What If I Think Kangaroos Are Stupid?

forgot tumblr was a thing lol

“Why aren’t you doing anything?!” 4/19/25

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Have any art tips, your art is cool and I've been trying to get into digital art recently.

thanks :)

something ive learned recently: set ur layer to add on digital art for lighting - best things ever

but if you're just starting out with digital art, find a program ur comfortable with (i recommend procreate), and just play around and figure out what brushes and stuff you like, find digital artists on youtube for more specific tips (i recommend LavenderTowne for more cartoon-ish style digital art, but some of her tips can be good for any style)

if you've been doing traditional for a while, it'll just kinda throw you off to start digitally drawing, but eventually you figure it out and get the hang of it and to have pretty much every tool and color at your disposal is cool, just gotta learn how to use them :)

but if you're new to art entirely, just draw and have a good time, like thats my biggest tip, explore your style while also having fun, dont worry if it's not the next mona lisa, that's not important, it's gonna take time, and there will never be a point where you will have the skills to draw every single thing you want exactly how you want it, its just impossible. also you can look at other peoples art also take inspiration to start creating your style, i swear though i feel that step by step tutorials can hurt your art SO BAD, unless they give a thorough explanation into why you are doing what you're doing, you haven't learned anything, and when you try to do it again, but in different contexts, it's gonna look weird, because you don't actually know what you're doing.

ALSO JUST GENERAL TIP JUST WATCHING PEOPLE DRAW, IT DOESNT EVEN HAVE TO BE A TUTORIAL OR ANYTHING, ITS JUST SO HELPFUL TO WATCH SOMEONE'S PROCESS

heh i don't know if this helps, i can totally give more specific tips if anyone asks ^^

rubs hands. its all coming together

Just realizing how over time the way I think about the art I'm creating has changed so much over the years.

Only recently now, for the first time in the 3.5 years I've been actually been starting to think about viewership and the emotional impact I want to bring out through the tools, style, etc. in the art rather than the overall skill I want to show. I feel like this has definitely made my art have a more appealing feel to it that it didn't have nearly as much as before.

I think something else that has definetely changed is how precious I am with my art. Today I've been working on a new piece, but I decided I wanted to combine this "painting" style I did but in a full body character in my normal style. I've been really struggling with figuring out the painting/rendering bit, but when I know somethings not working I get rid of it, I go over it, whatever. I'm not precious with my art, because I know if I've done it once I can do it again. This gives me so much freedom to create without worry, and I think really allows me to create much more interesting pieces.

I think my art style will be changing a lot over the next while, I don't even know if I'll really have a consistent art style after this anymore (and won't that be interesting?).

Both who I am and how my art is is changing, and I want to document as much as I can onto Tumblr, rather than my DeviantArt, even though I have roughly 400 less followers here (like 10 or something, compared to the 405 on DA).

This place feels more right though.

Thanks for reading :))

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