I Think If I Had To Guess What The Source Of That Color Issue Is It Would Be That I Don’t Vary My Values

some disco elysium portrait studies

Okay I JUST realized I never posted these on here—- BUT BASICALLY, about a year and a half ago I started doing these experimental black hairstyle posts that were threads long on Twitter, to give artists a source of inspo for their black ocs whose hair they wanted to try something new with! There’s more to black hair than just the selected styles portrayed in media, and I thought it would be fun to show people how much texture, shape, fades, length, and style can be combined when drawing black hair—-cause it’s a kind of manipulation our hair can do irl! The OG posts were lost with the hacking of my original Twitter account (@/bagels_donuts) but I’ve since reuploaded the whole thread to my new Twitter (@/ItsDonutsFR)! I hope artists on tumblr find these useful, sorry it took me so long to post them here😭🙏🏾 I’ll upload them all in parts!

Part 1: Long masc hairstyles + playing with fades

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as learneded to me by this wonderful video

Strahdtober Day 4 - “Bride”, and Day 5 - “Sweets”

it took two damn days to make this, and I ended up not being able to put as much detail into the cake as I wanted, but all in all, I’m mostly pretty pleased with it. not bad for my first real swing at digital art 😅

I want to try so many little hobbies. Candle making, soap making, basket weaving, wood carving, book binding, baking, weaving, I want to try them all.

back in the 00s a single dancing anime chibi gif would feed us for months on end

@yarrow-leaf ‘s Strahd is and always has been my muse. which means it’s really fun to look back at drawings from September and compare it to a drawing from tonight, both using this post as a reference. idk if it comes off as as much of an improvement from the picture, but I can feel it in my bones — I’ve grown.

oop jumpscare from one of the ugliest strahds i’ve ever drawn 😭 use references folks please

as soon as i make something, i end up feeling really frustrated with it. i know this is a common experience, but it’s so hard working on something and being proud of it, and then being like “whoops, it actually has the same color issue all my other art has that I can’t figure out how to solve.”

hot artists don't gatekeep

I've been resource gathering for YEARS so now I am going to share my dragons hoard

Floorplanner. Design and furnish a house for you to use for having a consistent background in your comic or anything! Free, you need an account, easy to use, and you can save multiple houses.

Comparing Heights. Input the heights of characters to see what the different is between them. Great for keeping consistency. Free.

Magma. Draw online with friends in real time. Great for practice or hanging out. Free, paid plan available, account preferred.

Smithsonian Open Access. Loads of free images. Free.

SketchDaily. Lots of pose references, massive library, is set on a timer so you can practice quick figure drawing. Free.

SculptGL. A sculpting tool which I am yet to master, but you should be able to make whatever 3d object you like with it. free.

Pexels. Free stock images. And the search engine is actually pretty good at pulling up what you want.

Figurosity. Great pose references, diverse body types, lots of "how to draw" videos directly on the site, the models are 3d and you can rotate the angle, but you can't make custom poses or edit body proportions. Free, account option, paid plans available.

Line of Action. More drawing references, this one also has a focus on expressions, hands/feet, animals, landscapes. Free.

Animal Photo. You pose a 3d skull model and select an animal species, and they give you a bunch of photo references for that animal at that angle. Super handy. Free.

Height Weight Chart. You ever see an OC listed as having a certain weight but then they look Wildly different than the number suggests? Well here's a site to avoid that! It shows real people at different weights and heights to give you a better idea of what these abstract numbers all look like. Free to use.

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the abbot from curse if strahddddd