#poses are a bunch of pinterest refs
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some little timmy drake sketches
he’s just an eepy lil guy
#tim drake#timmy drake#he’s the kid with the creepy monster plush#assume batman is like a cryptid myth#he’s also a little adventurer going thru dark alleys#and an eepy boi#poses are a bunch of pinterest refs
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Very much love your take on the new looks for Orym and Ashton! I saw a bit of your post about how Liam and Tal give feedback... would you be willing to share any information about how the back-and-forth process works between you and the actors as you work on their stuff? (I just love hearing HOW the awesome happens, not just the end results.)
Yeah okay. Lemme think, here. Alright let's so this as a numbered list-
1- Actor sends description of character. This is pretty broadly interpreted, in my experience. It's something between a brief paragraph, an annotated pdf, and multiple pinterest boards.
2- I send back a Pitch. This has taken multiple forms in the past, but it's generally settled into a few pages, that kinda go-
a- Poses and Vibe Sketches- This includes little portraits, attitude poses, a couple sketches showing extreme dynamism or movement. I try to suggest outfits and weapons or accessories, here, but I don't spend a lot of time fleshing it out.
b- Outfit Poses- usually on a turnaround or one fairly lowkey pose. I try to include 3 or 4 serious attempts at outfits and maybe a couple of backs, if it's important.
c- Color- I usually just pick an outfit at random and try to give it a few different palettes. If the actor is absolutely sure what the palette is, or if it's a character I've worked with before, I might just make one palette and briefly color each of the outfit sketches from b in that palette
d- Accessories, Weapons, Other Important Stuff- if the character is carrying around like a book or a bird or a really specific weapon, I try to address that in its own space, though sketches for all of those things may exist on other pages. This has been known to be very pretty or a bit boring.
3- There is some form of back and forth between me and the actors (and a producer, who are all lovely and don't step in on creative things but are always working against a schedule and need to know how things are going. I just want to be clear that every producer at CR is a secret angel who eats deadlines and shits magic and every one of them totally Gets It. They are all One Of Us). The back and forth is always individual and based on the actor but it can be-
a- Actor picks from menu, usually via complex "circling" system (also all sketches are numbered, so they can just ref numbers).
b- Actor sort of picks from menu, while moderating and adding further references.
c- Actor just sends a bunch more shit and I narrow stuff down based upon what they seem to be getting at.
4- There's this bit of finding what the pose is gonna be, marking in all the necessary accessories, getting that last email about adding a scar, can we add a necklace? etc. What you are left with is something that the Producers call "pre-final." If it hasn't already been with the modelers and painters this whole time, this is when the modelers and painters get the design and start their magic.
5- I go away into a cave for a time period of quiet reflection with my Gods. I refer to this period as "rendering." I cannot be reached by the reason of man and spend a lot of time bitching to my friends while I try to figure out why shading a cape is suddenly the most difficult thing I've ever dealt with in my life.
6- Done!
#i hope this is what you were asking for#and i didn't just write out a really boring list of chores lol#what's important is that the whole process feels private#even though I know it has the eyes of a LOT of people on it#including sensitivity consultants and friends and family of the actor#i consider that a Good Thing#it takes a village to raise a dnd character
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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!!!
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Hiiii
First of all I want to say that I love your art and I really admire it. It has kind of make me want to go back to drawing again. I used to draw a lot a few years ago but I stopped because I became unhappy with my progress. Now I want to go back to making art but I'm insecure about it because I'm worried I'm too old to start again (I'm 19) and whether I'm capable of relearning it properly. Do you have any tips about where to begin to learn art basics (specifically anatomy)? I would appreciate any advice.
Hello!!! Firstly thank you so much for the compliments, it really does mean so much <333
I'm nineteen, too! Of course you can start art again. I've taken a lot of breaks in between my own art, too, and it's only very recently that I started enjoying making art again (after .... like.... a year or two. lord) so I really do understand how you feel. But we're nineteen years young, and have so much time ahead of us to get back on our feet.
In my experience, improving comes quickest when you focus on one very specific skill at a time—and I mean SPECIFIC. Practicing gestures with torsos only, the muscles of the upper arm, skeleton heads in different angles. I've been studying arm anatomy (and only arm anatomy) recently, and I'm already miles ahead of how I used to draw arms in the past.
If you want a specific step by step on how I personally draw anatomy, I don't mind sharing a quick tutorial! But for general advice—form follows gesture, and gesture follows movement. The biggest mistake someone can make while drawing a body is focusing on the accuracy of the muscles/bones before getting the flow of the gesture down.
Even if the anatomy looks a bit wonky with the gesture, it's important that you capture the movement of the pose first, and then build muscle on top of that. Proko on Youtube has a very good quick drawing series on this, and explains it way better than I do, but that's the gist of it.
Also, PLEASE always use references! I know that hearing that gets old, but it's really important. If you'd like, I can make a quick tutorial on how to use references properly, too. Reference everything—pose, lighting, even art style if you're looking to switch things up (i have about 10 different tabs open on my computer with different artists I admire so I can reference their art religiously).
Speaking of referencing art styles, it's important to gather a bunch of artists you like in terms of style, and not just one. The trick is to separate them by skill—"this artist is for lining refs", "this artist is for anatomy refs", "this artist is for face refs", etc, etc.
And to jump off of That: I find that with anatomy, looking at other peoples' anatomy studies on pinterest is also very helpful. Obviously you should be referencing from real life too, but with art, it can be difficult to pin down what to put on the page and what to leave to the imagination. You wouldn't want to actually draw every single muscle in the arm individually, right? So I go and look at other artists' anatomy studies to see what they keep and what they don't keep.
(usually i find them on pinterest, and they look smth like this. the color coded ones especially help me.)
I'd recommend learning gesture and anatomy first, then building off of that to learn how to draw faces, then lining/coloring, just so that you have a solid base to work off on when it is finally time to color. (also because coloring/lighting requires a fair bit of how body anatomy works as well!!)
But yes, that's all the advice I can give from laying in my bed. I hope it helped somewhat, and if you'd like tips on how to do something more specific, I'm always willing to draw it out or go more in depth ^^ Best of luck on your art journey!
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This is unrelated to the story but I was wondering where you find reference images for cats? All the art you do for RisingClan is so beautiful and the cats always have such cool and interesting poses. I struggle to find anything but super basic photos of cats online (like just generic sitting or standing poses,) and I really want to find more complex poses to study. Also, I’ve been drawing refs for a bunch of my own ClanGen kitties and their poses are starting to look very same-y, so I’m desperate for some pose Inspo lol
Good question!
I use pinterest, mostly. I have a board full of cat photos that i browse through when i need a reference. To find them I search things like "cat running" "cats fighting" "cats walking side by side" and then I let myself wander through the recommended pictures and save whatever I like. Hope this helps! Good luck with your art!
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HIIII YOUR ART IS SO GORG OMG
your anatomy always seems so good too, where do you get references for poses/anatomy in general.,,???!!
finding pose references with 2 characters interacting is always so hard,,,
Thank you!!! i am unfortunately evil and rarely use references but when i do I'll use pinterest or mash together a bunch of different refs from google or wherever whdjdbjfbd
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I follow you on twitter & all I gotta say is, I love the diversity in your drawings so much, I hate when people make girls all stereotypes & your art makes me feel so comfortable it’s like a warm feeling not to mention your nsfw art. It doesn’t just show the list it shows the love & affection each character has for eachother it shows how intimate & hot the moment can be but also sweet? I’m not sure I love your art too much it really makes my day to see it, but any tips on anatomy?♥️
thank you so much!! i totally get what you mean by a list, that really is what diversity can feel like sometimes. my weight and figure have fluctuated so much over the years and i've gotten enough shit from family about eating habits and how chubby i've gotten, to the point of dysmorphia, and turning to art (and not to mention seeing the vast majority of fat butch rep) to remedy it has done wonders for my body image, and i'm really glad people like how i do things.
in terms of tips, as someone who went to school for this sorta thing, i'm gonna try to make this as accessible as possible aka free resources.
timed figure drawing!
legit, you gotta draw naked people posed in intricate ways. there's literally no avoiding it, you have to draw from life and not from tutorials. obv, i'm not saying go out and attend a life drawing course -- that's expensive shit -- so here's a few options:
i use a site called quickposes, since most figure drawing galleries require subscriptions.
you can set a timer for how long you want on each pose/reference. i recommend challenging yourself with shorter times as it helps you to get rid of any hang-ups about getting the anatomy exactly right. the drawing's got to get done by the end of the timer, don't focus on the details. just draw, be done with it, move on to the next drawing.
there's also a youtube channel that we'd use in class when a model couldn't show called new masters academy and they have a bunch of timed daily drawing exercises.
as a general rule, don't lean on the amount of time you have. what you're wanting to do is get a FULL PICTURE on your paper as soon as possible, regardless of a long or short time. get the full figure onto the paper then use the rest of the time to fuss over details, shading, editing, etc.
do studies!
kinda similar to the last one but in the more time-consuming sense.
use pinterest. it has a lot of uses for a lot of things but i use it quite a bit for both anatomy refs and costume design inspiration. this is legit what my home page looks like now because of it.
here's a board i made on anatomy, pulling from different body types; obviously i get a little gay wid it, but there's a verrrryyyy clear lack of certain body types in a lot of body refs like muscular women, fat women, just overall people who higher fat content than the lean, almost 0% fat of the figures seen in most tutorials and galleries:
this is where pinterest really shines because you can find literally everything on it.
in particular, there's an account called character design references, that is basically a stockpile of references for artists. i wouldn't normally recommend artist tutorials when it comes to wanting to learn anatomy because it can get a little echo-chambery (side-eyes the male vs. female tutorials that float around on twitter all the time) but there are actually some boards that have genuine studies on the human form, even from a medical point of view.
LITERALLY JUST DRAW A LOT.
I CANNOT STRESS ENOUGH IT'S GONNA TAKE A LOT OF TIME AND PRACTICE TO GET TO A CERTAIN LEVEL OF SATISFACTION.
like that's it, full stop, draw often. if you're feeling rusty, go back to basics. if you're art blocked, go back to basics. if you're bored, go back to basics.
#ask#anatomy#anatomy tips#talkies#drawing should be about having fun first and foremost#i find figure drawing fun because of how quickly it gets done#art advice
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i'm so obsessed with ur colour choices and painterly style, if u don't mind sharing, could you explain a bit about your process when it comes to ur art? thank u!!!
ahh thank you! i guess i’ll use this recent akiangle piece bc it’s one of the more recent finished paintings. long post up ahead sry
0. sit in lecture and think about what i can be drawing instead of listening for 3 hours about urbicide.
1. sketch concept - i like to use the emilyamiao linebrush 3 for this, it’s really good for life drawing too. usually i just save a bunch of poses on pinterest to use as reference later
2. refining bc the sketch is messy; i don’t do another round of lineart so this is the cleanest it gets
3. basic colours with kyle webster wet gouache brush <3 it really gives a nice watercolour texture which i’m currently digging. sometimes i use lasso tool for this step too
3. fuck around on a new layer using a really big brush size; i like to change opacities and go through all the procreate layer modes until i find a colour palette i like. early stages of colours i dont like going into details much
4. ???????? get serious
5. giving up on initial concept and going for a black background
6. kyle webster cool drag brush for some texture, lasso tool on luminosité (brightness? it’s the last layer mode on procreate idk the actual eng name sry) layer to block shading (v inspired by chuwenjie for this)
7. colour adjustments to make colours boring again but atleast it’s more cohesive ??
this is what the layers usually look like at the end. no i dont know what’s going on either. it’s a nightmarish process and not a workflow i recommend
finish with chromatic abberation :)
this isn’t a very detailed piece so it’s a bit more straightforward, but sometimes i also like to start with 3d modelling and taking multiple shots to render later. sometimes i take my assignments and make it into fanart lol. usually i do like incorporating architecture in my art as well and looking at all the ref pics i save in pure ref :)
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where do you find poses? pinterest isn't cutting it anymore (i am suffering)
I actually use pinterest a BUNCH myself !!!! I try to look for a lot of candid photography... Here's my pinboard for poses, it has both like. Posed poses but also a lot of just more candid stuff .
i use like, art reference poses mostly for anatomy studies ngl. My favourite sites for that are uhh:
BIGBIGBIG time also linking this post
which has a lot more shit. i havent looked thru all of it tho, i need 2 at some point
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You probably do a lot of life drawing seeing as how perfectly fluid your art always is so this ask might be redundant lol but,, i was wondering what kind of references you usually use? Do you just google similar poses, does it come from your mind, or do you have a go-to app to look through like pinterest?👉👈 i ask bc I struggle a lot with poses and usually when i look them up i end up drawing nothing bc its not. Ever good enough for me/what im looking for lol😔 still not sure how to even draw characters smoochin, rip
thank you, nonny!! i do a lil bit of life drawing, but man i really do feel the same way you do. while i'm happy to show some art when i get it done, the process can be a real struggle.
sorry this is gonna be long and all over the place lol hope it helps tho:
life drawing good: i recommend ditching the idea of finding the 100% Perfect Ref right off the bat. studying anatomy and life drawing (this site has a range of body types and fun poses) somewhat regularly, therefore growing my mental library so that i can try and make whatever pose is in my head happen later, has been more viable to me than spending hours looking for the Perfect Ref.
drawing a bunch of generic people skating without pressure of creating proper character art is good practice, and it primes me to then come up with a skating pose of my own.
ref hunting: i save pictures i might use as refs regularly in a browser folder - good refs, bad refs, boring refs - losing a ref standard can be helpful because at the end of the day it’s what you make with it, so it doesn’t have to be particularly mind-blowing to begin with. you don’t wanna reinvent the wheel or create the most never-been-done-before pose, you just wanna get a thing right.
pinterest is very good for poses, yes, though you have to know how to look for them - i.e. i found that typing out "dynamic pose" will not yield organic results, as opposed to looking up people in motion like athletes, boxers, skaters and such. for fighting, i recommend using photos or clips from (ideally staged lol) fights, as opposed to stock images where the models are standing for a while posing - the former preserves a lot of the movement. i also recommend looking up group photos from events or shows for interesting natural poses and people interacting.
best hot tip of all tho: what helped me most is to not treat references very religiously. don't be tied down by what's in your ref, or not finding the perfect one, because then you're focusing on accuracy and not necessarily on what you wanna communicate with your drawing. if you can't find what you're looking for in full, just use a part that you find interesting, and then bullshit the rest and revise accordingly.
idea-generating can be very hard but you can practice it like any other skill, because having a decent idea of what you wanna draw is helpful - you don't have to have the whole pose visualised 100%. it's the mood, body language and expressions, that i think are more important. looking at refs can help reveal your ideas and intentions, but i will not create them for you i’m afraid.
for example, speaking on characters smooching, i've drawn these using refs in pretty uptight way with no ideas beforehand - and i find them painfully boring because they're not rly communicating anything aside from a anatomical accuracy (more or less);
i was being too intent on staying faithful to the reference, and they're looking kinda stale to me. the only one that was done without any ref, was the bottom left - which i like! bc it's got spice and it’s portraying some emotion.
but i wouldn't have drawn it if i hadn't already started on the others, so maybe another good tip is to trust the process and not give up mid-work!! drawing stuff you’re not proud of is still drawing stuff, and not everything you create is gonna be satisfying. things are gonna click here and there, but you never know when, so don’t give up on your ugly artsy ducklings!!
#hope this makes sense. i need an editor#i hope you have an easier time and maybe some of these will be helpful anon!!
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Sorry if you got this asked before but I'm so in love with your artwork, how did you get so good at anatomy and posing? I struggle a lot with it.
omg HI TY TY !!!! uuuhm tbh it was mainly 4 things for me: using irl pics as ref, using my artgods' art as ref, obsessing over proportions until it becomes second nature to you fr, and 3d models or posing apps ....
[some examples and entire ramblings under the cut i got carried away AGH]
using irl pics as reference - i literally go on pinterest n combine several photos 2 get the pose i want, [or when it comes to hands i take pics of my own lol] i usually browse through magazine photoshoots or pics of statues n find stuff with cool poses .... this also applies to other stuff rlly like for clothing folds i would pick out parts that would look and feel right and interpret it in my own wayyy
find an artist with a Banger sense of anatomy n use their stuff as reference - bonus points if ur artgods have a semi realistic style n ur already obsessed with their stuff like Seriously the other half of my ref photos are other ppl's art and i would copy the way they draw certain things - i also actively observe How they draw these certain things like "oh this is actually in a triangle shape" or "oh theres a bump here and its followed by a straightish line" and i am mindful of these, i make sure to remember them even just the tiniest change bc that's still an improvement yk a different way of thinking abt something - love these accs for anatomy [tomfoxdraws, taco1704, kato_anatomy], this artist is great at simplifying their ref but still keeping it dynamic and flowy [UTWP_], and this acc for more general tips but with timelapses so u can see how they go about drawing something [KawaiiSensei_jp] <- theres also some anatomy stuff there toooo also SORRY literally 4/5 of these accs are in japanese or korean i just look at stuff n think about it no need to read :sob:
study up on proportions n figure out ways 2 simplify stuff using basic shapes - thanking my 12 year old self for being so nitpicky abt proportions like, i used to "measure" the length of the limbs and from doing that i learned how a bunch of stuff works like halfway point of the torso is also where elbows are, hands end midthigh, thigh usually as long as torso etcetc and since i got so used to "measuring" these it's just muscle memory for me atp, its all about the observations ur honor - for simplifying stuff its like, breaking something down to its basic shapes like how the hand can be a square or a triangle with a bunch of circles or cylinders attached to it, how the torso can be a rectangle circle or triangle depending on the body type etcetc - once again its actively observing and keeping what u learned in mind and doing it over and over again until it Sticks and u can change stuff n improve on it as u learn more about it
3d models / posing apps - literally only just started using these. a month or two ago ??? but i find these Very useful for when i have Such a specific pose in mind or when im too lazy to find or take ref pics WOOPS i also use irl ref pics when posing my 3d model btw im not That lazy KJSDFSDF
oh and i watched jjba and that singlehandedly made me like muscles and want to study how to draw them help there's that too ig ..... I HAVE NO IDEA IF THIS MAKES SENSE ITS ALL JUST MOSTLY PERSONAL EXPERIENCE HOPE THIS HELPS !!!!!!!!
#asks for ain#tutorial#art tips#art tutorial#drawing tutorials#REALLY THO its all in how u think abt it idk how i got 2 this point tho WAHSJDHFSDF#back at it again w my silly silly. tutorial things#yeag
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hello! just wanted to let you know that i've been a fan of your art for many years. you're one of my favorite artists and i keep your username on a little .txt (along with a couple other artists) so i can always remember who i look up to and who i hope to become as good as someday.
i love your art. all of it. even the transformers fanart, and i don't even like transformers. i especially like your choice in colors (and i never see anyone comment on it!! it's such a key component to your style and nobody talks about it!!) but i also take inspiration from your lineart and poses. the way you draw teeth is unsettling but it grabs the viewer's attention, it might as well be your style's trademark.
i'm an artist, too, and i'm not nearly as popular as you are. (... probably because i'm only on twitter, i post infrequently, and when i post i only post ocs lol.) i just want to say that you've been one of my biggest inspirations and your art drives me forward. it reminds me that if someone can continue as long as you've been going, then i can continue, too.
i haven't always had a tumblr account. i made a couple just recently, and today i remembered that you exist, so i came to your blog. and read through it. all the way back to 2019. and liked several of your posts. so if you see a rando that liked a bunch of your old posts and left you a follow, that would be me. ^^;
since i didn't have a tumblr account, how did i know about your art? well, a lot of it (mostly your JJBA fanart) is on pinterest. some of it is even credited 😭 (pinterest users are notorious for reposting fanart without linking back to the creator). so yeah, your art is on pinterest, sometimes it's credited, sometimes it isn't. but yeah, you've got a ton of fans on pinterest that can't make their presence known to you. we all support you from afar until the day we make tumblr accounts.
this got long. sorry for being weird. i promise i'll buy from your shop and support you more directly someday, but for now i remain a broke nerd. don't feel like it's necessary to respond to this, i just wanted to let you know that you inspire a lot of people, even though you probably already know that.
your art is wonderful and i encourage you to continue with it! please stay safe and take care of yourself. and... thanks for reading my little essay ^^
Ohhh Lovely Anon;;
This is genuinely so, so sweet, and I've been thinking for two hours now how I should even reply to this because I'm very touched by it ;_;
Thank you so, so much, seriously. I'm happy you like my colours, that's honestly a great thing to hear because I have absolutely no idea what I'm doing with them;
It means tons to me when people enjoy what I do, whether I can see it or not, so this all means so fucking much to me; I don't know what to say really other than Thank You a million times over, seriously. You people have been keeping me going for years now by just enjoying stuff I doodle <3 I've found my drawings on pinterest before too when looking for refs of characters and it means a lot to me that there are people like you who go out of their way to find me still ;__; Thank you!
And you don't need to buy anything from me at all <3 I appreciate anyone looking at stuff I've made! Thank you so much for taking the time to write me such a lovely message!
I wish you the absolute Best for yourself and your path as an artist, always keep on doing what you love no matter what, and keep up your OCs!! <3 That's so powerful of you!! <3<3<3
Take good care!!
#Lovely Anon#I genuinely don't know what to say imr eally touched#sorry this is such a short answer but it means so much and i just dont know what to say without repeating myself;;
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do you have any tips how to doodle? i want to have some drawings around my writing but i have a hard time making it look effortless. love your art btw!
thank you for the compliment anon! as flattered as i am to be asked for drawing advice, i absolutely don't feel i have enough knowledge or skill to give it. still, since you asked i'll do my best to give you an answer! ( ◡̀_◡́)ᕤ
just to be clear, i am a self-taught hobbyist ⁽ᶠᵒʳ ⁿᵒʷ⁾. this isn't going to be a definitive 'how to draw' post! do not take this advice at face value if you are trying to learn how to draw professionally, because well, that wasn't the question and that's not what this post is about. it's just your rando tumblr artist giving silly advice on how to draw silly doodles :3
so here are my tips and tricks on how to doodle:
1. firstly? relax. you're doodling for fun and for yourself! it doesn't have to be perfect (as cliché as this sounds). your works are important because you created them.
i find that a lot of the time i don't even start drawing because i don't think i can pull it off the way i imagined in my head. don't fall for this, it's your inner goblins trying to deceive you. you will never get to a point where it looks like you want it to if you don't try at all!
draw even if you think it looks like shit. don't be overly critical of yourself but also don't give up. it's okay to change something if you feel it looks weird or just cause. but also step away from a drawing from time to time, so you can see it with a clear mind - maybe you will catch some mistakes or maybe you'll realize that it looks better than you thought it did!
2. doodle all. the. time.
the more you do it the more natural it will feel. silly expressions, random objects, your ocs, anything.
you said you want to have drawings to go with your writing, so i suggest trying to draw whatever moment you wrote! i'm gonna use our life as an example, since that's the fandom i draw for at the moment. when i play the game and i like a line or a certain moment i quickly draw it on a sticky note. even if the doodles look bad i still feel good looking at them, because i drew a moment i enjoyed and i managed to show the emotions i wanted in the doodle.
3. use references. like a lot of them.
from my experience, i usually have an idea on what i want to draw - what pose or expression i have in mind. first i sketch it out on my own and then i look up references. sometimes for an entire doodle and sometimes for a specific part, like an arm placement.
if you don't have a clear idea of what you want to doodle, but you know the moment in your writing you want to draw, let's say two characters dancing, look up photos of people dancing and look at art that other people drew to seek inspiration.
references are really helpful but they can also feel constraining, as if they are limiting what you can draw. to that i say if don't use only one reference! the pose can come from one picture, an expression from another, body type a different one and so on. personally i have an entire board on pinterest dedicated to photos and drawing advice i find useful. when i can't find a specific thing i usually take pictures of myself and use that.
this is a really nice deviantart post about using references! you can also find it here on pinterest, where i found it.
4. simplify your refs!
when you have a reference it still may be hard to draw with it. i used to do the thing where you start drawing with a ref by focusing on one part and drawing it in an extremely detailed way and then moving on to another. needless to say it did not look good at all - the proportions were off and it looked stiff and unnatural.
what helps a lot is simplifying your references and your drawings in general. here's what i mean by that:
imagine references not as a whole but as a bunch of shapes. you can draw over the reference directly to get a better feeling of what shapes make sense.
5. what i learned from my book about drawing is that your hand movements shouldn't come from the wrist, but rather from the arm. most of the time using only wrists is good for details. it may feel a bit awkward and clunky to implement the entire arm into drawing at first, but it helps a lot with how your lines look!
6. and last but not least, we are talking about doodles! not detailed, complicated art pieces.
it's okay if they are messy or imperfect in any way.
so tldr; doodle because you like to, draw a lot and everything, use references and simplify them, use the entire arm while drawing, and don't worry about them not looking like a museum art piece!
i think in the end what is most important is that you draw because you like to. progress will come with time.
sooo there you have it! i took some time with replying to this ask because i wanted the advice to be good,, i hope it helped you in some way anon! ৻( •̀ ᗜ •́ ৻)
#mei's asks#anonymous#anon ask#everytime someone asks me for drawing advice i just shut down *static noises*#i don't know what gave you the impression i know what i'm doing#seems like i missed my calling to become an actor 👍#just kidding but i genuinely hope you will find this advice useful to some degree#drawing advice?
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Waaa u seem so good at composition!! Do u have any tips with inspo and making it happen?
i look at a lot of pose inspos!! I have a folder with a bunch of art inspos + pose refs
im gonna use this piece as a general example since I had a whole bunch of sketches for it :>
these are a few things I like to keep in mind!
I had a wholeeeee bunch of refs for this project, from works that I liked from other artists to vehicle and location refs
these are things I consider whenever I come up with compositions!
i redrew my sketches on the right to show the difference a little better :>
how I’d keep these in mid would be:
Static:
- seeing things head-on/straightforward
- leading lines are usually horizontal or vertical
- subject is usually center of the page
Dynamic:
- more angles/different perspective
- leading lines are diagonal/curved
- subject occupies the space in an interesting way
static poses and compositions aren’t bad, but you do get a lot more personality from being able to play with perspective and foreshortening :>
you can find some interesting poses on pinterest too if you dont know where to start! type in “poses” and there are a few dynamic ones afkjghjk
here are more thumbnail sketches, i think it's really important to be able to distinguish your main subject from the background, so having it mapped out in grayscale is helpful! i think this step is important so you’re not stuck to one idea, if smth looks wonky in the sketching phase, it’s okay to go with smth else
if you have a good foundation, then your composition should turn out okay too :>
#geometric bleps#i hope that helps a little adjfgh#its a little all over the place but!!#im still learning how to composition better too but this is what I've been doing thus far :'D
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I am so obsessed with your art, thank you for feeding my eyes ❤️🔥 also where do you find such dynamic poses? They’re all so intimate and full of life
i usually just doodle out what i have in mind and then go on pinterest for refs afterwards and mash a bunch of stuff together if i need to, i don't tend to work directly from 1 image.
#gesture studies#theyre quick and work to make your poses overall more fluid really well#i used to do a lot of gesture and anatomy studies so i don't really need refs anymore#especially for my doodly stuff#ask
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Hey Wilt, Idk if you’ve answered something like this before, but can you talk a little about how you studied anatomy?
Same anon who was asking about anatomy, but I’m also really struggling with perspective so any tips in that department would be hugely appreciated as well!
im currently trying to up my anatomy game so yea i dont mind talking about it a bit! its rare that i’ll sit down and do strict anatomy studies but when i do i try to make it fun by incorporating my favorite characters! like when i shoved geralt into my gouche anatomy studies
i like to live dangerously and multitask but by all means stick to a medium you know well!! and use photos and poses that you think look fun. i honest to god started using pinterest recently so i could have a bunch of refs all in once place. i have a whole gymnastics board dedicated only to adventurous poses i wanna use for spiderman
just, use references. i avoided them for the longest time out of laziness and stubbornness but ever since i started using them more regularly? like a MONTH ago? ive been having so much fun learning. and it takes away a lot of the frustration of not knowing what the hell youre doing.
everything i know i learned from the internet. there are endless resources for online figure drawing and anatomy studying, its just a matter of finding what works best for you and sticking to it. yeah its hard and bodies don’t make any sense sometimes but as long as you have a pair of eyes, a hand, and an iron will, you can learn a thing or two. every body is just a mountain of shapes and you are the sculptor.
as for perspective, thats all a matter of..stretching and shrinking the rules of anatomy. basically its about fucking up the rules. so once you understand the basics, you’ll have an easier time with bending whatever muscles you need to bend.
tldr; use references, use videos, learn how to break the body down to its most basic shapes, and study yourself in the mirror when all else fails.
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