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simple little ref sheet guide with some tips relevant for any amount of detail! With Art Fight season around the corner they're some good things to keep in mind :)

other miscellaneous tips

if your character has detailed markings that need to be accurate (like tattoos), place the reference for it on a rectangular transparent section so it can be selected easily for copy/paste!

if your reference is for art purposes, try to keep it relevant to art! lore can help, but a lot of backstory text can make it difficult to tell what's important when drawing them

important things to include as written details are heights, weights / body types, pointing out any intentionally unusual proportions, and other things that may be interpreted as an art style (or that your reference may not accurately convey)!

if you can't draw something the way you want others to draw it, you can just insert other photos / screencaps for others to reference!

always have a SFW version. not one with censor blocks over the bits, I mean one that doesn't have the bits out at all. put some underwear on that beast. it's common courtesy.

ADD ALT TEXT. write a description of your character! bullet point lists of succinct traits are clearest for artists to work with when commissioned. having both a written and visual reference makes it possible to verify things

Distant village

Beautiful. This could be pretty accurate if you’ve make both limbs from the bones of one limb too

Pegasus! Pegasaur, rather. I wanted to design something more...structurally and anatomically sound than a horse with wings stuck on, and this is what I came up with. I try to not worry about that sort of thing in my worldbuilding for sagaverse, really I do, but the ghost of speculative biology haunts me still.

I have once again ruined a classic mythological creature, possibly forever, you're welcome!

(Yes, he can walk on his wings. He's like a suped up pelican from hell, if a pelican was maybe also a lizard. And a horse.)

I started a huge project today! I've been wanting to do this for quite some time with my Radiance/Immortal Light and Void/Unrelenting Darkness designs, and I needed to update my laptop wallpaper anyways! I'm planning to make a Grimm and Nightmare King wallpaper as well.

And I'm posting a lot more on Instagram now! I've also been busy with art college and putting together my visual development portfolio.

simple hooved digitgrade leg study refsheet

my favourite area :]

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