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“Sometimes, what hurts, that heals. What hurts, that comforts. Sometimes the source of pain is the most effective remedy too, if handled correctly.” 🥹😭 why am I crying , you write so beautifully 🥺🫶🏽👏🏽👏🏽
AH I FORGOT I WROTE THIS LOL but wow, that is so true. Sometimes what or who hurts you is something or someone you love the most…so they'll be the ones to heal you, too, truly. thank you, you've been nothing but sweet and your messages encouraged me a lot!!🥺
Hello!
I recently discovered your Tumblr and I really love your illustrations
Would you mind if I ask a few questions about your art?
How long have you been doing art?
Where do you draw inspiration?
Are you self taught or formally educated?
How do you determine your commission prices and where do you find people most likely to commission you? (Twitter, Tumblr, FA, etc.)
Any tips for artists who want to get better at making visually interesting (colour/composition-wise) art?
That's a lot of questions so feel free to not answer any/all of these, I'm just curious but I'll live lol. Either way ty for taking the time to read this and thank you for sharing your art!
Hi! Don't mind answering a couple)
I've been drawing on and off for 15 years, seriously for about 7.
My inspiration is all over the place, but recently I've been taking a lot from 16-18 century anatomical illustrations, avant garde, modernism and brutalist movements both in art and architecture, Vrubel and Larionov.
I have a masters in architecture and spent a lot of time doing academic art and studying history of art/architecture/sculpture. This definitely helped a lot to get a proper confident base to my art.
I started off on DA with 15 usd portraits and adopts and slowly raised prices when I either felt that I've improved decently in quality or can't keep up with the amount of interest. Until 2 years ago I got most of my orders there, now it's majorly Twitter.
as for getting started, I would advise to do some studies of artworks you enjoy and doing loose full color sketches with a limited palette, slowly introducing more color. Color theory should be your big friend)
my attack on the amazing @venomous-qwille ! I absolutely adore their characters (their designs are simply perfect?) I just want to look at them for ever. these guys are some of my favs so I drew them together but below are some close ups.
ngl I only figured out how to do gradients on procreate halfway through fool so misuta got the short end of the stick, sunspot kind of got sad-beigeified, and the proportions are way off :( I still love them though. their designs are a labor of love to draw but they’re totally worth it 🥰
my artfight is @/epistemologiclly but this attack might not show up for a hot second cause i’ve been fist fighting with it to let me post it but i’m losing 😒