Artist Zaria Forman
Soft Pastel on Paper
Artist Zaria Forman
Soft Pastel on Paper
Anonymous asked:
ookamihanta answered:
It flatters me to hear you like my stlye but tbh. No style is “original” and more of a combination of things you find artistically appealing. That’s why some people will never like how you draw things since everyone has different artistic and aesthetic appeals.
Personally, I’ve got a lot of influences from other artists and most especially anime and tv shows I grew up with.
I think my main artistic influences i have at the moment are my cousins(cough @beautifulanddamaged and @nanathatha on deviantartcough) and people like @//erraday, @//kawacy, or @//yamio and random artists on instagram all individually helped me in a way to develop my coloring style(through how they shade and color choices) because gOD i love how they color/shade.
For just anatomy or posing in general, I don’t think I have any specific influences besides the general appeal of anime/manga styles. Big eyes, crazy hair, totally ideal body types etc. Just things that appeal to me personally.
It’s fine to reference your own art and style off of something else, but you can always twist and add things to it that makes it fit more perfectly into how you like it. Of course, that doesn’t mean take someone elses’ art and change like a hair style and color scheme and call it yours. It means take specific attributes of that person’s art that you like, and try to imploy it to your own art.
Hope this helps even if just a lil.
hello i am here today to not lose track of the art cheats i have discovered over the years. what i call art cheat is actually a cool filter/coloring style/way to shade/etc. that singlehandedly makes art like 20 times better
adding colors to grayscale paintings
foreshortening ( perspective )
clipping group (lines)
clipping group (colors)
that is all for today, do stay tuned as i am always hunting for cool shit like this
Good shit
- don’t erase the stuff you’ve already drawn, just make the layer invisible. if you’re anything like me then deleting in process sketches has a very light subconscious negative effect on how the drawing is turning out.
- don’t draw your sketches on white, especially if your brush is black. white is hard to draw on. change it to grey. trust me on this.
- if a sketch is almost there but not quite try mirroring it horizontally. the issues will be way easier to spot.
-if inking isnt your thing but you want outlines just paint your color over the sketch lines, then do the ink lines last.
- if you have lots of ideas but no patience with details like myself take to tiny tiny thumbnails. like im talking barely bigger than your thumb. it forces you to look at the whole picture and not just the details.
- if tiny doesnt work/you like detailing go opposite. draw REALLY huge and work your way through.
Anonymous asked:
viria answered:
Everything I wrote in this ask, but also a very important reminder!
Drawing is not only for people with talent. Saying that, or thinking that (which you seem to no longer do, but still) is degrading and deminishing everyone out there who put their tears and years of life into learning how to do it and how to do it well. To all the unsatisfied artists out there who kept and kept going even thinking they weren’t good enough but wanted to be. It’s so much work, and it takes so much effort to craft a skill and saying that it all relies on sole talent is frustrating.
That’s why I never see “you are so talented, give me your talent!” as a compliment. Like, it’s not talent, it’s work and I’d rather not have in forgotten. Neither should you<3
Another thing is that starting out to draw in teenage years is great. It might seem that you have a whole what, decade? decade and a half? behind, but in reality it’s JUST a decade. Your whole life is ahead of you! There is still so much you don’t know or didn’t experience yet and really, it doesn’t seem like it, but reflecting back and thinking of myself as a teenager I only think about how tiny I really was. Even though back then I thought I’m a whole grown adult. SO! Don’t be afraid of it, by your early twenties you’re already going to have so much drawing experience!<3 I started out when I was around 15 or 16, so there is plenty of time, believe me, you’re not late to the party! I think it’s never too late to start out on the first place.
Hope it can help a bit:3
I think I can understand why Kai was so desperate to reach his true potential in Season 1.
Imagine, for a moment, that you attend a school. Let’s call it an art school (drawing, sculpting, writing, needlework, anything that can be called an art). And there’s a special award given to students who have shown improvement in their medium and become better artists. Everyone can earn the award. It doesn’t matter if you’re the first person to get it or the fiftieth; it’s the fact that you earned the award that’s important, not when you earned it.
At first, of course, you’re all new students, struggling to learn the schedules and the routine, getting used to having a place where you can do art and be yourself without worrying about discrimination or ridicule. Then, as people settle in and adjust, the first awards are handed out.
Writing students publish work that blows their older stories away.
Drawing students produce art that is not necessarily better drawn, but truer to their own styles and more meaningful to them.
Sculpting students get better at understanding what they want to show and shaping it into their work.
More time passes. Now most of the students in the school have received the award. The number of stragglers shrinks almost daily. More and more awards are handed out until the only one who hasn’t gotten it…is you.
In this situation, who wouldn’t wonder what they’re doing wrong? Who wouldn’t push themselves to try harder, maybe even too hard? Who wouldn’t worry that maybe there’s been a mistake, that they don’t deserve to be here? Who wouldn’t start to believe, maybe just a bit, that they’ll never get the award because they’re too stupid/untalented/worthless? Who wouldn’t wonder if maybe their fellow students laugh at them behind their backs because they’re the only one who can’t get it right?
How many of you would try to act like you know exactly what you’re doing to hide the fact that you don’t have a single clue what’s going on? How many of you would act self-confident to hide the sea of doubts and fears that are drowning you? How many of you would pick a direction, any direction, because even going the wrong way feels better than standing still?
This is how Kai feels.
His friends have all found their true potential. He’s seen what they can do, how cool and powerful their full potentials are. He’s glimpsed what his own true potential would be like…if only he could find it.
And, ironically, it’s his own determination to reach his true potential in order to prove he’s the Green Ninja that keeps him from reaching his true potential.
Professional or not, no matter what art style, I wanna see how many artists are out there.
Being an artist doesn’t mean you are restricted to drawing, painting, and sculpting!
If you can write, sing, dance, or take photos, you are an artist! If you are good at math, science, language arts, or putting things together, you are an artist!
Whatever it is, if you enjoy it, it is your medium! You are an artist in that field!
“Don’t trace” originally started as a warning against tracing as art theft (as in, tracing someone else’s art without permission or credit is art theft) and then over the intervening years turned into “you can’t use references because it’s cheating” and I think that’s one of the worst cases of the telephone game I’ve ever personally experienced
you are allowed to trace as practice
you are allowed to trace your own work (for example photographs you took yourself or to keep architectural consistency)
you are allowed to trace things the original artist is encouraging you to trace
you SHOULD use references
you SHOULD be allowed to pick up other artists’ artistic tics you like (…as long as they’re not offensive, like blackfacing, but that’s a different kettle of fish)
you SHOULDN’T go around moralizing at other people about how they learn best because you can and will lose friends that way and you can and will hurt other artists’ development that way.
Also other than art theft there IS no such thing as cheating in art okay use sparkle pens and fan brushes to your heart’s content why is that even a thing I have to say (…and yes I’ve had conversations in the analog world about fan brushes as “cheating” I’m so tired of snotty artists who think you shouldn’t be allowed to use tools that make things easier because they can do it the hard way)
But honestly, this need to be said louder, as an artist you end up feeling like you aint getting better, trying to draw in perspective without having a guide line . And when others shame artist for using references its like they are expecting the artist to know by memory how everything works on every perspective.
To Consider that fan brushes, or custom brushes are cheating and expecting the artist to do everything in the “original” way is like wanting the cashier to charge you without using a calculator to do the sum. Tools are invented to be used.
“tools are invented to be used” well put
Not allowing using references is same as telling to a chef they can’t use recipes but they have to pull any dish in the world out of their asses just like that.
The first thing, the very first thing my photography teacher told us was “When photographing was invented, ARTISTS took pictures of cities and traced them on their paintings because hey - easier work! Why bother to work hard when you can make it easy for yourself and save your time and energy?”
I’ve been drawing for years, and I still trace. It helps me learn relationships between shapes, and to understand perspectives that are difficult. Other days, I eyeball it until it looks right. 90% of what I have on my computer is reference images.
Thing is, use what makes you learn best. Don’t steal, but don’t suffer because someone says references aren’t getting.
Lots of this.
I work in animation. My boss encourages the whole team, every day, to learn how to draw the characters by tracing them over and over, before trying to draw them freehand. It helps commit their shapes and proportions to muscle memory and actual memory.
Tracing is an invaluable method of learning. As long as you aren’t tracing somebody else’s work and calling it your own, you’re in the clear. TRACE YOUR LITTLE HEART OUT.
ninjago au where jay stays in his snake form for the rest of the show after he gets bitten by that snake fossil and so when cole turns into a ghost kai is pretty much the only human left on the original team and so hes just like “what the heck guys”
I’m on an not art related discord Server. It has an art channel thou, where I keep uploading some stuff from time to time. I’m known for my drawings in this community.
This happened in the art-channel yesterday:
Me: *posts a new drawing*
No response. as usual.
drawing beginner: *posts an drawing*
10 People (including me) comment on it, like it, encourage this person.
Randy (random dude): “I’ll rather like and comment this new art instead of Noji’s.”
Me: “Outsch is it that bad?”
Randy: “No quite the contrary! Your art is amazing! But you’re so good you don’t need encouragement.”
This……. is the worst thing I’ve ever heard. I may be quite happy with my art at the moment and this is the reason why I love to share it with you. But there where times I was not. Where I felt uncompfortable sharing my stuff. Even if other people said it’s wonderful.
And people who are good at something (in the eyes of others) don’t deserve some praise because they don’t need it? Because they know that they’re good?
Everyone deserves some praise and approval. Everyone deserves encourangement and likes. No matter how skilled they are.
So in case you haven’t heard it today:
You are wonderful. It doesn’t matter if you’re drawing, writing, producing videos and/or music, if you’re crafting or whatever. It doesn’t matter if you’re a beginner, advanced or proffessional. And it certainly doesn’t matter how many follower you have. Your work is amazing. Even if you don’t feel unsure at times about your works, let me assure you: There’s no need to feel unsure or uncompfortable. Because you enlighten everyone’s days with it. So keep it up as long as you have fun doing it. And don’t let anyone ever tell you, that you don’t deserve love, praise and everything good. Because you deserve it.
Beautifully said! Everyone deserves praise and feedback for their work, no matter the skill level ^_^
Art is an expression of oneself so getting positive feedback is important. Knowing that what you create makes others emotional is important and the need for knowing that doesn’t have anything to do with skill level.
Please everyone when you see or read something you like let the creator know, even if it’s just saying “I love this”. It can make someones day just like seeing art or reading a good story can make your day better ♡
@silverryu25 knows what’s up.
agree 500% with what’s been said but also- You may think someone is awesome/great/well known etc etc but that doesn’t always mean they will think that of themselves esp if they’re in a block/trying something new. By all means support new people, that’s amazing! But don’t stop encouraging people who you think are really good either!
daily life of a digital artist: