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xianta · 6 months

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Hi! your art is so cool, im struggling with drawing faces, hair and limbs, any tips?

-@mossy--wizard/@mossy--wizards-art-lore

Honestly the main thing would be to use references! Don't be afraid of using them definitely, especially for blocking out foundations! I use Pinterest to compile a bunch of references that I can look back to all the time! Whether it's a bunch of poses or particular close up photos of hands etcetcetc

Something that helps me a lot too is look at 3D models of anatomy, particularly 3D character blockouts like so

because a lot of them colour code the different muscle groups it helps a lot to visually breakdown what makes up the different parts of the body! You can even find 3D blockouts of hands and heads too, the main idea is to break up the different sections into more basic shapes and add detail from their, once you have a steady foundation of the anatomy what you put on top will fit together much more nicely!

And of course it can be done for hands too!!

As for HAIR I drew up a quick thing

Once again the main thing is blocking out and using refs lol, for longer hair I think of the pieces as more ribbon like in how they flow and overlap! And honestly when it comes to hair, keep it loose! My brain usually shuts off when I draw hair, I don't overthink it at all and just let my pen go with the flow using mainly long strokes, the steps are just where I start drawing it to where I finish it at. And when it comes to shading you mainly just follow the flow of the sections you've drawn out!

I hope that makes sense and helps out a little!!!

#xianta art #art tutorial #anatomy breakdown #art reference

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widowshill · 2 months

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WIP whenever

tagged by my dear @boltlightning thank youuuu

takinggggg the arts and crafts definition as an opportunity to show off a screencap redraw thing i'm working on <3

tagging @kazoobreakdown @devilagent @scarecrowbutch @gaslightgallows @piratelooksatforty @evil-dead-head-1980

#➤ dash games. ┊#wip.#barnabas is here keeping me company because i was having a breakdown about anatomy and perspective. still am.#but hey a bat

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thaliajoy-blog · 9 days

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Trying to learn about forms & anatomy (+ exibit A : Lys fashion👌)...

...from the gods ! (A representation of Nike, the goddess of victory)

#daenerys targaryen #asoiaf art #valyrianscrolls #house targaryen #anatomy #old jewelry #nike goddess #fanart #lys #the anatomy breakdown drawing kind of is bullshit i feel but it's artistic in itself i love it

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72stars · 11 months

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“Burning Bright” costume/character rough (very rough) design ideas for Sunfire & Wolverine, because I didn’t have much in the way of ideas for them (outside of “okay but it’d be fun if Wolverine showed a lot of skin? and okay I guess here’s some less tits-out ideas” and “I’m just… not going with an imperial flag motif for Sunfire this version has been with the X-Men since he was a teenager it doesn’t make sense for him anyway”) and decided to get their roughs out of the way first (next up for roughs: Rogue & Storm)

#I tagged the Cyclops ones but I’m not sure I want to inflict these on the tags lol maybe later #“Rabbit did you look through old X-Men lineups while deciding who you wanted to be on the team and immediately latch on the angry red guy #raised to fight?” shhhhhh anyway it was a mistake every time I turn my back on him Shiro becomes more important it’s becoming a problem #I don’t remember what it feels like to be happy with my designs adventures #also it’s been so long since I regularly drew humans that I’m increasingly aware my grasp of anatomy has gone haywire RIP #I’m just going to have a mental breakdown over my art in the tags because I don’t want to redo these but also looking at them makes me #increasingly angry at myself lol don’t mind me hauls out all my fuckin’ anatomy books again

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crime-wives · 3 months

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do you think i have forgotten (about you)

He’s trying too. Though, there’s pressure behind it, an obligation. He hums absently when she talks, clearly not registering a word. She’ll take anything she can get from him. He’s trying and she’s sorry and everything’s messy, messy, messy.

Addison Montgomery/Derek Shepherd. 2k. 1/1

read on ao3

#grey's anatomy #addek #addison montgomery #derek shepherd #meredith grey #this is abt the breakdown of their marriage btw #my works #my fics #fanfiction

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aspecbuddie · 4 months

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HOLD THE FUCK UP WE'RE GETTING ARIZONA BACK?!?!?!?!

#THIS HAS ME MORE SHOOK THAN THE BUDDIE STILLS #taking a break from my regularly scheduled breakdown over buddie because holy fuck!!!#im speechless #and shaking #what the fuckkkkkkk #screaming crying throwing up #greys anatomy #greys spoilers #arizona robbins

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lazyhomestay · 1 year

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Original monologue from Kaamelott - Book VI Ep. 3

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#thy anatomy baffles me triangle man #starscream #megatron #knockout #breakdown #soundwave #tfp #maccadam

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freddieslater · 1 year

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It’s funny how since I started watching Grey’s, I have been completely wrong in all of my inital opinions. For example:

I thought I wouldn’t care that George was going to die. I knew it was going to happen from the very episode because of a tiktok but I thought I wouldn’t get very attached to him because he was kind of… useless. I was wrong. I cried when he died.

I told myself I wouldn’t get attached to Denny because he was played by JDM and I would just keep making jokes about John Winchester. I was wrong. I got very attached, very quickly, call me Izzie Stevens because I was tearing up at his death.

I was SO SURE that I wouldn’t care about Mark or Lexie dying because Mark was an ass and Lexie was just the “other sister.” I am on season 8 and I love them both individually and together and I know I am going to be sobbing when they die.

So, what I’ve learned is never to trust my inital judgment on a character in Grey’s because it is going to be changed within a season and I WILL become attached.

#grey’s anatomy #grey’s #george o’malley #denny duquette #mark sloan #lexie grey #ignore me while i ramble #I fully can’t cope knowing the plane crash is coming up #I can’t do it man I’m gonna have a breakdown this time I just know it #george was bad enough HELL DENNY was bad enough!!#I’m not ready to lose mark and lexie #I still don’t know who else goes out in the crash because my sister won’t let me read any spoilers #she’s sure arizona is going to be on the plane though so uhhh I’m worried about her too

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scazrelet · 1 year

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Art Theory: The Torso is a Clawfoot Bathtub

This is a bit of an experiment. This is a mirror of my most popular Ko-Fi post, now in full form here on Tumblr (though it does look better there with all the images properly sized and the text centered and etc etc). If it gets enough eyeballs I’ll mirror the other ones too. Now, without further ado...

Due to the popular demand of like... a couple people, I will be going over how THE HUMAN TORSO IS LIKE A CLAWFOOT BATHTUB. But first, a story. When I was still just a wee babby artist I would wander into the local library and pick up art books and be confronted with all of the in-depth anatomy images and feel a bit, well... overwhelmed.

And it's not as if I'm a dumb person or anything. It just never really made any real sense, not in a way that was meaningful to me. I struggled to retain it, unlike with other subjects, which of course confused me even more.

In hindsight I see now that it was like trying to memorize the parts of a car engine, how they all looked visually, where they were placed spatially (in 3D nonetheless), without knowing how a car operates or how all the parts work together in motion.

Which is a bit ridiculous. In any case, since I didn't have much interest in drawing western style comic superheros with musculature that looks like it's been vacuum sealed by their skin I spent a good amount of time just ignoring it and sneaking by, using a lot of shorthand and doing practices drawing from life. And, to be fair, I did learn a lot like that.

(Thanks for your contribution to the arts, Rob Liefield. I don't like feet either.)

Which brings us back to torsos. So when you look at a torso you can visually see there are features, like pecs and belly buttons, but their relationship to the internal structure is not immediately apparent.

(Me drawing in high school, probably.) So what ends up happening there is you just end up sort of... putting stuff where you best guess it kind of belongs. And sure, sometimes it's a really educated guess, and can be hella convincing. I tend to notice this most with collarbones. I can tell when an artists has learned largely through shorthand and idioms when their collarbones are just sort of floating around doing their own thing, basically acting as decoration on the chest without suggesting any greater purpose.

So what changed? And what does this have to do with bathtubs?

Well, I had a few paradigm shifts. To put it more simply, I realized I am a very conceptual and relational thinker. Anatomy never stuck with me because it never "clicked." So my success came from starting with big concepts and adding increasing levels of complication as I became ready for them. Pieces falling into place bit by bit.

Like a car, for instance, is a vehicle that runs on a series of explosions. Which is kind of badass. These explosions, in turn, are caused by pistons which rotate in time, which is kept going by... weird shaped gears and belts and pulleys... sparks... compression... well that's about it for my knowledge of engines.

*I have since been informed that it is the spark plugs that make the explosions and the explosions that power the movement of the pistons. I think it was clear by my diagram of a car that I am not well versed in automobiles.

So what is the bathtub about? This is literally all I came here for.

Ok, ok... So the bathtub is a conceptual metaphor that helps an artist understand the structure of the torso. Cool. So, to break that down... It's easy to think of the body in terms of a column. A series of objects supported by the object below. That makes sense, right? At heart we are, essentially, the Michelin man.

(★ ☆ ☆) Except not at all. Unlike palm trees, pyramids, and economic class systems we are not, in fact, a series of parts dependent on the parts beneath them. And we knows this. I know this, you know this, we've all seen spooky skeletons before, but for some reason artists consistently fail to internalize it. The issue being that we are still just mammals, just mammals that walk around funny. And Mammals are basically flesh tents. But... less horrifying than that phrase suggests.

(Like this but skin.) Essentially your standard cat or dog is holding up its spine with its four legs and then its body is hanging from that support structure created by the spine. The body is not being held up from below by the legs. And that's a fairly crucial distinction as it turns out. The muscles of the legs connect to the spine(ish), and the ribcage hangs down from the spine, making a nice tidy sack to hold all the insides where they are supposed to be.

And humans? Well we're all evolved from previously four legged critters.

(We're really just some jumped up fancy rats.) Which means we follow a very similar diagram - but with alterations to account for a bipedal stance.

WHICH BRINGS US TO BATHTUBS.

So, take this weird upright mammal and break it down into very basic blocks.

(I can draw better but I refuse.) Got some hips, a spine, a ribcage, just like a cat but vertical. So, again, all the focus is on supporting the spine, specifically. Which is why our arm muscles still largely connect to our back (except, like, your pecs which are literally contracting and yanking your arm bones forward which is metal AF).

So, like an umbrella designed in hell, we are actually bags of meat hanging from our spines. And that "decorative" collarbone? Literally holding up a ton of meat draped over it so we can continue to move our arms.

Which 🎉🎉🎉 BRINGS US TO THE BATHTUB🎉 🎉🎉

( F***in told you. ) It's not a perfect metaphor since usually the curtain rod is held up by other supports besides just the shower head (it's literally called a head this is such a great metaphor) but give me a little slack. The ribcage is like the curtain, held up by the spine of the showerhead, and the hip bones are the bowl of the bathtub, within which are lovingly nestled... all the intestines. And stuff. This metaphor helps an artist conceptualize the human structure, so they can start applying further degrees of knowledge, like muscles and motion and afsGkljSAKjhgfajhs hands.

But I specifically said a clawfoot bathtub you say pedantically? Well...

I didn't stutter. It is a CLAWFOOT BATHTUB. Specifically.

And not just for some reason like "oh because it has feet." (OK like maybe a little but not only, alright?) So let's talk about hips.

Now muscles work by contracting, something I passingly mentioned before (didn't think that would be on the test, did ya?) so to create motion the better generally contracts a muscle that has ends tied to two bones.

(Hips. You might already see where I'm going here.) That's why we don't resemble ball jointed dolls. Due to *insert complicated mechanical reason based on leverage, pulleys, walking, flexibility, and so on* we, again, aren't just objects stacked on top of each other like dishes.

(I only chose this image because it sounds like a band name.) So, as it turns out, rather than balls and sticks and vague underwear shapes, there is another pretty stellar way to consider the leg hip connection area.

Excuse my atrocious rendition of it here, but I assume you get the jist. Two turkey drumsticks tagged onto Lego Bionicle pegs jammed into a pair of hipster undies, with some amorphous fleshy bits spackled in there.

( I am very serious right now. ) So, I'm sure you've figured it out by now, but this shape very much resembles...

And that, my dear friends is why the human torso is a clawfoot tub. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Enjoyed this post? Find more tutorials and drop me a tip on my Ko-Fi Want art help with something else? Critiques and reviews? Just to chat and share? Join my discord. Hate this? Day ruined? ME TOO B

#art tutorial #how to draw #art breakdown #art theory #art education #artists on tumblr #art how to #art resource #my art #anatomy #anatomy for artists

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kagender · 6 months

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you ever see someone elses sick as fuck take on alien/spec biology and think. darn i need to get this good

#i tend to lean more into the behavioural side of things so i dont think about how keronian bodies work that much.... like organs etc #ive been avoiding doing an organ breakdown for a stupidly long time because how do i fit alldat in their tiny bodies #i need to hit the books. the animal anatomy charts

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eschergirls · 5 months

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Leak submitted:

"Well, I wanted to see how exact the two Catwoman pictures from the last post match, so I decided to throw the image into GIMP and check - well, here are the results: an animated, grayscale GIF that swaps between both images every second, and a mash-up between both with a diagonal gradient which surely does not look extra-cursed in the least... ^_^"

Thanks for the work! It's interesting to see the two swap like that and how exact the silhouette is.

As pointed out by a few readers on the original post, the pose seems to work best with her facing away because of the curve of her hip and her foreshortened far arm which looks strange when her butt isn't facing us and her smaller arm is supposed to be the nearer one.

I do think it is a really neat idea for a cover though, and I appreciate you putting the effort to make the comparison for us!

(Comparison of covers for Batman/Catwoman #1, DC Comics)

#Catwoman #DC Comics #superheroes #rubber spines #anatomy breakdowns #animated gif #odd poses #comics #comic books #submission

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communistkenobi · 1 year

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Paxton’s book is decent so far but it’s insane that he hasn’t brought up colonialism at all when talking about the social conditions in Europe that allowed for fascism to form

#anatomy of fascism #also the more quotes I see from hannah arendt the more I disagree with her #I know she’s contentious anyway but like #describing naziism as a ‘breakdown’ of European traditions seems ridiculous to me

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amiscreations · 2 years

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impulsively painted Sav, idk I saw this reference and my brain just went gOTTA PAINT IT

#this was meant to be a fun little experiment #but I ended up putting more thought into this than all of my other pieces this year combined #im pretty good when it comes to anatomy but HOLY-#many breakdowns were had in the sketching process #he turned out cool tho :)#a few parts are still v much messed up but you guys dont have to know that #Savvy Sav Sav #Rick Savage #Def Leppard #art #my art #watercolour #classic rock

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gorgojijijijito · 2 years

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does tumblr like librarbian aus cuz i know i do (also soft horrortale bros are literally my favorite thing)

i also subscribe to the stupidly tall height thing for horrortale just *mchwah* chefs kiss

#i think i spelled thoroughly wrong but idk the correct way so imma just leave it #me and the boys having breakdowns at the sleepover #i giggle and kick my feet thinking abt ht bros i swear they have crack for marrow #horrortale #undertale #self ship #ht papyrus #papyrus #i know his anatomy looks fucked up btw #tall and skinny ppl are the bane of my existence

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h3llofaday · 1 year

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I talk about greys anatomy a lot but you guys don’t understand how far this obsession goes when Derek Shepard died I cried for like 2 weeks straight you would have thought my actual father died

#I watched that episode live and nearly had a breakdown I cried so much #and don’t get me started on Mark Sloan I miss that man everyday #AND LEXI OMG I MISS LEXI GREY SO MUCH #greys anatomy #Derek Shepard

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v-exian · 1 year

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@howgalling AGHHH I FINISHED IT, after many sketches and design confusion, I am actually very happy with the drawing ^^

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