months ago #also a taurus moon and a cancer rising........... 🧑‍💻 #i used to be rlly into astrology back in like 2017 so whenever i'm asked anything abt myself that's just my go-to answer atp

[gammija]

ok my sister went to see avatar 2 so i joined her and. it sucked. i was warned but i thought it'd just be mediocre pretty images, not a 3 hour machismo slogfest

#joos yaps #now im wondering if the first one actually had some merit or if i was just 12 #bravely setting out to answer the question if you can make an anti-imperialist movie #while clearly believing in a great-man view of history and doing nothing to examine your own biases #unfortunately the answer is. no. and it also didn't rlly need a movie

[alinakerrin]

just had to put a fic on user comments only for the first time ever. Reminder to all of you that fic is a privilege and you will be denied it if you don't behave yourselves

#a Child was commenting on my fic and being rude #and they didn't realise they were rude #In fact #they accused me of being rude for answering their question and pointing out their behaviour #so that fic is officially user comments only #honestly I'm surprised that it didn't happen earlier. that fandom is huge. full of children. and known for being kinda shitty to each other #but yeah. not feeling great about it #I tried rlly hard to be nice to them too when they absolutely didn't deserve it #I rlly hoped that they'd understand what i was saying but #they just got even angrier #which i kinda expected but man i'm sad about it #And if that person somehow reads this. You were being rude. You are not owed a fic which goes exactly how you want it to #If you don't like it #don't read it #Go write your own story if you hated mine. you don't have to tell me things I already know #The crazy thing is I was actually considering editing the fic #If they'd been nicer in their response I was seriously considering going back and fixing the bits I wasn't happy with #but now I'm not going to

[drugbinges]

Just went to an early showing of The Sweet East ... I highly recommend seeing it

#parts of it were a little questionable but the rest of it is worthwhile #rlly pretty visuals and great dialogue

[topflights]

so genuinely excited and happy to see ppl replying to that “what’s the first match you watched fully” thing with recent matches and how they’re new to wrestling and they’re enjoying their time w it. wrestling is so beautiful and special and seeing ppl find it and learn that it’s more than what they thought it was is everything. if you’ve been a fan of wrestling for years or if you just started watching last week, i hope you’re having an amazing time and i hope you continue to find that same joy from this for as long as you wanna partake.

#also!! i know it can be rlly scary to join a fanbase that’s got a lot of like. Scary Diehards #that like to think they know everything abt the business despite literally no one ever knowing EVERYTHING (except maybe excalibur) #but there are ppl that are happy to answer any questions or address concerns or give u tips on what to watch and how! #i’m not like. a super knowledgable person by any means but i know i’m always down to recommend matches or answer questions abt old feuds #and eras and help fill in some gaps wherever they may be #and i know a TON of ppl round here feel the exact same way!! #ppl have blogs talking abt this stuff for a reason. if someone seems nice then! shoot ‘em an ask to see if they’re willing to chat w u!! #ik the iwc is terrifying and generally not great but if u find the right circles here on tumblr it’s super duper fun and nice!!! #very sappy tonight abt the new age of wrestling fans #if u started watching wrestling bc of the mjf cm punk collar match?? i’m kissing u on the mouth/showing my deep gratitude and affection #in a way that is comfortable for you to hear

[katsumiiii]

i don't want to say too much and have you think too hard bc you seem so busy these days BUT how do you think katsuki proposes to you?(for like marriage)

i feel like it depends on the type of person you are but it think by default he'd do it in private but it's be an in the moment thing

he'd already have the ring and like he's dead set on doing it but his opinion on a "right time" has never popped up maybe one day you guys are just chilling doing your own thing but together and he thinks about how he wants to stay like this with you for the rest of his life he either asks you then and there or the next morning either way the moment is just so raw and perfect and just for you two(this was way longer than what i wanted but yea(and i hope your day was great or you have a good day😼))

-🍄

hi hi hi hi !! honestly I definitely agree I don’t think it would be this grand planned out thing.

i think he’d buy the ring and kinda hold on to it for a while bc he doesn’t know how he’s gonna bring it up ?? but I feel like he’d have it on him at all times bc he’s terrified of you finding it on your own.

i definitely agree on the setting. I feel like y’all would just be talking abt life or smt stupid tbh. and he gets kinda overwhelmed with your presence and can’t rlly focus on anything you’re saying. he probably interrupts you and is like,

“marry me.”

and you kinda laugh bc you’re in shock but you also don’t rlly believe him ???? so you’re just like, “what..?” and then he pulls out this ring and is all like,

“marry me…” and I think this is when he starts to get a little nervous bc it was kinda out of the blue ???? like he obviously didn’t plan for it to go this way and in a way it was unexpected to him as well. but he gets his thoughts tgt and explains how he wants you for the rest of his life and blah blah blah.

you honestly knew your answer before the whole speech so you don’t rlly gaf abt anything he was saying. you’re just kinda staring at the ring in awe and shit. you finally just pounce on him sobbing repeatedly saying yes.

katsuki would definitely cry like most defffff, not a lot but he’d definitely tear up and a few would escape here and there!

#i hope ur doing well too love !! #i usually don’t rlly like marriage fics tbh #idk why ???? #like I like it when they’re alr married #i don’t like the whole wedding fic thing #idk it’s just not rlly my jam #but I like the idea of him spontaneously kinda proposing #like it’s not the way he wanted it to go but it’s enough for you #great question !! #katsuki brainrot ! #🍄 anon

[pinkfey]

Why spain? Whats spain done? Thought theyre one of the good euros lol

baby what didn’t they do

#leon s kennedy are u seeing this?? #context is a now deleted post i made last night abt the stinky spaniard my great aunt married and his portuguese half siblings #just a vent rlly #but in seriousness i can discuss the vast devastation of spanish colonialism?? but i wouldn’t even know where to begin?? #it’s touched so many aspects of life #read some wikipedia and if u have questions get back to me lmao #letters #anonymous

[infizero]

sigh. maybe i will just have to remake the “we dont get to choose who kris loves” post from memory

#im so serious that post was my everything. i really remember most the questions they listed at the end of things that this kind of thing #could bring up #like ''is it morally acceptable to choose who the main character romances?'' ''what kind of power imbalances come with a relationship where #one person can save and reload to always do the right thing'' stuff like that #i just have always found that idea sooooo so fascinating and i rlly do hope that concept will be explored later on in deltarune #and that post was a great overview on the whole thing #but yknow whatever its fine i'll just kill myself ^_^ #<- JOKING #serena.txt #anyways i need to go to bed GN ALL