4/12/24

comm for raffina on a03 for her lovely little fanfiction, which can be read here

3/21/24 [drawn on 1/30/24]

this was a comm for the touhou calendar bot on twitter

2/21/24

assorted sketches from the past month or so

2/21/24

2/6/24

1/2/24

12/24/23 Thought it'd be fun to do one of these an reflect on my improvement this year :]

12/13/23

12/12/23

12/3/23 Inspiration

12/3/23

Could you draw Hina Kagiyama hanging out with the Aki sisters?

12/2/23 👍

Oh also textured brushes are an absolute godsend. Having heavy texture makes it so much easier to give for example, the impression of grass in half the time that it'd take to render good grass with a standard smooth brush. I personally use thedawners brushes a lot for this. Not just grass though! For anything, really. I also find it a lot easier to do lineart if the lines are kind of fuzzy, since it's less obvious if your lines are a little wonky than if you're doing lineart with a perfectly smooth brush

how do you manage to draw so quickly and still have it look so nice. tell me your secrets oh great one

!!! Firstly thank you so much! The single biggest thing that's helped me with art is just...Caring less. It sounds a bit counter productive but instead of spending a lot of time fussing over little details, I work on just making it look "good enough" Being looser wit art an only going as far as you need to go to make summat recognizable, rather than fully polished, really goes a long way if you just want to get a project done rather than make your magnum opus. [Which in general helped me a lot, cos i'd always get frustrated when I'd spend a lot of time on a piece an not have it turn out how I wanted. if that makes sense!] And also just a general pro tip that has made drawing people really easy for me [if you're using lineart, does not work if you're rendering them in their entirety] Is i'll do one colour at a time, clip the layer so i can't draw outside what I coloured, an shade each part separately. This way I don't have to very carefully colour in the lines an can just go bam. shading done on this part an keep doing it until the whole girlie is shaded in. This sped up my process a lot. Example v

how do you manage to draw so quickly and still have it look so nice. tell me your secrets oh great one

!!! Firstly thank you so much! The single biggest thing that's helped me with art is just...Caring less. It sounds a bit counter productive but instead of spending a lot of time fussing over little details, I work on just making it look "good enough" Being looser wit art an only going as far as you need to go to make summat recognizable, rather than fully polished, really goes a long way if you just want to get a project done rather than make your magnum opus. [Which in general helped me a lot, cos i'd always get frustrated when I'd spend a lot of time on a piece an not have it turn out how I wanted. if that makes sense!] And also just a general pro tip that has made drawing people really easy for me [if you're using lineart, does not work if you're rendering them in their entirety] Is i'll do one colour at a time, clip the layer so i can't draw outside what I coloured, an shade each part separately. This way I don't have to very carefully colour in the lines an can just go bam. shading done on this part an keep doing it until the whole girlie is shaded in. This sped up my process a lot. Example v

12/1/23