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All artists have a lot in common. Whether you're a comic artist or a painter - you still experience similar situations like lack of inspiration or constantly being asked "Will you draw me?"
To celebrate all the artists out there, Bored Panda has put together a list of hilarious comics that only artists will understand. Keep on scrolling to see what we're talking about and don't forget to vote for your favorites!
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#1
Shinomi Chan 8 years ago
It's scary how one can go from being the second last guy, to the first, to the second and to the last one, all in one day (in my case it's at night when I draw the best, and in the morning when I draw stick men and cry)
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#2
Amanda Panda 8 years ago
This is great depiction of the evolution of art. You started with the evolution from about 1850 and on, would have loved you to go back even further.
siriuslyafangirl 8 years ago
Pretty much. The evolution of art styles have been depicted with a green giraffe, and it's kind of sad
Amanda Craveiro 8 years ago
Still think they shouof ha've switched the images of dada with post modern art.
Patrizia Franchini 8 years ago
I think this green animal is a bad choice. I saw the same thing with another subject, a person, and colourful. It was easier too see the differences between styles.
#3
Sam Leongtave Smith 4 years ago
How can I found out the name of the artist who drew this comic?
AJ Campbell 8 years ago
Seems very accurate yes. Accept I spend my time on hamino not Facebook
#5
Karin Ahrenhold 8 years ago
true for just about every art,.. and profession, come to think about it
Pat Brown 8 years ago
ITA.....as a health professional, it takes me fuve minutes to fix you, but nine years of school and 25 years of experience to know what's wrong and how to make it better!!! PS, love artists, gave birth to one.
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#6
Anna Brandigi 8 years ago
5) wearing a beret and never shutting up about wine 6) talking about how you've never had boyfriends, only lovers
Shinomi Chan 8 years ago
This is beautiful :3 though is it bad if I do also love coffee and listening to different kind of music, besides making art? xD
#7
Superluminal1 8 years ago
The landscape gallery will be expanding and reopening as the panorama gallery.
#8
Amanda Panda 8 years ago
That's disappointing if a lot of people really had that experience. I took an art course in college, and it was very helpful (and our model had a nice body, and she was actually attending art school on a different campus so she walked around during breaks to look at our work and give suggestions), I learned a lot and more importantly improved exponentially.
Amy Force 8 years ago
i personally think it's BULLSH*T that the illustrations here imply that you have to be 'young & attractive' in order to pose... so much for 'everyone's beautiful' huh?
Eric Trahan 8 years ago
Those expressions were pixar worthy, and she' really cute. i'm still lol-ing
Undead Soldier 8 years ago
Figure & gesture drawing, actually the more imperfect they are, the more interesting it is to draw them :) at least for me.
Winston Bush 8 years ago
God I love it when people expect this s**t out of art school. Art school is similar to the fundamentals of martial arts, they only give you the training wheels to work with your subject matter. It's up to you to make the specifications of that said art work from the common ground that you have. Alexander the Great didn't just learn the ways of conquering after a year session with Aristole.
Teresa Stockroske 8 years ago
That is LITERALLY all I learned from my college drawing class was the difference between h and b pencils. Oh, and how to draw only using shading.
#9
DancingToMyself 8 years ago
It happens to me with writing too. And sketch books my dad stolen from me, lol
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Richard Nimz 8 years ago
Yeah, I'm a writer, and this is prettymuch me as well. Just keep going 'what the Hell was I thinking'.
#10
Anna Brandigi 8 years ago
I hate how hard it is to develop a style. Mine right now looks like a two-year-old having a seizure
Daria B 8 years ago
I don't try to develop a style anymore. Whatever I draw, it comes out spontaneously, unless I wanna copy or use a particular style for fanart/concept reasons. But I think I can define my most usual spontaneousness as a classical semi-realistic style used for comic series, looking kinda Euro-Asian. Man, gotta get back to DeviantArt.
Load More Replies... siriuslyafangirl 8 years ago
My style is basically just consisted of 5,000,000 of my friends' styles mashed together to convey a 4 year old who had super supportive parents that sugarcoat everything entering an art contest and coming in dead last
#11
Final score:
193points
greta lemke 8 years ago
the thing i that we all see it that way because you had to draw it that way for the comic am i not a brilliant
#12
Charlie Hyduk 4 years ago (edited)
It depends on the day lol I can sometimes draw van picassdraw person and yesness but other times It looks like a potato having a stroke
#13
Zoe Pool 8 years ago
I-I know how that feels... I spent 4 weeks on a piece and someone called it theirs.
Zombie Gurl 8 years ago
Same goes for me. I draw something for a friend. Their friends come back to me that I stole it. Even when that friend of theirs cannot draw.
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Koko Sempai 8 years ago
I wish there was something that could stop this... (T_T) I'm still wondering if I should post my work on the internet too but I'm scared that this might happen
FridayFeels 5 years ago
Oh My God. My heart litrally hurts for this poor, adorable piece of art.
Shinomi Chan 8 years ago
This happens WAY too often, thank god some of the artists make it so that it is nearly impossible to crop the picture without ruining the actual center of it.
#14
Michel M. Prins 8 years ago
I'm happy that pretty much every artist has this common enemy; the hand.
RiseRedMoon 8 years ago
I find it kinda funny because I never reaaally had this problem. Maybe because one of the first things I would draw when I was little were my own hands :P
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Anne Enderby 8 years ago
I think you should just leave the arm how it is, without the hand, still looks good.
Daniel Fleming 8 years ago
notice how the hand in third panel is the same one in the final panel
#15
Marta in Wonderland 8 years ago
Shading with hallucinogenic lines is thing i want to try now :)
Shinomi Chan 8 years ago
That moment when I can't even draw with my other hand.. or the backgrounds.. ;_;
#16
Final score:
114points
Kat Blak 8 years ago
Every musician...but we are like, "I'll just change like two notes and then we're good"
Ken Herbst 6 months ago
...also in advertising school. Fellow students would circle poor unsuspecting victims after proudly showing a concept...and then snarl, "It's been done!"
Ken Herbst 6 months ago (edited)
Portfolio Center and Creative Circus in Atlanta.
Load More Replies... Charlie Hyduk 4 years ago
Making comics like: the title and major part of the storyline ended up being a line from a pretty popular song, but the song doesn't go with the lore at all so its ok right
#17
Michel M. Prins 8 years ago
It's even worse when you have 30+ layers in your Photoshop file...
Cees Timmerman 8 years ago
Get a white mouse cursor or drag a contrasting color window pane under it if you don't want to start wiping.
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The Cappy 8 years ago
Presumably this doesn't happen much in real life. In the process of zooming & panning, it's pretty obvious what stays in place. Just sayin'.
Nostalgic Hyena 7 years ago
My computer has so many dirt specks that I sometimes can't tell if it's the drawing or a dirt speck.
#18
Memymo68 3 years ago
Im lucky my school knows better cause if they didnt trust me ive have slapped a few kids .....ok not a few prob. a lot
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siriuslyafangirl 8 years ago
True... people do this to me. I'm like, "B***h, did I ask you? No, now why don't you go and get the hell out of my business."
Shinomi Chan 8 years ago
Used to happen to me all the time when I was young, I'd show my drawing (tried to do anime...ish art it was horrible) But when someone pointed out the flaws in my own original characters and even laughed at them, I felt so bad I nearly stopped drawing all together, but I decided not to do it and instead continue with my art and it has gotten SO MUCH better.
Zombie Gurl 8 years ago
Sister: does this girl looks weird to you? *a drawing of a hooded girl* Me: .... where's her eyes? She: the hoodie is covering it Me: fail
#19
Final score:
112points
Undead Soldier 8 years ago
Happens to me, only I actually forget the great idea I had like after five minutes :(
Benjamin Munson 8 years ago
This one works for lots of other creative professions, too, like basically all of academia, only I don't have her awesome hair.
siriuslyafangirl 8 years ago
Yeah. I do this. When I'm at school, I'm like, "yyyYYYYYYYYESSSSSSSSS I'm a genius I NEEEEED to do this." *getting home from school* "Wtf was I thinking"
#20
Final score:
109points
Foxyloxylou 6 years ago
Once in like second grade we could do whatever and I was drawing Olaf and like 3 people came to me and told me to draw for them lol
Natalia Ru 7 years ago
I love how there's that one person in the back and I just know what they are thinking "why arnt they looking at me?! Her art isn't even that good!"
#21
Bertha Garcia 8 years ago
Me. I usually wait for a 40-50 % discount cupón to do it.
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siriuslyafangirl 8 years ago
I do this all the time I go to Michael's. I look at everything, and then... *falls to knees* nnnnnnnnnnnnOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!
#22
Anna Brandigi 8 years ago
Companies who want to employ graphic designers are basically fuckboys
Anna Brandigi 8 years ago
"You think I wanted your art? 😂 Your art is nasty af"
Load More Replies... FridayFeels 5 years ago
I hate it when people try to do that. Like, why the f**k do you think I won't charge you you like everybody else?
#23
Charlie Hyduk 4 years ago
I have really bad social anxiety so my character has a bag on his head lol, and in real life nobody ever really sees my face because I wear glasses and a face mask with my hood up. Low self esteem go BRRRRRRRRR
#24
Kat Blak 8 years ago
people think I'm weird just because I like Studio Ghibli movies and music better than a social life...anyone with me?
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#25
Amber Besharah 8 years ago
A regular eraser is too big, it'll erase more than you need to and occasionally miss the spot you're trying to erase altogether.
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Anamaria Miehs 8 years ago
When in need of an eraser... Use fresh white bread. Much safer than pencil erasers.
siriuslyafangirl 8 years ago
Yep. The high-polymer erasers solve ALLLLLLLLLLLLLLLL your erasing problems.
#26
Lilya 8 years ago
It's like dude! Get the f**k away before I get a reverse bear trap and stick it in your mouth!
FridayFeels 5 years ago
while he's there you could probably shove the pencil down his throat
Load More Replies... Michel M. Prins 8 years ago
Love this one! I always find it interesting how many think that studying art or practising art is not valuable (like the guy in the comic complaining about ''getting a real job"). Take all that's art related away in your life and see how much fun is left. Good luck with that.
Reyna avila ramirez-arellano 3 years ago
some are so true!! "can you draaww mee??" me drawing the body base* Omg why are you dawing naked anime girls??
Natalia Ru 7 years ago
Another one is "oh! Is that you? Is it you? Oh its you isn't it?! Its uuuuuuuu!" Like, no! In fact, I have actually almost NEVER drawn a self portrait, so now I'm practiceing in privet and I will draw a flower, a mountain, a cow for all they care! They will still think its me! 😂 I feel so awkward and bad for them lol
Alissa Merstrand 8 years ago
Onde stabbed a Guy in the arm With My pencil cuz he wouldnt stop trying to make med draw a dragon....
Julianna Enriquez 2 years ago
a lot of people say," why are they naked!?" in like ," IM NOT DONE!!!
#27
Memymo68 3 years ago
Worst is when u try to outline the head and they keep moving slightly everytime u look down
Load More Replies... Nostalgic Hyena 7 years ago
Sometimes when I draw a character I'll also make the face they're making.. which is the main reason I like to draw alone..
Mateusz Redlin 8 years ago
Did someone notice that in second frame she should be flipped horizontally?
Ged Maybury 8 years ago
In fact, if you hadn't mentioned it, I was going to. Props to ya!
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i_know_im_amazing 8 years ago
They always ask me who I'm drawing. I DONT KNOW ITS A DRAWING OF SOME RANDOM PERSON I MADE UP IN MY MIND!
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SuperGluglu Aroulette 8 years ago
Haha! I don't have this problem as I only draw animals :P but sometimes dogs would randomly bark at me........ Wait..
Raminta Urbonavičiūtė 8 years ago
why not? Just say that it will cost some money. artists who just say no look very snooty
Zombie Gurl 8 years ago
I draw something so epically awesome, then a random dude requests for a flying dickbutt. Seriously...?
#29
Richard Nimz 8 years ago
Yeah, I hate working in groups. No idea what everyone else is going to do.
#30
Final score:
66points
#31
Memymo68 3 years ago
I honestly thought the head in the first pic was the man who drew the pony
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Chriska Dy 4 years ago
i had a guy who wanted me to teach him how to draw mlp a ew weeks later I found out he was a no no square creep.
siriuslyafangirl 8 years ago
I really love this. I'm the one on the right, and I've done this before. I like to express myself, sometimes I feel dark and depressing but draw ponies, and sometimes I feel happy and girly but then I draw some warrior princess being a badass and decapitating someone
Infinitenotes 8 years ago
im 15 and i like my little pony so you can shut your mouth
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Nicholas Hesser 8 years ago
sorry to burst your bubble, but if you aren't talented at art, you can't be an artist.
Talise Snyder 8 years ago
um yes you can. artist doesn't necessarily mean your job is being an artist, it can be your hobby and your passion and you can still be not that good at it
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Sara Otterstätter 8 years ago
Only works when you are planning on digital reproduction. When you want to print it later, you are screwed. Or screenshot and trace your own artwork in print resolution.
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Khanh Phan 8 years ago
That's why I usually move the cursor really reeeeally slow. Like just one sudden move and the whole app gonna crash q(; – ; )
Javier Herrera 8 years ago
Thats why control+S is alot quicker than lightning before the problem show up.
Richard Nimz 8 years ago
Ah, Schrodinger's painting. It both exists and doesn't exist at the same time.
#34
Final score:
59points
Samantha Manley 8 years ago
I have stuck my brushes in my coffee more times than I care to admit.
Bunzilla 8 years ago
While I have never actually done this, I have come damned close...
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Shinomi Chan 8 years ago
Thank god I don't paint o_o I suck at it, AND it's dangerous. I have lost too many pens though.
Silent Skeleton 8 years ago
haha, yeah. That's one of the reasons i always use a straw, because i'll know the difference between a paintbrush and a straw without drinking any paintwater :o)
#35
Lina Koblitz 8 years ago
that's why I only compare my art to my older art :D
Load More Replies... Lazy Panda 8 years ago
My friend is a great artist but she can't just grab a picture and then copy it. One day we couldn't figure out how to draw a pug so I took a book and we both tried copying it. After we compared she just stared at mine "But how could you? But- but it just. Aargh! How do you even do that?!"
Nicholas Hesser 8 years ago
I don't need other people to know my art is bad, all i have to do is look at it
#36
Rose Woulf 8 years ago
You've managed to capture my artist life perfectly. I hate when my friends go, "Why do they only have one eye?" Because anime eyes are hard to draw and I'm a perfectionist.
Nicholas Hesser 8 years ago
you think anime eyes are hard? You clearly haven't tried realistic eyes. that s**t is somehow harder than anime eyes. thats why i do cartoons.
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Lazy Panda 8 years ago
Well, you could try and let them finish! You're not the artist so you won't understand what they're trying to draw until they're done
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Marcin Matysik 8 years ago
More like she won't be able to break his fingers while hers are broken :D
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#40
Lilya 8 years ago
Haha look at what she's writing... also, I'm twelve years old, and when I was little I wanted to become an artist, but my dad said the they don't make good money, sooooooo that crushed my dreams...
RiseRedMoon 8 years ago
As someone who is currently persuing a career in both art and science, I say FOLLOW YOUR DREAMS. Because most of the time they don't go away, and you may be wishing you'd worked on it more when you're older. Of course, its always good to have a backup plan (hence my science course), to support you in the rough times :)
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dana keunen 8 years ago
my parents told me I was TOO smart for art and they wanted me in Law School. I was good at it, but quit school just to work and have a family. Now I'm a stay at home Mom learning graphic design on her own for the last 3years! :D
Anshari Mohd 8 years ago
I studied architecture in college, but later decide to be a comic artist.I make money with commission jobs and sale royalties. When asked on how can I survive this, the answer is simply you have to draw it beautifully and like any other job you have to do it everyday.
#41
Zombie Gurl 8 years ago
I stopped MS paint. So overrated but then again, so is SumoPaint (that's cheap online photoshop paint)
#42
Michel M. Prins 8 years ago
That's completely true. However, it can be put on the fridge door!
moonsong23 8 years ago
A simple solution: Only show it to non--artist friends OR artists who suck at anime.
Mick and Lee 8 years ago
This applies exactly the same to some other fields, like when I started 3D meshing for a game. The best comment I'd get from the gurus was 'You're getting there' just when I thought I HAD GOT THERE.
#43
Michel M. Prins 8 years ago
This is actually a fairly well and easy way of understanding of how you can look at art. I love it!
#44
Julianna Enriquez 2 years ago
my art teachers tell me not to do lineart but it looks like c**p without it
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Michel M. Prins 8 years ago
This is followed by a 3 phases: #1) Uncontrollable breathing #2) Impatiently waiting and looking at the screen for 10 minutes, hoping it will be just fine #3) Accepting your fate #4BONUS) You will think about this mistake for the rest of the week
Bunzilla 8 years ago
This is why you save a ton xD Every few minutes. That way, if it DOES refuse to save, you're only down a few minutes of work.
Load More Replies... Oona O'Neill 8 years ago
And THAT'S why I draw only on paper. Also, (I don't have a tablet) if there isn't screencapture for tablets they should somehow make that possible.
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Stefan Groot 8 years ago
While drawing, I will hold it in my hand, making gestures on my tablet. When I'm not drawing though, I'll put it in its stand.
Karina Bleul 8 years ago
Somewhere next to me. The only problem is it seems to disappear seconds after I layed it down.
The Chopstick 6 years ago
My drawing pen is so bad, i decided to leave on my desk one night so it could randomly disappear. IT WORKED AND IM HAPPY.
Foxyloxylou 6 years ago
if i had that i would prob keep it in my mouth, but id end up chewing it up... do i have a problem
#50
Michel M. Prins 8 years ago
Well, you can still say you have drawn a bunch of study lines :D You might have erased them and not having evidence to show, but you've done it anyway!
#51
Final score:
39points
Michel M. Prins 8 years ago
Doing CTRL + Z is probably the most common. So is CTRL + Y, but we all know we can't get back that perfect line, once it's erased.
Oona O'Neill 8 years ago
That's why I don't draw digitally. Paper art looks much better anyways.
Nostalgic Hyena 7 years ago
I do digital art so often I sometimes forget I'm drawing traditionally when I do.
Shinomi Chan 8 years ago
I've never actually tried making digital art, sure it looks way better than doing it with good ol' pen and paper, but it seems so difficult, and I can't afford the programs for it xD
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Neurotic_Octopus 8 years ago
I'm the "Surgical Illustrator" type, but with live animals :) I have a special book for my mouse pieces so I don't get poops on my good sketchbook
Silent Skeleton 8 years ago
I like how this is labeled "Sketchbooks of the Pros" and all of the books are different for everyone :o)
#54
Lazy Panda 8 years ago
In the last one, the words seem like they could be part of a Dr Seuss book
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Zombie Gurl 8 years ago
Very true. I always imagined something from a RP (roleplay) and I've planned to draw it out but it comes out childish
#57
Bunzilla 8 years ago
I actually keep some of my oolllllld art around for this very reason. Great motivational booster.
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Michel M. Prins 8 years ago
I think most, no matter hwo confident they are, are on thin ice if you say a thing like in panel 3
#60
Final score:
28points
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Daria B 8 years ago
In my case, I've gotten positive reactions so far. But remember - if you wanna make people percieve your drawing as a present, make sure you don't just give them paper. Put your work in a frame if it's for, for example, your teacher, or a protective plastic foil if it's for a friend.
Michel M. Prins 8 years ago
Whether the person is an artist or not, the moment someone spends time and effort in a drawing for someone else with no goal of achieving money or fame, they should appreciate the heck out of the artist!
Lilya 8 years ago
Yeah, sometimes my friends get jealous when I make a "good" drawing them.
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Eliyahu Rooff 8 years ago
This reminds me of years ago when I build a maple hutch for my wife's birthday. Even made all the molding myself. She was unhappy with it because I hadn't spent any money on it.
#63
Neurotic_Octopus 8 years ago
True story! Every time I doodle during a meeting at work, it's "Oh you draw? Lemme see! Who's this?"
#65
Zombie Gurl 8 years ago
My art block is more like a dungeon cell, I've been trapped dozen times and I've escaped very little because each time I come back, so hard.
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rebekah hernandez 8 years ago
Nothing like a comic that doesn't add all words to create a normal statement
QueenoftheSquids 4 years ago
Oh my gosh one time I was drawing like an orc assassin thing and I had really bright sky blue Led lights on and I thought the guy was dark purple with summer green blood and a really deep plum tunic but when I turned on the real lights he was HOT PINK and I died none of my colors were right and now it looks ridiculous :,)
#70
Michel M. Prins 8 years ago
It's okay, cringing at old artworks is what keeps us moving forward! ...And keeps us cringing, of course
Silent Skeleton 8 years ago
I actually like laughing at my old stuff and think about where I was in life at the time
#71
Weeping Willowz (WeepingWillowz) 7 years ago
I hate it when people whack my shoulder when I’m paper drawing (especially when I am inking) cause it makes your arm jerk
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Cees Timmerman 8 years ago
Cellphone voice recording app? Might also double as sleep talk recorder.
#77
Foxyloxylou 6 years ago
I'm a mix of this, "wow I've really improved" and "wow I don't sick anymore "
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Mark Evans 8 years ago
I get that problem all the time! I often prefer to draw the face at an angle where there's only one eye to draw.
Sophia Erica MANCHUS 3 years ago
yeah relatable but ima right handed so the left eye is hard to draw
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FridayFeels 5 years ago
Hell yeah. Of course there are people still here!
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Crow Smith 8 years ago
#11 about giving artists credit is totally captured off of a computer screen via a camera and it actually seems to help the point.
Kipper Mcgee 8 years ago
On the 11th of march Im going to have to paint an almost naked 80 year old woman😭 Im not mentally prepared for that.
John Kennedy 8 years ago
WHEN I WAS AT UNI, WE PERFERED OLDER AND OVER WEIGHT .... AS WE WERE THERE TO TRY TO BECOME ARTISTS ... TRY REACHING WITH IN AND DEBATING WI8TH YR SOUL, TREAT COLOUR AS A MOOD EFFECTOR .... DONT U DARE PAINT THAT LADY NAKED ... YR MODEL WILL FEEL WHAT YR THINKING ....NOW IN MY WORDS, ULL NEVER BE AN ARTIST UNTIL U CAN SEE THE BEAUTY IN A DROP OF DEW ON A LEAF... THAT OLD LADY IS ALSO BEAUTIFUL 585-58b5f8...d9b701.jpg 
Coco Ouwerkerk 8 years ago
I also did a art daily life comic thingy some time ago xD, I know almost all of these artists there awesome <3 http://colourbee.tumblr.com/post/149266475164/just-so-you-know-and-even-with-those-more#notes
Crow Smith 8 years ago
#11 about giving artists credit is totally captured off of a computer screen via a camera and it actually seems to help the point.
Kipper Mcgee 8 years ago
On the 11th of march Im going to have to paint an almost naked 80 year old woman😭 Im not mentally prepared for that.
John Kennedy 8 years ago
WHEN I WAS AT UNI, WE PERFERED OLDER AND OVER WEIGHT .... AS WE WERE THERE TO TRY TO BECOME ARTISTS ... TRY REACHING WITH IN AND DEBATING WI8TH YR SOUL, TREAT COLOUR AS A MOOD EFFECTOR .... DONT U DARE PAINT THAT LADY NAKED ... YR MODEL WILL FEEL WHAT YR THINKING ....NOW IN MY WORDS, ULL NEVER BE AN ARTIST UNTIL U CAN SEE THE BEAUTY IN A DROP OF DEW ON A LEAF... THAT OLD LADY IS ALSO BEAUTIFUL 585-58b5f8...d9b701.jpg
Coco Ouwerkerk 8 years ago
I also did a art daily life comic thingy some time ago xD, I know almost all of these artists there awesome <3 http://colourbee.tumblr.com/post/149266475164/just-so-you-know-and-even-with-those-more#notes
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