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Oh my god, could you do a wing tutorial? The way you draw wings is just absolutely incredible 😭😭😭can't stop thinking about it
Hi! Thank you 🧡🧡🧡
I did a little tutorial for you (for the first time in many years), I hope it will be useful
Reblogging because I'm feral for wing anatomy (in other words I have Opinions about it) and maybe people will find it useful
here, have wings.
Good Resources:
Puget Sound Wing and Tail Collection (where all the wing images I used came from)
Origin of Flight in Birds
Animating Bird Flight (great resource for ALL artists)
Faces
Okay I have a legitimate request for advice/help???
So yesterday I had an idea for an animation for song that's like 2 minutes 20 seconds long
Anyone who animates knows that's a relatively long animation for an amateur artist
Anyway
Yesterday I like REALLY hyperfixated on this animation
This happens to me sometimes when I'm drawing
I have an idea and I HAVE to draw it, I can't draw anything else or take breaks other than quick stops for the bathroom or to eat something
And it's usually easily manageable because the drawings only take a few hours or something
But like
Okay this was pretty intense. I spent all of yesterday pretty much animating the whole thing
A lot of it is still very sketch-like
And I want to color it
And I'm struggling. The problem is that I really want to finish this animation enough to show people/enough that I'm satisfied. I just want to be done!
But like, I'm EXHAUSTED. I didn't get much sleep for hyperfixating on this, I am actually already sick, and I'm also having really bad period cramps.
It feels like the easy answer should be just take a break, right?
WRONG.
I CANNOT sleep, I CANNOT sit still, I CANNOT function I need to work on this. Trust me, if I could sleep or work on another project I WOULD. But like I can't even focus, all I do is think about how much work I need to do and what things to fix and -oh I need to draw another frame for this one scene,,,
I would really appreciate ANY advice, ANY recommendations, PLEASE send help I'm dying here
Here's another Nightwing, I actually drew this one before the other one I posted, but I don't really like this one, I think something about how I colored the skin is funky. Any suggestions?
HOW THE ACTUAL FUCK DO PEOPLE DO GRAYSCALE 💔💔 I really want to try more dramatic lighting so I was like omg genius idea!! grayscale!! so like cool cool,, you do the base in grayscale,, render in gray scale,, now.. how do I slap color on this in a way where he doesn't look like he came outta a morgue 👻
also side note,, I haven't drawn ace in like 20 million years so he started looking like bootleg epel 🧍♂️but I don't wanna redo this so 🙂↔️
um anyways if anyone knows super cool ways to add color without making them look like they lack blood flow- that would be mega awesome!!
I have the problem, that I think my expressions are too plain ... I think I figured out a way to get myself to exaggerate them.
I'm simply drawing different expressions, simplified to a smiley in a circle, just that I draw it 3 times. Each time, I try to make the expression more intense. and then I draw it on a face.
(I'm making the 25-essential-expressions challange)
Like here some examples:
Happy:
Sad (Idk, not too satisfied with that one but whatever):
Pleased (I like this very much. Like that smug character winning another argument and then smiling at you like that and saying, Told you~ ... or just a cute cinnamon roll ...):
Angry:
And confused:
Looks kinda good. If I did that challenge without the three smiley faces, it would show less expression.
Thought I might share that, maybe that helps someone.
tumblr has an AI toggle you should turn on to prevent your work being shared with training models/etc! it's under settings & visibility.
your art or writing could have been scraped, please watch and check the stuff in the description.
I guess I can put a personal art vent here. Basically, I am really anti-ai, a lot of my videos are about that. Sometimes, I get real petty people who go after my person, my life, my intelligence, recently my art.
I am pretty much okay with the goofy.aah comments except talking about my art. I got a "shitty Tumblr artist take".
Except I was never a Tumblr artist, I never had a following here and never posted my art either.
Still kinda shitty cuz i feel my art sucks eternally.
please, everyone who lives in the UK and you are a creative! Please, reblog this so everyone can be informed. The UK Government is being REALLY SNEAKY.
Hey, I was wondering...what do you guys think about posting sketches on here? I have so much stuff that I don't intend to post on Instagram. I'm partially afraid it'll be made fun of or unliked because it's not perfect art.
Hi there ~ Key' so I want to make another papercut art on a character but I can't decide between Crowley from Good Omens or Veronica from Heathers ;; Can y'all tell me which one you would like to see first ?
hot artists don't gatekeep
I've been resource gathering for YEARS so now I am going to share my dragons hoard
Floorplanner. Design and furnish a house for you to use for having a consistent background in your comic or anything! Free, you need an account, easy to use, and you can save multiple houses.
Comparing Heights. Input the heights of characters to see what the different is between them. Great for keeping consistency. Free.
Magma. Draw online with friends in real time. Great for practice or hanging out. Free, paid plan available, account preferred.
Smithsonian Open Access. Loads of free images. Free.
SketchDaily. Lots of pose references, massive library, is set on a timer so you can practice quick figure drawing. Free.
SculptGL. A sculpting tool which I am yet to master, but you should be able to make whatever 3d object you like with it. free.
Pexels. Free stock images. And the search engine is actually pretty good at pulling up what you want.
Figurosity. Great pose references, diverse body types, lots of "how to draw" videos directly on the site, the models are 3d and you can rotate the angle, but you can't make custom poses or edit body proportions. Free, account option, paid plans available.
Line of Action. More drawing references, this one also has a focus on expressions, hands/feet, animals, landscapes. Free.
Animal Photo. You pose a 3d skull model and select an animal species, and they give you a bunch of photo references for that animal at that angle. Super handy. Free.
Height Weight Chart. You ever see an OC listed as having a certain weight but then they look Wildly different than the number suggests? Well here's a site to avoid that! It shows real people at different weights and heights to give you a better idea of what these abstract numbers all look like. Free to use.
Art thoughts? Tips? Advice??Whatever fits best I guess
So you think you are bad at anatomy?
Well what if I told you that what it is you're bad at isn't anatomy and it's portion?
What is portion? You ask well portion can help you draw anatomy if you understand portion and if you know those then well you don't really need to learn realism lol
Portion is how big an object is compared another one..
Example:
The middle finger is typically, usually, the roughly same length as the palm and the total length of the hand is typically, usually, roughly the same length as the face not head but face
The pinky fingers are the same length as the thumb and the total length of your hand is roughly the same length as your foot and your foot is roughly the same length as your bicep? Upper arm :D
So ultimately just learn portion it will help you a lot!
What can portion also help with?
Perspective!
What? You may be thinking so let me explain!
Perspective is how far or close the subject is to the viewer in the art work in the form of a painting, illustration, or photograph
Learning portion can also help you with perspective in some ways specifically to keep things in roughly the same size and in the same plane
Learning perspective can also help you with your art game regarding of what it is you're drawing
As well as you guessed it say it with me: Portion!
Which in the case you aren't drawing just a human but a landscape too
Let's say a tree and some mountains
So this case you would use a combination of portion, scaling, and perspective
In this case scaling is how big an object is compared to real life and portion is how much space an object should take up compared to another and perspective is how far away the object is
You would eye subject bigger compared to the others
For instance
If it's a human you would make the mountains and trees appear farther which would make them smaller
But if it's a tree or mountain you would make those bigger and the human as something interacting with them so the don't look like they don't belong in the small image
Would learning anatomy help you draw?
Yes but as well as perspective portion and a little bit of scaling
Instead of learning how to draw realism learn anatomy, portion and perspective!
That will help you most in your drawing career!!
And if you don't feel like doing all of that use a reference pertaining to real life or a real person for art study instead of fan art
That should help with a lot of your drawing problems
As the people say work smart not hard
And if you need to be like me and stare at your reference for such a long time you look stupid because you forgot how to draw then do it I'm not stopping you
Also...
Start by drawing everything with a simple shape and adding more lines and shapes (and erasing!!) till you get the form or the shape of the object you are happy with then add extra details
Trust me you will thank me later :)
Hooray! I've posted a new YouTube video, and you can find it by following the Linktree in my bio to my YouTube channel, or by looking for Jazzleeillustrates on YouTube! In this video, I'll be designing a set of four party animal themed stickers, and also talking about my process of making and selling stickers. 👀👏
I figured out the world of screen capture, and I decided to get back into making videos! Follow the link to watch the full video (it is about 20 minutes in its entirety, and in it I work on a new comic and give tips and tricks for starting your own web comic)! Check out my comic, 'Slices of Gremlin', on Webtoon!
"Stop saying 15 year olds with weird interests are cringe, they're 15" this is true however you should also stop saying adults with weird interests are cringe because who gives a shit
just gonna reblog this
This is so amazing how did you learn to render?
The magic trick is shading, lighting, and after that,
✨Blur and paint over it✨
Please help, it's been 2 hours
I've been working on this lil guy off and on for a couple weeks, and he's literally ALMOST DONE, but there's something MISSING, something WRONG-
Something in *this* general area-
I keep redrawing and redrawing a portion of his hair and I'm going crazy
How do I fix it
Please reblog with you doodling over the drawing if you have any ideas, and if you don't, reblog with nothing for reach
Please, I'm dying
(Also I know I've never posted chibi art b4, this lil guy needs to be chibi to create the right effect tho)
Q: how do you draw torsos and legs? Some people say the hands are more difficult but for me it's those things, what tips would you give for those?
I also struggle with legs, way more than I ever struggled with hands. But, every problem has a solution. In this case: skeletons and naked people.
You can trace directly off of real life bodies, but a better practice is to draw your best copy of what you see, making your measuring and line confidence stronger💪
Yeah muscle anatomy is cool, but that’s a factor AFTER learning basic skeleton structuring. Having a 3D model of a skeleton that you can manipulate helps with figuring out how the skeleton moves with muscles, but you can typically see someone’s skeleton straight through their body depending on their weight and position. Below, you can see my simplified version of what I think his skeleton is doing. You need to understand how to build a strong base to create a proper body over it.
With enough studying of how the skeleton manipulates through the muscles, you can add your own skeleton to your drawing. Knowing each layer of biological anatomy, not just simple limb by limb drawing anatomy, brings much more weight and mass to your characters.
Lots of simple studies to figure out how the bone fits into the muscle so that you don’t have any limbs anatomically clipping over eachother and breaking form
For muscles, first off, just draw lots of naked people, second, use this lemon slice shape to show the weight of flesh, along with the tension of movement along the straight line of the shape. Watch all of this dudes video but specifically this one to understand more
how do draw good
fill 14 sketch book
bad stuff is good stuff bc you made stuff
do you like sparkle???? draw sparkle
draw what make your heart do the smiley emote
member to drink lotsa agua or else bad time
d ont stress friend all is well
your art is hot like potato crisps
don’t let anyone piss on your good mood amigo
if they do
eat
them
Advice dean Winchester would give someone lmao
didnt realize this was an ad at first so i just assumed that was somebody's advice. no1 art tip... hunt monsters...
OKAY I KNOW I MADE A STUPID JOKE IN MY LAST POST BUT I REALLY DO HAVE SOEMTHING TO SHARE
Kinda,... not really but anyways im learning how to draw expressions and have no idea what im doing
dont Judge me :<
I barely started praticing this 2 days ago :[
This.
Yuh 💅
I think at some point in time we need to sit down and start explaining to artist who want to make a career out of art that there are FAR more options than just "living off of commissions" and "posting my art online and praying I get paid for it".
hot artists don't gatekeep
I've been resource gathering for YEARS so now I am going to share my dragons hoard
Floorplanner. Design and furnish a house for you to use for having a consistent background in your comic or anything! Free, you need an account, easy to use, and you can save multiple houses.
Comparing Heights. Input the heights of characters to see what the different is between them. Great for keeping consistency. Free.
Magma. Draw online with friends in real time. Great for practice or hanging out. Free, paid plan available, account preferred.
Smithsonian Open Access. Loads of free images. Free.
SketchDaily. Lots of pose references, massive library, is set on a timer so you can practice quick figure drawing. Free.
SculptGL. A sculpting tool which I am yet to master, but you should be able to make whatever 3d object you like with it. free.
Pexels. Free stock images. And the search engine is actually pretty good at pulling up what you want.
Figurosity. Great pose references, diverse body types, lots of "how to draw" videos directly on the site, the models are 3d and you can rotate the angle, but you can't make custom poses or edit body proportions. Free, account option, paid plans available.
Line of Action. More drawing references, this one also has a focus on expressions, hands/feet, animals, landscapes. Free.
Animal Photo. You pose a 3d skull model and select an animal species, and they give you a bunch of photo references for that animal at that angle. Super handy. Free.
Height Weight Chart. You ever see an OC listed as having a certain weight but then they look Wildly different than the number suggests? Well here's a site to avoid that! It shows real people at different weights and heights to give you a better idea of what these abstract numbers all look like. Free to use.
I absolutely love your art! It makes me so happy that I literally get overexcited sometimes and have to take a break to stim. You convey so much expression and depth with even the most basic/fewest lines (meant in a good way!!), your sketches, finished colour pieces, all the different brushes and textures you use, the various styles, they're all absolutely awe-inspiring. I enjoy checking your page so much, your artistic talent and your creativity in world building so much is incredible.
I was wondering how long it took you to get so good at making art/being so creative and thinking outside of the box? And also if you have any tips to get better at art? Or what helped you advance overtime?
(I'm so sorry this is so much word vomit, sometimes I'm too shy to talk to people and sometimes I cannot stop)
what a lovely ask! thank you anon this made my day :)
to answer ur questions:
getting better is a continuous process, though as with anything sometimes you take steps forward and other times you take steps back (been feeling kind of drained of all creative energy this year due to irl things out of my control so i havent met my own expectations, but that happens!). so yeah im hesitant to put a time limit on 'getting good'
actionable advice on getting better at art:
-draw what you love, you dont have to do things just because you think they'll make you improve.
-look at your own art after its finished and think about what you can improve on next time without being mean to yourself
-draw lots of different things, figure out what you like best
-steal poses, art styles, techniques etc from artists you like. do studies if you want, its good to steal (with credit)
good luck!!!
lil tut I did cuz someone asked!
(if you can't read it, open the image in a new tab ^^)
RELATED TUTORIAL (it's about how to know where to add shadow and light :>)
If you have any questions, ask! and if you have any suggestions for tutorials you want me to make in the future, lmk and i might get around to it! X3
✨reblogs greatly apricated✨
And i know! there's gonna be a massive amount of spelling mistakes TwT I'll try and fix them!