was talking with Alex Neonakis on twitter about how much we missed our old mid-2000′s Web 1.0 links pages, so we’re BRINGING ‘EM BACK BABYYYYY
So anyway, I watched the pirate show and now I am definitely not okay.
made this little process video over on tiktok since I got so many kind comments about the lighting/shading on these pieces! A surprisingly simple but effective setup 😎🏴☠️
Some of my stuff for the Sketch-Dailies challenge over on twitter! You can follow me over yonder if'n you’re so inclined.
completely forgot that I had drawn an “Exhausted Blackbeard Who’s Done Being a Pirate” eight dang years ago, time to rework it for Our Flag Means Death I guess 😎
vitellium asked:
Do you happen to post speedpaints anywhere?
assuming you mean sped-up process videos (and not like the “I’m trying to rapidly paint a thing in 30 minutes” kind of speed paints), I have a couple up on YouTube!
I have an anxious little brain that has trouble focusing on the task at hand when I know I’m being recorded, so it’s not something I do for every piece—very grateful for when I’m using Procreate that it’s just on in the background.😅
…Could be arranged.🖤🏴☠️
Just cleanin’ out all the drafts with some more Agh Lab logo work for Dota 2! SO MANY REPEATING LETTERFORMS I was very tired after tweaking this one
some plein air sketches from Bryce Canyon at the end of last year that I inexplicably did not post!! Better late than never 😅
me trying to balance Ace Attorney and Our Flag Means Death in my brain like a harried intern carrying too many cups of coffee back to the office
4 days left to check out my art exhibition EL FUTURO ANTIGUO at @gallerynucleus!
Do you recognize this design’s inspiration?
Prints and originals for sale here!
Hey… Do you want to do something weird? 👀
#the lower back & tummy bulges are everything#are those period accurate undies on a character from a show where they wear studded goth belts on their foreheads?#classic shoomlah#thanks 4 the meal
ahaha thank you @smovsalt I feel seen by these tags
a-for-effort-f-for-execution asked:
hey shoomlah i have a question thats been bothering me for a while.
i see lots of people do art studies, and i do them too, or try to in between other stuff. but i look at how others studies wind up and then mine... am i doing an art study 'wrong'? is there a 'right' way you're supposed to do a study? is it weird to feel like i was never taught how to do an art study in the first place
So I don’t think there’s a wrong way to be doing a study, so long as you always keep in mind that you should be consciously trying to learn while working on a study!
Like when I’m doing plein air work I’m often focused on studying and representing the specific construction/”anatomy” of the ruins or rock forms, when someone else drawing the same subject might be focused on color, or lighting, or stylization, or anything else. You can have very different goals when doing studies and end up with very different (but equally valid) results.
But then I’ve also done studies where I’m focusing entirely on color and lighting:
…and then back in college I was doing studies which were entirely about medium and uncovering/emphasizing the color in a piece:
And all of these are successful in my opinion! I used a different process each time, and focused on/learned different things, but I did go into each one generally knowing what my goal was and how I wanted to pull it off: if you’re studying color, maybe avoid eye-dropping colors for your first pass! If you’re studying proportion, maybe eyeball it at first! And then you can dig back in and see where your instincts were off, what you can improve, etc.
Art studies/master studies are occasionally about painstakingly exacting recreation, down to the brush stroke, but that’s hardly the only way to go about doing it. 👍🏼
Hey… Do you want to do something weird? 👀
one way I force myself to go to bed when I’m working on something is to write down all of my little stumbling blocks as I go instead of treading water by hyper-focusing on one problem, and then I have a nice little to-do list to come back to in the morning with fresh eyes 🙌🏼