✨Art Auntie✨

I don't think I've mentioned this on here yet but I do have a Patreon

(just $1 or $3 if ya feeling fancy)

All of my sketches and illustrations are on there and actually up to date!

I am trying to be better on posting more on here with actual up to date art. But if you wanna see more and see it early, come check out Patreon!

*The dancing and the dreaming plays in the background*

If interested you can DM me on here or instagram!

Pre timeskip sanji sketch page I know I'm not gonna finish 🏴‍☠️🧑‍🍳

Program- procreate

Brushes by alicetrijjet- magic set

My OCs Kyle and Martin being Kyle and Martin

We gotta

WHAM

BAM

SHANG-A-LANG

So, do I look like him?

Hobie changing colors whenever Miles comes around lives in my brain rent free

Also I spelt Brooklyn wrong. And we as a family are gonna ignore that. Cause here at Olive Garden, we're a family 😌

Would Recluse win in a fight with Miguel??? Debatable.

Would Recluse hop on the chance to get one good hit on Miguel. Absolutely

I love telling this story!

I started drawing around 9 y/o and it was because my mom (who in no professional way is an artist. She works in law) was able to draw the cartoons me and my sister would see on TV.

I always looked up to mom as a little kid and wanted to figure out how to do that as well.

Time went on, I got into anime in middle school, checked out a bunch of Christopher Hart "how to draw anime books", and continued to draw all throughout high school.

Just to realize I didn't like how I was creating art.

I felt stuck and looking at the 7 years of art I did from middle school and high school I really felt I wasn't...changing.

Then I didn't change how I approached art for a few years after that. I was a workaholic so I never really dedicated as much time as I had wanted to figuring out how to change.

I tried branching out with different sources like studying Glen Keane gestures and loose western cartoon styles. Still felt stuck

THEN QUARANTINE HAPPENED 🗣️

Remember that workaholic life I mentioned? I use to work at least three jobs all at once before quarantine. Then I had no jobs. And I freaked out cause I saw my self-worth was connected with how much work I could do at once.

Not healthy, be better than me folks.

Anyway I needed a way to kill time and feel like I was accomplishing something. Then art reared her shiny ass in my face and said

"...draw, bitch"

So I did. All day. Every. Single. Day.

And there wasn't a goal to be a better artist this time. I just needed a damn project 😂. And it wasn't until the end of 2020 I saw improvement looking back to April

As seen below April vs December 2020

(Don't ask me why but the youth drawing is still one of my all time favorites)

Anyway, by then I was use to drawing everyday. Not even full blown illustrations but like doodling everyday. And I wanted to keep that routine. So I got jobs that would allow me to at least be able to sketch at breakfast before work.

Then I got a job as a paint and sip instructor, so I was able to try painting more often

As seen here

And from there I just started playing with art supplies all around. I treat art like math. My brain gets easily distracted and with that in mind, if I get tired of digital art, I go to color pencils or watercolor or gouache and then rinse and repeat.

I feel this is going on forever so to wrap it up

Current artists I'm inspired by:

For colors -

JC Leyendecker

@japhers on tumblr and twitter

For ink- Bruce Timm (worked on BTAS/STAS/Justice League etc)

Dan Mora (@ Danmora_c on Twitter)

Lastly character designs - A BUNCH OF ART OF THE MOVIE BOOKS

Spiderverse, Klaus, Maya and the Three, Luca, Dreamworks, Miyazaki etc

If the movie or show was cool. I went hunting for that art book to figure out what they were thinking when they made the characters.

And that's it.

The end of my spiel

THATS MY SON!

THATS MY BOY!

Late night ghost calls

Morning ink warm ups of Recluse (and a baby Miles Morales if you look in the top right corner)

Why ink? Cause that's this weeks fixation I guess

Pajamas in the Deetz household