fyeaharttips:

Click on the picture to head on over to the article “Avoiding Tangents: 9 Visual Blunders Every Artist Should Watch Out For” for some great, detailed help on composition!

It offers a much more thorough description than the picture above and many more examples, so please click the link and check it out!

hotcookingmama:

hOLY CRAP there was a post going around about running out of undos SO IT GOT ME THINKIN: ”HUH IT’S DUMB THAT ADOBE HAS SIX FREAKING CREATIVE SUITES AND THEY HAVENT INVENTED A WAY TO LET YOU UNDO MORE THAN 4 TIMES”

BUT ALAS THERE IS A WAY AND I JUST MADE A VISUAL FOR IT (CUZ IDK VISUALS ARE COOL)

BASICALLY YOU BUST OPEN YOUR PREFERENCES->GENERAL->PERFORMANCE AAND YYOU CHANGE THOSE HISTORY STATES SO NOW YOU CAN HAVE UP TO 1000 FREAKIN UNDOS HOLY NUTs

IF YOU ALREADY KNEW ABOUT THIS BEFORE THEN WOW KUDOS TO YOU BRO IGNORE ME IM RLY SLOW LEARNER

poplite:

amazinglyartisticadvice:

You should reblog it to your art rather than your main blog.

I will take a poke around and tell you what I like about your work, and a couple of things I think you might want to consider working on, overall.

-SA

It would be killer to have a critique. I’ve reached a plateau in my art, mediocre as it is, but I want so much to improve. Just… don’t know what point to start at.

Keep working. Don’t stop.You claim to have reached a plateau, I believe you’ve reached a wall, a place where you hit and can’t get around. What I am seeing in your work (and this is not because it is fanwork) is a fear of taking risks that is crippling your creativity. You need to break that down. To me it appears that every time you are on the edge of taking a real risk….in pose or subject matter, or anything else, you pull back and stay in your comfort zone. Get out of there. You obviously have a desire to create art, and you obviously have creative impulses—I’m looking at the genderswapped Maleficent, here—but you’re allowing some kind of fear to get in your way. Perhaps it’s a fear that other people won’t like your work if you go beyond a set mental boundry. Or maybe it’s something else entirely.

My suggestion for you: Go wild. Even if it’s only in a sketchbook you keep under your bed, try something crazy ambitious and out of this world. You have potential and you have technical skills. Your Megamind piece has some very nice colouring on it, very painterly, but you need to dare yourself to go a little further. Don’t allow yourself to become discouraged.

I hope to see more work from you and good luck in all your endeavors,

-SA

jackalopeplumage:

amazinglyartisticadvice:

You should reblog it to your art rather than your main blog.

I will take a poke around and tell you what I like about your work, and a couple of things I think you might want to consider working on, overall.

-SA

This is kind of my personal too, but I hope that it still counts. I’d love an opinion on my work. The art tag is under the sidebar. uwu

Right off the bat I am going to say: Backgrounds. You need to work on putting characters in an environment that they are interacting with….I recognize that for a primarily figurative artist, there is nothing less inspiring than being forced to think about inanimate objects, let alone a space peppered with them. However as an artist, you are going to want to be strong in all areas.

I suggest you hoard a stockpile of photographs of interesting spaces… You might be surprised by how inspiring an environment can be….there’s a temptation to just fudge a background, or put in a pattern and call it done, but if you start out using reference and simply keep at it (try sketching spaces you find yourself in) environments will start to become as natural as figures clearly are and you may begin to enjoy it.

You’re pretty strong in character design, poses (although there are quite a few ‘head and shoulders’ portraits) and anatomy, and there’s a lot of delightful play in your hybrid designs that makes your work interesting. Your fine, varied lines work well with your style and your concepts.

You’re also obviously in a constant state of improvement, which implies you’re self-motivated, and that is a very good quality in an artist.

Best of luck,

-SA

theartofclutter:

amazinglyartisticadvice:

You should reblog it to your art rather than your main blog.

I will take a poke around and tell you what I like about your work, and a couple of things I think you might want to consider working on, overall.

-SA

I would be appreciative of your feedback on my art. Thank you kindly. 

Alright, a couple of things…. You’re good at capturing a certain mood, and your design work is good as well. Your use of colour is good, although you may want to try shading and highlighting with colours that are not merely a lighter or darker shade of the colour you are already working with, especially if you are colouring skin….this will make your work look more vibrant. You’re very good at details, especially pieces where the focus is solely on one thing, but need to work on working the picture as a whole, to make sure that composition flows and your figures are accurate and posed in a way that reflects their mood… As it stands, there’s a slight stiffness to your figures. I recommend gesture drawing, preferably from life since working solely from a gesture drawing tool like pixellovely can actually add to the stiff figure problem. Try to look at people in motion and standing still, draw from life.

Good luck in all your endeavors,

-SA

stevebuscreaming:

timrothinimmensepain:

i want my erotic art to be accessible to all genders bc it’s always infuriated me how easy it is for men (and women) to dismiss female driven representations of sexuality (yaoi, fanfiction, boy bands, twilight, etc). 

like think of how many women are perfectly all right with male driven representations of women in a sexual context, how women even idealize and romanticize it (gil elvgren, erich sokol, bettie page, 50s pinups in general) and talk about these things as though they come from a simpler, classier time. really it’s just the same old male sexual fantasies about women from a patriarchal society, except it’s dressed up in some pretty art and stocking garters so maybe we don’t recognize it as the same thing. but it is. it’s not what we’re used to but it’s the same shit we’ve been fed for all our lives. (and i say this as a fan of all those erotic artists)

think of how many women artists, regardless of their sexual preferences, draw pinups of women to relax, and yet there is no male equivalent of that activity? and there are things that probably contribute to this, like:

• female pinup art is so good and tasteful that it creates a space of sexuality women are comfortable with and find appealing, and women artists want to imitate this
• we are so normalized to women depicted in a sexual context and the idea of fluidity of female sexuality that female artists drawing other women has become considered safe and acceptable 
• women are, in general, better at drawing women because they have obviously a much better reference point

but we’ve built a culture where even in female friendly havens such as tumblr we dismiss the importance of female sexuality in the media. regardless of quality these are important parts of our culture. no one can deny how important sex is in our media culture, and if we’re ever going to have female driven creations be taken seriously we need to stop dismissing representations of female sexuality as low art. we need to ask ourselves- how much of our opinions of female driven media are based on taste and how much of them are social conditioning?

and ANYWAY i guess long story short my secret hope and my ultimate goal is i want to make erotic art that can’t be dismissed. i want to make  art that very specifically depicts female sexuality, AND is accessible and tasteful in a way that means anyone can like it, erotic art drawn from a female POV. i want to draw things that make people think, regardless of their sexual preferences, “hey that’s pretty cool. i wanna try doing that.”

jesus christ this thing has 800+ notes jolly good show

rosenview:

How to take your wig from gross to great!

This isn’t a new method at all, but instead my results using this tutorial.

While the before shot is pretty terrible photo quality to begin with, you can see the wig is basically a ratty, gross-looking mess.

• Find a tank or bucket and empty a capful of fabric softener into it (more softener if your wig is longer).
• Add enough water to submerge the wig, and make sure to flip it inside out before you put it in the water. Swish it around to make sure it’s saturated, and then let it soak for a few days. I left mine is for a little over two days, but I would suggest leaving it in closer for the five days the original tutorial suggests.
• Lay the wig out on a towel to dry. I didn’t wash out the fabric softener, and when it was damp instead of dripping, I put it on a wig stand.
• After it’s completely dry, brush through it with a wig brush, or at least a brush with wire teeth. Plastic teeth will create static and no one wants that.
• If you need a wig brush, try checking out beauty stores. Failing that, you can usually find wire brushes at pet stores, and they work as well as any wig brush.
• Spray lightly with dry shampoo or sprinkle with talcum powder. Brush your wig again after a few minutes to help disperse the powder and keep your wig from looking chalky. You may experience a small amount of shedding during the brushing process, but it shouldn’t be anything too severe.

And there you have it!

art-and-sterf:

Fantasy Eyes Tutorial by =sanguisGelidus 

chirart:

I don’t have any resources, but I will say nothing teaches you how to draw a comic than actually drawing a comic. Your first one is going to be full of mistakes because it’s babu’s first try, and you’re figuring a lot of things out, and you kind of need to allow yourself this if you want to get over that starting hump (and every hump after).

A large part of transitioning into comics is coming to peace with how it basically challenges you completely as an artist. I am pretty sure there’s no greater way to stay humble as an artist than to do a comic, because in doing one you realize you don’t know how to draw for shit.

At all.

You may think you do, but no, you don’t. Sorry. You suck. You have been tricking yourself this entire time and now you are facing the reality that you basically know nothing.

I mean, like, it doesn’t matter how good or skilled you are as an artist, because a comic is going to rip you out of every comfort zone you locked yourself in. You need to know everything to be able to draw it, and if you don’t know everything you need to learn it as quickly as possible. You need to understand all the subtle variations of fashion, the mechanics that go into a bicycle, all the research of period/regional architecture you can muster, or what the inside of a car REALLY looks like… Oh, whoops, I need to draw all of these for the next page? MOMENT OF TRUTH AT THE PEARLY GATES, YOUR TEARS WON’T DRAW THEM FOR YOU. Not used to drawing different poses? Don’t understand perspective? Never drew backgrounds? You have problems with consistency? WELL HERE’S YOUR CHANCE TO LEARN TODAY, MOTHERFUCKER.

It’s such a sink-or-swim medium that if you persevere through the fact you’re only beginning to learn how to draw for the first time in your life, you’ll find yourself improving amazingly fast, because you’re forcing yourself to learn everything you didn’t really give yourself a chance to before. You may not learn everything quickly, but you’ll be learning. I’ve been doing comics for three years at this point and I’m still learning how to bring up my game.

Or, i don’t know, maybe there are people out there who are artistic geniuses who know how to innately draw anything and everything and never have difficulty figuring out how-to-comics, but they are probably in a place where unicorns exist, I’m able to magically materialize any food I want when I want it, and I can have Tilda Swinton as my spirit guide.