Busy being Dead!

Heya Ladys and Gentlenerds (and everyone between). I'm Mikaley/Leygo, just Ley would be great. 

[foureyed-lizard]

Gift for Motok and Chaluny since they are so good to me. I really appreciate it :>

[foureyed-lizard]

100 Days of Productivity - HUMANS

21-DAY

I have no idea what to do with hands... like where do you keep them. If there is nothing to do for them I store them savely in pokets holding whatever is in there. 

Next thing I realised was that I have extremly short toes... just like my extremly short fingers. Feet should work like hands...SHOULD.

[foureyed-lizard]

100 Days of Productivity - HUMANS

Let’s just ignore my inability to upload stuff in time.

13-DAY

Gay affection. Actually I managed to do something with the sketch. It became a little something for a friend. (WARNING: You are going to see “naked” anthros, if you are fine with that click “HERE”)

14-DAY

Reference was a filmed conversation. Just wanted to try faces and added a lot of fluffy hair, cause I can. My hair is far from realistic but I’m not unhappy with it. Don’t mind if it stays like this for a while.

15-DAY

Nooooses. I know that these are already “stylizied”. I really like to put a little hook as nose wing. Not sure if what I mean is understandable. Whatever.

Front noses are pretty hard.

16-DAY

Same fun with mouths. Not brave enough to try open mouths from “difficult” views. Also same here. Most already stylizied. However, references were real mouths. So glad YouTube excist. :>

17-DAY

To be honest, recently I never really felt like having a problem with my eyes. Oh well not eyes themselve... themself ... Idk. What makes me cringe is placing them right on the head.

18-DAY

Trail is my very first human-like OC so he needs some love. Tried to make a young vs. old thingy, buuuuut it looks more like a “heroin before and after” or maybe a week in no-shave-vember.

19-DAY

Interacting characters once again. This still gives me so much trouble, but it’s easier to thing of a situation/pose. Reference were used.

20-DAY

Urrrgh... dynamic. Arrg. I went to see a few guides on how to create dynamic. Let’s just say it is a first attempt.

I should be up to date again now. Just need to push myself to actually upload stuff. Shame on me, but since it’s only for me I ain’t feeling that bad. 

Have a nice weekend everyone.

[foureyed-lizard]

100 Days of Productivity - HUMANS

12-DAY

Tried painting because I simply don’t do this anymore. I like the shape of the body and the “movement”, however the painting part and the face are considered a fail. 

Jup

[foureyed-lizard]

100 Days of Productivity - HUMANS

11-DAY

Irrrrg... I really hate those. Worst study to this point in my opinion.

[foureyed-lizard]

100 Days of Productivity - HUMANS

10-DAY

Faces and their muscles are weird little fuckers. I kinda doubt I understood what I just drew.

[foureyed-lizard]

100 Days of Productivity - HUMANS

9-DAY

Toooooorso. Wanna touch wobbly asses now :>

[foureyed-lizard]

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8-DAY

Female body. A friend told me that female bodies have some very small and minor details that define them as female.

[foureyed-lizard]

100 Days of Productivity - HUMANS

7-DAY

Trying to combine hands and arms. Fingers f*ck you!

[foureyed-lizard]

100 Days of Productivity - HUMANS

6-DAY

I know hands will be a giant challenge, just as feet and face... and arms... forget about it. Everything is challenging.

Was out with someone and didn’t manage to upload this sheet. So two pages today.

[foureyed-lizard]

100 Days of Productivity - HUMANS

5-DAY

Late today.. I’m just so tired. Still working on torso. I think I found my passion for backs.. like...shoulders are damn sexy. 

[foureyed-lizard]

100 Days of Productivity - HUMANS

4-DAY

Don’t even know what to write. Time today was so limited I just grabbed a reference and put it down... and now I know I don’t understand butts!

[foureyed-lizard]

100 Days of Productivity - HUMANS

3-DAY

I wish it would be Tuesday.. then I could call this Torso-Tuesday.

3D models of a human body without skin came in handy for those studies. Never thought the back was just one big muscle. God must be like:

“Yo put 3257 muscles on the front!”

“What’s with the back?”

“The back? I don’t know... just put on a few, I don’t care!”

[foureyed-lizard]

100 Days of Productivity - HUMANS

2-DAY

A lot to do today, but I managed to open up http://artists.pixelovely.com/practice-tools/figure-drawing/, which is an awesome side. Tried different durations. From 30 seconds to several minutes.

Shit ain't easy Q_Q 

[foureyed-lizard]

100 Days of Productivity - HUMANS

Alright, so today I felt the urgent wish to improve (after weeks not even touching a f*cking pen).

Now here I am, starting my own “challenge” (that word somehow got a bad taste). For the Next 100 Days I will force myself to draw at least one DIN A4 page of humans. Whatever I want to work on that day. I will upload scanned or simply photographed stuff here on my Tumblr (only here!). More for myself than for others. I will upload that stuff even if I don’t like it and there is obviously something wrong with it. I’m not going to correct me, I’m trying to improve by redrawing. So again and again and again, until it looks right.

My goal is NOT to archive perfect, realistic anatomy skills! However, the result should be pleasing to the eye. People who draw humans in a way I really dig are (no particular order):

oxboxer - http://oxboxer.deviantart.com/gallery/

rejuch - http://rejuch.deviantart.com/gallery/

corviday - http://corviday.deviantart.com/gallery/

GreekCeltic - http://greekceltic.deviantart.com/gallery/

Nesskain - http://nesskain.deviantart.com/gallery/

CoryKatze - http://corykatze.deviantart.com/gallery/

Hallpen - http://hallpen.deviantart.com/gallery/

Hope this gives an idea of what I will try to reach. A dynamic and unique way to draw humans. If I manage to do keep on drawing for the next 100 days this will end on the 15th February 2017 (more than 3 months). Wish me willpower (cause luck won’t help me).

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1-DAY

So that’s what I’m starting with. It’s not like I know nothing and I can definitely see my weakest spots, or at least what I think are weak spots. Really hope eager what the last sketchpage will look like.

[birdstoconsider]

Let’s talk about Nightjars

they are these wonderful tiny predatory birds

With great camouflage for multiple environments

And lovely plumage dependent on their species

BUT BEST OF ALL IS THEIR MOUTHS, which look small then their beaks are closed (they’ve even got cute lil’ whiskers!)

BUT ARE ACTUALLY HUUUUGE

BEST BIRD

[ironfoxe]

i am here for this bird

[gifsboom]

[tastefullyoffensive]

Video: Jumpy Writes His Own Name

[deadcaptainentertainment]

Man, I always worry about these kinds of things going around because of how much abuse it often takes to get animals to produce these “amazing miracle tricks”, like the walking poodle that was beaten and thrown into walls in order to learn that trick, or the elephants who are trained to paint the same things over and over again through manipulation.

This dog’s body language seems tense and unhappy. Through most of the video, it holds its ears tight to its head and its tail is tucked between its legs aside from a couple of nervous wags.

[newenglandpups]

You know what I just saw the gifset quickly and thought it was cool, so I reblogged it. I didn’t watch the video, I didn’t even give more than a passing glance at the gifs, but you’re totally right. This dog does NOT look happy about what’s going on. Its tail is tightly tucked down (look at the base of the dog’s tail, even when it wags it’s just moving the end of its tail, and just barely) and it looks like it’s shying away from the handler’s wand thing at a couple spots. I try really hard to only reblog pictures and such where the dogs look happy, if not at least just relaxed. So this was my bad because @heyassholehavemercy is right, this dog looks very tense.

[why-animals-do-the-thing]

I am actually not too worried about this, but it took watching the video to get there - I couldn’t tell from the gifset because of where the cuts were. Here’s the kicker: yes, the dog is tense, but not in a way that looks unhappy. I think what we’re seeing here is concentration and the muscle tension required to hold the paintbrush and move it in those very specific linear motions. 

When you watch the video, the dog’s body language is pretty loose and happy until he’s given the paintbrush (with the one exception of when the pointer goes over his head). As soon as he grips it, his ears go back. Play with that on yourself - imagine holding a stick in your mouth straight out (because it has to be level so he can get it on the paper accurately), clench your jaw to hold it there, and feel what the muscles in your head do. 

Next, look at how he moves to the paper to draw on. His tail is wagging - low, bug wagging - until he person points to where the paintbrush should go. The higher the point the paintbrush needs to go, the more his tail tucks as he lifts his head up. Clench your jaw and pull your head as far back as it will go and feel the muscles down your spine engage. Now imagine that on an animal who doesn’t have as much natural range of motion in his neck that direction as a primate. His motions for the paintbrush are slow and a little stiff - they’re not natural isolations for the dog, and you can see his body responding as he tries to follow the pointer. 

Every time he goes to put the paintbrush back in the paint, you see his tail lift some and start wagging and his ears perk up. That’s my main clue here that he’s not miserable, because if he was we’d see more static body language. Painting and following a point like this is also a trick that’s incredibly hard to train with punishment, because it’s a fairly abstract concept that has to be built up with careful shaping. It’s fairly impossible to punish a dog into following a very specific pointer this neatly. So yeah, he’s tense, but I think that’s a symptom of the muscle engagement required for this and how hard he’s working. (Something that could help wth that, probably, is a paintbrush with a bigger thing for him to bite on at the end like they use with whales. I bet if he had something easier to grip on and keep steady you’d see his body language loosen up). 

[the-awkward-turt]

This doggie also looks like he has got some herding-breed genes (maybe border collie) which are well known for their tense, highly focused body language when on the job.

Scientifically speaking reinforcement is a much more powerful training tool than punishment and I don’t think you could get a behavior this complicated through punishment. Some of the brainier dog breeds really enjoy the mental exercise of learning tricks like this.