Not really an ask just a huge amount of love to your blog and art- I've fallen in love with it the moment I saw the first pieces of your art! <3
Your art style feels so... homey. Warm and chaotic and I abselutly loooove it. So so cool, really!!! Keep up the amazing work!!
Oh, also, do you have any tips on how to draw our favorite fish peoples faces? I'm looking to get into drawing them myself and so far I've been struggling with their nose and second pair of eye placement. How do you get so much expression in them?
hi, thank you so much for your kind words and your support on the blog!! <3
and actually that's a very interesting question, i'm not sure how to answer right? i guess one thing i sort of decided right off the bat was that i was mostly going to heavily stylize to have an easier time depicting emotion, rather than follow in-game model accuracy. i give hearthians more human noses and higher eye placements for the most part (above the nose ridge, instead of below for actual hearthian anatomy). i think the most vital recognizable traits other than their ears, elongated skull and four eyes are their fang-ish lips, their prominent nostrils and their spots: i feel like as long as you keep those the placement or appearance is a little up to you and how much you care about being accurate.
the eyes in particular i don't really have set rules for: i usually draw the lower pair bigger on young hatchlings because that's the first pair of eyes that opens for them and the sizes switch as they grow older, but sometimes i subvert that rule for everybody without thinking too hard about it. i guess as long as it remains eye-pleasing to me, it's good to go.
i'm not sure i'm very good at explaining so i recorded a quick hatchling head to kind of show how it usually goes! i tend to start with the face shape or head accessory, but depending on the angle it can be the nose or eyes. (also please don't mind my nails lmao)
