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i’m eevee

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my main is @eeveemationstudios (i reblog things)

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i use #eevee draws for my art :)

#my tags ->#eevee draws #eevee ocs #eevee speaks #i also use ->#reblogueado #(for reblogs)#and ->#art project insp #(for cool things i find useful for my art projects. usually school/uni stuff)

fallout-lou-begas

do you have any advice on character design?

watch The Sopranos

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i actually wanted to elaborate on this and say that i think it’s a really bad habit of a lot of artists, influenced by current media casting practices, to unconsciously or consciously make every single character they create super pretty, like everyone is just hot in that very boring, homogenous way, and this also comes as a result of people using actors and celebrities as character references or faceclaims and AI facial generation programs like Artbreeder being trained on people who are generally very pretty-looking. it results in alienating, uncanny worlds and drawings completely devoid of people who just look like regular people. it results worlds populated by mannequins fresh off the CW. I feel like whether a character is attractive or not should actually matter, be part of their character, because that kind of thing absolutely affects the way you move through the world and the way the world treats you.

so i wanted to throw in some suggestions that, whenever I’m trying to find a character reference or otherwise draw very interesting-looking yet regular-looking people, which i usually have to do for bit characters in @ikroah or something, I tend to look for references in the following places. these are far from the only reliable way to get inspiration, this is just a non-exhaustive list of places i’ve looked before for visual inspiration when needing to create a character, whether starring characters or background ones:

pre-2000s television (The Sopranos and Twin Peaks especially having incredible character design)

extras in comedy sketch shows

esports players

real photos (not staged stock photos) of line cooks

70s baseball players

athletes from more obscure olympic sports like the javelin toss or greco-roman wrestling, especially if you’re looking for a specific body type

ska, jazz, and blues musicians

firefighters

improv troupes

for teenagers, searching “high school english class project” on youtube and sorting by Upload Date

state senators, small-town mayors, and generally obscure local government positions like comptroller or treasurer (yes i know politicians can be bad sometimes but smaller elections especially don’t really depend on looks)

people who walk by your window (if you live in a city like I do)

and again these are just, in my opinion, deep and easy wells to dive in if you want to get a good idea of what regular people look like. these suggestions aren’t the limits on where you can possibly find inspiration for character design

roganaut

Fellini’s movies have remarkably interesting and unique looking actors

fallout-lou-begas

Yes!!! There’s an entire book called Fellini’s Faces that’s nothing but portraits of his actors that’s phenomenal for this kind of thing, though it’s fairly rare to get a hold of today.

sartorialadventure

(Since I know a lot of writers/artists follow me for costume/character design ideas!)

#reblogueado

fernicenty

sketches from the zoo pt. 2!!

#reblogueado #art project insp

big fan of when restaurants give you mints #mymints

#eevee speaks

more of my old jaws drawing backlog, wanted to try making something with just the lasso fill tool :]

#can you tell i like things with silhouettes.#it's also easier to draw #eevee draws #jaws #jaws 1975 #jaws movie #quint #quint jaws

wanted to try to do some kind of digital painting in mspaint for fun. here is a shot from jaws i like :]

#i am not well versed in painting especially not digitally but i'm happy w it #eevee draws #jaws #jaws 1975 #jaws movie #jaws fanart #quint #quint jaws #ms paint #microsoft paint

go my old jaws doodles

#i also have some nice screenshot redraws i did but i'll post those separately #eevee draws #jaws #jaws 1975 #jaws movie #jaws fanart #quint #quint jaws #martin brody #ellen brody #matt hooper

eeveemation-s

final piece i did for my first module at uni. where i made it all about The Interest

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finally got around to drawing ellen. shes soso cool

bonus:

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more of my jaws nonsense

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quick doodles i did while watching the second half of jaws to learn how to draw these guys

#reblogging my jaws stuff again it's been on the brain again lately #well it's always on the brain but more than usual......

watched hana hyperfixates @fordtato's new video last week!! really enjoyed it was soso awesome, especially these moments in the video that i really wanted to draw :]]

i super recommend all of hana's videos the props they make for their stuff are always really cool, ive been very excited about this new stuff waughh its so neat

#eevee draws #hana hyperfixates #gatsbyhunt #gravity falls #im definitely not as up to date on all the links and stuff for the arg #maybe now that i have more free time i can have a bit of a look #everything ive seen in the arg discord server ive been lurking in seems so cool i gotta get in on stuff in more detail.........