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Commission for @bethiebo, as a birthday present for Sketchy Sounds.

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This one was fun to work on, especially for the reaction it got when it was delivered. Very good times.

Please, let me know what you think of it in the comments. I appreciate every single one I receive.

You can check the Making Of post right here.

Thank you!

not gonna lie, i’d forgotten about this but i was so happy for the reminder :D

I’m happy to announce that I’ve opened commissions again! Message me if you’re interested in getting some artwork, and I’ll let you know how much it costs. (All socials at the bottom of the image) Though if you’re not in a position to get any artwork sharing always helps too :) <3 Availability depends on the time of year and the day job, but I will always do what I can to keep everyone in the loop

Know what I’m salty about?

In all my art classes, I was never taught HOW to use the various tools of art.

Like yes, form, and shape and space and color theory and figure drawing is important, but so is KNOWING what different tools do.

I’m 29 and I JUST learned this past month that India Ink is fucking waterproof when it dries. Why is this important? Because I can line something in India Ink and then go over it with watercolors. And that has CHANGED the ENTIRE way I art and the ease I can create with.

tldr: Art Teachers: teach your students what different tools do. PLEASE.

WAIT INDIA INK JS WATERPROOF ONCE IT DRIES????? THE ENTIRE REASON IVE AVOIDED MARKERS MY ENTIRE LIFE IS BECAUSE JNK BLEEDS AND YOURE TELLING ME INDIA INK IS

F U C K I N G W A T E R P R O O F

oh man your teachers did not do there jobs!

-Yo painters, use pencil if u must underdraw beneath an oil painting, the lead is archival but ideally you should be doing underdrawings in a muted earth tones (siennas, umbers, ochres or earth green) with some titanium white added to it. (The white nearly matches the canvas and earth tones naturally blend with all colors on top unless u do super thin glaze washes).

-Trying to make a natural looking warm black? Don’t use black straight from tube, Mix alizarin crimson and viridan. add raw umber to adjust for light depth.

-If your into mixed media ALWAYS use acrylic first and oil on top (the gesso on primed canvas is acrylic based and oil sits on top of it great). NEVER put acrylic paint on top of oil, the acrylic will crackle/decompose and fall apart/off the canvas.

-India ink is permanent and if your using ink from a jar it should say it’s permanence. professional art grade pens usually have there permanace listed either on the pen or the companies website.

-Red cinnabar is poisonous, DO NOT EAT IT, no matter how much like fruit loops it smells.

-Translucent and transparent are NOT the same. translucent is *shiny* and a cloudier color, ideal for mixing usually ordor making vibrant colors like for eyes, cars, etc. Transparent is matte and usually a 50% transparency from an opaque color.

-ALWAYS DO A TEST SWATCH OF ANY NEW MATERIAL.

-any paint made with “true alizarin crimson” “red lake” and “chrome yellow” pigment is a fugitive paint. Fugitive means the pigment fades dramatically and disappears over time, (usually 5 to 15 years) lots of van goghs paintings have this problem. be very careful with these pigments. Alizarin crimson especially smells extremely sweet and like fruit loops or fruit loops, don’t eat it.

-gauche is a mix of watercolor and ink, proceed with caution as this material can be an asshole.

-Watercolor can be made darker/thicker by letting it dry slightly in cake form or in liquid form and can be dry brushed if u get the timing down.

-Paint liquid rubber or lay down thin pieces of painters tape on edges in watercolor paintings to Prevent bleeding between lines if u need super sharp edges.

-always tape down the entire paper edges when u paint with watercolor to a board to prevent the paper from curling as it dries.

-add salt directly into wet watercolor paintings to absorb pigment and make shit look like space.

-Always paint in well ventilated areas and avoid getting lots of paint on your hands. lots of paint is made with heavy metals and can cause cancer.

-natural materials aren’t always safe, especially

-Ones u collect yourself, do your research before grinding, burning, sanding these things especially indoors.

-use NATURAL bristles on your brushes with oil paint and SYNTHETIC bristles on your brushes for acrylic and watercolor. synthetic bristles literally break off into oil paint and stick into your painting, and natural bristles can’t handle the weight of acrylic paint and rip into 15 directions. Use hard boar bristle for the underdrawing/underpainting of an oil painting as it will force the paint into the canvas pours more effectively cause it’s stronger, use softer bristles for outer layers of oil painting and blending, boar will pierce outer layers and is to hard for anything but the first layer. can’t tell what u have? clean it up and brush it on your face, softer it is the better it is as doing outer layers of color.

-if you have a decent painters’ tape, you can prewet your watercolor paper, tape it to a surface & weight it down with some books to press it flat while it’s wet and help keep it from buckling later once dry, this is especially useful because for some reason, watercolor block is half again as expensive or more than a comparable sized pad or large sheets to cut down, even by the same brand

-natural sable is good for watercolor if you can afford it, i have two smaller brushes i shelled out for to try it, and while i probably didn’t treat the finer point one right, the other one is a miracle i’ve had for nearly 20 years.

-chinese calligraphy brush sets are fantastic for large work and washes and way, way cheaper most times than standard brushes, and it doesn’t seem to matter how cheap they are, either. they may shed a little, but they do a really good job holding and distributing water.

Rb for any art students

Seriously though, this movie is absolutely insane.

Imagine the work behind getting four directors, gather different casts, weave all the stories together into a coherent narrative. And all the small roles given to such big names. You have Antonio Banderas, Bruce Willis, Lili Taylor, Valeria Golino, Quentin Tarantino, freaking Madonna! And their roles are but secondary for this film.

Tim Roth is stellar however, perhaps one of the best of what I’ve seen from him so far. I don’t think I can recommend this as a complete movie, however. I thought the second and fourth shorts were pretty good. The first one is pretty garbage, and the third one is so over the top it’s actually kind of a deal breaker for me.

So if you want you can check the segments individually and draw your own conclusions. It’s not a complete narrative, but its concept is solid enough to give it a “worth checking out” rating.

And now, if you excuse me, I need to get out of this outfit. I feel like I’ve been stuck in it for three years.

Featuring the work from: @bethiebo @Droakir @PuffySmosh and @Rolicious

With cameos from @zwitterkitsune and @SketchyBug

Just a little something I helped with. Puffy was originally the person helping with the artwork I just stepped in last minute to help with it.

If you like what you see you should consider following my new page over @bethsbeautifulcreations as that’s where I’ll be posting a lot more of my commission based work from now!

An artist : Aw man! I saw my arts were reposted on Instagram. I’ve asked them to take my arts down but they ignored me.

Me : Say no more! Click this link, then click ‘fill out this form’. Fill the form and wait for about 1-2 days, the staffs will remove the image you were reporting from the reposter’s account :^)

hope you don’t mind me adding some more info :’D

Many websites have those complaint forms you need to fill out to submit DMCA notice. Here are some of them:

Usually links to those forms can be found on website’s Terms of Service pages. (search for copyright or DMCA)

Any content you’ve created, is copyrighted by you. You have full right to ask staff to delete repost. Your works deserve to be protected. ♥

Yo. This better be my most reblogged post. I want to see all my artists friends reblogging this for their artists friends.

((Mod note: Weeeeee’re baaaaaack! Sorry for the long delay, real life kinda… happened. Main artist suddenly had work, which got REALLY BUSY! More on this in a bit!))

Well, that’s the Captain’s Computer all up-to-date! Hopefully I won’t get so many messages asking how to do the most basic of things… CC, you’re going to save me so much hassle!

((Mod notes: So! After a bit of a rather long delay, we’re back! As mentioned, the artist suddenly had a very busy job right around when our regular updates stopped coming. Real life has that annoying habit of just, well, happening sometimes :p

Still, life is considerably less busy, for now! Business in that regard will pick up again later, but for the next few months we have a bit more free time! That being the case, we will shortly be opening  for commissioned updates. Basically, we’ll be letting you guys pay to have Paper Clip come sort your problems - by which we mean, for a nominal fee, you can have us do a simple, one or two panel update, where we have Paper Clip come and attend to your computer woes. No job too great or too small! (No refunds if you get the harsh side of her tongue though, that’s part of who she is!)

Details to follow shortly - we’ll post them up separately so you can know exactly what you’re letting yourself in for ;)

~Sketchy ))

It took so long with work, but tada!

2019 Commission Sheet by Bethiebo

Hey everyone,

I just wanted to let you all know that I’m opening for commissions!

Prices are as (above/below, depending on where price list is shown).

I am opening 5 slots (I will let you know when new slots are open (20/01/19 – 5 slots open for everything), on a first come, first served basis.

RULES: I don’t draw porn, gore, or any other sort of mature content. I also generally don’t draw furries currently, though i might be willing just give me a message and we’ll see!

I prefer payment by PayPal.

Please contact me via bethiebo.tumblr.com/ , bethiebo93@gmail.com (though please put commission in the email subject if you do it this way / direct message on deviant art with the details of what you’d like me to draw. Want to keep up to date with my commissions? Check: docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d…

Thanks!

~Bethiebo

Weekly reblog

2019 Commission Sheet by Bethiebo

Hey everyone,

I just wanted to let you all know that I’m opening for commissions!

Prices are as (above/below, depending on where price list is shown).

I am opening 5 slots (I will let you know when new slots are open (20/01/19 – 5 slots open for everything), on a first come, first served basis.

RULES: I don’t draw porn, gore, or any other sort of mature content. I also generally don’t draw furries currently, though i might be willing just give me a message and we’ll see!

I prefer payment by PayPal.

Please contact me via bethiebo.tumblr.com/ , bethiebo93@gmail.com (though please put commission in the email subject if you do it this way / direct message on deviant art with the details of what you’d like me to draw. Want to keep up to date with my commissions? Check: docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d…

Thanks!

~Bethiebo