It's called the "Magnanimous Maelstrom"‚ does that sound like I'm even trying for a theme? Mostly reblogs, but I'll try for some OC once in a while. Also, chronic abuse of tags. (No, seriously when I can be bothered to even tag stuff it's the most useless tags imaginable.) --- But here are a few tags I do tend to use: --- #Hello Kitty Claymore Mine How I define cyberpunk. --- #This message will self-destruct in... Random stuff I found amusing. Ephemera I should erase sooner rather than later. (May contain cats.) --- #Novo Mundi An original setting. (Inspirational images pinboard.) --- #Glowing Sands An original setting. (Inspirational images pinboard.) --- #Space Clothes is for outfits which would be right at home in a science fiction setting --- #Capes is what it says on the tin, also Superhero formal wear. --- #ಠ_ಠ is for ಠ_ಠ --- #THIS IS NOW A FOOD BLOG is for long meandering tales, there MAY be a recipe at the end. (Nah, mostly other people's food posts or funny and food related posts) --- #F3rrarius Blacksmithing and related cool bits of hot metal --- #Minus one billion dollar post Posts that explain how Tumblr managed to have their value drop a BILLION DOLLARS --- #Ship's Wizard An original setting. (Inspirational images pinboard.) --- #your worldbuilding isn't weird enough Notes to self, to improve the verisimilitude of the world building of various projects
dear august cloudmancy, do you have any horse drawing tips and if so, would you be so kind to share them with the class if you have the time?
I'm still in China, so stuck on mobile + without my drawing tablet, but I'll post my horse sketches and a modified version of my general animal drawing tips:
Horses, like any other animal, are 90% shapes. You want to get good at drawing these shapes. The most important place to start for a horse are at the SHOULDERS. You want to draw starting with the intention of the ENTIRE horse in mind. Don't do a bunch of disconnected hooves and legs and horse head shots until you're actually comfortable knowing what connects where. Doing a bunch of piecemeal 'studies' before you understand the whole animal's shape is a trap and a copout! You can see in my cleaned up horse lines that I always always draw out the shoulders, hips, and haunches.
Horses are hard for people to draw because their legs are weird. So this seems obvious to say, but get good at understanding their legs. You wouldn't believe the amount of people who go "horse bendy noodle legs hard" and leave it at that. It's best to look at a diagram of horse and human homologous limb structure, because then you can understand why they bend in the places they do. Like in math, actually understanding horse leg anatomy than simply memorizing what they look like at one angle is better, because then you can extrapolate what they look like from any angle using fundamental theorems.
In general, tracing over photographs of real horses is VERY helpful. Try tracing over an image that's been lowered to 20-30% opacity, then get rid of the photograph and redo your lines until it looks 'right' to your eyes. Drawing any animal, including horses, competently isn't about ACCURATELY FOLLOWING every single curve and crevice, it's about getting the shapes right.
My favorite Giuseppe Festino covers from near the end of his run with the Italian sci-fi magazine Robot. These are from late 1978 and 1979. Bold colors, bold compositions.
I featured Festino's work in my free sci-fi art newsletter a few issues back, so check it out for more info. The final one here, with the decaying robot, was for the last issue of the magazine, before it was rebooted in the 2000s.
When people argue that food from Chinese and Mexican restaurants in the US are not 'real' representations of that culture's cuisine ignore the historical reality that these dishes were developed by diasporic communities striving to recreate the flavors of home with available resources. Such criticism frames adaptation as a loss of authenticity, rather than recognizing it as a sincere and evolving expression of culture by people separated from their homeland.
Overview of some topics when it comes to drawing characters who are burn survivors.
DISCLAIMER. Please keep in mind that this is an introductory overview for drawing some burn scars and has a lot of generalizations in it, so not every “X is Z” statement will be true for Actual People. I'm calling this introductory because I hope to get people to actually do their own research before drawing disabled & visibly different characters, rather than just making stuff up. Think of it as a starting point and take it with a grain of salt (especially if you have a very different art style from mine).
Talking about research and learning... don't make your burn survivor characters evil. Burn survivors are normal people and don't deserve to be constantly portrayed in such a way.
Consider supporting me on ko-fi if you find this to be helpful.
Edit: How are people seeing this post where I specifically talk about burn survivors being normal, real people, and still tag this as "TW body horror"? Not a single one of these drawings or pictures is a fresh injury. All of them are healed. How the hell would you feel if someone tagged a photo of you as "trigger warning: gore"?
Disabled people are not your fucking body horror. Grow up.
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