PIRNMELON

art blog | ru

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Привет!

Меня зовут Марета, я художница-самоучка.

В этом блоге я буду делиться своими учебными работами и фанартами (возможна мультифандомная солянка).

тгк: https://t.me/pirnmelon

ENG version:

Hello! My name is Maret, I'm self-tought artist.

In this blog I will share my art studies and fanarts. (multifandom warning!)

P.S. I use Google Translate and the main language of my blog is Russian🤧

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На радостях* от новости что по Касперу выйдет новый сериал снова наскетчила свою хумку Стретча💫 никаких ожиданий от сериала нет, но посмотреть что получится интересно

[fallout-lou-begas]

do you have any advice on character design?

watch The Sopranos

[fallout-lou-begas]

i actually wanted to elaborate on this and say that i think it’s a really bad habit of a lot of artists, influenced by current media casting practices, to unconsciously or consciously make every single character they create super pretty, like everyone is just hot in that very boring, homogenous way, and this also comes as a result of people using actors and celebrities as character references or faceclaims and AI facial generation programs like Artbreeder being trained on people who are generally very pretty-looking. it results in alienating, uncanny worlds and drawings completely devoid of people who just look like regular people. it results worlds populated by mannequins fresh off the CW. I feel like whether a character is attractive or not should actually matter, be part of their character, because that kind of thing absolutely affects the way you move through the world and the way the world treats you.

so i wanted to throw in some suggestions that, whenever I’m trying to find a character reference or otherwise draw very interesting-looking yet regular-looking people, which i usually have to do for bit characters in @ikroah​ or something, I tend to look for references in the following places. these are far from the only reliable way to get inspiration, this is just a non-exhaustive list of places i’ve looked before for visual inspiration when needing to create a character, whether starring characters or background ones:

pre-2000s television (The Sopranos and Twin Peaks especially having incredible character design)

extras in comedy sketch shows

esports players

real photos (not staged stock photos) of line cooks

70s baseball players

athletes from more obscure olympic sports like the javelin toss or greco-roman wrestling, especially if you’re looking for a specific body type

ska, jazz, and blues musicians

firefighters

improv troupes

for teenagers, searching “high school english class project” on youtube and sorting by Upload Date

state senators, small-town mayors, and generally obscure local government positions like comptroller or treasurer (yes i know politicians can be bad sometimes but smaller elections especially don’t really depend on looks)

people who walk by your window (if you live in a city like I do)

and again these are just, in my opinion, deep and easy wells to dive in if you want to get a good idea of what regular people look like. these suggestions aren’t the limits on where you can possibly find inspiration for character design

[roganaut]

Fellini’s movies have remarkably interesting and unique looking actors

[fallout-lou-begas]

Yes!!! There’s an entire book called Fellini’s Faces that’s nothing but portraits of his actors that’s phenomenal for this kind of thing, though it’s fairly rare to get a hold of today.

[sartorialadventure]

(Since I know a lot of writers/artists follow me for costume/character design ideas!)

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[kilgarraara]

sketching!

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Старое

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+magma doodles

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More human! Caine design sketches

Portraits

[dotpip]

They could never make me hate you caine

[publeshika]

Without going far from Glitch:

I have to admit - I'm Kane's simp. Perhaps this is due to his resemblance to another omnipotent and slightly creepy creature that can control reality and mind and who has problems understanding humans...

Or maybe he's just a super charismatic fool in a suit, and I like it

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TADC Caine human design sketches🎪

+doodles

[ghostdog-s]

ok I'm just going to start posting my backlog of Casper stuff now because I'm really obsessed at the moment! The fandom seems more active over here so I have migrated from the gram. Hello if anyone sees this :p

[ghostdog-s]

I like the idea of the ghostly trio being alive in the 1920's, I think Stretch would find a way to profit of prohibition like craaazy, maybe Fatso runs a speakeasy and they work together to pull in cash. J.T's inventions could've been sold off for money laundering (HEAR ME OUT I'M PLAYING IN THE SPACE HERE) And then like. I don't know what Stinkie is doing but he's here too somewhere lol

Since the McFaddens have a huge estate in a harbor town, it could be likely they made their money via ship building. And you know who made TONS of money with ships during the prohibition? RUM RUNNERS! And Friendship is in a prime position between rum row and Nova Scotia, pretty convenient if you're smuggling booze.

Viva la crime family lol

[otter-kitsch]

commission

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Is you version of Stretch the eldest?

Yes🚬

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Translation:

— WHY AM I MAD? BECAUSE THAT LITTLE PIECE OF -...