POV: They're Making Fun Of You.

You may get asked this a lot, so please excuse my ignorance - but how do you go about constructing character expressions and body language and such? Thanks!

Besides The Basics (construction of heads and skulls and muscles and skeletons and how they move), I’ll go over some things I’ve been trying to work on myself lately:

1. Treat expressions as a single gesture of the face/head, as opposed to a head and then individual features dumped on a plate and arranged into an expression.

First, just get down the big shapes of your expression, just like you would for a pose.  

So say I wanna do a low angle angry pose.  I know the features are gonna be all mashed down at the bottom because of perspective.

 Scribble it down

start to put on features

fix stuff

put on more stuff

fix stuff again

erasing and flipping and stuff a whole bunch until you are happy with it or stop caring

Whole head is a gesture!

2. Just like a facial expression, jot down where the important parts of an entire pose goes first.  You can force the rest of the body to fit the pose.

So here I knew I wanted the shoulders tilted a certain direction, and te hand to be in that particular position in front of her face. 

That’s the simplest explanation I got.  Don’t be afraid to push and pull faces and bodies around! Worry about being “on model” last!

process for this 3 pager. tiny images sorry, but i think its interesting to see it laid out big picture like this

theres a couple things looking back on it i would've done differently but still im kinda proud of my finished sketches for this one. sometimes i have to do like 4-5 layers of sketches to nail down the specifics i need but these were more or less one and done. first thought...not best thought but. pretty good thought

Raya and the Last Dragon (2021) dir. Don Hall and Carlos Lopez Estrada

Evil-Lyn: Evil Warrior Goddess

Bhaalist brides get a lot of luxury and little sleep.

So with tumblr rolling out communities and such, I came across a helluva boss community and since I actually do love a lot of hellaverse fanwork, I decided to check it out

And that’s when I found a pretty good art piece that I’ve actually used a kind of ref for how I want Stolas to act in my rewrite, it compares Vivzie’s “silly lil guy” stolas with pilot/abusive Stolas (what I’m going for).

Someone reuploaded it there (no credit ofc :/)… and ten people reacted with a 😂 emoji. A laughing emoji. To an image that heavily implies and basically shows Stolas is about to SA Blitz. I’ve never closed a tab faster in my life

What the fuck is wrong with this fandom. Y’all don’t have to be like Viv but y’all freaking are. And I’m so sorry to the 1/4 or so of the fandom that is truly awesome and like the shows but not viv, y’all are brave soldiers fr

I’m putting the image I talked about here with credit under the cut, obviously tw for HEAVILY implied SA of Blitz by Stolas with Blitz in tears and distressed (I feel awful for him in this case) (it doesn’t hide how awful Stolas really is like Viv tried to)(f u stolass /vsrs)

Art by Paldo_59670 on X I believe!

just a girl and her mutated goats

Older than history itself

What if the oldest vampire was a Neanderthal girl 🤔

Just because I love them 💜💚

Chapters: 1/1 Fandom: He-Man and the Masters of the Universe Rating: General Audiences Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Relationships: Evil-Lyn & Clawful Characters: Evil-Lyn (He-Man), Clawful (He-Man) Additional Tags: Series: He-Man and the Masters of the Universe (2002), Languages and Linguistics, Karikoni, Karikoni Language, Family Bonding Summary:

Lyn helps Clawful learn the language of his people and in turn realizes why he doesn’t already know it.