I Draw On Paper

Hi this is an art blog. I reblog art Im inspired by and don’t know how to use most mediums so join me as I figure this out lmao. She/her.

[drillchips]

How many mirrors must I break,

Before I only have one face?

[lolita-wardrobe]

[historicity-was-already-taken]

Some fashion history in honor of all the rich idiots who blew an amazing opportunity at the Met Gala last night. Also tag urself I’m 1961.

[tealmussel]

Listen to the wife.

Pose based on this magazine.

[hayleyolivia]

Head Advice #1: Everybody’s head is the same size.

Okay, not really, but basically. There’s a reason you don’t have to know your head circumference to find a sunhat. We all have pretty similar head sizes, especially from the visual distance we usually draw characters.

The only exception to this is babies or children under 10. Those guys definitely have smaller heads! (But did you know our skulls are already over 90% their full adult size by the age of 5?)

Different style choices demand different proportions, but in general, it’s good advice to pick a head size, and stick with it!

Head Advice #2: You can use head size to indicate a character’s size.

Big characters don’t look like average sized people scaled up. And you can’t just scale down to get a small person!

You can make a character look very big and tall or very very small — even if they are standing alone in a vast white nothingness — just by how how they are proportioned! The most important proportion (in my humble opinion) is their head size. Look me in the eyes and tell me you can’t tell which of these characters are big and which are small.

Head Advice #3: Don’t go shrinking anyone’s head.

The most common head sins I see happen when an artist is trying to indicate (body) size difference in a couple, and use their heads to do it. The result is an image that looks something like this:

If you don’t want your lovers to look like they belong in different animated tv shows, don’t go shrinking anyone’s head! Use their bodies (hands and feet and bellies and muscles) to show off their size differences.

Anyway, that’s all. Having fun giving head. I mean doing head. I mean drawing heads.

[crystaldye]

Baby’s first critical role fanart

[bongboybrown]

A doodle I did of jester I decided to digitalize. I lov her

[frostdawns-biggest-fan]

Something about prophecies

Original post by @the-overanalyst

[grendel-menz]

ghosts that make up a haunting // personal art

[evast]

“Dusk hit on me” world ending words, screaming crying throwing up

[soft-lovely]

cluttered walls

[wurmje]

What's this? A random dnd character appeared!

This is my boi Quinn and I love him

[hakobore]

(read right to left) Little snippet from Pearl Hunting, my folk-horror comic available until Oct 31st! If you're in a spooky mood, I think you'll like this one!!

[feywildnoel]

And I know I've kissed you before, but i didn't do it right

Can I try again, try again, try again?

[actual-changeling]

In the spirit of encouraging people to comment on fanfics while also making it easier to do so, I feel obliged to share a browser extension for ao3 that has quite literally revolutionized the comment game for me.

I present to you: the floating ao3 comment box!

From what I've seen, a big problem for many people is that once you reach the comments at the bottom of a fic, your memory of it miraculously disappears. Anything you wanted to say is stuck ten paragraphs ago, and you barely remember what you thought while reading. This fixes that!

I'll give a little explanation on the features and how it works, but if you want to skip all that, here's the link.

The extension is visible as a small blue box in the upper left corner.

(Side note: The green colouring is not from the extension, that's me.)

If you click on it, you open a comment box window at the bottom of your screen but not at the bottom of the fic. I opened my own fic for demonstrative purposes.

The website also gives explanations on how exactly it functions, but I'll summarize regardless.

insert selection -> if you highlight a sentence in the fic it will be added in italics to the comment box

add to comment box -> once you're done writing your comment, you click this button and the entire thing will automatically copied to the ao3 comment box

delete -> self explanatory

on mulitchapter fics, you will be given the option to either add the comment to just the current chapter or the entire fic

The best part? You can simply close the window the same way you opened it and your progress will automatically be saved. So you can open it, comment on a paragraph, and then close it and keep reading without having the box in your face.

Comments are what keep writers going, and as both a writer and a reader, I think it's such an easy way of showing support and enthusiasm.

[gallusrostromegalus]

HERE'S THAT BITCH IVE BEEN LOOKING FOR

[rustythefox]

Being on this website is fun because you can absolutely tell when a blorbo clicks in someone's brain. You're scrolling, and suddenly out of nowhere there's like 12 posts about the same character back to back reposted by the same person, and you just know "oh. They're a permanent part of their psyche now." and honestly it's a vibe go off king

[rustandruin]

the ghost of one specific homosexual cowboy regularly possesses Tumblr gays

[mai-col]

A very small 1-page Skyrim zine I made this summer, in a single day right before Japan Expo. @frostgiant-art also made one about the Thieves' Guild !