alexpanaroki

[alexpanaroki]

I wanted to ask you an art question. I was self taught and I start drawing people with the circle head but even tho it does give me the emotion i want when the expression is done I feel like it limits the movement of the character. What do you suggest when drawing

This is a really good question! I’m also self taught haha.

The main thing I focus on when it comes to drawing expressions is capturing the life of the person underneath. Your face holds a very watered down version of what’s actually going on inside of your head, so I try to emulate the thoughts and anguish of a character as if I’m writing their emotions on their face (if that makes any sense haha.)

Several emotions and thoughts can be happening on your face at once as well. Your eyebrows could be shocked while your mouth is angry, your nose can be disgusted while your eyes are happy, your forehead could be confused while your cheeks are thoughtful, stuff like that. Your face is a marionette for your characters thoughts and ideas

Some real life examples of how to break down and simplify the face into something you can control

#this is so useful wholy heck

[alexpanaroki]

@dimiclaudeblaigan asked for a tutorial on how to begin drawing. Good news! If you can draw a funky looking stick man, you have already started!

I think that stick people are a great starting point for artists because of the things you can learn from them that will be important later on.

If you are able to draw a circle and a couple of lines, you can easily put together a stick person.

Congratulations! You have started to draw. :)

A stick person is a very minimal artistic representation of a real life person. It is simple yet recognizable, and is widely used in art, media, and signage.

But what can a stick person teach us about drawing people that look more like… well, people? Lets have a look!

By simply adding a few more lines, we can add a pair of eyes and a mouth. Maybe even a little triangle nose! Or half circles for ears. We can now draw a face, which provides a basis for all sorts of expressions.

These simple additions can allow us to explore the wide range of human emotion and individuality.

This may seem like the basics of the basics. But that is what we want! In order to get to the point where we are able to draw complex, elaborate representations of humans and objects, we will need to start with simple shapes like lines and circles and build our understanding from there.

For instance, lets give our stick person some cool new features, such as hands and feet. I chose little squiggly circles to represent hands, and triangles to represent feet.

We can go a step further and modify the body of the stick person to include shoulders, hips, elbows and knees. These parts of the human body are quite complex in real life But here, all we need to do is add a few simple lines and dots to our stick person.

The lines provide some additional structural elements to our stick person's body, which are the shoulders and the hips. The dots indicate the points of articulation - elbows and knees, the places where the arms and legs bend!

Now we can use our stick person to show us an even wider range of human movement, action, and expression.

Our little drawing of a human being is evolving! All it took was adding a few more lines and shapes here and there.

By elongating some of the existing lines and making the head an oval instead of a circle, we can give our stick person proportions that resemble that of a real life human.

By this point, we have managed to add more complexity to our stick person simply by using our ability to draw lines, circles, and other basic shapes!

These basic ideas are the building blocks that will enable us to create more complex shapes.

The next part may be a considerable step up if you are absolutely new to drawing, but I have decided to include it in order to show you how complex objects like the human body can be built from shapes that are a bit more complex than circles and lines.

For example. Two ovals and a rectangle can be combined to create a cylinder.

Six squares can be combined to create a cube, or a box. Here, each square is distorted slightly depending on which way the cube is facing.

Note that the back faces of the cube and the bottom of the cylinder are hidden. These shapes allow us to visualize that which should not normally visible.

A sphere from all perspectives can be represented by a circle. But we can make it more like a sphere by adding lighting and shadow if we so desire.

Cubes, cylinders, and spheres are examples of 'solid shapes' because they consist of 3 dimensions.

Lets see how these solid shapes can be used to compose the human body.

By stacking three cylindrical objects, we can create a torso. Two spheres have been added to form shoulders, while a smaller cylinder forms the neck.

An arm is an alternating sequence of spheres and cylinders connected together. Note that the hand has been simplified for this example.

We can apply these solid shapes to the rest of the body to give us a more recognizable representation of the human form. It doesn't even have to be perfect. And just like that, our stick figure now has a silhouette that is unmistakably a person!

In the above examples, notice that we kept the stick person at the beginning while building up the shapes and solids around it. This is because the stick person serves as a guide for positioning the body and its various parts -> also known as posing.

You can do the same thing to everyday objects! Here, I drew a wine glass by stacking these three dimensional solid shapes.

The cup and its contents are two ovoid shapes that were cut in half. The stem is a very thin cylinder shape. The base is a cylinder with a slightly wider bottom.

Solid shapes help inform us how objects and parts of the human body may appear from different perspectives.

For example, a sphere can be used to demonstrate how the human head appears when looking up or down, turned to the side, or tilted at an angle.

With these examples, I hope I have managed to convinced you that if you can draw a circle and a couple of lines, you can draw a person! You just have to train your eye to recognize the simple shapes within complex objects. Try it with everyday objects as well! Or even your favourite media! A drawing subject can be as simple or as complex as you envision it to be.

Once you have mastered that, there are many aspects of drawing you can explore from here that may require you to seek additional resources or a fellow artist's advice.

Last of all, remember that drawing is an iterative process. Even if you draw something correct the first time, you will need to draw it again and again to get it right all times! And by making small changes like the ones we explored in this tutorial, your drawings will gradually transform!

I hope what I've demonstrated here are enough to provide the basics of how to get started with drawing objects and people, and also to help refresh more experienced artists. :) Hopefully I didn't go too off topic with what was requested, and let me know if there are any more questions I can answer.

Cheers :3

[alexpanaroki]

I AM SO NORMAL ABOUT THE NEW CHAPTER SO ABSOLUTELY NORMAL SO SO SO SO NORMAL RAHHAHGHHHHERHJGGHJDGHJKASJGHASGHJSDJGHJASHDGHJASDGHJASJDHG @pittdpeaches

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AHHHH *Is too silly*

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Not midway but that was the best choice shrugs

As usual rb for sample size blah blah blah

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Found these sillys in roblox bloxy bingo. Gamzee is extra don't mind him

#homestuck #roblox #queer #ass

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SONG: Noel's Lament - Ride the Cyclone

INCOMING GAMZEE THOUGHT SCRAMBLE!

Idea of this is that Gamz gets out of the fridge on earth c as Vriska intended and he becomes more fucked up (plans on burning the entire place down) because he followed under Condense's brainwash (Clown Religion) mixed with Lord English's command, then Aranea controlled him and Vriska did her part Him wanting to take down the entire place is HIS decision (or, he tells himself) and it offers some kind of liberty for him to do what he wants Evil Gamzee is always just someone else making him do evil. So him actually doing something with his own virtue might be interesting? whom knows. I think it'd be interesting >:)c Imagine, he realizes he can't hear Lord English, Aranea, nothing. And he's immediately filled with this agonizing RAGE Finally following his Aspect and progressing his Bard of Rage path in the most destructive and desperate way possible... HEHEHEHEHE

[alexpanaroki]

I'm gay for my significant other and my significant other is gay for me and we make trolls that are gay for each other

[alexpanaroki]

SOBS VOILENTLY PLS I WANNA SEE THIS SCENE

Yeah I'd be devastated

[alexpanaroki]

Read this ao3 spicnoodles story and I drew some scenes WARNING SPOILERS if you want to go read it go it’s super good

#lego monkie kid #monkie kid mk #red son #gay