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nagararts

Here's some notes on some of the upper body muscles so you, artist, don't need to look them up

They are not medically accurate, just enough for artists to know the necessary muscles and how they work together

I 100% recommend doing the last exercise I did to be able to actually place the muscles

ex0skeletal-undead

Knight Collection by Anato Finnstark

manny-jacinto

Gaby Moreno ft. Oscar Isaac: Luna de Xelajú | The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon

prominent-nipple

Hercules –– Roman copy c. 1st century AD of Polykleitos 5th century BCE.

die-rosastrasse

Various stars & moon details from my gouache paintings 🌙✨

kayvsworld

tony is here and his suit is SO cool,

ereyies

hi guys it’s me elaine.

pharoga. that’s it. that’s the whole post.

+ without effects and without red rope (totally not the punjab lasso hahaha *glances around nervously*)

icesalamander

How do you select your colours? Sorry if you’ve been asked this before, I just love your palettes!!!

Thank you! Disclaimer: there are lots of great materials to study colour theory, and I’m no way an expert or particularly well informed in this field. But my basic colour picking method goes like this:

I still have a lot to improve on the way I use contrast but basically as long as in black and white mode you can still easily see what’s going on, you are more or less good.

Other random advice:

I try to limit the amount of main hues in my pictures

also try to limit the amount of highly saturated colours

make sure that the darkest colours still have some contrast with the black lineart

Alternatively if I don’t use lineart I prefer to have a higher contrast than usual

I also rarely use plain black or grey in my drawings (not including lineart). I prefer slightly colour-tinted greys, it’s something I picked up from painting traditionaly

I also like to check the colours both on my phone & computer screen before I post them, sometimes it can be helpful to notice mistakes.

Of course it all depends on your own ideas and taste, you can do the exact opposite of this and still have amazing colours. This is just how I like to do it. When I draw traditionally I completely go with my instincts, which is also a valid method ¯\_(ツ)_/¯