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how to draw arms ? ? 

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10 drawing prompts to help you sketch outside the box.

1) Self portrait:  In a mirror with a washable pen, trace the lines of your face (on your face), or of one particular part (an eye, your mouth, etc.) Take note of things that you discover: the placement of under-eye bags, the curves in your nose, the line of your jaw. Recreate the line-art on paper. 

2) Poses and Posture: Draw stick figures in a variety of positions- dancing, jumping, leaning backwards, sitting forwards, etc. gradually fill in the bodies of these figures using a wooden model or online guide. It’s helpful to draw a line down the centre of your figures that runs through the nose, sternum, and pelvis. If your figure is twisted or bent, the line should be too. 

3) Doodle: Draw the silhouette of something you’re good at drawing. Then, draw the biggest circle that you can without going outside the lines of that silhouette. In the remaining space around the circle, draw the biggest circles that you can. Attempt to fill the entire space with circles. Each new circle creates room for several smaller ones, and eventually you will have spaces that are too small for new circles ( using a fineliner will reduce but not eliminate this problem). If you like, colour in the circles and spaces according to the coloration of the thing you drew the silhouette of. 

4) Creativity: Using an online guide, make a rough sketch of the proportions of a human face. Include lines for the nose, mouth, eyes, ears, and eyebrows. Then, instead of drawing a human face, try to draw one as alien as possible while still following the proportions you have sketched. Pay attention to shading and details such as eyelashes, lip-wrinkles, and facial blemishes. 

5) Hands: Go through a few magazines and cut out pictures of hands in as many different positions as possible to glue into your sketchbook. Using a pencil or erasable pen, trace over the key features of each hand. Pay close attention to the width of the hand, the length, and its connection to the wrist. Try to recreate these hands beside the pictures. Don’t focus on detail, instead, focus on making the position of the hand look as natural and fluid as possible.  

6) Perspective: with a pencil, draw a large square with a dot in the centre. Draw lines between the corners of the square, crossing over the dot in the centre. Attempt to draw the room you are sitting in by first drawing the largest objects, and later filling in details. Use the lines as guidelines for perspective: things closer to the dot will be further away, things closer to the edges of the square will be closest to you. An object that starts close and gets further away will seem like it is being ‘pulled’ into the centre by the dot, and will have lines of the same angles as those you have drawn. 

7) Animals: If you have a pet, try to sketch it as quickly as possible. Focus on forms and shapes, not on detail. When it moves, sketch its new position over top of the old one. If it moves to the right, sketch it again to the right. Allow your sketches to overlap. If you do not have a pet, this would be a great excuse to watch cute cat videos on youtube. 

8) Memory: It’s dangerous to rely on memory when drawing, especially if you haven’t trained your memory to recall forms and shapes before details. Generally, what we remember most about a scene is what we see as the most unusual. This is why some people are good at drawing eyes, but unable to draw the rest of the face. For this exercise, find a photograph you like in a magazine or newspaper, and give yourself 30 seconds to study it. Try to see shapes, not objects. Instead of seeing a cup, remember the shape of the cup and its position relevant to other objects. Then, try recreate the photograph from memory. This may take several tries, don’t be afraid to ‘cheat’ if you get stuck. 

9) Abstract: allow yourself to be filled with a specific emotion. Focus on that emotion, think about how it feels, the physical effect it has on your body. Try to draw that emotion coming out of you. It may be helpful to start by drawing a self-portrait of your facial expression while feeling the emotion, and letting yourself get carried away as you draw the components of your face that are most altered by that expression. Don’t try to preserve the first things you sketch, let them be covered and obscured as you add more details. 

10) Practice: It’s always good to practice drawing objects, I find it most helpful to draw from photographs. Dedicate a page in your book to drawing objects that you feel represent you, or are otherwise close to your heart/ identity. Like music? Try drawing piano keys. Like fashion? Draw a few of your outfits draped over the bed. Try to fill the page with these drawings, making use of every inch of space available. 

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OC Drawing Prompts!

Reblog for others to send emojis to your ask box (or just draw what you want)!

✂️ Hair Swap - Draw an OC with the hairstyle of another character

📕 Books - Draw an OC reading their favorite book in their favorite spot

🌧 Rainy Day - Draw your OC out in the rain, with or without an umbrella

❤️ Love - Draw your OC with their romantic partner(s)

💔 Heartbreak - Draw your OC experiencing heartbreak

🌈 Pride - Draw any LGBT+ OC celebrating pride of their identity

💧 Tears - Draw your OC crying, either lightly or heavy sobs

🌸 Flower - Draw your OC in a flower crown

⭐️ Divinity - Draw your OC as a deity, in godlike clothing

👑 Royalty - Draw your OC as royalty with a crown that fits their personality

👩‍👩‍👧‍👦 Family - Draw your OC with one or more members of their immediate family

👕 Outfit Swap - Draw your OC in the clothes of another OC

🌙 Bedtime - Draw your OC in their pajamas

🗡 Adventure - Draw your OC as if they were a fantasy adventurer

🔮 Magic - Draw your OC as a magic being/using magic

💊 Medic - Draw your OC having wounds patched up

🌎 Culture - Draw your OC in clothes and/or doing actions that represent their culture

🕷 Spooky - Draw your OC terrified/facing their biggest fear

😡 Rage - Draw your OC the maddest they’ve ever been

✏️ School - Draw your OC in a school uniform, either as when they were a child or as an adult

🎩 Dapper - Draw your OC in fancy dinner party clothes

🏖 Beach Day - Draw your OC in their swimsuit, or whatever they would typically wear to the beach

❄️ Arctic - Draw your OC in heavy winter clothing

🐻 Species Swap - Draw a human OC as an animal, or an animal oc as a human

⚰️ Death - Draw your OC as a ghost

🍭 Candy - Draw your OC in candy clothes

💫 Galaxy - Draw your OC with a space/galaxy aesthetic

🤖 Robot - Draw your OC as a robot (or draw your robot OC as a human)

📜 Old Times - Draw your OC in old-fashioned

🔧 Job Swap - Draw your OC wearing the uniform and doing the job of another OC

🎥 Star - Draw your OC as a moviestar

🛏 Sleep - Draw your OC napping, in their bed or in an inconvenient or strange location

🍎 Food - Draw your OC enjoying their favorite food

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It has been done…🔥❄ my response

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“There are some who bring a light so great to the world that even after they have gone the light remains”.

After all this time?

Alan, you will always be loved, never forgotten and remembered forever. We still miss you so, so much ❤❤❤

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Introducing, baby bananya! ☆

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My Own Little Tutorial - Folds by ZejanNoSaru

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OMG I REMEMBER THE EXACT VHS I SAW THIS ON!!

#omigawd i remember this commercial #holy shiiiit

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Possibly taken around 2014, Photographer unknown but here is the full photoset

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I am literally both of those things and tbh to this day I don't know how to feel about that...

I did the being edgy and self-deprecating thing, it gets old. I wanna be soft and lovely and easily impressed. I wanna appreciate all the little things that make me happy the same way I’ve dwelled on every single thing that upsets me.

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People who are younger than you but taller

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have two mini mini mini animation tutorials

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THE PORTFOLIO THAT GOT ME HIRED (FIRST ANIMATION JOB)!

In case some of you consider getting a job at an animation studio or something similar!! Check out this video, because she has a high quality portfolio.

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I don’t like my current artskill, so I’m practicing until I’m okay with it again. #learntodrawagain

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Songs for when you loose someone you never really had in the first place

Daddy issues: The Neighborhood

Six feet under: Billie Eilish

Lookalike: Conan Gray

Crush Culture: Conan Gray

Superhero: Lauv

Somebody Else: The 1975

Ghost of You: 5 Seconds of Summer

Lie To Me: 5 Seconds of Summer

feelings are fatal: mxmtoon

the idea of you: mxmtoon

Fool: Cavetown

Jocelyn Flores: XXXtentation

Love Me: Kay Cook

Tear In My Heart: Twenty One Pilots

SLOW DANCING IN THE DARK: Joji

FOOLS: Troye Sivan

Roses: juice WRLD ft. Brendon Urie + benny blanco

I was in a mood so I made a playlist based on said mood :) I’ll probably do this from now on every time I get in a oddly specific mood

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Hiya! I’d just like to say that I love your art and I think you’re absolutely amazing!! ❤️ Do you have any tips on drawing & getting proportions right? Thanks!! xxx

This may not necessarily be the “right” way in, say, a professor’s opinion, but it’s more how I think I personally work. I have to say, I haven’t given it much thought beforehand. 

The first thing I’m going to say is: PRACTICE. I’ve been drawing since I could hold a pencil, so I have technically had ~20 or so years of experience. You observe a lot in your younger years, which brings to a related point of: OBSERVE. Take in how different people look and how they move. Drawing from life is going to be your best point of reference. And if you want to stay home, use websites like sketchdaily or line-of-action, or even just google images. You can set timers on these websites for when the images change, so you can practice gesturing and drawing faster, and they use real people. 

I go to an art college, so obviously I’ve had classes over this stuff, but most of my improvement comes from my own work. As you continue to draw, you will begin to notice the flaws in your own work, and that can help you to understand them and continue to improve on them. Gradually, it becomes easier to understand shape and form. Once you come to understand the anatomical structure, it’s easier to develop and improve your own unique style. 

Observation, even unintentionally, is my greatest ally, and that of any other artist. I will use a couple LT screencaps as examples since I draw Sportacus and Robbie most often. I tried to show how I sort of see things.

I have rewatched this show over and over again, and honestly, most of the heavy improvements I’ve seen in my art over the past year, even a few months, has been because of LazyTown. To me, this show is basically what I would call a “live-action cartoon.” The actors, especially Stefan, have a very defined “line of action” in many scenes, which usually come as lines, C curves, or S curves. The, well, tight clothes, and defined muscles, of Magnus and Stefan alike, have made it easy to observe the muscle structure and how it works without really thinking about it. Practically any screencap you take from LazyTown is good for gesture and anatomy practice, and has helped in the process of creating more dynamic, and considerably less stiff poses. 

I hope that helps!! Thank you!

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