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@glanderyuk
Been playing tons of subnautica 2. So mermay is extended until I say it's not
being a self-taught artist with no formal training is having done art seriously since you were a young teenager and only finding out that youāre supposed to do warm up sketches every time youāre about to work on serious art when youāre fuckin twenty-five
someone: oh yeah, do this exercise during your warm ups! itāll help
me: my what
Whatās up I have an actual college degree in art and I was never ONCE taught to do warm ups.
when i was in undergrad, it was kind of mentioned in and offhand way that we should do warmups, but we were never shown what that meant. And, yāknow, we were young so it didnāt matter so much.Ā
Being older now and having an art job itāsā¦kind of essential.Ā
So: a quick primer for those of you who are likeĀ āok but how do i actually go about doing this warmup thing.āĀ
1) you may be tempted to doĀ āa warmup drawingā which is just a drawing that will take longer than it needed to and probably be frustrating and kind of bad because you didnāt warm up first. Itās tempting but always a trick your brain is playing on you! Do not trust!Ā
2) warmups will vary based on what feels good to you/what task youāre about to do/what motor skills you want to practice. That being said, some good standbys:
a) circles. Just a whole page of circles on whatever drawing surface youāre going to be using, whether thatās your tablet or your sketchbook or a drawing pad on an easel. For these circles you should make sure that youāre drawing from your shoulder and not your wrist. In fact, you want to be drawing from your shoulder rather than your wrist most of the time! forever! your wrist is delicate please preserve it!Ā
In order to ensure that youāre drawing from your shoulder, when youāre holding your pencil or whatever drawing tool youāre using, the only part of your hand that should be touching the drawing surface is part of the last two fingersāsome people prefer the finger tips, but I tend to favor the first knuckles. Either way, the fingers should really be ghosting over the surface, providing guidance rather than support.Ā
I usually start with big circles and then go to smaller circles and lines of ellipses, and then try to fit circles and ellipses inside other shapes iāve already drawn as a precision exercise, but i donāt do that unless iām feeling loose
b) spirals! i donāt always do spirals, but if iām stiff and the circles just arenāt cutting it, spirals are a good fall back. I start from the center and work outward, going both clockwise and counterclockwise until i feel comfortable with the whole range of motion. Some people really care about getting perfect spirals but for me itās all about making sure iām comfortable with how iām moving so who really even cares about how the spirals look. Not me!Ā
c) lines! straight lines! in parallel! i do a mix of vertical, horizontal, and diagonal. These are often more from the elbow than the shoulder, especially if Iām working on a smaller surface. For this exercise, I recommend holding the drawing tool perpendicular with the surface
d) connect the dots. This is a precision and accuracy exercise and takes two forms. The first is to draw two dots and then draw a straight line between them. The second is to draw three dots and draw the curve that connects them. This sounds a lot simpler than it is in practice. Take time to ghost over the line you plan to draw before actually committing to your line. (I donāt always remember where I picked up my warm up exercises, but Iām pretty sure I got this one from Scott Robertson. His how to draw and how to render books are very technical but also accessible and worth checking out)
e) cubes, spheres, cones, and cylinders. These help get your brain into a more volumetric space. I draw multiples of each, rotating the forms around, and Iāll often take the time to do some rough shading on at least a few of them
f) spidermans! This one is really good if youāre going to be storyboarding or working on dynamic poses. Just fill a page full of spidermans doing all sorts of acrobatics.Ā
g) beans. I donāt do beans too much anymore, but I know a lot of people like it so Iām mentioning it here. Fill an area with different size bean shapes without lifting your pencil off the paper.Ā
h) short medium and long line repetition. draw a short, medium, and long line on your page, and then draw directly on top of them 8 to 12 times, doing your best to exactly trace what youāve already drawing. Repeat with a wavy line. Iām bad at this one, which means I probably need to do it more.Ā
And there are lots more options too! Hit up youtube to see what other people recommend, put together your own go-to list, mix it up when youāre getting bored, etc.Ā
This is a long list, I know, but I usually donāt take more than 10 to 15 minutes to warm up, and I can warm up one handed while Iām drinking coffee, so, multitasking hurrah.Ā
Sometimes Iāll advance to a precision warmup and find that I havenāt loosened up enough yet; itās totally ok to go back to an earlier exercise! Also, all of this has the added benefit of kind of ritualistically getting you into the drawing mode so even if Iām not feeling it before I start, by the time Iāve gotten to the end Iām usually Ready For Drawinā. Brain hacks.Ā
so, yeah! thatās a lot of words, but! Warmups are important! Save your joints, take less advil, do better drawings!Ā
How on earth are you supposed to draw from a sholder? might as well tell me to draw from the foot. It makes no sense
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Reblogging to save a wrist
Hi I have a literal animation degree and I learned fucking āØnone⨠of this
enjoy whatever this is, just wanted to draw these two being cute
characters are cricket and soleil by @venomous-qwille
My oc Snufflez
They love each other š«¶ :) I wanted to draw yn all happy with Prologue/Epilogue so here it is SMILES
The Starman, Misuta Moon from Ghost in the Machine by @venomous-qwille
Gay people and trans people and all of the people! Whoever, however you identify, queer, straight, all of the above, or none of the above (Iām talking to you aces aros and agenders), I think itās very cool that weāre all here in the dca fandom. To collectively be absolutely obsessed for nearly 5 years for two weird looking robots from a video game that maybe had like 20 minutes of screen time is such an accomplishment.
It makes me so happy to see so many ace posts. I donāt know many ace peeps irl itās so cool to know that thereās actually so many out there and itās even more cool that thereās a lot in the dca fandom
just mooniee
"Are you taking pictures of us, Little darling starlight?" They ask you, curious. Just wanted to draw the guys... cuz i love them so much... RHAGRHGAHRGA
Be nice to your fellow tumblr who reblogs all the awesome stuff
Or creates awesome art
Or writes that fic you love
Even if youāre shy
Because I guarantee theyāll love the something nice you have to say. You donāt have to try to be their friend, they donāt have to respond. But it goes appreciated.
For every one person who puts themself out there and chooses to be brave and make a little tag or send an ask or a comment with actually nice things, five other people will wake up and choose to be an asshole (on probably their own and their five+ alt accounts)
Some of them will dedicate a ridiculous amount of time and effort just to be an asshole. Some of them will sandwich their assholery with compliments so people feel uncomfortable but donāt feel they can say anything about it. Stuff like āI really love your stuff but why canāt you draw what I want you to draw instead of x?ā Or use your posts as a vehicle to start arguments and spread negativity.
So itās down to the rest of us to drown it out.
There is no need to be an asshole. Be nice to someone today āØ
Iām gonna go spread some love because loads of people deserve to hear some and I donāt have enough hours in the day
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Two Friends of mine spiked my small fnaf addiction...
curse you @hallowskeliiton and @glanderyuk
Ive gotten very bad writer's callus from this pic but damn... it was worth it!!!
#fuckthenightguard
This is just a doodle of my charicter having the day of his life
Shout out to the Sun stuck in my folder
Pre- reunion āA Humanās Touchā
Inspired from what we learned in Chapter 2 āWater Wakeā
So this is my idea for an Interlude ~
I like to think that after what happened to Prologue, someone in parts and services saved a copy of his code to try and investigate what caused him to do all that. So now there is like, a Ghost Verizon of him in the AR space that still has some ghosts attached.
Idk, Iām having fun. I think he should be able to pop up occasionally like a persistent pop up add/virus.
OH DUDE THIS IS SICK AS HELL??? MYYY GODDD HELLOOO This idea is so so swag GODDD THIS IS SO COOL Oh this would man Prologue seeing this in the mirrors due to his optics being fucked so he can like see this AR version and he freaks the hell out cuz thats not him thats not even Epilogue Oh he would get sooo fucked up about this
What do you mean āchatā is now referring to ChatGPT and not twitch chat? What? What? What the fuck? No?
When I address chat I am speaking to a presumed Greek chorus of real human people shitposting on their lunch break, not a machine that devours lakes to covert electricity into slop.