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i hate that every time i look for color studies and tips to improve my art and make it more dynamic and interesting all that comes up are rudimentary explanations of the color wheel that explain it to me like im in 1st grade and just now discovering my primary colors

OKay, so i started this on the 7th might have finished it after midnight though

I had to switch from night shift to day shift to do overtime at my job, and now I have to switch back 😭

I can't even say RIP my sleep schedule, that bitch is the memory of the ghost of a resurrected corpse at this point. My sleep schedule is a revenant slowly chasing me down. Anyways! ANother pink mermaid! I'm actually really happy with this one

Day 9!

In honor of the end of mermay and the start of pride month, here's a sapphic merm!

what do you mean it's already the 10th

Also, here's the original. I spend about i don't know, 8 hours on this, and kind of hated it.

Then i spent about 45 minutes tweaking the colors and adding rain and now i kind of like it again (or maybe i'm just half asleep lol.) I think i need to just start using more muted colors.

Tumblr is doing some stupid AI shit so go to blog settings > Visibility > Prevent third-party sharing.

Attempting Mermay! (It's been a few years since i participated so lets see how this goes)

I'm trying something different to make things easier on myself, so instead of a bunch of individual drawings of merms, I'm just going to do one big school of mini merms.

(i'll add in some texture and shadow to the kelp later, i need to go to bed!)

(Is this enough tit for mature, i labeled it mature)

Mushrooms in the rain ᵎᵎ

(source)

Unsplash -  photography, illustration, & art

Pixabay - same as unsplash

Pexels - stock photos and videos

Getty Images - photography & illustration

Veceezy - vectors and clipart

Gumroad - photoshop brushes (and more)

StockSnap.io - stock photos

Canva - needs login but has lots of templates

Library of Congress - historical posters and photos

NASA - you guessed it

Creative Commons - all kinds of stuff, homie

Even Adobe has some free images

There are so many ways to make moodboards, bookcovers, and icons without plagiarizing! As artists, authors, and other creatives, we need to be especially careful not to use someone else’s work and pass it off as our own. 

Please add on if you know any more resources for free images <3

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