New To Tumblr - Dont Really Know What To Write

a customer said “earl gay” instead of “earl grey” and my lizard brain reacted fast enough to say “that’s what they call me in England”

i edit these in procreate- maybe i should get an actual photo-editing app

my interpretation of human vox! :))

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Have any art tips, your art is cool and I've been trying to get into digital art recently.

thanks :)

something ive learned recently: set ur layer to add on digital art for lighting - best things ever

but if you're just starting out with digital art, find a program ur comfortable with (i recommend procreate), and just play around and figure out what brushes and stuff you like, find digital artists on youtube for more specific tips (i recommend LavenderTowne for more cartoon-ish style digital art, but some of her tips can be good for any style)

if you've been doing traditional for a while, it'll just kinda throw you off to start digitally drawing, but eventually you figure it out and get the hang of it and to have pretty much every tool and color at your disposal is cool, just gotta learn how to use them :)

but if you're new to art entirely, just draw and have a good time, like thats my biggest tip, explore your style while also having fun, dont worry if it's not the next mona lisa, that's not important, it's gonna take time, and there will never be a point where you will have the skills to draw every single thing you want exactly how you want it, its just impossible. also you can look at other peoples art also take inspiration to start creating your style, i swear though i feel that step by step tutorials can hurt your art SO BAD, unless they give a thorough explanation into why you are doing what you're doing, you haven't learned anything, and when you try to do it again, but in different contexts, it's gonna look weird, because you don't actually know what you're doing.

ALSO JUST GENERAL TIP JUST WATCHING PEOPLE DRAW, IT DOESNT EVEN HAVE TO BE A TUTORIAL OR ANYTHING, ITS JUST SO HELPFUL TO WATCH SOMEONE'S PROCESS

heh i don't know if this helps, i can totally give more specific tips if anyone asks ^^

doodled for a bit on free draw (roblox)

it amazes me that probably dozens if not more people are using/have used the phone + tablet wallpapers i’ve created over the years

someone who i will never know or meet liked my art enough that they wanted to see it every time they open their phone

insane.

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hey if ur ever in like an art block/rut, take a break and watch shading tutorials from people with totally different styles until one day you get tons of motivation and create something cool :D

i really like it for first time trying this style of shading

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I see the president was sworn in yesterday and has already done a bunch of shit. He declared that the only genders recognized are male and female and I very much assume requires people to remain in their biological sex.

I as a transmasc person am both intrigued and terrified for the next 4 years. I have yet to come out to anybody who isn’t a close/also trans friend and had been previously planning on coming out this year to my family + school. While I very much assume my family will accept me even if it takes them some time to wrap their heads around it, I think it’ll be interesting to see how my liberal-leaning private school (that has trans students and a trans teacher) goes abt it since its basically illegal in my state to be trans at school now starting a few months ago. The uncertainty of all this though is really scary bc even if I can’t get medical care for a few years thats not going to be the end of my world I could be facing much more than that.

I think over the next 4 years the best thing I or anyone can do is just continue moving on. Trans and queer people have always been around and we have always pushed through. I think that as long as we stay together and focus on our communities and making sure everyone can get through this it might just be okay. We all need to stand strong and watch for the light at the end of the tunnel.

I love when trans people look back on their earlier art, its always so interesting