HEY EVERYONE!! no I don’t have my own device yet sigh
buttt there is a device I’m a allowed to use (but not for a long time bc it’s not mine) and I plan to continue posting on unvale!! My username is Shroodaloo and I’ll probably just post fully traditional art but I just wanted to let y’all know
i hope everyone is doing well!! I myself am sick but recovering as of current. Have lovely days!! Take careeee <333333333333333333333333

It been a WHILE, I’ve only been online to check up on magma with my friends device recently, (meaning on I haven’t yet received one of my own) but here’s a little doodle of briar for ya :) I didn’t intend to post this at first, bc it was really messy and pretty random, and don’t look to hard at that horrid anatomy, but id like everyone to know I’m doing well, and hope you are too!! I don’t know If or when I’ll get a device, but it’s okay I guess. Take care, friends!!

I convinced a friend to let me use artfight through their device!! I still need to respect it's not my own device so I'm not gonna use magma on there unfortunately, BUT HEY MAYBE ILL BE ABLE TO ATTACK YOU THIS MONTH!! :DDD

Hey everyone, this’ll be my last post for a while.
I’m here through someone else’s device because my own one died. Permanently. And unless it magically works again, I won’t get to be on anymore. Im not allowed to get a new one, trust me. I’ll still check in when I can? Through other devices, but those will only be once in while..
Thank you everyone, for enduring my yaps, for supporting my art, for being just such an awesome community. I LOVE YALL GENUINELY SM!! ASCGTHDHEGSHDHDG
it’s been about a year I’ve been here, and I loved it but that’s it for me. I hope y’all don’t miss me too much, live life, make art, and smile guys!! :D
I’m sorry for saying I’d do artfight, and poofing last minute, I really wanted to :,(
Again, THANK YOU EVERYONE!!!! I’m BEYOND HONORED to know you guys, and genuinely I wish the best for all of you. The fact all these cool artists consider me their friend is huge to me :>
And there’s a million other things I wanna say but I’m just stalling. THIRD THANK YOU JUST BECAUSE UR ALL AWESOME SAUCE
I’ve always been bad at ending yaps so I’ll just stop.
Toodaloo <333333

THIS IS THE SECOND TIME I HAD TO REWRITE MY YAP SO NOW IM LESS MOTIVATED TO SOUND JOLLY UGH
I WAS GONNA JUST TRACE OVER A REAL PHOTO SO I DIDNT HAVE TO WORRY ABOUT ANATOMY AND FOCUS ON COLORS BUT REAL LIFE PROPORTIONS ARE KINDA...
I mean YES EVERYONE IS BEAUTIFUL, IT JUST LOOK REALLY BAD WHEN I TRY DRAWING IT AND ITS REALLY HARD TO RENDER. sooo some of you might recognize this sketch from unvale >:)
I'm so happy with this but I just gotta lend credit to @Whythough?
they didn't collab or anything but their advice helped sm
of COURSE I realize the shoulders look weird AFTER I finish rendering but hush this isn't about that just look at the colors..
I'm not that proud of how I render her hair, she looks like she's got severe jaundice, I think I overdid the textures but that's just me being an artist. from an outside point, this isn't that awful and I'm really happy with it actually ^^
so happy I think I want it as my pfp. there's no RULE that I HAVE to wait till my current one gets old, I'll just switch whenever I make a piece I think represents my style nicely. SO YEAH PFP CHANGE AGAIN LOL
don't look too hard at the details I kinda slacked off..

mine is the one in purple :D

no this is not the coloring study I mentioned, this is actually a really messy fanart honestly, but I kinda like that it's not so neat :>
I think y'all are getting sick of the paragraphs of me just yapping so uh
all credits go to the wonderful artist @Alyx (he/they) !
twirls

i really should've studied arms more, I most just skimmed it over, so I'm just putting lines wherever I want honestly. fake it till u make it amirite
also ik this looks VASTLY different from the previous studies, you might think this didn't take as long, and you're right, the other ones took way longer, but this still took up too much of my attention span
I knowwww it's only three sketches, and I'm only vaguely okay with the one on the far left, but hey I'm totally not a ragequitter aha..
I blame artblock. this is what happens when you lock in for hours consecutively and daily. I really hate these but I gotta admit, it's not my WORST work, I'd say. ignore that doodle in the corner art is self expression so i get to rage doodle so shush >:P
and now for the scary sentence..
ahem.
if you have any constructive criticism, feel free to lmk! ^^ there's definitely something off about this but I'm having trouble figuring out just what
next study I'm still wondering what I'll do.. probably something with colors

again, just an anatomy study, no artist in particular
I tried tracing harder poses this time, and even just straight up tracing the muscular system
I did notice with all this tracing that while I get how most of the shapes and muscles work, the arms are..really confusing. so I did set down and actually focus on that. it was kinda overwhelming, all these videos and tutorials telling me to memorize all these fancy labels, but I did find this neat website, still a little confusing, but definitely helpful for arm anatomy :D
https://gvaat.com/blog/how-to-draw-forearm-anatomy-a-step-by-step-guide/
there it is if anyone wants to check it out :D
in all honesty, I'm not really pressuring myself too much to really learn every individual muscle, since if need be in the future, I'd just grab a reference, and generally I don't draw really muscly characters. but! you need to know the rules before you break them and I think there's no harm in just getting an idea of it :3
anatomy is so hard dude, I might do another study but I really just wanna skip to studying other stuff like lighting and colors..hehe..yall know I love coloring.. (shroom is a toddler confirmed)

all these hours of studying anatomy are helpful and all, but I miss rendering, so here's briar!! this is NOT an anatomy study, nor an art style study, just me playing around :]

this one's not studying any artist in particular, just wanted to do this to get a grip on basic human structure

sorryyyy I know a lot of these are kinda hard to see, I was playing with opacity and accidentally merged layers without fixing the opacity of both some of the references, and the study, and I couldn't fix it y-y
I did abruptly change my brush size tho, and that actually helped SO MUCH. I wouldn't say I "know anatomy now" since I can't do really dynamic poses yet, and also I think my proportions are liiiiitle bit off, BUT I would like to think this helped a lot actually!! I didn't really sprinkle my study notes all over it like my previous studies, since it was more about building my muscle memory than memorizing fun facts, so a kot of the words here are jokes
overall I did NOT think I'd do this well! if you scroll through my gallery you can just KNOW this is way outside my comfort zone, but I'm glad I put in the hours :D any tips you might have are DEFINITELY welcomed YES PLEASE.

gonna start with the credits this time, again it's the same amazing artist @uh⁸ SDVREBREH I love their style smsmsmmm

this one took 3500 strokes. I never care about that but like dang. I used three pieces of theirs for this study, but studying them all, even just covering the basic stuff took over two and half hours ;-;
BUT WHATEVER, THIS WAS KIND OF REALLY STRESSFUL GUYS. esp in the bottom right where I'm trying to do a 3/4 headshot and i kid you not guys I may as well have cried this was so hard
but no pain no gain yk, bc I DID learn a few things about how they stylized the proportions!! like yk how some artists make the tip of the chin flat so the face doesn't look like an upside-down cone? an nice rule of thumb is the the width of tip of the chin, is basically the width of an eyeball. nice way to make sure you don't flatten the poor guys head too much, or make him look like he had an accident with a pencil sharpener. that's a really small detail I guess, but it's the little things that count shush
and besides the anatomy, just. look at their OCS. aren't they so cute. look they're dancing in the corner awww look Simon's giving Evelyn bunny ears over there awwww my HEARTTT
dsvfsbgebgebegnge I'm so bad at ending off these rambles
backflips into the ocean and drowns and doggy paddles rapidly away

barely scratched the surface, expect more studies, same artist

I fear I have learned nothing. but I hope if I keep practicing I might see some improvement? eh actually no I take it back, I actually did learn a lot from this lol, little things about anatomy and little details I noticed the artist adds which just makes me love the style more!! like I love how their use of colors is so recognizable and its such a specific aesthetic that just perfectly suits their OCS personality

and I learned, your hand is actually roughly half the height of your your forearm!! bet ur checking that right now heh. your eyes are an eyeball width apart. also the length from your chin to the base of your nose is the same length as the base of your nose to your eyebrows, and that's also the same length from your eyebrows to your hairline!! isn't it so lovely how your face is just perfectly divided in three? well that and a bunch of other things you kind of have to see to understand.
overall, cannot believe I don't do studies more often. I think this is my first serious one too lol, ignore those doodles of me stressing, this was genuinely fun, for the most part heh
and enough about me, all credits for my references go to the ABSOLUTELY AWESOME ARTIST @uh⁸
CHECK OUT THEIR WORK GUYS ITS GENUINELY A GOLDMINE, THEIR OCS ARE SO FUNNY and also give their bio a read if you've the time!! I think it's genuinely all in one word, inspirational. idk if they'll see this but hey!! love your work, hope this study didn't make you cringe (sob I'm doing this all with me finger leave me alone) and! uh!! not sure how to stop talking I ran out of words to say uh
explodes

is this eyestrain? hope it's alright lol
I love texturing my art it's like adding sauces or spices or a fun straw to a meal it's just so perfect

just finished setting up my artfight acc!! my username is SHROODALOO all caps :D just submitted four OCS since I don't really want fanart for anyone else, also I'm tired of making character sheets I'm not used to so much work TvT Idk how much I'll be able to attack y'all but I'll do my best :D yippeeyippeeyippeeyippeeyippeeyipeeyippee

def procrastinated this one
heh don't mind how I used a different set of colors each time I draw her it's just so hard to color the same way twice in a row genuinely it's so hard for me
I love how each of my sheets just perfectly capture the characters vibe, idk how to say it lol, I'm just happy with this :D

unlike George and Martha's, she's in a whole separate fantasyish universe with some HEFTY lore
she's a sweetheart and I love her :3

TA DAAA :D
it was kinda hard to make this ngl, not the drawing bit, that part was really fun, but when I was describing her I was kinda stuck. the way I made Martha, was just a little doodle of her doing something, a little comic of her saying something, and adding lots of hobbies and quirks and stuff like that. she honestly very realistic, doesn't really easily fit into cliche adjectives, but I tried my best!!
martha also doesn't have a set outfit I draw her in. she's definitely got a specific, sophisticated sense of style, though im not sure if there's a word for the aesthetic lol
george and Martha are finally done!! I love looking at the differences between their character sheets, I think I nailed it (if I do say so myself):>
I'm not sure how many OCS I (may or may not) submit for artfight, but I think I'll do two or three more sheets :D

simple goofy little goober
he doesn't really have a set outfit I always draw him in, anything cozy really
doesn't really have intense lore either, he's a jolly guy
if I can do Martha's, briars, and some other OCS I haven't posted here, before artfight start, I might be participating!! this is a big IF, so don't get ur hopes up TvT I have busy weeks ahead and might not get it done, but if I can, I'd like to be in the comedy team :D I just love my warm color palettes hehehe (again, it's a big MAYBE)

I thought it was time for a pfp change :> I think my artstyle just leans to this pfp more, tho my previous one is still my favorite :P