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i just wanted to ask, did you ever do any training/go to college and pursue art professionally? and how did you get to where u are now artistically? ive been doing life drawing classes but i rly dont know how to apply it to my work. tips on how you use irl references in ur art?

love what u do otomegrandma! never stop drawing ❤ wishing u and the madame very well

Hi, I'm super flattered! I'm very glad that you've enjoyed my art. (Also, she says hi!)

I haven't gone through any kind of schooling. Like a lot of online artists these days, I'm totally taught off of online tutorials and messing around on my own. We should all be very grateful for the amount of free resources there are online!!

Hello! I'm really flattered you like my art!

I'm still learning how to pick colors and do lighting myself. With the piece just posted, here's what my first color pass looked like when I was setting up what I wanted to do.

In real life, color and light is really complicated, and depending on your photo difficult to intuit, so it helps to break things down and simplify things into simple rules you can apply as you go - like "if this part is facing down, it should be getting that orange bounce light". The default rule I go by is that the shadow color comes from the color of the environment + color of the light

I recommend keeping an eye out for pleasing shots in movies and thinking about how those artists decided to compose the lighting and color. Movies are, like art, not really realistic or true to reality, but rather control and exaggerate colors and lighting to create something appealing.

^ An example of a shot I liked in The Incredibly True Adventure of Two Girls in Love.