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Very random bits of art wisdom I learned over the years bc I'm bored on the bus:

If you use black for shading it'll muddy up your colors (not saying do not do it ever cause I'm sure some ppl make it work but still)

Use references kids

Like seriously who came up with the idea that refs are bad

I pinky promise you don’t have to pull poses, outfits, etc out of your artist ass

Drawin' chompers? Lower canines always in front of upper canines

The secret to the other eye is not copy pasting the first, but drawing both together as opposed to fully rendering them one at a time

Styles are annoyingly overrated. How about we realize the value of experimenting and being versatile eh

Step out of your comfort zone. Will it suck at first? I mean yeah probably but there's no other way to learn something you wanna learn

Idk what ppl are on about hands, it's shoes that are the real devil here

Also while I'm at it, have a "comfort subject" that takes little effort to draw, for when you really wanna do something but don't feel particularly inspired

It's also a good little bit of ego boost

Take breaks. Seriously. Don't be like me. And stretch.

Half the fun of designing a creature is figuring out its anatomy (but i mean I'm a nerd so take this with a grain of salt)

Textured brushes are your friends, but they can make something a lot messier than intended so watch out for that

Learn just a little bit of color theory (no not the children's hospital that isn't even actual color theory, funnily enough)

Cutting corners is valid, but try not to end up completely dependant on certain tools

Name your files something other than keyboard smashes. Trust me.

Treat your microns like newborns and don't let that one fking classmate that presses the pen like their life depends on it borrow them i swear to fucking god-

There's no one size fits all for art, maybe every single bit of advice i just gave is complete useless bs to u and that's fair

Ok, so you've been isekai'd to the dnd world and may or may not die due to the class you've been assigned. Better question. Are you human? (spinner wheel of all dnd5e species)

1. Yes they have to fight, 2. Tell me who’s fighting who in the tags! (I’ll add the most ridiculous combos in a reblog)

I put every bird I could think of into this wheel. Spin the wheel. You're that bird now.

Cylinder Seal

Also cylinder seal

have you ever heard of hunter the vigil?

I haven’t before but it looks like a really cool system! Honestly my experience with TRPGs is quite limited to DnD 5e and a single session of Call of Cthulhu I played years ago. It is always fun to see the how different settings do things though :)

Princess Kalista of Camavor, Spear of the Argent Throne

She deserved so much better than her fate.

I could not ask you where you came from I could not ask you, neither could you

Honey just put your sweet lips on my lips We could just kiss like real people do

-- “Like Real People Do” by Hozier

An experimental sketch I did a while back of Abigail Arcane and Swamp Thing/Alec Holland from DC Comics. Really niche but definitely one of my favorite comic book couples.

like a crow chasing the butterfly

Young Donna Beneviento sketch I threw together.