#ophe doodles

[maybeophe]

Started doodling interactions I've had at work that should've gotten me fired but didn't.

My supervisors hate to see me coming.

[total-drama-slop]

Total Drama if it was cool and epic (I have a gambling problem).

[total-drama-slop]

uhm… *blushes, giggling*

C-Can I perchance have some uh…

Yuri?

(zolana please i love zolana give me zolana i want zolana)

👍

[maybeophe]

the most difficult things to draw are hands, feet, and pants. I’m sorry, you can fight me on this, but feet, they suck. Hands, they suck. Pants, they suck absolutely booty cheeks, they are the reason I only draw skirts and shorts, in fact, if I had a choice, I’d draw EVERYONE with skirts. Idc if my oc is a drug dealer who used to bully people and has zero emotions, he’s going to wear a skirt now, bc drawing jeans SUCKS

When it comes to hands and feet, I think that's a fairly commonly held opinion. They are difficult to draw, which I think mostly comes from how weirdly shaped they are - especially with all of their tiny appendages.

I find it a lot easier to break them down into their base components when it comes to drawing and posing them. And, of course, using references to get the anatomy as accurate as possible.

When it comes to hands, the part I find the most difficult to get right is the fingers. They're weirdly shaped and incredibly awkward to work with! But simplifying them into segments tends to help me out a lot.

And I do the same with feet, on the very rare occasion I'll draw them (admittedly, I'm a lot less practised with drawing feet than I am hands, so they still look rather wonky).

As for pants trousers?

I have to disagree, I personally find drawing trousers a lot easier than skirts. For the most part, any sort of leg wear is just a fabric casing over the legs.

It's just a case of understanding how the material will interact with the limb.

For jeans in particular, denim tends to be a more rigid material, so it won't crease or bend itself to follow the anatomy of a leg as much as, say, a pair of leggings would (unless they're slim fit jeans, which are designed to follow the curve of the leg). They tend to fall in a more box-like shape, completely covering the natural curve of the leg in their squarish outline.

So when it comes to drawing trousers, I'd suggest looking at reference images of whatever leg wear you're trying to draw whilst it's being actively worn!

Well, to be fair, "studying references to understand what each individual component of what you’re trying to draw looks like" is what I'd suggest for most things when it comes to drawing. Having some idea of how something works helps a lot when it comes to recreating it in a sketch.

I'm sure there are a lot of tutorials out there that help break down how to draw hands/feet/trousers far more eloquently than I ever could.

I'm not going to argue against you putting your OCs in skirts, though. They're your OCs, do whatever you want with them!

[maybeophe]

Dandy's World doodles.

[maybeophe]

It is currently 7:30am, and I have not slept. I'm too busy thinking about the sweaty anxiety man who runs fast.

[maybeophe]

The plight of man.

[maybeophe]

My good friend @cunt-removal keeps getting himself hospitalised for dehydration, so I made this as a reminder for him.

Transparent version under the cut.