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Kiwi's Sketch Blog

@kiwi-doodles / kiwi-doodles.tumblr.com

Greetings and welcome to my art blog. This is where I spew out my art. Either follow the tags or for my images. I also reblog helpful artstic tutorials. :) Feel free to donate to me! It'd be amazing to get some new things for my art talent, or just...
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Hey guys! Looking to do a couple commissions, and depending on if I like them or not they will either be half-body or headshot/portrait. These are my recent examples! If you are interested please email me HERE  If that doesn’t work send me a message through tumblr, or discord if you know it! 

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Anonymous asked:

I dont know if this has been asked for.... FIRST your art is so amazing. Second brushes/program you use? :o do you mind sharing your brushes?

vetheas answered:

Oaaaa thANK YOU LIL ANON 💕

► I use Clip Studio Paint !

(From 2012 to 2018 I used SAI and changed to Clip Studio a few months ago)

►Brushes

• Sketch brush •

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Barky04 is from this set of Clip Studio Brushes | by iridescentdelirium on DA

____(I don’t do lineart, I draw, then clean up, more or less. It basically imitates a pen on paper, I can go light for bases then draw over them, or press harder to directly draw.No idea if it’s important, but I always draw at 66% canvas view with brush size around 9)____ 

From the same brush set, I imported those brushes for freckles and those kind of splash effects (just drag brush into Clip)

Image

• To color, I use the basic Oil paint (brush on top of the sketch one)• If I use it, the blend and blur are the basic ones too with more or less density to my liking. • For Airbrush I use the soft one with 50% density• Eraser is the basic Snap Eraser

And that’s pretty much it!

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Anonymous asked:

Your prices are too high :/ Can get better for cheaper elsewhere.

vetheas answered:

Should had gotten a commission when I was underpricing myself even more then! Cause my coms are still way underpriced, but we’re all young & broke and I want my stuff accessible.

But hey, go to the even cheaper then, nothing stops you? If you aren’t interested, tons of others are.

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kiwi-doodles

This anon is yikes.

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Holiday Commissions!

Did you like these sketches??

Would you like them better if they were your characters?

I desperately want to draw outfits for your character!  Pick a pose, throw together some style references and rustle up $30 dollars!  Poses are not limited to one customer - meaning that anyone can pick any pose, none of them are meant to be “claimed”.  

Some very minor tweaks to posing and body shape can be negotiated!

  • $30.00USD per sketch - $3.00 off for Winter Veil themed outfits!
  • Pieces will be cleaned sketches with a splash or two of whatever color you like.
  • Poses 5 and 2 can come with a small trinket of your choice!
  • I cannot refund once the process has begun.
  • Characters must be humanoid, any gender, and dressed in cloth as opposed to armor.

Send me a tumblr message, or inbox if you’re interested!  

I will be reblogging this throughout the holiday!

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Hey guys! Looking to do a couple commissions, and depending on if I like them or not they will either be half-body or headshot/portrait. These are my recent examples! If you are interested please email me HERE  If that doesn’t work send me a message through tumblr, or discord if you know it! 

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Becoming a “good” Artist.

I can’t speak for other artists, but I can speak from personal experience and observation. I’ve known many artists of many different walks of life with varying genres and styles and here is my summation.

People don’t want to believe the truth about becoming a “”“good artist”“”. The truth is hard to swallow. You will need to sacrifice everything for it. Being an idealist myself, I never wanted to assume, on other’s behalf, that they might need to give up their security just to pursue it. It sounds difficult to believe. It seems farfetched. But you will have to.

I run into many young artists who run the broken record of “I spend SO MUCH TIME drawing! Why am I not good yet! Why can’t I make a living off of it?” I will tell you why you aren’t where you want to be.

You are not spending nearly as much time on it as you think you are.

I get it. Culture today is one of insta-gratification. Attention spans are at an all time low. That is why you will really need to devote yourself to the cause.

The phrase ‘only a real artist’ prefixes a lot of critique– but here’s my belief. Only a real artist knows what it’s like to TRULY SUFFER for their art.

If you’ve ever suffered for your art, you appreciate it. And I mean appreciate in both definitions. Maybe you’ve lost sleep or food and therefore your health. Or maybe you took a leap and quit your day job and had to face some hard times. Maybe you have cried yourself to sleep from exhaustion because you just couldn’t manage what you saw in your head. This is what I have personally gone through.

Art is a full time commitment if you make that decision to become “”“good.”“” And it will not stop.

It will not get easier. Every threshold you meet, no matter how “good” you become, you’ll want to be better. You will have to WANT to, or you will not improve. And will be unmarketable for yourself if you intend to make it your job.

There is NO substitution for hard work. Drawing or painting is like every other skill. Every other job. Do not make the foolish decision to quit your job to try and live the “dream” of being a full-time artist because it seems so fun, easy and romantic. Because you’re tired of your 9-5 or because you hate your boss. Don’t.

And if you want to become “good” and also make it your full-time job, it will be even harder than that.

You need self management, business sense, creativity, a rock solid sense of self-worth, discipline and the skills to form a brand or you will not succeed.

However, if it is something you must do, you will suffer for it. But, like anything, if you put in the time. REALLY. Put in the time and develop your skills, it is as rewarding as being proficient in any other skill.

Don’t make the mistake of placing art in it’s own special category of proficiency just because it’s the thing you want to do. It’s a technical skill like every other thing.

Just my advice. You’ll know what to do with it. 

“Success is walking from failure to failure with no loss of enthusiasm.” – Winston Churchill

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