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Nomadic Magic

@nomadicmagic.bsky.social

more tarot time~ 🔮👹
happy recent Full Moon 🌝 ✨

#tarotart #witchyart #tarotzine #wipart #artcommunity #sketchlines

Image is a close up of an illustration in progress, with multiple layers of sketches in pink, green and dark blue lines. A hooded figure veiled in shadow except for two glowing eyes, looks at the viewer, their left hand lifted halfway holding a cow skull glowing with fire. Hair is flowing in and out of the hood, with a crescent moon adorned on the front forehead and a rope attaching it from around the hood. There are figments of framework and flowing lines of dots in the background.

November 7, 2025 at 4:19 AM

Skyefrost (Comms open)

@skyefrost.bsky.social

Totally on purpose... The sketchlines ... Lmao (I usually sketch in blue BUT NOW IT FITS SO WELL)

October 21, 2025 at 3:29 PM

Nancy Bennett 🇨🇦

@nancybennett.bsky.social

Back in '23 I painted more flowers than at any other time in my life. A full 50% of my work was flowers. In hindsight I can see I was trying to cheer myself up after a year of hard hits. And it worked. I got through it.
#paintingflowers #buttercups

Sketch on a 12x16 board. The board has a background of deep brown/purple. The sketch is with pale violet paint. A handful of buttercups in a cut glass vase with a narrow neck.

Close up of the vase with light glancing off the chevron shaped cut pattern on the glass.

Close-up of the right side of the bouquet of flower. Bright yellow with green stems, the purple sketch showing through in some places. Textured dark brown background.

The whole painting. A dozed blossoms on long stems. The flowers are bright yellow and face towards and away from the viewer. The vase has a narrow fluted neck and is decorated all over with chevron shape cuts in vertical rows. The background is deep brown and purple. The sketchlines in pale violet pop against the dark background and the blossoms glow in the dark.

October 1, 2025 at 3:28 PM

FauveMuaveSuave

@fauvemauvesuave.bsky.social

The Pens. The hours spent trying to get a pen that looks natural for thick sketchlines.

September 9, 2025 at 8:12 AM

Troisnyx | actively seeking work

@troisnyx.bsky.social

Recently got commissioned to do a simple PNGTuber model. Y'know what, this feels nice 🥹 I could do things like this too, if you'd like

Expect it to be bright, have a lot of light and use halftone shadnig

An image divided into three from left to right. Left is a series of sketchlines in a faint dark blue, almost grey, along with the Citrink colour palette from Inkpendude on Lospec that I used: two shades of dark blue, two shades of teal, two shades of bright green, one shade of chartreuse yellow, and white. Middle and right images are almost the same, they are the finished product, depicting a girl with dark green hair and eyebrows (though only one is visible), bright green skin that looks like it's off of an RPG slime, and a bright green dress with lace straps and a plunging neckline. She is just in idle pose. The middle image shows her one visible eye (left, viewer's right) closed, and her lips closed. The image on the right shows her with her eye and lips open, showing that she has a bright green iris and dark blue pupil. For watermarking purposes, I've pasted my tilted triquetra signature on the two finished designs. There is text at the bottom in dark blue, in Franklin Gothic Demi font that reads, PNGTuber Update Commission (Ninjapear)

September 4, 2025 at 1:22 PM

bianca

@biancahayda.bsky.social

omg how are your sketchlines so good???? who did you sell your soul to......

August 25, 2025 at 6:53 AM

Nancy Bennett 🇨🇦

@nancybennett.bsky.social

Little pink hockey players will remain at the heart of this painting. It's still very early days, but the first layer of colour is an important foundation for me as I work.
#artstudio #workinprogress

Oil painting on textured gesso board. This is an extreme close-up of a group of 6 hockey players standing on the ice. They are sketched roughly in magenta. Behind them are curved magenta lines indicating they are at the bottom of a hill. Rocks stick through the ice in the lower right corner.

Full painting in progress. 36x40, horizontal, hanging on beige studio wall with splatters of paint around the edges. The painting is of an urban neighbourhood circa 1919. Rows of houses along the horizon and a few trees. The bottom half is hills leading down from the street to a frozen gully with a group of people playing hockey on the ice frozen into the bottom of the gully. A few people stand at the top of the hill watching.
The painting is in progress. The top half is a slate blue sky. The patches of ice are slate blue too. The sketchlines for everything are magenta.

August 19, 2025 at 9:34 PM

Yokomation Studios

@yokomation.bsky.social

Today’s plan, get Hercy’s scale mask’s done THEN I Can get the sketchlines for the last T-Rex done and begin drawing the baselines.

Yokomation Studios @yokomation.bsky.social · Aug 13

Good night, tomorrow i´ll be heading back to Denmark,
than on friday i can get Hercy´s roughness maps Done AND also a thumbnail for the Newgrounds art Posts for the Forever Enemies.

Thumbnail to this
https://www.newgrounds.com/art/view/yokomation/forever-enimies-team-rex-retrosaurs

think it´s a Good way to use my model sheets to test them out before they go into the world of 3D.

August 15, 2025 at 7:51 AM

NamyCat 🔞 (Your friendly Tabby Artists)

@namycat.bsky.social

Well, i don't use Kirita, but i'm sure my method translates well there. I usually do the lines or sketchlines on layer, and the coloring on another layer that's "below" the lines layer. That way i can color without messing with the lines.

August 13, 2025 at 6:17 PM

Bad

@thebad.website

1. Smuggies are drawn with a computer mouse, in MSPaint (I'm a madman okay)
2. Text is black bolded Segoe UI Semibold (you read that right), ideally font 24 or more
3. Lines and brushes are 5 pixels thick, should be done in one stroke, restart if the stroke looks bad
4. Minimalist backgrounds only when necessary, no backgrounds at all is fine
5. Separate panels with diagonal lines instead of straight lines because it's cooler
6. Don't forget the signature (thebad.website) somewhere at the bottom, font size 20 or less
7. Colors should be pastels, use one of the 20 in the default MSPaint color palette shown below
8. Only deviate from those 20 colors for shading on skin color (pick a color then darken or lighten)

Guidelines are not rules, they're meant to be broken when necessary!

Smuggie face sketches have a "toddler tries to draw an egg" type of shape. When going from sketch to face, it's fine to disrespect positioning of eyes and mouth if it allows the finished result to look cooler and smugger.

Smug faces have cartoonish expressions, the same eyes and mouths you'd put on stickmen but on a proper face.

Haircuts are part of the egg shape, ears are a good delimiter for where hair should end (unless long).

Break all rules when drawing known personalities, it doesn't matter if they have regular eyes, break the egg shape, all that matters is they're recognizable

Torsos are just a rectangle with a butt below the head
Body sketchlines don't need to be detailed, what matters is that the proportions put the head somewhere between 1/3 and 1/4 of the total body size
Adjust as needed in order to avoid bobblehead characters
It's fine if different drawings have different proportions but stay within 1/3 to 1/4

Hands… yeah… hands are hard to get right, but it turns out they're easier to draw busy than in a resting position, so try to keep em busy somehow
Thumbs up, asking a question, crossed arms, smug pose, anything...

Animals have no guidelines other than retry every line until it looks round and cute and deliberate, and make them small because it avoids having to add too many details

August 13, 2025 at 11:17 AM

Beeb 🔜 Home

@rabidraccoon.bsky.social

STOP⛔ This is a WIP checkpoint
QRP with your current WIP

This is taking a hot minute lmao, I'm working at a truly massive resolution and DPI. It *will* get done tho. Not sure if I just want to polish the sketchlines like I usually do or actually ink it, either

August 11, 2025 at 6:09 PM

Dangl!

@thedangl.bsky.social

Also gaze in horror at how horribly rough my sketchlines are and vomit

August 2, 2025 at 11:56 PM

Reuben Svelteroo

@roosvelte.bsky.social

all that aside, I'm defo looking forward to seeing it all, wherever it ends up! you do monorumps so perfectly lol and I'm a sucker for rougher sketchlines. :D

July 31, 2025 at 2:31 AM

M. Ballard (AI Generation USA)

@mischab.bsky.social

Teal & Tincture

Prompt in ALT

#aiart #blueskyart #digitalart #aicommunity #watercolorportrait #1940saesthetic #tealpalette #orangeaccent #smilingfigure #vintagebar #chemglass #sketchlines #warmexpressive #papertexture #scientificchic

a young woman in a bright teal dress and orange headscarf leans forward behind a marble bar counter; loose brushwork and subtle sketch lines retain the artist’s hand; her wide smile and confident posture balance against detailed labware—flasks, liquids, and glass tones; shadows remain minimal on warm watercolor paper, focusing attention on color blocking and character charm

July 26, 2025 at 8:02 PM

rose 🏳️‍⚧️

@xxroseprotoxx.bsky.social

1/2 protogen sketchlines (im going to explode)

July 17, 2025 at 3:03 AM

Anya

@anyaartses.bsky.social

Wanted to make a furry little snow leopard tabaxi. Been in a cat mood. And without colors because I like how the sketchlines came out.
#art #dnd #oc

July 12, 2025 at 7:14 PM

BræinWayves

@brainwavesoxo.bsky.social

In my many wips, sits a vampire comic. I don't know if I'll ever go back to it, but I thought I'd share those
Basic gist of it is : goth who's into vampires meets a jock vampire. Yuri ensues.

wip page of comics. in the top drawing, a woman with a strange air to her (classy yet unusual, long black hair, loosely fitting t-shirt) looks over at a muscular woman running laps. In the bottom drawing, we get a closer look at the woman running. At her body, bending and twisting to exert the most possible strenght, which accentuates her curves.

Wip page of a comic, in which, among sketchlines, we can see a muscular woman running toward the viewer, completely focused on her effort. The page is unfinished and mostly empty. The rest of the page would have been filled with after-images of her, to emphasize her speed. It can faintly be seen in the sketchlines.

June 22, 2025 at 1:32 AM

dragotor.bsky.social

@dragotor.bsky.social

How I sketch/draw my main fursona...
The first stage is badly drawn but later stage appearance is evolved.

First Stage, is my horrendous sketch, misaligned skeleton. You can see some basic doll sketchlines inside colored one

later, evolved into more recognizable shapes and skeleton was fixed. still add the "line of sight" if look like reading palm.

June 18, 2025 at 4:06 AM

Benchflip (Void Slugs)

@mclowes.bsky.social

The way your sketchlines flow along the body and the extreme attention to detail in some very large and unique designs! The dedication!!! <3

June 5, 2025 at 8:42 PM

KJDragon70

@kjdragon70.bsky.social

Finally got Rouge's bat features right in a doodle I made at work recently, so I rendered it when I got home today. :)

I left in the sketchlines so you can see my edits and grainy ass camera lmao

#KJDragonart #SonicAU