This idea popped into my head at random today. I then spent a ridiculous amount of time making these. I cannot stop laughing now send help-
True to form, I have forgotten to post akdjfkwn
This is a gift for @vroomie-boomie for the LU server’s birthday exchange! One of their prompts was a little campfire story time :D
Speaking of redraws, the Extended Legend Week™️ on discord reminded me that I actually redrew something like. Last year and just. I didn’t post it here. Uh-
HI IM ALIVE o// I bring offering of redraw (2024 —> 2021)
The LU hyperfix is clawing its way out of confinement, send help
hello phoenix i hope your okay and in good health.
you've been gone for a while so i just wanted to check if you're doing alright :)
Awwww, thank you!! I’m fine, it’s just been a bit crazy since I’m starting college soon. That and art block LOL. But hopefully I’ll have more stuff to post soon!
being a self-taught artist with no formal training is having done art seriously since you were a young teenager and only finding out that you’re supposed to do warm up sketches every time you’re about to work on serious art when you’re fuckin twenty-five
someone: oh yeah, do this exercise during your warm ups! it’ll help
me: my what
What’s up I have an actual college degree in art and I was never ONCE taught to do warm ups.
when i was in undergrad, it was kind of mentioned in and offhand way that we should do warmups, but we were never shown what that meant. And, y’know, we were young so it didn’t matter so much.
Being older now and having an art job it’s…kind of essential.
So: a quick primer for those of you who are like ‘ok but how do i actually go about doing this warmup thing.’
1) you may be tempted to do ‘a warmup drawing’ which is just a drawing that will take longer than it needed to and probably be frustrating and kind of bad because you didn’t warm up first. It’s tempting but always a trick your brain is playing on you! Do not trust!
2) warmups will vary based on what feels good to you/what task you’re about to do/what motor skills you want to practice. That being said, some good standbys:
a) circles. Just a whole page of circles on whatever drawing surface you’re going to be using, whether that’s your tablet or your sketchbook or a drawing pad on an easel. For these circles you should make sure that you’re drawing from your shoulder and not your wrist. In fact, you want to be drawing from your shoulder rather than your wrist most of the time! forever! your wrist is delicate please preserve it!
In order to ensure that you’re drawing from your shoulder, when you’re holding your pencil or whatever drawing tool you’re using, the only part of your hand that should be touching the drawing surface is part of the last two fingers–some people prefer the finger tips, but I tend to favor the first knuckles. Either way, the fingers should really be ghosting over the surface, providing guidance rather than support.
I usually start with big circles and then go to smaller circles and lines of ellipses, and then try to fit circles and ellipses inside other shapes i’ve already drawn as a precision exercise, but i don’t do that unless i’m feeling loose
b) spirals! i don’t always do spirals, but if i’m stiff and the circles just aren’t cutting it, spirals are a good fall back. I start from the center and work outward, going both clockwise and counterclockwise until i feel comfortable with the whole range of motion. Some people really care about getting perfect spirals but for me it’s all about making sure i’m comfortable with how i’m moving so who really even cares about how the spirals look. Not me!
c) lines! straight lines! in parallel! i do a mix of vertical, horizontal, and diagonal. These are often more from the elbow than the shoulder, especially if I’m working on a smaller surface. For this exercise, I recommend holding the drawing tool perpendicular with the surface
d) connect the dots. This is a precision and accuracy exercise and takes two forms. The first is to draw two dots and then draw a straight line between them. The second is to draw three dots and draw the curve that connects them. This sounds a lot simpler than it is in practice. Take time to ghost over the line you plan to draw before actually committing to your line. (I don’t always remember where I picked up my warm up exercises, but I’m pretty sure I got this one from Scott Robertson. His how to draw and how to render books are very technical but also accessible and worth checking out)
e) cubes, spheres, cones, and cylinders. These help get your brain into a more volumetric space. I draw multiples of each, rotating the forms around, and I’ll often take the time to do some rough shading on at least a few of them
f) spidermans! This one is really good if you’re going to be storyboarding or working on dynamic poses. Just fill a page full of spidermans doing all sorts of acrobatics.
g) beans. I don’t do beans too much anymore, but I know a lot of people like it so I’m mentioning it here. Fill an area with different size bean shapes without lifting your pencil off the paper.
h) short medium and long line repetition. draw a short, medium, and long line on your page, and then draw directly on top of them 8 to 12 times, doing your best to exactly trace what you’ve already drawing. Repeat with a wavy line. I’m bad at this one, which means I probably need to do it more.
And there are lots more options too! Hit up youtube to see what other people recommend, put together your own go-to list, mix it up when you’re getting bored, etc.
This is a long list, I know, but I usually don’t take more than 10 to 15 minutes to warm up, and I can warm up one handed while I’m drinking coffee, so, multitasking hurrah.
Sometimes I’ll advance to a precision warmup and find that I haven’t loosened up enough yet; it’s totally ok to go back to an earlier exercise! Also, all of this has the added benefit of kind of ritualistically getting you into the drawing mode so even if I’m not feeling it before I start, by the time I’ve gotten to the end I’m usually Ready For Drawin’. Brain hacks.
so, yeah! that’s a lot of words, but! Warmups are important! Save your joints, take less advil, do better drawings!
BOTW2 Trailer screenshot redraw but only background because that’s the first thing I saw HDJJDJJ
I started the new season of Sky
It’s very pretty
So I made phone background
HELLO TUMBLR I AM BACK WITH A PORTRAIT OF A RAT LAD HHHH
Happy birthday to @sky-squido !!! Happy adulting my friend! I love you so so much you wonderful, inspiring amazing creator and person!
For @sky-squido because I love her uwu
This was so much fun to make!! It really pushed me in terms of shading, and I really like how it came out! Took me a while to figure out the pose, but I like it so it was totally worth it
H e y I totally forgot to put this here because I um forgot buuuut I finished this as a Christmas present for my brother! I finally learned how to paint leafy greens thank goodness 😂
Sorry for being away so long! Finals kicked my butt and I was working on Lots Of Projects ™️ 😔
My entry for @phoenixrisingart634’s 200 DTIYS back on ig—it’s finally done! T-T🎉 Congrats on the milestone, Beanie, you deserve that and so many more!!! <3<3<3
I could’ve finished this piece way long ago if I wasn’t either goofing off constantly or adding more and more WIPs on the side, but I guess I’ll never fully learn how to stop myself :”) oh well, might as well cherish it at this point
This is officially my last post of the year, I think I’ve done enough publishing for now. Being completely honest, I have almost no new year’s resolutions, other than be a better human being and keep growing in art xdd the rest I’ll leave it up to my future self to decide (hopefully it’ll be something productive :))
I have no words except mY BABY BEAN ILYSM AAAAAAAAAA 🥺🥺🥺🥺🥺
Legend drawing (dtiys)
@phoenixrisingart634 did a beautiful Legend drawing dtiys Challange over in Instagram and of course I had to participate!
Here's mine:
Click here to see the original:
https://phoenixrisingart634.tumblr.com/post/636612152449449985/just-for-funzies
So I already screamed at you on insta but AAAAAAAAA I LOVE HIM SO MUCH I CANNOT WORDS HFHSBDHSBS HE PERFECT
My entry for @phoenixrisingart634 ‘s DTIYS challenge over on Instagram! :D
HEEEEEEEE LARI AAAAAAAA I CANNOT WORDS HES SO BEAUTIFUL