#this is one of my favorite pieces i've ever done

[80linesofvirgil]

Hey, Joe! I have a question.

As a beginner artist, I try to figure out how more experienced artists do the things I like in their art, and do them myself. You're one of my favorite artists, I love your work, and now that I have access to your videos on Patreon where you show your process and talk about it - I can't resist trying to do things your way. How do you feel about this? Would it be ok to post my beginner pieces done in a style that tries (poorly) to mimic your own? For context, I mostly draw fanart and it's a hobby I don't ever plan to monetize.

It's very sweet of you to ask but you don't need my permission. One of the most important things I've learnt over the last year is fuck everyone else. Draw what you want, post what you want. It's gotta be about what you love and enjoy, not what anyone else thinks. But I am flattered and honoured, and if you'd like me to do anymore tutorial focused stuff on Patreon just say x

#asks

[louisinart]

Today is world AIDS day, and so here's a collage I made at the beginning of the pandemic -- about covid but also about aids and community and revolution.

#art #collage #mine #AIDS #COVID #my art #this is one of my favorite pieces i've ever done #i've considered making it a real quilt #but that's like 12 hobbies down the line #okay so two things for my fellow tag dwelling goblins #1) the back panel was actually from an earlier draft that my professor suggested severe edits for #the original final draft was seriously paired down and (as I learned upon revisiting it) SO MUCH LESS COMPREHENSIBLE #so sorry arthur but my original was better #2) the center block on the front panel hits WAY DIFFERENT after my breakup holy SHIT #gift of apollo ass shit

[khytal]

snack break! (courtesy of edgeworth) (without his permission)

my piece for @aasiblingszine !! ✨

#LEFTOVER SALES ARE OPEN UNTIL DEC 15TH #kay faraday #sebastian debeste #ace attorney #gyakuten saiban #miles edgeworth #wocky kitaki #apollo justice #trucy wright #clay terran #khyt.art #this is one of my favorite pieces that I've ever done I'm glad I can finally share it now x']

[mintypsii]

leaked scenes from the new animated one piece guys trust me

#i did this last week but didn't wanna post because of the glob4l str!ke #idk if that word is hidden or not sorry ik tumb|r's been hiding those kinda posts #ermm anyways SANUSO ATTACKKKKKKK #mintart #RAHHH!!!!! SHOOTS YOU WITH MY SANUSO BEAMS #this is probably one of my favorite pieces i've ever done lol #rrgfhdkjf i love them sm #one piece #op #sanuso #usosan #sanji #usopp #black leg sanji #god usopp #vinsmoke sanji #whole cake island #water 7 #w7 #wci #art #i couldn't come up with a wci usopp outfit because his timeskip fit already looked a lot like the cacoa island themes (minus the shirt) #also ummmm shirtless usopp *runs away* #this was so fun to draw bro I LOVE THEMM #there r still 50000 mistakes but it's ok i'm actually rly happy with this one #my art #istgggggg if the quality goes down ill eat my shelf

[wanderingmongoose]

Kill me if you choose, pet. You're the only one who can.

If I must live with your hatred, then I will not live at all.

#don't you hate it when you're holding the manipulative and untrustworthy love of your life at knifepoint #but then she throws herself on your blade in a symbolic display of the obsessive and self destructive nature of her attachment to you #holy shit this took me forever #making this piece made me feel like i was forging a rembrandt or something #one of my favorite style studies I've ever done #nevermore #nevermore webtoon #mongoose's art #anyway please go read about these insane lesbians

[moondrop39-dovewing70]

A Woven Song (Cover Fanart)

IT'S FINALLY FINISHED!!! ALL OF THE SWEAT, TEARS, AND ABSOLUTE FRUSTRATION IS FINALLY OVER AND I AM HAPPY TO SAY I FINISHED THIS BEFORE MIDNIGHT WHERE I LIVE!!!

Here ya go @stellawolfe30 aka @monkiebois

My first out of many MANY Several Fanarts pieces for the amazing "A Woven Song" Fanfic (I've linked it so many times before but I'll link it once again so that you may all read it BECAUSE IT'S SOO GOOD!)

Here's the speedpaint that I lightly mentioned before:

Here's the link to the amazing fanfic:

And have the kitten of bleps because it is now my signature:

#lmk au #my art #lmk fanart #fanart for a Woven Song #Best fanfic I have ever read #Probably will read it again tomorrow....or after midnight #Again this art piece both frustrated me and made me feel so proud of myself #My favorite is definitely Xiaohua's ears and Macaque as a piece #Overall one of my favorite art works I've done #Hope you like it #If I wake up tomorrow with 5k notes I will cry #Youtube

[nursemimosa]

N Harmonia bust from 2022

#don't mind the repost of old art i'm just tryna re-introduce this to the tumblr ecosystem again lol #and when i posted this on my main it flopped weh #anyways this is still one of my most favorite pieces i've ever done even though it's so simple lol #pokemon #pokemon black and white #pokemon bw #pkmn bw #n harmonia #natural harmonia gropius #pokemon n #n pokemon #n harmonia gropius #pkmn b2w2 #pokemon black 2 white 2 #my art #mine #artists on tumblr #pokemon fanart

[cactuupng]

I was staring at your Mounders fanart where they're all falling last night (...for far too long while just a liiiittle bit sleep deprived)

And I was curious if you have any notes or thoughts behind the various details to maybe share because there were just so many little things I noticed, and idk how much I missed or how much was me reading too deep into it, but it would be very cool to hear what your intent and thought process was if have any thoughts / remember them

Either way I just really liked that fanart and have Many Thoughts and Feelings! So Many ! I could probably make my own list of notes and observations and reading too deep into its at this point tbh

KEK HELLO THANK YOU if i'm being honest, there aren't than many details (at least i think so), but here are some that i added in conciously that i could remember:

- The falling order is intended! From bottom to the top, it's the order of who died first, so it would be that Mumbo died first, then Bdubs, then Joel and then Pearl.

- The colored squares behind each Mounder is the color they said was their favorite during the episode where Joel (i think) asked everyone what their favorite color was (or what color they would be, i dont remember fully)! The filter makes them look more silly and different though

- Mumbo has fire on him because i associate traffic!Mumbo with fire and burning (mostly due to LL, i can talk about it if anyone is interested /silly)

- I see the whole composition of Mumbo falling into the darkness and away from the light in two different ways:

Him falling into the darkness of death, away from light as everything goes dark yada yada basic perma death stuff, hence the more glitchy feel (basic, boring /j)

Him falling into the darkness of his own mind, feeling like he's alone and doesn't belong where the light is (Mounders) as he falls deeper and deeper (cool, makes me depressed /pos /j), it makes Bdubs reaching out to him more meaningful, with the rest if the Mounders falling to catch him

- Blood coming from Mumbo's head because Warden beat his ass lmao im coping

- traffic!Mumbo makes me incredibly ill so the falling anvil and the task holder thingy is meant to be his :-) or at least stuff that was tied to his character or to the red lifers in general

OTHER THAN THAT i dont think there are any stuff that i fully intended to be small silly details? I would GLADLY listen to any if your thoughts, i love it when people read into my art and see possible references or details that i've accidentally added and didnt even notice :-) also makes me feel so smart actually because i am in fact not

#cactuu talks #this is one of my favorite pieces i've done ever actually

[blujayonthewing]

VIBRATING at least one person got our christmas card today and I wanna post the art so BAD but I'm forcing myself to wait until christmas this year

#last year I posted the SECOND I heard someone's card had arrived kjhdkgffd I gotta RELAX... #to be fair to me: last year's card was one of my favorite pieces of art I've ever done like just in general #but also I'm really excited to share this one because of reasons #person who was like 'I got your card!' lives in hometown an hour away so I knooow a bunch of them won't arrive for awhile yet #perhaps not even until after christmas cause it took me so long to get them in the mail :') alas.. #about me

[magentagalaxies]

in an unexpected turn of events i'm having to edit down the content in my aubrey monologues so that i can actually fit all four of them in my final performance for my standup class and on the one hand it sucks bc i really love some of the jokes i have to cut but on the other hand someday i'll be able to write more monologues and possibly expand upon this cut material so i can get a whole monologue on a topic that would've just been an aside

#the actual standups in my class who have only ever done a tight five having to stretch their new material to fit the 20 minute final #vs me‚ an extremely extra fag who's used to writing full-length scripts‚ realizing the 3 monologues i've timed already add up to 20 min #and i'm working on a fourth one that works better as an opener than any of the existing pieces so it has to get in #(it'll be short tho i'm making sure of it. it's just like ''here's some material about aubrey's relationship to zir mom!'') #(then immediate segue into the uncle reg bit) #got the catcalling monologue down to 5 minutes and 30 seconds when the first draft was nine minutes #(tbh i'm fine with most of those cuts i think they were mostly filler) #(there's a bit about androgyny that i liked that i cut but tbh it doesn't work as just one paragraph it needs more nuance) #the uncle reg monologue is having the ''dumped at the pride parade'' thing trimmed down which is funny bc that was the original premise #tbh i could probably stretch my toronto pride material ft. uncle reg to a full 20 minutes bc the first stream of consciousness was so long #i wrote it right after i myself got back from toronto pride and tbh i actually wrote it as the outline for a sitcom episode #so the monologue version is very reduced down bc there were so many details that didn't fit in #and i'm realizing the material about the person who dumped aubrey should be its own monologue that i'll do another time #and maybe even add in the rest of the sitcom-style story at some point bc tbh that's some of my favorite aubrey material i've come up with #and the cishetman monologue is getting the intro part about facetime trimmed a bit bc it meanders #and the ''sugar and spice and everything nice'' joke is being cut even tho i like it bc i actually have a ton more material in my notebook #that's just me riffing on how weird those expressions are. and the material isn't polished but i could make it something later #the song isn't being trimmed bc it has a very specific run time and imo is the strongest. so that's my closer #anyway thank you to everyone reading my aubrey updates i'll be sure to post the final 20-minute-special on youtube #and i hope i get to do more monologues soon so i can put the other ideas mentioned here (as well as some i haven't) out into the world

[ottiliere]

I know you've probably been told this a thousand (1000) times, but I love how you draw the Dirk Guy™️ with Self Harm scars, It's not that usual to see just, y'know, your not so usual little guy doing every-day things while having Self Harm scars. Like, you most probably won't see SH scars unless they're a vent drawing (potentially triggering (obv nothing bad with vent art! Ofc It's great seeing someone coping with something they created and sharing it with other people! (: /gen)) or g*re drawing that's like showing the hypodermis or smth, but you? You have such a nice composition + anatomy + your art style give a sense of comfort that I can't really explain, It genuinely makes me happy whenever I see the Dirk Guy™️ just, idk, tidying his bedroom while having scars, It's kinda refreshing to see ! Sorry for the long rant, but I really do love everything about your art. :)♡♡♡ Hope you're doing alright, and hope you have a great day!

thank you all. I'm a bit at a loss for words because I've fallen ill and can't get out of bed so please take this dirk drawn with the worst art program I've ever had the displeasure of using (procreate). I appreciate the messages dearly... I'm glad my art makes you happy and helps you out. sidenote though I'm laughing at how you censored "gore". why did you do that

I love when people tell me they go through my blog without having read Homestuck it's so funny and awesome. like truly it's one of the most flattering compliments I can receive

#ask #lucy art #I have this mental block where I cannot talk about something unless I have a conduit for the idea #such as art and my art pieces. so people truly understand the depths of my affection for said concept #and I'm bringing this up because I am having a relapse into one of my favorite characters ever #like shaking nauseated every day overwhelmed with emotion #and sure I could just say who it is. that's easy. #but I feel the need to draw thematic art pieces of him and make the reveal that way #so people understand. like you need to understand. this is what I do with dirk #I have spent equal amounts of time if not more thinking about this guy as I have dirk #and in due time he will begin infiltrating my blog #I can only hope some of you laugh at the fervor with which I think about him #because the amount i am going to talk about him. is going to be. well. look at what I've done with dirk so far.

[ziracona]

Every time I think about whodunnitmafia stuff I wrote post game I get so furious why the hell did I write some of the best fiction I've written in my entire life, for a story so niche it's literally for an audience of like, two, at absolute most.

#it's /unbelievably/ good. but the context needed to even BEGIN to understand it??? #God someday I need to file the serial numbers off that bad boy and load it up into a piece of original fiction bc no joke #the entire Frank section in court is one of the single favorite pieces of my writing I've ever done #great. NOW I have to go reread it all gdi #WHY am I cursed to have some of my best work so literally inexplicable to anyone else. WHY did I pop off SO hard on that one wtf

[potatoesandsunshine]

it’s all fun and games until you have to take a step back from themes and motifs to look at the basic story structure you’re working with

#anna's fic notes #small jobs is my favorite thing to work on. it is hands down my favorite fanwork i've ever done. but sometimes i have to close the docs #and take a step back to decide: what is the goal of this story? what do i want the reader to feel? where are these events going? #is this a three act story? do i need to review the hero's journey? how does this fit together - almost mechanically. #what are the puzzle pieces i need to make this fit together in a satisfying way? and i really only do this with this series bc it is my fav #every other fic i'm sorry but you are not small jobs. this is why it takes a year every time i want to update the story. #i KNOW the themes of the 'verse. i KNOW the tone i want to hit. i KNOW the little tics that need to show up/when they need to stay away #but i have to make a checklist to figure out what the plot is every time. introduction. rising action. red herring? climax/epilogue. etc #small jobs isn't just about vibes (except for that one interlude) it HAS a story to it it's just that i am. not great at those lol

[daydreamdoodles]

:((((( Yall I love traditional mediums for art. Like there is just something about the layers of material in a tangible manner that just hits different

#My favorite painting I've ever done #Was a referenced piece of fnaf 2 Mangle #Near the end I was struggling with smoothing the rendering #so I just started blocking in color #and it looks really good #day musings #its one of my only pieces of my own art I have hanging up #which is gonna change once I move #but yk #I am so <<33333 abt traditional mediums #im taking an art class this semester btw #if you couldnt tell

[alfheimr]

My Favorite Cheap Art Trick: Gradient Maps and Blending Modes

i get questions on occasion regarding my coloring process, so i thought i would do a bit of a write up on my "secret technique." i don't think it really is that much of a secret, but i hope it can be helpful to someone. to that end:

this is one of my favorite tags ive ever gotten on my art. i think of it often. the pieces in question are all monochrome - sort of.

the left version is the final version, the right version is technically the original. in the final version, to me, the blues are pretty stark, while the greens and magentas are less so. there is some color theory thing going on here that i dont have a good cerebral understanding of and i wont pretend otherwise. i think i watched a youtube video on it once but it went in one ear and out the other. i just pick whatever colors look nicest based on whatever vibe im going for.

this one is more subtle, i think. can you tell the difference? there's nothing wrong with 100% greyscale art, but i like the depth that adding just a hint of color can bring.

i'll note that the examples i'll be using in this post all began as purely greyscale, but this is a process i use for just about every piece of art i make, including the full color ones. i'll use the recent mithrun art i made to demonstrate. additionally, i use clip studio paint, but the general concept should be transferable to other art programs.

for fun let's just start with Making The Picture. i've been thinking of making this writeup for a while and had it in mind while drawing this piece. beyond that, i didn't really have much of a plan for this outside of "mithrun looks down and hair goes woosh." i also really like all of the vertical lines in the canary uniform so i wanted to include those too but like. gone a little hog wild. that is the extent of my "concept." i do not remember why i had the thought of integrating a shattered mirror type of theme. i think i wanted to distract a bit from the awkward pose and cover it up some LOL but anyway. this lack of planning or thought will come into play later.

note 1: the textured marker brush i specifically use is the "bordered light marker" from daub. it is one of my favorite brushes in the history of forever and the daub mega brush pack is one of the best purchases ive ever made. highly recommend!!!

note 2: "what do you mean by exclusion and difference?" they are layer blending modes and not important to the overall lesson of this post but for transparency i wanted to say how i got these "effects." anyway!

with the background figured out, this is the point at which i generally merge all of my layers, duplicate said merged layer, and Then i begin experimenting with gradient maps. what are gradient maps?

the basic gist is that gradient maps replace the colors of an image based on their value.

so, with this particular gradient map, black will be replaced with that orangey red tone, white will be replaced with the seafoamy green tone, etc. this particular gradient map i'm using as an example is very bright and saturated, but the colors can be literally anything.

these two sets are the ones i use most. they can be downloaded for free here and here if you have csp. there are many gradient map sets out there. and you can make your own!

you can apply a gradient map directly onto a specific layer in csp by going to edit>tonal correction>gradient map. to apply one indirectly, you can use a correction layer through layer>new correction layer>gradient map. honestly, correction layers are probably the better way to go, because you can adjust your gradient map whenever you want after creating the layer, whereas if you directly apply a gradient map to a layer thats like. it. it's done. if you want to make changes to the applied gradient map, you have to undo it and then reapply it. i don't use correction layers because i am old and stuck in my ways, but it's good to know what your options are.

this is what a correction layer looks like. it sits on top and applies the gradient map to the layers underneath it, so you can also change the layers beneath however and whenever you want. you can adjust the gradient map by double clicking the layer. there are also correction layers for tone curves, brightness/contrast, etc. many such useful things in this program.

let's see how mithrun looks when we apply that first gradient map we looked at.

gadzooks. apologies for eyestrain. we have turned mithrun into a neon hellscape, which might work for some pieces, but not this one. we can fix that by changing the layer blending mode, aka this laundry list of words:

some of them are self explanatory, like darken and lighten, while some of them i genuinely don't understand how they are meant to work and couldn't explain them to you, even if i do use them. i'm sure someone out there has written out an explanation for each and every one of them, but i've learned primarily by clicking on them to see what they do.

for the topic of this post, the blending mode of interest is soft light. so let's take hotline miamithrun and change the layer blending mode to soft light.

here it is at 100% opacity. this is the point at which i'd like to explain why i like using textured brushes so much - it makes it very easy to get subtle color variation when i use this Secret Technique. look at the striation in the upper right background! so tasty. however, to me, these colors are still a bit "much." so let's lower the opacity.

i think thats a lot nicer to look at, personally, but i dont really like these colors together. how about we try some other ones?

i like both of these a lot more. the palettes give the piece different vibes, at which point i have to ask myself: What Are The Vibes, Actually? well, to be honest i didn't really have a great answer because again, i didn't plan this out very much at all. however. i knew in my heart that there was too much color contrast going on and it was detracting from the two other contrasts in here: the light and dark values and the sharp and soft shapes. i wanted mithrun's head to be the main focal point. for a different illustration, colors like this might work great, but this is not that hypothetical illustration, so let's bring the opacity down again.

yippee!! that's getting closer to what my heart wants. for fun, let's see what this looks like if we change the blending mode to color.

i do like how these look but in the end they do not align with my heart. oh well. fun to experiment with though! good to keep in mind for a different piece, maybe! i often change blending modes just to see what happens, and sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn't. i very much cannot stress enough that much of my artistic process is clicking buttons i only sort of understand. for fun.

i ended up choosing the gradient map on the right because i liked that it was close to the actual canary uniform colors (sorta). it's at an even lower opacity though because there was Still too much color for my dear heart.

the actual process for this looks like me setting my merged layer to soft light at around 20% opacity and then clicking every single gradient map in my collection and seeing which one Works. sometimes i will do this multiple times and have multiple soft light and/or color layers combined.

typically at this point i merge everything again and do minor contrast adjustments using tone curves, which is another tool i find very fun to play around with. then for this piece in particular i did some finishing touches and decided that the white border was distracting so i cropped it. and then it's done!!! yay!!!!!

this process is a very simple and "fast" way to add more depth and visual interest to a piece without being overbearing. well, it's fast if you aren't indecisive like me, or if you are better at planning.

let's do another comparison. personally i feel that the hint of color on the left version makes mithrun look just a bit more unwell (this is a positive thing) and it makes the contrast on his arm a lot more pleasing to look at. someone who understands color theory better than i do might have more to say on the specifics, but that's honestly all i got.

just dont look at my layers too hard. ok?

#process #art tutorial #unsure what else to tag this as. if this does not post properly i will cry.

[midnightwind]

diiid you guys know that I make playlists for my dnd characters and that Nik’s is the most fleshed out and lore abiding one I have? it’s a timeline of his life and his interaction with his pact from start to current game point, anyways hope you like Starset and Amarante

#nikolai #nik #dnd #I made a warlock with a great old ones pact that was star based so ofc a million starset songs fit him #you can actually pinpoint when he fell super hard for the party bard because the songs just get really into pining and feeling unworthy lmao #me casually giving him a dead gf a patron who won't tell him anything a family who thinks he's dead and calls him a monster now #just like yeah dude you aren't worthy of love you should kill people over it #the great dichotomy of this traumatized tiefling #hates viciously and loves wholly #my oc #also the playlist art is that one piece I drew forever it's one of my favorites I've ever done okay