My housemate wanted to do an art-and-chat session about the book we read for book club last month (Jonathan Strange and Mr Norrel)- so I’ve done some ink painting 
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I attended an online comic workshop this evening which was pretty cool. Sarah Mirk, the host, is the editor of Guantanamo Voices, which is an excellent piece of comic journalism. At the end of the workshop, she led us through creating a 4-panel comic. The prompt was to think about an emotional response we had recently.
To begin with: Spend 5 minutes thinking about your senses and your environment in that moment
Panel 1: Draw yourself
Panel 2: Draw a closeup (could be your hands, could be an object close by, could be your face)
Panel 3: Draw yourself from a different perspective (could be talking to someone, could be doing something else)
Panel 4: Draw something unrelated (such as a cat, a plant, a landscape) and describe how you were feeling and why
So this is, of course, a rough draft, but I’ve never done something like this before and I think it’s really, really cool.
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Oooo cool! Are you gonna flesh it out? 
Comics are neat. And oh so much more work than they look. 
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I think so! I had a lot of fun pulling it together for a rough draft. I have a few other projects going on right now, though, so this one gets the back burner.
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I, too, shall be doing ~art~ today.
My homework for that lovely class I’m taking is all about perspective. It’s pretty open ended homework (“draw something using perspective, a street scene is nice”) and I’m thinking…
ALIEN STREET SCENE.
because reasons.
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YES I AM SO HERE FOR THIS
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First drawing I’ve done since December: my friend’s cat for her birthday. Kind of sketchy, but that’s how I roll these days!
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KITTEN!!
I dig the looser sketchy nature.
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Chalk pastels are SO MUCH FASTER than colored pencil 
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Drew my DM’s cat as a wizard, as he’s dealing with family tragedy and I know he asked our other friend for support in the form of cat pictures.
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I am sorry your DM is going through some shit. 
But that is a lovely wizard kitty!
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That’s very adorable (and a good drawing). I hope it helps your DM get through the current bad times. 
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finished a “creative project” piece for my hip hop class. digital collage, homage to Radha Blank’s “The Forty-Year-Old Version” (2020).
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OKAY BUT I LOVE IT
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the film was so, so good. I wanted to do this in a zine style, and I think it came out well enough.
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I love your portraits!!!
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thank you! this style is quicker and easier than the style of rather work in, but I feel pretty limited in my knowledge of the software and just digital drawing in general. I’m sure it will get easier over time, and I could probably learn a thing or two from watching videos, which I am hiiiighly resistant to (and I really don’t know why).
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Doodles! Anyone have a recommendation for line art pens? I’ll probably start with this kind of doodling in other colors, and at some point try to add watercolor on top of it.
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fuckin love that MJ.
Line art pens, microns are what I’ve used in the past. Lots and lots of size options!
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