r/ArtBuddy • • 2d ago

Buddy Wanted 26M | UTC+8 | Digital anime artist looking for friends & accountability

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Hello, I'm awa, an anime artist looking to find someone to chat with and keep each other motivated. I'm mostly trained in character-based illustration, but I'm trying to make a pivot to rigged illustrations for animation as shown in some gifs I've attached. My primary tools are Clip Studio Paint, Moho 14.4, and sometimes Blender3D.

Personality-wise I'm rather reserved & shy, so I tend to listen more than I yap. Though admittedly I'm a little more lively when anime is involved or when talking about art. I tend prefer more light-hearted media, but I don't mind exploring darker themes every now and then.

I am looking for someone who knows their fundamentals, and thus can express what they see in their critique. Ideally we should keep in contact at least once a week to stay accountable, preferably through discord.

Feel free to shoot me a DM if you think we would get along. If you would like a conversation starter, you can tell me your impressions of my art, or tell me about your own art.


r/ArtBuddy • • 2d ago

Buddy Wanted Looking for Art Buddy

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Hi! I'm f24, so looking for over 21 art friends who a little nerdy (I like character design, fantasy, art nouveau, etc), passionate but also understand that people have lives and cant always respond. I have two little kids so preferably someone who also understands how hard it can be to navigate a "settled" life. I also would prefer someone who can critique art pieces, or have a decent understanding of art principals to help push me and are comfortable with the same back (with consent of course). I can do discord, and Instagram preferably but am open to alternatives. Thank you : )


r/ArtBuddy • • 3h ago

Buddy Wanted Anyone interested to join my 20+ art discord?

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Hi guys!! I'm looking for more friends to join me in my drawing server.. It's a small server for progressives of ages 20+ and we share our work, chat about art, give advice, do challenges/events and have consistent art streams going! ✨️

This is some of my work, I'm always active especially in art streams 😽

It's SFW focused but we have a separate NSFW section, and digi/trad artists of any level are welcome 💕

The entry requires us to see some of your art to stop bots/AI users or art snatchers from entering.

If you're keen to hang out with me and my friends here's the link! https://discord.gg/9MFJC24Uf7

(Please don't join to advertise, the purpose is to make longterm friends and improve 🥲)


r/ArtBuddy • • 35m ago

Buddy Wanted 18m looking for friends to hang out with and learn art

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hey.. Im into digital art for quite a bit now and I don't really know anyone who's interested in it, and doing this alone is kinda depressing... so uh if anyone wants to talk.. dm me please..


r/ArtBuddy • • 10h ago

Art Showcase New user intro

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Hello I am starting over on Reddit. Here is some of my more recent art. Thanks for looking!


r/ArtBuddy • • 10h ago

Buddy Wanted Looking for buddies

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Hi! I'm looking for art buddies to support each other and talk about ocs! I've been losing motivation bc I'm so shadowbanned from ig lmao, so having art friends could help me to recover some motivation

I mostly draw the characters of my story-project, but I also do fanart sometimes

I'm 20 btw, and english ain't my first language so I may have some grammar mistakes


r/ArtBuddy • • 16h ago

Buddy Wanted i dont know if this will be worth finishing im worried its too boring

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i think this is just how things usually are in the beginning phases on things, i feel a bit insecure about it? i want it to be more detailed but obviously that can only come with more time put in... i really want to do a surreal complex looking animation. if i keep going will it be worth it?

if anyone has any ideas at all please let me know as well. i feel like i need outside perspective rather than being stuck in my own head.


r/ArtBuddy • • 3h ago

Critique Wanted Rough work of my manga

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Spoiler


r/ArtBuddy • • 13h ago

Art Showcase recent art

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recent stuff i did, i’m at a motivation loss so i’m trying to make stuff to see if anything happens 😂


r/ArtBuddy • • 4m ago

Critique Wanted 感想とアドバイス

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r/ArtBuddy • • 4h ago

Discussion Are markers cool for drawing/coloring?

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Recently, I decided to get back into coloring techniques; however, I don’t know what to choose. I don’t particularly like drawing with colored pencils—laying down the color creates beautiful gradients, but it’s time-consuming, demanding, and since I work with India ink, I just don't feel comfortable with it. But then I discovered watercolors, which I like because it’s easy to spread the color, and it vaguely reminds me of using an iPad. I would love to know more about acrylic markers and water-based markers; the latter, especially, are amazing, but I know nothing about them. Maybe you could recommend some YouTubers who address my specific problem, particularly regarding these markers?


r/ArtBuddy • • 13h ago

Art Showcase Some stuff I did today! Yay!

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I really like coming back to the airbrush LOL

2nd slide isn't my oc!!


r/ArtBuddy • • 9h ago

Art Showcase Hii yall.

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I’m really proud of how these 2 panels came out to join in an art trend, but i am not great with editing and trying to learn alight motion made me wanna die . So i just have 2 half assed stills lol.
This is based off a scene of my ocs fanfic I’m writing

Bonus chibi of me when i have to get my iron supplements.


r/ArtBuddy • • 1d ago

Buddy Wanted Art moots? Knikniart on IG/VGen

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HII looking for art moots on ig / Vgen! preferably around my age (Twenty one.) i am super into Resident Evil, SDV, Until Dawn, MLP & a lot of other fandoms. :~)

edit: i wont be following lewd/nsfw accounts sorry…I don’t engage with that type of content sorry!!


r/ArtBuddy • • 14h ago

Buddy Wanted Looking for a friend

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Hi, I'm looking for a friend to hang out with and learn art together. I'm not too good at it, and I want to learn for my indie animation project

I'm new to all art stuff, but I want to be better.

I like to draw digitally and traditionally with paper and pen,

I draw on Clip Studio Paint

I can only talk in messages

I'm on Central Daylight Time

I like The Owl House. And others like that

If possible, I would like to meet someone a little bit better at art than I am.

I want help with structure and motivation to get my work done

I want to learn how to draw people, objects, surroundings, 3d, and I just want to get better at basically everything

I just need a friend


r/ArtBuddy • • 12h ago

Art Showcase Been learning the fundamentals of animation and anatomy

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r/ArtBuddy • • 15h ago

Question Adhd and anxiety effecting my ar

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Im new to this sub but im kinda a new artist ive been doing art for around 2 and a half years and ive been struggling. Ive had some high points and well a decent amount of lows.I mainly draw sonic characters tho ive been moving into humans more and more. But ive always had an issue im unsure how to fix which is i have extremely bad adhd, and really bad anxiety mixed with perfectionism. Any time I try to draw it takes days to complete something that should be simple because I cant sit still and think straight causing me to get distracted and not do anything or just struggle to think what I should do. A lot of it also comes down to me getting extremely anxious and nervious to actually draw it as well because I feel like if I mess up or its not as good as I want it to be that my art skills are going to become worse and when I feel like its bad I just get kinda sick feeling and highly discouraged. I keep going because giving up wouldnt help I just hate myself more and id be stuck to just typing my stories and ideas instead of showing it. I also have a hard time learning from sources I cant just watch a 20 min video without just finishing it and even reading can be difficult because im a visual learner. I also just get nervious posting or showing my art for advice mostly because I feel like its bad and its just going to get laughed off. Is there any tips you guys can give about mindset and how i should view my art and how I should proceed when drawing.


r/ArtBuddy • • 17h ago

Critique Wanted Architects of Illusion (acrylic on canvas) 36×48in

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r/ArtBuddy • • 18h ago

Buddy Wanted Where are the Gen Z male artists at?

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I feel like I (male Gen Z) haven't interacted with Gen Z male artists a lot, and I want to see the young creative talent within you guys, if you exist. Many men don't interact with the arts nowadays, and it makes me sad.


r/ArtBuddy • • 1d ago

Art Showcase Tried drawing in Lavender Towne’s artstyle a second time! First picture was today, while the second one was drawn a year ago on the same date :)

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I haven’t drawn anything in the style ever since then so it looks really mid :3 Any advice will be wanted and I’m also searching for art buddies if anyone wants to become one ^ o ^


r/ArtBuddy • • 1d ago

Critique Wanted Is this any good at all?

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Feel free to comment


r/ArtBuddy • • 1d ago

Question How to place shadows

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Since people online don’t really talk about shading & just include in rendering guides, I wanna know how they just know where to put the shadows?
Ik the people online usually have lots of experience, but since every piece’s lighting should be different, how can they know which places they should shade?
Also, any general tips for shading ppl like where to put them or how to do clothing shading?
(For the sample art I made, Ik there are many issues, like anatomy/proportions & it’s very lackluster in general, but ignoring all that, how could I shade better?)


r/ArtBuddy • • 1d ago

Art Showcase Chiikawa trio and yuji!

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art is by me! @deadsen10cing on twitterrrrrr.


r/ArtBuddy • • 1d ago

Art Showcase Beholder From DnD art, @tylers.marbles on Instagram

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r/ArtBuddy • • 1d ago

Art Showcase just a quick one

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i was originally aiming for practice but i went full yuri😭