Also, if I am asking for help finding something, you cannot BELIEVE how annoying it is to have people just like the post and move on. It's like trying to ask for directions, and while most of the people on the street ignore you, one person walks up, gives you a big thumbs up, then just keeps walking

I used to be able to just think of poses to draw people in. Now I go from looking at the references I have, to messing with my plastic models, to searching for more references, to being too irritated to actually draw jack shit. And all the tips are useless bullshit like "trust your gut"

Anyone know any free art reference sites that don't suck? All the free photo ref sites I can find are horrible quality or pathetically small, or they're a "free trial" that means after ten minutes they want your whole wallet

Hey you guys wanna see the Dick Planning Sheet I drew last month I planned out dick designs for my practice designs

Hey look at this weird dog I drew

Hey how do y'all think of good designs for profitable merch stuff? I don't have an existing folllwer base at all, and I can design characters and backstories but can't translate that to appealing merch of any kind

This little jerk trying to look sweet while tearing my couch apart 😤

Did some more drawings, one of Saint Dane in Book 10 young-and-regal form and an alternate in I Have An Unhealthy Obsession With This Character Vision The canon version of this man would hate me so much and it just makes him more fun to draw

Genuinely curious to know what exactly 40% of people THOUGHT Lays potato chips were made of. Like... they're potato chips. Plain ones have a picture of a potato on the bag... What did they think they were made of???

Absolutely dying knowing that the cast of one of my all-time favorite movies is gonna be at Twin Cities Con and I can't afford to go 😭😭😭😭

I think if a government shutdown stops funds to anything, it should mean all the politicians causing it should also not get paid until it's over. It's kinda bullshit that they stretch this shit out and the fallout is SNAP being paused.

Just ran into the guy who cleans the building, and apparently whatever jackwagon stole my food emptied out the box, filled it with trash, and left it on the stairs. He even suspected a specific room, so I don't think this is an isolated thing 😡

To whoever stole my Mom's Meals delivery today: There aren't words to describe how immensely pissed off I am right now There are some things I don't fuck around on, and food is a big one. You are on the absolute PEAK of my shit list

Finished the pinup drawing I was working on of my fursona. Changed the pose a little bc the lineart looked wierd, but I'm happy with it :)

Wanted to do something besides the style practice for a change in pace, and I remembered I have a big folder of pinup illustrations for pose reference, so I did a quick WIP of my fursona and his massive rack bc why not

Been working on drawing some characters I like that have different styles and shapes to em, to see if my design style plan is working. Since these are just face design work, I drew them all looking straight ahead bc I wanted something uniform. Also didn't do any work on clothes yet, that's later

Been making progress on practicing, I wanna upload the sections of progress together but I'm getting a style down that I kinda like

Carlisle turned 7 yesterday! He's officially becoming an old man ❤️

First practice on a finished image in a new style. I decided to start with my tapir fursona. Changed the ears to look more like tapir ears, and switched the braids to a ponytail bc I feel like that's more fitting bc irl I'm too lazy to braid it. But then I decided I wanted a glass eye bc why not

Weirdly enough, the Mii creator is good reference for practicing different character designs. If you try to search for "different styles of nose" or "varied face shapes" you usually get a lot of the same shape, but this particular creator has so much variety that it's great inspiration

I'm bad at practicing bc my brain kinda checks out when it comes to drawing a bunch of the same thing, so I'm starting by drawing some different potential styles for eyes, faces, noses, bodies, etc. So far I've done eyes and faces, working on noses rn

I'm doing some stuff to try and work on my art style some, there's a lot of details that I don't really like in my current style/output and I wanna be able to draw more

Finally finished the Noise I've been drawing in wplace! Started this the beginning of August but it was Worth It

Thinking about an idea I had years ago that was basically reading poems but putting all the words in alphabetical order first, still using the cadence of the original verses. I think it could be fun in a chaotic sort of way

they hate my tboy swagger (WIP)

Putting my game idea on hold until my art improves. The more I put together the more I think it looks like shit

Got as far as Dialogue images and got hit with the "Wow my art style sucks" wave. Followed by the "can't find any resources on improving style that go beyond Draw It 50000 Times And Magically Improve" wave, which hurts more after 15+ years and a Graphic Design degree. By that logic I should be great

Does anyone have any good references for things like "here's various ways that people draw eyes/mouths/hair/etc"? I can't find anything that isn't generic anime eyes or hyperrealistic paintings. Been thinking I need to improve my style so that it feels more coherent, but I can't find reference

Just had a moment of "wish people in this series spoke louder" only to get my wish granted monkey's paw style when the Constantly Shouting Agent shows up

Watching Twin Peaks while I draw and I got confused bc it took me several episodes to realize two characters weren't the same person

Oh noooo When I scaled up my sprites of Dorian to the right size, the lineart got all messed up. And I didn't notice until I'd closed Photoshop, so I couldn't undo it... Now I have to draw them again at the right size T-T This is why you make backups

Gonna try to get the intro to my game done today so I can start working on the less dialogue-intensive bits. Turns out that the only way to do dialogue in GDevelop is with a LOT of individual events based on an increasing variable and it takes forever

Not art related but I just snapped the Perfect image of my cat

Drew another character for Decorum! This one's Sana, she's another of my very old ocs that's gone through a lot of redesigns (and cringe middle school me may have made her a self-insert)

I finished the title page illustration for the game I'm working on. I suck at backgrounds so I'm proud of how it turned out. My mood hasn't been great lately but I'm trying to make progress

On a different note, I've been drawing a massive Noise in the ocean on wplace.live bc I have been Obsessed. Drawing 100 pixels at a time means this has been taking Forever

Huh. Today I learned BlueSky doesn't support custom gif uploads. Idk I just assumed it came with image upload features.

This might have fixed the gif upload issue in my last post, but also I can only upload them one at a time. Idk what went wrong with the gifs before

Wait why did my gifs not gif in that last post

I've been working on a game (not the one I was already posting about)! The plan right now is to have a playable version by the end of September It's about my OC Dorian and will hopefully be really cool

Oop forgot to post on here that I was taking a Social Media Detox month for all of August... uh. I'm back now

Working on trying to draw backgrounds for a game I wanna make. I hate backgrounds so much T-T

Redid the shading on the drawing of Siouxsie that I was unhappy with; I think this version turned out way more put together than my first attempt at shading it. I tried focusing the light source more and doing bigger shadows

I don't DO token gay characters I do token straight characters

Eh, idk how I feel about the shading on this. It looked good right up until I tried to add shading, then it got pretty meh. I also wanted to do some stuff with lineart colors, but her hair was giving me a lot of trouble bc the shading was weird.

Hey so for Disability Pride Month, shoutout to people struggling with executive dysfunction. It sucks that all the advice is "just do it" and treats being unable to even start something as a willful personal choice, especially in creative spaces.

My current WIP vs the last time I drew Siouxsie. I think there's some definite improvement happening, just gotta see if I can keep it in the lineart since I already feel like I'm losing some of the elasticity of the original sketch layer

Trying to get used to drawing looser outlines and also posting WIPs. Also trying to get into the habit of drawing poses other than T-poses. I'm drawing my goth blogger OC named Siouxsie

Reminder to anyone who sees this to check your app settings. Apparently during updates Android has started re-toggling "remove permissions for unused apps" without asking. You have to re-set the preference after every update now, or it'll silence your email after 30 days of using another device

"just keep practicing" Oh wow I hadn't thought of that. Thanks so much for the life-changing art advice, I thought I could just hack my way into the art program and it would make art. Are you going to suggest I use references next, because clearly I hadn't considered looking at things to draw them