Dungeon Meshi - Gnomes

How do you draw so well on paper without getting frustrated with your own art? Bless me with a tip pls

I often draw very messily on paper. I just clean it up afterwards, either by erasing stray marks and guidelines and relining the drawing, or by scanning and doing digital touchups. Or I just leave some of the messiness there because sometimes that has more personality and charm than a pristine, polished drawing does. I am also in a near perpetual state of frustration with my art. I think that's normal for anyone doing any sort of creative work. Having to erase and redraw something, having to reconfigure your approach after trying and failing the first few times, having to relent and seek out some reference material - it's a confluence of frustration and challenge. As maddening as it can be, it's also part of what keeps things interesting. If it was all completely effortless, what satisfaction would there be in doing it?

I guess if there's a tip in here somewhere, it's to embrace frustration. If you're feeling frustrated, it's a good indication you have a critical eye for your own work and that you're venturing beyond your comfort zones. Both of those things are essential to improving. (That's not to say you should torture yourself. If you're so frustrated that your blood pressure is spiking, well, take a break, cool off, return after a refresh.)

Chilchuck expressions in Good Medicine

I made this graphic to convince my brother to watch dunmeshi.

Thanks @realbouru for the tag! Slowly trying to be more active on here-

Boy, do I love ‘doomed by the narrative characters’ !

Anyone who wishes to participate, and if not that’s always okay, I’ll also tag; @acesandocs @lunaristole27 @akosisab

Consider yourself tagged if you are reading this:

Make this picrew of yourself

Take this uquiz (How Fandom Would See You If You Were A Fictional Character)

Thank you for the tag @machiavellli !

✨Dancing Lights✨

with my Lackadaisy OC

Trying to get back into digital art and decided to try to practice lighting

Working on another friend commissioned piece:

Once finished I’ll probably also use this to say I’m on his stream playing Marvel Rivals

Hhehehhehhehehe i love raph

FINALLY! AFTER 40 HOURS AND THREE POSE CHANGES:

Aisling’s Bio Pic!

My silly little cat who has emotional issues and philophobia🥰

Mobile has made it a little blurry, so hopefully if you click on it it’ll become clearer-

The illustration was based off of this Saturday Evening Post by Coles Phillips.

I spent way more time than I’d like to admit simply going through an archive and looking at his art, even after I found the one I would reference.

And I did swap the mirror for a bouquet of flowers that I spent way too long looking into the meanings off and also changed the back to a record.

Her dress in the illustration is almost a 1:1 of this one from the Met Museum archive, called Robe de Style made by Jeanne Lanvin.

Of course, it’s fancier than what Aisling would be able to afford, and I added a few flap layers that you can’t see in the illustration. But I’m a sucker for black clothes and I felt it contrasted nicely against her mostly white fur.

There’s not much to say about the portrait outfit. You can’t see most of it, but I’ve decided on a simple beige button up, with a green country bow tie, and long pleated navy skirt. You can kind of see it fully in the small photograph at the bottom.

I also, of course, had to add a small UTDM Easter Egg in it as well. Marius and Jack are the two faceless cats within the photograph underneath the illustration. It’s based off of the Save/Load screen where in the report it mentions how your PC is circled.

Popping out of the grave (Read: Burn-out) to take part in this-

Thanks for the tag @spiky-berry21 and @realbouru !

Unfortunately, my fixations tend to circle around, and my most prominent one has decided to rear its head again… One Piece. Little story: My father who is fixated on sports cards got me into the One Piece TCG and I’ve spent way too much money on them- I’ll maybe post about the ones I’ve collected… maybe

Anyway: I’ll tag @lunaristole27 , @akosisab , @yanci-indigo , @acesandocs ,, and only if y’all want to !

cute thing im coming up with

this picrew of yourself and your current hyperfixation !!

no pressure tags @pearlzier @julesssyy @reidsfavoritegirl @whitney23317 @willowsblanket @flowercrownsandtrauma @rottenletter

Thank you for tagging me! I did two results, one for my user and one for my actual name. And the results were actually surprising to me-

Both pallets are soothing in their own ways-

((Everyone that I would tag has already been and reposted as well 🪦 ))

saw this on instagram and thought it was fun!! so let’s do a chain thingy, shall we?

what’s the colour palette of your name?

@paysomeonetopaysomeone @waitingforthesunrise @coffeeforkai @betweenthetimeandsound @27fanficlilies @wishtobefictional @trashmeowcan @ashlakh @malencholic-nyx