Got Called A Weirdo Irl For The Way I Write My Fics Sooo

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 🗣️

what I took from chapter 4 idk Og pic source

Thank you friend

Guardian Angel 💜💕🔪

Green? Nope! Yellow. I’ve been trying to find how to make this specific shade of green for years and could never get it right cuz I was in then green section of the color wheel imagine that?!

Yay artfight! Pandora (the first one) is more of a humanoid than a proper human but eh close enough. Here’s a link to my artfight if anyone wants it https://artfight.net/~Pyro_Pandora

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Art Fight

An art trading game

Talking with writers online

Their stories: Amazing grammar, soaring vocabulary, beautiful imagery and prose which flows like a river.

In chats: no capitalisation or punctuation, swears like a sailor, misspellings everywhere, acronyms and abbreviations every five words, idek

Consider: no. To many squares. At that point I’d either make my own grid or just copy and pasting squares.

not to be dramatic, but I'd die for everyone who comments on my fics. not to be dramatic, but I'd kill for everyone who comments on my fics. not to be dramatic, but I'd claw my way through hell, losing half my fingernails to the dirt and the gravel, for everyone who comments on my fics. not to be dramatic, but I'd carve my heart out of my chest, present it to them on a silver platter, watch them step on it if they so please, for everyone who comments on my fics. not to be dramatic, b-

Someone told Doey they saw Dogday upstairs or something..

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