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Based off @parttimebrightlord 's Szeth because he's just so cool
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Dalinar and Navani are just too cute š
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OC Ariadna!! Shes the cutest girl ever...
They“re so cute, seriously....
I“m sorry for not posting very often, I“ll try to get better at that ^^
Im so obssesed with drawing her!
How I pratice drawing things, now in a tutorial form. The shrimp photo I used is here Show me your shrimps if you do this uvuĀ PS: lots of engrish because foreignĀ
This is the best art advice ever and you should all listen to it because itās basically what Iāve been telling people for years.
i was not expecting that to actually work
THIS.
This feels like one of those pieces of advice that are so brilliant that as soon as you have read it, it feels blindingly obvious.Ā
My Witch OC!! (she doesen“t have a name yet...)
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Trying to draw buildings
yo hereās a useful tip from your fellow art ho cynellis⦠use google sketchup to create a model of the room/building/town youāre trying to draw⦠then take a screenshot & use it as a reference! Itās simple & fun!
Sketchup is incredibly helpful. I canāt recommend it enough.
Thereās a 3D model warehouse where you can download all kinds of stuff so you donāt have to build everything from scratch.
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This is an incomplete tutorial, and it drives me crazy every time I see it come around.
We live in a pretty great digital age and we have access to a ton of amazing tools that artists in past generations couldnāt even dream of, but a lot of people look at a cool trick and only learn half of the process of using it.
Hereās the missing part of this tutorial:
How do you populate your backgrounds?
Well, hereās the answer:
If the focus is the environment, you must show a person in relation to that environment.
The examples above are great because they show how to use the software itself, but each one just kind of āplopsā the character in front of their finished product with no regard of the personās relation to their environment.
How do you fix this?
Well, hereās the simplest solution:
This is a popular trick used by professional storyboard and comic artists alike when theyāre quickly planning compositions. Itās simple and it requires you to do some planning before you sit down to crank out that polished, final version of your work, but it will be the difference between a background and an environment.
From Blacksad (artist: Juanjo Guarnido)
From Hellboy (Mike Mignola)
Even if your draftsmanship isnāt that great (like mine), people can be more immersed in the story you tell if you just make it feel like there is a world that exists completely separate from the one in which they currently reside ā not just making a backdrop the characters stand in front of.
Your creations live in a unique world, and it is as much a character as any other member of the cast. Make it as believable as they are.
Great comments and tutorials!
Iām a 3d artist and have been exploring the possibilities of using 3d as reference for 2d poses. I want to add a couple of tips and things!
Sketchup is very useful for environment references, and I assume itās reasonably easy to learn. If youāre interested in going above and beyond, I highly recommend learning a proper 3d modeling program to help with art, especially because you can very easily populate a scene or location with characters!
Using 3ds Max I can pretty quickly construct an environment for reference. But going beyond that, I can also pose a pretty simple āCATāĀ armature (known in 3d as a rig) straight into the scene, which can be totally customized, from various limbs, tails, wings, whatever, to proportions, and also can be modeled onto and expanded upon (for an example, you could 3d sculpt a head reference for your character and then attach it to the CAT rig, so you have a reference for complex face angles!)
The armature can also be posed incredibly easily. I know programs exist for stuff like this - Manga Studio, Design Doll - but posing characters in these programs is always an exercise in frustration and very fiddly imo. A simple 3d rig is impossibly easy to pose.
By creating an environment and dropping my character rig into it, I have an excellent point of reference when it comes to drawing the scene!
Not only that, but I can also view the scene from whatever angle I could ever want or need, including the character and their pose/position relative to the environment.
We can even quickly and easily expand this scene to include more characters!
Proper 3d modeling software is immensely powerful, and if you wanted to, you could model a complex environment that occurs regularly in your comic or illustration work (say, a castle interior, or an outdoor forest environment) and populate the scene with as many perspective-grounded characters as you need!
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Look at this amazing addition! This is fantastic!
ive used both, 3ds max and sketchup, tbh i preffer using sketchup because compared to 3ds max its really easier to use, the problem in my case with 3ds max is the over (useful) profepertie options, (mainly because of the 3d rendering) so its easier to get lost on those big menus. Ā
Coming into a fandom late
Coming into a fandom early and watching it become an angry clusterfuck
Being in a dormant fandom that suddenly comes alive again after a new book/movie
Donāt forget about those who come in the midst of a fandom war.Ā
Accuracy at its best
Being in a fandom and not even knowing thereās a war going onā¦
all of this shitā¦lol
When Youāre Not In The Fandom But Youāre Nosy AF
When you get into a fandom only to discover itās dead
This gets better every time I see it.Ā
@fuboos-mess
Being in a dead fandomā¦
Or being in such a tiny fandom that it feels like youre the only one
The accuracy hurts.
When youāre in a fandom that got revived for a younger generation:
When you are the younger generation the fandom is being revived for:
This is so true