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Do you have any advice or tips with drawing? Any will help me I hope you have a good day

I think it would help to analyze references in the beginning, to build up a visual library

I was taught at university to first see the general masses, the silhouette. This method is called “general to particular”. And due to this stage, it is much easier for you to perceive the image, the composition as a whole, rather than running straight away to draw eyes, hands or other details

Starting with a silhouette also helps to create character designs in the future ✍️

Then you can already outline the construction, the middle forms. Again without small details, but you can leave a hint of them with the help of auxiliary lines.

I don't really work with tone so much at this stage, I just showed you how you can even use it to outline light shading (also common masses)

It also helps to do chopped, rough construction with a couple lines. I would generally advise practicing confidence in hand movements and understanding of general shapes. How clean your sketches are will help you navigate more easily in the future. And general shapes affect mostly how you can stylize body parts, how you understand their construction based on simple geometric shapes. It's a mistake to think that working with a reference is a one-to-one repetition of the original image. Artists use some kind of distortion of proportions, changing details or a little pose based on experience to make a character or work more dynamic

And then you can go into detail 💅

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I mean, already as in my experience I say that repeating or re-learning the base, which is lines, shapes, improves your drawing skill.

Because the faster you get through sketches, the faster you can move on to other stages of drawing, and still make fewer fundamental mistakes

And if you want to study anatomy, plastic anatomy would be the way to go for artists. I worked up my anatomy by looking at books and tutorials from the authors belowotome ↓

The authors of this book post tutorials using 3D models on Pinterest and ArtStation

I realized for myself that I am not a classical artist, that learning from the works and books of old academic masters is boring and not interesting to me. My approach is to analyze not only nature, but also 3d models. Analysis of 3d models helps with understanding of shapes in space, light shading and “what are occlusions” for game rendering ↓

Like this :D. But this is already relatively my old work and now I can do better, but I'm lazy

I hope my tips were helpful 🗣️

The spirit dragons in botw and totk are my favorite things. (I’m mostly ignoring the lore of them from totk cause I can)

Heres this being that only you and the pure of heart can see. Their very presence causes elemental balls of destruction to form. They are so big that you shooting an arrow at them doesn’t even seem to register to them. Nor does climbing on them. In botw they appear and disappear through water portals.

They really are spirits who happen to be dragons more than dragons who happen to have spirit powers.

On some level they are benevolent. They seem to guard the three springs and have a connection to the goddesses but they don’t seem to do much but exist. But god are they pretty and their theme is amazing. One of my favorites next to the stable theme. 10/10 creatures

apparently its yugi’s birthday today. happy pride month king

GET DOWN MR PRESIDENT

A redraw(?) it’s a different character this time. The original is from 2020 and it’s held up surprisingly well. But the pink one is cherry and the other is koi. I post koi a lot cuz he’s just fun to draw.

DEAR FANFICTION WRITERS

Thanks for existing

I was looking through my old posts and It’s funny that every version of this art holds up. Like this idiot on the floor is one of my favorite drawings I’ve ever done. Why this art? Why does this one just always turn out nice? Your guess is as good as mine

Behold the village idiot in his natural habitat; the floor

Another redraw! This one doesn’t look bad for being 4 years old. It just needed a bit of polishing.

I didn’t mean for this to have a painting style but I can’t deny I kinda love it

"YOU HAVE THREE WISHES," the genie says grandly. "Oh no, that's fine I don't need all three. I just wanted one." The genie raises an eyebrow. "So what is your 'one' wish?" "I wish for time to stop every time I pick up and read a book—and start again when I put it down, so I always have time to read."

Me: I wonder how many works this fandom has on AO3

Me emerging from the depths: what day is it?