But you know exactly how much work you put into your art, how many hours and how much care and love went into your pictures and no matter the amount of likes or retweets you get, you KNOW the worth of your work.
some of you never got burned to death by your evil aunt, were saved by a royal physician, then brought to earth and raised in a french granny’s bomb shelter with no memories of your past, turned into a cyborg, moved to new beijing with your new adoptive family, and then fell in love with the new emperor and it shows
Important art things I learned from my first semester at art school
• if you tend to have a really heavy hand, invest in a 2H-4H pencil. It draws lighter and erases easy.
• why do people not like using references. Professionals use references all the time. Holy shit use them p l e a s e. Use them for people. Scenery. Composition. As long as you aren’t plagiarizing them then you’re all good.
• speaking of references, make a google drive folder and save your favorites in it. You’ll thank me.
• while one point perspective is claimed as the easiest, we naturally see things in two point.
• do cafe drawings!! These are (according to my professor who has very odd and specific rules for them) drawings with two or more people and they’re interacting. Look at cafe drawings from other artists. They aren’t fully rendered or high detail. It’s to help capture gesture and interaction.
• draw things from life!
• your mental health and confidence is reflected in your work. My first month all of my work looked absolutely horrendous to the point my figure drawing teacher had scheduled a meeting with me to see what was wrong. Once I explained to her what I was going through, she recommended I go to therapy and tutoring. My grade improved tremendously.
• talk to your professors. If you’re concerned about your grade or don’t understand something or even need the demonstration repeated, 9/10 times they will help you. They most likely won’t raise your grade then and there, but they’ll probably offer tutoring, extra credit, or even if you’re lucky, a resubmission. They’re here to help you
• critiques aren’t bad! They’re supposed to be constructive, to help give you different opportunities to make your piece the best it can be.
• that being said, it is up to you whether or not you follow it. You might get a really good idea from someone’s critique. You might get a really bad one.
• everyone learns at a different pace, and your work does not tie to your self worth. I’m still trying to learn this one.
• don’t focus on a pretty sketchbook. Draw whatever the fuck you want. If you want to draw a disco cactus, draw a disco cactus. You do you
• the only way to learn a new technique to anything is to suck at it first. That’s totally normal.
2019 is going to be a great year because we’re going to fucking make it that way, no more of this “I hope good things come to me” shit, I’m gonna go out and drag good things to me by the fucking hair
SAME FRIEND, SAME
2019 Is The Year Of Not Even Remotely Fucking Around
The reason lifting weights helps treat depression is because you don’t just work out your muscles. You also exercise the ability to dispense motivation. Build up your power to motivate yourself, you’ll find yourself doing little things that need to be done. It’s not perfect, and it can be a really slow start, but it really does help.
It’s a lot easier to lift a dumbbell a few times than it is to clean your room, but if you push yourself to lift it you will find it easier to push yourself to organize your stuff or do the dishes.
Also you can punch harder.
learning the longsword turned me from a depressed atheist to a god-fearing maniac with a lust for crack and driving 110mph everywhere
