the art of esynk

if ur ever feeling bad about your art just remember your twelve year old self would think it was soooo cool

Putting together a mood board for this year's art new years reminders:

It is done (enough)!

I would hype it up more but this is really really simple. It randomly generates a set of symbols, colors, and a word, and then the expected thing to do with those is you draw some sort of character based off the result you get. So it's just an art challenge toy thingy.

There are also some practical features like you can lock parts of the result in place to rerandomize the rest, or hide parts of the generation you don't care about (like if you want to pick your own colors or hate the words being there)

You can try it out over on itch.io!

It should run in browser, but there's also a downloadable version for Windows if you want to use it offline. (No mac/linux versions for now, because I don't have appropriate computers to test those on and I...don't want to deal with mac's developer accounts or whatever their problem is...)

Here's something I made from one of the results I got for the sake of example:

(It's a bit of a rushed drawing sorry I just wanted to get the actual generator out there)

I hope everyone has fun with it :]

The worst thing I see with free art education online is that the teachers are often so obsessed with not cheating in your art. Some of these dudes straight up say not to use reference at all ever because you need to be prepared for a time when a reference you want doesn't exist, or something. In illustration school, they taught us to cheat everything. Take photos for reference and trace them! Use royalty free images! Do literally anything you can to make sure your drawing gets done without causing you any legal trouble. I can promise you a ton of your favorite illustrators through history were CHEATERS!! I also can promise you every mangaka you like cheats thoroughly. Whatever glory you get by not cheating is not equal to the amount of trouble you put your body through with the extra effort

saw a really cool looking person at the bus stop, this is my artistic rendition of their fit

opens box that reads "i wanna draw again". inside lies a note. the note says, "mental illness and difficult circumstances have taken years of interest, accessibility, and skill away from me. i want to forgive myself for that. i want to heal my relationship to my hobbies. i want to feel connected to something that once made me feel good, but the cyclic discouragement is difficult to overcome." i turn over the note. on the back it reads "wannta drawe sexy bodies awooga"

seems like this one really resonated with the artists who dont do art fandom

at my sketchbook. straight up “drawing it”. and by “it”, haha, well. let’s justr say. Nothing

weirdest art trick i have is that sketching limbs is easier and neater if you slice em at the joints instead of using those little circles