#sorry if this is all vague though! i can barely visually recreate what i enjoy less even describe it in words

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do you have any art tips? i literally love everything about your art, and i look up to you so much! like the colors, the compositions, everything

this is a broad question, so its hard to answer! ofc we have the obvious “practice hard and study composition/color theory and also have fun!” but i’ll make this ask a free space for things i think about a lot;

find out exactly(hyper specifically!) what you like about certain colors and compositions. i find there to be tiny details(evening sun on glossy snow! that one fold an artist drew!) that im absolutely OBSESSED with! sometimes it’s a thing that an artist has only done once, and maybe it wasn’t even on purpose! sometimes it’s a staple! but i noticed it! and i try to figure out Why and How i did, and then incorporate that into my art, this time with more emphasis. the goal is to become an expert on that exact color blend/fold/line/whatever! it’s indulgent but i try to make art that caters to an incedibly specific set of niches i enjoy, and to do them as good as possible.

also, kind of related, i make A LOT of versions of the same artwork to figure out how i truly want it; with different background ideas and entire recolors that never see the light of day. my art folder tends to be like. 10 versions of every artwork with like a minor difference in each, no joking. it looks like this lol:

so figuring all this out is thru trial and error. i'm still far from perfecting the aspects i want to show in my art (there are things i don’t even know how to attempt in the first place!), but it's how i’ve improved most while still enjoying myself. i used to do the opposite; figure out what others wanted from me and fulfill that, but honestly my ideal art is super cool u havent seen it yet and neither have i but trust me it rules probably

#notmyart #process #anonymous #thank u for liking my art so much!! #unsure if these were the kind of tips u wanted? #sorry if this is all vague though! i can barely visually recreate what i enjoy less even describe it in words #also outing myself as one of those artists whose file names are all keysmashes lol #i would say it works fine but. i am actually running out of keysmashes #i just go ham on the keyboard and turns out. that exact random chain of letters is already a file #also: #all my clip files are in a folder named ‘temporary 2’ #unlike my first temporary folder this one ended up uh. not being that #it contains over 700 art files now and i have no backup in case my laptop crashes #so basically yes❤️ i live like this