I've Been Drawing Over Screencaps To Try To Figure Out How To Capture Stiles, And I Could Not Get It

Engaging in the time-honored tradition of drawing characters in your own clothes - workout edition :] running and powerlifting are my go-to activities

What I drew Derek in is probably the only matchy workout clothes I own, I usually go for comfort lol

Soft Sterek to heal the soul

My 'casually watched s01-02 of teen wolf back in 2012 and forgot 70% but indulges me', 'derek hale has babygirl-vibes', 'hey draw this pic of ariana grande but its derek' friend - let's call her K.

Me: I irritated some joints in my hand yesterday so I'm on a self-imposed drawing break today

K: okay but picture this: the spidermonkey scene in twilight but it's derek and stiles

Me, having never seen or read twilight: the what

I can't express how much I LOVE the way you draw hands! They are just absolutely amazing and so SO expressive. Do you have any advice on how to improve? (other than the obvious, "practice", lol)

THANK YOU!! Hands are my #1 favorite thing to draw and i love using them and touching to enhance the feeling of a drawing so that makes me so happy to hear!! lol not the dreaded 'just practice' - I tried to put together an impromptu example for you: I’ve always loved drawing hands and include them in my art a lot but I can say for certain that there was a huge boost in my abilities when i started tracing from real life images to better understand the way fingers curve and deform around objects, especially - I’ll take a reference picture or two, trace, figure out which looks better and then try to re-draw it:

You want to draw a character holding a bottle? Alright, find an object that’s about the size you want, get your camera (a shitty res phone camera will do in my case), and get to it!

I like to do some variations because sometimes things just look *goofy* when you have simpler lines depicting them, so here’s 4 different ones:

Alright, next step - rough lines over to see how it translates to 2d:

#1 looks goofy so that one's out - I like #2 the best but the grip'll translate better if I close the grip of the two first fingers, so I'll do that (or retake the picture) and then re-do it on my own while eyeballing the reference i just made (I usually just draw the lines for hands directly but if i'm having trouble i break it down into rough shapes first) :

Think of it kind of like building a neat little reference library in your own brain - next time I want to draw a hand holding a bottle I can think back on this and what I picked up :)

Thanks again, hope this helps!

*chanting* big spoon stiles, big spoon stiles

(Because he's always got Derek's back (◡‿◡✿) )

I got out of bed 30mins early this morning just to work on this, I am not feeling normal about these two

Work in progress so heres a little video rendering of my process so far. I was inspired by these photos of Tyler and knew I had to draw it. (Sorry for the awful quality of the Video 😭)

A silly little warmup for a silly little friday [:

i have no context, feel free to provide your own lol

WIP wednesdayyy

Been giving my hand a break the past week, so not much new under the sun compared to previously.

Almost finished with the cover for my stiles playlist (redraw of the 'lofi girl' image if it's not obvious), still working on the comic (ft a mirror shot that i painstakingly put together in my 3D program lol) and just for fun an example of how all my drawings start out: barely cohesive scribbles ∠( ᐛ 」∠)＿ (the only context you get is misheard lyrics lol)

Also thanks to everyone who voted in the poll i posted! More than half voted for 1 page at a time, so I think that's what I'm going to go for - maybe 2 if it's more coherent. Going to finish a few more before i start posting because i often need to go back and change/add things for consistency, but I'm hoping to start posting soon! ☆_☆

inspired by the many long car rides where my siblings have had to suffer me doing option b (':

And since i drew characters with headphones on, you best bet it's time for more mel's music headcanons - foreign-language edition - under the cut.

Other music headcanon posts: 1 / 2 / 3 / 4 / 5 / 6 / 7 / 8

You get two-for one here - I can imagine Stiles jamming to songs with no comprehension of the lyrics but he has an ear for pronounciation so Derek sometimes guesses the language of whatever he's singing along to lol:

You also get two for Derek (: I pick these from my own likes and i don't really listen to a lot of country which is my main headcanon for his music choices, but when i look at derek i think 'now there's a yearning man' so have some yearning-type music:

*menacingly cracks sternocostal joints at enemies*