#mojaveart

Living unhoused in the Mojave desert with no permanent RV parking. Every day is survival—propane for hot water, gasoline for the generator, I’m an artist, advocate, and mother archiving every step of this healing journey through my work realeasing the somatic trauma stored in my body through my art for my kids and anyone else who is suffering in silence

If you believe in mutual aid, dignity, and creative resilience, please share or donate. Every dollar helps us make it to payday. Every repost helps us stay visible.

full story/bio here at- https://sites.google.com/view/rebuildandhealwithdignity/home

Support my art & survival: https://ko-fi.com/angelalynn420

Donate directly to our survival fund: https://gogetfunding.com/survivor-artist-living-unhoused-in-the-mojave/

I wanted to help a pal of mine so I am going to make a ref of what I do when I draw. 

I usually start with a body sketch that just uses shapes to get what I want out of the figure

This is the shapes I am talking aboot!

Then i do a base line of the figure to kinda help me get an idea of how the figure is going to look, I’m using Huey for this example. I also add things that are in the picture as well, or at least in the minimal what the character is holding, like the gun and the cigarette

So then I do line art, I usually do a rough sketch but I was getting sleepy so i skipped right to the finalized one. Take your time with it and don’t rush, smooth lines, let the character shape your lines. Huey is slouched, relaxed (sorta). Making sure he looks like he is sitting

Next is the base colour! Just, the colour that is going to be mixed and played with but is his basic tones and such.