WARNING do NOT start reading books and comics or watching movies or looking at art!!! you will start wanting to create art yourself. or god forbid. writing.
online communities are so strange because people slip away so easily. you can be on here for years, folding people you've never met into the fabric of your daily life, and then they disappear, leaving only ghost posts scattered across tumblr behind. or their blog stays dormant, for weeks, months, years, until you're only still following them because you remember that they love sunflowers or they were kind to you when they didn't have to be or the last thing they posted was sad and raw and you still worry about them sometimes.
and sometimes they come back when you least expect it, years later, even, and there's this sudden rush of relief like there you are, there you are, even though you barely knew each other.
there's a strange kind of love to it. i don't know you and i want to hold your hand across miles and time zones and oceans. i can still see the imprint of you in this community you left. you don't think anyone will notice or care when you're gone, but we notice and we care and we wish you well.
i hope you're all okay out there. i hope the sun is shining on your face and you are breathing deeply. i miss you.
rough animatic. crawling back to you
Updated Jinx🩵
Local neglected demon baby wants noodles. Please feed him
Gimme all the Mouthwashing content you have
Hi! I really admire your compositions and the way you frame characters in your artworks and was wondering about your process in how you make characters feel so fluid and dynamic when interacting with environments! :D
Sorry for the wait! Thank you so much, I hope you'll not be too disappointed by my answer (づ_ど)
I always sketch with a space in mind, where characters and backgrounds are linked like I always got perspective lines in my head. (Because to do perspective: you need parallel lines. A human body already does parallel lines: the shoulders, pelvis, feet on the ground...) So If I need to add a background, it's already set up for if this makes sense?
(+ greys and done tada🎶)
So that's for structure... and for composition... Basically, I look at what artists/shows/movies I like do and I ... analyze them and steal their process? No ok let's write a longer answer, useful I hope, bellow:
First I learn by tracing a LOT (of course I don't post theses, theses are a way for me to actively watch, like taking notes from a class) Basically I see a shoot, animation I like? I save it and analyze it. Usually really messy, Theses are things I keep to myself and I usually do them as warm-up or when too tired to draw
Sources here castlevania S02 storyboard by @/spencerwan, Star wars Empire Strike back, Hades 2 trailer storyb by @/Spencer Wan (can you tell I love his work), The Witcher: Sirens of the Deep storyboard of @/ifesinachiadrian on insta
Theses are really lame but I hope you see the concept (,,>﹏<,,) And basically I learned this from Ethan becker, what can I say, I understood nothing and his whole channel unlocked my dumb brain so....
Other artists I learned from
...and then I just google the names in the credits of the shows I like and look for their instagram and process XD Book-wise, every school will recommend you this one and I've got to say I read it twice without getting it so it's okay to start with online tutos haha also apparently here is a linkkkkkonarchiveeeee
Also of course the small tips of @/grizandnorm https://grizandnorm.tumblr.com/post/86312461308/tuesday-tips-types-of-shots-and-what-they-say
and @/eyecager https://www.eyecager.art/resources
are a good way to start!!!
Overall... just study, compare, trace and then hide the ref and draw it free, the compare again, and at some point, your brain will generate himself the cool framing you see v_v Don't trust your eyes, the cool shoots and perspective are always more exaggerated than you think.
I hope my rambling was useful!
Old broken horses wip specifically so I can tell you details for fun for whimsy