Eat your veggies
( @merryandrewsart dragged me into merv x cori hell and I might be here a while)
Hey! Hope this doesn't make you uncomfortable, if it does plz ignore it. You're genuinely my favorite fanartist on this site! Everything you've posted for sandman has hit so hard and has me running to reblog. Your poses are so natural and cool looking, do you use references?? What kind of practices do you do?
I??? ahh????!!! Thank you that is so sweet,,, ⁄(⁄ ⁄•⁄-⁄•⁄ ⁄)⁄
I have MANY folders of references, yes! For poses, I’ll thumbnail to try to figure out the basic pose I want, gesture and proportion. Maybe some shape design. Then I compile a few refs that match my thumbnail in some way and keep referencing them while sketching. That entails piecing things together like how anatomy connects, how folds fold, etc, and finding stuff I want to borrow like new shape habits to define/simplify volumes. This is my favourite process because when I run into a problem, or when something looks unappealing, I’ll look for how other artists do it, or how it looks in pictures, and I’ll have learnt something new!
I do studies for sure, but not as much as I’d like to, haha! I started to find that I got pretty good at copying pictures without learning much at all (• ▽ •;) So, if I want to study, I’ll try to set a goal or something, and sometimes that’s as simple as picking a small thing I want to actively improve on while copying a photograph that looks cool.
Breaking out of the flow to remind myself to use refs is kinda hard, and honestly, I won’t when I’m sketching for fun bc it’s extra work :p But all my favourite art was heavily referenced from many different artworks and photographs. And I retain that knowledge! Which is something that doesn’t really happen while studying! Like, I’m not qualified to give art advice, but refs are magic bean stalk seeds for art and I think everyone who’s trying to actively learn should use them as much as possible ✨
(I hope this answers the question? Feel free to send an ask/dm me if it doesn’t ofc ^^)
hello! i love your art style and would like to commission a piece for my gf. is there a process to apply for a commission slot? thank you!
Thank you so much >w< ❤️ you can just slide into my dms whenever you want!
Babygirl of the endless commission for @the-everqueen (tysm✨)