Apologises for not posting anything new. Feeling a bit down so will hold back from drawing actively. I'm mostly just forcing myself to at least keep doing my anatomical practices, but I never post those.

I realized that in 7 years of drawing I never really tried to learn painting. Which is why it's so hard to shade and color for me. Maybe I should study painting techniques when I'm done with the body anatomy practices.

Why I can create a character, a pose, a scene, I can easily draw my imagination on paper in few minutes as a rough sketch, and then need 15 hours only to lineart it?

I feel like I'm missing something. Okay, making a sketch is easy, just rough thick lines without bothering of the details, mostly trying to get the proportions and perspective right.
I love that phase. It's when I really use my imagination, my intuitive side. It allows me tos ay "I want to make a sci-fi like gladiator" and come up with something like that in maybe 10 mins of drawing.

And then... right after it there is the second phase. The analytical one, which I hate so much. It's still creative but in the opposite way: it wants to be precise. To make sure things are in a certain way not because that was the doodle I did before, but because there must be a reason, a rule. It's... exhausting. It takes way too much.
It's not that I don't like it, I still enjoy drawing through things like this but I don't feel it being worth so much time...

I don't understand why. I guess some of the reasons could be addressed to my screen resolution (high DPI means things are too small to draw zoomed out, and being zoomed in all the time slows down the process heavily). But I still feel I miss something... What could it be? :c

I'm really not sure if I should use my watermark or go for a signature on my draws. Or just add a string of text with date, profile link and character names :/

Any opinion..?

As you may have seen, I had been doing freebies for the past weeks, every single day. I'm pretty satisfied with the results! I'm getting a better hand at linearts and poses~ <3

But here is the problem: I should start making more flat colors. But all the process of sketching, linearting and coloring takes way too much time from me..! (I know I'm slow, and I will be also working on speeding up my art).

So, I'm not sure if I should make another Free Week of drawings with flat colors, or start to make commissions instead. I guess you fguys would go for the first option, but many say that an artist should never undervalue themself so I'm a bit unsure :c

How much would pay for my works? I still need to decide some prices anyway, at least for now >///> I will be mainly doing sketches, linearts and flat colors with this quality:

Sketch: https://drive.google.com/open?id=0B.....3VldTZuNDlsOGM
Lineart: https://drive.google.com/open?id=0B.....DQ5YVBHcmsyMlk
Flat: http://www.furaffinity.net/view/19288647/

I would appreciate any opinion!

Hey there! Yes, you heard it right. This time I'm gonna try making linearts.
Last time I had fun making the sketches, but right after the first few I went way too into defined results, and I think starting to get used at linearts is a good idea.
Don't expect anythin awesome, I'm mostly trying out different brush settings for the best results. As example, it will be something of that kind just less pencil-like:
http://www.furaffinity.net/view/19154081/
http://www.furaffinity.net/view/19172890/
(also, I'm still trying to get better at hands so apologises for eventual weird things)

>>>Rules:
- only one character per lineart
- no sexual scenes, nudes are accepted
- anthro characters preferred
- comment with a reference or a description of what you want to be drawn

Last time I had planned it as a 15mins sketch each and ended up with over a hour per sketch, taking me around 3 days to complete. This time I want to give max 2 hours per lineart and try to finish in a week.

Lets get started. As the title says, in the next hour I'm going to make free sketches of the characters you want, for practice purposes. Nothing high detailed or special, mostly in the level of THIS.

>>Rules are simple:
only one character per sketch
no sexual scenes. nudity is okay
anthro characters preferred, ferals as option

Just leave a comment with saying who, with a short description or a reference picture, and I will try to work it out in around 15 mins.

EDIT: And we are done! Five sketches, all completed in way more time than I thought (instead of 15 mins each it took over 30 mins each, some even up to a hour ._.)
But hey, that is the reason someone keeps trying :3 Maybe in a few months I will be enough fast and good as I want! :D

Expect more free practice sessions in future :)

Yes! Everything packet (except my pc) so now it's just matter of end details before I will be at the new house~
The moving is planned for the coming weekend, so I will have probably a busy week... Huff! And I can't imagine how hard it will be the first times in the other house, unpacking and all...

I also still lack a desk. I thought I could make a custom one, big and nice like I want, but untill then I will be having some problems.

Anyway! I hope to be back into digital drawing a lot more than before with finally the privavy and calm of an own bedroom <3

Please, forgive me for any big delay with my current list of requests/draws planned.

Starting to move with family, and obviusly this requires me to help father with all the works at the new hours (remove old wallpaper, paint, repair nd fix stuff)

It leaves me exhausted and takes away alll free time, so... huff. It will be a long period untill all it's done >.<

I won't forget the works on wip and in my list though, and as all that will be finished, I will get back at drawing passionately. On the good side, new house means new bedroom, new desk and more space/privacy for drawing :3

I'm tired of fighting with my piece of crap that works for half day and then pretends to ruin the rest of my time and mood x3 I give up, I will spend my savings to buy a new one, but before doing the big step, I wish ask advice...

My current aim was to save up for a Wacom Intuos Pro (M) Pen and Touch, which I guess would be the best best I could get (beside a Cintiq, but those will be for the future IF I get to start earning fromd raws >.>). The problem is that the price of ~300€ is quite of a problem for my current state. Also, I heard that older models like the Intuos3 are still somehow better, is it true..?

On the other hand, are there better (or cheaper) options you could suggest? Please, I can't take anymore of this flicking and freezing from my current piece of crap x.x

Hello to everyone :3 I know to not be that popular, but still I consider myself a drawer (or at least I try). Untill now I was mostly drawing occasionally, with results that were kinda variable depending on the subject and the time spent on the image.
The last weeks though, I took the firm decision to practice every single day and improve my art. And it works! I'm visibly making progress as I could see comparing my images, and I want to share with you what tricks I'm using, in case you want to attempt this career as well :)

Climbing the Mountain
This is the best example of what it means learning to draw. You are at the bottom of a big mountain when you start, and looking up, to the very tip, you see those great artists you love, with their amazing artworks. Of course, you aim to reach them, right?
You CAN! It's not impossible. Everyone can draw, really! It only takes patience, time, and effort on keeping to try. Noone is born with skills, and any of those artists you love can comfirm they weren't so amazing right at the first attempt. It all comes from experience, and experience is gathered by drawing!

Okay, so it sounds easy, right? Like trying to draw like them and keeping to try... Wrong. Your aim is reach them, but you don't climb a mountain by looking up. You look down, at your feet, at the STEPS you need to do, or you will trip and hurt yourself.
The best way to improve and never get depressed, is to set yourself smaller objectives all the way up. Knowing what you want to draw (lets say an anthro wolf) you decide can what are all the things you need. Human anatomy is a step. Making good paws is another, doing fur another one. Learning to transform a sketch into lineart again something else. You see, there are a lot of things to consider. The secret is analyzing them one by one, practicing and trying.

Keep Practicing!
Exactly, as said before the secret of becoming a great artist is to keep drawing, every day if you can, every hour you can spend on it. But how do you practice?
If you are new into drawing, I suggest you to get a ton of papers (or a sketchbook) and a good pencil/rubber. You don't need anything else, they don't even need to be some high quality tools, just what you feel more comfortable with. And of course, a good relaxing space to focus on your work ;)
I do NOT recommend to try directly drawing at pc, even if you aim to become a digital artist. a Graphic Tablet and a screen behave in a different way and make it only harder to learn the basics. Start with traditional untill you can make understandable sketches, and then you can decide if keep practicing there or make the next step.

About "what" you should try drawing, I can only suggest to go for what you desire most. If you love dragons, try drawing dragons, if you love girls draw girls, let the passion guide you for those first steps in the magic world of drawing! In future, when you will be enough confident of your skills you can spread your tastes to draw different things :3 But for now, you should focus on a single task per time. Don't ask too much to yourself, or you end in depression!

Get dat Reference
Many don't even know it. When you draw, you are putting on paper what you have in your mind. Though, for how good you can imagine something, YOU CAN'T DRAW SOMETHING YOU DON'T KNOW! Every great artist will tell you they have a huge folder of references, and that they go studying their subject before sketching it! Trying to draw something you have no idea how is made will only frustrate you, and give poor results!
Then, once you decided what to do, go and search as many informations about it as you can. Look for examples, read guides, learn and understand what and how is made what you are trying to reproduce on your paper.

Of course you can browse the web anytime for what you need, but I find more comfortable have a folder on your pc with all those images you find most helpful. You see a draw that is colored in a great way? You found a lineart that shows in detail the anatomy of the subjects? Download them! Who knows if those pics won't be deleted when you will need them? Always better to have them saved for yourself, to browse even if you are offline.

Exagerate if you need
The best and fastest way to understand something, is by making it really clear. And how to make a draw clear? Exagerate! If you are following a tutorial, or simply tracing an example, don't fear to make sharper edges or larger curves. You want to see and learn were lines end, where they collide and which one will be above the other, so avoid to simply remain general or too smooth! After all the practice doesn't need to be perfect.

Also, another tip to improves is to NOT erase mistakes. At least at first, if you seen you did something bad, keep it there, under your eyes, and draw again your subject aside it! Confrontate and check if you really fixed it or not! Doing an error is not bad, but ignoring an error is bad! You don't want to repeat it, and erasing it wouldn't help you recognize it.
As a side effect, it helps to fill a paper. I know you might feel lost in front of a empty page, but if you start putting doodles and leave them there, it will be easier to warm up and get into drawing. Deleting what start becouse "seems bad" will only keep you on the edge unable to start!

Motivation and Support
The last subject I want to touch. Sometimes the will of becoming a good artist isn't enough to keep all the way up to the tip of the mountain. It's a hard path, you will fail many times and you will rarely be satisfied of your works. But that is the secret to improve, to never think that you are already on the top! That there is always something to climb again. Find what can keep you motivated, search the support of your friends. personally, seeing other artists draw makes me want to get my pencil and start doing something too, so I often watch streams and talk with other drawers.

On a last note, I'm willing to advice you to join the Furry Art Academy group (on my profile) created by the amazing GlowFox, with many tutorials and helpful words. They greatly helped me to get started, and I'm sure you will find it wonderfully useful as well!

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I believe I'm out of things to say after this wall of text :P I know, it's horribly written (I'm better at drawing than writing at least xD) but I will try to correct and improve it in future. I hope you found this list helpful to get into drawing!
Feel free to ask anything more you want to know, or simply add your own opinion! ^-^

Aahh! What are you doing there? God, you shouldn't be in this place! It's top secret! Now I have to kill you... Oh, you had Permission Granted?
In that case, I believe I owe you some explanation. But first things first, and welcome to this hidden spot! What is it you are probably guessing, well, it's just an extra tab of my profile with the darkest and most dangerous secrets about me...

Entering a new World
Why I became an artist? It all started years ago when I ended in love with dragons. Being so awesome in books and movies, I just couldn't help but wish I was one! I soon discovered about the otherkin concept and started frequenting forums and other places where I discovered the fun of RolePlaying as what I desired, living the story by myself. And it was in those times that Raysen was created (being just Rey back then!).
Though, there was a problem. I had no images worth to describe myself! I knew to be blue and silver at the times, being my two fave colors, but nothing more! After all I wasn't really experienced on the subject, and I didn't really feel to use some random image found on the internet. So what? I took paper and pencil and started drawing.

The first times where a shit, of course! Oh, I still have saved the images of my first works, and they aren't anything special at all! But I was motivated, and just wanted to become good at it, so I kept drawing and drawing, filling dozens of papers, finishing sketchbooks and reading guides. Then what is the lesson? That EVERYONE can draw! Noone is born with skills, you gather those by simply keeping to try! And it's never too late to start ;)
If you are willing to get into drawing as well, here, I also wrote tips and helpful words to get you started: Drawing Tips

Changing, Evolving, Adapting
I wasn't that secure of myself though. I had contrasting passions, like for videogames, sci-fi stuff, robots and machines. But those things were too far apart from the magic world of feral dragons! They were two aspects of me I couldn't ignore... So I did a simple thing! I splitted that part from me, creating a different universe of technological experiments and evil machines, which became the background of my story! The XR Laboratories being the core of this dark, cold place with thousands of secrets to discover, adventures to live, and yes, also kinky stuff to happen.

It's all a big part of my story, too big to explain, so I won't write it. You can still ask me though if you are really that curious about it all! ;3

Get to the Important Stuff!
Ah, of course, I'm just boring you with my past! You want to know about me in at the current days, right? Well, first of all, I'm a blue dragoness living in Italy, a boring place I wish leave as soon as I can to draw more freely and spend time with those I love. I enjoy playing videogames on Steam, roleplay on F-Chat and keep in contact with my friends on skype. My tastes are very simple, I'm mostly into the normal stuff with little extras here and there. Though, I do have a deep deep secret love for bdsm and forced/rape. Okay, okay, it's just bad, I know, but I like it! And Tentacles are simply the best~ ♥
For now I drew nothing on the subject, but only because I'm still learning and I would hate to not draw such scenes in the correct way! As I will become better at my art expect those to appear often~ And if you are in those too, even better! I would gladly bring them into RPs...~

Founder of:
Yes, I created those groups years ago, and they became quite famous around! At the times I was a lot into the master/pet play, but lately I grew a little distant from it. Don't get me wrong, I do love the idea of a Master taming me, but I just learned to not give in too much in such relationship, leaving it to be more as a fun thing.


[WIP - MORE TO COME!]