MERUZ

@meruz / meruz.tumblr.com

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hi there!! i really admire how lived-in your environment lineworks feel and that despite being just lines, they dont feel static at all.. how long does it take to line out a detailed background for you? I feel like i am so slow when it comes to it.. but maybe it just comes with practice?

DETAILED bg? oh my god it takes so long. this is actually a major pain point for me because i love drawing bgs and I really want to do a lot of bgs for personal art, it's pretty within my skill level etc. but i don't have a lot of free time and drawing takes. SO long. and I'm normally a fast artist.

I think a lot of people get around this by painting which has a little more flexibility with your detail drop off than line does..? but i love line... I would say a truly complex "establishing shot" bg where you rly get a sense of the construction of the space + a bunch of items/props/etc easily can take me 5-10 hours. especially for animation work when something has to be production ready i think 10-16 hrs is not unheard of. for my personal work... I can sometimes eke something similar but maybe less particular out in 2-5 hours. i recognize 2-16 is a crazy range of hours but yk art is kind of just like that... lots of variables

drawing is supposed to get faster the more you do it and i think theres a lot of stuff that used to take me way longer that i can now do in less time... but watch out because sometimes you get faster and that makes you want to draw more complex things that take longer. thats kinda my issue... you could be me so be careful what you wish for.

#i replied to this ask because it happened to show up while i was already on my dash#to the other asks in my inbox i have yet to answer.. sorry ill get to u eventually probably#ask#do u love how i offered no solutions and only more problems here
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some quick & only slightly old sniper wolf drawings. i feel like i dont see a lot of fanart of her in her 2nd boss fight outfit even though i feel like those scenes are more iconic? and i understand its because the first outfit has tits out but i think we are underestimating the appeal of woman in ski jacket. idk

#sniper wolf#mgs1#metal gear#meruzart
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Anonymous asked:

of course someone that likes june egbert and not john likes velma, congrats on the bad taste

i normally wouldnt answer an ask like this but saying "likes june egbert and not john" abt me is fully insane. like you do realize the john egbert art tag on this blog goes back 19 PAGES AND 13 YEARS RIGHT...in terms of sheer numbers hes by far the character ive drawn the most all time. a couple years ago i made a 10 year retrospective post abt all the john egbert ive drawn... i dont just like john i LOVE Him 😭

#i also designed an official john egbert shirt????#and made john egbert illustrations for both the official act 6 tarot project and the official homestuck zine#like i do kinda feel my contributions to the greater john egbert visual culture are. non negligible.#also i worked on velma s1 and that job allowed me to make a lot of positive life changes i think im allowed to like it lmao#ask
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Anonymous asked:

i hope this hasn't been asked before. what size do you make your canvas? and do you crop it to fit other socials (like Instagram for example)? i hear that 300 dpi is standard. i never know if it's good to make my canvas big or not.

hi i think this ask is like at least 4 months old but i was scanning my sketchbooks from last year and i abruptly remembered i had gotten this ask because i had made a little chart in my sketchbook trying to figure out how to answer it

#ask
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