on drawing fat bodies
really helpful technique ^ once you know how to divide by halves and thirds it makes drawing evenly spaced things in perspective waaay easier:
I find monthly art challenges exhausting, but also love a little structured kick in the ass, so for the past month and a half I've been setting weekly challenges for myself. First one: fill a sketchbook page a day with quick poses off Pose Maniacs.
It's a redux of my first figure drawing class exercise as a teen: get from the top of the head to the heel of the foot in the allotted time. All the poses above were 10-30 seconds. Never hurts to get back to basics every so often~
(Although, in that first class, the professor made us go outside and grab twigs that we had to dip in ink to draw with, so we wouldn't get precious about our line work. I'm not THAT ascetic this time around, lol.)
How to draw Black characters. Because it's way too obvious when you drew a white person and gave them Black skin.
https://www.tiktok.com/t/ZTRg6YsKN/
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I go over my entire process, so you too can learn how to supplement your income with zines. Please give it a look, and share if you find it helpful!
As promised, it’s finally here! Thank you to all of my patrons for not only the support that made this possible, but for giving me the confidence to work on a big project like this.
Rather than providing any drawing instruction, what this writeup aims to do is help you learn to unpack the decisions being made in a given composition, and articulate what elements in a piece are responsible for its impact. Being able to isolate these qualities in your own art and art that inspires you opens up avenues for improvement regardless of medium, style, or technical skill. This is the first of hopefully many PWYW art ‘tutorials’ from me.
I hope you all enjoy!
This is just a reference of what the most complicated parts of the TF look like.
There is not and will not be a step-by-step drawing here, because you have to figure out for yourself how this or that part of the robot works just by looking at the drawing.
If you found this post helpful, well, good for you)
Wdym by distinctive nose?
(this was what i said was one of my "signature" OC traits in some tags awhile back)
noses are one of my favorite features to draw, so i put all my Best Shapes in the nose. i try to give each character a different one (unless they're related), because it's fun!
noses (੭ ˊᵕˋ)੭
References is the artist best friend!!!
so here it is some resources for you to use! Please share, so you can help more artist uwu.
i can update this post if i find new things.
LAY FIGURE:
JustSketchMe
Magic Poser Web
Design Doll (this one isn't online, and you have to download)
Easy Pose on Steam (this one isn't a free app, and is more focused on "anime art style")
3D MODEL:
Female body - Sketchfab
Male body - Sketchfab
a lot of poses - POSEMANIACS
Reference Angle
Head Construction - guidelines - by Marc Brunet.
BACKGROUND:
Room Sketcher
SketchUp
BLOGS THAT HELP A LOT:
this amazing post made by starrify-everything
Pose Reference
BONUS:
this amazing hands brushes made by poxamarquinhos
a lot of pinterest bases