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[ID: A series of photographic self-portraits. I'm a skinny white bottle blonde trans boy. The first picture is a low angle portrait taken with a flash. Blonde hair falls over my face, eyes are red with the flash, expression soft under a fur coat. Next is a foot holding a cigarette over an ashtray. The red nail polish is messy, and the ashtray lays on a red satin fabric.

Then, two pictures taken from the same point are mirrored, making it a long horizontal image. The pictures separately show me on my bed; in the first one, that is colored, I contort into myself and look over the edge. In the second one, grayscale, I contort outwards, looking vaguely towards the lens. The background, busy walls and ceiling, is dark and deep. There are white borders where in mirror handwriting is written "12042023", "Paris", and "self portrait".

The forth and fifth are two editions of the same picture: posing half-sitting and undulating, one hand holds my chin uselessly, the other coming up like a claw towards my face. I am looking at you. Both are heavily contrasted, making the surroundings hard to understand. The first one, in colors, shows the mustard yellow of my sheets and the glowy pink of my boxers. Behind me, darkness, blue, black, a sharp halo covers my eyes, dots form a circle around my head. It is asked, "Who is like God?", and titled, Mikhaïl in Cyrillic, dated 12-13042023. The second one is mostly grayscale, except for a few yellow accents in the background. It says nothing and is titled Mikhaïl in Latin, similarly dated.

The last picture is a mix of two shots, both looking at the viewer, surrounded by red drapes over a black background, and painted over digitally. One Mikhaïl is arching its back laying in bed, a lazy hand holding a half-eaten red pepper bell over his head, hips hidden by a mirror that lets more drapes emerge. The other Mikhaïl is sitting curled around a mirror that reflects drapes replacing his ribcage. Over its head, a halo of flash-red cutout eyes. In the dark above, it asks "I wonder if my mum will like this one?". End ID.]

So, had a good body day, took pictures, decided selfies could be self-portraits, I do wonder if my mum will like these.

felinewasteland

That ol’ chart of mine makes the rounds online periodically and it drives me crazy because it’s frankly not very good. So, I finally got around to remaking it.

I doubt this will get anywhere near as popular, but I wanted to make it.

Good reference for animation, comics, and for visualizing phonetics!

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!

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!

punkrockclone

Not just poses, you can also do this with lighting. Playing with lights in Blender is pretty fun.

Another cool thing: http://www.makehumancommunity.org lets you generate a human model. Like a character creator in a game, but more flexible, and the result is ready to import into a 3d editor like Blender.

art-tnt

This was a lot shorter last time it appeared here. Reblogging for the updated tips and to save a life!

mcapriglioneart

how to draw arms ? ?

swagginsloths

holy fuck

shoutsofthunder

holy fuck is right… but… does it work with legs???

yes !!

but how much extend

^^^^^^^^^^

gabbyzvolt25

I NEARLY CHOKED

lifeofcynch

ENJFDFNFATFVFDF

deactivated-blog

finally. i can be accurate

shiny-charming

This is too fucking great to not reblog

wishem

I give it MASCLES

BIG MACHO

keithislactoseintolerant-deacti

🤣🤣

urhella-gaychloe

LMAOOOOOO

fernacular

Okay but for anyone who legit wants to know how to calculate it correctly:

The elbow joint on average rests a couple inches higher than the navel, so if you measure how long the distance is from the middle of the shoulder to that point then you have the length of the upper and fore arms!

fernacular

So if anyone’s wondering about legs too, the simplest rule of thumb is that the length from the top of the leg to the knee is equal to the distance between the top of the leg and the bottom of the pectorals:

And I wanna stress that when i say “top of the leg” i’m not talking about the crotch (please don’t flag me tumblr it’s an anatomical term) i’m talking about the point where the femur connects to the pelvis, which is higher up on the hips:

It’s easier to see what I’m talking about in this photo of a man squatting:

So yeah if you use that measurement when using this technique you should get fairly realistically proportioned legs:

But remember! messing with proportions is an important and fun part of character design! Know the rules first so you can then break them however you please!

im-a-hyperion-vault-hunter-deac

HOW THE HELL DID I FIND THIS POST OMG

erasaure

i-am-corbin-dallas

Licherally in the midst of drawing a guy and crying at how bad the arms are. Thanks Tumbles

drrockbell

I only ever saw the part where people started drawing the limbs outrageously long and genuinely wanted to know how to fix that, so I’m really thankful to see the rest.

quincunx

@purplexiasphinx heres but how much extend for ya

follybeetle

how much extend

fuckthisshitimin

Took a day off to rest and paint, gosh, it feels good. And I am damn happy with this one.

Néo Donn.

mabellonghetti

Eartha Kitt photographed by Paul Harris, 1982

dreams-in-blk

The Eternal Eartha Kitt

chestnutroan

How to draw?

here, take these links

The Complete Famous Artists Course

Collection of Art Books and Resources

fucktonofanatomyreferences

A glorious fuck-ton of perspective angle references (per request).

[From various sources.]

z-raid

Sources:

Perspectives Tutorial by DerSketchie

TUTO - male reference pose by the-evil-legacy

tuto - women ref poses by the-evil-legacy

Foreshortening Practice by Bambs79

How to Draw Manga vol. IV - Dressing You Characters in Casual Wear

HUMAN PROPORTION: SIMPLIFYING THE FIGURE USING GEOMETRIC FORM AND GESTURE by The Helpful Art Teacher

Basic comic interpretation - different camera angle by diaemyung

Foreshortening tips by scruffyronin

betaruga

There’s zero way I’m not reblogging this

punished-venom-solitair-e

godsend

aliensundermybed

kissy refs you guys can use~

taffybuns

a softer sequel to this

(please dont repost without credit)

mcnuggyy

i felt like there wasn’t enough polyam trio art memes so i decided to make my own <3 self indulgence be damned

❤️💛💙

( feel free to share and tag me in any of the cute art you make i would love to see!!! 🥺💕)

chandelyer-deactivated20241003

Frieda Lepold’s “Stays dress”, “Mushroom dress” and “Witch dress”

ecstaticactus

Winona Ryder in 90s' 🪄

Messy self-portrait using my phone camera as a mirror while waiting for administrative stuff.

#self portrait #sketch #ink drawing #my art #sketchbook

memeclassheroes

ninjapancake314

schrodingers-blursed-kitty

@mama-germany

jedi-valjean

Move in together. Problem solved

broadwaytheanimatedseries

That witch hasn’t said a single word but im calling it now - Himbo.

Also yes move in together, platonically or romantically doesn’t matter, I’d watch the hell out of that wlw mlm solidarity fantasy sitcom anyway.

susiephone

A fair maiden knocks on the goth lady’s door and says she’s here to find love.

The goth sighs, points across the road and says, “Witch is over there. He doesn’t do love potions because consent but he might be able to make you prettier, although 90% of the time it turns out the spell didn’t do anything but make you more confident.”

The maiden blushes and sheepishly explains that she knows he’s the witch, she just talked to him and he sent her over here.

Goth looks over her shoulder to see the himbo witch standing outside his house giving her a grin and a double thumbs up.