#carptalks

Wow youve improved so much! Even just like the way he is leaning looks more realistsic! Also those shoes are iconic man like you got any pointers on how you draw them?

Aw, thank you so much! You can’t believe how funny it is that you ask that question because my art friends already think I have a foot fetish as is — but here we go.

I think what helped me the most in drawing shoes was drawing a lot of feet from photos first? Like, A LOT. The kind of amount that makes your friends wonder about your special interests.

I mean, everyone learns in their own way but for me this is the only way to learn imagine objects in 3D space.  Besides that, when I draw feet now I think of them as consisting of 4 shapes that can move independently:

And then I just.... sorta wrap the shoe around that. 

To be honest I don’t really have a specific technique for that, just keep in mind that different shoe types have different shapes (that build on top of the foot shape), and use ludicrous amounts of reference.

My 2017 art summary! The year of black & white.

The bad: I’m disappointed in how much I’ve drawn/improved this year. This can mostly be traced back to my depression, which started in spring. It just continuously drained my motivation to the point that not much of me was left. Here it shows in the many months with only a few doodles and in the general lack of finished/polished paintings.

The good: I got better at doing values and drawing postures I guess? I used to always stick to one character per drawing and now I’ve moved to more interactive and dynamic drawings. I also found a bit of a new love in doing comics, ie my adventure zone and homestuck comics, and that was pretty cool to realize.

New icon!  Drew me a sweet lil’ carp to go with whatever theme I have going on.  Kind of a quick doodle, but I’ve been wanting to get me a more personal avatar (as opposed to fanart)!

I changed my username from cjk-art to carpdraws!

Carp is a nickname I have based on a friend typo’ing my other nickname (Caroline->Caro->Carp).

I’m also currently moving some of my blogs around: This blog used to be my portfolio but I’m changing it into my main art blog, moving my portfolio over to a sideblog (it just makes more sense that way, since this is a main blog and therefore allows for easier interaction with people).

This allows me to be a bit more casual with banter and what I post on here as well (did you know my grandma had the previous url? I love her but one can only meme so much in the tags before the possibility of her reading it becomes scary). Moreover in the upcoming days I’ll be reblogging a few artsies from my sideblog over to this one so it’s all in one place. That’s all!

This weekend our art collective, the Gouden Stronk, attended our first convention (the dutch comic con) as dealers. Hard to believe we actually did it, as we started out as just a group of internet friends with a love for art and memes. We had a great time!

If you met us at the con feel free to say hi :D We absolutely loved all the little art and fandom chats we had with you guys.

Can…. Can I ask about Myrle’s sleeves…?? Is he fucking wearing the sleeves Magnus ripped off???

Hahaha YEP absolutely. Somewhere at the beginning of the liveshow Travis says that Magnus is wearing a sleeveless tuxedo. When Clint is asked what Merle wears he immediately responds with ‘tuxedo sleeves!’

Hey Anon!

I’d rather not have my art reposted on instagram, since I do have an instagram account that I plan on putting to use sometime soon for posting art myself. 

Other social media (other than tumblr/instagram) I guess I’m ok with as long as you credit/link me.

Why yes I still do not use the bucket tool like a reasonable human being