Shorthands For Dumbassery That I Have Grown To Love Deeply

Jiang Cheng and Jin Ling in using rumors and titles to protect what's important to them.

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👩‍❤️‍👩SenGen I kept getting obsessed over since last night. I was thinking maybe they‘re in the all-girl school dorm, something like that 😋

A friend of mine just sent me some of your art tips and I loved them! Since I was a kid I could draw, but it was always a straight up copy of already finished drawings simply for the pure joy of drawing, but now I wanna draw on my own and I'm finding it very difficult! I'm still trying to figure out an artstyle, and I practice things alone (lips, eyes, nose) and they seem to be okay, but when I try to put them together on a face, it doesn't work, like the eyes is not the previous eyes I've been practicing and such. Do I need to practice the face as a whole? Am I doing something wrong?

Awesome, I’m so glad you like ‘em! Ah shit, look what you’ve done, you’ve made me practice anatomy (jkjk this is affectionate!)

In answer, yes absolutely you gotta practice the face as a whole! Don’t worry, most people start from just practicing individual facial features on their own! It’s super easy to tunnel vision! Those studies will also help you going forward, so it’s not time wasted!

A general disclaimer before I keep going: I went to school for animation and never took a proper anatomy class, so these are all tips and tricks I’ve either picked up along the way or figured out on my own. Take them with a grain of salt!

Ok first I think everyone’s seen a diagram of how to measure where facial features sit on the face so I’ll just copy/paste an image to get that out of the way. ***one thing to keep in mind is how the face is divided into thirds:

**** Important Note: Spend some time studying the skull too! For simplicity’s sake, here are some basic landmark parts of the structure you should be aware of:

Next, there’s three methods of drawing the head that I frankenstein together:

1) The Loomis Method is I think the easiest to start playing with head/face perspective drawings. Using the above method of dividing the head into thirds, we can put that on this super simple head model and rotate it in 3D.

Here’s a great video by Stan Prokopenko that goes into more depth on the method!: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wAOldLWIDSM

2) For musculature, I like referencing the Reilly Method because the round shapes it uses help me understand how different parts squish into each other.

3) For painting/rendering ref, I really like using the Asaro Head because it really helps as reference on how lighting breaks up the planes of the face. (I’m still a ways away from publicly posting most paintings I’ve done tho) No demo for this one because painting takes me 84 yrs

EDIT: This isn’t my painting btw

*** One crucial thing I’d want to point out is that you should also practice drawing heads without painstakingly following measurements and guidelines. 1) everyone’s head/face are different and will have different proportions and 2) you want to get used to drawing without limiting yourself to one method as a crutch! These are all just tools to help you on your journey!

4) As far as simplifying the face goes, the pretty common way I’ve seen/used is to divide the head into two sections: the eyes and brow area, then the area below the cheekbones. This is where the bean face that everyone was mad about in 2015 comes from lololol (we’ve moved on from bean-hate, right? pls?)

One last note: Most of what I’ve posted on my blog has faces with floaty features, so don’t reference my stuff for your own good LMAO

Hope this helps!

-Alka

IF YOU KNEW ME, YOU WOULD KNOW THAT I WILL NOT SHUT UP ABOUT TOLKIEN (and about JC of course :D) AT ANY GIVEN MOMENT. Hence Beren and Luthien AU! XiCheng <3 (Beren!JC and Luthien!Xichen)  The Beren and Luthien story is very contexted and may confuse you if you haven’t read the Silmarillion (if you don’t know what that is, it is a very extensive thousand years ago prequel to Lord of the Rings.) But I’ll try to make it very simple and I’ll put in some MDZS too. Jiang Cheng, a young orphaned mortal man, suffered the destruction of the Jiang House. The Dark Lord has persecuted his house for the unwillingness to give up their territory and for their fierce opposition. The Jiang house was sieged and massacred (much like Lotus Pier) and JC was only spared because he was sent away to scout on the Enemy. He came back to a macabre. He was devastated and grief overwhelmed him. His parents and kin dead, WWX missing and JYL still at their grandparent’s territory. He swore revenge upon his mother’s bones and took her ring, Zidian, a powerful ring that controls lightning. Ok, let’s pretend that men, dwarves, and elves are all cultivators. Men, the weakest and Elves, the most powerful. 

Zidian was a powerful heirloom made by a renowned Elven craftsman and gifted to a Yu ancestor for saving the elf from an ambush. He spent four years as a solitary outlaw, hellbent on revenge but he became a friend to birds and beasts- yes like a Disney princess, AND! he became a full-blown vegetarian. Slaying orcs, he did not fear death, only captivity, but being bold and desperate, he escaped both death and bonds. His deeds became known throughout the land and there was a price on his head that could match the bounty price of an Elven King.  So all in all, he was a top-tiered vigilante, tired as fuck, grumpy as hell, thicc of thighs from all the running, and needs sleep ASAP. He stumbled upon the borders of Gusu (okay, replacing Doriath with Gusu), and went through it because he doesn’t give any flying fucks. The thing with Gusu that it is an enclosed elven kingdom with a very powerful barrier made by Madame Lan (okay, replacing Melian with Madame Lan), a Maia (equivalent to an angel). Qingheng Jun is dead here btw but Madame Lan is staying for her babies, the twin Jades, instead of going back to Valinor (heaven).

So Lan Xichen, the eldest immortal Elven prince, was the most beautiful of all Eru’s (God) children. Half-Elven and Half-Maia, he was very, very, powerful. He could very well kill you with his voice only without lifting a pinky. Ok, to establish, in Tolkien’s World, music is the very essence of power and creating, heck the whole universe is created through an opera gone wrong. So yeah, singing with power could very well kill you or heal you.   Anyways, back to JC, the barrier, called “the Girdle of Madame Lan” is very veiled and a really impossible maze. Only at the guide of the Elven sentries or the orders of Madame Lan does the barrier give in. But he surpassed that because he’s so fucking tired and doesn’t really care anymore. And Madame Lan liked him (she can read hearts and the future ok? She’s an angel) and could sense that he was LXC’s fated one. She kept silent of course.  So without any grace, he collapsed into his bedroll after finding a clearing and bandaging his wounds. The clearing also happens to be LXC’s favorite. And unlike the book, this AU will be ultra-slow burn friends to lovers, instead of love at first sight. Cos I like it that way?? And JC is blushing because of the sheer  elven prettiness and power that radiated off of LXC (yeah keep telling yourself that, JC.)  And if one knew of the story, you would have a vague idea of how this will all end. I’ll hopefully add more to this because I ADORE this AU, and yes I already thought all of it. Whoo good job, self :D

Idk this characters, but I lovvvve it

Hitman!AU Dotsuitare Honpo!💥💥💥

I love this fanfic too much

Awww🥺❤️❤️❤️

Even best duo in Stone World fights too (and made up with help of friends!) ;)

Senku’s who apparently very open to public display affection when he’s in relationship….. They just go out so Gen didn’t know about this (yet) 😛

daqing: *chuckles* im in danger