world's slowest artist

Hiya! I mostly taught myself how to paint over the past few years, but it did take me a good while (two? three years?) until I found a certain style and painting method that I really liked. While a lot of it does come from PRACTICE (I know, the dreaded empty word of art advice), it also comes from building up your own tastes and observation skills, that is to say, finding good inspiration (and STEALING IT!!). Copying your favourite artists, studying how they paint/what kinds of brushes they use, really grinding down the little things that you like about other's artworks into a technique which you can adopt helped me a lot. Anytime I make a big rendered piece I never do it without looking at other pieces with colours/composition/emotions that I wanna imitate. I use PureRef (which is free!) on desktop as a super handy reference board for all the art and photos I like !!

This also goes hand in hand with experimenting with new tools (or even different traditional/digital mediums). Funnily enough, I didn't touch traditional painting until I had gotten used to digital painting, but I was a big colour pencil kid, and I liked messing around with how they naturally and vibrantly blend. (I also dabbled in oil pastel and charcoal drawings back then, which is not particularly relevant as painting advice, but switching up mediums helped me be more loose with approaching art and things because I felt I was always learning something new).

A tribute piece for one of the best musicals I've ever seen 🌼🌼🌼 !!

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our boy!! (and his little brother.. a pin..)

I love your art very much, thank you for letting me do this!! I do indeed cradle him lovingly

AAAAA this looks so cool!!! they are so cute 🥹🥹

INCOMING !!!

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