Anonymous #1 3w

Thank you thank you

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Anonymous #2 3w

Thank you!❤️

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Anonymous powder_pear 3w

And those look SOOOO good✨✨

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Anonymous #4 3w

Haha not quite, here’s the current full sketch

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Anonymous powder_pear 3w

Tysm!!

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Anonymous OP 3w

What I’m going for is sad, scared, goth clown. The goth bit isn’t fully evident yet, but once I get to adding values it should be

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Anonymous OP 3w

One artist to another, BEAUTIFUL!!!!! 🙏💕

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Anonymous OP 3w

Either way u draw emotion very well 😭

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Anonymous #6 3w

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Anonymous OP 3w

i’m saying it’s rlly good 😂

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Anonymous #4 3w

Tysm!! That’s one of my main goals in almost all of my art, so I’m glad it’s working!

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Anonymous OP 3w

🔥🔥🔥🫢

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Anonymous OP 3w

i’m jkn like “my fault for ever drawing on the same planet as u”

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Anonymous #5 3w

Thank you!❤️❤️

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Anonymous #6 3w

🥰

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Anonymous #6 3w

Oooooooh I see. In that case thank you, but you’re wrong! My skill is the result of art school and quite a few years of work, so your only obstacles are practice and your own creativity! You can do it, I believe in you!!🗣️

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Anonymous OP 3w

ik, i’m self taught, i just don’t keep up enough w the consistency

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Anonymous #6 3w

That’s absolutely fair. This does look good though imo!

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Anonymous OP 3w

thx, it was my first strictly pen drawing to challenge myself, so there r a few mistakes

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Anonymous #6 3w

Ooooo hell yeah! I’ve been trying to dabble more in ink generally over the past year or so but GOD the permanence is rough sometimes💀

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Anonymous OP 3w

fr, idk if thts ur insta in the pic but i followed. As for inking it after using pencil i’ve been doing it for abt a year now, this is something recent i did

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Anonymous #6 3w

Oh nice, great line control! And yup that’s my insta, thank you!

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Anonymous #7 3w

Ty!

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Anonymous #8 3w

One part of it is having a pencil-looking brush and an eraser brush that’s a bit rough at the edges, but not too rough. The biggest thing though is lowering your brush opacities, I have my pencil brush at 94% and my eraser brush at 72%. This mimics how most pencil marks, while sketching, are rarely fully opaque and how erasers generally leave a faint mark unless you were drawing REALLY lightly. Having a super scratchy sketching style is helpful too lol, but the opacity and the brush type are-

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Anonymous OP 3w

-the two big things. Hope this helps!

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Anonymous OP 3w

OH, also having your background slightly toned helps it look more like real paper, particularly newsprint (it’s also easier on the eyes!). Mine is always set at the yellowish off white you can see in the sketch

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Anonymous OP 3w

My current pencil and eraser brushes are MaxU Colored Pencil Waxy and MaxU Watercolor Eraser Scrub, though those are from the watercolor max pack and that costs around $25 I think (bought it a few years ago so I don’t remember exactly). Before I had the maxpack, I used peppermint as my pencil and something like gloaming, eaglehawk, or oberon from the drawing section of brushes as my eraser

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Anonymous OP 3w

Lowering the eraser opacity and making it a rougher texture is so genius! I'll have to try that as well as lowering the pencil. I'm still learning to lighten up and not draw with such a heavy hand so those two things could make that easier. Also like the tip on tinted background. The automatic white background can be really harsh. Thank you <3

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Anonymous OP 3w

Ah, shit, idk if you use procreate so idk how relevant that last comment is to you

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Anonymous OP 3w

Do you also draw traditionally?

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Anonymous OP 3w

I do use Procreate. My go-tos for a long time has been gloaming, eaglehawk and some of the paintbrushes but I have been buying more so I can see the style/texture I'm imagining in my head

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Anonymous #8 3w

* considering buying more

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Anonymous #8 3w

Thank you haha, it was a game changer for me once I realized the thing about lowering the opacity. I always hated how I could never see a faint impression of what I’d already tried and erased even when I wanted it around since that’s a part of the process of figuring out what I’m drawing. And good luck with the heavy handedness! I find doing super super quick figure drawings helps with that kinda thing, like 5 minutes tops quick. Forces your hand to move quick enough that pressing on the-

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Anonymous OP 3w

-screen/paper really hard is more difficult

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Anonymous #8 3w

I don’t draw traditionally too much atm, but I learned how to draw almost exclusively traditionally. I only got access to a drawing tablet once I was decently far along, so the way I draw is pretty rooted in traditional drawing. That being said, transform, undo, layers, and being able to fully erase anything is fucking fantastic lmao

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Anonymous #8 3w

Oh nice! If you like watercolor aesthetics and are willing and able to spend around $25 for some quality brushes, I genuinely cannot recommend the watercolor max pack enough, that shit is my life blood and I use it almost exclusively

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Anonymous OP 3w

That's amazing. I didn't begin any formal training in drawing until freshman year of college, but very soon after that, probably a year and a half, I started doing digital renderings and I think that's the main reason I'm unsatisfied with how they look. For a while now I've been thinking I should discipline myself and strictly do trad. art for a while, and possibly take more classes after I graduate because I know getting the fundamentals is what I really need

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Anonymous OP 3w

My first professor always stressed to not erase because of all the texture I'd lose in all those layers of "mistakes". The ease of erasing in undoing in procreate is too tempting honestly.

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Anonymous OP 3w

I think watercolor is a beautiful wet medium. I personally fancy gouache because I can dilute it to mimic water color, but its natural composition is super opaque so I can get a really large spectrum of opacity from it

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Anonymous #8 3w

I would absolutely recommend trying to get more experience in traditional art for two main reasons: training yourself to draw with your whole arm rather than just your hand and getting you better at rolling with accidents and mistakes. The former is best learned doing studies and sketches from reference on a big sheet of 24 x 18 sketch or newsprint paper. That way, you HAVE to move your whole arm to draw. I’d also recommend using vine charcoal, that won’t leave intents in the page. The latter-

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Anonymous OP 3w

-is helpful for making your art look less stiff, but also just having a better time drawing in general. Traditional art forces you to learn to improvise and roll with unforeseen accidents, to be ok with a fuck up here or there and just know that you’ll get better at it if you keep going. This can, with maybe some difficulty, be mimicked in digital art though! If you make a conscious effort to use the undo button as little as possible, your art will probably become more dynamic and you’ll find-

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Anonymous OP 3w

-yourself in undo hell less and less

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Anonymous #8 3w

Oh nice! I could never quite get a good handle on gouache, but then again I was taught a kinda weird way of going about it (white gauche mixed with watercolor). I also never quite got a handle on actual watercolor despite how much I mimic it in my digital work lmao, maybe I’ll get to that at some point… maybe…💀

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Anonymous OP 3w

Drawing on big paper strikes so much fear in me. I'm not sure what it is, probably the way all the space makes me think there's even more room for me to draw something ugly lol. I'll have to get over it though. I've been falling back on thumbnail sketches, so still on big paper hit several drawings inside individual boxes.

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Anonymous #8 3w

Oh I absolutely get being scared of big paper when you’re not used to it yet, I don’t remember too well how I felt when I first had to use it for a class but I do at least know I was /intimidated/ lol. You do get used to it as you keep using it though!

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