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@ahsoka-is-bae
I'm losing my mind over newborn hedgehogs fucking look at them they're so creature
what the fuck. who allowed this
i always assumed the quills only grew after birth so i was worried but
also now i know theyre called hoglets and thats awesome
Ahsoka deserves pockets >:[
in a sunny palette :)
My cover for @untoldstoriescwzine!
Featuring my favorites, the best twi'lek baby Numa and the best boys Waxer and Boil! It was my first ever cover and it was such a great experience!
There’s still the leftover sale going on, so don’t miss it!
Just look at this perfection
How I Study Anatomy
Everyone says NEVER TRACE!! THAT'S ART THEFT! Ok but we can do a little crime in the name of Learning.
Trace to learn, not to earn.
I like to take my own photos, but you can study whatever you want. Link back to original photos, and don't post copied artwork unless the artist is dead, cool with it, or both.
As always with learning, start every sketch with the intent to throw it away (trash for paper, quitting without saving for digital) This takes the pressure off and lets you make Bad Art, which is very important.
So let's make Bad Art of a Deer because I happen to have one handy
Start with a photo of your subject in a nice/neutral pose with all four feet visible. (so not like me)
Freehand copy it. Try not to stylize, focusing instead of matching proportions and pose. Don't get too detailed!
It's ok if your art looks terrible and has broken legs. I've drawn LOTS of deer so I have a leg up. Everyone's art sucks in their own eyes and here's where mine went wrong:
Either lasso-distort (recommended for beginners) or redraw a copy of your first sketch with your reference behind it (scaled to match the main body of your sketch)
Put the original and modified sketches together and compare the differences. Write it down if you want. This shows you where your eyes saw things the wrong size, so you can correct for that next time.
After learning about both deer and yourself, try freehand copying again.
Marvel at your newfound knowledge and skill!
but there's always room for improvement
You can stop here and move on to your real drawing, Or do another freehand-fix-compare cycle. I actually overcorrected my "draws heads too big" and veered into "heads too small."
Another note on tracing: Learning HOW to trace is more important than anything you could learn By tracing. Draw the Anatomy, not the outline. In real life, things don't have outlines, they have bones.
These are from the same shoot which is extra useful for consistency. The lines are minimal and follow where the animals joints are, and only important parts are drawn.
You won't know what Important Parts means right off the bat, which is where in-depth study comes in. You need to do learn the hard parts to do the easy parts right.
Next up: how to study bones and muscles.
How to study Bones and Muscles
"Study the anatomy study the anatomy" but they never tell you HOW. It's not "read a book," It's more like flailing around wildly and crashing your browser from too many tabs.
This is going to be about How to Make a bones and muscle chart. Because even if your art sucks, you learn so much more by doing than by seeing.
References I gathered: X X X X X X X X
Get Set up. Get a photo, like above, but it doesn't have to be the same photo. And now... gather reference.
We'll start with bones. Search up "[animal] skeleton" and get photos or super scientific illustration. Add in things like "top view" to spice it up.
Next, search "[animal] skeleton sketchfab." This pulls up 3D models that you can rotate in your browser. Remember that these are art and the anatomy is only as good as the artist, so pick a good one.
Time for bone!
The spine is the most important, and in a lot of animals it will surprise you. Draw it in over your photo and then add spikes because skeletons are punk. These are not scientific and I didn't count them because their number doesn't matter to art. So you better be referencing from scientists and not me!
The rest of the bones and some notes. These are my notes to myself about things I want to remember. My personal discoveries in anatomy that made my art better. You can make the same notes but also make sure you have your own thoughts on there as well. that's how you help yourself the best. Be as detailed or vague as you want.
Same deal with muscle. Here are my personal notes to myself. Label stuff that is important to you. I actually grouped a bunch of muscles together based on what is visible from the outside. Muscles are way more complicated than this, but Baby's First Anatomy Chart gets to be simple.
This is good enough for me because I have intimate knowledge of the other muscles working under and over these ones. Feel free to add as many or as few muscles as you like. You chart your own course.
This is very VERY much not an anatomical chart. I'm sure there's nerds out there pulling their hair out looking at this. But listen, it works for art!
And you know the wildest part about this?
I don't need to look at it to use it. The act of making your own anatomy chart puts that knowledge in your brain. Like how you can make "cheat sheets" even for tests that don't allow them - the act of making the sheet helps you remember what you struggle with most.
And after all that complexity? Your simplification will be based on Real Knowledge and you'll put those random circles in the right spots.
Look at all this hard work you've done. Eventually this will be second nature to you.
Show me what you make! I'd love to see what creatures yall make anatomy charts of.
How to study bones and muscles:
Listen, someone mentioned the words boba and album in their tags, and boba and din in daft punk fits immediately came to mind...
(thank you asteria-charti for the kind comments, you have inspired this haha)
The Five-Oh-First
The General
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I made more Modern Female Clones!!!
Captain Rex
This one is supposed to be Fives, I know it really doesn’t resemble him at all but his was really hard to do without a tattoo. Oh well.
99, and yes I know he doesn’t have vitiligo but this was the best way I could get his skin right and I actually like how it turned out
Dogma
Commander Wolffe
Been watching the Clone wars animated series and getting really into the prequels (to my shame!) Its a shame the movies don’t really go into the Clones as there are some really interesting and gritty details, like the way they literally grow up together and consider themselves brothers so every soldier they loose in battle is like loosing a family member and the way they adopt names and customise their armour as a way of obtaining an identity. Anyways here’s an ink painting of Captain Rex. Prequel quotes in the comments welcome
I draw things like this and then wonder why I hurt so much on the inside lmAO anyways.
captain rex <3
It's Anakin, what were you expecting...?
Or, the Anakin & Padmé Meme, a tragedy(?) in four parts.
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I’ve been watching clone wars.
okay so I did the thing from TikTok where you get a friend who hasn’t watched a show/movie and they guess their name etc and so I did it with my friend on the clones and I just- I can’t. (I didn’t include all the bad batch I know sue me)
I DO NOT CLAIM HER FOR THE TECH FIVES ECHO AND REX SLANDER
PSA: this is just a little bit of fun before anyone tries to come @ me. She knows I love the show but she does not watch star wars or tv and film in general. Yet she lets me ramble about clones and enjoys my conversation lmao.
some were also gifs btw so I didn’t post just bad pics of them
if you want me to do more with her lmk and I’ll do a part 2 💕
The Jedi Apprentice series is my life now...
Rex?
What if the Jedi mantra of “all life is sacred” and the practice of non-violence was not just an opinion about the worth of life in general but a philosophical necessity in order to wield the Light.
Like HYPOTHETICALLY let’s say using the Light side of the Force requires an abstention from violence, because death is what makes the Dark side stronger. This is sort of (?) true in canon, given how much powerful the Dark side became after Order 66 and the massacre of the Jedi, but that’s only a single interpretation (like, it could also be because a bunch of Light users are gone now, so a lack of people wielding the Light just makes the Dark stronger in consequence). This would mean that violence, especially violence that results in death, would not only go against the ideological teachings of the Jedi, but would also existentially threaten the Order and the Light Side itself.
Death obviously happens constantly all the time, so adding a single additional death to the pile wouldn’t tip the scales much, but the Jedi Order as an institution working to solve political problems in a non-violent manner would theoretically lessen (or at the very least, slow down) the sum total of all death that happens in the galaxy. Curating, maintaining, and protecting life would therefore strengthen the Light side, and this part is more explicitly canon because all life in the galaxy acts as a collective energy well for the Force.
And so in this hypothetical, the act of a Jedi killing somebody would be EXTRAORDINARILY bad, regardless of context or the manner in which they killed somebody. I don’t really have a point to this post, but it would be interesting to see the canon take a much harder and more literal stance on how the Force works, because it’s been nearly 50 years now and we STILL do not have clear-cut rules on how the Force works and what the consequences of it being a Literal Thing That Exists would be.
