#learning character proportions

[biblically-accurate-dca]

sb humanizations + various vannys :3

#my art #fnaf #security breach #five nights at freddy's #so can i tag everyone or would that just be annoying. oh well #glamrock freddy #glamrock chica #glamrock bonnie #roxanne wolf #montgomery gator #monty gator #djmm #dj music man #daycare attendant #sundrop #sunnydrop #vanny fnaf #vanny #vanessa sb #<- idk how to tag her HFJSGJKD #ANYWAYYYY i've been learning how to incorporate cheekbones into the faces i draw #bc i want to draw vanessa's face similarly to the proportions of the vanny mask (with the big cheeks and slim face) #but it's also just something i've been really wanting to do anyway.. i've even been referencing the way team f/rtress 2 stylizes the faces #of all the mercs and stuff. bc i used to be obsessed with that game but i could never actually draw the characters properly #and it's been sooo SO helpful for me. its like a night and day transition for my art it's craaazy #anyway as for the other designs here.... these are all completely improvised Except for sun bc i've drawn this human sun before and i have #a general idea of what i want. but for the others idk if i'll draw them this exact way again in the future lmao. but i think they're still #pretty good for what they are !!!! #anyway i will stop rambling now HFKAJFKSG bye

[whatudottu]

More of this fucker, because whenever I want to draw him his proportions change: why are you so difficult to draw Blinkous Galadrigal!

I am physically incapable of drawing a character with four arms without also giving them extra pectorals I do not care that this fucks with Blinky's carving I am upsetti spaghetti!

#blinkous galadrigal #blinky #trollhunters #toa #fanart #i'm going crazy and it's just the one dude #well i mean i've been going crazy over other singular dudes but that's a different type of mad #this is the hand breaking mad that makes me cry (not really but ya know- the vibe) #learning proportions is good- until you try drawing a character that breaks a lot of them #some characters just have stretched arms or something so it's like... within the realm of possibility to draw #but then this fucker pulls up- kicks down the door to my brain- and blows it up with dworkstones

[boxheadpaint]

how do i start coming up w more interesting character designs like urs. they are sooooo cool and i try to make a character like that but it always comes out stinky

if it stinks thats great

#serious-ish answer that i am not great at setting out tips or advice. but just get weird and out of the “comfort zone” with some things #also learning anatomy but thats a given. you can do even more funny shit once you learn the basics of anatomy #but for everything else just get weird! think of something thatd be strange or funny and run with it. what qualifies as funny is up to you #u kno whats also funny and cute and awesome? variety #mess with proportions bodies faces markings and make something that is unique and strange #maybe ypu think well this stinks or is too strange or people will think youre weird. but why? and why should it matter? #id love to see your character designs anonymous individual. have faith in yourself #if it sounds like im bullshitting its because i havnt had brekfast yet but character and creature design is something im very passionate ab #especially seeing how others interpret the “rules” of it or how some “ignore” these “rules”. have i mentioned pokemon quartz yet #i love unique characters that stand out among ... i dont know. “clean” designs. i like how ones artstyle impacts a take on a design too #im rambling insanies i realize also. im inspired by old cartoons and looking at people and animals. i also learned how to draw hands #by drawing wings first. what does thay mean? Well get strange sir

[crooked-hourglass]

Unmasked Water Ghoul Rain More Artwork | Socials and Prints

More info under the read more

I tried out a new rendering style after downloading some new brushes, and I wanted to practice drawing some original characters/designs. I love drawing realism but sometimes I wish my work was a bit more stylised, and that I could be a bit more loose with my drawings rather than getting bogged down in the details. And drawing figures without reference isn’t really my strong point, and it’s something I want to practice more of. Really, all I want to do is be able to draw pretty ghouls...

#I still have a lot to learn about values and proportion and drawing in general but gotta start somewhere #my artwork #unmasked ghouls #nameless ghouls #ghost #ghost band #ghost fanart #artwork #digital art #water ghoul #nameless ghoul #ghost art #the band ghost #rain ghoul #rain ghost #artists on tumblr #procreate #original character

[ittybittybumblebee]

Some Bigtop burgle art except i actually used references of the characters for once and notice improvement in my drawing them immediatly

Also penny screenshot redraw (didnt feel like doing background sorry)

#bigtop burger #like im not saying how i was drawing them from memory was bad or anything its its better now with a good reference of the characters faces #and proportions #it might sound harsh but imo i suck at cartoon character proportions and anatomy #i need to practice more #also im trying to absorb some of worthis artstyle shhhhh just a little bit shhhhhhh #but fr tho the artstyle is so fucking good and id like to learn from it #anyway im rambling #my art #ittybittydraws

[buggygerm]

sketching my favs

#will any other sonic character make an appearance on my blog? #who knows what the future may hold #im still learning how to draw sonics basic proportions #like i get it but also i dont #also trying to make them look less flat????? painful #trying to work with more blocky shapes since its easier to understand perspective n shit with that but yk #just rambling now enjoy the boys #sonic the hedgehog #miles tails prower #tails the fox #sonic and tails #unbreakable bond #wdym u dont like my bug art

[puppyeared]

theyre talking about minecraft

#I’ve accepted at this point that I will never learn how to draw silvers quills lol. it looks simple in theory but it’s so.. fucking hard… #I made them look wavy bc I figured using psychic powers all the time like that has side effects right? like when mob uses his PSI and his #hair floats or smth. and I put stars because why not and I think it looks really cool when i thinking about blaze’s sun motif #I am actually not that invested in sonic the hedgehog. all I know is I was weirdly interested in it when I was really small because sonic #looked really cool to me for some reason. also silver and tails are my favourites so #the edges of blazes shirt are supposed to resemble the edges of the sun. like when you draw the sun like this ☀️ #and I put a plant on silvers shirt because his and blazes story in the 2019 annual is so important to me lol #I would draw more sonic characters if I could just. put perfectionism behind me and stylize them to make it easier for me sjfjgshfh #it’s just the proportions that does it for me.. I like looking at sonic fanart while knowing I will never get over the proportions #my art #myart #fanart #sonic the hedgehog #sth #blaze the cat #silver the hedgehog #sonic 06 #fur #? #silvaze #I’m gonna tag it as silvaze. as a treat

[waxingwolf]

I drew fanart of @greennightingale 's Thalmor OC, Dariel (please correct me if I got that wrong ;w;)

Featuring goofy ahh warm up sketches

#I'm still learning his design and proportions #First time drawing him #I'm sorry it's not very good (╥﹏╥) #my art #traditional art #drawing #fan art #the elder scrolls #tes #the elder scrolls v: skyrim #skyrim #altmer #thalmor #high elf #not my character #art

[stargirlfeyre]

That ss of a Nesta fan saying she’s the actual main character and “chosen one” of acotar is starting to make its rounds on twt😭. You can just imagine how people are reacting to it.

#anti nesta #pro feyre #feyre archeron #y’all need to learn to enjoy nesta’s character in peace instead of trying to blow her importance in the story way out of proportion which #ultimately sets her up to be hated on

[jurweem]

"UH-HUH!"

#This one's really old #I was still learning how to proportion things #like this was made mere months after I had evolved from making stick people #I made non-stickman things before that but they were extremely low-res (pixel art smaller than 100x100) #you can atleast tell that I had experience making pixel art #I think I figured out how to make his face look more accurate before finishing the drawing #but I thought he looked stupider and funnier as-is so I kept it lol #roy koopa #super mario #koopalings #nsmbw #character art

[qwertycake]

drew jeri while messing around with brushes (mercury is a really fun brush, as it turns out) <3

#arc of a scythe #aoas #jericho soberanis #the proportions are way different to my first design #but this was more about testing brushes rather than character design consistency #which is a whole other learning curve i have yet to curve yk #still proud of this tho #<3

[strides-art]

Octummber '23 - 1

Alright, one day down... 30 more to go. Plus the Inktober days. How many days are left in October? I'm posting this later then I've been trying to, and that is literally because of a friend roping me back in to Overwatch.

Posted using PostyBirb

#OC: Designation Unknown #Drawing: Digital #Type: Full and Background #I am not quite used #to getting proportions right #but I am also treating this and Inktober #as opportunities to learn #and also figure out just how this character will look by the end #art #furry #scalie #Octummber

[vulturevanity]

The thing is even if you learn an artistic skill through mimicking your favourite guys, you still end up absorbing some of the fundamentals in the process without meaning to, because your favourite guys use them. You learn a little visual composition and posing when you draw characters in the "imagine your faves" memes, you learn a teeny bit of colour theory when you colour pick from that painting that made you eat gravel with how good it is. You learn something of harmonic relations when you learn to play your favourite rock tunes on the guitar. You literally learn how to write by reading.

What the fundamentals are good for is organizing these lessons. Giving you a vocabulary for naming the things you like or want to do well, or to pinpoint why something you're trying does or doesn't feel right. It's really frustrating when you're feeling your way through an original piece and get stuck because it's off, you know it's off, but you don't know how to fix it. And the best part about having bruteforced your way into being kinda good at art is that the fundamentals are going to be SO MUCH EASIER to absorb now that you have the muscle memory for it. And you will feel yourself getting better faster when you actually study. And of course being your own teacher might have given you one or two bad habits, but those take much less effort to unlearn.

So yeah I am in favour of "how to draw anime" tutorials because they genuinely help while being fun. I am all for using tabs to learn guitar solos. I'm for writing crossover fanfic that is just adding a self-insert to the canon and not changing anything else. These are all ways in which you absorb information and exercise those skills in low stakes environments. It's a much lower entry barrier than practicing anatomy for two hours every day, or studying language theory and structure in 19th century prose, or whatever the hell music theory is about. And if your skill grows beyond what those things can help you with, formal knowledge is within reach and you will have developed a sense for things, so it will feel less dense.

Learn in whatever way you feel suits you best. And then keep learning.

#babbles #artists on tumblr #this rant was brought to you by: success brought by weeks of anatomy studies after suffering through being unable to nail a character desig #and that was after years of teaching myself how to take the images from my brain and put them on the paper with my hand #and also realizing I do not suffer through drawing sonic characters the way so many people seem to because I just #learned how to look at things and understand their proportions

[iguessitme]

some drawings i scaned , want to digitized some but idk if i get around to it (except the loundry one)

#.I have a problem in tradicional art where i dont plan full body beforehand and the proportions are off #also im still learning how to draw and render fabric #original character #oc #original charater art #digital art #oc art

[ne0nwithazero]

It's strange how I kind of went from consistently disliking my art, to like, disliking individual pieces, but when I look at my overall work I just get filled with so much joy and pride

It's not like I'm doing anything groundbreaking or utterly amazing, but I guess it's the thing of like, seeing myself as an ordinary human capable of creating things? I just see so much beauty in humanity's capacity of creating things, and I guess I had to teach myself to see that beauty in my own capabilities as well, no matter how mediocre they are

It's hard to say I like things I create because I fear people will think I'm full of myself, but I just have so much pride in my work. If I start looking too closely at my art, I start seeing all the mistakes and everything I hate about it, but if I step back and take in the bigger picture of all I've done and how far I've come? I don't know, it's a strange feeling to describe

It's best described as this sentiment of fulfilment that makes me realize that there's nothing else I'd rather be doing with my life other than creating art I love and sharing with people

#Jay Talks #turning off reblogs because I'm paranoid over people interpreting me the worst way possible #I feel like creating my website last year was what helped me come to this realization the most #I love creation #I've been drawing seriously since I was like 11 or smth #And only now at my mid 20s am I getting to a point of being okay with what I create #I still have a lot I dislike and things I want to improve #But it helps not loathing every sketch that leaves my hands #Cherishing every bad drawing as a stepping stone to something greater #All the outdated art that gives me psychic damage to look at #All the out of character OC art that doesn't fit anything I have #All the art with bad wonky proportions and terrible anatomy #I still can't look at those pieces without shriveling up in cringe #But I'm learning to celebrate those pieces not for what they are but for where they took me #idk is this anything #Don't mind me my mental health has been in the gutter these past months #Finding peace in my escapism and pride in my work has been so freeing... #It's hard to celebrate my joy when so many artists struggle with enjoying their work #I can't help but feel like they'll think I'm rubbing it in...

[maebird-melody]

Seen moments before innocent bartender dies at the hands of a shapeshifting fox.

#look i was gonna not post this considering the hubbub with ai scraping #but i toggled all the switches they gave us #and i haven't figured out how to use glaze yet #look if the ai wants to train on my art they're gonna learn ever so slightly incorrect body proportions anyways #anyhoo the bartender is an NPC from my friend's game he runs on twitch #the fox is a player #mae draws #dnd characters