A Comic To Try And Sort Through Some Difficult Feelings About Being An Artist And A Reminder To Not Forget

A comic to try and sort through some difficult feelings about being an artist and a reminder to not forget who you are.

how were you a freshman in high school in 2009 if you’re 20?? i’m five yours older than you and i was in middle school in 2009

Like many people on this website, I have not updated my bio in a quite a few years. I probably won’t be. I only recently started leaving comments on posts. This is my least active page on tumblr, but it’s my main blog. So when I leave comments, this is the account people see. but I really am too lazy to change my bio. I don’t think it’s relevant enough to update, it’s more of an artist resource page than a personal blog now.

Or if you’re an artist without a huge mob of fans that find copycats for you

This is for the... accountants out there or if you’re like me and people have stolen your photos before and sent several angry perverts to your personal accounts

heads up that clip studio is on sale again (link) until june 22 2021 which makes the basic version $25 USD. good program, one-time purchase, etc. etc. let a broke artist know

Hello! Hope youre having a great day! I absolutely love how you draw clothing and how varied the layers and folds are, where do you usually take refs from? I havent found any good resources to reference from sadly, was wondering if you good help. Cheers!

there are like... two basic things to always keep in mind. or at least i keep them in mind...

cheat trick: draw the seams! its basically contour for your clothes. it gives more structure and detail by default. you can do like a simple line, or do like a striped line. or you go the extra mile to do a pattern stich.

Triangles Rule! clothes have a this habit of falling in triangles. like there is a Fix-point that holds the cloth and then it spreads out, usual in a triangular structure. depending how tight it is pulled the triangles get tighter, or wider when the garment is just draped draping over the body. how much into detail you want to do depends on each artist.

fix-points wher most the fold and details happens is usualy where we have our joints. elbow, knees, armpit ect.

my references are more for inspiration as to what the characters are wearing rather then how to draw the fold. though... i struggle lots with hoods but in that case i just google "hoods" and tada! dozen and dozen of references. thick hoods slim hoods. pulled up pulled down.

about layering clothing... i do in fact just... layer them? like i have my thumbs of course where its all like mixed toghether in one. but if i feel like it i take the time to go through each layer and to figure out how the clothing interact. or like... i can like this see the clothes underneath more clearly in case i need them? ha i make my own dress up dolls somehow hahah hm...

which is fun to me. because lets say it it suddenly hot or getting cold the character has some variation? uhm... i have more doodeled out. this are just few i have finished and... urgh one day i will continue figuring these guys out... anyway this was a lot. uhm... thanks for reading this far? hope this helped

ive seen some posts lately about drawing diversity with actually diverse features, aka instead of just having a black character, drawing the character with nigerian features or instead of just drawing a vaguely indigenous character draw them with features from a specific tribe/area and in any case i figured you might want to check out this site because its a world map where you can click anywhere and it’ll show you different human phenotypes based on region and really goes into showing many types of people. like im making a chilean character so clicked on chile and it showed me this

which pops up this and this 

its just a pretty neat website to really become better at diversifying and strengthening your character designs