Lur Noise

Having the quite specific fantasy of having a close enough friendship on another point of the country so I could travel and be on another place for a few days and rest in good company, because I want that but not to travel for traveling or tourism's sake.

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Sometimes what I assume to be a butch/femme drawing turns out to be a heterosexual couple and that's not ok.

Color illustration of a woman in a orange, sci-fi looking seafaring suit. She is standing on some brutalist ruins, nearly swallowed by the ocean. From the back of her suit a parabolic antenna protudes, framing her head as an halo.

#TheStaticTraveler herself ~*

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YouTube video by dumpster3403 Parliament - P-Funk (Wants to Get Funked Up) (1975)

Today in: Lur brings y'all a pretty known song that she has just discovered, just in case you are on the same situation as she was until recently: this one.

youtu.be/ZyJzylk8d_M?...

I don't know if what I saw yesterday at home were two exemplars of the same moth, or if I just met with the same insect twice. In any case, it's always a gift to see a moth.

Screenshot of Boku no Natsuyasumi 2, showing Boku talking to Yasuko.

Screenshot of Boku no Natsuyasumi 2, showing Boku taking a bath at an onsen.

August 4.

Today Yasuko showed me around town, and she ended up opening up about some personal stuff.

I took a bath on the evening, and my insect collection is growing steadily. I walked around at night and managed to catch a firefly!

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Square image divided in two horizontal halves, one black and one white. The logos are laid over them in the opossite colors. There are two versions of the logo: one spelling the whole word, with two stars on the left and their tail striking the word on two horizontal halves; and the other consisting on only the first "A", with the two stars on top of it.

Logo design I did for the upcoming @astracordis.bsky.social TTRPG ✨

Mix up those exercises with pieces that you do just for yourself, and don't worry about developing an unique style, that will come with time. Most importantly, take all of the above with a grain of salt, I myself feel that there's a lot I don't know, and I still have an infinity to improve. Cheers!

Try to expand your inspirations, look at the artists that inspired the artists you love, look at the real world, pay attention to artforms other than drawing, and in general be curious I guess. When studying, try to have fun with each exercise, learn to enjoy the process of markmaking by itself.

As some general advice that has worked for me: artbooks, (or just looking at the artists that inspire you), are a great tool for learning if you take the time to carefully study the decisions that each line has behind rather than just looking at the superficial details.

Aun les queda para salir pero espero que los disfrutes cuando salgan! ^^

I've had a really cool idea for a Mother 1 illustration that you should commission me for.

2025 has turned out to be the year when I've started writing about videogames by surprise. I've finished three text already (yet to be published) and have another three in the making. It still feels really weird.

Lastly, and this is not really a fundamental, but the book "Rendering in Pen and Ink" by Arthur L. Guptill is a lovely tome if one is interested in late XIX - early XX century inking styles. I've learned a lot from there.

On composition, the book I have is "Framed Ink: Drawing and Composition for Visual Storytellers". Also, a good exercise: take an art piece you like and draw it simplifying it to its simplest forms and three values: black, grey and white.

Writing these pretty fast so excuse me for any typos. About color, "Color and Light: A Guide for the Realist Painter" by James Gurney is a cool book.

They will give you a basis of freehand constructive drawing and perspective, which are useful to be able to break down references you are drawing from into basic 3D primitives, no matter if you use a ruler or not, and get an intuitive grip on perspective. They will also teach so some line control.

You'll provably also benefit from knowing the basics of perspective, which can be found in a thousand places, get familiar with the theory.

I also recommend the lessons and box and cylinder challenges of drawabox.com.

About anatomy and figure drawing, Proko's YouTube channel and website has some lovely resources, both free and paid. I especially recom his figure drawing and anatomy courses. There is other stuff I could recommend, but I'll leave it at: find some live model session or vids and practice from there.

The fundamentals are the basic disciplines you should study to draw representatively, you can stylize and break all the rules you learn here of course, but they are useful to know: perspective, anatomy, composition, color... Stuff like that.

The second disclaimer is that if you want this to be a fun hobby, you can really do whatever you want. Find what brings you you and just do that. But if apart from that you want to train in what we would call a sort of representative drawing style, here are some tips and resources on fundamentals.

First of all, some disclaimers. All the advice I can give is based on what I feel has helped me draw the kind of stuff that I draw and to be what I am: someone that nearly and hopefully fully in the near future, but not yet, makes a living out of it.

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Feeling somewhat alone with my thoughts rn, so you can tell me or ask me anything here if you wanna ~*

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I'm sure you are, too!

Screenshot of Boku no Natsuyasumi 2, showing Boku fishing on that small beach.

Screenshot of Boku no Natsuyasumi 2, showing a big marbled sole.

August 3.

Today I explored a lot! Turns out that the door in the back of the clinic on top of the town leads to a nice big forest. There I discovered my cousins' not-so-secret base, and we made some beetles sumo wrestle!

I also discovered this little beach, where I caught this enormous fish!

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