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Hi! Just came to ask a few questions!

Love your art by the way! 💖

So, what art program do you use?

-Do you reference?
What are some design tips you recommend?

Hope I’m not wasting your time! 👉👈

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Scunny

I use Procreate on iPad with apple pencil

I use references a lot, I study animals before i design them (even if ive drawn them many times before), when I do paintings/sceneries i like to collect multiple references and pick from them while also adding my own originality to it in the form of colors and such. It's a great way to practice.

For design tips, study animal markings/colors, and try to work with it as a base. It will help the design look and feel more like the animal its trying to portray. Another tip is, a popular design choice is using warm natural inspired colors for an animal design, but having the accent (like eye color, paw color, inner ear color, claws, etc) be a more unnatural fun color. For example, a tiger with warm vibrant orange colors, but their paws, eyes, inner ears are a light blue. it's very aesthetically pleasing and works for a lot of mammal species since many mammals have warm colored fur/markings.

question:

what's the best way to study animals? referencing directly from an image turns the art piece wonky and inaccurate for me. any tips?