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Chinese garden by 张大水. Location: 浙江省,湖州市,南浔镇,小莲庄。
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Masters of Anatomy
I especially love the spinning art ref.
Great resource.
The Lip Tutorial~~~
The final part is on my Livestream the first minute is me trying to remember how to use it.
I also answered some asks:
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Animal Gaits for Animators by Stephen Cunnane
Some OC questions
1. Your first OC ever? 2. Do you have a personal favourite among your OCs? 3. Have you ever adopted a character or gotten a character from someone else? 4. A character you rarely talk about? 5. If you could make only one of your OCs popular/known, who would it be? 6. Two OCs of yours that look alike despite not being related? 7. Are your OCs part of any story or stories? 8. Do you RP as any of your OCs? If you do, introduce one of your RP OCs here! 9. Would you ever be willing to give any of your OCs to someone else? 10. Introduce an OC with a complicated design? 11. Is there any OC of yours you could describe as a “sunshine”? 12. Name an OC that isn’t yours but who you like a lot 13. Do you have any troublemaker OCs? 14. Introduce an OC with a tragic backstory 15. Do you like to talk about your OCs with other people? 16. Which one of your OCs would be the best at biology (school subject)? 17. Any OC OTPs? 18. Any OC crackships? 19. Introduce an OC that means a lot to you (and explain why) 20. Do any of your OCs sing? If they sing, care to share more details (headcanon voice, what kind of songs they like etc)? 21. Your most artistic OC 22. Is there any OC of yours people tend to mischaracterize? If yes, how? 23. Introduce OC that has changed from your first idea concerning what the character would be like? 24. If you could meet one OC of yours, who would it be and why? 25. The OC that resembles you the most (same hobby, height, shared like/dislike for something etc?) 26. Have you ever had to change your OC’s design or something else about them against your will? 27. Any OCs that were inspired by a certain song? 28. Your most dangerous OC? 29. Which one of your OCs would go investigate an abandoned house at night without telling anyone they’re going? 30. Which one of your OCs would most likely have a secret stuffed animal collection? 31. Pick one OC of yours and explain what their tumblr blog would be like (what they reblog, layout, anything really) 32. Which one of your OCs would be the most suitable horror game protagonist and why? 33. Your shyest OC? 34. Do you have any twin characters? 35. Any sibling characters? 36. Do you have OC pairs where the other part belongs to someone else (siblings, lovers, friends etc)? 37. Introduce an OC who is not quite human 38. Which one of your OCs would be the best dancer? 39. Introduce any character you want 40. Any fond memories linked to your characters? Feel free to share! 41. Has anyone drawn fanart of your OCs? If yes, maybe show a picture or two here (remember sources & permissions!) 42. Which one of your OCs would be the most interested in Greek gods? 43. Do you have any certain type when you create your OCs? Do you tend to favour some certain traits or looks? It’s time to confess 44. Something you like about your OCs in general 45. A character you no longer use? 46. Has anyone ever told you that you treat your OCs badly? 47. Has anyone ever (friendly) claimed any of your OCs as their child? 48. OC who is a perfect cinnamon roll, too good for this world, too pure 49. Which one of your OCs would most likely enjoy memes 50. Give me the good ol’ OC talk here. Talk about anything you want If you want, you can tag your ask answers with #yetanotherOCmeme so I can check them out too `v´9
Amazing Photography by Juuso Hämäläinen
How to show expression with the mouth!
This was a request and at first I wasn’t sure if I had anything to provide with, but as it turn out it got a little longer than I expected because there were actually things I had to say!! Wow!!
Anyway, this is some guidelines I follow when I try to make the face expressfull, more specifically the mouth! It is often neglected, since it’s actually pretty hard, I’ll admit. But I’m here to help (hopefully…)! A mouth expression tutorial as per request. Enjoy and hopefully it will help some a little. ʕ•ᴥ•ʔ
Draw the teeth at the right angle.
This is super important. The upper jaw follows the angle of the head, and the lower jaw will depend on how open it is. Make sure you have a rough estimate of where the teeth are, and how much of them you’re going to see!
The lips will VERY roughly follow the same angle as the teeth. It really depends on the character, but it gives you a sense at least.
If you DON’T do this, you’re going to lose so much volume and the mouth is going to end up looking unrelatable. I showed this example in this tutorial:
It’s not just the lips!
The cheeks, chin, and tongue play a role too!
Try look at your own mouth or references! I have a very pliable and large mouth, so that’s one reason why my characters have it too lmao.
ASYMMETRYYYYY (ง ͠° ͟ل͜ ͡°)ง
I cannot emphasize how important asymmetry is when drawing expressions. It applies not only to the eyebrows to achieve the Dreamwork Face™, but also the mouth. Seriously if you draw a symmetric mouth I will deliver myself to your mailbox and then shout at you until you fix it.
Look at the difference between these two for example: which one has more “life”?
I think you get the idea.
Push and squish - give it flow
Here’s an old drawing I have but it illustrates how I think when I squish the mouth, and use folding and wrinkles to my advantage.
Look at your own face and see where skin bundles up, where it creases the most and when bumps appear on your chin. Subtle details makes all the difference!
One VERY effective detail is illustrated in the first sketch, where I pull upwards on one side, and downwards on the other. That’s a good detail to use when the character is making a skewed expression, or is extremely frustrated. I encourage you to play around with that concept bc it’s ~super effective~!
EXAMPLES:
Happy: Your entire mouth is pushed upwards, not just the corners of your mouth!
I tend to draw a :3 mouth bc I’ve been drawing Lance too much….. You don’t have to but it’s basically imprinted in my motor memory by now.
Pouting/frowning: corners are pushed down, middle pushed slightly up. Sometimes, there’s a slight dip in the middle too. It can give a sense that the character is biting their lips.
Showing frustration/intimidating/is intimidated: basically showing a lot of teeth. The corners are as open as possible and the middle sorta more squished. An extremely important detail here is showing some of the gums, and open space between the cheeks and teeth. That way it looks like the mouth it open to it’s full potential. Here is also where you basically MUST add folds and bumps, or else it’s not going to look relatable.
(Here I am again with the pulling upwards on one side and downwards on the other, as illustrated on the last sketch)
And then again, here’s just another doodle showing how important it is to show the gums. It’s the same face twice, but the second one looks slightly more frustrated doesn’t it?
(from my other tutorial on how to draw facial expressions)
As you can see, this last one is very versatile and I draw it a lot. Play around with the basic shape and see how much subtle details makes a lot of difference!
That’s it!
I hope that cleared some things up and was somewhat helpful! Enjoy drawing ✨
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So you want to make an OC?: A Masterpost of Ways to Create, Develop, and Make Good OCs!
i made this masterpost in hopes that it helps you in making your own OCs ah;; it can also apply to developing RP characters i suppose! if you’d like to add more resources then go for it sugar pea (´ヮ`)!
How to Write Better OCs:
basic tips on how to make your oc even better
tragic backstory? learn how to write one/make yours great
writing specific characters
a wordier, great guide on how to develop your character
kick out those vague descriptions and make them AWESOME
Character Development:
how to actually make an OC
Q&A (to develop characters)
more Q&As
giving your character a backstory
how to write an attractive character
Diversity
adding more racial diversity
avoiding tokenism, AKA, how to add diversity to your cast not just because you “need” it
writing sexuality and gender expression (doesnt include non binary, if you have a good ref to that, please add on!)
masterpost on writing more diversity into your story
cultures of the world
guides to drawing different ethnicities (not just a great art reference, but also really helpful in appearance descriptions!)
Mary Sue/Gary Stu
Test to see if your character is a Sue
Explains subdivisions of Sues/Stus
Powerful Characters Don’t Have to Be Sues
Villains
villain generator
need an evil sounding name for your evil character? bam
villain archetypes
what’s your villain’s motive for being a villain?
Relationships
character perceptions (What your character thinks of themselves and what others think of them)
how to write strong relationships between two characters
8 ways to write better characters and develop their relationships with others
OCxLove Interest Handbook
develop your couple with good ol’ Q&A!
how to write realistic relationships
how to write relatives for your characters (this is more OC related to a canon character, but will help in writing family members in general)
ARCHETYPES
12 common archetypes
8 archetypes for male/female characters
female archetypes (goes pretty indepth from two main categories)
a list of archetypes
NAMES
how to name your character
random name generator
most common surnames
surnames by ethnicity
APPEARANCE
tips for better design
basic appearance generator
pinterest board for character design (includes NSFW and images of skeletons/exposed muscle (?) so tread carefully!)
clothing ref masterpost
DETAILS
give your character better powers
a list of professions
proactive vs reactive characters
positive and negative traits
interest generator
skills generator
motivation generator
123 ideas for character flaws
list of phobias
again, this is to help inspire you or help establish your OCs! i hope you get a lot of info and help from this ahh ( ´ ▽ ` )ノ
I love the art style of your Valentina piece; you said you were "looking at a lot of 50s lifestyle art with graphic black". I love that art style too! Do you have some artist names I could look up? I never know who does all that gorgeous advert art other than Rockwell and Leyendecker--especially with that use of black, that's my favourite.
oh yeah, absolutely! Leyendecker and Rockwell are absolute masters, but there are a ton of illustrators to look at for later, more graphic mid-century work. A couple favourites of mine include Al Parker:
Jon Whitcomb:
Coby Whitmore:
Earl Oliver Hurst:
Pete Hawley:
…and not entirely of the same school, but Mead Scheaffer is killer at large swaths of black and value grouping throughout a composition:
…ditto that for Tom Lovell:
….and a million other artists that I’m sure I’m forgetting. But hopefully this is a good starting point! And here are some great compendium books to check out as well:
Masters of American Illustration
Lifestyle Illustration of the 1950′s
Lifestyle illustration of the 1960′s
Purple Gorge, Dreamy Stanton 2 & Dreamy Stanton
by James Mills
Aerial Abstracts Zack Seckler