WELCOME TO MY TWISTED ANKLE

Another art blog, BASICALLY TO SPAM DOODLES i'd do during the day and got no where to post em. So yeah, kind of a scrap blog. Anything considered ~major~ nsfw will be read-more'd! Mostly character concepts, my ocs, and perhaps some studies.

[rebelflet]

My old tutorial! Wanna share it with you)

[linestorm]

Fighting Words

Active verbs to use in a fight scene or an otherwise violent encounter, color-coded by severity (with red as most intense and purple as most mild), and categorized by type of fight.

[maariaaargh]

Lil tutorial thingy

[annadesu]

Storyboarder - The best and easiest way to storyboard.

Storyboarder makes it easy to visualize a story as fast you can draw stick figures. Quickly draw to test if a story idea works. Create and show animatics to others. Express your story idea without mak

HEY Y’ALL, THIS IS FREE.

I know a lot of my followers want to storyboard someday, and this is a good starting point. :) Enjoy~

[artofpan]

Whoo, super long nose tutorial! I’m sure there’s heaps I didn’t mention in this but this is generally how I approach it - the main thing is to check out references and try and draw different noses, it’ll help you create more diverse characters and have fun with it without being afraid of drawing the nose (since it’s genuinely one of my favourite things to draw).

Other tutorials: X

[art-res]

A stunning tutorial by @artofpan explaining in detail the process of drawing noses!

More Helpful links: Ask a Question/Request a Tut |Submit a Tutorial | Promote Your Art Commissions to +13.6 K Dashes | Stay Updated on DeviantArt!

Thanks for looking! Please consider reblogging to support this blog & the artists featured within it or following my art blog @astrikos​ to support @art-res​!

[studyingisfortheweekend-blog]

Alternatives for 25 overused words in writing

1. Interesting- note worthy; thought-provoking; fascinating; attracting; appealing; attention-grabbing; captivating; gripping; invigorating; engrossing; engaging; electrifying.  

2. Beautiful- striking; stunning; magnificent; lovely; charming; gorgeous; radiant; dazzling.

3. Good- acceptable, wonderful, exceptional; positive; brilliant; first-rate; notable; stellar; favorable; superb; marvellous; prime.

4. Bad- awful; lousy; poor; unacceptable; crummy; dreadful; rough; inferior; substandard; atrocious; appalling; dreadful; defective.

5. Look- glance; fixate; observe; stare; gaze; peer; scan; watch; study; browse; eye; glimpse; review; inspect.

6. Nice- lovely; superior; pleasant; satisfying; delightful; likeable; agreeable; correct; adequate; swell; fair; okay; approved.

7. Very- extremely; exceedingly; exceptionally; immensely; tremendously; abundantly; particularly; remarkably.

8. Fine- satisfactory; worthy; respectable; exquisite; suitable; well; imposing; decent; admirable; praise-worthy; decent.

9. Happy- cheerful; delighted; pleased; content; amused; thrilled; elated; thrilled; ecstatic; on cloud 9. 

10. Really- genuinely; truly; honestly; actually; undoubtedly; certainly; remarkably; incredibly; downright; unquestionably; extremely.

11. Sad- miserable; gloomy; devastated; down at heard; distraught; distressed; dispirited; sorrowful; downcast; feeling blue; desolate.

12. Big- massive; huge; giant; gigantic; enormous; large; colossal; immense; bulky; tremendous; hefty; sizable; extensive; great; substantial. 

13. Shocked- taken aback; lost for words; flabbergasted; staggered; outraged; astonished; astounded; stunned; speechless; appalled.

14. Small- tiny; petite; mini; miniature; microscopic; minuscule; compact; pocket-sized; cramped; puny; undersized; limited; meager; modest; minute; pint-sized. 

15. Angry- irate; enraged; touchy; cross; resentful; indignant; infuriated; wound-up; worked-up; seething; raging; heated; bitter; bad-tempered; offended; frustrated. 

16. Know- understand; comprehend; realize; learn; perceive; recognize; grasp; sense.

17. Change- alter; transform; replace; diversify; adjust; adapt; modify; remodel; vary; evolve; transfigure; redesign; refashion; advance; transition; shift; adjustment.

18. Old- aged; ancient; matured; elderly; senior; veteran; decrepit; seasoned; venerable; past one’s prime; doddering; senile.

19. Think- ponder; reflect; conceive; imagine; contemplate; consider; determine; realize; visualize; guess/assume; conclude; envision. 

20. Funny- comical; ludicrous; amusing; droll; entertaining; absurd; hilarious; silly; whimsical; hysterical; joking; witty; facetious; slapstick; side-splitting; knee-slapping.

21. Go- move; proceed; advance; progress; travel; walk; journey; depart; exit; flee; make one’s way; clear out; get underway.

22. Give- grant; donate; hand-out; present; provide; deliver; hand over; offer; award; bestow; supply with; contribute to; send; entrust.

23. Get- acquire; obtain; receive; gain; earn; gather; collect; buy; purchase; attain; score; secure; take possession of; grab.

24. Easy- effortless; simple; clear; smooth; straightforward; uncomplicated; painless; accessible; apparent; basic; plain; child’s play; facile; elementary; cinch. 

25. Fast- agile; brisk; rapid; nimble; swift; accelerated; fleeting; high-speed; active; dashing; winged; hurried; turbo. 

[bittertail-blog]

I have no Idea how many people know this but its a life saver

Start off with a crappy scanned/phone taken picture like so

Mess around with the SAI Filters, I usually go color deepen all the way to the left then mess with brightness and contrast until I find a good balance I like, then to top it off with a copied layer on multiply to make the lines darker

Click what I boxed off and the magic has already happened

you now are left with a clean lineart layer that you can color underneath to your liking : 0 Hell you can even color your lines however you want as well for a colored lineart

[weezerpilled-deactivated2025082]

ok i wasn’t going to reblog this first but honestly this is such a life/time saver. you can get a neat lineart in minutes instead of using a hour (or more) on ‘copying’ the lineart digitally. share this as much as you can. especially since it’s on sai which is what most aspiring artists on this site use…

[alukaforyou]

how i color sometimes :3! finished pic

[cgcookieconcept]

Exercise 48 Results: Painting Blood Step by Step 

Artist: Tim Von Rueden (vonn)

Check out the Exercise and Download the Practice Sheet HERE.

You know that saying, “blood is thicker than water“, well that applies to drawing it as well! Read the full explanation and tip guide on how to paint blood for your own works. You can download the pratice sheet .PSD in the link above along with both step by step guides!

[gunvolt]

im going to have a stroke

[prideling]

Instead try… Person A: You know… the thing Person B: The “thing”? Person A: Yeah, the thing with the little-! *mutters under their breath* Como es que se llama esa mierda… THE FISHING ROD

[artykyn]

As someone with multiple bilingual friends where English is not the first language, may I present to you a list of actual incidents I have witnessed:

Forgot a word in Spanish, while speaking Spanish to me, but remembered it in English. Became weirdly quiet as they seemed to lose their entire sense of identity.

Used a literal translation of a Russian idiomatic expression while speaking English. He actually does this quite regularly, because he somehow genuinely forgets which idioms belong to which language. It usually takes a minute of everyone staring at him in confused silence before he says “….Ah….. that must be a Russian one then….”

Had to count backwards for something. Could not count backwards in English. Counted backwards in French under her breath until she got to the number she needed, and then translated it into English.

Meant to inform her (French) parents that bread in America is baked with a lot of preservatives. Her brain was still halfway in English Mode so she used the word “préservatifes.” Ended up shocking her parents with the knowledge that apparently, bread in America is full of condoms.

Defined a slang term for me……. with another slang term. In the same language. Which I do not speak.

Was talking to both me and his mother in English when his mother had to revert to Russian to ask him a question about a word. He said “I don’t know” and turned to me and asked “Is there an English equivalent for Нумизматический?” and it took him a solid minute to realize there was no way I would be able to answer that. Meanwhile his mom quietly chuckled behind his back.

Said an expression in English but with Spanish grammar, which turned “How stressful!” into “What stressing!”

Bilingual characters are great but if you’re going to use a linguistic blunder, you have to really understand what they actually blunder over. And it’s usually 10x funnier than “Ooops it’s hard to switch back.”

[mathylibrarian]

And if there’s two multilingual people who have overlapping languages: we absolutely will switch languages in the middle of a sentence, sometimes more than once. It just depends on which language has the handier term, or has the right connotation you’re trying to convey. It makes it hell for someone who doesn’t know both languages to follow the conversation, especially with words that sound similar but with completely different meanings (ex. embarrassed vs embarazada).

[marzipanandminutiae]

after I’ve been speaking Spanish to a customer at work, I don’t so much accidentally talk to the next person in Spanish as trip over my words in English while my brain flounders in this odd linguistic void trying to figure out which way is up

[virginiaisamess]

Also if a bilingual person is talking with somebody in a language and somebody else asks them something in another one and they answer quite fast they might do it in the wrong language

[moved-to-innerghostpaperwobbler]

And bilingual people don’t accidentally “switch” to their native language by randomly throwing full sentences in the conversation, what often happens is:

*brain explodes*

[sadndirtyy]

If you have no idea what to draw...

its like having all the money you wanted ,but you dont know what to buy. Making this to look at when I get stuck with lame ideas. These are all suggestions from my followers:

Taking a break:  No option for me but it surely can be good for other overworked peeps

Exploring new art forms: depending on your art style, surrealism would be something I’ve never tried before.

Shape game: Either sketching blindly and connecting the dots or sketching random shapes  and fill them with faces or whatever comes to your mind.

Draw something you never drew before:  …a good picture…

Draw a shark:  How to draw a shark by Will Terrell 

Read books:  Let your mind to the picture first and then your hand.

Poses:  Action poses - freestyle dancing - fight styles - (dancing people in general)- life drawing - online 3D model

Redoing Artwork: Either your old stuff or from your favorite artists, your way.

Reverse storyboarding: take your fav movie and sketch the the shots after every camera change.

Screencaps: study them, draw them, look at composition

Characters: Let your OC’s do extreme expressions, let them do things (driving,cleaning,running,etc)

Concepts: How people could look like on other planets. Look at Character Design

Planing an art project: A comic in my case, thinking about environments and characters etc.

Drawing upside down: ¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿

Fanart: Illustrate your favorite book, series,Manga ,etc

Sideblog: Gathering all the references for all your needs

[emymimir]

Understood ? Practice dude.

[drawing-tutorial]

All the tutorials I reblog here can certainly help but you won’t get better just from looking at them. It takes time and practice to get better !

[synthiachen1995]

Practice. I mean seriously.

[kitsumahou-deactivated20220713]

And I have some links for you!

http://artist-advice.tumblr.com/

http://develop-your-oc.com/

https://drawing-prompt-s.tumblr.com/

http://ablogforanatomy.tumblr.com/

http://collectiveartistreference.tumblr.com/

http://howtodraws.tumblr.com/

http://digital-art-tutorials.tumblr.com/

http://artkink.tumblr.com/

https://artutorialsandstuff.tumblr.com/

http://help-me-draw.tumblr.com/

http://art-resource.tumblr.com/

http://exclusively-art-reference.tumblr.com/

http://uselessarttips.tumblr.com/

http://anatoref.tumblr.com/

https://human-anatomy-reference.tumblr.com/

http://art-write-ref.tumblr.com/

[davionstar]

Ok, I’m glad someone elaborated on this more.

Yes, practice is important. But you gotta know what you’re doing first.

And if you have trouble with something? Ask.

A lot of artists on Tumblr are willing to help out. Just be polite about it, of course.

Then, once you have a grip on what you’re doing….then you just gotta keep drawing.

And you will make mistakes. As you go, you’ll start noticing even more mistakes. This is a GOOD thing. The first step to improvement is noticing something’s wrong. The next step is figuring out exactly what’s wrong. The step after that is figuring out how to fix it. And so on. And if you need help in any of those stages, ask someone! Again, politely. Please don’t harass people.

[elementsofdarkness]

i keep forgetting to update this tumblr blog I may turn my oc blog into an oc doodle blog as well??? And Jus archive this account :0c So yea I”ll do that at some point, so please follow @cursedocs for future doodles, and I have a twitter with the same name for oc shenans and doodles

[elementsofdarkness]

oh boy time to post may doodle dump along with some new faces!!

Gerald (the man noir is hugging into in the noir doodles) belongs to sky!

[norisus]

[vlada-artblog]

Some tips on painting from B&W to color

As promised! Using this last painting.

1. Tweak your levels

You do not want your darkest darks to be too low on the value scale: you will be colorizing shadows, and likely glazing over them to darken them. To avoid a muddy mess, make sure that the darkest darks on your HSV/HSB (hue-saturation-value) color sliders are at MOST a 9. Photoshop has a Levels feature that lets you do that quickly.

2. Start with a colored base

Sometimes I use a gradient map (which can color lights/mid values/shadows at once), but the idea is the same – you want to color on top of a picture that has NO grey in it. Pick a neutral color that’s closest to your shadows – for example, here I wanted to have a warmer skintone, so I made the shadows cool.

3. Glaze CAREFULLY

Here is an example of what not to do – do not pile adjustments layers on top of one another in hopes that some of them will give you a good result. Lower your opacity and learn what layer modes do! Overlay will hit your lights, Multiply will hit your shadows, and Hard Light (my favourite) will show up exactly like a colored light source would.

Slow down. This is kind of like glazing an oil painting. Pull down your saturation and leave the Jersey Shore orange for the last steps of a painting.

4. Turn on hue jitter

Real skin is transluscent and highly reactive to the environment it is in. If you look at any realist painting, you will see glazes and glazes and glazes of color packed into a single square inch of canvas. You can imitate this by playing with your brush’s HUE JITTER setting, which will make the color you pick jump around the color wheel a little. This is especially helpful when glazing shadows.

5. Use neutrals to unify your painting

Greys are great. Greys are AMAZING when you want skin to pop, and this is why the majority of classical portraiture sports a neutral background. I just went over the whole piece and punched a bit of grey-green into the background and shadows to “kill” the oversaturated color. The painting immediately started to come together.

6. Remember that this is not a coloring book

The great thing about digital painting is that your CANVAS is your palette – and this method allows you to build one. It helps establish major structures so you can focus on color and light, but chances are you will end up repainting large parts of it anyway. Don’t be afraid to!

[mirshroom]

Click me for the brushes used in the tutorial A few peeps were wondering how I drew attacks in my nuzlocke comic, so I made a quick/kinda sloppy tutorial about it! Tbh it’s just me spamming luminosity and overlay layers haha ;yyy Hope this somewhat helps!