voxen 🦐

also, being forced to just live with the lines you put down (and only correcting by going over with a darker color) helps SO MUCH with drawing confidence. i'm less than 10 pages into this exercise and already feel a LOT better when drawing than i did before.

10/10 recommend

lovingly cleaning up a sketch to perfection can have it's own charm... sometimes. but it's exhausting when you feel like you have to do it for everything. being forced to just Deal with mistakes is so much better. you stop taking it overly seriously and just have Fun yknow

i'm someone who can get "scared" when drawing traditionally, where i start to way overthink and carefully sculpt out and clean up a sketch before ever getting to color. and while this can lead to some really nice results, it takes forever ! and most of the time i never finish !! also it's boring

starting a no-erase sketchbook where i start all sketches with marker was such a good idea

*leaves*

*drops art*

hey

aw, thank you!! maybe someday i will do prints <3 for now i'm just happy to be drawing again (:

I really love your colors a lot! すごい ＜３

can't believe i'm starting a full time job.... i'll only ever get to go into the studio on mondays realistically going forward...

2024 the year of Change

my son mint now vs his original design sheet

dog

anyway i've been drawing and writing a lot but most of it isn't really postable or things i want to post yet 🤷‍♂️

haven't been here in ages because it takes like 2 minutes to load the site lol

Meme: The best time to bury this war criminal was 53 years ago. The second best time is right now.

i have pretty heavy perfectionist tendencies despite my blasé attitude. if i've decided something is going to be "finished", i tend to take it to extremes: i try to get it as perfect as possible. and y'know? that's fucking exhausting!

digital art lets you do this into forever. traditional does not.

my art journey is kinda funny to think about. i'd long abandoned traditional art because i liked digital better. then i burned out and didn't draw much, if at all

and what's getting me back into drawing now? traditional art!

iliyan from the manhwa 'private scandal' :0

YMMV but i've never learned that much from focused studies if they weren't directly attached to specific drawings/illustrations. quick vibe sketching has always done me WAY more good

focused studies can be good -- WHEN YOU NEED THEM (like for a specific illustration)! but i think there's way too much emphasis on that idea and it causes people (ME) to not do as many art studies as they should

studies where you spend a lot of time trying to get things perfect bore me soooo much. here to put down the vibe, Only™

i have even *more* color pencils coming this week. very excited.

derwent studio pencils. they're supposed to be VERY hard and meant for detail work. i got them to use for lining under/over watercolor and ink!

my old prismas just aren't it, and my current derwents just dull way too fast

recent watercolor sketches ~
("Twice Harmed" and "Leaf Friends")

i have INFINITELY more patience for art now than i did even 2-3 years ago. waiting for something to dry between color layers used to be unfathomable lol

looking back at really old ink/watercolor and just being like... damn. i had the traditional arts in me all along

sketch ~

tapas really out here pulling rotten ass bullshit LMAO

i wanna go to the studio and eat kr spicy chicken... but it's stormy..... ):

i used it to shade the skin and you can tell it came out chunky and kinda waxy LOL. but hey, for years i avoided trad work so it's gonna be a learning process!