Ignore The Little “w” In The Corner – I Was Experimenting With Something.

for @tungsten-hydrogen-yttrium, one of my best irl friends, who requested it! i hope you like it!

hi everyone! in the past, challenges like inktober have been great at getting me to practice and improve my art, and this year I wanted to be really motivated so I made myself a prompt list! and I can’t wait to illustrate my friends and favorite memories with these warm-hearted prompts!

(if you’re also a big sap like me and want to use some of these, feel free, I’d love to see them, tag me!)

So over the past week or so, I’ve done over 200 calligraphy requests–and trust me, I’ve counted–and so I decided to make a patreon! If you’ve liked what i’ve made the past month I would really appreciate if you even just donate a dollar, or maybe want a physical copy, want the words to be in a spiral pattern, or even want something longer than the word limit I’ve set on here feel free to check it out! I’ll also start putting patron-exclusive pieces up there as well

and tbh, i will take much more time and care for pieces people are paying me to do, doing it and redoing it until I’m satisfied rather until it’s finished so the quality would be better

tl;dr if you like my calligraphy please check out my patreon! thanks!

the link is here!

ps here are some of the ones i like best!

check out my patreon

req’d by @gods-no-longer-tread-here

holy crap it took like 3 tries to get this image uploaded apparently tungler.hell literally cant handle it 

Flourish Magazine

Welcome to Flourish Magazine, an online zine created by @technicoloroses/ @highlitvrs.

What Is FM?

Flourish Magazine is a space for young creators to share their work and their voice with the world around them. 

Who can work on the zine?

Any author, poet, or artist under the age of eighteen can contribute! Work from all three of these mediums will be featured in the magazine!

We will also need editors! This is pretty self-explanatory, but their role will be to give authors feedback on their work and suggest ways to improve it. 

Finally, we need graphic designers! These are the people that will be formatting our magazine! They will need to be able to work with issuu, as that is where our magazine will be shared.

How Do I Sign Up?

Writers/Poets

Editors

Artist

Graphic Designer

Other Information

Each magazine will be loosely based around a theme, which will be voted on by the staff. The staff will communicate via a server on Discord. 

Any questions? Contact me on tumblr for the fastest response. 

Email: flourishmagazine0@gmail.com

Reblog to spread the world!

other thing silence anon requested! i had a bit of time and decided to do this! again, hope you like it, and i'm now off to do my homework.

potato-preparing the nibs

this process to prepare nibs basically removes the protective layer of oil from the calligraphy nibs. the oil causes the ink to not flow properly, so you make this potato satellite.

things i did that forced me to be a better artist:

used a reference for everything

thinner line art (you think thats thin? go thinner….)

sketch, then do a cleaner sketch, THEN start finalizing

THUMBNAILS

color research, picking a set palette or light/dark for each work

you like that pose? redo it one more time

USE A DAMN REFERENCE

do not rely on stylization as an excuse for anatomy

draw the goddamn background you coward

just draw the hand- a bad hand is better than a hidden hand

the rule of thirds WORKS

take a considerable break between sketch and lines/paint

know that art takes longer as you get better at it

draw the seams on clothes

stop aiming for accuracy and focus on fluidity and motion, accuracy will come with practice of those two concepts

just…do the chiaroscuro. just DO IT. no excuses it always works

stop making excuses, make yourself an art schedule/set weekly(or daily) art goals and just DO IT.

yooooooo so i drew my mouse a while ago?? look at it! it actually looks like a mouse!