Hey, so a few years back you stated that to start drawing you replicated the styles of works you liked. How did you go about replicating the styles. I’m currently trying to create ocs that fit into a style similar to Clone High and Total Drama, whilst not being a carbon copy of existing characters.

Also, would it be easier to use 2d or 3d shapes.

You're quite lucky because Total Drama is an incredibly varied style, so there's a lot more flexibility to making OCs in the style without being carbon copies! To study styles, I tend to draw from reference, collecting how they draw head shapes/hands/different facial features/bodies, etc. in different sections to see what variety exists. Here, I've done bodies, heads, and faces, but I recommend creating sketch piles of whatever style elements you can think of.

(Total Drama/Clone High is one of the flattest styles possible. It's incredibly 2D and geometric, focusing on shapes rather than anatomy.)

You can really see this if you try to break down the characters into their basic shapes. Everything can be broken down into a single shape that are overlapped to form the body. By tracing over the existing characters, I can figure out what shapes they use for each character.

The head shapes are nearly always flat on top, with any sort of curve to represent the face shape, and a flat triangle-ish shape for the neck. Depending on how definied the jaw is, there can be a line spearating the head and neck, or not. The ears are always a quarter-circle shape.

The faces are then quite high up on the face and condensed. The eyes and nose don't usually overlap but they're very close together. The mouth is never directly below the nose, placed closer to one eye than the other.

Then, to put this into practice, I try to turn three of my OCs into the TD style. Trying to caricaturise existing characters helps you connect how certain features look in the new style.

I start with the basic shapes, then add the hair/clothes details.

So yeah, just a bunch of tracing/drawing from reference, and then trying to put it in practice, going back to references when you're uncertain.

Hey, I love your artwork, so, I was wondering, is that okay to help you with ideas to draw, cause I'm an editor, so I can send you a photo, that can help you, if you like to?

Don't worry, I don't need help for ideas

Ha! This is perfect!

This is the plot of Wish, right?

3rd year anniversary of this post! Happy ace day!

I keep forgetting when these days are, but if you're ace, you're cool

Continuing with my Avatar generation swap, here we have a group of teenage assassins coming after Korra

Ming-Hua, now a combustion bender. Zaheer, a spiritually-attuned wanderer, P'Li, a lavabender, and Ghazan, their plant (and blood) bender.

I will not apologise for Ghazan. He grows into... all of it.

It's been a while since I did some writing, so here's more of the "Lucio and Nadia had children" AU

tl;dr: Nadia and Lucio still suck together but Portia reminds them they have to be better

I’ve been following you for quite some time and I just what it share that your art and your journey throughout these years is inspiring. I hope to someday have the time to practice my skills to improve my own art, so that I may look at it with the same enjoyment I do your’s.

Thank you for sharing your craft with us.

Aw wow, that's so sweet. I almost feel like I don't deserve that for how little I've been posting lately, but it means the world that I could inspire someone else. The best of luck with your own art journey!

Love your art and character designs!!! They are cool af!!!

Thank you!

Heyy so I'm a little obsessed with @bevsi's obsessive lesbians so if you haven't yet, check out Heartstrings.

tl;dr: pop star Isi secretly used to be part of Ro's punk band and despite the time and distance, they're both still yearning

Heyy so I'm a little obsessed with @bevsi's obsessive lesbians so if you haven't yet, check out Heartstrings.

tl;dr: pop star Isi secretly used to be part of Ro's punk band and despite the time and distance, they're both still yearning

Some Wish sketches! I love chatting to my sister about fleshing them out and seeing our takes on them

Like, she came up with the concept of Amaya being a little woman and considering Disney referencing the typically goofy and fantastical portrayal in the Seven Dwarves, it'd be lovely to see more of them included as actual humans in their films

In general, I liked getting to sketch them loose and shapey

I need to get out of an art block somehow

or am I misremembering its usage?

This is the plot of Wish, right?

Hazbin Hotel is a mess, pacing-wise, but I missed a good animated musical with just the Worst People so here are some of my Worsties :D

Last one, folks! Thank you for indulging me with these

Prompt: athleic, confident, stylish, clubbing, open to others and not afraid to have fun, but determined to reach her goals

#I think I like d and f the most#d conveys the “athletic; practical; reserved” aspects the most imo but i also think its the most plain of the options#which is why i almost dont want to pick it since you did such a good job showcasing their sense of style with all of the other options#and d as an options kinda loses that in comparison to the other ones#bc d is kind of an everyman get up that doesnt feel quite as distinct as the other ones#I like e too but i think it skews a bit too formal < to me at least#c is growing on me as well. i like the jacket but it reads as a bit more forward/direct to me bc of it#I like how distinct fs top is. it looks like something someone would deliberately put on bc they like it. I'm not that big on the shorts-#-mostly because it makes them read as more open/accessible#So I think the sweatpants work best < at least to me but feel free to disregard my opinions :)#urgghhghg sorry for the big rant in the tags! I like all of these designs btw and I'm looking forward to the end result :)#I also really like how boxy and rectangular they are hehe

Thank you so much for all your detailed comments :D It's really useful in trying to decide between these!

Prompt: stubborn, athletic and practical, reserved, someone fixtated on his current objective and trying to push down any and all emotions despite being highly emotional