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Small physical things that give your characters personality

How they smile

What their “tell” is for lying

Posture

Volume of speech, if they’re verbal

Nervous tics

How much eye contact do they make

In a group conversation, how close do they stand to others? Are they off to the side just listening and occasionally speaking or are they right next to people?

When standing, what do they do with their hands? Talk with their hands, cross their arms, put hands in pockets, prop up against the wall, etc

The sound of their footsteps

Nonverbal greetings: do they wave, nod, hug, glare, punch, high five, something else?

How do they get others’ attention? Raise hand, clear throat, etc

Hey! I love your art style and was wondering if you had any tips for drawing braids? Any techniques you found useful?

Hello!  And thank you very much!

There may be easier ways of building braids than what I do, but this is just my process for drawing them, so take it with a grain of salt.

I’ll start with a line for whatever direction I want the braid to go in, if I don’t do a line and I have any kind of motion to the hair, boy do I mess it up lol

Next I’ll do wide half triangles, the line being my center, the right side or the left side always dropped lower than the other. If both sides meet in the center at the same level it’s not going to look very braid-like or have the illusion of being tangled with itself.

Afterwards you can remove the middle line if you want to take it further and connect each one with an alternating pattern like this one, giving it more of a braided look in the center.

Once the center is solid, you can add all the details you want in any style you like, curving inwards towards the center. I tend to like the more stained glass-ish appearance for hair so I’ll do very choppy, squared off lines to detail.

This works for whatever position you want to put the braid into using the wide triangles to build it up. It works for tightly woven or loose and messy braids depending on how wide/long you make the original half triangles.

I hope this helps!

Sketchfab 3D Models

I love this site because it’s great for references, even if you don’t 3D sculpt! I’d love to get into that eventually though, because it sounds amazing. 

https://sketchfab.com 

What’s lit is you can easily drag and rotate the model (some are animated!) and adjust the lighting/rendering, all from a web browser. 

They also have a mobile app with AR. 

I love using the models!

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If you make an account, you can subscribe to collections to track for updates. I have ones for anatomy and animals. 

Note, these models have a royalty free license. It’s often good to credit your references, but royalty free licenses mean you are fine if you don’t. 

Hope you love this as much as I do!

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Lance: I guess you could say I’ve…fallen for you *winks*

Pidge: You literally just rolled down an entire flight of stairs how the fuck are you even alive -

*Matt laugh-crying in the background*

Sketchfab 3D Models

I love this site because it’s great for references, even if you don’t 3D sculpt! I’d love to get into that eventually though, because it sounds amazing. 

https://sketchfab.com 

What’s lit is you can easily drag and rotate the model (some are animated!) and adjust the lighting/rendering, all from a web browser. 

They also have a mobile app with AR. 

I love using the models!

boot

If you make an account, you can subscribe to collections to track for updates. I have ones for anatomy and animals. 

Note, these models have a royalty free license. It’s often good to credit your references, but royalty free licenses mean you are fine if you don’t. 

Hope you love this as much as I do!

i’ve been doing my homework on how to break into a writing career and honestly. there’s a Lot that i didn’t know about thats critical to a writing career in this day and age, and on the one hand, its understandable because we’re experiencing a massive cultural shift, but on the other hand, writers who do not have formal training in school or don’t have the connections to learn more via social osmosis end up extremely out of loop and working at a disadvantage. 

Small Tips For ClipStudio

I have some hours before work so I’ll use them to actually detail why I’ve found CSPaint to be so efficient for bastard-aligned painters who like to take shortcuts.

This will seem familiar to most of you guys, but this functions a little bit different from Photoshop. It turns everything you draw on the layer into editable curves, but retains the aliased smoothness of an ordinary raster layer. Practically a cheat to access the whole suite of amazing tools CS offers for lineart. Such as:

The vector eraser is The Best™. You can be as messy as possible and this tool erases the excess. One pen-flick and it’s done. Much faster than cleaning it up by hand. You can also tweak the settings of this brush to encapsulate more/less lines as you erase but that’s getting a little more involved. Anyway, last thing:

Maybe the only thing better than the vector eraser. There are multiple settings, but these three are the most handy. You can smooth wiggly edges, connect broken strokes, and tweak the width/weight to exactly how you want it. This also has a ton of settings you can play around with. It’s great!

There’s a lot more tools you can use, but you get the point! It’s a really good drawing program. I recommend it!

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I love how Callum gave real thought to this question despite the circumstances.

Callum, about to die: “Well, huh, wait, DO I like her ears??? I need to think about this.”