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You know what’s some crazy $hit?

This fabulous bitch

She makes a shit ton of poses (like 16,000 or some crazy nonsense).  I used this lovely lady to draw so much as a teen.  Whether it was some nerdy pose for my Mary Sue as fuck OCs

or for full on fight sequences

or for tragic deaths of my OCs in the arms of a totally OOC main protagonist.  

this bitch hooked me up.  

And with the wildest, craziest stuff that you could see in your head but had no way or resources to reasonably draw like

or this

or this

DUDE!  INASNE SHIT!!  So I was using her for a pose reference and decided, you know what, I owe this bitch some cash.  Lemme dole it out for her.  BUT then, I looked and saw she only has 286 fucking patrons!!  This chick gives out free shit and spends countless hours arranging these shoots and setting this stuff up.  

I’ll fork up the cash, SenshiStock.  You’re worth it.  

Check out this amazing woman’s stuff, and get knowledged:  https://www.deviantart.com/senshistock

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fucked up how colors look different depending on what screen you’re looking at them on. that should be illegal I think

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hullo! your art is gorgeous and I love it.

um, do- do you have any advice, or tips for wannabe artists?

Thanks! Have a good day!

Hey! So, let’s begin:

-Be clever with your sketchbooks;

I often saw artists around me buy expensive sketchbooks and abandon them less than halfway, because they were afraid they'd ruin it. So I ALWAYS recommend everyone to get a cheap sketchbook that they wouldn't feel sorry to 'ruin'. I always have two sketchbooks; one for more complex ink stuff, and another for messing around. Despite posting more works from the ink sketchbook online, my favorite one is the messiest. Someone said that sketchbooks should be an experimentation lab and not a gallery, and that's 100% true. My REAL sketchbook is an A5 of 300pages that cost around 3 euros (here it is bellow, next to my ink sketchbook)

-Practise anatomy and don't shy away from references;

Draw people and poses! I began studying anatomy by re-drawing drawn pose references from deviantArt. To make it more appealing, you can always sketch your fave characters instead of having blank models. Now, that's a good beginning, but it's always good to know how to draw poses from real people. There's plenty of stock poses online.

For a more complex breakdown of what's happening under the skin, I also have these books. The title seems to change depending on the country, but the books are by Michel Lauricella. Easy to grasp, beautiful, and priced very friendly in comparison to other anatomy books (I got the big one for 17Eu)

Also a fun practice to do is to find cosplayers of the characters you like and sketch them (If you ever post it online, do make sure to credit them)!

Now, this one might be controversional and it's a hard one to balance. I will speak from my own experience. Staying away from posting art on social media for the first 2 years or so when I was learning how to draw helped a lot.

It's nice to get feedback, positive reinforcement is great. Unfortunately I see so often people posting art and being disappointed when it doesn't reach the numbers they wanted. Then one drawing does, and they tend to shift their whole artstyle/direction according to the drawing that made them most popular.

When I began focusing on drawing, I was surrounded by people irl who also drew, so I could share without social media. So share your art with your close friends, or any art clubs nearby, or discord servers. It doesn't mean you're forbidden from posting online, but be wary of how online numbers can make you feel.

Thank you for the support and the question! Best of luck!

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as requested- my zine about fat and plus size body types from instagram!💖 happy drawing everyone!

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Hi! I’m really sick of whitewashing and the various excuses that artists come up with, so I wrote a guide! How To Not Whitewash, at least with regards to skin tone. Please make use of it, and encourage other artists to do so as well. Here’s a link to this guide on a Google Doc - this document has image descriptions. Feel free to contact me if the link stops working, or if you have questions (in good faith).

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Do you have advice on drawing backgrounds with characters?

First, don’t imagine backgrounds as “backgrounds,” like some kind of giant placard you place behind characters on a stageplay. Think of them as “environments!” A place where your characters interact, make conversation, eat food, sleep, grab stuff, jump around on, fight, etc. The environment is just as important to the visuals as the characters, nobody exists in a void. 

The most important thing to do is to plan to draw the character(s) IN the background/environment, not as an afterthought.

I also like imagining myself as a cinematographer in my own comic, somebody with a camera, who is on the set with the characters. I think about the best way to “shoot” the characters doing what they’re doing based on what they’re doing and the tone. Is it a happy scene? A sad scene? I also think about the environment they’re in and what are some interesting ways to frame the character.

I’ll give a quick and dirty example. Say you Character1 is waiting at a bus stop. It’s a very boring and normal bus stop. It’s got a bush, a tree and a bus sign on a sidewalk. 

Not a very exciting drawing, but it establishes what Character1 is doing and where at. Notice I used the underside of the tree and the bus sign to make a little “window” around Character1′s head. It puts the viewer’s attention right on them. But what if Character1 is really anxious? How would you convey that?

Now, the “camera” moved to the side. It puts Character1 more on the bottom-left corner of the drawing, making them look more on edge. Once again, notice that I used the tree, bush, and sign to frame around Character1.

Now the camera is behind the bush AND tree, so we’re now looking at Character1′s back. Maybe you don’t want people to know what Character1 is thinking. 

Or what if Character1 is having an existential crisis while waiting for the bus? Here, I’m shooting upward on them and dutch angled the drawing (which means tilting the camera) to give it a jarring, disoriented feeling. 

These are just some ways to draw the environment with the characters in it. And note, this works best if you’re doing comics or storyboarding, but it might not be necessarily true for some illustration styles. This is just the way I do it. :)

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HEY THIS IS IMPORTANT whats your favorite place to find drawing references?

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Patreon: [patreon.com/lunaartgallery]

My last drawing tutorial was back in 2017, whoa, welp it looks like my drawing skills have gotten better. Since I have some more spare time, I will be doing new/updated art tutorials revisiting some of my previous topics.

I’ll post the tips publicly but my reference material and examples will be Patreon exclusive. If you like these tips and want to see more, support my Patreon! It allows me to focus on more material like this and I would really appreciate it .

Thanks! ——-—— Devi: [deviantart.com/miss-noidentity] Twitter: [@LunaArt_Gallery] Instagram: [@lunaartgallerys]

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Art tutorials by Disney artists Griz and Norm Lemay

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JUST SOME THOUGHTS! I don’t really like the “go from the top up” advice on drapery/clothes - if you’re having difficulty try it like this!

YES I see the typo… I’m so sorry folks… I was in a frenzied rush to make this…… and I’m too lazy to fix it……

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Random mansion generator

The Procgen Mansion Generator produces large three-dee dwellings to toy with your imagination, offering various architectural styles and other options. Each mansion even comes with floorplans:

https://boingboing.net/2019/07/12/random-mansion-generator.html

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Keep reading

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Hey kids!  If you’re a filmmaker, animator, or storyboard artist and you don’t know what screen direction is, you might want to read this.

For the record, there are always exceptions to the rule in filmmaking, which is why I pointed out 3 examples here.

I’ve also found that comic books tend to NOT take screen direction as seriously as film does, but I’m still on the fence if this is wise or not.  My favorite comics pay close attention to screen direction so as to not confuse the reader.

Good luck!

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HEY THIS IS IMPORTANT whats your favorite place to find drawing references?

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Trying to find the perfect name for a character, but you only have a vague idea of what you want, like “he feels like a 2-syllable kind of guy” or “It need a hard consonant at the end.”   

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someting for a friend