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susanne draws

@susannedraws / susannedraws.tumblr.com

Illustrator living in Hamburg portfolio side blog twitter instagram youtube shop
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helloo everyone, as you maybe noticed I stopped posting on this account, I really enjoyed tumblr but when I started my full time job it became too overwhelming and time consuming to try to stay on top of three social media platforms, and it felt a bit redundant to post the same thing on three pages.

If you want to keep seeing my art, you can find me on twitter and instagram! 👋🏼

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i am absolutely in love with your art, specially your star wars fanart. I wish i could draw and color like you. Besides practice, what advice could you give me to make cute art such as yours? Like what should i look for reference or something.. really anything helps.

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thank youu so much! ♡ hmm ... I don’t know if I have any other tips. Just practicing drawing from life helps a lot, like going to life drawing classes and drawing people you see around you. And looking at lots of art online, in museums, in books ... I’m influenced by so many artists that I look up to, they shaped my sense of style and my aesthetic a lot. I can’t really pinpoint ways to help you draw just like me because I dont know how it exactly happened either, it wasnt like I set out with the purpose to draw just like this. It just happened naturally over time :) Your own art style will develop as you grow and as you discover what you enjoy making

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Anonymous asked:

Wow I am in complete awe of your most recent star wars drawings... can you kinda talk about your process? The colors and softness are so beautiful

thank you so much! ♡ first I look up lots of reference pictures so I’ll get their features and clothing right, and then I just start doodling different poses that come to my mind. I wanted to draw finnrey hugging and then I just kept doodling the other guys.

In the end I decided to put all four of them together in sort of a group photo (in the picture below Rose was still by herself). I refined the line art and started coloring them. Once I’ve blocked in the colors I always set the line art to multiply and color it, it makes everything look warmer and more lively

I use this pencil for lines, Kyle T. Websters Oil canvas 4 for filling in big areas and Gouache a gogo for details, and Shiyoon Kim’s ink bristle for blush and texture. At the end I just play around with the color and hue settings, maybe add a texture overlay. I hope this explained it a little :)

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Hello! Your drawings of Finn are so cute, but please consider the way you've lightened his skin. John Boyega has a rich, dark brown skin tone. Light-washing & colorism is a huge problem in fan art (and official photos & magazines) where dark skin is dramatically lightened by the artist because they don't think dark skin "fits" their aesthetic: don't see it as beautiful, pretty, innocent- In your group pic, you use a med-dark brown... on Finn's shirt! But his skin looks very light & blushy

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Hello! I’m so sorry, I didn’t intend that at all. I think I added too many brightening effects and filters that overly lightened his skin tone. I opened the Photoshop file again and compared what it looked like without the effects I added at the end and I see now that it affected his skin tone too much.

I only meant to make the overall mood of the drawing more pastel-y, not edit his skin tone. I should have taken more care. I’m sorry, I’ll do better next time

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Anonymous asked:

can we use your art as icons?

as long as you gave credit it‘s okay with me! :)

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Anonymous asked:

thank u for making such sweet and soft art of finnrey, truly the superior in the sequel trilogy 🥺💞

my pleasure ♡ thank youu!

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