I made a video how to find your art style, if you’ve been drawing for a few years it might help ya 🙂
And remember to never take art advice from an artist who’s only been drawing for 4 years XD
I made a video how to find your art style, if you’ve been drawing for a few years it might help ya 🙂
And remember to never take art advice from an artist who’s only been drawing for 4 years XD
***** Weekly Links are the (rarely) bi-weekly article series where I post interesting links I’ve found over the past 2 weeks. Mostly I post art references (read: hot bitchez), art videos that helped me, philosophy stuff occasionally, and lastly some music that I found and love! I also do a little blog post about myself if you’re a fuckin weirdo and wanna read about my struggle to become the anime tiddiez master. *****
I always start these things and first thing I think is: how the hell do I usually format these things? Then I gotta go look up my old link articles and see how the hell this thing is done…
February was a fun month for me! I was finally consumed by the art demons. My desire to play video games is dead and gone (except for Escape from Tarkov x_x). I used to play video games while listening to talks like Joe Rogan or Jordan Peterson. Now, I can’t even do that! Anytime I attempt to play video games, my subconscious starts to bug me that I’m wasting time and that I should be drawing instead.
There’s a quote in The Alchemist that says: the more someone pursues their personal legend (purpose in life) the more and more it becomes their sole reason for living. I now know this is true.
Or as Jordan Peterson put it: in order to get rid of addictions, you have to find something that replaces the addiction. Something you find even more meaningful than the addiction.
So if you want to stop some addiction or bad habit of yours, just find your purpose in life. Haha! It took me about 1 year and 5 months to be fully consumed by my drive for art. So who knows, maybe if you’re more disciplined than me, you’ll be consumed by your purpose in 6 months or less?
A warning though, you will become a different person. The old you will die. So if you’re afraid of change and prefer life nice and simple, don’t pursue your purpose in life. Your old way of living will be annihilated. Your new god will destroy it.
The plus side: you will have beautiful and infinite meaning in your life while you pursue your dream.
OH-KAY, that’s enough philosophy! Let’s talk about thick thighs! 😀
Also, featured image is a quick pic I did recently.
Camila Bernal – Thick Colombian model x_x. Jesus, why even date women that aren’t Latina? Most women could never be thick like this… I gotta find an Asian girl and do massive experiments to get her to be as thick as this lady.
Jang eun young (waveya Ari)Â –Â Gorgeous Korean lady from a dance duo. Her and her partner have a youtube where they do sexy dance covers. In reality these girls are hustling their lingerie brand. God fucking bless beautiful entrepreneurial women. (Her dance partner’s instagram here)
Juliette Michele – Another thick cosplayer lady, zomg. Is she Latina? I think so…
Miko Mihokina – Belgian cosplayer, oo la la. She’s got kinda a big nose but a cute face so she gets away with it. Great body and delicious white skin! <3
Miss Warm JÂ –Â Pretty Asian cosplayer. I was gonna post her instagram but I guess it got deleted? Here’s a backup instead.
XXX-cosplay – Tumblr that posts lots of NSFW cosplay pics. Prolly a good way to find more cosplayers eh?
Chris’s Art Cave – Hentai artist/animator that focuses mostly on tentacle/futanari porn. He’s really good and his stuff is super hot! Watching this guy’s animations makes me wanna learn animation! Fuck man, some day I will, it looks incredible, so mesmerizing…
Sefuart – Great hentai artist. His style is a kinda cartoony. Check him out on: Deviant Art and Tumblr
Calm – Incredible American style hentai artist. He’s like 1/2 cartoony yet 1/2 realistic at the same time. He’s really something, check him out!
Ellowas – Really damn good SFM animator. This guy has made a lot of hot Overwatch stuff, check it yo.
Espen Olsen Saetervik – In-fucking-credible Dark Souls-esque traditional paintings. You have to see his stuff.
Aurahack – Amazing colorful art. Ughhh, this girl is art goals for me!
Doxy – Another really good hentai artist. Check out her site for a lot of great tutorials.
The Emergence of Talent by Sycra – This guy has been around on youtube making art tutorials foreverrrrrrr. I’ve seen him recommended time and time again by many people and now I see why. He’s very insightful and has a lot of wisdom in art. This video in particular is about how becoming a great artist takes many years of study and work. The most interesting topic he talked about was how all “gifted” artists he has met, all copied the artists they loved as kids. This massive amount of copying as children set up their brain to crush at art when they got older and studied art seriously.
TLDR: go do tons of copies of the artists you love. This will help your brain develop art skill faster. Yes, even if you’re old. (Sycra takes a long time to articulate his thoughts so if you hate long rambling videos, don’t watch this guy lol)
Also, Sycra has tons of incredible art tutorial videos on his youtube and website. go pls
Mikey Mega Mega – This guy is a another great artist making tutorials on Youtube. He does a cute anime/cartoony style. Very helpful videos, usually going step by step in real time! A very nice man and occasionally funny.
Final Fantasy 13 OST – Lake Bresha – Another amazing Final Fantasy soundtrack. Excellent music to draw to, have a listen to the whole album, it’s great.
Red Velvet – Bad Boy – One of Red Velvet’s new singles that came out at the beginning of February. Amazing K-Pop. Such a chill fucking song.
Jazz Jackrabbit OST – Deserto – Soundtrack from an ancient DOS game I used to play as a kid. The music is really fucking good.
Seth Nova – BABYÂ – A new future funk artist I found recently. I guess this guy hasn’t been around too long but holy shit, he is fucking good!!! He also sings on one of his new songs. Can’t wait until this guy releases an album. <3 <3 <3
DéspairsRay – Abel to Cain – Some BADASS Japanese metal. I swear this song sounds straight out of Devil May Cry 1. I haven’t listened to metal in a long time, I gotta go back. x_x
One Piece OST – Chika No Sakaba Dai-Hole – This is the song that plays during the Davy Back fight in One Piece. OMG, I was entranced by this song the first time I heard it and I had to find it. Beautiful middle-eastern sounding song, so energetic and uplifting! 😀
KK, that’s it. Thanks for reading! Hopefully some of these links help you on your journey. And if not, at least you got some eye candy out of it!
-JONRS
2018 EDIT: If you’re looking for advice as a beginner artist, do not read this article! This article has outdated information that I no longer believe in. I’ve updated my advice to beginner artists and you can read all about it here. (I’m keeping this article up because I believed this shit at the time I wrote it and I hate when people don’t accept and respect the “wrong” viewpoints of their past selves. It also serves as a milestone for my progress, or something. There’s the ego putting it’s two cents in. 😛 ) -JONRS, 2018
I should have wrote this article months ago. I started studying art in October of 2016. I’m a couple months late :X. I started writing the outline for this article as a timeline of how I progressed with art over the past year. I instantly regretted trying to make an outline. Instead I’m just going to show you where I am.
Also let me make it clear that this article is intended for people who don’t have the means to go to art school or simply don’t want to. This article is for the strugglers that choose to teach themselves art.
If you’re going to art school or have a teacher, don’t read this. If you’re unsure, get a teacher or go to school. It’s a lot safer and you won’t go insane like self-taught people do. 😛
The self taught path is for those of us who have no choice or seek self-mastery.
So I started my art journey with Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain. I did the first exercises in the book and first tried to draw a side profile of one of my Guild Wars 2 characters from memory. Not even close hahahah. The second picture is a self-portrait I did with a mirror. I look like god damn Jabba the Hutt, HAAHHAHAHA!
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Then I started doing Fun With a Pencil and I started to draw my crappy little cartoons again just like when I was a kid!
Fast forward 1 year and here I am doing sketches of anatomically incorrect classy bitches!
So I hope I’ve illustrated how good you can get (if you’re extremely undisciplined like me). If you draw everyday you will be light years ahead of me in your first year. 😀
I went from being frustrated with digital drawing and spending hours trying to get the damn lines right… (and just ended up tracing her head).
To this:
I sketched the pose from imagination, used a posing doll to make sure I got the perspective somewhat passable, and actually colored the picture. My light and shadow knowledge is still pretty much non-existent but I still tried.
Decent progress for an undisciplined lazy fucker. If you are even slightly more motivated then me, you will make huge strides within your first year. Here’s the part where I tell you how to do better than I did my first year in art.
If I were to go back in time 1 year and tell myself how to study art correctly, here’s what I would say:
TLDR: For your first year focus almost exclusively on figure drawing, faces, and a little bit of hair study wouldn’t hurt either. Once you feel comfortable drawing the human figure then branch out and learn light and shadow then you can move on to color and learn perspective when you want to start making environments for your characters. Don’t even attempt to learn anatomy unless you are very confident in your figure drawing abilities. Learning anatomy at this stage is a waste of time. You will learn more about the human body simply by doing gesture drawings and life drawings.
**** P.S. I forgot to mention this list is for people who’s goal in art is to do amazing figure drawing. For my case, I wanna draw teh animay tiddiez and I wanna draw them asap! If your goal is to be an environmental artist then I would say learn perspective first! Then move onto light and shadow, then learn color when you understand light. Then you can go paint your trees or whatever…
I’m separating these next two as they are infinitely more important than the others…
Okay, welp I think that about does it partner. Hopefully I imparted some wisdom to another artist who’s unsure what path to take when teaching yourself art. And if worst comes to worse at least this article will serve as a milestone so in the future people can see my humble beginnings. 🙂
Good luck fellow wanderer!
-JONRS