What Art Tips Would You Recommend?

What art tips would you recommend?

1) EXERCISE. stretch ur wrists, buy tiny weights to build strength in them, go on walks so ur legs don’t die from sitting all the time idk if ur only like 14 or something, start doing it nowwww

2) raise ur pen/brush sensitivities so u don’t have to press as hard on ur screens and lower ur stabilization if u hate lineart

3) It Is Always Okay To Pirate PDF Art Resources.

4) learn to love the process bc there will be often times where the end result drawing is not what u like and if ur only drawing for that end result you’ll go crazy. find a pen that Feels Good to use and makes u happy or something like that

5) don’t post on tiktok/reels if ur a beginner artist. they r mean over there in ways that is abnormal

6) tone curve + posterization can make ur colors real funky fun

7) don’t worry abt style consistency, that’ll develop naturally overtime

8) never pay for adobe. you’ll find a way

TEXTURE CITY CRUNCHY FOREVER

the ladies love me for my brief and bizarre bouts of fanart

i THINK i never talked abt her lore here but yam (she/they/it) was a final project for a retiring scientist who spent like. a decade building the most sentient robot she could

once yam was fully built, the scientist left her with one sole objective to “live a happy life”. she left yam with a small home and then disappeared to retire out of the country with her family for the rest of her life

when yam is scheduled to power on, she doesn’t know who made her, where she is, or what to do - save for that instruction to live a happy life. so! she takes it very literally! and begins with researching basic emotions and through shitty articles learns about teenagers being Peak Emotional Humans

she enrolls herself into a local high school shortly afterwards to learn more about how to feel and two very extroverted girls (taro and ube) take her under their wing and both fall in love with her in a fun high school girl crush way while she tries to hide a deep existential crisis of becoming human!!

girl who’s a girl but also not a girl [ her name is yam!!!! ]

these r layer adjustments (idk the proper term for them haha) that some digital programs have, i use em specifically in clip studio paint ^_^

here’s examples using my hobie drawin

first images: with/without all layers (vivid light, posterization, tone curve)

second images: with/without posterization alone

What art tips would you recommend?

1) EXERCISE. stretch ur wrists, buy tiny weights to build strength in them, go on walks so ur legs don’t die from sitting all the time idk if ur only like 14 or something, start doing it nowwww

2) raise ur pen/brush sensitivities so u don’t have to press as hard on ur screens and lower ur stabilization if u hate lineart

3) It Is Always Okay To Pirate PDF Art Resources.

4) learn to love the process bc there will be often times where the end result drawing is not what u like and if ur only drawing for that end result you’ll go crazy. find a pen that Feels Good to use and makes u happy or something like that

5) don’t post on tiktok/reels if ur a beginner artist. they r mean over there in ways that is abnormal

6) tone curve + posterization can make ur colors real funky fun

7) don’t worry abt style consistency, that’ll develop naturally overtime

8) never pay for adobe. you’ll find a way

(they/she) marlow marlow marlow