tamara lehew

im just tryna do that art doodly do

[therestlesswitch]

🌙✨🎄TheRestlessWitch’s Yule 2018/15000 Follower Celebration Giveaway!🎄✨🌙

Thank you all so much for joining me on this journey! I appreciate each of you So Much! And as a thank you, I’m doing a giveaway!  Rules and info about Patreon supporter’, instagram and twitter followers’ extra entries at the bottom. ✨The following is included in the giveaway First Photo - 1 Tarot Wrap (for standard tarot size cards)with a leaf-shaped closure, crocheted by me! This will keep your cards safe and then you can use the wrap as a reading mat, with room for 5 cards. I use these all the time if I ever bring my cards anywhere. - 1 Cedar Smoke Cleansing Bundle - 1 Small Wooden Box for a travel alter or storing crystals - 1 oz of my Viridescent Healing Oil in a glass dropper bottle. It’s great for healing tattoos, soothing irritation and lovely for anointing candles or other magical uses (calendula petals, comfrey leaf, marshmallow leaf, stinging nettle, plantain, rose petals, skullcap, st. John’s Wort, white willow bark, and yarrow, all infused into apricot kernel oil with a touch of shae butter) - 1 White Chime Candle Holder - 10 chime candles, each a different colour - 3 Natural beeswax candles (the size of a birthday candle, perfect for portable altars!) - Bluebird of Happiness Pocket Charm - 1 piece of selenite - 1 Clear quartz point  - 1 Rose quartz chunk - 1 piece of icelandspar - 1 piece of onyx - 1 piece of galena (my newest fave) - 3 small amethyst points - 5 green and purple fluorite octahedrons Second Photo - 1 surprise bag of stick incense! My local witchy shop sells these fun surprise bags and they usually have 4-5 boxes of sticks in them. Right now, even I don’t know what’s in your bag, but if you (when you win) want me to peek and tell you what ones you got before I ship them in case of allergies, let me know! - 1 stick incense holder that has a hidden compartment to store your incnse - 1 black stick incense holder (has a sun carving) - 1 Chunk of organic cocoa butter (great for your skin or adding to infused oils, or in spells to symbolize sweetness, healing, and growth) - 5 small baggies of some of my favourite herbs: rose, mugwort, white willow bark, rose hips, and frankincense resin - 5 white chime candles (a bit bigger than the ones in the 1st photo) Third Photo - A custom Lucky Clover, wire wrapped, resin pendant made by Victoria, @pottsfieldpumpkins. (not this exact one, yours will come straight from her shop!) You’ll be able to choose the wire too! Check out her Etsy shop, TwistedTrinketsbyTor! Not Pictured  - 1.5 oz of organic, fair trade shae butter (great for adding to infusing oil, straight onto your skin, or in spells to symbolize healing, soft-spokenness longevity and sensitivity. - 5 more baggies of herbs of your choosing. I have quite the collection and I’ll send the winner a list of herbs to choose from. All together, I estimate this prize has a value of around $100-$115.

Rules 

1. Reblog this post to enter. Likes count, too. Reblog as many times as you like, but please try not to spam your followers. 2. Anyone who supports me on patreon (at any level) will have 15 extra entries! Follow on Insta for 5 extra entries, and Twitter for another 5! 3. You must be 16 or older. (If under 18 you MUST have parent’s permission) 4. If you’re outside of Canada, you may need to pay some shipping costs if it exceeds $20 CAD. (I will let you know before I ship it) 5. You must be following me, so you can get updates if anything about the giveaway changes. 6. DO NOT tag this post as giveaway. That will risk the notes getting messed up, and this will be ruined for everyone. 7. No giveaway blogs, and please don’t spam your followers. 8. If you reblog on a side blog, let me know in the tags what the name of your blog is that you’re following me with (main blog.) 9. Each entry will be assigned a number and the winner will be chosen by a random number generator.The giveaway ends on Yule! (December 21st 2018 at 9:00pm EST) The winner will be messaged and must respond with their full name and address within 48 hours, or a new winner will be chosen. Please respect me and my rules, and have fun! ✨To support me:  Get tarot reading | Buy me a coffee | Donate to my Education ✨ Help Paul get MS treatment

[aishwaryaaraiii]

Teuta Matoshi Duriqi.

[minuiko]

hazel has the best palette

[lesbianlinkle-moved]

So difficulty with posing is usually a symptom of another underlying problem.

I’ll focus on poses for now, and I’ll discuss framing in another post!

Problem one:

Lack of a solid gesture.

I shan’t talk too much about this, as there’s a fantastic video series by stan prokopenko about gesture & figure drawing that you can find here! :

and you can find more on the subject in my gesture tag here:

http://helpfulharrie.tumblr.com/tagged/gesture

Problem two:

You need to reframe your thinking!

Posing is a word that brings to mind picking up a toy to arrange its limbs into a certain position, or asking a fashion model to stand in a way that shows off all their clothes, etc. Ultimately, it’s a very stiff and lifeless word about putting something into a static position, and it’s not how I’d recommend approaching your art!

Instead you want to think about how your subjects are acting - they’re living, breathing characters, and you’re just catching a snapshot of them while they are doing something. The image you’re drawing may be still, but the character inside it is not.

This is especially important in comics and sequential media, but even in a single image you want to think about what your subject is doing, how they’re feeling, and how you want to convey this.

Consider your character’s body language, and when drawing a conversation think about how your character gesticulates.

It’s not uncommon in animation to get up and physically act out what you want to animate. It’s good practice, it’s easier to understand what you’re drawing if you do it yourself!

I recommend studying films and paying close attention to how the characters are acting. try watching a single scene a few times, and watch how the characters express themselves.

For example, watch this clip from kung fu panda 3!

It’s just 12 seconds, but pay attention to how the characters act. If I were to make this into a comic page it’d probably look something like this:

Do you see how the characters’ acting informs the still poses :?

For some further reading you can find some posts about body language in this tag: http://helpfulharrie.tumblr.com/tagged/body%20language

as well as a post i wrote last year about making poses dynamic: http://helpfulharrie.tumblr.com/post/146669907351/do-you-have-any-personal-tips-for-making-and-poses

And an exercise I would highly recommend doing is this body language one: https://paraparano.deviantart.com/art/Body-Language-Meme-182498610

It’s like those expression memes, but instead you’re focusing on the whole figure!

Also, when thinking about your characters’ acting, don’t forget about how they might interact with props or things in their environment!

Part of the problem might be that they don’t feel grounded in the scene, leading you to feel like something is lacking. Roger rabbit is a fantastic example of how to ground characters in an environment:

The toons obviously aren’t real, but they feel like they’re tangible and inside the scene because they pick up props, physically interact with people, smash into tables, and just generally leave a real impact on the world around them.

Try remember to show how your characters are interacting with the things around them to really sell their acting! Best of luck, I hope this helps!!

[mulanxiaojie]

Modern Mulan sketches by Elena

[cybercrimer]

[kiraoji]

art cheats

hello i am here today to not lose track of the art cheats i have discovered over the years. what i call art cheat is actually a cool filter/coloring style/way to shade/etc. that singlehandedly makes art like 20 times better

80’s anime style

glitch effect

glow effects

adding colors to grayscale paintings

foreshortening ( coil )

foreshortening ( perspective )

clipping group (lines)

clipping group (colors)

dramatic lighting ( GOOD )

shading metal

lighting faces

that is all for today, do stay tuned as i am always hunting for cool shit like this

[kiraoji]

guys stop reblogging this these are cheats the CIA will come for you

[camilleto]

What program do you animate on? Is it frame by frame?

hi! I hope you don’t mind if i publish your ask since people were wondering the same thing in the tags,

I work on tvpaint, which is v great when you only animated on paper before (also i’m scared of flash and i’m not comfortable enough with toonboom) and yeah you can do frame by frame on it, but also extend the exposition time of each frame as you wish! so for example the first shot i did has got frames exposed 4-6 times at a rate of 25 frames/second, and todoroki’s hand is 50% frames exposed twice and 50% full 25fps. 

i hope i answered your question !!!

[connversefangirl-blog]

Connie Maheswaran - From season 1 to season 5

[ameliareadsandcurses]

drew a buncha lances and keiths last night as presents for ppl who’ve ordered more than 1-2 keychains from me. gonna be sent along w your order,,,, also can you tell i prefer drawing chars facing towards the right hAHAH crieS

-the rest ive uploaded on my instagram

[avoidantgarde]

what ur fave painter says about you

Van Gogh: art hoe, unappreciated, depressed and lonely

Picasso: mhmm. you’re pretty weird and inventive 

Leanardo Da Vinci: gay genius, ultimate prankster

Matisse: you love anything cultural and appreciate the value and beauty of almost everything

Edvard Munch: you are depressed, nihilistic and very lonely 

Salvador Dali: what is wrong with you? seriously what are you ever talking about

Monet: you have an eye for beauty and wish you could live in a field of flowers

Renoir: you love the women, the children, the bread

Andy Warhol: hello you are pretentious and gay

Rembrant: you are serious, detailed, and classical. 

Keith Haring: you’ve got a hard on for the 80s and you are into activism 

Bouguereau: dude we get it you love the female body and you love mythology

Edward Hopper: america? america. also you are realistic, serious, observant and hard working

Klimt: you are goddamn beautiful and you love goddamn beautiful things

Egon Schiele: you are obsessed with the human body and need to get laid

Magritte: you are an existentialist and want to have tea in the clouds 

Frida Kahlo: fuck imperialism and fuck america and fuck white people. also you’re the coolest motherfucker around

[moramew]

A small list of random ass sites I’ve found useful when writing:

Fragrantica: perfume enthusiast site that has a long list of scents. v helpful when you’re writing your guilty pleasure abo fics

Just One Cookbook: recipe site that centers on Japanese cuisine. Lots of different recipes to browse, plenty of inspiration so you’re not just “ramen and sushi” 

This comparing heights page: gives you a visual on height differences between characters

A page on the colors of bruises+healing stages: well just that. there you go. describe your bruises properly

McCormick Science Institute: yes this is a real thing. the site shows off research on spices and gives the history on them. be historically accurate or just indulge in mindless fascination. boost your restaurant au with it

A Glossary of Astronomy Terms: to pepper in that sweet terminology for your astrophysics major college au needs

[moramew]

Adding to this since I’m working on a shifter au one-shot:

Canine Body Language

Feline Body Language

[moramew]

More:

Cocktail Flow: a site with a variety of cocktails that’s pretty easy to navigate and offers photos of the drinks. You can sort by themes, strengths, type and base. My only real annoyance with this site is that the drinks are sometimes sorted into ~masculine~ and ~feminine~ but ehhhh. It’s great otherwise.

Tie-A-Tie: a site centered around ties, obviously. I stumbled upon it while researching tie fabrics but there’s a lot more to look at. It offers insight into dress code for events, tells you how to tie your ties, and has a section on the often forgotten about tie accessories

[moramew]

Even more:

Types of High Heels: A page describing twenty five different types of high heels. It gives a description and pictures. Shake it up from just “stilettos and kitten heels”

Random Job Generator: Exactly as it says. The site offer more generators like characters, plots, or town names.

Glossary of Hosiery Terms: Figure out what is what on a pair of stockings.

Men’s Dress Shoe Guide: A quick guide describing the eight most common types of men’s dress shoes. Pics included.

Types of Women’s Coats: Descriptions and pics of various different types of coats.

[basiliskfree]

Today’s problem

what do chairs for dragons look like.

[carbisari]

big comfy piles of pillows

[basiliskfree]

Well, that don’t work in the scene I’m doing it’s too cute not to draw.

[carbisari]

DAWWW SO CUTE :>

[noivern]

they use human chairs but really badly

[rareandradiant-maiden]

same

[citrus-adventures]

Wait elongated chairs y’all. Eight chair legs instead of one, they can lie down majestically and put their chins on the table like they were always meant to.

@basiliskfree

[basiliskfree]

I’m not sure if this is silly or a good idea lol

[noivern]

it’s not polite!

[thatll-do]

you’re a dragon manners mean jackshit nothing

[daedricsheep]

excuse you dragons are pillars of nobility and composure

[thatll-do]

you’re a dragon. who’s gonna stop you? hmm? the dragon politeness upkeep taskforce?

[daedricsheep]

I mean other dragons are really the only thing a dragon fears

[dateadragonsuggestion]

Date a dragon who uses big comfy piles of pillows as chairs 

Date a dragon who tries to use chairs for humans but has trouble 

Date a dragon who uses elongated chairs made just for dragons 

Date a dragon who is a pillar of nobility and composure 

Date a dragon who rests their chin on the table 

[hornyreptiles]

I love this post way too much not to reblog it.

[blaze-dargun]

AaaaAAAAAAAAAA

The cutest damn things Ive ever seen

[communistchexmix]

@basiliskfree @noivern a solution: giant beanbag chairs

[basiliskfree]

Draw that in a separate post also these

[its39raccoons]

[batcii-archive-deactivated20210]

my fave bending children

[solaraprotagonist-deactivated20]

How to help an artist:

Ditch the like button

No, seriously. If you don’t have money to help out an artist financially, the second best thing is to reblog all the things you like. While liking it does tell the artist that “hey I really like this!” It does jack shit because the only ones who will see that are me and you.

Why do you think there are so SO many posts made by people that are literally summed down to “please reblog my artwork I need the notes!”? Because no one reblogs artwork. Unless you’re a ridiculously popular blog with thousands of followers, you’ll only end up getting 1 or no reblogs.

SO HELP OUT ARTISTS AND PLEASE REBLOG OUR ART, BECAUSE WE REALLY NEED THE VIEWS ;V;)/

[marconelor]

Friendly reminder. Reblog it if u dig it :)

[poetique823]

^^^^^Allllll of this 👏👏👏

[turtle-trash]

Hey this goes for fanfic writers on tumblr too!!!

[threehoursfromtroy]

Proper use of like button: to mark something so you can reblog it with a thorough compliment later.

[catautistic-deactivated20160811]

non-autistic authors write autistic characters all the time. they just don’t realize it. they’d rather not admit it most of the time, either.

the thing is, non-autistic people have met autistic people more than enough times. however, due to their stereotypes about autism, they often can’t identify it as autism. they see something is up, but they can’t put their finger on just what is up.

so they see people like us and they know the ‘archetype’ which is autistic people. they write us all the time: airheaded professors, awkward nerds, pent up geniuses, etc.

when autistic people point out how strikingly obvious it is that this character is autistic, they usually deny it, or at best, they say the character is ‘if anything, extremely high functioning’, which is more of a kick in the gut than a confirmation. we hardly get those, either.

so, here’s the thing: there are some characters that are very obviously autistic to actual autistic people. pearl from steven universe and papyrus from undertale are two of the most agreed upon examples that i’ve seen. nearly ever autistic fan of steven universe i met says, “yeah, she’s autistic”, and the same goes for papyrus. 

when we, as a community, bring this up, however, we are shot down. “oh, he’s not autistic.” i once was told that - ironic as it was - my headcanoning papyrus as autistic offended autistic people or hurt autistic people. but i’m autistic and they weren’t. 

two autistic people were both agreeing - damn, this character is blatantly autistic - but non-autistic people felt the need to but in and say how horrible it was to “project” onto characters with such a horrible thing.

listen, if you aren’t autistic and you’re reading this -

if an autistic person says a character is autistic, can you just shut up about it?

because if you’ve watched any amount of tv, read any amount of books, whatever - if you’ve consumed stories, there are tons of autistic characters in them.

just because neither you nor the media’s creators knows shit about autism doesn’t mean that the character can’t be autistic.

either way, it’s none of your business.

we have little to none confirmed representation that isn’t terrible and inconsiderately offensively written. 

find something better to do with your time.

[soprie]

NT Author: *Writes lovingly nuanced character who is quirky, shy, physically sensitive, socially awkward, clumsy, brilliant at a few special topics and has the capacity to grow and learn friendship and love in a nontraditional way*

NT Author: They can’t possibly be autistic!

NT Author: I’m gonna write an autistic character!

NT Author: “Doesn’t talk, rocks back and forth, loves trains”