We’re Not Okay.

Does any body else just ever look back at your art from like a week or two ago and like realize that you like that far better than what your doing now… so yeah…

- 6/05/2018

Even attempting to figure out what an oc looks like is hard (i have no idea what I’m doing)

(5/19/2018) -So I loved Erika Ishii’s outfit so much on today’s Gather Your Party (Gather Your Drama) that I spent basically the whole ep (other than the fact I was watching it) and maybe 30 minutes after just drawing her. @geekandsundry

- 5/10/2018 I didn’t feel like drawing much so I wrote a list of things I need to get better at in art. There are many more I’m just not planning on focusing on them next. (Backgrounds, perspective, and so on)

8.28.2018 Can I still call these daily doodles after not posting...

One time I was standing in the bathroom waiting for a stall next to this little white kid and a massive black guy comes out of one of the stalls. The kid goes all wide eyed and asked me if brown people pooped white cause he poops brown

kids have no concept of anything. i walked into my kindergarten class and one kid asked me what my name was. when i said miss jones, he said “i like that name. did you know i’m in love with you”

- 4/28/2018

Ive finally decided I need to come to terms with the fact that if I want to do good colored art, I need to do line art and probably a black and white version too…

I see this kinda advice passed around all the time here is the thing: shading with black will indeed look bad if you don’t know what you are doing. However, telling people not to do things without explaining why is terrible advice.

Shadows are the opposite of light, this includes in colour.

This means that if you have light in one colour, the shadow will be of the opposing hue, saturation, and value.

Unless the object is white, it has its own local colour -  the object’s true colour, how it would appear if the light were pure white.

The colour of the light influences the local colour of the object. so if you had yourself a brown cube and a blue light, the colours would get bluer and pinker.

now the reason shadows do not tend to be black is because pure white light is hard to find in nature.

the closest you will get to pure white light is during a really overcast day and the sun is filtering through the clouds, but even then it’ll lean towards yellow so the shadows will be slightly blue.

During a clear day, the shadows will pick up a lot of bounce light from the blue sky and have a blue tinge. You can learn more about this in this tutorial: [http://artbyriana.deviantart.com/art/Why-shadows-aren-t-gray-321656856]

But! None of this means you are never allowed to use black.

realistically shadows will have a hint of a colour to them, but stylistically you might be going for, say, a film noir look and deep black shadows are needed for impact for example.

The more you know about how light works, the more informed decisions you can make about shading and the more options you have.

If someone tells you that you can’t do something, they’re wrong! you can do what you like!

yes, black is hard to use and if you just mix a colour with black it’ll get muddy, but thats easily resolved by choosing your colours manually - which ideally you want to do regardless bc the computer doesnt have your eyes & cant choose the colours you like

basically if someone gives you some art advice and says you can’t do something, they’re wrong! you can, you just might need to study a little to figure out how to make things work.

I mean for example, people will say you must make your composition follow the rule of thirds and never align centrally, but while the rule of thirds makes it easy to create visual interest, Mad Max Fury Road is a testament to the fact that central composition can and will work if you experiment.

there are no rules in art! there are theories based on reality, this has been a post on colour theory & light theory, but they exist to inform you, not to restrict you.

Do what you like! Trust your eyes, if you think something looks good, then great! If you don’t, then research & experiment until you do.

Also if you wanna learn more abt colour theory, I go into it in a lot more depth over yonder: http://helpfulharrie.tumblr.com/post/131822744966/ http://helpfulharrie.tumblr.com/post/131958395841/

- 4/01/2018