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Posting GARY PANTER'S SKETCHBOOK TIPS to save a life -- the site that used to host these took em down years ago, and they are as useful a list about this kind of thing as you will ever find.

They are like a favorite dogeared paperback to me.
INTRODUCTION Get a book-size (or paperback-size)d sketchbook. Write your name and date on an early page and maybe think of a name for it — and if you want, write the book’s name there at the front. Make it into your little painful pal. The pain goes away slowly page by page. Fill it up and do another one. It can be hard to get started. Don’t flunk yourself before you get the ball rolling. You might want to draw more realistically or in perspective or so it looks slick — that’s is possible and there are tricks and procedures for drawing with more realism if you desire it. But drawing very realistically with great finesse can sometimes produce dead uninteresting drawings — relative, that is, to a drawing with heart and charm and effort but no great finesse. You can make all kinds of rules for your art making, but for starting in a sketchbook, you need to jump in and get over the intimidation part — by messing up a few pages, ripping them out if need be. Waste all the pages you want by drawing a tic-tac-toe schematic or something, painting them black, just doodle. Every drawing will make you a little better. Every little attempt is a step in the direction of drawing becoming a part of your life. TIPS 1. Quickly subdivide a page into a bunch of boxes by drawing a set of generally equidistant vertical lines, then a set of horizontal lines so that you have between 6 and 12 boxes or so on the page. In each box, in turn, in the simplest way possible, name every object you can think of and draw each thing in a box, not repeating. If it is fun, keep doing this on following pages until you get tired or can’t think of more nouns. Now you see that you have some kind of ability to typify the objects in your world and that in some sense you can draw anything. 2. Choose one of the objects that came to mind that you drew and devote one page to drawing that object with your eyes closed, starting at the “nose” of the object (in outline or silhouette might be good) and following the contour you see in your mind’s eye, describing to yourself in minute detail what you know about the object. You can use your free hand to keep track of the edge of the paper and ideally your starting point so that you can work your way back to the designated nose. Don’t worry about proportion or good drawing this is all about memory and moving your hand to find the shapes you are remembering. The drawing will be a mess, but if you take your time, you will see that you know a lot more about the object than you thought. 3. Trace some drawings you like to see better what the artist’s pencil or pen is doing. Tracing helps you observe closer. Copy art you like — it can’t hurt. 4. Most people (even your favorite artists) don’t like their drawings as much as they want to. Why? Because it is easy to imagine something better. This is only ambition, which is not a bad thing — but if you can accept what you are doing, of course you will progress quicker to a more satisfying level and also accidentally make perfectly charming drawings even if they embarrass you. 4. Most people (even your favorite artists) don’t like their drawings as much as they want to. Why? Because it is easy to imagine something better. This is only ambition, which is not a bad thing — but if you can accept what you are doing, of course you will progress quicker to a more satisfying level and also accidentally make perfectly charming drawings even if they embarrass you. 5. Draw a bunch more boxes and walk down a sidewalk or two documenting where the cracks and gum and splotches and leaves and mowed grass bits are on the square. Do a bunch of those. That is how nature arranges and composes stuff. Remember these ideas — they are in your sketchbook. 6. Sit somewhere and draw fast little drawings of people who are far away enough that you can only see the big simple shapes of their coats and bags and arms and hats and feet. Draw a lot of them. People are alike yet not — reduce them to simple and achievable shapes. 7. To get better with figure drawing, get someone to pose — or use photos — and do slow drawing of hands, feet, elbows, knees, and ankles. Drawing all the bones in a skeleton is also good, because it will help you see how the bones in the arms and legs cross each other and affect the arms’ and legs’ exterior shapes. When you draw a head from the side make sure you indicate enough room behind the ears for the brain case. 8. Do line drawings looking for the big shapes, and tonal drawing observing the light situation of your subject — that is, where the light is coming from and where it makes shapes in shade on the form, and where light reflects back onto the dark areas sometimes. 9. To draw the scene in front of you, choose the middle thing in your drawing and put it in the middle of your page — then add on to the drawing from the center of the page out. 10. Don’t worry about a style. It will creep up on you and eventually you will have to undo it in order to go further. Be like a river and accept everything.
March 19, 2025 at 4:29 AM
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jukeboxcomix.bsky.social
December 7, 2025 at 7:49 PM
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internethippo.bsky.social
Scientists now believe that the human brain--a magic goo for worrying--can also be used to do other things
December 8, 2025 at 3:53 AM
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alexadoodles.bsky.social
My art / My inspiration
An illustration of an elderly husband and wife gleefully speeding on a red vespa, clearly in love A photo of an elderly husband and wife gleefully speeding on a pale teal vespa, clearly having a grand time.
November 11, 2025 at 10:19 PM
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kwstzhaderbonch.bsky.social
My orange boy is perfect; he restores my soul
Yea though I walk through the valley of the shadow of blue, I fear no evil, for orange is with me
His hiss and his slorp, they comfort me
He prepares a hairball before me in the presence of guests
My cup runneth over. Please take your paw out of my cup
An orange cat looking backwards at the camera
December 4, 2025 at 5:47 PM
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stradicat.bsky.social
November 29, 2025 at 8:35 PM
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charlybird.bsky.social
I started these ages ago, inspired by The Backlog Lady's animations. I'll link her video below, it's really funny.
I struggled with these a bit but I just wanted to draw some fanart as it was a great playthrough.

SOO excited for the playthrough of Majora's Mask!!

#art #ProZDPlaysGames
Elvis Navi saying HEY HEY HEY LISTEN! Carpenter Steve, Link SungWon and Elvis Navi (but dressed in green with a wooden board around his head with painted wings on it) Elvis: I certainly hope you didn't need those boxes ... SungWon *looking very annoyed*
November 29, 2025 at 6:42 PM
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galacticjonah.bsky.social
It's Trans Day of Remembrance.

They won't ever be able to get rid of us, no matter what. No amount of hateful legislation can change the fact of our existence.
Digital painting of a knight in armour carrying a shield im trans pride colours. There is a heraldry unicorn with a bloody horn rearing up on it. Above the words Resist Rejoyce Remember. A decorative border shows dandelions.
November 20, 2025 at 9:46 PM
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joshchafetz.bsky.social
Look, I know this weaponization of male academic interest is the oldest story in the book, but it’s just so, so pernicious. It’s awful to the women directly involved, but it’s also awful to *all* women in the academy, who have to live in its shadow all the time.
November 17, 2025 at 3:03 AM
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Happy 10th, you magnificent freakshow.
#TheFinalPam
A digital drawing of The Final Pam, a woman in a fancy, fur-collared dress, white-rimmed sunglasses and a bouffant hairstyle. She's smiling at the viewer, fingers steepled, and an there's an explosion behind her. Dialogue: "Hello again, the Smiths. Is next time now. Did you remember to invite Pam?"
November 12, 2025 at 11:29 PM
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meakoopa.bsky.social
there's a moment in PARADISE LOST where Satan arrives in Eden and realizes Hell isn't a place; it's a thing he carries within him and it'll follow him wherever he goes. and i think about that when i see these awful rich men whose monstrous wealth has enriched them not at all
samthielman.com CHOAM for the holidays @samthielman.com · 28d
“whatever club he’s invited to join has been devalued by the invitation”
Tweet by Joyce Carol Oates: "wherever he goes, he wants to leave"--that's because when he gets there, he has brought his own self along; & whatever club he's invited to join has been devalued by the invitation. QT of @avidreader1000 Wherever he goes, he wants to leave: SA, Canada, ultimately the U.S. in the long run, based on his behavior. This also includes Earth. A continuous disavowal of your home is odd, to say the least. He seems to have no c...
November 11, 2025 at 6:31 AM
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paleofuture.bsky.social
It’s wild to suggest this is a circular firing squad or something when it’s millions of citizen Democrats who hate it versus 47 elected Democrats who conspired to surrender for nothing.

We’re not fighting “each other,” we’re fighting you. There’s only a few dozen of you, but you hold all the power.
whitehouse.senate.gov Senator Sheldon Whitehouse @whitehouse.senate.gov · 29d
But there are real dangers out there that must be fought; and energy spent fighting each other is energy lost to that bigger fight.
November 11, 2025 at 1:27 AM
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adamserwer.bsky.social
The thing about the "I voted against this" position Schumer is taking is that either he is trying to mislead Dem voters by implying he didn't support reopening right now, or he has no control over his caucus.
November 10, 2025 at 9:35 PM
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aboutamoo.bsky.social
Senator, I appreciate your “no” vote. But if you don’t loudly start calling for new leadership in the D caucus, do not ever ask me for anything again.
November 10, 2025 at 3:26 AM
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lilbluubird.bsky.social
The Poor Lost Souls ✨💙 had a lot of fun with this one!
#dnd #dndoc #originalcharacter #oc #illustration
November 5, 2025 at 3:03 PM
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November 5, 2025 at 6:14 AM
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Zohran at the rally for trans youth on february 8 ❣️ he was polling single digits.
Zohran standing amidst a crowd in winter clothing
June 25, 2025 at 4:51 AM
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nothingsmonstrd.bsky.social
Madison Schubert

www.tumblr.com/mads-schuber...
REJECT DYSTOPIA A skeleton filled with roses reaches up a hand to a greenish zombie hand that's reaching down to help "LET HOPE GROW FROM THE CORPSE OF DESPONDENCY. REJECT DESPAIR IN THE FACE OF THOSE WHO WANT YOU PARALYZED, HOPELESS, & AFRAID."
June 2, 2025 at 1:14 PM
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kgd26.bsky.social
shout out chicago.
a large road sign with the text fuck ICE located on a corner of an intersection in chicago
November 4, 2025 at 10:50 PM
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juliusgoat.bsky.social
“Tell your children who the cowards were.”
October 27, 2025 at 10:19 PM
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roxanegay.bsky.social
The depth of the shame of a country this wealthy and abundant allowing its people to go hungry is impossible to measure. The fact that a handful of people could fix this by paying their fair share of taxes while still remaining obscenely wealthy makes it even worse.
October 28, 2025 at 4:09 PM
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nooskadraws.bsky.social
✨ 3 COMMISSION SLOTS OPEN FOR NOVEMBER! ✨
send me your beloved tavs, durges, rooks, dnd ocs, ocs to draw!

email me at 🌿[email protected]🌿

if there is something else you would like feel free to contact me anyways!

🌸payment through paypal invoices🌸 (rts = 💖😭🙏)
nooska's commissions are OPEN! full body character with no background is £90 ($110 USD). payment through paypal! <3 Commission examples of full body character illustrations. 1. A digitial illustration of a full body character. Sidereal is a satyr of warm brown fur and long, grey-black horns. He wears yellow and orange flowing robes, and a harlequin-inspired checkered halfcape coloured in different shades of purple. He lifts his left hand and looks at the magic he conjures with it in wonder. He has a orange-brown ferret companion on his shoulder. 2. Digital illustration of a full body character: a tiefling trans man in his 40s. He has blue weathered skin, and light horns on his head. He has short, cropped black hair with strands of grey flitting throughout. He wears a dark navy coat, tied together with a colourful brooch. The coat's lining is a galaxy of stars. He wears a white shirt buttoned low, and smart pinstriped trousers. He holds a cane topped with an anchor in his right hand, and in the other holds a letter. His two stranded tail curls in front of his legs. He wears smart Oxford shoes. 3. Digital illustration of a satyr. He holds a twisted branch of a staff, it's wrapped in red plaid scraps of material, and has plants (ivy, rosemary, mint, and mistletoe) and bottles hanging from its crooked top. He wears a cream woolly jumper, and a green tunic over the top. It's held together at his waist with multiple belts, straps, and twine. His goat legs are cream coloured, with black splotches at the knees. He smiles, and his eyes are covered with a curtain of a black fringe. He has brown curved ram horns, and a white crop of curly hair. Commission examples of full body character illustrations. 1. A digital full body illustration of a merfolk man. He has tan skin and green eyes with long lashes. He has two horns that grow out of his head that fade from dark blue to green to teal. He has long wavy thick brown hair that ends at his waist. He wears a Grecian inspired tunic of blue and white fabric, and gold jewelry across his body. He holds a golden trident. 2. Digital illustration of a full body character. Opal is a white-skinned elf with pink hair that flows delicately down her back. Flowers grow in her hair. She wears a stay corset that flows into a pink petal themed dress. 3. A digital illustration of a full body character. Dalia is a white woman with wavy dark red hair. She has desaturated green eyes, and a confident grin on her face. She holds a lute decorated with leaves and patterns. She wears a green dress embellished with patterns and gold trim. Her skirt is dark green with a faded pattern of red flowers. There is a red scarf tied around her waist with gold beads hanging off it. She wears dark brown boots. Commission examples of full body character illustrations. 1. A digital illustration of 2 characters from Baldur's Gate 3. It is a take on a portion of Frank Dicksee's painting "La Belle Dame sans Merci". Helyne is a white woman with dark blue-ish black hair partially tied in a bun. She wears a blue dress embellished with silver jewellery. She looks down at Gale and smiles. Gale looks up at Helyne in awe. He wears a blue-purple robe embellished with silver jewellery. He holds a staff in his right hand. 2. A digital illustration of Astarion from Baldur's Gate 3. It shows a fancy gold framed ornate mirror leaning on the top of a table. Around the mirror are books stacked, roses growing, and candles burning. There is a gold and ruby necklace on top of one of the books. In the reflection of the mirror, there sits Astarion. He wears a black cape covering his naked chest. He sits in front of an ornate red velvet chair. Leaning against this chair is Woe: Cazador's staff. 3. Digital illustration of a full body character. Thy'la is a blue-skinned genasi with fully black eyes, and star freckles on their face. They have long black hair tied with a string of pearls. They wear a purple waistcoat, blue pinstriped trousers, and a cape detailed with a galaxy in the lining. They hold up their right hand which glows bright purple with magic.
October 25, 2025 at 9:42 AM
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balint.house.gov
Incredibly powerful words from Pastor David Black.
October 24, 2025 at 7:45 PM
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yhanee.bsky.social
Under the Moonlight

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She deserves better 🥲

#ffxiv #ff14 #ffxivart #HaNeArt
October 21, 2024 at 2:08 PM