I'm an art student/freelance illustrator/intersectional feminist/nerd/fan girl/history buff.
I don't often post my own artwork here. If you are interested in my art, visit the links below!
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Catching Elephant is a theme by Andy Taylor
The Six Swans
Kay Nielsen
- illustration from Red Magic (1930)
Same sketch from yesterday with textures from bank envelopes.
Ivan Bilibin.
Seriously some of my favorite art. A few years ago I came across a book of Russian fairy tales at the library with these stunning illustrations and immediately went out and bought a copy of my own.
I also found an older book with a compilation of most of his work at the library. I went back to check it out again, though, and the librarian informed me that they’d dumped it with some other old books that were falling apart, unfortunately. :( The book is pretty expensive and I’ve never quite gotten around to buying it for myself.
(Do check out the Tumblr tag for Ivan Bilibin, though. So much amazing art!)
heres something you should think about
- if you have ever reposted a tumblr artists work within weeks, days, hours, minutes, fucK EVEN SECONDS of them posting their artwork
- and your repost has gotten more notes than the original artist
- and your repost lacks credit to the original artist
- and your repost interprets fuckign everything differently from the original artists original intent about the work
heres things you should do
- punch yourself
- punch yourself
- punch yourself
- punch yourself
- punch yourself
A friendly reminder
If you see art you like on your dash and want to know the source but not even the original post has it, SauceNAO is your friend. It may not always give you any results but it’s reliable often enough. You may have more luck if whatever you’re looking for was originally posted on Pixiv but I’ve also found things from other websites with it, sometimes even photos when I’ve picked the Google search.
You can get the browser extension from here, it works for both Chrome and Firefox. You can also upload art you need the source of directly on the website but the extension is infinitely more useful.
I’m always leaving out feet because I really suck at drawing feet and shoes… So here some studies.
Click the image to go to the fullsize! Easier to read.
A big ol’ tip on drawing cities from street-level. The drawings are pretty crude, (I did them very fast,) but I think they get the point across :) I’m sure some streets like in the first example actually exist in the world, but why would you choose to draw something so boringly bland?
Remember! Observe these things in real life as you walk around! This tip is just to make you aware. By observing in real life, is how you can really make it feel real!
Hope it helps you out!
