I Do That

Art by ruffboijuliaburnsides bc I want to keep my art in one place

[ruffboiart]

So last night and this evening I took my messy derivative furry boy and tweaked him and cleaned him up, so here is Taliesin with more effort and thought!

He ended up kind of a... hyenadog? Obvs his face and mane are meant to be more hyena-y, but his chest and neck coloring is meant to be reminiscent of the urajiro markings that shiba inu have, on Birdie’s suggestion.

How does he have freckles? Who knows, he’s an anthro hyenadog with a binder and piercings, doesn’t matter. He just has them.

[the-tree-line]

for 2022 i think more people should make fursonas. like even if ur not a furry. do u know what the coolest shit in the world is? just being like “what if i were a weird fish character” or something and then designing them. do u know what the most unironically fun question to get asked is? “do you wanna see my sona” like YES bitch i do

[the-tree-line]

this post only has 1k notes but very rarely have i seen more inspired notes tbh. there are SO many tags that are just like “i should make one actually” “ooo i can experiment with pronouns and gender” “i could be a pangolin :)” “i should draw one finally” “i can have tits” “legit it’s so fun do it” “im gonna be a cool bug”

like bro that’s literally the spirit. go wild and explore yourself tbh. if 2022 isn’t the year of the furries it’ll be the year of some new global catastrophe instead so get on it you shits

[ruffboiart]

Fuck it, my best attempt! It is not the worst, but also I freehanded while HEAVILY referencing this cute art by TheRoguez on FurAffinity so I doubt I’d be able to replicate it yet.

His name is Taliesin, he’s a coyote-ish person, and I love him. BEHOLD MY FURSONA.

[drawingden]

Drawing Clothes Tips by joua.k

[ruffboi-mags]

Quick scribbles for PaperXmen before bed. I suck at costume design and drawing clothes, but I did my best.

Scott’s got a french tuck to make Tan France happy.

[mcapriglioneart]

how to draw arms ? ? 

[swagginsloths]

holy fuck

[shoutsofthunder]

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

[mcapriglioneart]

yes !!

[empresspinto]

but how much extend

[thunar]

^^^^^^^^^^

[kvothe-kingkiller]

[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]

[juliajm15]

Some people have asked me for this tutorial too, I know that a few informations here are pretty obvious, but I just thought they were valid to include, and it can or cannot work for you, I just hope you find this helpful in someway :)

I’m sorry for any grammar mistake, and I don’t know how to say somethings in english, so I also hope I made myself understandable :P

[ruffboiart]

A quick and dirty Darcy Lewis for @nottonyharrison because i just missed both of them so much. I suck at glasses currently XD

[sully-s]

A Anon asked me for some pointers on how to draw in my style today. I didn’t really know how to write pointers so I thought I would attempt a very minimal tutorial.

[ruffboiart]

There is only one thing missing from that process video: your voice. Yes we get to see your process, but I for one would like to hear it.

I appreciate that, anon!  Unfortunately the process video was automatically generated by my art program and I don’t have a way currently to add voiceover to it (or adjust the speed, etc etc).  

I also don’t know what I’d say?  “hey, it’s me, ruffboiart, and this is a thing i drawed.  as you can see, many lines were erased.  Thanks for watching!”f

BUT it’s definitely something I’ll keep in mind if I ever do something a little more controlled :)

[ruffboiart]

Jade Harley, my favorite dreamer.

[ruffboiart]

"natural" "born" Texan Dave Strider on display, with freckles and sunburn.

[ruffboiart]

A messy sketch of a tired baby lesbian.

I still love my girl.

[melonami]

HELLOO i’m so sorry i somehow let this ask rust in my inbox omg i hope you’re still around for me to offer some help LOL and hopefully this can prove useful to some other people too! ^_^

[ruffboiart]

sketches of Beau, one week apart with practice and a second ep of PubDraw between them. (also I’m a lil drunk for drawing two)

Honestly if this isn’t proof that practice is how art gets better, and that skill is kind of a fake concept and practice is the important part, I don’t know what is. The 3/4 sketch took about an hour and a half from start to this point, the 3/11 sketch took about half an hour from start to this point

There’s some bits about the first sketch that are more polished than the one from tonight but like. The one from tonight has more life in it, if that makes sense? It feels more like “me drawing a thing” rather than “me poorly copying someone else’s drawing of a thing”

All in all, this is a huge encouragement that I really needed, and I can’t wait to see where my skill goes in the future as I practice and learn more.

[ruffboiart]

a process video of my drawing of Calliope, if anyone is curious.

[ruffboiart]

One day I’ll learn shading but until then, flats!

This is Calliope Wolcott, an NPC from the DnD campaign I run who was supposed to be an inconsequential NPC and instead was instantly adopted by the party and has since become pretty much their favorite. She’s also dating one of them and it’s painfully cute.

Calliope is a bit shy, eternally upbeat, loves books and old papers and organization, and basically lives in the archives of the organization they all work for with the smoke borzoi her girlfriend accidentally stole from the Plane of Fire, except for when she’s on a date or having tea with her older sister Alex. I love her.

[ruffboiart]

Well, the HAIR is definitely better than the original sketch. Also her nose turned out super cute. Not sure about the quality of my lines tho, my hands always tremble, what is a smooth line?