I Hate When I’m So Ready To Draw And Color But My Hand Cramps?? Like Stop?? Its Rise And Grind Time??

And also, I forgot to put before but color theory is...oof, I’ve watched countless videos and it hasn’t knocked inside me yet when it comes to coloring or figuring out values when it comes to drawing, what are ways or exercises to get better?

I was asking the same question as you, so I went on a lil hunt and created an article to center my favorite resources:

artres.xyz

Wonderful resources to master color theory

Artist how to guide for mastering color theory! A resource covering my favorite color theory resources, how to apply it, and tools

I hope this helps!

An exercise to practice applying these concepts:

sketch something simple, or even base it off a piece that you have been working on but feel stuck with the colors

Now start working with simplified thumbnails, keep it blocky and keep it fast

experiment with different schemes and types of color combos. ie, try complementary, triad, split complement, analagous

rinse and repeat, bonus points for adding different color schemes.

best of luck,

<3 Al

feel free to show me ur results and ask any follow up questions. (note: I respond quickest to Dms bc my asks are really backed up sadly)

the joxter, upon learning about snufkin’s existence:

Ew E E E E E E E E E E E E E E E E E E E E E E E E E E E E E E E E

This is my new mom now

Bitch is a perfect nickname for you

Dont know if ur trying to offend me but yes. I go by

Big Bitch

In cursive.

i can easily imagine the flags having childhoods with their parents and such but i literally can’t with Albatross

like

i can only picture him as a human child being raised by birds. they found him as a baby and he can speak bird or whatever

Done

I think I got a bit better

working on the stormbringer timeloop au but it ended up with just a lot of doodles

i will say that how the “ability” works is similar to Homura’s time powers with the going back in time aspect, but Chuuya is not limited to one month. still toying with different ideas, but i do have a lot of attempt ideas on Chuuya’s part and how they end up. some are more outlandish than others but thats the wonders of making an au

Verlaine and Rimbaud custody battle over Chuuya while the Flags watch will forever be dear to me /j

*slowly extends neck*

Are you talking shit?

My Nice Guy Experience (Storytime)

Hello everyone, this is my first time posting something like this and I hope you like it, let me just say that the names I use will NOT be the nice guy’s name, due to them still being on the amino, I will also not give out which amino(s) he connected me with so there won’t be drama.

I met this dude on amino before I started dating my girlfriend, so mid or late May. He private messaged be a odd emoticon and then said “Hey” or something like that. I was talking to my brother @edgyoliver when I got the pm so I showed him, he told me not to reply, but being the idiot I was I replied. We had small talk and that was it. In June, I left that chat since I didn’t talk on there and that was it. Only for that amino. I was in a staff for its side amino (a backup amino I guess) and that dude message me on there (I’ll call him Blop). Blop said hey and asked if I had an older sister that goes by [insert her username] (don’t wanna give it out), I said yes and we talked more. Then he said something about rainbows so I said, “Lmao gay, you like rainbows” and he went mental on me. I don’t remember exactly what Blop said but it went like, “WTF WHY DID YOU SAY THAT?!?! I’M NOT GAY YOU FUCKING ASSHOLE SLUT GO KILL YOURSELF AND BURN IN HELL!!!!” Obviously I was scared and terrified, but Blop said sorry so I forgave him. Now to October, I was watching a movie with my friends and girlfriend (this is important trust me) and it was the first Hotel Transylvania. I got a message from Blop after months of not talking asking me to draw for him (for free). At that time and now I would only coin commissions but I thought he was cool so I said I could. He wanted a full animation meme, the “I Like Me Better When I’m With You” with my fursona Star and his fursona, and a full colored+edited lines+shading ref of his fursona. But here’s the thing, he asked for a clothed version and a non clothed version, WITH the dingdong, Blop even told me how long he wanted it to be and what color. My girlfriend saw and she told me, “Love, I think you shouldn’t talk to them anymore” but I told her, “he’s just acts weird”.

I accepted the request, told him I’m watching Hotel Transylvania so it might take awhile. He said it was a great movie and that Dracula’s daughter reminded him of me. Thought it was weird but shrugged it off. 2 days later I get a pm, this is what I remember the chat as:

Blop: Hey

Me: Hi

Blop: So I have to tell you something important

Me: Oki

Blop: You’re Dracula’s daughter...and I’m the human...others may see us as two different beings that will never love each other but we can prove them wrong

Me: Come again?

Blop: I love you

Blop: Will you go out with me?

Me: I’m sorry Blop, but I’m a lesbian

Me: And I have a girlfriend

Blop: So now you become a lesbian JUST as you led me on!! JUST AS I TELL YOU?!

Me: Excuse me? Do you need to sit down?

Blop: SO YOU DATE OLIVER (he’s talking about my brother friend btw) BUT NOT ME?!?! YOU ARE JUST LIKE ALL THE OTHER USELESS SLUTS HERE, LEAD A MAN ON BUT FUCKING DESTROY THEIR DREAMS AND MOVE ON LIKE ITS NOTHING

Me: Wtf?

Blop: DONT WTF ME!!!! I SWEAR WHEN I FIND OUT THERE YOU LIVE I WILL COME INTO YOUR ROOM AT NIGHT, RAPE YOU, THEN CUT YOU UP IN LITTLE PIECES THROWING THEM INTO THE TRASH WHERE YOU BELONG

Me: *leaves chat*

Blop is still spamming me with chat invites saying sorry and asking if I will still date him. Once he even messaged my girlfriend saying that we need to break up or he’ll kill himself. If I’m able to I will add pictures of that chat later on. Anyways, watch out for The Nice Guys

Sources for Aesthetic™ Images for your headers/icons/moodboards/Notion/pages/etc that aren't Pinterest

Because eeegh it's a pet peeve of mine whenever I see idk, content and stuff that just uses "credits to pinterest" or "credits to the original creators" without linking back to the actual source, so here are some places you can find images to use that you can find who to credit easily.

Note: some of these resources have specific terms, and not all of them can be used for moodboards/headers/notion/websites/icons/etc. Pls read them on their respective websites first and credit when necessary!!

Ghibli's released screencaps of their movies, for free!

Unsplash has a lot of good photos - just type in the keyword and you can also filter by orientation and color! There are also a bunch of user collections you can look through if you have a specific theme in mind

Some keywords you can use if you're lost on what specific things to look up: [rainy/foggy/sunny/etc] window view, messy desk, vintage, urban, vending machine, hands, grunge aesthetic, crystal/gemstone, skull, foggy/hazy, flower/pressed flower, knife, jewelry, neon, minimal, crown, fountain pen, pearls, pantone

Pexels is kinda similar to unsplash

Art images from museums and libraries

Creative commons

the #transparent png, #transparent tags here on tumblr - please be mindful though that some, if not most of these images don't have clear rules or boundaries for their use, so as a little tip use the ones crediting and adding the source, credit them yourself, and use for your personal use only - dont make stuff with them that you plan on selling!

Some blogs I've found in the tags above that do credit the image source of their pngs: @/strawberry4milk, @/neptunepngs, @/honeyrolls, @/mirai-e-jump, @/png-heaven, @/soapmermaid

Pixabay illustrations

thegraphicsfairy for vintage and antique looking graphics, art, and images

Free design resources (the site also has more than just graphics!)

Pixel Surplus too!

Country Daze Graphics - old webcore style graphics, for personal, non-commercial, credit-required use on webpages. You can read more about their terms of use on the site!

Another old webcore style graphics | 1 | 2 | 3

Old web buttons gifs (caution: full of flashing and eyestrain-y gifs)

Gifcities has those too (also content warning for flashing, sometimes inappropriate looking gifs that would get you ios banned yaknow)

Foxfable - pixel art, for personal use only and requires credit

Animation screencaps | Movie screencaps - for non-commercial, entertainment use