Art Stuff

Welp, after some thought I think I’m gonna start posting on Instagram instead of Tumblr because:

a) from my experience of it, Instagram’s reporting function actually fucking works and reposts do get taken down

b) as someone who works on and posts mostly from mobile devices, tumblr’s mobile app has gone down in quality over the years and every update seems to break its functionality even more and/or add useless shit I don’t want to see

c) the commenting system is still messy af (yea I read your guys’ comments, they give me life) I usually have to wind up checking comments, reblogs, and tags individually to see what people are saying. The fact that I need XKit (which I can only use on the desktop) to conveniently see them all in one place grinds my gears to no end

d) i’m a lazy fuck and don’t feel like managing any more social media accounts than I have to

I’ll still leave my old art on it but no more new content will be posted on it from now on. If you’d still like to follow me and my art, go to: https://www.instagram.com/finvalion/.

Thanks! Making me feel like hot shit yo haha

as for getting to this point, like u said, i got to this point by practice. started out by imitating my favorite artists/art styles and failing miserably at that, but it gave me the drive to keep on drawing at least. Most people that want to get into art start drawing for a bit but then quickly get discouraged and stop once they see how crappy their art looks. i was kind of a mix of “delusional about the quality of her art” and “turbo fangirl mode” so i never really hit that stage while i was starting out.

there really wasn’t a moment when it all clicked together and i started drawing better, more of a gradual realization that my process was all wrong and the steady course correcting that came after that. the best i can explain it is that I focused more on “how do I draw?” more than “how do I draw a person” or “how do I draw a dog?” or “how do I draw a house?”- using the same process for everything I draw instead of each little thing having its own process. Also, contrary to what most people think, art isn’t always powered by talent or inspiration handed down to you by your muse at the right place at the right time. it’s still a technical skill that has to be mastered. There are rules and problem solving involved and tons of hard work. you still gotta learn your fundamentals (color theory, design, anatomy, perspective, rendering, light, etc.) before you can fuck around with them.

for now id say just focus on what you like to draw and go from there. seek out pieces from your favorite artists/art styles and try to study what makes them appealing to you. is it the line art, coloring, style, composition, design etc you’re into? copy that. practice until you get it. it may seem like bad advice to take ideas (read: steal) from other artists but i bet those very artists would have done the same in your position or are still doing it to this day. one of my profs from art college said something that still sticks with me: the best artists out there steal all the time, they’ve just become good enough to cover up their tracks and make it into something that SEEMS original. 

ok

fuckkk yeaaaaaaa it’s doooone i can rest in peace now. Comic is based on this particular boruto sd page: