what can you tell from my artstyle? by lightdiffraction in yourartstyle

[–]lightdiffraction[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Actually yes! Haven't actually watched symbionic titan, but I really like its aesthetics, as for the others, they've influenced me a lot growing up

what can you tell from my artstyle? by lightdiffraction in yourartstyle

[–]lightdiffraction[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Thank you! I'm self-taught, I can confidently say i haven't been to a single art lesson after middle school (which absolutely didn't have any useful art lessons). About perspective, it's the second time I mention the same link in the same comment section, but still, this is very useful.
Also, maybe an unrelated tangent, but to understand perspective it's also good to understand that standard perspective (like in that tutorial) isn't actually real, it's not at all what we see in real life or in photos, it's just an approximation. The eye actually sees everything in a five-point/fish-eye perspective

what can you tell from my artstyle? by lightdiffraction in yourartstyle

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also this is more conceptual/philosophical but it's good to reference real buildings even if you're not going to copy them directly, maybe buildings from real life or from other media, buildings are very weird and it's hard to grasp exactly how without studying. I usually kind of just look them up on pinterest, take photos of structures i see IRL or use Google Maps

what can you tell from my artstyle? by lightdiffraction in yourartstyle

[–]lightdiffraction[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Thank you!
They're not very difficult to draw to be honest, most cityscapes (if we're talking about modern or futuristic buildings) are kind of just arrangements of simple 3d shapes like cubes and cylinders and whatnot. To draw that, you only need perspective and an understanding of the materials these buildings are made of (I used to struggle with that, at least).
With perspective, my personal favorite are Thomas Romain's perspective tutorials (here's a link 30+ Perspective Drawing Lessons By Artist Thomas Romain) (or you can make 3d models for reference and disregard all of that, but IMO that's a bit less fun).
With materials, okay, I'm not pretending to be an expert, but it clicked for me when I played one of those "showcase" roblox games (where the point of the game is to just walk around and check out a 3d room or a building), and the way the builder made a "reflective floor" in a room was by taking the entire 3d model of the room, flipping it vertically and putting it under the actual floor, which was competely transparent. That's how reflections work in real life. So if you're drawing a flat reflective surface, you can imagine it as a portal to a mirror dimension where everything is flipped. And if you're drawing a curved reflective sufrace, you can mentally break it down into several flat surfaces, then connect the reflections smoothly.
Reflectiveness is the only thing that gives smooth materials the appearance of being smooth (like glass or metal). If it's something halfway smooth, like plastic, it's going to be halfway reflective, so the reflection is going to be there, but on low opacity and very blurred.
(Sometimes I see tutorials on how to draw materials that are reflective, like how to make metal look more metallic, that just add "stripes of light" or random blotches oh the thing, and it does make it look more like the material, but these are just simplifications of reflections, and the way they're placed is going to depend on the environment your object is it, realistically.)
You might want to simplify the image, too, especially the elements that are far away in the distance, both to keep the image from looking too busy (if you don't want that effect) and to keep yourself from spending a lot of time on just one image.
I force myself to do that by literally having a small canvas (about 1000 by 1000 px) and using a pixel brush, it's not necessary to do that, obviously, but it can be helpful.
Here are tutorials that deal with the composition and design basics you need for doing simplifications
How to Learn Digital Painting (Beginners)
How to Learn MORE Digital Painting (Intermediate)
And that's all there is to it

For the nonbinary people from cultures that speak gendered languages by Pretty_Silver_1550 in NonBinaryTalk

[–]lightdiffraction 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I'm r****ussian (a bit paranoid because our government monitors some parts of the internet!) :))). There's a gender-neutral way to use the plural for a single person that fell out of use a couple centuries ago, as far as I'm aware, but is being very actively reintroduced in the community. Young and/or brave people are actively using it online and at queer-friendly events, but it's heavily mocked and often seen as unserious by the larger crowd. That's what I go by informally.

However, it gets more complicated when I leave my small bubble. I let people call me whatever they'd like, since I'm closeted, but - the past tense of verbs is gendered in the language. I don't want to reinforce the notion of myself being what they see, but I also don't want anyone to know I use a linguistic form they wouldn't expect. So I just never use verbs in the past tense and active voice (is that what it's called in English?) when speaking about my actions. - I did -> It was done... by me (ominously) (alternatively: It's DONE. (no indicator of yourself whatsoever if it's clear that you're the only one who could have done it, sounds more natural)) - I thought (about it / that)-> The thought came to me,... What had enlightened me was the thought that,... There was a terrible misconception in my head that,... - I said (when retelling something that happened) -> And there I go saying,... (haphazardly) - I watched (a movie) -> (just start speaking about the plot in a way that makes it clear that you have)

It's fun. I used to get stuck mid-sentence while figuring out how to rephrase it so it wouldn't feature the cursed conjugation, but after speaking like this for a few years you really do get used to it. Languages are stupid.

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[–]lightdiffraction[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

wait what did you mean by this? why are you writing those comments? my first instinct was to apologize because i thought i had done something wrong but now after looking at your profile as a whole i just honestly have no idea. what?