I GOT AN ADD BEFORE THE VIDEO AND IT SAVED ME XD

It's my 2 year anniversary on Tumblr 🥳

Damn I’ve been here awhile.

Award-winning Palestinian children's illustrator Baraa Al-Najjar writes from the Gaza Strip, the area devastated by the recent war, What is the point of being a children's book illustrator in a world that condemns the children of your country to death, to death, to annihilation, to extermination? We appeal to sympathetic individuals and institutions around the world to extend a helping hand with your contribution and assis tance, any assistance provided will contribute to rebuilding my life and the life of my family. Please consider supporting me through your contribution and participation in helping to rebuild our home and work studio, which will allow me as a talented artist to continue my drawings and stories, please enter and share on my page 🌹😭 😭😭🙏🫶🇵🇸 https://gofund.me/0342709c https://gofund.me/013cfc7f

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Ive been trying my very best to compose myself but I need kirby art from all of my friends your victim no1

wowieee!! lil ol me🥺🥺 as the first one..,!!!!🥺🥺 im honored really😛😛😛

Original (left) and alt (right)

(guess what song I was listening to while drawing this)

Hello my friends. I am from Gaza and I want to help my family. We are living in difficult times. We have no shelter and we live in a tent on one of the streets. 😪💔 In Deir al-Balah, we do not have food or basic daily needs. 😪 My sister has a head injury and needs treatment. Please donate. Out of your generosity and kindness, a small donation makes a big difference in our lives. Thank you very much for your prayers and supplications for us. 🇵🇸🇵🇸

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I just wanted to hear this post in real life, and I chased that impulse.

not to oversimplify an extremely complex discipline but if i had to pick one tip to give people on how to have more productive interactions with children, especially in an instructive sense, its that teaching a kid well is a lot more like improv than it is like error correction and you should always work on minimizing the amount of ‘no, wrong’ and maximizing the amount of ‘yes, and?’ for example: we have a species of fish at the aquarium that looks a lot like a tiny pufferfish. children are constantly either asking us if that’s what they are, or confidently telling us that’s what they are. if you rush to correct them, you risk completely severing their interest in the situation, because 1. kids don’t like to engage with adults who make them feel bad and 2. they were excited because pufferfish are interesting, and you have not given them any reason to be invested in non-pufferfish. Instead, if you say something like “It looks a LOT like a tiny pufferfish, you’re right. But these guys are even funnier. Wanna know what they’re called?” you have primed them perfectly for the delightful truth of the Pacific Spiny Lumpsucker

Hello sorry for an ask. I am very sick, my asthma is at its maximum level, my nose freezes, I have no medicine or food. I am in bad shape financially, I am a black disabled, who uses multiple medications, I pay for my food and lodging

Unfortunately I do not have all the resources to keep me safe, that is why I need your help, whatever you can contribute to me will be of great help.

how do ya make expressive faces on characters with no brows or cheeks and only 2 teeth?

decided to make this not only cuz I draw them allot but also the limitations of their design make a good challenge. and through that perspective, this can help cartoonists with more than just drawing Rabbids. at least I hope it dose...

I'm aware I don't draw them exactly like their 3D models, I tried to keep the tips universal to any artstyles <3

I apologise in advance for my handwriting

starting with the eyes. starting with the basics.

the eyelids work as lids and brows in face expressions, the curvature of the lid can help clarify if they are meant to look like a lid or a brow, same goes for the lower lid and a raised cheek effect.

acting with eyes is NOT limited to brows and cheeks though!

there is the size of the pupil but you are also free to play with the size of the eyeball itself (they do it in game too, it's canon)

the mough it not much more complicated than a usual cartoon mouth, only compromising when trying to grit their teeth in an expression. allot like the eyes, don't get caught up in trying to recreate a human expression and just make the emotion clear.

but remeber! it's the pose that ties the emotion together. the character acting and posing will help express the emotion along with the face.

using line of action and contrapposto; normally it refers to shoulders and hips but you can do it with the eye line too, on Rabbids in particular, their body is the same size as their head and they don't have prominant shoulders, so doing it with the face and shoulders is more effective.

they got ears to emote with too! take advantage of them! make them relaxed or firm and move them around to convay emotion.

and that's it.

the end :D

if you're trying to get into the head of your story's antagonist, try writing an "Am I the Asshole" reddit post from their perspective, explaining their problems and their plans for solving them. Let the voice and logic come through.