how to draw arms ? ?
holy fuck
holy fuck is right… but… does it work with legs???
yes !!
but how much extend
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how to draw arms ? ?
holy fuck
holy fuck is right… but… does it work with legs???
yes !!
but how much extend
^^^^^^^^^^
I NEARLY CHOKED
ENJFDFNFATFVFDF
finally. i can be accurate
For college do you have any advice for shy people on how to make friends? Or like talk to people not awkwardly?
If u find out lemme know
Literally just do it. College isn't high school you have one, maybe two classes with the person for one semester. If it doesn't go well they can be pretty easy to ignore. (At least from a freshman's point of view) if you live in a dorm go to the floor meetings if you have them bc trust me you can and will bond over the unknown person who shits precisely on the inner edge of the toilet so the poo cannot be flushed.
Any tips on making female animals look femine without going full 'smurfette'? I tried using round features but my characters always come out looking like boys to me
Hm, the easy response here would be for me just to tell you to give your female character’s eyelashes, as that seems to be the most popular way to it, but honestly, that’s not really something I was ever a fan of.
My thoughts on this topic have always kind of boiled down to: So what if people don’t immediately recognize this character’s gender? Gender doesn’t define who the character is, what they’re like, their personality, or really anything. So communicating gender is typically something I’m the least concerned with when drawing my characters. Don’t draw a character looking soft because they’re female, draw them soft because they are nurturing and caring. Don’t give them eyelashes because they’re a girl, give them eyelashes that could stab a bitch because they MEAN BUSINESSS and if animals could have make-up you just know that this tough lady’s mascara would be ON POINT.
This applies to human character design as well, but people come in all shapes and sizes and sometimes gender is ambiguous. And that’s pretty cool.
Remember, it’s not a competition
(Cos people need to see this)
Awwwwwwwwwww
I am going to cry and I love this (´;ω;`)
reblogging this because in in a really painful rut right now, and seeing my followers, hearing what you have to say and knowing that i inspire so many of you, it makes me want to keep trying.
remember that no matter how bad you feel? there are people who look up to you! dont worry about popularity, or follower counts, just work at it because YOU want to. there will be people who love it. <3
This this THIS!
Somebody is always looking up to you, and you might not even know it.
Your always looking up to someone and that someone might not even know it.
<3
Also remember that everyone has their own adorable style, you included!!!!
Remember, U don’t need to be better, or be like the others, U R fine beginning U,
You don’t need to be other person to be nice, just be yourself and everything is gonna be fine :D.
*very quietly whispers* I’ve always looked back, and you guys are the ones that give me hope to keep moving forward.
I usually don’t get too emotional over posts but this one made me cry my eyes out. It is always important to look back because we see ourselves in others. Those goals can be obtained but you have to realize that there will always be another one on the horizon. Its not pointless because look how far you have come. I used to struggle so much with this and at times it can get to me. I had someone basically ask me why I put so much time into WTU they called it pointless but to me it’s not. I have a story that I want to share and every like, every reblog, every comment makes me so happy. Am I one of those artists that has 1000k or even 500k followers? Do I get tons of likes and reblogs on my work, no but that doesn’t mean it can’t happen and if people enjoy the passion I put into my work then someday it may just happen. (^v^)Thank you to everyone so far that has given me their genuine love and support. I never forget it 💙
For a friend
I love kids they’re all like.. “when i grow up i’m gonna be an astronaut and a chef and a doctor and an olympic swimmer” like that self confidence! That drive! That optimism! Where does it go
It gets destroyed by adults not believing in you and telling you to pick a realistic career. And by society creating all these obstacles to the point that you’re too tired to try.
But they’re not really unrealistic, SOMEBODY is going to be an olympic swimmer and it might as well be you.
Actually I want to talk about this a little more than I did, because olympic swimming is incredible and works perfectly to talk about attaining goals.
I used to be a varsity swimmer, and I was damn good, but I was forced into it by my parents and completely lost my love for it and therein my drive. But in high school I was swimming against such talented swimmers like Olympic Swimmer Missy Franklin. I’ve met her, and the main difference between her and me was that I was strong but had no passion, but she was strong BECAUSE she had passion.
And I could have been good, really good, maybe even Olympic good. I even have the predisposition for it, been swimming since I was 2 years old, have a mom who was almost an olympic swimmer. Missy didn’t have either of those things, she just wanted it, loved it, had been doing it for a long time, and decided she was going to kick ass at it.
Right, that’s great and all, but I completely missed my opportunity to be an olympic swimmer, yeah? and can never achieve those dreams I had as a kid? No, not even though. There was this whole thought that female athletes peak when they’re 17 years old and lose their skills quickly after that, and male athletes peak around 19. But then Olympic Swimmer Dara Torres shows up. She was an olympic swimmer when she was 17, 21 and 25. Pretty normal age for retirement. She had a few kids. She kicked butt at being a mom.
And then at 33 years old she decides she’s bored or something gets back in shape and kicks so much ass at the trials that she lands herself on the Olympic Team ONCE AGAIN. And then 8 years later, she decides, heck I’m 41 now, no one has ever made the olympic swim team as old as I am, I want to get in shape yet again and teach these children how sports work.
And she still has the record for oldest US Olympic Swimmer, not even any men have beat out that record.
So basically what I’m saying is you could be an olympic swimmer, you really could be. And there are obviously a lot of things stopping you and trying to get in your way: your brain, society, too much chocolate cake for example. But if you really dedicate yourself to it and love it with all of your heart you could, you really could.
And lets say olympic swimming isn’t your jam? That’s cool too. There isn’t a single skill in this world that you can’t learn if you absolutely love it and want to. Any skill you want is going to take time. There are countless famous people who started learning a skill after 20, 30, 40, or even 50. Not a single person has even been president under age 35 (most likely because you’re not allowed to be, but there’s a reason for that). Whatever you want to do you’re probably going to be bad at first, and I’m talking really shitty.
Van Gogh got started in his 20′s and was thought to have no artistic talent at first and was forced to sit in the back of classrooms where the worst artists in the class sat. So yeah you’ll probably be bad, like really bad and everyone including you will think you’re bad. If you stick with it though, if you’re willing to work for years and years, if you keep loving it after all the pain it’s given you,
then you might just paint Starry Night.
#looks like there’s still time for me to learn how to draw … YES. As someone who started drawing at 35 and who always was like: ‘eh, I can’t draw a stick figure to save my life, but I would love to be able to’ this is near and dear to my heart. If you want to draw, start drawing. Keep drawing. Be shit at drawing at first. Keep it up, doodle things on scraps but also draw stuff you don’t think you can draw. Challenge yourself, you will be surprised what you can do. It will be frustrating at times, but it will also be awesome. It is SO much a matter of practice and dedication, not talent.
This applies for writing, too.
Don’t ever think for a second that it doesn’t! Want to start writing? Then write! You will get better the more you write, the more often, and you will improve, all of the time, as long as you dedicate yourself.
The worst lie we tell ourselves is “it’s too late.”
Another OC hiveswap style!
I think it’s improved.
Credit to @dakotadoodles for the Background cards!
Another Heir, this time of Blood! Kriger Morius is desperate to be your friend. Please. He loves friends.
(Sign is a snake! It. It looks like a balloon though, I will admit that.)
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I haven't heard much about Hiveswap, but is it true that there's a troll that uses blood for paint? Damn! The fantroll I've had for years does that... Now I'm gonna seem like I copied. :(
It’s been canon that paint is made of blood for a while (The Nepeta walkaround flash before they both die mentions it I’m pretty sure). No ones going to care!!! If you like it, then keep it. If people think you copied who gives a fuck- you know what inspired your character and how you made them and that’s what matters.
If it makes you feel any better my first fantroll had a sign i designed for him. His sign is now canon and actually is his dream and aspect combo. The only difference is blood color.
An anatomy practice and two color palette challenges! I've been only drawing cats recently because I'm too lazy to draw people.
hey, could you do small tutorials or speedpaints in the future. i find you do admirable!!
what uhh
what kind of tutorials u looking for
lEGS
“Why did you like that art without reblogging it!? That really stifles artists and-”
I added it to my queue and/or reblogged it to a sideblog, you dingus. I see a good twenty pictures that I like every five minutes - so which is better for your art: spamming it amidst a couple dozen other posts that my followers are already fed up of, or reblogging it later or to another blog amidst less posts? Also consider: people have more than one main blog, two or three likes and one reblog could all be the same person (as could three reblogs and one like). Maybe they’re a fellow artist and they have a sideblog for other people’s art because they don’t want to reblog it to their main and bury their own art.
I know that getting thirty likes and one reblog initially is a huge let down - and you have every right to talk about how exposure, and by extension reblogs, is good for artists - but people have more than one reason for liking without immediately reblogging, so don’t let it get you down or make you angry at somebody, especially when you don’t even know why that specific blog hasn’t reblogged it yet.
Ultimately, if they don’t want to reblog it at all, it’s their blog, they don’t have to. Likes don’t mean “I acknowledge this” - they mean “I like this”, “I appreciate this”, “You’re doing good work”, “I wanna scroll through my likes and see this again”, “I reblogged this elsewhere or added it to a queue”, “It’s not my style/not something that I’m comfortable with having on my blog, but I still want to express my appreciation” - try to think of them positively instead of getting down about them. Sharing isn’t the only conclusion of enjoying something - you’re on this godforsaken website, you know that none of us share every single thing that we enjoy. At least they’re trying to convey their enjoyment to you instead of just scrolling by.
The bane of any creative type is focusing too much on numbers or on the reaction of others - it’s great to be able to profit from your work, to get appreciation, to succeed in that way - but don’t let that, or the lack of that, take away from the pure and intrinsic enjoyment of creating itself. Those likes are thirty people who loved your work, with a myriad of reasons for not immediately reblogging, give them and yourself the benefit of the doubt, passive aggressively reblog a post about how helpful reblogs are, but don’t guilt trip people, insult people, or put yourself down over the lack of reblogs - remember how fun it was to create the work, how inspired you felt, and the fact that the art wouldn’t exist at all without you and your brilliance.
Remember fanfiction? Remember how rare it actually is/was for people to share that, and more often than not you’d just get a star, heart, kudos, whatever? That appreciation wasn’t considered to be effectively nothing, inadequate acknowledgement where a share should be, it was considered proof that somebody enjoyed the work. Even likes boost your relevance in search results on here, and if people have their likes visible then others can still find the art through their likes.
Again, to clarify, this is about how you shouldn’t get angry at individual people or let disappointment get the better of you, not that you shouldn’t want reblogs and not that you shouldn’t talk about how useful reblogs are. It’s about how so many people look on the dark side of this, they think like “they didn’t deem it worthy of a reblog” instead of “they liked what I made! and there are positives to that!” because that kind of glass half empty mindset is detrimental to you, and it can create and fester a kind of bitterness between the artist and those who love their work. Don’t guilt trip people or tell them that they have no adequate reason not to do as you please and reblog the post, don’t see appreciation without exposure as a crime worse than simply scrolling by, and look after yourself.
That said, if you see nice art, it really helps artists if you reblog it - I like making sideblogs dedicated to specific styles or themes so that I can populate the queues of those and reblog most of the great art that I see without burying it under a hundred posts within the hour. Furry vore art just gets a like though - I love the shading, the colour choice, and that detail is scarily good, I just… y'know… it’s not you, it’s me.
This made me feel a lot better. I got so focused on "i want 70k followers" for a bit, and i still get a little peeved when someone likes all of my art and then doesn't follow (more of a DA thing than a Tumblr thing) but I'm glad at least a few people are seeing my art.