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Inktober 2019 Day 23-Ancient

This is the most detailed drawing I did for this inktober, I’m happy with how it came out. And ancient samurais were so cool and the history behind them is really fascinating  and inspiring.

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Inktober 2019 Day 24-Dizzy

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Inktober 2019 Day 25-Tasty

I mean, I love ice creams.

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Inktober 2019 Day 26-Dark

It is my honor to draw The Dark Knight, I like it that I made him a bit goofy haha! I also watched in cinema two weeks ago the Joker, it is probably my favorite movie from this year, even if it made me really uncomfortable, emotional, scared and I felt a lot like crying after it. It was more heavy than I thought it would be...I would like to make a detailed review about it, cause I really have a lot to say but this place is not for that and I’m just gonna recommend this movie for people which can handle topics about mental health, depression, violence, suicidal thoughts, discrimination etc, it is not for everyone and I even think cause of the effect it had in me for a few days maybe I shouldn’t have watched it either.

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Inktober 2019 Day 27-Coat

Cruella Deville, I always loved the artstyle of 101 dalmatians movie!

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Inktober 2019 Day 28-Ride

I finished watching aggresive retsuko both seasons and it is such a lovely anime with quite some relatable topics and I really liked the main character Retsuko, it kind of reminded me of myself haha! I started to watch anime again, I stopped watching around 2017 and I missed it. I started to experience some old interests again and I have been feeling nostalgic and happy.

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Inktober 2019 Day 29-Injured

After I finished the drawing with Goofy, I wanted to draw the famous Donald Duck. Inktober is coming to an end soon, I have gotten more used and comfortable to drawing with ink through this whole month. It has been quite fun to draw some of my favorite characters and just random stuff.

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Inktober 2019 Day 30-Catch

Tom and Jerry is my favorite cartoon tv show I watched when I was a kid. I rewatched the episodes so many times that later on I would remember some of the lines and act with my brother some funny scenes. I liked the episodes where Tom would be the innocent one from the duo and you would see Tom in a different perspective which of course it learns you as a kid that everyone is more complex than they seem and nothing is black and white. Getting serious about a tv show like Tom and Jerry haha, that’s me haha!

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Inktober 2019 Day 31-Ripe

And with this banana, Inktober is over for this year! Yeah! It was really fun and I think I improved a bit with drawing my lines better and getting comfortable with ink. I like how I didn’t even think before inktober that I will draw for it, cause I expected to be really busy around that time with college, but immediately when I had some free time, I was like why not give it a try and see how many days I can do. Unfortunately, now I’m not gonna draw and post for awhile, cause of college and I think I need a little break. I want to post in the future more digital drawings, I have in mind to work in a little comic for a fandom I’m into and that I really love the characters. Also in the future, I’m considering on doing more drawings of anime characters that I watch since I got back into anime lately, just try and draw as much as I can to improve and maybe someday find my own artstyle. Thank you for following me through this journey, it was lovely to have your company and support! Also happy halloween everyone!

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Asra Alnazar from The arcana game! I’m back, back with a new obsession which is the arcana game, I fell in love with the story and the characters, so I’m gonna try to draw the other characters with time. I have been taking drawing a bit more seriously lately, by practicing more and watching different tutorials about it in general and I have been starting to understand more some mistakes I used to do, still there’s quite much more I need to improve. Gonna try and make a better schedule on posting art, while also handling college stuff and maybe I will be able to buy a tablet to draw, cause drawing with a mouse is so time consuming. Anyways, I’m glad to be back with drawing, I missed it! 
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I’m not proud of this drawing, cause I made so MANY mistakes. I have never drawn buff dudes before so I guess my mistakes make sense when you take that in consideration. Either way I love this boy and his route is exciting, can’t wait to see how the endings will be like. I noticed when I replayed his route two weeks ago that there are certain scenes that feels like implying our mc becoming the bad guy, like the recent book, where we become Lucio and we do like the power that we get from that position. There are also some other scenes but I have forgotten them. I wonder if this will have to do something with his reversed ending... Do you have any theories about his endings? Or Portia and Lucio? I would be curious to hear about them haha!

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P.S. As a reference I used a scene from the beauty and the beast, his personality is actually really similar to the beast’s one haha!!

Hey everyone! Are you doing well? I hope so! Anyways I made my own oc for the arcana game!! After seeing everyone in the fandom with their own ocs I wanted to try it out as well.

Her name is Luna Arceneaux (It is okay if you can’t pronounce her last name, it isn’t that easy to pronounce it). Her love interest is right by her side. I will post during this month a more detailed post about her and her personality. That post will also include her “sprite” and her outfits during the game (her Masquerade outfit will not be included though). She’s the first oc I have ever created, so I’m a bit nervous about how you guys will think about her, and with the things I will uncover about her with time. Still I can understand now why it is so fun to have your own characters and draw them in your own way.

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Julian and Luna as a sea life of the star’s realm charm

I’m always late with these stuff that everyone else is doing as well, but I had lots of fun nevertheless.

I’m not good with names so I didn’t give names to those very precious seals. I hope you guys like it. I’m gonna be doing next some mermay stuff that I had in plan to do for quite awhile. I’m excited to see how that will turn out.

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My final piece for mermay 2020!!

My original idea for this mermay was to make a comic, a short comic story where my mc would have been the pirate captain and Julian as a merman. But then I gave up that idea, cause I don’t think I have enough skills yet to pull off a decent comic. And the story kept growing a bit too much in my mind so I decided to give up this time. Maybe someday I will improve enough and feel more confident on my skills.

I might draw some of the other arcana characters since I’m done with the mermay stuff and I really wanna draw nadia, lucio and even asra again since I cringe a bit whenever I see the first drawing I posted here, I was experimenting too much on that drawing and it became quite a mess haha!!

P.S. I got it done right on the last day of the month as I expected hahaha!!

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Lucio and Melchior, dancing together!

Drawing while you are on exams period is quite hard. But drawing is one of the only things that relaxes me during stressful times so it was enjoyable besides everything. I love how Lucio turned out on this drawing, he looks cute and happy, which makes me happy as well haha!! And I really wanted to draw him on his Masquerade outfit since I love how he looks in it. I have so many things I wanna draw, hopefully they won’t take to much time.

Also I’m really excited for Lucio’s next update cause I wonder how Lucio is gonna act, will he go back on his old ways of handling his own problems?

Either way, I hope you guys like this duo, like me!!

Hey everyone! 😊

I decided to do the #patronmc challenge thing from @bastart13 !!

It was a lovely challenge and I’m glad I was able to draw her as a version of death arcana, cause we never see how death looks like so it was cool to come up with my own design based on the tarot arcana.

I’m working with some charms for now so I believe I will see you guys soon again! 😊

Luna’s summer charm💙

I’m late, I had in plan to finish this drawing last week, but my mental health hasn’t been well recently. The reasons are just irl stuff that will pass and get better, but I really hate whenever I feel like this, cause I become very negative, even for the stuff or people I really like. And I tend to doubt myself more whenever I’m feeling like this. But I know that I can move on from this and feel better again, I just need time and keep myself active, even if I don’t feel too much in the mood to do stuff.

Subtitle: Everything I’ve learned so far.

*more added on bottom of list*

made for a friend but I figure I’ll post it if it’ll help anyone ^-^

Probably will add to this every now and then if anything new comes up.

All links marked as “❤”

Most link to written tutorials but some are videos. Scroll over links to see if it’s a video in case there’s a reason why you can’t watch them.

Also posted on Deviantart 

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❧ Super helpful tutorials made by other people:

The shrimp method (How to draw anything) ❤ 

Colour turtle ❤ 

Background composition ❤ 

Colour theory ❤ 

Perspective trix for the needy & lazy ❤ 

Step by step digital painting ❤ 

Action line ❤ 

Perspective tutorial ❤ 

All of these video tutorials ❤ 

All of these resources ❤ 

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❧ Human anatomy basics:

Hair ❤ 

Hair types ❤ 

Head ❤ 

Face ❤ 

Eye and eyebrow ❤ 

Ear ❤ 

Nose ❤ 

Mouth ❤ 

Chin ❤ 

Neck ❤ 

Shoulder ❤ 

Forearm ❤ 

Arm ❤ 

Hand ❤ 

Finger ❤ 

Back ❤ 

Breasts ❤ 

Chest ❤ 

Hips ❤ 

Butt ❤ 

Vagina ❤ 

Penis ❤ 

Legs ❤ 

Knees ❤ 

Feet ❤ 

Skeleton ❤ 

Body type ❤ 

Weight gain + loss ❤ 

Age ❤ 

Skin ❤ 

Average female face ❤ 

Average male face ❤ 

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❧ Quotes:

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The greater danger for most of us lies not in setting our aim too high and falling short; but in setting our aim too low, and achieving our mark. -Michelangelo

“If you don’t know what colour to use, use black” -Pablo Picasso

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“The aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of things, but their inward significance.” -Aristotle

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“The purpose of art is washing the dust of daily life off our souls.” -Pablo Picasso

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“Go and make interesting mistakes, make amazing mistakes, make glorious and fantastic mistakes. Break rules. Leave the world more interesting for your being here. Make. Good. Art.”  -Neil Gaiman

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“No one’s better than me. I’m not better than anyone. ” -Carlos Santana

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“Learn the rules like a pro, so you can break them like an artist.” -Pablo Picasso

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“If you hear a voice within you say ‘you cannot paint,’ then by all means paint, and that voice will be silenced.” -Vincent Van Gogh

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❧ Advice:

Loose grip = better for your hand & better precision while drawing.

If your hand hurts after a short amount of time drawing your grip is too tight.

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Colour is a very personal thing. It has a lot to do with the way you see colours and the way you feel about those colours. So as much as things like colour theory are important, you’re the one choosing the colours,  you’re in control.

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People who say things like “a poor workman blames his tools” really need to stop. Your tools make a big difference, there is no denying that. Anyone who’s ever tried Roseart crayons knows using them it’s like hammering in a nail with your bare hands, there are easier ways of doing things.

Of course this doesn’t mean you’ll draw better with more expensive tools but it does mean that if you don’t like using a particular pen/brush/software/etc there’s no use continuing to use it. It’s distracting, makes you feel worse about your art and you’ll be more likely to just not draw anything at all.

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Experiment that’s all. Just keep experimenting with things until you find out what you like. (guess that can also be life advice)

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You can always improve. This doesn’t mean you’ll never be good, it only means you can get better even if you’re an expert.

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Okay let me use this quote as a start off point “The enemy of art is the absence of limitations.” -Orson Welles. This might sound counter-intuitive but it’s very true. Your brain can only handle a few things at once, if you’re told to draw anything you want you’ll most likely draw something like a cat or dog or a house, things that are very normal to you, things that you’ve probably drawn a hundred times before because when you’re faced with too many options you’ll most likely pick the simplest and most familiar things to you.

Give yourself limitations when you’re drawing. Before you draw start with a theme or palette (etc) to let your mind relax and boost your creativity. (of course you don’t have to do this every time you draw, just when you want to draw but have no ideas.)

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Write down/sketch your ideas as soon as you get them because chances are you won’t remember them. Not that you can’t change your mind about it later, it’s just good to know they’re there and you haven’t forgotten anything.

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If you feel like there’s something not quite right about your drawing, take a break. Come back to it the next day even. If you focus on something too long it messes with your judgement.

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You don’t have to show anyone what you’ve drawn. It’s your business what you draw so draw anything you want. 

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Chances are you’ll come across people who have no idea about anything to do with art but still tell you how to do it/ what you’re doing wrong. These people aren’t worth listening too. Ignore their advice.

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There’s no problem with learning from tutorials, absolutely none. It’s just one of the ways people learn. It’s the same with art classes or anything similar. If you learn from it then keep doing it, but if you’re not then don’t.

The best tip I can offer about tutorials is if you don’t like the art style of the person who made the tutorial there’s no reason to learn their techniques. Study artists who have art styles you like and figure out what it is you like about them. (their use of colours, emotion conveyed, etc)

And honestly if you’re a good artist and you’ve never used tutorials or been to art classes, good for you, but it’s nothing to be smug about and no one is a lesser artist for using them. 

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❧ Referencing:

I made a mini tutorial on how to reference here ❤ 

Here’s one on how to use them another way ❤ 

Also see ‘Tracing vs referencing' ❤ 

also these are a couple great sites for references

Humans ❤ 

Animals ❤ 

Plants ❤ 

Objects + architecture ❤ 

Everything all together ❤  

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❧ Things that are really good to focus on and practice in your drawing:

-Light & shade ❤ 

-Wind ❤ 

-Reflection ❤ 

-Perspective ❤ 

-Movement ❤ 

-Composition ❤ 

-Emotion ❤ 

-Mood ❤

-Values ❤ 

-Texture ❤  

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❧ Warm ups and practice

If you don’t know about gesture drawing here’s a tutorial ❤ 

If you do, this site is good for it ❤  

Draw shapes, draw lines, draw random squiggles, whatever helps you warm up.

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❧ Possible reasons for artblock and remedies: 

-Stress. Sometimes there are certain times when stress is for whatever reason unavoidable. It’s a difficult thing to deal with and there can be a lot of different reasons why you’re stressed. Take breaks, try yoga or something that’s more of a workout like boxing if it helps, meditation, anything that helps you feel better is a good start. Try writing down everything that’s making you stressed so you can get more of a perspective on why you’re stressed and deal with the smaller problems first. Things like cleaning your room/house or fixing something that’s been bothering you can help a lot. There’s also this helpful list if you wants some more ideas ❤ 

-Depression. *groans* don’t get me started. Depression is a big deal and I have no idea what the best way to help it is. Maybe time. Maybe feeling useful. Maybe leaving your current life situation. Depression makes the simplest things difficult so the main thing to remember is to put your health before your art. Art will wait for you and be there when you’re ready, it always does.

There’s also this masterpost on depression if you’d like to have a look ❤ 

-Feeling inadequate. This might sound like a strange thing to say… It’s kind of a good thing. You are wanting to improve and that’s great. It’s safe to say everyone experiences this multiple times in their life at some point but what you need to keep reminding yourself is, if you know you love doing something then you’re on the right track so stick to it. 

-Feeling Un-motivated. Make an inspiration folder and go on a picture finding search to fill it with anything that makes you want to draw. Learning something new always helps for this as well so read/watch tutorials or someone drawing/painting. 

-Not having ideas. Surprisingly easy fix most of the time. Use a random generator like this ❤ or start some kind of art challenge to get you started.

-Boredom. (or being bored with the way you draw) Try using a different medium like sculpting or pixel art, anything you don’t normally do. Surprisingly changing your image can help as well so getting a new hairstyle/colour, anything like that can work.

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❧ Selling art:

Don’t under charge for your work. It doesn’t matter how much you love to draw, you shouldn’t have to under charge for your work. You’re not only charging for the piece its self but for your skills as an artist and for the time and effort you put into it. 

“So how much do i charge?” This question is one of the more difficult ones to answer. It can depend on the demand and the time it takes for you to make, etc. So this is just a basic list of things to ask yourself before you decide how much you should be charging.

-‘How much time do I spend making it?’

-‘How much am I willing to work for?’

-‘How much do other artists charge?’ (not always relevant but something to consider)

-‘What kind of customers will i get?‘ 

-'What is the customer going to use my art for?’ (if it’s for a personal thing it’s no problem but if it’s commercial and they’re going to use it on multiple occasions profiting from it, either charge more or work something out where they have to pay you each time it’s used)

Don’t worry if you realise you’ve been undercharging for your work because it’s part of the process of finding out what’s right for you.

If someone challenges you on your prices or says you’re charging too much remember this

“If you like what I do, this is what I charge. If you don’t want to pay it, you don’t have to buy it.”

Visual examples work better than descriptions. Show what you’re willing to draw and what kinds of commissions you offer with the prices listed. It can be laid out however you like. Here’s an example ❤ 

Additional payments. Something to consider is are you going to charge more per added character or for a detailed background anything else that requires more work than your set price.

Make a check-list for commissioners to fill out. Not always necessary but can be a good thing to have. Things like “character:  background:  outfit:  ” anything that you would usually ask them.

Some people might ask you to copy or trace something. I have absolutely no idea why people want something that’s traced but don’t do it. I promise you won’t like working with the client and you won’t be proud of your work at all.

Explain when you expect to receive payment. Either before you start, after you show them sketches or when the whole project is completed. In this case just do whatever feels right to you. But keep tabs on who hasn’t played because there are some people that think they can get away with not paying. (just something to be aware of)

There will be people who try to get things for free. Ignore people who say things like “I wish could have something like this but i don’t have money :( ” please, please, please don’t respond to these people with anything other than something along the lines of “Thank you, maybe next time :)” because the only reason they’re saying that is because they want it cheep or free. These people aren’t your customers, don’t worry about supplying to them.

Also along those lines, if someone asks you to do work for them for free and “maybe they’ll hire/pay you” if they like your work is bullshit. They’re conning you. What they do once they get your designs is tell you they’ve decided not to hire/pay you when they’ve actually stolen your design and get their designers to finish/alter it. DON’T TRUST THESE PEOPLE.

Have a paypal or something similar set up. This is completely necessary unless you’re working with someone face to face.

You can decide whether or not to work with someone. If whoever is commissioning you is making you feel uncomfortable or asking too much or is trying to make you do anything you don’t want to, you don’t have to work with them. It’s entirely your choice. 

Little bit more commission advice by someone else ❤

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❧ More stuff added by others: added by fruitncreme - What is talent? ❤ 

- Anatomy, Manga to realistic and perspective ❤ 

- Poses ❤ 

- Anatomy and proportions ❤ 

- Folds and wrinkles ❤ 

- Tips and tricks ❤ 

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❀ Hope this helped ❀

Feel free to add to this list if you have any other advice or tutorials you think would be helpful

I’M BACK!! 🥳🥳🥳

Haha sorry for being gone for such a long time and not announcing it. I really needed a break during last month, I feel much more better now and motivated to work even more.

I decided to join #tamashiarts2k dtiys challenge from @tamashi_arts , since she’s such a lovely and kind person, also I love Alma so much!! I usually don’t draw angst but after seeing other artists draw Alma in angsty scenarios, I couldn’t help myself haha! Thank you for being part of this community Luna, I hope you feel welcome here and find the company you deserve to be surrounded with! 😊

So Alma is fighting with the devil in this drawing (or at least trying to), you can take it as she’s fighting him in a dream or make her more of badass and she’s actually fighting him irl.

I hope you guys like the drawing, since I haven’t posted anything in awhile I was a bit nervous, but I believe that you guys will treat me well cause there are many sweet and kind people in this community that I’m proud to be part of. I can’t wait to keep drawing more things in the future. See ya! 😉👉👉

My first piece for 2021 and it is Luna and Julian for winter ball!!

So about this drawing, this is for me the best Julian I have drawn so far, he’s just so adorable haha!! I hope that in the future these two interacting with one another even more!! 💕❄️💕❄️💕❄️