All of my characters have that potential but I personally wouldn’t call any of them “bad.” Like, not even Camellia who cheated on her husband I consider a bad pony because she just wanted affection. The only one I can think of that WAS a bad pony was Pyrite because of his exploits when he was younger (three children, possibly more, all with different mothers, yeaaah…) but he’s trying to make up for that now and stuff. Gawain can be really unstable but again he’s not bad he’s just troubled.
So, in conclusion, “bad” no. “Problematic” yes ^_^
You need problematic characters like me and scraps have
I have them but I don’t have, like, sociopaths. Indigo is racist kinda but he gets over it eventually. And Pyrites a dick but he gets over it.Like 100% evil characters don’t always interest me. I like characters that are good and turn bad for good
Never said evil. They said problematic. Lapis is problematic because she’s racist if he’s abusive towards her brother. But she’s not evil or a sociopath
Anonymous asked: Do you have any characters that are just really terrible and problematic?
All of my characters have that potential but I personally wouldn’t call any of them “bad.” Like, not even Camellia who cheated on her husband I consider a bad pony because she just wanted affection. The only one I can think of that WAS a bad pony was Pyrite because of his exploits when he was younger (three children, possibly more, all with different mothers, yeaaah…) but he’s trying to make up for that now and stuff. Gawain can be really unstable but again he’s not bad he’s just troubled.
So, in conclusion, “bad” no. “Problematic” yes ^_^
You need problematic characters like me and scraps have
Why do artists refuse to use references why why why.
It’s not a contest to see who can get by without them. It’s not cheating to look at a thing in order to know what the thing looks like.
You don’t get stronger or better by pretending. Nobody is impressed by the awkward whatever-it-is you just drew. Use references.
I don’t think a lot of people know that it’s not cheating. I recall seeing so many piece of art called out because they referenced a pose, someone recognized it, and then proceeded to shame them for it. There’s this belief, both by creators and the audience, that artists should just be able to translate the ideas from their head to paper, and if they don’t, it’s plagiarism, or not true originality (spoiler alert: there’s no such thing).
I myself didn’t start using references until very recently, because even I was under the impression that it was frowned upon. And that belief has seriously crippled and stalled my ability to improve as an artist.
As a restarting artist, I can confirm. I just never knew. I thought you were just supposed to know how to draw the body correctly and if you didn’t you had no talent.
(( I am going to say this again, loud and clear for everyone:
USING REFERENCES FOR ART IS NOT ‘CHEATING’!!!
If you can draw/paint without references, great! But if you need to use them, and feel that your art can be bettered by using references, please, use them! This is one of the biggest tips I can give to artists, is USE REFERENCES!
Anyone who would dare to attack someone for using references after ‘recognizing a pose’ is a dipshit, who doesn’t know a thing about art.
Do you know who else used references for their art?
Norman Rockwell
Alphonse Mucha
Gustav Klimt
Toulouse Lautrec
Vincent Van Gogh
Paul Gauguin
Edgar Degas
Gil Elvgren
Frida Kahlo
Pablo Picasso
Disney Studios
And thousands of others! So, artists! Go forth, and use references!!! ))
What do you think artists do when they ask someone to stand infron of them for 6 hours and then they draw this person. Do they cheat? Or when they place a still life and then paint it, cheating again? LOL
Soooo. I made this post originally on my personal blog (I’m eliciaforever), and it was nothing more than a little rant about a specific incident that I deleted after five minutes. But before I could delete it, it took the hell off on me, and now it has all these notes. And LOTS OF AMAZING INPUT.
And I just wanted to add in response to the above tags in particular, that shaming people for using references is something that happens to so many of us SO OFTEN. It doesn’t matter how skilled you are. People think art is supposed to be magical or whatever, and anything else is a crime. The reality of course is that art is a thousand times more deliberate than a lot of people think it is.
So yeah. Good info to pass along. Use references, kids. <3
Reblogging because I think it’s important especially for young artists to gain the confidence to use references.
Seriously, references are esssential! Use them!
USE REFERENCES. Improve your observation skills and hand/eye coordination. Improve your understanding of the body’s workings and the life and objects around you. Improve your skills.
ART IMITATES LIFE.
USE REFERENCES AND FUCK THE HATERS.
Let me begin by saying, I went to art school. In class and during critiques we were asked to post our reference with our work. If you didn’t have reference it was actually considered sort of a bad mark against you.
