hey! I'm mary / trask / minustrack on most social media (whichever lmao) - 17 and very much still learning. I would love any tips or critiques. I attempted to make a sketchbook a few years ago and I never stuck to it so I'm hoping to actually try and become a little more consistent.
anyway, here's a bunch of pieces I have laying around on my computer! some of these are a bit old, but i wanted to include a variety. let me know what you think!

im liking your shapes mate, really neat stuff o3o

Hey your drawings seems heavily inspired by tumblr. Is that intentional? Other than that, i love the last piece ♥♥

Please do more animation related drawings~~ I think those are really nice for your kinda style

im liking your shapes mate, really neat stuff o3o

thank you so much! :D

Hey your drawings seems heavily inspired by tumblr. Is that intentional? Other than that, i love the last piece ♥♥

Please do more animation related drawings~~ I think those are really nice for your kinda style

Unintentional, but it makes sense because a good percent of the artists I follow and look up to share the same kind of vibe. :p

And thank you! I really like how the last one turned out. I'd love to do more animated stuff, but I don't really have a smooth method of doing it yet? Maybe I'll look into it more now!

Nice painting. I really like the girl with the purple lips.

You have some really lovely colour work! Looking forward to seeing more ^_^

I like your lines and your style a lot. That background is just...perfect

I like your lines and your style a lot. That background is just...perfect

thank you so much! I really want to do more backgrounds and environments

You have some really lovely colour work! Looking forward to seeing more ^_^

thank you so much! Working with color is probably my favorite aspect of drawing actually

Nice painting. I really like the girl with the purple lips.

Thanks! :p She's one of my favorites too

Nice painting. I really like the girl with the purple lips.

Thanks! :p She's one of my favorites too

So I went through and took pictures of my actual sketchbook! Excuse the camera quality, I know it's not the best and I don't have a scanner.
This should conclude all the pictures I'll be uploading of past work- anything from here on out will be more current and I'll just upload as I create new stuff!

i like your hand studies

Really digging your environments Also those hands are looking real good!

You play okami?!

Also I want a t-shirt print of this and this

I think your designs would look awesome on t-shirts. Please consider making t-shirts~♥♥♥

Great colors, characters, and rendering styles. And you're only 17 - I so badly wish I'd gotten started as a teenager. At the rate you're going, your stuff is going to be amazing by the time you're ready for an art career (if that's what you end up choosing).

I think a good challenge for you would be to add some more expression to your characters' faces, since most of them seem pretty neutral to me. But that's just a suggestion, and you can feel free to take it or leave it. Keep it up!

You have a really cute style! Wonderful color sense as well!

i like your hand studies

thanks! Hands have been a huge obstacle for me in the past, but I think I'm getting a little better at them.. slowly but surely.

Really digging your environments Also those hands are looking real good!

thanks so much! I reeeally really wanna start doing more environment stuff. Struggling with placing characters in environments without it looking strange though.

You play okami?!

Also I want a t-shirt print of this and this

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I think your designs would look awesome on t-shirts. Please consider making t-shirts~♥♥♥

Okami was one of my all time favorite games when I was a little bit younger, it was so fun!! unfortunately I don't have the wii anymore, but I still remember it fondly.

Also thank you so much for saying that!! At my school we have to do a senior project for the majority of senior year and then present about it at the end of the year. That's a long way away, but one of my ideas was to start up an online store selling t-shirts / other products I design.
That encouragement makes me want to pursue it a bit more

Great colors, characters, and rendering styles. And you're only 17 - I so badly wish I'd gotten started as a teenager. At the rate you're going, your stuff is going to be amazing by the time you're ready for an art career (if that's what you end up choosing).

I think a good challenge for you would be to add some more expression to your characters' faces, since most of them seem pretty neutral to me. But that's just a suggestion, and you can feel free to take it or leave it. Keep it up!

Thank you so much!! It's funny you say that, I feel like I'm not very good for my age all the time so that makes me feel a bit better :p
I guess it's all relative to when you start really practicing though, right?

And I'll focus more on that! Sometimes I notice myself erasing expressive faces because they look strange, so i do agree I need to improve them, it's not just a style choice.

thanks for the tip! <3

You have a really cute style! Wonderful color sense as well!

thank you!! I really love coloring and picking colors!

hi again! here's a couple new things!

first, a quick kinda sloppy drawing of taako from the adventure zone


and then these next two are a bit doodle-y, I was testing new brushes.



I also happened to make some stickers for my friend's birthday which are definitely silly and small, but I thought I'd go ahead and share them anyway!


lastly, some timed pose practices from the line of action figure drawing tool.




also, i'm sorry for the large sized images, you may have to ctrl - a few times. My standard canvas is usually pretty big so sometimes I forget to resize.
that's all for now- see you soon!

painting from this morning!