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I'm going to be traveling out of the country soon with my mother. I need to raise some money for an international phone plan so I can stay in contact with my dad and brother back home in case of emergencies and to check on my pets back home.

Even though I work two jobs, I'm not given that many hours. I know haven't been here for a while. But I know still get notes on here on some of my really old art. But I'm going to start some commissions soon. I'm gonna take up to 4 slots. I'm announcing this among other platforms!

I'll have more information pushed out soon. But in the meantime, if anyone wants to donate anything to me, please send it over to my cashapp / venmo : spinedaira

YES! 

I’m talking as a 2D animator/cartoonist who looks for studio work+applies to zines and projects in illustration+animation, so all of this may/may not apply to you if you’re in a different field or work in freelance or whatever. LOOK AT WHAT PEOPLE IN THE SAME FIELD AS YOU ARE ARE DOING!!!! hopefully this will help a bit though

please imagine i put “imo” at the start of each tip ok thank you

✨✨✨a few random tips in no particular order to make a good website/portfolio (it’s pretty long so this goes under the cut)✨✨✨

I have some hours before work so I’ll use them to actually detail why I’ve found CSPaint to be so efficient for bastard-aligned painters who like to take shortcuts.

This will seem familiar to most of you guys, but this functions a little bit different from Photoshop. It turns everything you draw on the layer into editable curves, but retains the aliased smoothness of an ordinary raster layer. Practically a cheat to access the whole suite of amazing tools CS offers for lineart. Such as:

The vector eraser is The Best™. You can be as messy as possible and this tool erases the excess. One pen-flick and it’s done. Much faster than cleaning it up by hand. You can also tweak the settings of this brush to encapsulate more/less lines as you erase but that’s getting a little more involved. Anyway, last thing:

Maybe the only thing better than the vector eraser. There are multiple settings, but these three are the most handy. You can smooth wiggly edges, connect broken strokes, and tweak the width/weight to exactly how you want it. This also has a ton of settings you can play around with. It’s great!

POSE: Female - Flying/Leaping Thanks for all the kind notes and words. I’m still so humbled by the amount of artists who the poses have helped.

The poses are here to inspire and to help artists get ideas out of their heads as quickly as possible.

I never meant to for the poses to teach, just to show how I mentally break the body down into the odd shapes it always makes.

I learn every time I draw.

What I learn is painful..because the lesson is, there will always be more to know.

Thanks to those of you who have joined over on Patreon.

All the best,

Justin

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