#pose referenced off pinterest! not mine

[activatingaggro]

what’s your typical process for these huge art pieces? your posing is so nice and weighty and casual w such lovely interaction and I struggle to imagine how to even begin putting that together. ur ball pieces this year are epic

Aw! That's very sweet of you, and I appreciate that they look nice to people outside of my niche, haha. :] I stopped posting fantroll art for a bit, because it seemed a touch silly to post them on tumblr when.. I haven't even updated profiles here in literally years! But I'm glad that it still has some appeal even without larger context, lol.

My process is pretty straightforward! Part of it is just - take pictures, get references, get up and do the shit that you're about to draw! I would share pictures for examples here, but they're all vastly unflattering and I'm pretty sure I would be rightfully slaughtered by my helpful volunteers if I did that. But basically, I take pictures for everything if I can't find a good reference, and I'll frequently set up my phone to record myself when I'm doing an action pose!

This is because a lot of the weightiness of a picture, for me, is just.. how a person adjusts their weight and holds their body while in motion! The art I make where I'm referencing myself is generally pretty obvious, for example, because I use a cane, and keep 90% of my weight on my right leg. But different heights, different weight, different fat and muscle distribution also all play a big part in how people hold themselves, and videos and photos are fantastic for actually seeing that. When it's something too complex to do myself, or to get some unfortunate volunteer to do it for me, I like looking at Youtube videos on slow motion.

So, for example: Riccin fights with a meteor hammer. There's a decent amount of footage of people using meteor hammers on Youtube!

So, I put this on slow motion! 0.25 speed, find a shot that I like at 1:00. With something like this, there's not much point to trying to act it out IRL and film it to get new angles - we have a much easier, and more viable route, in just using fucking 3D posers. There's a lot of them out there today! A lot of people like using the one built into Clip Studio, but I just found a random one on google that's free called PoseMy.Art to demonstrate the basic idea.

The goal for this is not to make an exact replica (because I am lazy and am not entirely sure how this poser works, lol). The goal is mostly to let you explore angles, and to get a better idea of what looks dynamic or interesting enough to work with! Because the main lure of these, for me, is to look at different angles, and then use those angles as a basis to make the pose more interesting. (Neon reds on the first are where I shrank/adjusted/moved the model to create a very lazy foreshortening!)

But what about for more casual or chill poses?

The answer is mostly the same, except with added social shit in, in that - first off, I make my friends help me find poses. I have a channel in one of my discord servers that's just there for reference, and I'll ask, say, @rebatrolls if she can find me a good pose for so-and-so picture. "I want something cozy!" She will then go off into the mines of pinterest like my faithful canary ready to be strangled by cave gas or something, and emerge with pictures. Sometimes these are great pictures! Each individual entity in our godsforsaken world has their own individual preferences, which shows in the sort of pictures that they pick.

Sometimes it's helpful! sometimes it is not. An example: I asked for obnoxious cheesecake photos for Liable! Reba brought out boudoir photos. Cal brought out NSFW anime figurines. There are two weebs inside of all of us, and one of those weebs is marginally less terrible than the other. uwu

But references, finding pictures you like, and then recreating them and changing up the angle helps a lot! Because there's a lot of gorgeous, very casual, very affectionate photoshoots out there:

And my last bit is just. Looking at all of these photoshoots and candids, and looking at my own personal preferences, as well as my friends'! I am a nosy fuck and I like to ask people, like: what gestures stand out to you? what things feel the most affectionate to you? when you're close to someone, what is your body language? when you want to be an asshole, what do you do?

That gives me an easy little mental library to build off of to add in intimacy when I'm making poses. I am a grade A lemur when it comes to being physically affectionate, so I rely on that a lot in my poses - people have looped arms, people just casually finding a way to make physical contact through an arm or a foot or leaning, there's a lot of people sprawling out on top of their friends / otherwise being in close contact, because I know how that looks, basically. All the little squidgy details, like "how do people curl their fingers when they're holding hands and their arms are looped together" are already in my brain from years of experience, haha.

And the good part of plumbing my friends' brains for their own references is - some people are very fond of, like, people resting their chins on their heads, and they can say exactly how arms usually rest in that pose. Someone might have grown up with bumping noses with people as a kiss, or kissing everyone's cheeks. Some people might say: oh, I've always had taller people walk between the sidewalk and I, or else they've always sat with their shoulders parallel to their friends knees from years of braiding hair, or or or --

It makes it useful to pull off the little affectionate details! I used to struggle more with just.. casual, fond poses between characters, until I realised: oh, wait, just draw it from life. Because even if you don't have friends that are comfortable sharing that sort of info, or else you don't personally pay attention to it much in your own life - because some people don't, and that's fine! - I've also just occasionally sat down at some busy locale, brought a notebook, and wrote down the gestures, and movements, and little actions of the couples, or families, or friends that wander by. It's all about building up a library, essentially, and once you have, you'll find you'll just start plugging it into pictures automatically.

#thank you for the ask!

[yarrystyleeza]

how did you make your pfp i love it

Hi nonnie, well I drew it myself on paper, it's not digital at any sorts. They're Matt and Madilyn (my oc) on Valentine's day. 💖💖💖

This was the first sketch of it, it's referenced from a pose I found on pinterest (I changed the expressions a bit because the guy in the reference was pissed off — in contrast to Matt who was enjoying the hold 😉)

Actually I never noticed he has a hold on her bum until my friends mentioned it to me 😂 but it was hilarious, they looked at me like "you pervert" 😂😂😂 no one knows what goes on in this little brain of mine (the most perverted shit). But I didn't do it on purpose this time 😂😂😂

This is the final product, I use Faber Castel color pencils (the normal one — not the water color pencils), and for the markers it's called TOUCH idk if it exists outside my country but they're amazing and the colors are solid — and PRISMACOLOR markers too, as well as calligraphy markers because it has the darkest black. I also used a regular black ballpen for tracing. And for sketching I used an HB pencil.

As for the context of the drawing itself, it's valentine's day, Matt confesses his feelings to Madilyn after a year of total Rollercoasters between them (besides them thinking the other is considering them a friend and not interested in them in a romantic way, and they don't want to ruin their friendship if any of them confesses). When Matt confesses, Madilyn gets surprised and —in contrast— grabs his face close and kisses him, it's not long, it's not that of a perfect one, it was more like "finally you said it!" one. She parts and apologizes for what she did and how awkward it was of her to catch him off guard, so he tells her that he loves her and her kiss and he wants to kiss her (for real now). She accepts and kisses him, they dance their way out of the office kitchen. The kisses are eager and sensational, but they end up in giggles and lipstick marks around Matt's face. They're caught on camera for Foggy's valentine's special recap, they're all red — while Foggy and Karen are laughing their asses at them because it took them so long to actually realize that they liked each other. "we thought you'd hook up in two weeks not a goddamn year!" Foggy would yell, and Karen can't keep her face straight. After they're done laughing, Matt asks Madilyn out, she asks for a specific ice-cream date, and he accepts and kisses her passionately. 🥴💖

-I can hear how smoochy they are and Matt is just a bitch he lives for smoochies-

Anyways thanks for the ask nonnie! 💖

#yomna's ask box #Thank you nonnie #Nonnie asks #matt murdock #Madilyn Mayfield

[milkgrizz]

i don't think you traced but i think they mean https://adonis.tumblr.com/post/715084333629751296/i-got-so-much-better-the-glowup because it at least looks reference

yeah ive talked to the op of that art and showed them the pose reference i used that i got off pinterest

to be clear, i wasnt aware of adonis's art before i drew mine (i have not been active in the dr fandom space since 2021) and i wasnt tracing or referencing their art but this image instead. i think im within my right to keep my art up because i was genuinely not aware of it before the asks but if its a problem then i dont mind deleting if op wants me to, i just dont want to be labelled as a tracer or someone who steals ideas with no credit when thats not the case

#ask

[miszmal]

kids playing nice

#this week was so stressful so i curl back into my b/o friendship ball #pose referenced off pinterest! not mine #beatrice baudelaire #count olaf #sugarbowl gen #asoue #digital #ink doodle #firealpaca

[wikagirl]

So a buddy of mine and I have lowkey been obsessed with Sk8 the Infinity ever since it came out and since one of the crazy dudes that I refer to as my friends got me clipstuido paint as a late birthdaygift I though drawing some sk8-sonas/selfinserts for shits and giggles might be a fun way to test the software so here we are.

My dude Sascha picked out "Hyena" as his sk8-sonas name for S because of his hyena-like laugh and he is just your average skater here to have fun, potentionally break a bone or two all while being the personified trope of the meme-worthy russian CS:GO player. He'd work as a simple car mechanic and always smell like fuel and grease. And yes, his entire outfit is mostly dedsec (watchdogs 2) themes because we are both cheap whores for the game series don't @ me. The S-name for my sk8-sona was picked due to a ffxiv themed parody of "The real slim shady" and it lowkey slabs so that's where it's from go look it up you will not regret I promise. As for what type of skater I'd consider myself to be: in terms of on a board, not at all because my sense of balance on a moving floor, which a board basicly is, is fucked so I prefer using inlineskates instead but my sk8-sona still has a board for aesthetic reasons. She always carries around a backpack filled to the brim with a first-aid kit, fresh drinks and emergency snacks for all the low bloodsugar people out there so bascily the mom-friend also if you can't upstage your opponent with skating skills, you can at least upstage them visually so she has an assortment of potential outfits for specifit beefs, including a few cosplays, and she only accepts beefs one week ahead of time so she has time to plan out an outfit. I'd imagine she'd work in a small café downtown in addition to working at the front desk of a vetclinic.

EDIT: grammar and spelling also I forgot to mention that the poses are heavily referenced off of pinterest and just clips of ppl doing tricks plz don‘t sue me for using references lmao

#radom #wiika #myart #sk8 #sk8 the infinity

[svgarzaddy]

#12- Anya

hullo.... it has been... very.... long..... ive been so fockin busy n now dat im on break i wanted to draw something.. i was ~motivated~ cos i spent like 2 whole days on pinterest looking at inspo fer my ffxiv oc anya... at first i said i wanted to try drawing like... a yakuza au of my oc but. i realised u need to draw tattoos and ma’am... im not at that lvl yet so i jus. drew something simpler.... uwu... ok it is She.. come look....

well. i dont know how to continue from here oof. i think theres something off wit the anatomy and as u can tell, i still cant draw lips so ig ill jus die then... and theres so much Details to Add but im.. have no idea man. i was planning to draw adi frm my prev post cos dat drawing is ugly as shit ! and also to draw my friends from dat heathers post again... but this is jus something i planned to do fer some time now... so yeeyee?

anyways here she is in game format... i cropped it cos theres a friends oc next to mine n i dont think shed want her character posted without permission skksksks

yeh thats what i referenced for the pose.... but im pretty satisfied to kno that at least i havent drastically de-proved tho i havent drawn in like 50 years LOLLL. enjoy? :>

#photoshop #digital art progress #oc #drawing #anya #ffxiv