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Ireen Chau's avatar

I’m getting influenced to look into e ink because your sketches are so cool 🫶😭

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atisumuffin's avatar

Ah thank you ☺️ It's a fun device to try out, not just for drawing but note-taking as well!

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Diego Malatesta's avatar

Love the vibe of your substack and your drawings! It's funny that I find this now because I decided out of the blue to add a small ink sketch to the post I'm going to publish tomorrow (nothing anywhere close to the quality of your ones though!) and substack decided to suggest this post to me :)

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atisumuffin's avatar

Awesome and thank you! Talk about good timing! Hope you don’t mind if I check out your post when it’s out, not just for the sketch, but I do like reading anything related to photography. :)

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Stephy's avatar

As instinctual as writing is to me, I’d love to take a creative writing class in the future. School forced me to write a lot more than I do now and I sometimes fear I’m getting worse rather than better. I even considered looking up free grammar practice pages! It’s good to slow down and revisit the basics-it really shows you how much you’ve improved over time and reminds you why you love doing what you do!

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Stephy's avatar

Ps. Your Substack posts are the highlight of my week. I really love that you switched to this platform ❤️

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atisumuffin's avatar

Aw, thank you so much! 🥹 Knowing that really makes me happy. You’ve truly highlighted my day!

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atisumuffin's avatar

Love your approach, it's quite similar to what I'm trying to do! I agree that academic writing can feel a bit restrictive, but any form of writing can be valuable practice. Don't be afraid of it! What we do repetitively can only make us better. :D

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Kalia's avatar

Always happy to wait for your newsletter! And i might get influence in e-ink too. I hope there's one sell in my country.

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atisumuffin's avatar

Thank you ☺️ E-ink is a growing market, so hopefully it'll be available in your country one day!

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A. C. Sanders's avatar

I never learned to paint with watercolor and thats something I want to revisit next year! I LOVE the look of ink and watercolor together!

You are so right it’s really important for artists to go back to the basics! ✨

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atisumuffin's avatar

Oof, I applaud you for wanting to take on what I think is the trickiest art medium 😆 But with your amazing art style and drawing, I can totally see it working for you! Watercolor is def my fave, so I'm excited for you to try it out 😍

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A. C. Sanders's avatar

Yeah I am slightly terrified to learn a new skill from scratch. It’s been years since I have painted traditionally! Thank you! I love that you incorporate a watercolor look into your digital painting! I will definitely let you know how it goes!! 🤣🎨

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atisumuffin's avatar

Thank you, as much as I try to replicate watercolor digitally, it'll never match the charm of real traditional watercolor 😌 Can't wait to see you share your new skill (and moar Briar story!)

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Sssss's avatar

Have a wonderful thanksgiving, and thank you for inspiring me to one day make my own art blog to share my art journey and art rambles!!

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atisumuffin's avatar

That's great to know! So happy that you're inspired :D

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Meggan's avatar

Happy Thanksgiving to you!!

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atisumuffin's avatar

and to you! :D

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Nightmarelized's avatar

I relate so much to the “type it out” outfit design person haha. There are times where I talk about my stories and characters and people say “wait, how are you working off *just* head sketches?”

I mean.. I wrote all their outfits down and they are in my head…

Yeah I need to get up and sketch them for real…

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Rook's avatar

I really want to get back into costume design. I used to love designing outfits for my characters, but I've really fallen out of practice while I focused on studying anatomy.

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