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Remade

Hey so I remade and I’ll be slowly moving away from here in the next few days onto my new blog (which is still in progress but yea). Like this if you want the url otherwise I guess this is it. I had a good run on here ^^

[birdloaf]

this is my son río who is perfect and beautiful

[varanus-homuhomu]

Bulbasaur used Petal Dance!

10 Helpful Notes On Character Design

So many people have asked me for character design tips over the past couple of years. Here’s a whole list of rules I keep in mind with my own character designs.

In no specific order:

Simple is good. Streamline your design to its essence. The more shit you add on your character the more you make it about what they are wearing, and not who they are.

Popular ideas of beauty are limiting. There are only so many ways to make a character conventionally beautiful before you start noticing they all have the same face (i.e. “Six Faces Syndrome”). What most people consider “ugly” or undesirable is actually features that make your character unqiue. Who would you likely remember more: A perfect-faced model or that model’s twin with buckteeth?

Understand typical archetype designs and visual stereotypes to use them effectively. What are characteristics found in a “hero” character? In a “villain” character? In a “child” character? What can you do to mix them around, or play it straight?

Don’t draw the lines of the character, rather: draw the character in the lines. In other words: if someone told you to draw a horse, don’t just draw a plain old horse—draw the personality in the horse. A Royal Noble Horse has a much different character from an Old Sickly Stubborn Horse, for example. There’s a difference between Hark! A Vagrant!’s Fat Pony and Tangled’s Maximus, for another example.

Make your characters relatable. Making a character as wildly unique as possible (a pink-purple-blue haired goth wearing nothing but Hot Topic gear, for instance) actually is one of the most alienating thing you can do for your audience. It’s trying too hard to make your character a special snowflake. Limit this extreme to very specific characters and roles, be calculating and precise about going crazy. It will be more effective.

In addition, find what makes a person special through the boring features. Not everyone has crazy tri-colored hair, but there are a lot of people who have short brown hair. Can you draw five different characters with short brown hair and make them all unique? Try it out.

Silhouettes are important. Are you varying body mass? Are you utilizing basic shapes? We are able to recognize people and objects just from their shadow, and we do it so often we don’t even notice we do it! If all your characters have the same “shadow,” challenge yourself to mix it up more.

If you drew your characters naked and bald, could you tell them apart?

Be consistent in the ‘tone’ of your design style.

All these rules can be broken according to how calculated your irony is for your story. But you need to know what to do right before intentionally doing it wrong.

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art meme

[kendallhaleart]

I’m tired of getting these stupid offers to work on people’s “passion projects” for free, usually with the promise of compensation when/if the project takes off. Guess what? I don’t care that you’re passionate about it, I care if you’re competent. When you knock on my door asking for free work, its a clear sign that you aren’t. You might have hopes that your project hits it big and that you’ll eventually get rich off of it, but if you REALLY believed in it, I feel like you’d be more willing to put your own livelihood on the line instead of asking an artist to do it for you. If I do a bunch of free work hoping it’ll pay off, I’m not doing other work that could actually feed me and pay my bills. And what happens when the project doesn’t get funded or some important factor blows up or everyone decides to quit out early? I get screwed. So, no. I don’t want to work on your passion project. Not unless I get paid up front.

[duocartoonist]

WELCOME TO HELIOS. A NEW HOPE FOR 2D ANIMATION

This is a preview of HELIOS, a new animation system created by us, in response to today’s production demands.

Helios is a custom-made Toon Boom Harmony module that allows to rotate a 2D character in real time in any angle on a 360 sphere . It also controls every facial feature of said character:

*  Allows to change the mouth phoneme and keep in in rotation

* Allows dual and individual control of  the brows, and keeps their shape in rotation

* Control over the eyelashes,

* Can handle “Don Bluthian” hair, which is one of the most complex 2D designs there is.

* Controls dual and individual blinks and keeps them in rotation

* You will not loose any Toon  Boom basic functionality. That means you will be 100% able to still do squash, stretch, image substitutions and smears.

 This is the biggest contribution we made  to animation in our careers.

Helios is not something  that you can  just reproduce in Toon Boom, but a very sophisticated plugin with thousands of lines of code.

It has the potential of speeding the animation process 5 to 8 times, according to our calculations, in between other conveniences.

We are pending a test for the Oculus with 2D characters.True  classical toons.

We chose Mrs Brisby for being a classic character, to give us a challenge of maximal difficulty.  What you are seeing here is 95% complete, minus a few patches.We are aware of slight breaks in the character, this is the first ever Helios construction and thus, we are are still testing the limits of the system and figuring the pipeline out.

With Helios in the game, 2D animation can catch up with the speed of the 3D pipeline, at sweet last.

Our dream? To make Heios available to everybody who loves animation, but I must warn it will NOT be Open Source. The tool is almost ready, and soon the distribution Odisey will begin.

If you want to contribute to this project, you can help us make it happen  through Patreon

https://www.patreon.com/duocartoonist

Every pledge from here to February will be invested in this project.

[voca-lee]

Holy shit

[sycamore-goat-deactivated202010]

a little series of  tutorials i did focusing on head shape/species. i don’t do tutorials very often but i might want to try more if people get interested enough

[grimm-sugar-prime]

Ask and ye shall receive! I got quite a few questions about drawing noodles, but these were the first two asks in my inbox this morning! If anything is unclear because I’m terrible at explaining myself (you should hear me in person, very vague), just message me and I’ll help you. I can’t stress enough the importance of studying anatomy! Even though these are silly cartoony dragons, their anatomy is based off a ferret and a cat. If you’re struggling, do some sketches of those animals. Terryl Whitlatch is an amazing artist who has a strong focus on creature anatomy, check out how she makes amazing fantastical beasts!

[immortal-elements]

@scales-and-tales

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[anatoref]

Drawing Wings Tutorials Top Row Row 2 Row 3: Left, Right Row 4 Row 5 & Bottom Row

[vergolophus-deactivated20160602]

Deviantart Prank with friends:

1. Gather your buddies. 2. Pick an unsuspecting 13 year old (preferably with OCs) 3. Send them fanart. 4. Sit back and watch dreams come true

[sajwho]

Advice: Colouring (shading)

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[thermporia-deactivated20250914]

no ctrl+z we die like traditional artists

[cringepics]

saying using references makes you a bad artist is like saying using recipes makes you a bad cook

[taffybuns]

i never know what to do with the body when i do these so here’s one of those things with arms™

[noc10-moved]

do you… d… do you.. do you ever just