M. D. Quill

Art Crafts college student. I enjoy drawing cartoony characters and comics, but I dabble in all areas in the arts. This is my personal blog, so be prepared to see many sketches or personal posts. Some may be very opinionated. You have been...

[m-d-quill]

Human practice. Here is two sketches, the Discord alone one was a 30 minute one.

[m-d-quill]

As many friends know, I hate Bonbon. But she is the perfect test for me to try out my old tablet on my PC cause my other one just isn't cutting it nowadays. Hope you enjoy this sassy worst character.

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[m-d-quill]

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Art Stream testing out old tablet. Gonna do a sketch or two for a couple hours.

[teathattast]

🌍🌎🌏

[stushiroll-deactivated20200406]

This is the Earths theme tune🙌🏻

[amynchan]

It’s so strangely satisfying?

[m-d-quill]

I’m coming back here!

And to make sure I enjoy Tumblr again I’m unfollowing all those who reblog racist, sexist, politics, etc stuff. So I’m gonna probably follow maybe 10 people after this purge. The goal is to make this site mostly for art for me. I get enough of the other stuff from facebook and friends that I don’t need to see it here. heh

[m-d-quill]

In regards to the female-only salon. As far as I know, in Islam, it is taboo for a man to see a woman's hair if they are not married to said woman or family (like a son, father, small child etc.) which is why the hijab is worn. Having a woman only salon makes it so those women don't have to worry. I hope this helps explain it :)

I can see the point of that reasoning. But they should advertise it as a religious thing instead of a “woman's safe space”. By the marketing they are doing they are giving the wrong message and alienating a gender demographic. By doing advertisement through the religious lens would instead give them a more positive light as it fits into the freedom of religion. Mind, that basic right has been fucked up so badly within the past few decades that we can scarce use it anymore due to far party political agendas, but such a thing is a fundamental right. Same way I say if a christian private business wishes to not serve those against their beliefs it is their right.

[askstalkerloo]

We’re not asking for donations - this is a commission drive between my wife @asklaurastuff​ and I. Donations are welcome, but that’s not the primary focus.

We ran the numbers for a hotel and transportation locally, and it ran around $1400 after taxes, with about $100 leftover for food and incidentals. We’ve got four months to make this, as the con isn’t until June, but that doesn’t mean we won’t start immediately.

If you’re interested in a commission, hit us up here, on Deviantart, or even in streams. 

If you’d like one from my wife, her DA is http://noodlefreak88.deviantart.com/journal/Commissions-570317698 for commission prices and examples.

If you’d like one from me, it’s pretty much on a sliding PWYW scale with base tiers - $20 for a sketch, $40 for inks, $75 for full color work, with an additional fee for extra characters, more details being added to the piece the higher the amount. Busts or other such works are negotiable.

For examples of my work, including NSFW material, check out http://www.furaffinity.net/gallery/whisperz/ or http://aphexangel.deviantart.com

If you’d like to read the previous issue of Alembic Grimoire, one of the comics I’m planning on selling at the con, it can be found at http://aphexangel.deviantart.com/gallery/27943914/Alembic-Grimoire

You can also support us through Patreon at https://www.patreon.com/user?u=122094 or through paypal at paypal.me/aphexangel

[thetrippytrip]

The man-free sanctuary will offer up a range of typical beauty services such as hair, waxing, facials and manicures and pedicures, while providing unique services like henna and halal nails and eyebrow shaping.

“We want women to be able to come in and feel completely relaxed,” ~ Quhshi said.

Quhshi also noted that while Le’Jemalik was created with Muslims in mind, “women of all faiths, races, and ethnicities” are welcome.

[choochofcolor]

This store is in Brooklyn, please support if you can; this is such a huge need for us muslim women.

[m-d-quill]

Love how cutting out men is considered a good move, yet when Barber Barber in Liverpool didn’t let women sit in the waiting room while men got their haircuts the same people who call them sexist.

They even went so far as attack the services of Barber Barber due to the so-called sexist service. Please explain why these women are heros while Barber Barber are evil?

[bonkalore]

Trying to draw buildings

[archive7481465]

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!

[moorecolinart-deactivated201810]

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.

[vanjestic-deactivated20160131]

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!

[askoursquad]

reblogging to save a life

[bludragongal]

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

Look at this amazing addition! This is fantastic!

[lisadorina]

I tried Sketchup before but did struggle a lot with it X_X Maybe I should give it another try sometime ….

[dechanique]

ART TIPS ☝☝☝☝

[m-d-quill]

A test I did to learn the basics of stop motion animation. I hope the actual model I'm making will be easier to handle than this bloody manikin. heh

(via https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y_xjaN1rrEw)

[m-d-quill]

Quick 30 min sketch tonight. Trying to get back into just doing stuff.

[m-d-quill]

I haven’t seen Foamy in years, but this video popped up to my feed. I might have to rewatch his newer stuff cause he hit the nail on the head here.

[weirdmageddon]

Visit Original Link

[meaconscientia]

Now that’s a shitpost.

[tyrinecarver]

Our Lives in Exchange for a New Hope by TyrineCarver

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[areablog]

Oooh! T.T

[putuksstuff]

I sometimes wonder if I was “relatable™”, more people would speak to me.

I think it’s because I don’t have many interests, so I don’t really know many things to talk about. I also get annoyed by a lot of things, so maybe people really don’t wanna put up with someone who dislikes a lot of things.

Nor am I good at striking up conversation in the first place, honestly, tossing out my opinions and such would probably mostly just put people off.

Man I wonder what it’d be like to be a well-balanced person.

[aphexangel]

Agreeeeeeeeed.

That and the bad habit of not hanging out with people at cons when invited because I’m paranoid about sales and am perpetually working.

[m-d-quill]

One of the worst is when you get tunnel vision for conversations. You get really into something and that is all you think/talk about. And it just doesn’t seem to register when people talk about other subjects... very frustrating especially when you are focused on something very unorthodox or obscure so nobody even knows what you are talking about.

[m-d-quill]

Was requested to draw Nep from Megadimension Neptunia by NeppyNep. So here she is.

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[m-d-quill]

Here is Ivette, the Scorpion Girl... I'm rather enjoying drawing Monster Girls. 

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