APPETIZERS
I'm helping out with a contest she is holding by providing a commission from me as a prize. If you're looking for good reference photos and a chance to improve your people-drawing skills, head over to her page and check out her contest!
THE MAIN DISH
I like browsing DA for things that help to develop my drawing style. I'm at a stage myself where I'm trying to push my style in a direction it has never gone before, and feel that I need to get all the help I can. That's why articles like this one are an absolute gold mine; while they don't really tell me anything I didn't already know, they still keep hammering the point home into my thick skull.
Draw from life! Practice! Try to see things in 3D! Teach your eyes to measure! We've all heard most (or all) of these things before, but at least I have a tendency to procrastinate with actually doing them.
Back when I started out, I stuck to drawing what was in my head because it required less effort and I felt that I was actually good at it. But later on, learning to learn again has been a huge struggle after I spent so many years disregarding good advice. I did pick up one or two things along the way, but now I see I could have gotten so much better faster if I'd bothered to open my eyes and challenge myself.
That's why, for the past year or so, my style has been changing heavily. I'm testing out my boundaries, doing things I haven't done before, striving to get better at something I only dreamt about before. Yes, I still occasionally draw in my old style (especially in my manga-style; that will always have a special place in my heart as the style that got me into drawing people). However, most of my finished works will be something entirely different.
DESSERT
I will be opening up proper commissions sometime after Christmas. Realized that I have waaaaay too much to draw before then (including current commissions and art-trades).
Hm.... not a very sweet dessert... well, here's a random awesome deviation to sweeten it up!
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Gonna be at Tracon 2018
I have a shared table at Tracon's artist alley this year with a friend of mine! I will be selling prints of some of my work, along with charms and enamel pins I've designed. If you're attending Tracon, please stop by to say hello and take a look!
Gonna have prints of these three at least:
Tracon is an anime & roleplaying convention held in my home city in Finland each year. I'm also part of the organizing team (we're a bunch of volunteers who organize the convention with no pay) so I've been involved with the event in one way or another for years. However, it's been a looooooong time since I've last attended an artists alley, and I'm so
Another sketchblog appears!
So I hopped over to Blogger to create a new sketchblog and stopped updating the one at my website. It's just so much easier having a sketchblog there because most of the artists' blogs that I follow are there as well, and it's simpler to keep track of everything in one place. Plus, I can enable comments without fearing a huge random spam flood.
Check it out -> http://perynne.blogspot.com/
There's mainly just my newer, completed works there at the moment, but I'll start dumping pencil sketches and other things there soon enough. Also I'll use it as a place to gush about whatever game I'm addicted to at the moment. :3
RANDOM FEATURE
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The Grand Feature! (with new features! v.2)
EDIT: Instead of flooding your message centre with my journal every day, I decided to go ahead and start filling up some of the remaining empty slots with people I watch who deserve to be featured. Only 3 more empty slots left after this update, so if I don't get them filled with artists from comments, I'll do one last update tomorrow. :)
Well, since I got tagged by two people, and then was featured by a third, I thought I'd go ahead and do this meme. :)
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:bulletpurple: For each of the 18 first people answering this journa
Happy New Year!
The holidays were a pretty busy time for me. Last Christmas I couldn't spend it with my own family, so this year they seemed determined to make up for it with double the food, double the presents and double the "must spend time with family now". And not having eaten finnish Christmas food for nearly two years, I was happy enough to pig out - getting sick in the process and taking several days to get better again.
Hopefully this year is going to be a better year for me. Last year had some really nice things happen and a whole lot of really, really awful things happen from which I'm still recovering. One of the nice things was that I became in
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I wanted to express how much I appreciate you helping out with the Workshop
And I can absolutely relate with you on the learning part. I drew a lot as a kid..well not a lot but I doodled and stuff. I never bothered learning techniques but mostly because of the lack of resources at the time and had no idea nor motivation to figure out where to start. (No internet and all I had was inspiration from my favorite cartoon/video game/comicbook characters). Never looked at art as a career either so it's something that I just did and winged it. Well getting a pen tablet this year changed all of that Still not looking at it as a means to get money though (that would be awesome if it does happen) but I gain enough self satisfaction being able to draw things from my imagination
And I can absolutely relate with you on the learning part. I drew a lot as a kid..well not a lot but I doodled and stuff. I never bothered learning techniques but mostly because of the lack of resources at the time and had no idea nor motivation to figure out where to start. (No internet and all I had was inspiration from my favorite cartoon/video game/comicbook characters). Never looked at art as a career either so it's something that I just did and winged it. Well getting a pen tablet this year changed all of that Still not looking at it as a means to get money though (that would be awesome if it does happen) but I gain enough self satisfaction being able to draw things from my imagination