Character Designs Inspired By These Funny Shoes

various tem life journaling

@gokutober Day 22 - Harvest

hey darling! ♡ commission for @/VANI11ACHERRY

I always avoided using references, but couldn't point out what exactly made me avoid it. I have finally realized that due to being unfortunate enough to be surrounded by people boldly claiming "real artists draw everything from imagination without any references" [now i know it's bullshit] in my early years of artistic journey, I developed fear of being too dependent on references and fear of being completely unable to draw anything good without "copying". Any ideas how to overcome that fear?

It's not something I hear at all in professional spaces. We've straight up traced weird angles of our arms before. I use lots of references. You will naturally get better at drawing intuitively with the more references you use since we learn by example. I draw intuitively much more accurately than I did many years ago, but I still use references because my idea of a polished drawing is a moving goalpost.

Jason Rainville is one of the best of the best, paints MTG cards and he often posts his references. You can see how closely they mirror the final image:

If you want to get good at art, you have to look at things and that's all it boils down to. Those who say it's bad to use references are either 1) never getting good at art, or 2) are insecure and are posturing in front of other artists. Hope this helps!

Beloved groupchat long running bit where Ragna ends up in the gg world after cf and works at Jam's restaurant

Goofball.

Settled on the name Lychee. He doesn't even have a lighter, he just thinks it makes him look cool.

the illusion of choice

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some miqo'tem doodles