anoosha syed (foxville_art) on Twitter made a really interesting tutorial on how to colour non-white skin in illustrations that I thought people who follow this blog might find useful (:

(resposted with permission)

Some tumblr tips for artists

lightsintheskye:

pastrami-golem:

animationdesk:

evan-bryant:

• only the first five tags are serchable so make um count.

•Some of the most popular art related tags are #art, #illustration, #design, and #artists on tumblr.

• If you put a link in your post it won’t appear in serch results

• The best time to post seems to be from around 8pm to midnight east coast time

• socialize with other artists. Comments and asks are appreciated by a lot of us, and being friendly will encourage others to check out your stuff

Thank you for sharing these tips @evan-bryant! Really great stuff to keep in mind!

I did not know that about the tags!

psa to all my artfriends looking to get more traction with their art!

Tip for artist references:

dissolutionandcreation:

Okay, so you want to find a pose that you aren’t just copying from a photo, but you need a pretty exact reference to draw well.

Well, you gotta do is look through stock videos!

https://www.shutterstock.com/video/

Type in your terms and preview the videos, taking screenshots to use as reference of the exact moment you like. This way, you won’t run into exact reference copying (since it isn’t a photo) and the poses tend to be more dynamic.

Have fun drawing~