#trying to get out of my comfort zone

[garfield-milk]

he’s such a fangirl. he definitely has a few scrolls of adventures (and fanfiction) of the Blue Spirit and reads them every night while giggling and kicking his feet in the air.

#trying to get out of my comfort zone #I don’t like doing backgrounds bc they look weird but here I sketched something #ANYWAYS #he’s so obsessed with the blue spirit it’s so cute #he kept saying that he was just inspired by him but everyone knew he act had a crush on him #I like to think that zuko told him that he was the blue spirit after sokka started to crush on him #and thar made him fall hard for zuko #atla #avatar the last airbender #sokka #zukka #(kinda lol) #zuko #(kinda as well) #fanart #atla fanart #ALSO IF YOU KNOW CHINESE DONT COME AT ME #Ive just put a fic in the google translator and I have no idea if it makes sense #but i don’t really care #cuz it’s just a sketch #my art

[sketchyroad]

So I'm working on an archive of sorts for my OCs with their basic info, where they start in their stories, their artwork, etc. And I'm gonna have to redesign and rename some of them for sure, but what really gets me is that I seem to have a blockage with my male characters? :') I draw men so rarely that I'm almost scared to try, so now all my girls at least have concept designs while my dudes are just... vaguely floating in my head :|

#trying to get out of my comfort zone #things are moving behind the scenes but it'll be a while til I'll be ready to show any of it aah #especially with the redesigns #it's gonna take so long ;v; #but it's exciting to revamp characters I made in like 2012 ahaha

[cryptidafter]

Writing side characters is hard 😭

#cryptid’s thoughts #trying to get out of my comfort zone

[seagiri]

come out and play

#my art #tf2 #team fortress 2 #pyro tf2 #scout tf2 #scout #pyro #still trying to get out of my comfort zone and playing with colors:S my head hurts

[runeiio]

blehhhhhh

#dc #blue beetle #Jaime Reyes #trying to get out of my comfort zone and I think it’s so silly

[galiccfinds]

1 base, 4 sims 🌷🫧💭

#the sims 4 #ts4 #my sims #ts4 simblr #sims 4 lookbook #simblr #lookbook #show us your sims #ts4cc #ts4 cas #sims 4 #im not really happy with these but it was a good exercise to get out of my comfort zone #also the inner glow effect may look a mess or just really bad but i’m trying my best 😭 #using photopea cuz its free but i really wanna learn how to use ps ugh #also im so bored of my cas poses omggg

[egoarc4de]

homecoming

#tf2 #tf2 scout #my art #i always wanna draw rooms and then get overwhelmed by all the detail #so there's definitely some lack of that here but hey! i pulled thru! #based on the little ant mill au so there's some context missing #also if you saw the first post of this SORRY and no u didnt... #pls pretend u didnt... #anyways this was a lot of fun to paint!! #im shit at perspective and avoid backgrounds at all cost but i rlly wanted to try smthn out of my comfort zone #but ill be back to wacky zany colourful and trying to make more fun stuff soon huhu #hello all my friends i hope u are well! #link is to the song that inspired the first draft of this #which i still want to kind of make LOL maybe some other time #anyways this is weird and a little dull looking but im quite happy with some bits of it!! yahoo!! now to... shivers... do uni work...

[sableeira]

hiii long time no art and I’m late but I’m not immune to skk 109 angst

#I do believe in skk’s power to execute a completely absurd plan tho #so I am a no skk angst for 110 believer #I just love the thought of tormented chuuya 🥰 that tiny body can fit so much angst #bungo stray dogs #bungou stray dogs #soukoku #chuuya nakahara #bsd chuuya #osamu dazai #bsd dazai #bsd #bsd fanart #bsd 109 #there was supposed to be a panel between these two but I couldn’t get it to look right oh well #this look is veryyyyyyy out of my comfort zone #a few years ago everything had to be completely smooth and totally rendered out and I’m trying to fight against that perfectionism #another art style test?!? on this blog?!? who would have thought?!? #my art

[polliwoggers]

some hc lore of mine i tried to break down into pause screen-like info excerpts. i started on the second slide but got more ambitious as i went along

#kirby #my headcanon'd canon #my drawings #feel free to ask questions btw!! im trying to get out of my comfort zone and actually use the social aspects of tumblr #rather than using it like a glorified photo album for my own stuff and nothing else lol #although i hear replies are being funky for everyone rn. or at least as of yesterday. so maybe ask via other venues than that one

[c6jpg]

JADEITE REDOLENCE ❖ favorite chenyu vale overworld tracks

#genshin #genshinedit #genshinet #genshin impact #chenyu vale #jadeite redolence #m:gifs #m:* #m:gifs:scenery #m:top #ive been wanting to do this kind of thing for a while for several albums actually but jadeite redolence is the one where i RAN to do it lol #(overworld albums i mean) #if i find the motivation i might do it for a couple other albums this was fun :> maybe once im funemployed ajfldkjads (iykyk) #originally there were only gonna be 9 but then there were 2 i absolutely couldn't bear to leave out so i added 3 more #and that includes me trying to avoid repeating leitmotifs/areas and also avoiding any non-overworld tracks #but anyways it was fun running around looking for shots to gif. chenyu vale in general is just so pretty #im so happy with the goat shot bc i wasn't trying to get the goat it just happened to walk into frame PERFECTLY #the yilong wharf one (through clouds and rivers) is the only one where the song doesn't actually play where that's recorded #but like. if your giffing yilong wharf it HAS to be that shot its literally the album cover LMAO #this coloring is also kind of out of my comfort zone but i think i like it.... i slept on it and didn't wake up regretting it so adsjklasdf

[puretopia]

#well #trying to decorate completely out of my comfort zone #and also try and not take ages on it #why is effortless decorating SO hard #like trying to get it to look so simple? great that'll be a quick deco #not so much #im not even certain this looks good #ts4 #sims 4 #ts4 interior #ts4 inspo #alerionjkeee

[lunarr-stuff]

sparing to control the samadhi fire leads to an unexpected....hahhaha!!

bbys shy hwehwehwe

#dragonfruit shipping #dragonfruit #red son #mei long #lmk mei #red son lmk #lmk fanart #lego monkie kid #my art #clip studio paint #digital art #trying to get out of my comfort zone here #still abiiittt stumped on whether i liek this too much #i dont like this too much #its well not a good composition #im gonna make more df #and then make a mega post of it maybe be #hehehe #wml #im dying #and life is moving too fast #and im being left behind siigh #i need a hug quite honestly siigh

[kyuoki]

it's...opossum man otis,,,,,

#trying out more cartoonish style to force myself to get out of my comfort zone and post something im not 100% comfortable and satisfied with #(i say as i slap on 989080 layer effects to make it look more bearable for me) #:D 👍 #tried to make it look vhs or something fuck man idk #anyway have some stinky albino opossum guy #like go wash your asscrack or something man #/j #i hate him #but i love him #my should-be-locked-up-in-a-psychward babygirl <3 #otis driftwood #house of 1000 corpses #the devil's rejects #3 from hell #otis driftwood fanart #rob zombie #my art

[blueskittlesart]

Question abt drawing: been trying to attempt learning how to draw forever but I always have trouble getting over the obstacle of having to learn/study things like anatomy and shading, which then causes me to stop drawing and have a harder time picking it back up. I know it's important for improving your art and yourself as an artist but I can't help but see it as tedious and overwhelming, especially the anatomy since it's more on the science side of things and science is not my thing lol. Do you have any advice on how to get over it or work thru it?

i think there's a couple facets to this question. firstly i'd recommend you consider what exactly your end goal is in learning how to draw: do you specifically want to be able to produce anatomically accurate figures and true-to-life shading, or do you just want to be able to make something for fun that looks good to you? one of the most helpful things I ever learned at art school was that accuracy doesn't matter if it looks good. 99% of my art isn't strictly anatomically accurate, and part of that is stylization, but even when i'm doing realistic figure drawings i like to lengthen limbs and exaggerate curves in order to make my drawings look better. So if your only real goal with art is to make something that looks good and enjoy the process, my first piece of advice would be to stop worrying so much about stuff like perfect accuracy! if you use references and keep pushing yourself, the skill and understanding you're looking for will come naturally with time. before I was ever classically trained, I got pretty far just by drawing my favorite characters in different poses and situations over and over again, and that experience laid the groundwork for when classical training did become available to me. Just because you're not necessarily doing serious figure studies doesn't mean you're not getting valuable practice--what it means is that you're having FUN while you're practicing, and having fun with your art is the most important thing!!!

Secondly, you mentioned anatomy being on the science side of things, which suggests to me that you may be looking in the wrong places when trying to do more serious anatomical study. if you look up 'anatomy' or anything similar on a web search engine, you're likely going to get a lot of very complex scientific illustrations. and while those aren't necessarily devoid of artistic value (I took a class all about scientific anatomy for artists last semester and it was GREAT) for a beginner who's just trying to learn how to make a body look like a body, they're not what you're looking for. what is going to be much more helpful for you are sites like line of action or quickposes. these sites are basically repositories of figure drawing images, and you can set them to automatically switch to a new image after a certain interval of time. if you really, desperately want to improve your anatomy specifically, what I recommend is going to one of these sites, setting it to the shortest interval possible, and trying to copy the pose as closely as you can before time is up. this might sound crazy, since the shortest interval is usually somewhere between 30-60 seconds, which obviously isn't enough to get much down. but what this will do is force you to look at how these models' bodies are constructed and translate it onto the page quickly and without overthinking it. be warned, your first maybe hundred of these are going to look like shit. but if you do this enough, you're eventually going to gain an intrinsic sense for 1. how a body works and 2. the easiest way for you personally to construct a body when drawing it. even without knowing the scientific names and anatomical rules, you're going to get a FEEL for how things work, which is much more important and useful to you as a character artist.

Finally, i think the most important thing to remember is that no art is bad art, even if you're not satisfied with the end product. when you're first starting out as an artist, you're going to make things that don't look right and you're going to be frustrated with yourself because of it. i vividly remember crying over a sketchbook at maybe age 11 or 12 because I was so upset i couldn't put exactly what was in my head on the page. Skill comes with time and practice and that is a frustrating fact of life, but no time spent doing something you enjoy and are passionate about is wasted. It might look bad now but you are laying the groundwork for your future success, and someday you're probably going to look back on your past work and say "I can't believe I thought this looked bad back then. for my age and my skill level i was doing AMAZING." And as previously mentioned, it's a lot less discouraging when something looks bad if you had fun making it, so try to have FUN with your art. draw things you enjoy and are passionate about and don't worry if it looks bad. focus on the experience, the skill will come in time. you've got this!!

#i've had this account since i was 15 years old. you can literally go back and see my ass did NOT know what i was doing #but i was having fun and the weird stuff that i was trying that maybe didn't always look right was what laid the groundwork #for my current skills! #i know this advice is basically just 'practice' which is what everyone says but it's important to me that you know #that practice should be FUN too. practice isn't drawing boring shit over and over again before you get to draw the fun stuff #practice is drawing the fun stuff that is maybe a little out of your comfort zone and maybe it looks a little wonky but you did it #and you had fun doing it! and now you'll be a little more prepared to do it again in the future! #asks

[s1llydr3amscape]

My headcanons of the Reluctant Follower unmasked back in the day vs now :3 Valerie (2019) and Vanessa (2021) + Rare human art

Imma be real I was a bit disappointed at the Vanny is Vanessa twist because off how it got spoiled already by SteelWool and stuff but I'm fine with it now!!! But oughhh rip my old Vanny design you will be my oc now!! I think I was just bummed because they kept hinting at it and like the first human character revealed and the enemy being a furry is like huh istg if she ends up being the security guard... I think I wouldn't have mind if Ness had more screentime tbh!!

So back then I hoped Vanny was separate from Vanessa and they both had similar names so Glitchtrap wanted to frame Nessie for the murders due to it. Same with Glam Freddy and Greggy think it was Vanessa who was the bad guy at first like gasps Vanessa + Bunny = Vanny!! Also they're both fake blondes and dye their hair often!! (There's more to it but I'd end up rambling)

First time drawing textured hair digitally I hope to improve more on it in the future because oughh Vanny deserves it!!!

#fnaf #five nights at freddy's #fnaf security breach #fnaf sb #fnaf fanart #fnaf au #reluctant follower #fnaf vanessa #vanessa sb #vanessa security breach #fnaf vanny #vanny #my art #sorry for yapping yall but- #vanessa has lots of blue streaks in her hair because It reminds me of my first fnaf self insert and that's why :3 #I feel like a fake vanessa fan because I prefer drawing her fursona more but ughhh i'm a furry leave me alone... /lh #trying to get out of my comfort zone with this and not draw lineart but the lineart beckons me (Also new brush yay!!!) #this would've been tragic toxic yuri vanguard... #going back to my love of bright and saturated <333 #🦭🩷🐇🐰🐇🐰🐇🐰🐯

[avenoirn]

have you ever heard of the all blue?

#opgraphics #one piece #sanji #vinsmoke sanji #op fanart #one piece fanart #artists on tumblr #trying to get out of my comfort zone....... #at least i had fun #.art