#as usual fuck anatomy and foreshortening

[hayaku14]

GUYS I'M BEGGING

SHINICHI ON A SKATEBOARD

PLEASE

#I'VE BEEN TRYING TO FIND A FANART OF GROWN UP SHINICHI ON A SKATEBOARD FOR YEARS TO NO AVAIL #so i took a reference and went FINE I'LL DO IT MYSELF #BUT ALSO I HAVENT DRAW IN AGES DEAR GOD #as usual fuck anatomy and foreshortening #BUT ALSO PLEASE SEE THE VISION??!??!?!? SHINICHI ON A FUCKING SKATEBOARD????? #KAITO TAKING VIDEOS AND THIRSTING???? #DETECTIVE BOYS CHEERING?????? #shinichi would be doing some skateboard tricks cause the kids asked him (with kaito's prodding behind the scenes hehe) #GUYS PLEASE GIVE ME MORE SKATEBOARDER SHINICHI #lowkey hope this shitty drawing frustrates someone enough to actually draw him on a skateboard HHEHEHEHEH >:3c #or else i'd have to do it myself FUCK NOOOOOOO #also not me drawing something when i just posted earlier i should pick up a pen and start writing LMAO #dc prattles #dcmk #kudou shinichi #kaishin

[sleepyconfusedpotato]

I just want to say this- I've been looking at your art, and your artwork is so awesome!

As a fellow art lover and artist, how often do you deal with the frustration of knowing what mistake you make, when doing a sketch and how do you handle it?

Hello Anon! (｡･∀･)ﾉﾞ

First of all, thank you so much for the kind words!

About the frustrated thingy, I feel it almost every single day. "Almost" because sometimes I'm just on fire and can nail the drawings, but more often than not, I tend to scrap my sketches and start from the beginning.

"Knowing what mistake you made" is actually a really, really good place to be! Because at least we know what's wrong. Usually with art, we tend to not know what we do wrong, so we can't even begin to fix what's wrong.

Why doesn't my drawing resemble the character? Why does the anatomy look wrong? Why is the leg bend in such a wrong way? Why does the elbow look weird? Why is the hand look like it's been crushed? Why is my lineart so flat? Why don't my art has more character? All these questions circulates my mind almost constantly!

So I learn how to identify my mistake.

Oh! His eyes are upturned, not downturned! Oh, his eyebrows are supposed to be thicker! Oh the the thigh is too long or the calves are too thin! Oh the elbow's too short or the foreshortening can be fixed! The fingers bent the wrong way, maybe I should take a photo of my own hand as reference! Maybe my lineart needs more variations on the thickness and identify which part needs more thicker line and which part needs a thinner line. Maybe I just need to practice a fuck ton more!

These little errors don't define our whole arts, it helps us to be better. Yea it might take years but it's just us being human. We repeat mistakes, but that's why we practice.

So uhh that's my lil advice to the question! Hope that answers it, happy drawing and don't forget to stay happy yayayaya ヾ(≧▽≦*)o

#sleepy answers #art #art things #art struggles #art advice

[clockwaysarts]

WTF Shoes.

I had someone on a discord I’m in ask me about how to deal with feet and shoes and so since they got an impromptu tutorial, so do all of you! Check it out under the cut.

SO first things first I had better just start with a few general ‘this is my process' and then can do some feet/shoe-centric stuff.

I start with basically a gesture drawing: loose, main lines, trying not to worry. Then I compile references and do one paying attention to anatomy. More. I always start drawing my people naked usually they end up clothed I’m looking at you, mostly naked Link.

I've taken to doing my sketches in orange cause it's a weird brain trick to take them less seriously. Also if I'm WISE I do them in a loose pencil brush or I get overly detailed... I was not wise here. Depending on how much I've fucked up I may do a second pass. I'm not worrying about hands or feet too much here, drawing them as blocks mostly.

This is another refinement pass on the left and then the same drawing on the right where I start working out the clothing! Clothing I mostly focus on A) where it adds bulks (esp useful for shoes) and B) where folds are showing the body's bends and overlaps.

If a body part is being a PAIN esp with pose or foreshortening is a real thing, I'll do this technique with circles to think of the mass and bulk of the body part and how it bends (esp with foreshortening). I'll also often do a more detailed pass at fingers and boots here where I start actually figuring them out! (Seen here over my lines just cause I was having to work backwards through this making sense to tutorialize it.)

In these stages I have zero qualms cutting and pasting parts and scaling them. This a place digital has a real advantage over physical. I resized these damn legs so many times.

LET’S GET FEET SPECIFIC

Here's a very rough way I think of feet and legs and how I think of going about drawing them with shoes. Since I know my hand writing is ffffzt

1) Start with a wedge at the end of the leg tube.

2) Detail it out with specific attention to the ankle and arch

3) Add bulk for the shoe (some shoes add more like hiking boots and tennies, some less like flats)

4) Add shoe details on that base! (Almost ALL shoes have a sep heal detail and side seam- some heels are exceptions to this! Side zippers or buckles can be really cute details instead of just laces too)

Now I start with a wedge cause it’s what my brain defaults too, but really I’m skipping a step! The box~ But if need be think of a leg stuck into a kleenex box, draw said box, and turn into a foot! And then a shoe! Using the previous steps.

The other thing to keep in mind is that a foot can, of course, bend. The stiffer the shoe the less bend it can do outside of the shoe (usually the bigger the sole the stiffer but high heels are the exception to that rule).

So, uh, this is a bit rough and tumble, but go forth and shoe?

#tips&tutsTues #I know it's not Tuesday but #tutorial #drawing tutorial