Finally Made The First Of Ref Sheets I Meant To Do Before Art Fight Started

I painted something inspired by a friend who wrote a poem based on these paintings!

This is Kevin and the Duck

Fourth portrait complete! (although this is less of a portrait and more like a selfie)

Tried actually doing line art, which went fine, I however could not get the nose right

I'm drawing my ocs that don't already have portraits- Maeve, Dann, Harley, Kori, Alto, Hamil, Elise, and Orla- wish me luck!

Artfight Day 16

Aziel belongs to Reggg

The second of two attacks today (I’m waiting for permission to post the first)! ngl the phonograph was a bit tricky, but still a fun piece to do :)

I’m out visiting family and have been enjoying time with them, so haven’t had much time to draw but I’m hoping to make some more time (and of course there is always the rest of the month after I go home)!

Timelapse under the cut

Firstly, when you get this, you have to answer with 5 things you like about yourself, publicly. Then, send this ask to 10 of your favorite followers (non-negotiable, positivity is cool) 💗

It's kind of funny I get this today, cuz I've just turned 20 and I'm genuinely proud of myself for making it another year and in a general upswing at that. Thank you for sending me this ask :)

1) I'm a good person, this is important to me because whenever I'm having bad anxiety/depression my brain tries to convince me otherwise (even though it's not true). There was this time I was in New Orleans with my Dad & youngest brother, we were going to Audubon Aquarium but I wanted to bring a sketchbook so we went to a Walmart. Except I had routed us to a Walmart in a dangerous part of town so my Dad wanted to get in and out as quickly as possible. We were rushing past this older man and his kid/grandkid who was in one of the electric carts and I didn't want to cut right in front of him (like my Dad had just done) and also didn't want to lose my Dad (it was very busy) so I cut to the other side and accidentally knocked some clothes over. I felt really embarrassed to have to now hold the man up but I apologized to him and hung the clothes back up. He ended up getting in line behind my Dad and was like 'you've raised really good kids' and talked to him about how my youngest brother has said excuse me when darting in front of him with my Dad and how I had cleaned up after myself and he doesn't always see that with other kids. I swear not every bullet point will be this long, but this is a good reminder for myself so, yeah, good person

2) seeing as this is going up on my art blog, it might be weird to not mention that I like how creative I am! I have tried a bunch of different art things, am a video editor, a writer, I enjoy photography and am not half bad at design, I will learn the bass guitar someday (I've been learning it for four years now :), and so on. Being creative is one of my favorite things to do and be

3) if I care about you then I will do what I can to help and be there. This was kind of instilled in me by family, as they say 'no matter what you've done we will try to help,' or what I hear more often is 'just give us a call if you need anything' but I know it's true for me too. When I was living with my Dad I wasn't allowed to have people over if he wasn't home but there was a time when my best friend had messaged her group chat that she needed someone and was worried about being alone and immediately I told her she could come to my house and she did and I comforted her until she felt better. And my Dad never found out but I wouldn't feel bad if he ever did because I was just doing what I could for a friend

4) speaking of I'm also very protective of the people I care about, I've got a lot of brothers and friends I worry about. This can be a bad thing sometimes cuz it also means I tend towards suspicion at times, but I still like it about myself.

5) I think I make people feel invited and involved. I pay attention when someone is talking and try not to let others talk over them. I'll invite people to go to things with me (when I am going to things anyways). Even when I don't know a person super well or don't necessarily like them I try to make them feel welcome cuz I don't want anyone to feel ignored around me

I don't know that I have 10 followers! But I'll find people to send this to, thank you again for sending it to me :D

This attack was done on day 4 of artfight! It also took around 6 hours but I had a lot of fun with it!

Astrid Blackk belongs to StarlitMachine, @starlitmachine on tumblr!

timelapse under the cut

First portrait is finished!

Third portrait complete!

No artfight attacks today, I instead did a redraw of this guy I originally drew back in 2019. I was packing up old sketchbooks and saw him and thought it would be fun

7th portrait done! Except this time it looks a little more like a ref sheet cuz I found a cool pose to reference (bottom left) and also wanted to show off what the top of his wings would look like (top left), though I did get a little lazy by the time I started adding colors, hence the lack of shading

He’s based on the Anhinga water bird (don’t mind the feet, I was following a guide for drawing bird feet and only remembered much later that the feet should be webbed)