This Is A Piece I Made A While Ago To Hype Myself Up For The Upcoming Semester.

Love the frames and expression!! I really love works with mechanical gimmicks(hard to articulate), very inspiring!

Finally realized that reblogs are important for this site, will do more from now:)

one last TSWWL post before i seriously lock in

process GIF & alternative color combos just in case the red & teal won't mix well... lowkey i think the gold would eat on real paper but let me know what you guys think

Experimental(in my standards) WIPs.

Experimental because I’m going back and forth between liking it and not.

Feedback appreciated!

One more day!!! Absolutely recommend this exhibition

My class’s graduation show will open on the 31st, if you’re at RISD please come and take a look! Several new paintings will be shown for the first time ❤️

Hello!! I'm natotofu, an artist from Japan! I'm usually on Instagram but I decided to try this out this place:) I'm incredibly slow at making new pieces, but I hope I can interact with the ppl here. English is not my first language so please bear with me:)))

first of all thank you so much for coming to tumblr, i love seeing ur art on my dash‘‘‘ its such a treat!!!

secondly, I am curious about the process of creating your artwork? do you have a finished piece in your mind and work towards that

or does the piece just develop while you’re drawing?

(if u dont mind sharing ofc!)

Anyways, I just wanted to say that your art is rlly unique and hauntingly beautiful<333

Thank you for the compliment and thanks for asking!! I’m still exploring in terms of my processes, but I tend to decide almost everything in the rough draft/sketching!

I first do “rough-sketching party”, where I doodle as many ideas as possible:

Then, I pick an idea, and refine them. Often creating multiple versions, with different compositions and different color schemes(not for this one though.) These are WIPS of pieces I’m eventually going to work on:

I kinda often draw too much for my rough drafts, but rough drafts is where I can play around with the concepts/colors/compositions the most, so I don’t feel too regretful in spending a lot of time in this phase. For an illustrator perspective, I see that this is very inefficient, so eventually I hope I find a way to make it faster. But for now, this works best for me to create works that I am satisfied with. With that said, I sometimes make pieces on the go, with only deciding what the main subject is. I might talk about those in the future when I post them. Again, thanks for asking!:)

I will never be able to write good english dialogue because I can only speak and write in high school essay language

Wings of Freedom

Went for a more experimental direction

About growing up and being released into society

Would you agree to share your art inspirations with us? Your art is so unique, I wonder how you came to such a style! Thank you :)

Sure!! I'll talk about them more in detail when I post my individual works, but what influenced my art direction is Pokémon/Kirby/Dark Souls/Tim Burton(even though I was scared of them when I was a kid and became too scared to watch them again. But the fear probably made the influence engraved in my brain) Then, what I thought would be important was to make what I like(my taste) as clear to me as possible. I'm trying to do this through looking through lots of works on social media/museums/other mediums, doing lots of doodles, and occasionally making works where I set no time limits to create something that I like as much as possible. I feel like anyone's work will be unique if they have the clearest understanding of what they like, exactly down to nanometers. Hope the answer was good, thanks for asking!

The World is Tilting Towards Adventure

My mood before studying abroad in college

Some pen(traditional/digital) drawings