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6 and 11 for that end of the year ask game?

6. longest a drawing has taken to finish

about 4 hours give or take, which was this one posted here:

it was the first time I painted a leafy forest so it took some time to figure out how to make the trees look good. for the non-digital-artists here, I'm absolutely not painting those leaves by hand - they're made with the awesome (free!) plant brushes by @tamberella!

11. artist(s) that influenced/inspired your art style

LOVE this question, there are SO MANY so this will get long and I'll probably forget a whole bunch. I'm kinda splitting it up and making it a list for readability

in general:

Vincent van Gogh and impressionism in general

17th-19th century etchings for their incredible linework and hatching. yes the genre as a whole, I wouldn't know specific artists

Alphonse Mucha - if you only know his art nouveau stuff please check out The Slav Epic, breathtaking

all of John Singer Sargent's work tbh, especially his portraiture

Hukosai, Yoshida and Hiroshige for their landscapes - ukiyo-e is incredible in how it conveys so much with such restraint

that typical Instagram concept artist style (idk what else to call it), such as Pascal Campion/@pascalcampion, Henry Wong/henrywongdraws, Dom Lay/layeredpainter, Emiliano Castellano - the list goes on.

colors/rendering:

all the concept artists mentioned above + David Hockney's iPad drawings

@holly-warbs thee holly warbs, such great palettes and style

@wifihunters such interesting/good colors and rendering in every piece, going back years and years

@anonbeadraws work has the kind of palettes I wanna live in

Sergey Kolesov's incredible work for Dishonored

finally I browse the artists on tumblr tag and some fanart tags regularly cos artists on tumblr in general come up with really interesting palettes

last year I've focussed on making my lines looser and more expressive, here are some inspirations for that:

Gustav Klimt's sketches (beware, you'll find a LOT of n//sfw),

Egon Schiele's drawings/art

and the archives of @anobviousaside and @hellosaidthemoons-archives (both occassionally n//sfw)

plus a whole bunch of traditional artists I used to follow on Instagram but don't remember the names of :| but they all made these beautifully flowy life drawings

this is still a very limited list because I'm all over the place - I regularly scroll through the 'colors' and 'art style' tags on my @mjulmjul-reblog sideblog, and have a few hundred pieces saved locally too

#don't worry i intend to actually post some art today too 💀#tagging people so you can easily clickthrough to their tumblrs #yes im putting klimt in the same list as tumblr destiel artists. who cares man art is for everyone #i've never had formal art education which probably partially explains the chaos of the inspiration list #color digital pieces usually take me 1-3 hours which i thiiink is pretty fast and partly the reason i post so goddamn much lol #mjulmjul answertime #not art

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