the ocean is calling her children home @notdoll - Tumblr Blog

okay so

probably gonna be taking a break from tumblr? gonna be trying out twitter and instagram in the meanwhile. if you’re interested in following me on either, or are a mutual who would be interested in being mutuals on either, message me for my usernames

#bobbintalks #bobbin migrates??

spooky fart noises

#morzanna #orpheus

hey

been hibernating

wroking on something new

#the search for style #susannah #a girl and her traffic light wher #dragonriders of pern #the peacekeepers age #day 1

WHAT BIG EYES YOU HAVE

#gracelyn #i think she is a pathfinder OC #birthday pressie for ish #laaaate uploade

#solomon #the peacekeepers age

a niahm for ish

#niahm #the peacekeepers age

bettyyyyy ♥

#sketchypandagames #aberford #zombies vs housewives #1950s housewife #betty #dhdhhthe blood is so lazy #ok time to get back to jobhunting

ahahah shit i love the idea of aberford i had to do some fanart

hope you know how to wash blood out of those gloves, peggy

#sketchypandagames #aberford #zombies vs housewives #zombies #1950s housewife #blood #i should try more fanart for this this was fun

yndrig

made a new blog for stuff specific to a story idea i have- there’ll be some posting overlap with my main blog and the art will be reblogged from my art blog this just makes it easier for me to check back on my own references for this particular thing so yea new blog

notdoll

also reblogging here for anyone who doesn't follow my main blog (liminalrites will be much slower than my usual posting frenzy haha)

#liminal rites #bobbintalks

a mysterious pair in a garden in the 1950s...

hey put that smartphone away

#liminal rites #kinsey #other gal who needs a name oops #will edit her name in another night

trying stuff

#liminal rites #this story's protag can be a redhaired asian gal if i want her to be #kinsey_LR

uh well

ok first up apologies for pictureresponse cos this is actually a secondary account so i can’t reply to asks on it

now this is gonna be long because i am REALLY BAD AT EXPLAINS

i really have no idea how i draw dragons and this ask heralded a lot of ‘???what do i say’ at my friends

i’m a bad person to learn art from because 90% of my process is internal visualisation and it’s not very helpful to go ‘just build the dragon in your head then draw it’

dragons are not real and so you’re right there are a lot of different kinds and types and there’s no obvious references to work off but other people’s arts but this also means you can never draw a dragon wrong so you’re not failing, you’re just wanting to improve technical skills while drawing one of the hardest things ever THE FANTASY CRITTER

beyond that: just pick one to start with. i started out drawing dragons because my friends got me into a Dragonriders of Pern RP and i love drawing my characters and suddenly ‘my characters’ included dragons (and whers, which are the blocky and stumpy ‘dragons’ i draw, if you’re not a Pern fan) so i decided i was going to learn how to draw one of them

but what i did was looked through the site art which gave me a lot of ballpark ideas as to how people interpreted the dragons described in the books, and had a friend link me to sempermemor’s art because they draw some amazing dragons with A+ anatomy and then started googling different horse and dog bodyparts because EVERYTHING LOOKS BEST WHEN YOU USE A REFERENCE, REFERENCES ARE IMPORTANT and while we can’t google dragon and get references for limbs and joints that will work in real life we can make our dragons out of composites of horses, dogs, bats and lizards (chest, legs, wings, and necks and tails, respectively, and then composite together horse and dog heads)

for whers? people have told me that they use bulldogs and pitbulls for reference, because they’re shorter and stockier dogs and they have a different sort of movement (WATCH VIDEOS OF ANIMALS MOVING, to be able to understand what a realistic pose or placement of gravity will look like you need to know how things really look when they’re moving or standing)

if you wanna drag different sorts of dragons, google until you have a lot of reference art and then scrapbookpatchwork together the important animals- and accept that you’re drawing a fantasy creature and so it’s okay if you don’t draw a perfect dog leg or horse torso because in reality dragons don’t exist and are impossible so just have fun while you’re working within a fantasy medium

oh and draw a lot of stuff and throw it out, i never get anywhere without destroying a sketchbook with scribbles IT’S THE BEST WAY TO IMPROVE

#oh god im sorry i shouldn't be trying to teach anyone how to draw #this is why this blog is 99% just pictures im so awkward to talk to #dragons #how to draw dragons #lunar4dayz