SILLYZZ XP

Just call me Silly :] || He/They prns || i do art but uhh… artblock brick keeps hitting me at mach 5 speed

[jacky-killian]

I don't do "art studies," i draw "wrong" until I get an epiphany from god

[tw3aking-0ut]

Artfight attack for @mechncheese !! i absolutely adore Chitchats holoform and couldnt pass up the opportunity to do an attack with it :] def my fav fanart of them ive done so far (click for better quality i hope, idk how badly tumblr eats the quality...)

Extras/close ups under the cut!!

Without the glare/added lighting:

Close ups:

Im honestly really happy with how the rendering turned out, especially with their alt form cause i truly never draw cars... gulp

also gonna be so real this is what my canvas looked like the entire time i worked on this, which theyre typically never this cluttered with refs💔

[tw3aking-0ut]

On artfight again this year!! cant wait to spend the month drawing and gifting :]

[tw3aking-0ut]

"Sometimes, home isn't where your life begun,

But that doesn't stop you from missing it."

[keferon]

Us every time Kef drops the lore:

My favorite thing is that meme can be read two ways and both are funny and correct 👌

[tw3aking-0ut]

"And I couldn't help but fall in love again. <3"

[mechncheese]

For all the lovebugs out there

[mechncheese]

speaking of Valentines Day and being pink, You can peek their Valentines Day paintjob ! Colors inspired by Neapolitan ice cream

[corrupteddoodles]

i don’t storyboard. i don’t thumbnail. i don’t make inspo boards. i don’t do concepts. i BULLSHIT through my art and if i don’t like it, I START OVER.

[tw3aking-0ut]

im back with more fanart of THE Chatter EVER!!!!!!

i got acrylic pens for christmas and for my second piece with them i wanted to draw this little beetle from @mechncheese who brings me so much joy!!

they were so much fun to draw for this little practice thing i did, and im so sorry if some of the colors arent 100% accurate- even tho there are many colors in the set, none of them matched perfectly TvT

[keferon]

Is that a mecha au comic?? After all those years??

Lmao okay but seriously. I missed drawing those two:D Can Jazz actually treat a mech like a vase? Spoiler - no one treats vases like that. But Prowl doesn’t know that yet haha

Also! Don’t look too close at the architecture of the cockpit I am not good at keeping it consistent and geometrically correct. If anything. Feel free to ignore it and make up your own design

[lost-where-the-forest-would-grow]

I just got described as an "ad hating commie" by someone because I said a minute of youtube ads is unpleasant. fully spent 5 minutes arguing and defending youtube ads. insane stuff

[daovihi]

reblog if you are an ad hating commie

[snowrinrin]

Actually I think these characters are just friends. They flirted? They are friendship maxxing. “Ermm explain this moment then??” Friendship maxxing.

[t4nku-deactivated20260714]

I legit needed to hear this

[zerozerozio]

bring back tumblr ask culture let me. bother you with questions and statements

[boimann]

reblog to let people know it's ok to bother you with questions and statements

[crunchbuttsteak]

[imnotrevealingmyname]

You can only reblog this on the 3st of January

[official-lucifers-child]

the 3st huh?

[keferon]

a pickle for an answer to an art question🥒?

would you have any advice on how to improve on drawing expressions?

i swear, the way you draw them just feels so.. realistic to me and really can make the viewer understand what the character is actually feeling while also not having that "im doing this to explain the characters every thought in this moment cause i think my audience is too dumb to put the puzzle pieces together" undertone

Ooooouuuhhhh thank you I worked a lot on that skill:3

Fortunately for you I recently had to explain my art style to other artist so I have a lil bit of experience in. Well. Explaining it.

So. Welcome to the “guide for drawing expressions keferon style” I guess. First thing you’ll need is to learn to see the facial features as separate objects capable of showing emotion. And by that I mean. You need to exercise your ability to portray emotion through ONLY eyes, or ONLY eyebrows or ONLY mouth. Drawing smth like confusion is easy when you can make your character do this 🤨 with their eyebrows but drawing confusion when all you have is a mouth is a lot harder. Look at references or at other people or get a mirror to practice.

Step two is to mix the emotions. When you can show one emotion with eyes and another with mouth - well you get the opportunity to play around >:D If your character is scared and angry at the same time then you can let their eyebrows and mouth show fear and their eyes to show anger. A character can be sleepy in eyes and mouth but worried in eyebrows and wrinkled nose. A character can be brave in smile but distant and careless in eyes and eyebrows. Fun stuff. Allows quite a lot of additional layers for your viewer to notice.

Example. Look at Jazz.

Step three is uh. Well it’s kind of an overkill and my personal line to snort when it comes to drawing. Step three is to start coding emotions into separate parts of facial features. For example. The way I do it. Eyebrows can be separated into inner and outer parts. Eyes can be separated into inner and outer side of both eyelids + pupils + wrinkles around eyes. I think you get the idea. This is the part where I start having people asking what I put into those expressions and the honest answer is insanity haha. Because like. Eyes can just be sad on their own. But they can be sad in upper eyelids and slightly worried in lower eyelids and wet-almost-crying in pupils. This is also achieved through watching real life expressions and practice. It is also the level of details at which your viewer stops consciously noticing these details. The people who will see your work will not think “hey the eyes are happy and in love but the mouth is lost and angry wow this is such nuanced expression”. They will subconsciously sum all those details up into the “oh I understand what this character feels”. Details this tiny aren’t meant to be consciously noticed. You do them for the love of the game and most people will never even mention them and it’s the way they’re meant to be.

(Also I kind of don’t want to elaborate on this step using examples because it works best when you don’t notice it.)

Final step is to reject the urge to always draw your blorbo beautiful. They can be beautiful quite often but when crying? When getting scared to death? Or wheezing because they heard a good joke? In the moments where you need to show a raw emotion you need to focus on the emotion first and let the emotion be the reason for your viewer to clench their fists and go “damn this is why I love this one”. A character who begs for their bloody life doesn’t look all that believable if their facial muscles busy doing barbie doll face. It’s like when an actor has tons of botox youknow. Yeah the face is beautiful but what are they even expressing?

That’s pretty much all I do:)