Abraca-Fuck You

“Venom and Eddie are gay for each other” I say into the mic

The crowd boos. I begin to walk off in shame, when a voice speaks & commands silence from the room.

[id: two pictures of the same handmade tarot card for the adventure zone. The card is unlabelled, but as the artist, im saying its The High Priestess. It features Lucretia, a black, older woman in a long blue vest-coat. Her back is towards the viewer, but her head is turned to be looking straight at us. This pose is meant to evoke a specific point in the TAZ Balance trailer, which had Lucretia in a similar pose. The first image shows the card in full - with lucretia standing between two pillars and in front of a starry night sky. The crescent moon hangs right behind her silently. In Lucretias hand is the bulwark staff, a long white wood staff thats curved at the top. Her face is neutral - but there seems to be a weight to her gaze. End is]

[id: image of a fanmade tarot card for TAZ. Its Johann the bard as ‘The Fool’ card. He’s in the Bureau, walking along the edge of the tank holding the Voidfish. He’s focused, playing the violing as he walks. Johann is dressed in a purple jester-inspired outfit - with poofy dark purple and yellow shorts, a poofy hat with a feather, and lavender tifhts. You can see his bracer on his left arm as he plays. You can also see a part of the voidfish, which appears to be galaxy-colored with a million stars inside of it. Johann is leaning slightly towards falling into the tank, but only slightly. End id]

[id: image of a fanmade tarot card for TAZ. This card is “The Magician” card, and it features Jenkins from Murder of the Rockport Limited. Jenkins stands in front of an interior train door. The train interior is mostly brown/wooden with some maroon-violet and gold on the walls. You can see through the glass in the door that there appears to be a lush array of plants beyond. Jenkins, a pale elven middle-aged man, stands in front with his hands folded behind him. He’s holding the port rod and his wand. Hes dressed in a train uniform, a red hacket with gold-trimmed edges, a small cap, black slacks and black shoes. He’s also wearing a technicolor bowtie, and is frowning, with one eyebrow raised, unamused by whatever he sees. End id]

Found some hands tutorial by me

under the cut because it got really long:

“no that’s not dramatic and cheesy enough”

“getting warmer”

Drawing A to Drawing B: -the most obvious change is the exaggeration of the line of motion in the character.  

In Drawing B the line of motion is much more pronounced, creating more drama and movement to the whole composition

-The arms are open wider, showing more confidence and exuberance in the character, exaggerating their emotions so they can be more clearly read without having to look to the face for emotional cues.

-the legs are wider apart, adding to the aforementioned confidence but also giving the character a solid foundation, visually speaking.

-The head is tilted back and overlapped by the chest, adding a touch of dynamic perspective to the drawing.

Drawing B to Drawing C:  -Most obvious change is to zoom in on the character.  Character framing is just as important as what the character is doing.  Zooming in can help infensify emotions.  this shot is ALL about this character and what they’re feeling. -Because of the zooming in, the arms/hands would have gotten lost, so instead of making the canvas wider, the artist has elected to rotate the character slightly, bringing a dynamic angle to things and more intensity to the close shot. -While the character is more upright in this shot compared to Drawing B, in Drawing C the chest still slightly overlaps the neck, preserving the feeling of being slightly below the character (putting them in a position of power relative to the viewer), which helps maintain confidence and power in the character. -the chest is exaggerated to carry the majority of the body’s line of action so even though you cannot see the legs, our brains are able to fill in the gap and envision that line of action. -The cropping/framing of the character allows for a more interesting composition/negative shapes created by the positive (character) on the negative (background), creating more visual interest as well as a circular motion to the composition through the arms, across the face to the negative space for the eyes to rest in before dropping to the hand in the background and back through the composition again.

As a kickoff to the summer, I thought I’d run a small giveaway for…well, anyone who wants to enter! You don’t HAVE to be following me, but if you like the art I would certainly appreciate it!

In order to enter, reblog this between NOW - June 21st, 2018 MIDNIGHT CST. That’s midnight at Central Standard Time (American | Chicago). You must have asks or messenger enabled on your blog because that is how I will conact you. If you don’t answer within three business days, I’ll choose another winner for your slot. 

On June 22nd I’ll randomly generate a number from the list and give away three prices, starting with 3rd prize and running to 1st prize. Prizes are: 

3rd Place - (1) monochrome-coloured bust of any OC or fan character you desire!

2nd Place - (1) fully coloured bust of any OC or fan character you desire!

1st Place - (1) textured waste-up of any OC or fan character you desire!

Please have references available, or a strong written description. <3

Rules:

ONLY reblogs count, and you can reblog as often as you like! (Likes are also welcome but won’t count toward the draw.)

no giveaway blogs

keep your ask box open so I can notify you if you win!

You can only win ONE place. 

Winners will be drawn in order via random number generator

I will re-draw a winner if they have not responded in three days

This giveaway ends on June 21st 2018 at MIDNIGHT.

Following this blog (my art blog!) is very, very welcome~ I will be doing more giveaways in the future.

working on a double page spread no way I can resist sharing these pages, so might as well show some wips

you are allowed to trace as practice

you are allowed to trace your own work (for example photographs you took yourself or to keep architectural consistency)

you are allowed to trace things the original artist is encouraging you to trace

you SHOULD use references

you SHOULD be allowed to pick up other artists’ artistic tics you like (…as long as they’re not offensive, like blackfacing, but that’s a different kettle of fish)

you SHOULDN’T go around moralizing at other people about how they learn best because you can and will lose friends that way and you can and will hurt other artists’ development that way.

Never refill a Copic with regular isopropyl alcohol unless you have absolutely no other option.

Copic markers have their own ink refills to go with each marker,

They look like this and cost around the same price as a Copic Sketch maybe slightly more however they can be used to refill a marker several times

By using isopropyl alcohol what you’re doing, in fact, is diluting what little ink you have left in your make, therefore changing the shade of it.

Of course the one exception to this rule is the colourless blender 0 which is a marker that is full of regular isopropyl alcohol.

As a side note, DON’T throw away your marker if one/both of the is damaged

Copic also make replacement nibs for all of their markers