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Wowporn
May 31, 2012

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For real I have issues wanting to lay down on couch and die as soon as I get home but if I go play a few rounds of CSGO it'll help wake me up enough to draw for a little while. Hard to do that if you have like any other obligations in your life though

Other solution: put on bad clickbait YouTube videos in the background so you can half pay attention and draw the most self indulgent thing you can think of, even if it's something that doesn't feel productive to draw or you're horrifically ashamed to be drawing. Anything that can get the slightest extra drop of serotonin out of drawing will at the very least get you to draw more

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Wowporn
May 31, 2012

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My only tip is resist the urge to draw every single hair. Like stick to the level you got in that pic, I think it's good you used bigger strokes and didn't blend it to hell

E in response to nag

Wowporn
May 31, 2012

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I am digging these intense lucy paintings

Wowporn
May 31, 2012

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Every time I try to post a picture on this site imgur gets weirder and more awkward to use so I'm gonna just embed this tweet

https://twitter.com/ZachRDennis/status/1317649331030294528

Wowporn
May 31, 2012

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I wanted to form an opinion on that comic but I literally couldn’t parse what the gently caress it was saying on the first pass

Wowporn
May 31, 2012

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NAG posted:

You just posted a political cartoon in the drawing thread

Lol

Also it doesn't really matter to me how great or terrible your art is cause now it is all in the shiny gold wrapping of being made by a pro apartheid shithead (this can't be surprising to you but it's obvious you put 1/10 of the effort into the drawings you don't want to gently caress which I wouldn't really critique on its own usually but w/e)

And no you do not get to "that's just my opinion" on supporting an oppressive regime lol

Wowporn
May 31, 2012

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Hello Arf, cool Alien. I think the tricky thing is you should limit your color palette, but you can make those select number of colors much more different in hue, value, etc from each other than you think. I'm on my phone in the middle of a bike ride so I can't provide much helpful reference but try cranking your lightest and darkest color twice as far away from each other darkness/color-wise than you currently have them. Might not look great but will open things up a bit and possibly do some cool looking happy accidents

Lately I've just been doodling trash comfort fanart, maybe I'll post the most recent one when I get home

Wowporn
May 31, 2012

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Tbh I very like that Mario, like the only parts that aren't all the way successful are maybe the darkest bits as they seem just a little too overpowering.

I've kind of doubled down on a niche not many here would be interested in... here's some more early 2000's videogame mascots

Ratchet frommmmmmmm Ratchet


Decker from Go Go Hypergrind. I love his design because he is literally just Crash Bandicoot but if he was being played by like Dane Cook

Wowporn
May 31, 2012

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Hi I'm back. I got excited when Square Enix renewed the Gex license because I have good taste

Wowporn
May 31, 2012

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Back at it with quality videogames

Wowporn
May 31, 2012

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Not sure where is a good place for this question but this thread gets way more traffic than the others I visit in cc. I'm trying to rebuild my portfolio with a focus on graphic design and illustration, I'm decently knowledgeable about graphic design cause it overlapped a lot of my major's course load when I was in school, but it's been a little while since I've used illustrator/in design.

Is there a decent refresher course anyone could recommend, or even just some videos to help me get caught back up that are geared towards an intermediate level designer? Very much just looking for nuts and bolts of the programs rather than any sort of design fundamentals/theory or anything like that.

Wowporn
May 31, 2012

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Lol all of the coffee cats are flagged as sensitive content for me

Wowporn
May 31, 2012

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Ezel Berbier from Final Fantasy Tactics Advanced. Didn't get super creative from the official art but I still really liked it.

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Wowporn
May 31, 2012

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It's that space guy

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