Strider Studios

@strider-studios / strider-studios.tumblr.com

Cosplay photographer and cosplayer, general nerd and awesome person :3
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Youmacon Panel! Go Figure: You Can Draw!

Hey everyone! I'm happy to announce that I'll be hosting my figure drawing panel at Youmacon again this year! Come learn anatomy and basic drawing techniques with this workshop! Sketch live models dressed in cosplay and learn with experts and novice artists alike as we go through the aspects of drawing from real life! Here's the details- 7 PM Friday, November 4th Cobo Panel Room Workshop 141 It's pretty much the coolest thing you can be doing on a Friday night before the rave, so I hope to see you there!

#youmacon#convention panels#youmacon panel#figure drawing#go figure: you can draw#workshop#workshop panel
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Listen up

You don’t have to like or reblog my art to show your support - I just ask that you print it out and eat it every once in a while. Thanks

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Things I Learned In Drawing 1 Class

  • If it looks wrong, it is wrong.
  • Draw what you see not what you know to be true
  • Everything is broken up by shapes and lines. Don’t look at the image look at what makes up the image
  • You can use grid paper to help you line everything up while you’re learning. Grids are okay
  • REFERENCES ARE YOUR BEST FRIEND. THEY ARE NOT CHEATING
  • When using references; there is the quarter rule. If you change more than a quarter of the original image (such as pose, backgrounds, movement) then it’s yours. It’s not stealing.
  • Only trace to learn, do not trace and post as your own art
  • Don’t just color over someone else’s art that’s stealing
  • It’s okay to make mistakes
  • Try new mediums as often as you can. Charcoal, pastels, crayons, markers, graphite, ink wash, paints (of all kinds) ect. It will help you grow as an artist and find what you like
  • Figure out what you like in someone elses art, why you like that art. Try to make it your own in your own art. It’s like art genetics
  • Surround yourself with other artists who will help and encourage you.
  • Draw for friends! Seeing them get excited that you drew for them will keep you drawing
  • Art block happens. Try not to stress
  • Draw daily
  • Draw from life
  • DRAW WHAT YOU SEE NOT WHAT YOU KNOW TO BE TRUE
  • Play with lines and shading: contouring, crosshatching, stippling, blocking.
  • Experiment
  • Have fun
  • Form a small community of you and your friends who like to art. Give each other feedback, give each other advice, and get excited everytime someone draws
  • Do projects with someone else
  • Take part in collabs
  • Realize you’re not perfect and you will never be perfect. There is always something to learn, always time to grow. That’s fun of art
  • Enjoy the journey and the process
  • Realize it may not always look like you pictured in your mind
  • Be proud of your progress
  • Take breaks
  • Look at things from a distance
  • Enjoy what you make
  • Learn from your mistakes
  • And lastly: love what you do and do what you love. Don’t change your art for anyone but you.

Artists feel free to add on to this for new artists!

  • Grids are OK no matter WHAT stage of art you’re at. they’re great for transferring art from one medium to another, say if you want to paint a sketch, or want to put a sketch on the computer and you don’t have a scanner or camera.
  • Never underestimate the uses you’ll find for the golden ratio 
  • FOR THE LOVE OF GOD stretch!
  • Don’t let anyone tell you you CAN’T do something. If that ever comes from someone’s mouth, let it become your spite and use it to fuel you.
  • ART IS NOT A COMPETITION. Just because you’re more advanced than someone else, or they’re more advanced than you, doesn’t mean it’s a race to the finish. 
  • Share your knowledge, and let other people share theirs. You grow when you network. 
  • There’s nothing wrong with seeing the way someone else does something, liking it, and incorporating it into your skill set. You are the sum of everything you’ve ever learned. You tie your shoes the way someone else taught you to tie them, you brush your teeth the way you were taught, you flip pancakes (or don’t) the way you learned. Art is just another skill set, and you can incorporate as much or as little of someone else’s knowledge as you want.
  • The one piece of advice I ever found useful from my father: DON’T LET FEAR AND COMMON SENSE HOLD YOU BACK. By which I mean, don’t let the idea that you CAN’T do something prevent you from trying.
#art reference#for the drawing panel#important
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Part 1 - Finally finished the private photoshoot pictures from Colossalcon! This was a fantastic opportunity we found on the bridge late at night, glad we had the chance to shoot! This was fun!

Featuring madiboohoo as Dave Strider from Homestuck

Photography: Strider Studios

#madiboohoo#colossalcon#colossalcon cosplay#cosplay photography#homestuck cosplay#homestuck#cosplay#dave strider#strider studios#I find it great that my first photoshoot under the new banner is a strider cosplayer#we've come full circle
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It’s official! I’m now going by Strider Studios, so while my tumblr url may be broken for a bit, everything is still findable on my tumblr under strider-studios instead! 

Thanks everyone for hanging in here with me! 

#admin stuff
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Colossalcon preview! I'd also like to take this moment to announce a revamp of everything- soon, I'll no longer be Strider Photography, but instead I'm branching out into Strider Studios to bring you guys all the best news on everything nerdy and awesome I've been working on lately. From my photography to panels at conventions to collaborations with other artists and cosplayers and YouTube let's play channels, this is going to be the new one stop spot for everything great. Plus maybe some memes. Don't rule it out. Thank you everyone for hanging around so far, and stick around for future awesomeness!

#colossalcon#colossalcon 2016#colossalcon cosplay#homestuck cosplay#homestuck#rwby#rwby cosplay#miraculous#miraculous ladybug#miraculous cosplay#miraculous ladybug cosplay#cosplay photography
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Anonymous asked:

Hey! I absolutely love your work and I was wondering if you got any pictures of the miraculous ladybug photo-shoot from colossal con ?

I definitely did! I ended up helping out running the Miraculous photoshoot and got lots of great stuff! It's going to take a few days/week or two for me to go through everything and post the best ones though- I took over 700 photos during Colossalcon and have quite a bit to get through. Stay tuned and I'll post a few preview shots soon!

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