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Bad day to draw

@baddaytodraw / baddaytodraw.tumblr.com

Today I broke my pencil and photoshop won't open for no reason. It's a bad day to draw, so I'll start a tumblr with reblogs that may inspire me.
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mattjabbar

“Tokyo at Night” is DONE!

A series of ten watercolor illustrations portraying night Tokyo streets that I started painting in 2017. Painting in between other projects and commissions it took me more than a year to finish this project.

Instead of going for the obvious - cool looking, new built high rise offices I wanted to depict the night scenes of Tokyo that are not so widely seen - back streets, empty alleys, tall buildings and empty parking lots. Mostly brightly lit (even the sky is never just black) with no people, those places have a weird eerie atmosphere that I wanted to recreate.

We walk a lot with Kana - especially in the late evenings when it’s cooler and we finished the day’s work. I took a lot of reference photos of interesting night scenes when we were still living in Tokyo’s Waseda and used them to make this series of paintings.

This series follows a path from Kudanshita to Waseda through Kagurazaka.

And here are all the spots on a Google Map if you want to go and explore by yourself: https://drive.google.com/open?id=1WLufcU6-TNeHqBwDDC9_m1npAIMkdlGi&usp=sharing

This series is accompanied by making-of videos available on my YouTube channel (HERE) showing the painting process and the tools I used.

Technical details: * Paper: HOLBEIN Waterford natural 300g/m cotton paper * Sketch: Mitsu-bishi Hi-Uni pencil grade HB * Line: COPIC Multiliner SP 0.5mm * Colors: my main Schmincke set (see the tools section)

Additionally, I used the airbrush in some of the later pieces to get some additional depth and shadows. I’m showing more about this technique in the making-of videos.

All the illustrations from this series are available as prints on my Society6 store in multiple sizes and with some additional options (frames, printing on canvas etc.).

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rambamboo

‪inktober 4

related to inktober 3, Cassini was the spacecraft sent to observe Saturn and its moons Enceladus and Titan.‬

‪last year when the mission ended Cassini was purposely directed to fly into Saturn to burn up so it wouldn’t become debris/pollute space. now part of Earth is on Saturn!‬

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baqki

OK to make a font out of your own writing

go here

instead of printing it off just use this blank thing that way you dont have to scan it or anything

so fill that out by pasting it in any art program and whatnot

then save it and upload it to that site

and itll give you an option to download it

so do that and then install it BAM

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kittenmogu

I JUST GOT THIS ON MY TABLET IT’S SO COOL OH MY GOD

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nakadoo
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zeekist

for some reason it refused to recognize the third page of my letters but they were all pretty unnecessary mathematic things anyway so I’m not too worried. still something to keep in mind though, I hope it doesn’t happen for you!

paintfont.com would be a good place to go to quickly make a custom font for your comic!

ehh

It looks just as horrible in real life..even worse with the letter attached…

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trveroman

I’ll try this later.

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roachpatrol

you can also use alternative alphabets

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cobalt-draws

Welp. Guess I know what font I’m gonna be using for comics from now on. B)

Welp. Looks like I have to do this now. So I can use this for Tengri’s asks.

For some reason there is no apostrophe in my set, but it still looks cool.

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changephase

NEAT THING ALERT

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kingloptr

The site is now called https://www.calligraphr.com/en/ but it’s basically the same!

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