#shes a lot of fun to sketch

[robinfollies]

Been really pondering Fantoccio and the cursed citizens lately… like, if you’re stuck in a city for 15 years with some of your only company being these cursed globby versions of the people that used to surround you normally, you’d start to Notice Things that remind you of who they used to be, right?

#I HAVE SO SO MANY THOUGHTS ABOUT THIS GUY HE MAKES ME SOOO SAD. FANTOCCIO…. #i really do think about his time in the city a lot. like a whooole lot. #like ofc these are weird amorphous blobs but yknow. there may still be some semblance of who they used to be within them #they have old habits or hang around in places they used to live idk idk. #they still have some of that old humanity they used to hold i guess… even in their cursed forms… #a little spark of hope that maybe everything will go back to normal someday #i dunno. and maybe eventually they even start to LOOK normal. all in ur head #fanto’s supposed to be younger here btw!! id personally put him at around 12-14 maybe? #also the bear baker’s name is Miss Cardamom!! unfortunately she is doomed by the narrative…. so sad… ú_ù #the bg characters were VERY VERY FUN to design!!! hehehe #billie bust up #bbu fantoccio #bbu the fella #robin’s art #2024 art #didnt mean to go as hard on the art as i did… twas supposed to just be a simple sketch comic HAHA #comicfollies

[chrisrin]

ROSEMARY DESIGNS!!

#homestuck #gemstuck #hs #rose lalonde #kanaya maryam #rosemary #i DO know sunstone already exists buuuut #shes a vampire that glows #shes a light aspect #they gotta have the unifying element cmon cmon #i was also thinking fire opal too but i went with sunstone in the end #sketch design in the back is one that i was playing with but i went with the big final one instead #im VERYYY happy with rose's design just her. #i had a lot of fun with all of these tho <3 #chris doodles #thinking abt their fusion dance in my head orz

[rockybloo]

A random character design before I take my daily nap.

Out of all the mythical beings, I've always had a fondness Gorgon-like designs just because I like snakes and the concept of styling snake hair. Plus I've been trying for ages to craft a Gorgon character (in the past they've just been my own spins on Medusa) but this time I just chose a completely original character approach.

I kind of like the idea of using her to explore a mythical being populated setting like secret cities hidden from humans filled with mythical creatures.

But for now, she exists as a nice little character concept.

#i might name her diamante as a ref to diamondback snakes #i don't see a lot of black gorgons which is a shame bc snake hair would be so fun to put in loc based hairstyles #SO I GUESS I WILL BE THE CHANGE I WANT TO SEE IN THE WORLD #anyways she doesn't like when people touch her hair #my art #sketch

[ej-artyarts]

Butch trans masc Ragatha (aka gives her a mullet and pants)

#I love Ragatha as she is #but masc people are my comfort zone so I had a LOT of fun with these #her holding Pomni was so complicated for no reason lol #the amazing digital circus #tadc #tadc fanart #fanart #tadc Ragatha #tadc Pomni #buttonblossom #ragapom #sketches #artists on tumblr #digital art #arty doodles #arty arts

[nattravn-art]

"Eyes blinded by the fog cannot see the truth."

#rusty lake #cube escape #elizabeth eilander #fun fact: the texture used for this one is from an old photo plate from the 1800's #something something lore #alyway she's the best girl #I have a lot of feelings for her and her siblings alright ;; #another fun fact: that pose was a struggle and I accidentally drew her absolutely JACKED #think à la Luisa Encanto #If she had that power she'd be unstoppable #lift the house and the animals and yeet it away #last fun fact: it looked like she was having googly eyes on my sketch #the shitpost was so close let me tell you #David would have put googly eyes on it #David would have put googly eyes on everything

[pepperpixel]

+ Butch 4 Butch +

(Except neither one of them is rlly that butch but holy fUCKING SHIT THAT SONG IS LITERALLY THEM… the version of them I made up in my mind palace… it’s them.)

Anywayyyy. Yeah! Have a tagr art dump..! aka, those vibes when you, out of a series of moments of temporary insanity, end up finding, taking in, nursing back to health and eventually falling into a tangled messy yearning situationship w the asshole tsundere alien who tried to destroy your entire planet… rlly extremely relatable vibes!!

#invader zim #gaz membrane #tak #invader tak #tagr #iz tak #iz gaz #doodles #caption for the 3rd pic: #ton ten photos taken seconds before a goth girls plushie security system shoots you in the head. #anyway… yeah… I love these two #I think a lot my ideas for them are informed by this one fanfic I read as a young teen/child… but I don’t actually remember anything #concrete?? just general story beats? and I’m pretty sure my ideas deviate from it a good bit. but #I think that fic def formed the basis for my tagr love and appreciation #I think they could be complicated and messy and painful and fun as fuck #I have ideas for them lol. and some more art. so hopefully I’ll be able to post that soon too #but for now… enjoy sketch dump of messy goth saphics #*top ten moments. not ton. spellings hard ghgh #I think tak is very hesitant about initiating physical contact and intimacy and being cuddly. cuz of pride and also repression #but I saw a post talking about irkens being naturally very touchy feely affectionate and I def agree… #so. tak is wary of stuff like that at first. but once u break thru that initial barrier of her denying herself she’s actually sUPER TOUCHY #gaz has unleashed a pda beast she just doesn’t kno it yet

[stellorc]

for sketch ideas, would you consider doing someone trying to make visas laugh and succeeding or failing as you see fit? Alternatively just visas sitting down and thinking

she's laughing bc she deserves it <333

#mira just roasted atton again and visas approves #had to put sunny vibes bc she's my sunshine #first time drawing her too gosh #ty ty my dear! had lots of fun <3 #also i'll do the rest of the sketches other night bc it's late and i'm tired #but it was very fun!!! ty for the people who sent stuff

[toruq]

brittany and lisa in the ol days (＾▽＾)

#sa brittany #sso brittany #lisa peretson #sso lisa #sso #ssoblr #my art #these kinds of drawing take me SOOO much longer bc I'm not working in one sketch layer #rather a sketch layer #a lineart layer #AND a coloring layer #or two depending #i also have no clue how colors work so i just throw very similar looking ones all in one layer BYE #i worked with a lot of red/orange if u CANNOT TELL. #god i love brittany. #star academy #there’s also no way brittany’s hair ever looked this good girl had it CHOPPED up in layers but i think it’s fun to pretend she had it all #slicked and nice for some shows cuz at the point she got a manager he was tired of her out of control grunge girl look

[katartna]

My Pokemon Scarlet team in gijinka forms!

#Despite the bugs I’ve been enjoying this game a lot! #I'm very attached to my team and imagine them as a jrpg party #designing pokemon gijinkas is a very fun creative exercise #rough sketches that I might clean up later #Tinkaton is an instant fav pokemon because I'm predictable #cute pink bean who down-smashes with giant bonk hammer #My cetitan is relaxed natured and mischievous so I just imagine her to be the fun team mom who can absolutely wreck havoc with her strength #Glimmora in my head is a floaty goth wizard who's chill and can shoot laser beams or can just throw rocks and call it magic lol #Armarouge is edgy but she owns it #Kilowattrel has taken many for the team just to capture pokemon thanks to her thunder wave #The meowscarada I have is apparently impish and often lost in thought so I see that as he causes problems and doesn't fix them #he's a twink bastard #pokemon scarlet #gijinka #pokemon gijinka #meowscarada #tinkaton #armarouge #kilowattrel #cetitan #glimmora #pokemon #meowscarada gijinka #tinkaton gijinka #armarouge gijinka #kilowattrel gijinka #cetitan gijinka #glimmora gijinka #artists on tumblr #art

[naturecalls111]

I wrote this on twitter but I thought I'd put it here too, since I occasionally get asks on how I draw/any tips I might have. On twitter I also made the caveat that I don't feel I'm qualified to give anyone tips, LOL, but I was drawing today for an assignment and felt like this is worth noting to any beginner artists who have a tendency of clinging onto sketches that they feel like they finally got right! (A.K.A, a habit I still have years later HA!) This isn't so much of a tutorial as expressing my thought process in this discovery of how to draw more dynamic pieces. I found it to be satisfying on my end, seeing it unravel, so hopefully it can help someone who may be struggling with the same thing I am.

MAKING MORE DYNAMIC PIECES, A PERSONAL STUDY!:

I wasn't upset by this drawing, but I could tell there was something stagnant about it so I ended up pushing it and redrawing it a million times to see if I could somehow make it look more dynamic.

Here's one part of the timelapse - I'm clearly adamant on trying to make this pose/composition work but while the sketch itself may look better, the stagnation hasn't changed. Perhaps this works for some people, but anyone seeking a dynamic visual will be able to spot that this simply isn't working as anything more than a semi-decent anatomy study attempting to be applied.

I changed the position of both arms, I tried to play around with the angle of the head, I tried to just the hips forward more so that the spine had increased curvature, but the main issue, really, was that the initial composition lacked the dynamism in general. It prioritised dramaticism over dynamism. Both can exist in the same piece - it did not, in this one.

This was the new sketch I started with. Less rigid base to go off of. Just getting down the general shape I wanted to score - make the spine and tail take a sort of mid-whip path, shoulders hunched, hips cant forwards, as if he's curling in on himself. I think for a dynamic piece, it's more helpful that your initial sketch uses the body as a general marker as opposed to something to do lineart over (granted, I don't really do lineart anyway, my sketch is usually the extent of my "lineart", but since this is just looking at creating a more dynamic composition, I think it still applies!)

Here it's the same principle. For the left image (the legs) I've established where the knee of the right leg goes, and where the hip that precedes the left leg will sit. These are just base anatomical structures that help me figure out 1. Whether or not the mere idea of this composition will work, and 2. where I have to stop once I start drawing. For me, having some sort of limitation for the body helps me stay within range of proportionate anatomy (not that I particularly care for the anatomy to be realistic, just proportionate to the style I'm drawing in)

On the right image is also the same principle. Establishing the movement of the arm, the elbow/arm bend, and the hand. (If you see the full sketch before the two above, I established the hand in that one too - it really is helpful figuring out the placement of the hand ahead of time.) If it looks atrocious afterwards I always have the lasso tool/eraser to save me.

The new attempt brings me to this. While preference in art is subjective, I do think I'd be staying in SOME realm of objectivity when I say this is more dynamic than my initial sketch, LOL. Of course, lighting/rendering choices help push the composition a little more, but this achieves what I couldn't do with that first sketch. I had a general idea, but it's important to know when to let go of something that clearly isn't working.

Would love for anyone to add their own tips or ideas to this post - I'm not particularly known for dynamic pieces so I'm always looking to learn. This was a really valuable study for me so I wanted to share it, but everyone has their own method and what works for me may not work for the next person!

There's a few other asks that asked me for tips on general anatomy, and more specifically legs (oh dear god, I'M going to need to study for that before writing out any sort of resource guide for that, lol) that I hope to get around to doing in the near future. Thank you for your guys' vote of confidence, haha! ❤️

#nc111 tutorials and studies #sketch #art tips #art help #study #I had a lot of fun with this piece so while part of this was definitely to passively respond to my inbox requests #a big part was also just me wanting to talk about my brain expanding as I realised how to Push A Composition #I can't wait to try more things in the future to try and get more dynamic compositions #let me know if this was helpful let me know if it was utterly useless #I'm not a great teacher but I used to tutor my neighbours 7 year old daughter and she found my methods boring but hey she got better

[wis-art]

and she's happy about it

#from grim loser #to cuddly girl #she changes a lot lol #i used to be all edgy and stuff #i still wear all black cause it's fun #but i am not nearly as scared to just express myself #art #my art #sketch #lucy wiki #lucy #wiki #i dont know #i wanted to express how i went from always trying to sell how sad i am through my drawings #and my looks and clothes #to just how happy i became and how happy my art became #when i started being myself you know #just comfortable with myself #she has became a little chubbier #and dyed her hair orange #maybe because she's no longer constrained by what she thought she has to be #but there's still a lot of her in what she is now #hehe #trans

[the-gt-fairy]

Strawberry doodle!

#I've had this oc for a week an a half and I already love her #(hoping that statement ages well and she doesn't die off like all my other ocs lol) #also I've been doing a lot of pen sketches and they're really fun! #definitely recommend others give it a shot #my art #fairies #strawberry oc #g/t oc #oc

[welcometogrouchland]

[ID: two pieces of digital fanart depicting Luz and Belos from the owl house dressed as Sarah and Jareth from Labyrinth (1986), respectively. They're wearing the costumes from the hallucination/ballroom scene. In the first piece Luz stands in the foreground with her skirt bunched in her fists, facing towards us but looking at something out of frame. She has a necklace of her egg palismen and a rod of Asclepius hairpin, and is wearing her white vans under her ballgown. Belos stands behind her in shadow, looking down at her and holding up a light glyph. The background is black. The second image is the same piece except with no shading, more vibrant colours and a purple background. End ID] @toh-described

🦉💫Don't tell me truth hurts little girl/Cause it hurts like hell🔮🌟

Labyrinth au!! Honestly surprised I've never seen one of these before?? feels very fitting. But I guess I'm the only one w/ this specific brainrot cocktail lol

(DO NOT TAG AS SHIP OR I WILL EXPLODE YOUR EYEBALLS💥)

#the owl house #toh #luz noceda #luz toh #belos toh #philip wittebane #i do have actual thoughts and (traditional) sketches to flesh this out into a full on au #luz and sarah are very different protagonists so it's fun to switch up the labyrinths design and narrative function to reflect that #if the labyrinth in the movie is trying to teach sarah to be grateful for what she has (lose moral cause this movie has -20 story) #then Luz's labyrinth would be a lot more of a ''give into temptation'' style test ala witches before wizards #overall very similar to the ballroom scene (hence why i took inspiration from it for this) #(also sparkly outfits <3) #I'd probably put the collector as jareth instead of belos as well?? i drew him hear bc I thought he'd look cool juxtaposed w/ luz #but the collector would be a much more relevant antagonist in a story based on Labyrinth i think lol #he'd have stolen king away after luz proclaims he'd be better off without her and she has to get him back yknow? #meanwhile the collector tries to lure her into giving up by crafting a fantasy world to tempt her #but of course she keeps going. make some friends. do some trials. you have no power over me. david bowie dance party. etc #it makes sense to me <3 #anyway. Tumblr pls let these images be a decent size on dashboard <3

[dragons-and-art]

Thinking about Sally and how she's an huge horror movie fan

#i should draw her more ;v; #she's a whole lot different as an adult than as a teen #but she's still fun to think about #sad but fun in her own ways |D #... actually no her story is pretty sad kgngnh #sketches #digital art #anthro #pokemon #scrafty #milotic #citylifeau #vexscrafty #salinemilotic

[pirateddee]

Small marcy sketch dump before i unleash my demons and post the other two sketch dumps 💀

i’m sure u can tell i drew this on ibis paint on my laptop during class cuz the quality is some fresh ass

extra bad quality sketch from a random notebook

#digital art #art #drawing #illustration #adventure time #marceline #marceline the vampire queen #princess bubblegum #bonnibel bubblegum #finn the human #finn mertens #peppermint butler #marcy is in a lot of my sketches not for andy particular reason she just fun to draw #all of them she in the background like 🎸🎸🎸‼️‼️‼️🗣️🗣️🗣️ #there’s some human marcy cuz is fun #marceline abadeer

[spiritoast]

so i might be a little obsessed with the glow pikmin

#soup art #pikmin #pikmin 4 #glow pikmin #oatchi #i. dont remember the name of the girlie on top . #it was shown off in the direct yesterday but AA i forgor #anyways . aheem . art #i havent even played a lot of pikmin but perhaps i am a little crazy abt 4 it looks so fun #i am also simply a big fan of 1. nature and 2. little guys so . right up my alley #realizing how much i love sketching + lining traditionally and then coloring digitally like this . my tablet is not a huge fan tho #if you listen closely you can hear her hacking and wheezing and melting as she tries to spit out this 12mb .jpg file . #anyways. pick men #pick men four i am so excited for u. godbless #i gotta pick my playthrough of 3deluxe back up sometime soon