Eggtastic

a cute girl because why not

messy hair todoroki is best  todoroki, FIGHT ME 

it’s all too much 

so uh I recently caught up with my hero academia and deku is BABY

Meadow

The creepy feesh

I’ve been in slightly different situations. I don’t make free art myself, and all of my friends get paid art only from me, unless I myself initiate it as a gift for them. If your friend is that nice and supportive, and requested this from you, it shouldn’t be an issue to just be upfront with her. You can he honest and tell her about it, and if she understands, more power to both of you. It’s ultimately your decision on what you should do, but from my experience I’ve been lucky enough to to have friends who understand that work is work and gifts are gifts. Requests when not in a gifting context are paid for me.

Artificial

Bubble

Sheep mountain

D’aaw of course, it’s no problem :) I just finished drawing two of my OCs in formal wear, I already posted one on twitter, I’ll post the other one in a bit. Also working on a commission for a friend. I wouldn’t consider these big projects though. Because of school I don’t get a lot of time to do them, so I just work on smaller pieces instead. Last time I’ve done a “bigger” project has to be when I drew all of my friends that I’ve met in the meetup in the Netherlands this August. It was 6 people in one image, all equally detailed and in the exact same style, which was a bit of a challenge heh. But it’s done and I’m quite proud ^^ 

That’s a very good point! No matter what you do you’ll never be able to copy an art style 100%, but what I’m saying is that you can definitely get extremely close. In truth, intentionally doing that doesn’t hurt other people as much as it may hurt you. See, when you’re learning from an art style. for example an anime art style of some sort, you don’t learn from reality. You’ll have a much harder time doing original things. I’ve done a mistake like this when I was younger with an artist I really admired. I tried to draw details exactly as she did. My learning experience was very weak because of that, and when I noticed that I only *really* improved when doing proper studies, I stopped trying to do everything like her. I often try to remember what multiple artists do to make things look better, but I never try to do things *exactly* like them. And you can absolutely copy art styles often to a certain amount of perfection if you’re skilled enough. I’ve seen a couple of professional artists draw a couple of drawing in exact art styles of other people, and it was freaky for them to see haha. Also things can be drawn the same way of course, that’s how a team of animators would function. 

Well that depends on what you mean by “same thing”. I would say taking a couple of elements is okay, but just trying to do the exact same thing is basically stealing the style and idea of someone’s. Be careful. All artists are different, and I cannot speak for all of them, but I would not like this to be done to me.

I usually do portraits, but will sometimes do a few studies of random objects.

Well, there is no secret to it. You just do things a lot, and you try things out. You may want to start out with a few tutorials to see what works for you, but the truth is - everyone’s different. Just work at it and enjoy yourself, don’t give up, learn some fundamentals and don’t force things, just draw what you want to. However, please don’t copy people, or trace their work. You won’t be happy with it in the long run. Or even if you do, don’t share that work with others. Keep it to yourself as research. 

Thank you, anyway <3

They do, sometimes. I don’t really agree to it, heh. Unless it’s close family members, because yeaaah, that’s kinda how it works. Most people around me have gotten used to me not drawing for free for them, if they don’t respect my decision I will just draw something stupid very quickly and then they’ll just go away lol. I draw for my friends when I want to. They don’t usually ask me to make free work, just because they understand, heh. Being my friend does not give any “free art” privilege, because it honestly depends on if I want to draw them stuff ¯\_(ツ)_/¯