Day 3: Digital Device Well My Digivice Looks Like This. It's Pretty Small And Fit In My Hand Perfectly.

Dear young artists

Here are things I wish that someone told me when I started posting/doing art:

1: I know it sucks but you won’t get your art noticed right away. So be patient and enjoy sharing your art even if it seems no one is looking.

2: Do not take request that you know will take you more than 30 minutes. If it takes longer, that’s what commissions are for. Often people will abuse that you are an artist taking request and will give very elaborate requests.

3: Speaking of commissions, do not price ANYTHING under $5. Please value your art. I promise you the people that will complain the “it’s over priced” are cheap. If they actually want your art, they would pay for it as is.

4: SAVE SAVE SAVE. If you do digital art, save it at least every 15 minutes. Save every piece of art, don’t throw it away or delete it.

5: DATE YOUR ART. At the end of last year is when I actually started dating my art within the file name. Example: “6-13-Girl” and have a folder for each year. This would save time when you’re trying to remember when you did an old piece of art or are creating a portfolio.

6: For the love of god, you don’t have to finish everything. Do practice sketches without them turning into elaborate hours of work.

7: Continuing from 6, YOUR SKETCHBOOK IS A SKETCHBOOK FOR A REASON. That’s where you practice. Don’t worry about a drawing not being perfect, the book is for practicing.

8: You don’t have to show someone your sketchbook if you don’t want to. Just say, “I’d rather you not, it’s very personal” and leave it at that.

9: Post your practices and ask for feedback. P.S. take “you need to work on ______ but good color choice!” as feedback and “your art sucks” as someone being an ass.

10: Don’t trace references or others artwork. It will literally not help you in the long run. A good example of how to use a ref is sketch the basic shape and add details as you go.

11: Don’t tighten you hand when you draw or aka don’t carve into the paper. Keep your strokes light when doing the basic shapes then add to darken the lines when you like them. This will save frustration of it not being able to erase.

12: WATCH SPEEDPAINTS. Slow them down if needed and learn from other artists and take the techniques you like from it. This especially works for visual learners.

13: Try tutorials even if you don’t like the style. You won’t know you like doing something unless you try it, that’s how people improve their art as well.

14: If you look through my blog, you can see that I do A LOT of redraws. I find them important to do sometimes to see your progress and show you what you need to work on.

15: Most importantly: Remember that your favorite artists, no matter their age, have been working on their drawing skills for years. It’s taken me 6 years to get my art where I like it and I’m still improving like everyone else.

Any other artists that would like to add or correct, feel free!

The second half of Chapter 70 is up! The battle rages.

Where’s the big fella?

Ello a new drawing up, technically it’s a few weeks old, but a new drawing up on here. Just fanart I did of @dailyroyalknights design of Snow Alphamon. I absolutely love this design since it’s so adorable~ I did this completely in pencil since I started to shade the drawing so I kept it like that. The photo on the right is a filter I used in Camscanner and I like how it came out cute with the added colors in it. This is posted much later than when it was actually finish because I wanted to make sure it was alright to do fanart first. Anyways hope y'all enjoy this drawing. ^^

Best drawing of Craniamon I did today. References are a bloody blessing to have. This was supposed to be just a pencil sketch but it turned into a drawing after I started to want more details to it. The spear is wonky looking yet it's better then most of my previous attempts. Anyways hope you all enjoy~

Posting this late since I was debating if I wanted to post it on here or just leave it up on my instagram. But in the end just went with posting it today a whole six days later from Valentine's day. Anyways just some rambling here with that I feel like the virus attributes Omegamons don't exactly get enough love. I just really love them because their designs are just gr8. I've been really into Alter-S cause dang nabbit Alter-S is just a precious mon for me to draw :'D Enough of my rambling now enjoy the drawing of these two mon celebrating V day. Called "Be my Valentine" and "Ignore the burning rose. Please" respectively.

"Together" More drawings of this ship will be happening. I generally here like doing different height relationships, I just like how cute it tends to look. Alter-S is taller than Dukemon by a lot so sharing a scarf isn't easy but they try even if Dukemon can barely see. Just wanted tomdraw these two being cute. Hope you all loke the simple drawing ^u^

Glitched Order and Angelic Chaos Ahh…I’m trying to give some of my drawings titles to remember by also to trying keep posts short and tidy. Anyways this was an accidental contrasting color scheme cause I for a moment forgot the Chaosmon here was colorful as heck. Also I do ship them together cause I thought they make a cute pair. I really liked how this came out and hope you all enjoy it to ^^

Guess who watched Digimon X Evolution :DD Have to say the movie was really good despite being old. Like there something really special seeing effects like that. But hooly smokes there was so much things that made me go "wut?" LIKE it was out of place or just weird. Cool thing though learning new stuff like Dukemon was voice by Goku's voice actor, than later learn that she voiced him in tamers* I didn't know that since I only watched the English dub of tamers* so that was cool. Anyways it was a really cool movie and hope you all enioy these crappy doodles that shows my sense of humor :'D

Aftermath

“Surprise Hug”

Okay first thing to explain about this pic is that I ship Alter-S and Dukemon together. I’m very specific on which mons I ship together, so most of the time I’m usually neutral on other ships but I still find them cute ‘v’. Secondly since Digimon Heroes has added Alter-S to the game I was able to have better references to use and now you see what I use it for. *Though I didn’t get Alter-S in the game, I cri every time* Thirdly I love the idea of Dukemon being hella shorter than Alter-S by a lot. It’s a really fun idea to play around with. Also here’s me again not wanting to draw the weapons instead just draw actual hands :’D The design for the gauntlets that were used was CresGarurumon’s gauntlet and a gauntlet based loosely on Blitzgreymon’s arm design.

Anyways hope you all enjoy this drawing and find the ship enjoyable.