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firexima · 1 day

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Uou are in my top five fav mcyt artists

You have no idea how honored I am??? That is a huge compliment, I’m very very happy to know that you like my drawings that much! Can’t wrap my head around that though, damn. I’m just in disbelief, thanks so much though :)

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firexima · 3 days

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YOUR ART IS INCREDIBLE DO YOU HAVE ANY TIPS /nf

Thanks so much!! I’m so grateful to hear you like my work :)

And boy oh boy I could go oooon and on and on about tips, like genuinely pages upon pages or talking hours upon hours but I’ll share a few things!

1: Put your drawing in black and white to check the values

TLDR: It helps check that your drawings are clear and helps figure out what needs to be brighter/darker.

-> First if all, I want to explain what value is. Value is how bright or dark a color is. Every color has value even when fully saturated and those values change depending on the color. Red for example is naturally darker in value than yellow but naturally brighter in value than blue. You want to be aware and therefore deliberate with how you use value in your art.

Push your darks and push your lights— unless there’s a deliberate reason as to why you don’t want to, you want a fairly large range in values: that means that if you were to put your drawing in black and white only, you would be able to see a large range of greys going from very dark to very bright, black to mid/light grey, mid/dark grey to white depending on the mood of your drawing.

This helps to give your art more depth and volume and generally helps to read better and is nice to look at. When you’re creating art it can be difficult to keep track of everything, so by putting your art in black and white you are only focusing on value and it helps you see what’s getting lost and what you can push and pull more to make brighter or darker.

You can do this by either taking a picture of your drawing and editing it in your camera roll to remove the saturation or set it in one of the black and white filters or if you’re working digitally you can create a new layer above all the ones you already have, fill it with black/white/grey and set the layer to “color”. With your layer, you can turn it on and off whenever you want

2: Do multiple small thumbnails!

TLDR: It helps pushing yourself to brainstorm other options and it helps finding out if your composition works before you spend time on it.

-> Obviously not a complete necessity whatsoever and I don’t even do this with all my drawings especially if they’re just to have fun and de-stress but if you have an idea for a drawing and you really want it to get to its full potential, sitting down and forcing yourself to do more than one sketch can be really great! It doesn’t have to be good at all, just enough for you to know what it is supposed to be.

Often when I come up with an idea I’m excited about I already have a vision for how I want to do it but making myself brainstorm other ways I could draw the same idea and forcing myself to make them noticeably different has helped me come up with some of my proudest works! You are deliberately considering all options for how you can execute the same thing and realizing ways you could do it that you hadn’t initially thought of. In my experience by doing this I realize that the first idea I thought of isn’t always the best possible one or I merge it with another one and therefore end up making it better. (This can also be applied to other creative processes)

Another good thing about it though, is it helps focus on just the composition. Again, there’s a lot of things that go into making an art piece so isolating just the composition helps you figure out a plan and checking to see that it looks good before you spend hours and hours on it. It’s as if you were to build a house and spend days of work and loads of money on making it beautiful but it isn’t structurally sound and falls apart. You don’t want to spend so much of your time on all the details only to realize it just doesn’t feel right all because the composition itself is off.

3: Remember to have fun and don’t be discouraged!

-> I know it’s something nearly everyone says and at first I kind of always ignored it because it felt like it was something people just added to be nice but it is just as important as anything else. Art takes so much time, even just doing a single piece— let alone time to keep building up your skills over time. We don’t have unlimited time, and what you choose to spend your time on matters. Honing your craft and even wanting tips to help you improve means you care. The reason why is one of the most important things of all, don’t lose sight of that. Whether it’s to have fun, to decompress, to express yourself, to depict something you care about— whatever it may be: remember that and don’t beat yourself up or stress yourself out if you aren’t where you want to be or stressing yourself out to meet certain expectations. It really does impact both your art and your learning process whether you’re having a good time or not.

A few last quick tips:

- Don’t be afraid to start over or completely redo something that isn’t working!

- When drawing from reference, trust what you see and not what you know! Drawing what your eyes are telling you is there instead of what your brain thinks should be there will usually always give you better results.

- Step back from/Zoom out of a piece regularly! It also helps to squint your eyes.

- It’s great to make a folder of pieces/artists/pictures that inspire you!

- When studying other people’s art, be aware that they can also make mistakes so that you don’t repeat those.

- You don’t have to take every tip/rule by heart, as long as you understand why they’re there, you can also deliberately choose to go against it if it enhances what you want to do with your piece. Most rules artists teach can be broken, just make sure it’s a deliberate choice to not do those things and why you’re choosing to do that instead of just not knowing about it!

Hopefully these are helpful! I have way more but this is already long enough as is. I wish you the best! <3

#this is so much longer than I meant it to be #I am so sorry for anyone reading #I doubt anyone will read the entire thing #but hopefully this makes sense !!

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firexima · 6 days

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hello! I saw your post about asks and figured id mention you can go in the settings and disable endless scrolling. it really makes a difference when you have to activley choose to keep looking at stuff (idk if it works on the app but you can on the website)

also yeah that's pretty much how you would tag a post like that or just post it without tags either works

also your art is really neat ok bye

Ooooo that’s pretty handy, thanks so much! :)

And thank you for enjoying my art!

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firexima · 6 days

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I have no clue why a sudden amount of people all sent me asks within the same like day or two but they’re so fun to get so if you ever wanna send or tell me anything at all, I mean— it’s there!

I don’t exactly use tumblr outside of my own page because I don’t want to get attached to another app for me to mindlessly browse through so I just still don’t really know how a lot of things work? I don’t even know how many if anyone will see this because I’m used to Twitter and have no idea about any of this but I’m posting this anyway 👍

Have a nice day everyone

#it’s telling me to add tags #but like #I don’t even know what tags I’m supposed to use on this #like what #but I’ve seen people just talk in these #so i guess I’ll do that lmao

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firexima · 6 days

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the dsmp relapse hit hard and I started to miss techno again real bad but then I found ur account

glad I’m not the only insane one in 2024🎉🎉🎉

love ur stuff

Thanks so much! I’m glad you like my work 🫶

And yeah, I honestly plan to keep Techno’s memory alive by creating artworks of him and his characters for years to come— I don’t see myself stopping anytime soon :0!

Along with mcyt in general, my interest in it has still been going consistently strong and so I create for me and my fellow people that still go back to enjoy the stories and characters :)

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firexima · 6 days

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Your art is very cool ( *｀ω´)

Thank you!! :) I appreciate it

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firexima · 6 days

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What are your pronouns? They're not listed in your bio

Oh !! Thanks, I didn’t even catch that they weren’t there, I’ll go update that. I go by she/her though!

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firexima · 6 days

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ur art is so pretty can i eat it

Thank you!! And I mean— go ahead? I refuse to be held accountable for any damage that may do to your health though

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firexima · 6 days

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Hi just saw your Tommy drawing and is selling merch and stuff of other people's characters okay? I'm not trying to accuse or anything. I've just seen a lot of fan merch and am curious if it's like legal and okay and such.

Firexima remembers that the Inbox exists part 2 o(-(

To answer this though, I still wanna look into it for sure but I’m fairly certain Tommy hasn’t had any issues with it. Over the years from what I know he’s seemed ok with it and the only ccs that I know of that have said not to are Ranboo and Eret I think I remember and especially Technoblade.

Other than those, I don’t have memory of other content creators being against it. Tubbo at least I remember at one point saying he doesn’t really care? But yeah. I think the only things that you’d get in trouble for are trying to pretend to be official merch or ripping off the merch they sell/sold or stuff like that? But from what I’ve seen ccs tend to be ok with fans selling merch with their own art.

I’m going to double-check to make sure but I’m pretty sure at least when it comes to Tommy it should be ok

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firexima · 8 days

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Technobladeeeeeee 🤲

I just think he’s really really cool— please take my offering

#technoblade #technoblade fanart #mcyt #mcyt fanart #firexima art

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firexima · 8 days

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For once, Tumblr gets art first :) I’ve been staying away from Twitter for a tiny bit

Anyways, I’ve never done a drawing of Ranboo (without counting the time I drew him and Tubbo for clinic) but I saw their tattoo post on Instagram and it just really made me wanna do this, I thought it was very sweet :)

#ranboo #ranboo fanart #mcyt #mcyt fanart #firexima art

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firexima · 16 days

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Bedrockbros <3

#technoblade #tommyinnit #bedrockbros #technoblade fanart #tommyinnit fanart #bedrockbros fanart #dream smp #dsmp #dsmp fanart #c!bedrockbros #c!tommy #c!technoblade #c!techno #firexima art #firexima dsmp art

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firexima · 17 days

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Doodles as I think about an au I wanna do :) !

Might make a bigger post later on once I have everything more solidified talking about it a bit

#Technoblade #qsmp chayanne #chayanne the egg #technoblade fanart #chayanne fanart #qsmp #mcyt #mcyt fanart #qsmp fanart #firexima art #firexima qsmp art

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firexima · 17 days

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Big man’s birthday!!!! Feels weird to have grown from a teenage child into adult alongside him but it’s also been so cool to watch how much he’s grown since I first started watching

Either way, happy birthday to him :D

#tommyinnit #tommyinnit fanart #mcyt #mcyt fanart #firexima art

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firexima · 20 days

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Tommy poster !!! Might sell some of these at some point :]

#tommyinnit #tommyinnit fanart #tommy fanart #how to be a billionaire #mcyt fanart #mcyt #firexima art

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firexima · 1 month

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Quick art of sunriseduo !!! :D I was doodling requests on Twitter and I liked how this one turned out so I’ll post it here too :)

If you wanna see the other doodles you can see them on twt as well as leave any requests of your own! I won’t get to all of them but they’re still fun

#technoblade #niki nihachu #technoblade fanart #nihachu #niki nihachu fanart #sunriseduo #c!technoblade #c!techno #c!niki #c!nihachu #dream smp #dsmp fanart #firexima art #firexima dsmp art

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firexima · 2 months

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More Technoblade !!! This one is just a colored sketch and not polished or anything but I still had fun :D!

#Technoblade #technoblade fanart #techno fanart #c!technoblade #c!techno #dream smp #dsmp #dsmp techno #dsmp fanart #firexima art #firexima dsmp art

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