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How to Read Your Birth Chart

The Sun: The Sun speaks about your ego, the ‘I Am’, what drives you to to be who you are and how you identify yourself. In other words, your sun sign reflects who you are all the time, regardless of who you’re with or what you’re doing.

The Moon: The moon speaks about your emotional self and what we need to feel secure, safe and nurtured. We go to our moon when we need to restore ourselves. The moon sign tends to be the ruling force over your decision-making.

The Ascendant/Rising Sign: This sign represents how others see you as. When we first meet someone, we’re likely to meet their rising sign. The ascendant sign changes from hour to hour so try to be as accurate as possible when naming your birth time.

The Descendant Sign: The descendant sign shows the type of people you are the most attracted by, you easily get along well with and you are most likely to start a love relationship with.

The Inner Planets: The inner planets include Mercury, Venus and Mars. They can describe core personality traits, needs and desires. Mercury rules your mind and communication, Venus rules your love life, and Mars rules your actions and overall energy.

The Outer Planets: The outer planets are Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune and Pluto. They reflect what will make your life special. Jupiter rules luck and progress, Saturn rules your fears and self discipline, Uranus rules change, Neptune rules dreams and how you heal, and Pluto rules your power and transformation. The placements can suggest what you have to look forward to these areas.

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things i’m bad at:

eye contact

expressing feelings

making decisions

telling someone what i want

explaining why i act a certain way

getting motivated to do stuff

knowing what i want

paying attention to people

bonkalore

Trying to draw buildings

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yo here’s a useful tip from your fellow art ho cynellis… use google sketchup to create a model of the room/building/town you’re trying to draw… then take a screenshot & use it as a reference! It’s simple & fun!

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Sketchup is incredibly helpful. I can’t recommend it enough.

There’s a 3D model warehouse where you can download all kinds of stuff so you don’t have to build everything from scratch.

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reblog to save a life

bludragongal

This is an incomplete tutorial, and it drives me crazy every time I see it come around.

We live in a pretty great digital age and we have access to a ton of amazing tools that artists in past generations couldn’t even dream of, but a lot of people look at a cool trick and only learn half of the process of using it.

Here’s the missing part of this tutorial:

How do you populate your backgrounds?

Well, here’s the answer:

If the focus is the environment, you must show a person in relation to that environment.

The examples above are great because they show how to use the software itself, but each one just kind of “plops” the character in front of their finished product with no regard of the person’s relation to their environment.

How do you fix this?

Well, here’s the simplest solution:

This is a popular trick used by professional storyboard and comic artists alike when they’re quickly planning compositions. It’s simple and it requires you to do some planning before you sit down to crank out that polished, final version of your work, but it will be the difference between a background and an environment.

From Blacksad (artist: Juanjo Guarnido)

From Hellboy (Mike Mignola)

Even if your draftsmanship isn’t that great (like mine), people can be more immersed in the story you tell if you just make it feel like there is a world that exists completely separate from the one in which they currently reside – not just making a backdrop the characters stand in front of.

Your creations live in a unique world, and it is as much a character as any other member of the cast. Make it as believable as they are.

shatterstag

Great comments and tutorials!

I’m a 3d artist and have been exploring the possibilities of using 3d as reference for 2d poses. I want to add a couple of tips and things!

Sketchup is very useful for environment references, and I assume it’s reasonably easy to learn. If you’re interested in going above and beyond, I highly recommend learning a proper 3d modeling program to help with art, especially because you can very easily populate a scene or location with characters!

Using 3ds Max I can pretty quickly construct an environment for reference. But going beyond that, I can also pose a pretty simple ‘CAT’ armature (known in 3d as a rig) straight into the scene, which can be totally customized, from various limbs, tails, wings, whatever, to proportions, and also can be modeled onto and expanded upon (for an example, you could 3d sculpt a head reference for your character and then attach it to the CAT rig, so you have a reference for complex face angles!)

The armature can also be posed incredibly easily. I know programs exist for stuff like this - Manga Studio, Design Doll - but posing characters in these programs is always an exercise in frustration and very fiddly imo. A simple 3d rig is impossibly easy to pose.

By creating an environment and dropping my character rig into it, I have an excellent point of reference when it comes to drawing the scene!

Not only that, but I can also view the scene from whatever angle I could ever want or need, including the character and their pose/position relative to the environment.

We can even quickly and easily expand this scene to include more characters!

Proper 3d modeling software is immensely powerful, and if you wanted to, you could model a complex environment that occurs regularly in your comic or illustration work (say, a castle interior, or an outdoor forest environment) and populate the scene with as many perspective-grounded characters as you need!

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reblogging to save a life

bludragongal

!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Look at this amazing addition! This is fantastic!

#art ref

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erintheyounger

MOVED!

My new art blog is here

erintheyounger

MOVED!

My new art blog is here

MOVED!

My new art blog is here

Can't wait for summer!

#illustration #character design #animation #sketch #art #pug

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Stevonnie!

Ice cream!

#steven universe #connie maheswaran #connverse #pearl #garnet #amethyst

Test for my animation final

#animation #pencil test

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#knd #g:knd #3/4 #walluki #numbuh 4 #numbuh 3 #kuki sanban #wally beetles

woo first animatic!

#animation #animatic

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LISTEN UP EVERYBODY!! Creator Tom Warburton and the rest of the crew of the original Codename: Kids Next Door series want to do a sequel, Galactic Kids Next Door, and the way they’re trying to make it happen is through what’s basically a viral interest check. THIS IS NOT AN APRIL FOOL’S JOKE - it’s a test to see if the concept is worth the investment! A new KND series is not currently planned, but it’s clear both the show’s team and Cartoon Network want to do it, they just need confirmation we want it to happen. So the more attention this video and campaign overall gets, the more likely it is we will actually see GKND become a reality!

Actually, this is pretty much a modern version of how KND became a series in the first place. It was the winner of CN’s second Big Pick Weekend all the way back in 2001. Now instead of telephones and a poll on CN’s website, we have social media!

I’ve been rewatching the original show since this was initially announced and honestly, I gotta say it’s even better than I remember. I loved it when it was on the air but I appreciate so much of the clever writing and stores more now, ironically, as an adult compared to when I was kid. It more than deserves this boss-looking sequel, so if you’re just as pumped about it as I am, SPREAD THIS LIKE BUTTER ON TOAST! Tell everyone you know about it! Let CN know we want this and let’s make it happen!

KIDS NEXT DOOR FANS, BATTLE STATIONS!