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nortworm.bsky.social @nortworm.bsky.social · Aug 16

If anyone finds this I just want you to know, genuinely, that I'm sorry. I wanted this account to be an inspiration to others. I wanted to show people that you don't have to be big or start out the best to be good. It was supposed to be inspiring. Now it's just another story of failure. I'm sorry.

nortworm.bsky.social @nortworm.bsky.social · Aug 16

I won't be posting on this account anymore. I joined a friend's small art community and I felt that friend was being betrayed by someone speaking poorly, so I spoke up and told them. It's resulted in a witch hunt and everyone involved has eyes on me, waiting for it to evolve and for me to "slip up"

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nortworm.bsky.social @nortworm.bsky.social · Aug 6

I could have spent some more time refining it - and I might do that tomorrow, since I want to see if I can give this some more depth. The more I learn from this the more I can apply to later works. For that reason I might rework the Gohan from a few days ago as well.

nortworm.bsky.social @nortworm.bsky.social · Aug 6

Did another small study on the main artwork for Cloyster, turned it into a color/shading exercise. It isn't pretty but as usual, I learned a lot about blending and color depth as I went. I want to develop a style of shading that isn't like my friends', something softer and more natural.

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nortworm.bsky.social @nortworm.bsky.social · Aug 5

Something came out this week about this chara being stolen from another small artist and there's still some smoke. Maybe a good idea to not touch his chars with a 10 foot pole for rn. Don't know all the details I'm just friend of a friend and heard through the grapevine.

nortworm.bsky.social @nortworm.bsky.social · Jul 31

Also after getting away from the piece and coming back a day later I realize why my proportions look as bad as they do - the belt is supposed to cover the stomach, not the waist. I made it too low. This was an awesome experiment to learn from.

nortworm.bsky.social @nortworm.bsky.social · Jul 31

Here before the horny freaks to say I really like the shading - you did great on the lighting from behind and the front shadows!

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nortworm.bsky.social @nortworm.bsky.social · Jul 30

I'm fully aware of my weak points, which this work brought to my attention as I made progress on it. Despite that, for this only being a 2 hour piece, I think it came out amazing given how before I started all of this I was still making stick figures.

nortworm.bsky.social @nortworm.bsky.social · Jul 30

Today I sat around and said "so what I'm learning is very TRADTIONAL but I want to do something more stylized" and after a shitpost yesterday I sat down and picked a Gohan Dokkan card to reference, which I kept on the corner and worked on by eye. I learned a lot as I worked and I think it shows.

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nortworm.bsky.social @nortworm.bsky.social · Jul 29

Today I decided to tackle something I've been dreading learning: hands. I've never been happy with hands and this was my first time really trying to draw them with any kind of proper structure. I'd like to think I made a lot of progress from squibbly bricks with nubs.

nortworm.bsky.social @nortworm.bsky.social · Jul 28

You chose to repost my horrible work from last month first instead of my alien guy with the broken hands and the airpods this is horrible for the economy

nortworm.bsky.social @nortworm.bsky.social · Jul 28

As a bonus here's my sketch sheet for today after that buff alien dude was done. If you want my suggestions for structure, there's a video out there by Jim Lee and he goes over the structure used in comics. Jazza also has an amazing book on structure basics with exercises.

nortworm.bsky.social @nortworm.bsky.social · Jul 28

Anyways this was mostly a goofy little sketch I did with my friends, trying out some art tips I found on YouTube. If someone finds this page and they're just getting into art, or they're trying to get back into art: I believe in you. I'm proud of you. No matter my follows or clout I truly feel this.

nortworm.bsky.social @nortworm.bsky.social · Jul 28

I truly hope that in 2, 3, 4 years someone looks at my art and goes "oh my gosh! I want to draw like that!" and they look back here, when I was struggling with anatomy, when I was struggling with facial structure, when I was learning from nothing and they go "I CAN draw like that! I can LEARN."

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nortworm.bsky.social @nortworm.bsky.social · Jul 28

The art space is so full of this.. judge-y energy. Artists with bigger followings who tell you you're not worth their time, people who will abandon you for the next, bigger server or group once they've improved. It isn't every artist, but it isn't a very great intro to art.

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nortworm.bsky.social @nortworm.bsky.social · Jul 28

I've been practicing off and on and I think I should be honest - I'm not about this online clout crap. I want to improve for me, at my pace. I think that's why I'm going to keep posting. Something for me to look back on and be proud.

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nortworm.bsky.social @nortworm.bsky.social · Jun 16

So that replacement got delayed and in the meantime I did NOT want to miss out on my daily practice so I spent about 45 minutes doing some work and feeling out the shape of a body with a bit of a sketch/note page. It's very sloppy but I used colors to separate it for my own review

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nortworm.bsky.social @nortworm.bsky.social · Jun 15

It's crossed my mind that I never said why I'm posting my entire art journey. Over the years I've heard that behind every great artist is hundreds and hundreds of discarded works and sketches. I want to put that to the test in a way and document the pieces that "didn't make the cut" along the way.

nortworm.bsky.social @nortworm.bsky.social · Jun 15

Currently my tablet is on its last legs because I received a faulty unit, so while I wait for the replacement to arrive tomorrow this is all I could bring myself to work on. Hopefully this is a good look into how my process works, I take things I learned and put them together until I understand it.

nortworm.bsky.social @nortworm.bsky.social · Jun 15

the little character in the bottom left corner is a little doodle of my friend's character, but I'm learning different methods to build a body and ways to see the muscles/underlying form of the human body. I see in shapes not lines which makes learning easy in some ways and difficult in others.

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nortworm.bsky.social @nortworm.bsky.social · Jun 15

I'm not done yet today so expect some more but today I did a face warmup then looked at some body tutorials/aids from Jim Lee and DrawLikeASir, a quick google should find either if you're interested. You may be able to see my process as the session went on, this was about 3 hours of total work.

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nortworm.bsky.social @nortworm.bsky.social · Jun 14

We all start somewhere, I aim to see myself improve every day and I plan to post my wips/products here now as I go. If nothing else, maybe it's inspiration for others. For me though, I think this is a super fun hobby. My goal is to get good enough to draw characters/art for my other poor friends.

nortworm.bsky.social @nortworm.bsky.social · Jun 14

Today's been pretty wild, I opted to finish some practice and see how well I've done, then my buddy @miaterasu.bsky.social gave me some tips and guided me through some more of the process resulting in the last image, which took 4 hours total.

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nortworm.bsky.social @nortworm.bsky.social · Jun 14

Yesterday my buddy sent me some practice sheets he found so I started banging out some spheres to get used to drawing heads. I did these then some drawpile stuff with my friends to goof around.

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nortworm.bsky.social @nortworm.bsky.social · Jun 14

This was from day 1, when I was still getting used to my pen tablet. Hand eye coordination hasn't been nearly as hard as I anticipated it to be.

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