Woo New Cosi Ref!! Finally!

I have a wof blog now: @seagulltheseawinglikeschips

A Warrior Cats blog will probably be next, but I won't make it until/unless I begin regularly posting about warriors, which is unlikely

Lol I forgot to post this here. This is Mako, an old-ish OC of mine.

I'm trying to go through some of my old OCs and draw refs for them, and so far, this is the only one I've completed.

Mako originated in 2020 as a demo sona design. I never used her, but I liked her design enough for the concept to stick in my brain for the following three years. I did some redesign concepts for her last year and then promptly forgot about them until a couple of days ago when I noticed she was missing from my Toyhouse page. I decided to give her a ref, and here we are.

Her name comes from the Mako shark, but the shark aspects of her design are based on blacktip reef sharks and tiger sharks. The main inspo for this iteration of her design was how her old design looked a little like a sunset, or like musk sticks (if you don't know what musk sticks are, they're a pink Australian lolly. Look it up). Based on the sunset idea, I turned her into a surfer girl. Lol.

here's the style analysis template from today's video!

And much like showering I frequently hate the thought of it and then when I do it I wonder why on earth I didn't want to do it. And much like during a shower, drawing is an excuse to do something with my hands while idly thinking. But my hands don't get wrinkly when I draw so therefore they are Completely Different

making art is just like showering………can’t get up and do it, can’t stop when you’ve started. you want to crawl out of your skin if you don’t do it often enough. everything in the world is the exact same

Reblogging on main to say I had this happen a week or so ago when I went to a museum.

They had a Tsintaosaurus skeleton there (Tsintaosaurus was a hadrosaur with a sort of unicorn horn), and I had expected hadrosaurs to be about the size of a cow, or maybe a horse at most. Nope. They're almost four metres tall.

So imagine all 5 feet of me, in the dinosaur room, staring up at this enormous creature. It was awesome in the most literal sense.

sometimes u have to see something in real life to truly get it. Elephant in pictures is like 'thats an elephant'

elephant in real life is like 'wow, that's a fucking elephant

ooh

art cheats

hello i am here today to not lose track of the art cheats i have discovered over the years. what i call art cheat is actually a cool filter/coloring style/way to shade/etc. that singlehandedly makes art like 20 times better

80’s anime style

glitch effect

glow effects

adding colors to grayscale paintings

foreshortening ( coil )

foreshortening ( perspective )

clipping group (lines)

clipping group (colors)

dramatic lighting ( GOOD )

shading metal

lighting faces

that is all for today, do stay tuned as i am always hunting for cool shit like this

made this for oomf but you can have it too. a little breakdown of my process with bird wings if anyone finds it useful

wof art dump 3

most of these are from the fall of last year! we are catching up guys

in order from left to right:

pumpkin — ga adopt, cetawings

blue — cloud custom

brown — ga spearwing raffle

first wip — nonwof custom

last two wips — unfinished cloud adopt

I'm probably going to lose followers if I keep reblogging random stuff from fandoms my followers probably aren't in but. I need to remember this

Lemon demon rarities folder released