look guys !! theyre all living together happily and nothing bad ever happened to them!!
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okay to like / reblog / tag / save / whatever!
thought i should pop my personal prompt list for this year's OC-tober here! for ease of reading, the prompt list is as follows:
The Introduction Week
1. Newest OC
2. Your favourite OC
3. OC who gets the most love
4. OC who needs a little more love
5. Show some Pride 🏳️🌈
6. Your favourite ship (romantic, platonic, found family, any relationship!)
7. Draw over an IRL picture
- Alternate option: OC you'd most want to meet IRL
Appearance Week
8. Extra appendages (like extra limbs, eyes, etc.)
9. New hairstyle / New outfit
10. Gloves or socks?
11. Swimsuit
12. Mascot costume / Cursed outfit
13. Crossdressing
14. Wearing something from your culture!
Aesthetics Week
15. Cyberpunk
- Alternate option: Vapourwave
16. Cottagecore
- Alternate option: Lolita
17. Galaxy
- Alternate option: Ocean / Forest
18. Monochrome / Noir
- Alternate option: Light academia / Dark academia
19. Neon / Eyestrain
- Alternate option: 2000s scene kid / Hot Topic emo
20. Rockabilly / 50s
- Alternate option: Ah Beng / Ah Lian (lol)
21. Your favourite aesthetic
- Alternate option: Your least favourite aesthetic
Fun Week
22. Song redraw
23. Collab cafe item
24. Limited palette
25. Family Feud
26. Idol / Band subunit
27. Fake screenshot
28. Barbenheimer
The End Half-Week
29. Your OC with a canon character
30. Your comfort zone / comfort character
31. Halloween costume dressup
- Alternate option: Guts & glory / Free day!
I'll be putting the explanations for a couple of these under a read-more so that those who aren't interested can skip the rest of my blathering! Feel free to ask questions if y'all like! My ask box + the replies on this post are always open :D
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General
- I wanted to make another self-indulgent prompt list this year for OC-tober so I did :3
- If you do feel like following along, remember that your health, comfort and motivation come first! Do as much as you want or as little as you want, or feel free to mix up the order or skip the prompts you don't like!
- The alternate options were added because 1. I'm indecisive and 2. If a certain prompt doesn't appeal to you, then there's another choice!
- I always have OCs on the brain so if you want to mention/tag me in your posts please do! I'll be responding under my main blog @complementary-oxymorons due to the interaction limitations of side blogs + wanting to keep my art blog as my personal art archive.
About the prompts
- I understand that some prompts can be a bit confusing so I'll try to preemptively explain some!
- Day 7: Draw over an IRL picture - For some ideas, it could be like drawing your OCs on a picture of a beach as if they're there having fun! Or maybe you could draw little chibis of your OCs sitting on your shoulder / messing with your hand while you draw :D (please do be mindful about the risks that come with uploading IRL photos though!). If you're concerned about privacy but still want to involve your "IRL self" in the piece, a possibility is to fully re-draw / trace over the reference photo you took!
- Day 10: Gloves or socks - Yeah this is just me finding an excuse to draw my OCs who wear gloves or draw them in some super cute socks / stockings. Which team are you on?
- Day 20 alternate: Ah Beng / Ah Lian - I thought it'd be funny because someone put it on Aesthetics Wiki (link). To those who have ah beng in ur neighbourhood just put portable speaker escooter tattoo slipper can liao also if yall know the typical ah beng spotify songs can tell me pls ok xiexie i only know 小幸运 and heng ong huat
- Day 22: Song redraw - Some ideas could be redrawing your OCs on album art, or adapting them into the visuals of a song as if they're covering it! (Like how vtubers do hehe)
- Day 23: Collab cafe item - Create a food or drink item that represents your OC! Some IPs (anime, games, etc.) collaborate with IRL cafes to create a themed menu which runs for a limited time only. The items on the menu tend to be references to the IP and its characters (e.g. an orange-haired character in the game gets a menu item that's an orange soda with decorative sprinkles, or a character who loves curry gets a menu item that's a special curry dish, something like that). If you're still unsure, google stuff like "collab cafe"!
- Day 25: Family Feud - Feel free to redraw your favourite Family Feud clip as your OCs because there are a lot of strong contenders kekdog
- Day 28: Barbenheimer - Exactly what it is! Feel free to draw your OCs dressing up to go to either movie or something.
- Day 31 alternate: Guts & glory - This one's for those who prefer a more bloody Halloween :D Feel free to gore it up in any way you like. Plush, candy, flower, extra visceral... get those guts some air!!!
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I love the comic and I miss it, and I hope you're doing well
What happened to Patton-sanders-killed-a-man?
Well the short version is:
⦁ trauma
⦁ school
⦁ I had set up an unrealistic precedent for myself
And now you can skip to the Read-More to see the ask-blogs originally planned plotline alongside the panels of the unfinished last update, but if you want the long version:
Patton-sanders-killed-a-man was the first of my creative ventures that ever garnered a notable amount, with me making comics since I was 13, though all of my previous projects got little to no attention. So obviously when the ask-blog blew up, 16-year-old me was ecstatic, but very much not ready to handle it. Not only was this my first project to receive this amount of attention, but I also lacked experience as a writer, and with a medium of storytelling as fickle as an ask-blog in which the plot can change drastically depending on the asker's actions, it was not a good combination.
I mostly wrote the story on the fly, with an outline (which you can read under the Read-More) composed of cool ideas I had and various dark themes I was fascinated with but didn't have the emotional maturity to discuss. But the worst writing decision I made was making the inciting incident, the thing that led Patton to kill "Johnny", based on a personal trauma of mine, one I was in denial about. However by the last update, something happened that forced me to acknowledge it, and after that, I was no longer comfortable with the story I had set up.
That combined with the fact that School Was Kicking My Ass (which to be fair was mostly due to my own overambition) forcing me to shift my focus away from the ask-blog. I had also set up an unrealistic precedent for myself, with updates getting longer and longer. It was unsustainable, but with the pressure I placed on myself I didn't know how to go back from that and make the process easier for myself.
(this isn't even to mention all the different ways I made the art process itself horribly time inefficient, like the way I obsessed over perfect line art, choosing a semi-realistic art style rather than something less time-consuming, not creating character design sheets to help me stay on model, obsessing over wrinkles in the clothing, spending ages taking my own reference photos, redrawing panels over and over because I'm unsatisfied with them. If you're thinking of making an askblog/a comic, if you can't make a single-character panel in 10-20 minutes with your current art process you gotta figure out a style that does allow you to do that. There is a reason why 90% of Homestuck looks like crap til shit gets serious, ok. Please don't do what I did)
I had been running purely on fumes, and the second those ran out, I fell out of love with the story I created.
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Well, that was a bit of a bummer, huh?
But as mentioned I still have been making stuff, even if it isn't ask-blog related, for example, I just recently finished my first animated short which you can watch here:
(with its completion being mostly due to my teacher, who forced me to learn to take on more manageable projects, which I must thank her for)
I also have made a new art blog, that being @anonymous-utility and have been posting things on my youtube alongside it. I don't post often since I need to focus on IRL stuff, but it's where I post updates to all the projects I take on alongside just various other art.
Even if ended far too soon, I'm still proud of this ask-blog, as it has taught me a lot.
Thank you all for participating and if you choose to follow my art blog I will be seeing you soon.
Rough outline and unfinished update under the Read-More:
From what I remember, because I never actually wrote it down, as the majority of the storyline relied on the actions of the audience, but it was intended to go something like this:
⦁ Everything that has already happened
⦁ On the bus Dee would meet Virgil's younger sibling Andy (who is anxiety from the shorts), though Dee won't understand the significance of that, not knowing who Virgil is. We'd also be shown Dee's scar on his neck, all shown in the unfinished update above.
⦁ We'd later meet Dee's coworkers, Dee would log in at his desk as the interview isn't scheduled for an hour or so, and he notices that his email is full, this is the first hint that it isn't just his phone the askers can send messages to, but through technology in general- Dee is not stoked about this.
⦁ He then would meet "Johnny"'s mom and older brother (Daniel, aka the critic or Dice as referred by the fandom) They'd be using "Johnny's" real name, Renard, and we don't catch on that it's Remy, until Daniel calls him that. Overall the attitude of the two would be like this; the mother would act upset, but in a manner that makes it all about her, and Daniel would be rather cold and matter-of-fact. Daniel's attitude would frustrate his mother, leading to an argument breaking out, during which Daniel points out that she only cares because Remy is the only one of her children to never go against her, mentioning a certain Remus getting kicked out (to which the mother reacts negatively to daniel calling Remus by his chosen name). The interview ends poorly and Dee leaves the entire situation wondering how this family has ended up being so dysfunctional.
⦁ From then the askers could direct Dee toward Remus or Andy.
⦁ If directed towards Remus Dee would find him working at a library, and with a bit of time, they'd realize they recognized each other, mostly via each other's chosen names, as they were online friends but lost contact when Remus got kicked out and lost access to the internet. Remus is delighted to see Dee again after all these years but confused about why he's in the States, since Dee's Canadian, to which Dee explains that he moved to the States, moving in with Logan, their third online friend, as soon as he could to get away from his own family.
⦁ Once Remy's fate Remus is generally uncaring since his family is dead to him, "So golden boy kicked it, with how many people he pissed off it was only a matter of time, now come back to me when Roman commits manslaughter, oh wait" to which we are told that Roman is serving time for having killed someone in a car accident (something that Remus finds hilarious since he was often labeled the troublemaker out of the two).
⦁ Remus would also be somewhat weirded out by the concept of Patton being the killer, since Remus knew him via association and always thought him a bit of a wet rag, then again even 50's housewives snap eventually. They exchange contact information and go their separate ways.
⦁ After this Remus becomes available to the askers, taking the form of a strange figure that only Remus can see that hangs in the corners that can stare at Remus and make various gestures, though that takes coordination as they would be controlled by various people. Remus would at first try to ignore this strange figure, having experienced hallucinations in the past, but if the askers become more aggressive in trying to get Remus to pay attention to them Remus may become more desperate to get rid of them.
⦁ If the askers direct Dee towards Andy we learn that Virgil went missing three years ago
⦁ At this point, the plot becomes more vague as I hadn't planned that far ahead aside from the major plot points.
⦁ After having spent so much time with Dee, we'd cut back to Logan. Any asks directed to him will not go through the phone, unless Dee is present. Instead, askers' messages would get scratched into Logan's skin, specifically on his arms, and if the askers become particularly aggressive, especially with Logan refusing to acknowledge them due to the absurdity of this situation, the messages would begin to cut into Logan's skin rather than just scratch. This is an issue due to Logan being a high school Comp Sci teacher and really needing to not bleed in front of his student if he wants to keep his job. Logan got his priorities in order.
⦁ This will be the first time the askers would have the option to directly hurt someone
⦁ Logan will not tell Dee about this, due to the absurdity of it and due to his history with depression, he worries that Dee would think he did it to himself.
⦁ Either way, the deadline for Dee's article is closing in and he must make a decision on how to frame the narrative.
⦁ But first, we cut back to Patton. It's the 12th of May, 2020, and he has gotten as far away as he could and is currently in the woods. He is not doing well, and he hasn't heard the askers in the past two days, with him being certain he has imagined them. Once they flood back in it startles him, and he reacts loudly, loud enough to attract a passerby.
⦁ That passerby is Virgil. Patton does not react well, thinking that he started seeing things as well. But once Virgil confirms that he is in fact realm that only replaces the problem of potential visions with the problem of meeting his estranged friend who he hasn't talked to in three years. Virgil quickly forgives him, however, especially after Patton awkwardly states that he is homeless, to which Virgil assumes Remy to be the cause, stating "he took your shit and ran, I told you he wasn't to be trusted", offering a place to stay.
⦁ I didn't have much planned for Virgil, and at the time I was unsure if I just wanted him to be a paranoid guy who decided to live off the grid or… a genuine serial killer who sold people's organs. Needless to say, the second option was certainly a thing my 16-year-old self came up with and it's not a concept current me stands by.
⦁ Either way after this interaction Virgil would become open to asks, with the askers becoming able to slightly move things to garner his attention, though this ability would be limited to asks directed to Virgil only.
⦁ These interactions between the askers and Virgil will spark an obsession in him, as he always feared and was fascinated by the other-worldly since childhood.
⦁ Through the course of the story, Virgil and Patton would grow closer, with Patton eventually confessing to what he did and the circumstances that lead him to do it. Virgil stays on his side, and this leads Patton to grow comfortable, enough that with the help of Virgil he grows to accept his identity.
⦁ Cutting back to Dee, no matter the tone of the article the askers stay, and now it's not just his phone that the messages are being directed towards him through, but all the technology around him, and no one seems to be aware of this aside from him and Logan, eventually becoming convinced the only way to get the askers off his back is to get Patton done in since he appears to be the source of all this, resulting in Dee tracking Patton down and getting him arrested - this solves nothing.
⦁ After a breakdown from Dee, Remus, Logan, and Dee realize they have the same problem, and Remus gets in contact with a coworker and friend of his who is into the Otherworldly.
⦁ That's when it's revealed the askers are an interdimensional entity called The Audience, a creature with uncountable eyes and mouths, and the more people it gets in contact with the closer it gets to gaining physical form, with the sixth person contacted being its gateway.
⦁ The Audience's motive? To take control of the "story" and mold it in its own image.
⦁ Going back to Patton, he meets Roman, who's doing time for manslaughter. Their meeting goes as well as the one between a killer and the younger brother of the victim since Roman was closer to Remy than Remus was. But their meeting also results in Roman becoming open for the askers, this manifesting in them getting control of his left hand, eventually climbing all the way up to his shoulder.
⦁ All the while the askers can manipulate Virgil into breaking into prison, as the prison contains what they both want. With Virgil, he not only wants Patton back but has also become convinced that The Audience/the askers are his dark patron god and serving them is the only way to regain control over his life and be able to do something other than live at the edge of society in terror, while the askers want Roman not only because he's the gateway but also The Audience gains physical form they'll gain full control of the story, perhaps even allowing them to rewind back to prevent the inciting incident from occurring.
⦁ Of course, askers not aligned with this goal can warn the Intruloceit crew (Dee, Remus, and Logan) about what's happening but it will be pretty difficult to make them trust you after all that has happened.
⦁ The rest goes as one would expect from a cosmic horror climax, Virgil tries to get The Audience into their dimension, and Patton probably goes through with it with promises of having his crimes erased and being able to feel safe again after all that happened, but the Intruloceit gang show up armed with knowledge from Remus's friend and seal the gateway, Remus makes fun of Roman for being the cult sacrifice rather the dashing hero and then therapy.
⦁ The very last scene of the ask-blog is Picany alone in his office as suddenly an ask gets sent through his email, asking whether he will be involved in the plot.
⦁ The End
All in all a big part of the story would be my own fascination with the potential of ask-blogs serving as a vehicle for cosmic horror, especially with the audience being the source of said horror. Other than that the ask-blog's themes would center around identity and various forms of violence and how one can find themselves the victim of said violence, and other sensitive subjects 16-year-old me was not prepared to handle (nor had the time to with how long this story would have been, comics take a long as while to through their plots yall).
But I have grown since then and have actually finished one of my projects for once (cough please watch 'She gets eaten by the end *cough) and I'm a better writer for it, as well as just better at managing my time. While I won't give any guarantees, with IRL stuff taking the majority of my time, in my free time I have been working on an illustrated horror novel that I plan to release for free once it's finished, so if you enjoy my younger self's writing, you may want to be on the lookout for that on my art blog ;]
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So life got busy for me this year (graduated college, moved into my first apartment and have been working a full-time job, but that doesn't mean I've been completely unable to draw. I just haven't had as much time or motivation to do it as much I would like T_T
Anyway, my friend @gizmocrate-werecrow and I have a Pokemon AU and one of the many, MANY rock stars we've decided to include is Fran O'Toole. Most of you wouldn't have heard of him, but that's okay (I'm used to my obsessions being on the niche side at this point). My impetus for including him (and the rest of the Miami) in this AU was that they really, REALLY deserved better.
(L-R: Stephen Travers, Tony Geraghty, Ray Millar, Brian McCoy, Fran O'Toole, and Des Lee)
I know that giving Fran a pumpkaboo is probably a bit of an oddball move considering he is a dog person (one of the handful of details of his actual life I've been able to dig up), but at the time we made that choice, we didn't know much about these guys. And let's be real, even knowing that now, I'd make the same choice all over again.
Her name is Pumpykins btw. I know Pumpkaboos don't technically have pawsies, but I'm a cat person irl so I wanted them anyway. That and I was also taking a lot of cues from people who draw Pumpkaboos as "cats living in floating pumpkins." Pumpykins herself is a bit mischievous, and also loves snuggles (kinda like my parents' cat Willow, who loves hanging out with me, or at least in my old room).
Also while I technically finished this on the anniversary of the massacre, this was actually me redrawing a sketch I'd done a month prior with a set of markers I got at Walmart.
Turns out using a reference (or at least a better light source) does wonders for my drawing. But the main reason Fran went from blond in one drawing to brunette in the finished product is because the colorization in various photos can be a bit... inconsistent.
A good way to drive perfectionists like me insane.
(Reblog, don't repost)
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Entrapdak Zine 2 - Let’s a Go!
So just like the last Entrapdak Zine issue let’s do another one!
The deadline for this will be DEC 1st 2021 at 9AM GMT (don’t know when that is in your timezone? Please use this handy dandy online countdown tool
As it’ll be the holiday season there will be a slightly longer delay in processing the zine this time but I assure you all it will be out as soon as possible and in time for the holidays.
Our basic guidelines are the same as before, with just a few minor updates:
This will be:
A Digital Zine containing content created by the fans for the fans
A 100% Free Zine
Preferred Language is English
You may notice I run this different to other zines as there is no sign up period, just submit work before the deadline - I’d rather people have more time to work on their pieces
Anyone can submit regardless of age or skill level - this is not a job application - just follow the guidelines and email in your work
Submission can be Fan Writing (poems, fan fiction, character analysis, eassys etc), Fan Art, or even photos of your Entrapdak IRL content (cosplays, fancrafts etc)! You can submit an older work that you have published online previously if you wish - or even update a work you submitted to the last Zine! Just have fun!
Guidelines applicable to all work:
Content Age Rating:
Like the show this Zine will contain content rated Y7 and PG13 rated - so please no swearing
There WILL BE NO NSFW or 18+ content - where possible let’s keep this suitable for all ages please
Sub note on character minimum clothing requirements:
for male presenting characters to be speedos/underpants
for female presenting characters to be a bikini/bra and underpants
if not sure please use the female presenting criteria
Theme:
Keeping in the spirit of Entrapdak the theme if you wish to use it is:
“Holiday”
This theme is a suggestion and is also flexible enough to be interpreted as Easter, Summer Holidays, Halloween or the Christmas Holiday season! If you’d rather make an Entrapdak piece without this them please feel free to do so. I want you to have fun!
Allowed Characters:
As long as both Entrapta and Hordak are the main focus and the piece follows Age Rating it will be allowed.
Other allowed characters in the Entrapdak family include Emily, Imp and the Clones (also known as Spacebats)…yes weirdly this also includes Horde Prime.
Other She-Ra characters will be allowed but Entrapdak is to be the core element.
Phew that’s a lotta text sorry about that - now on to the fun stuff! What sort of stuff is allowed?
Sex Swap AU, Species Swap AU, Furry AU, Toony AU, Anime AU, Fankid AU, Coffee Shop AU, married AU, Spacebat AU, just besties AU just to name the few that pop into my head! Oh yeah Canon Lab Partners Entrapdak too…hehe nearly forgot about that one XD. Make something Entrapdak related that’s PG13 rated and have fun!!
Fan Writing guidelines:
This includes fan fiction, analysis eassys, poetry or whatever else you’d like to write about. I would ask this content to be between 1k-10k words in length, it’s not a big deal if the writing is over 10k or even if it’s 20k - write whatever your story needs. Chapters are totally okay to!
Where possible I’ll place written work on a cream or off-white background but if you’d like me to keep it exactly as you submit it I will respect your wishes.
Fan Art guidelines:
Fan art can include rough sketches, screencap redraws, comics (appox 1-10 length), coloured sketches or full colour pieces.
Fan art can be in the digital or traditional medium.
Traditional fan art can either be submitted as a photo or scanned, which ever you prefer.
Preferred sizing for Digital art (different from last time):
My aim to to have everything on A4 paper sizing where possible*
2480px x 3508pm DPI 132
Portrait layout is preferred**
PNG is preferred but I will understand if you only wish to send a workable JPEG
The aspect ratio (width:height) of A4 paper is 1:1.4142 (1:√2)
Here’s a prepared A4 Canvas PSD File (2480pm x 3508px 300DPI) if you’d like to download it and use it
Notes:
*Images outside these sizings are still okay but may end up with a white border on the edges due to the PDF publishing settings.
**Images in the landscape layout will get boarders when posted on a portrait page due to the PDF publishing settings, however I will make some extra pages at the end of the Zine and attempt to turn landscape art into a two page spread.
How to Apply:
Make your content and email it to entrapdakzineisluvd[at]gmail.com by DEC 1st 2021 at 9AM GMT
Please make sure to include your Social Media contacts and which name or username you wish to be identified by.
I will reply to confirm I have received the content and that’s it I take care of the rest!
FAQs:
Why no Application form?
I don’t want anyone to feel like they are applying for a job here, this is supposed to be fun.
Will there be Guest Artists or Guest Writers?
If they apply sure, I’m not advertising who applies to be a part of this Zine until it’s ready to be published. I don’t want anyone to feel intimidated just because a certain person has chosen to participate.
Can I submit more than one piece?
If you’d like to certainly! If you’d like to submit up to three pieces of art and 3 fan writings, sure go for it! I’m certainly not going to stop anyone having a good time
May I post a preview of my work to my Followers?
Sure! Bonus points if you link them to this post so that they can take part if they wish
May I post my work online?
I would ask if you could please wait until the issue featuring your work is published. Of course this does not apply if you are chosen to submit and older work - in this case may I ask that you edit or add to said post to mention the work was also used in the Zine?
Is this only for people with a [insert certain social media account here]?
Nope, this is for anyone who wants to take part. I only ask for a social media contact so that others who like you work for the Zine may follow you on your preferred social media platform.
I want to submit but I don’t want to share my email address or any identifing information
Sure I’m happy to offer this solution to anyone who wishes to remain anonymous for whatever reason they don’t need to explain
simply upload work to a file sharing website (Google Drive or Dropbox is preferred)
Send the link via the Tumblr Anon Ask feature on my Tumblr (this will NOT be published publicly).
If you feel up to it please state a colour, number and choose to be a Clone or an EKS - this will be your ONLY identifier. Failure to state any will result in a random combination chosen
Please not I DO NOT KEEP any records of anyone’s email addresses. When the Zine is out I batch delete all emails sent to the email address and I keep no further records of these address. I respect your email privacy at all times.
Ah I can’t get this done before the deadline - it’s almost ready!!! I need another day!!!!
Contact me, either through the submitting email over via my Tumblr or Twitter DMs. I might be able to work something out. I’m here to help, please don’t ever be afraid of me. Worse comes to worse it’ll just have to go in the next issue…
More Entrapdak Zines??
Sure why not? If the community still wants them I’ll keep compiling them ever three or so months. I’ve seen what us nerds can do!
Where can I find the finished Zine?
All finished Zines will be hosted on a shared Google Drive link. Please share it with your other Entrapdak friends when it is ready.
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I am a fan of your work and as a fellow artist, what is your secret for drawing bodies so well??? The poses always look so fluid and correct and powerful, even,
ty :'D frankly i don't know what i'm doing most of the time but i'll lay out my process a bit
in sum: gesture drawings and silhouettes to block out poses, photo references/redraws, and Morpho: Simplified Forms by Michel Lauricella.
in my onion my no 1 killer for nice looking poses is spending too much time on the sketch/lineart. so usually i do a rough sketch or just a few gesture lines of of the pose in tuxpaint then do a nicer sketch (or lineart) using that as the base, using a method similar to that in morpho: simplified forms, which involves breaking down the body into basic organic shapes. [example in link]
(would recommend buying simplified forms if you can (it's ~ 13 USD) but it's also on the internet archive for free, along with some of his other art ref books)
adorkastock, jademacalla, and null-entity on deviantart have excellent (and free under 3.0) pose references and i use them a lot (along with a meme image folder for quick studies of poses and lighting)
example images under here ⬇️
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mediocre image quality, i can send better images if anyone wants but just didn't want to hit the image limit
some of these are drawings i haven't posted . sneak preview
also i always try to sketch with a brush larger than the one i'm using to make lineart
here are a couple examples of how i adapt irl poses
pose
similar, but more elaborate. i did a more detailed sketch because it was a more complicated pose (weird neck angle)
pose
pose
these are all sketches from right before i start lining them, give or take a couple adjustments. the first four i've posted the finals of:
guitar, heather, paws, risu
and also this incomprehensible sketch that i somehow did lineart directly off of (this is the final drawing)
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what did you do to start painting? like what did you find the most helpful etc. im trying to start but i have no idea where i would even begin
my journey specifically into painting was mostly self taught, so it’s really messy and passion driven and idk if this answer is going to be useful? but basically i watched a lot of online tutorials (on color theory and compositions etc. but also on how to draw specific things, like faces or clouds) and spent a lot of time staring at speedpaintings and livestreams of countless artists, to learn but also because i found it soothing! i absorbed the methods they’d use and their tips and tried them myself, saw if i was comfortable with them and either adopted what i learned or moved on to something that was more for me.
(the reason why the “methods” part matters is that some people make use of the tools a digital program provides, but others kinda don’t? there are varying degrees to this, but basically i think that tutorials are better to learn basic coloring concepts and actual functions of a given program, whereas watching speedart is generally better as a later step because sometimes the artist will use a tool that is fundamental for their process but your vid will be too fast to understand it. if you already know enough of the program they’re dealing with chances are you’ll also have less troubles following or will have an idea of how to replicate something conceptually similar)
of course there’s also a lot of real life observing involved, as well as attempts to redraw photos and shape studying, and using both real life and other artists’ references depending on need. so basically a lot of practice too, but that’s a no brainer, haha. don’t worry too much about the results, just practice and be observant, the results will eventually come if you pay close enough attention to what you’re doing, to how it works irl, and to how others did it before you
personally tbh i mostly watch speedart for pleasure and learn from there almost on accident, but i guess for me the actual tutorials that i found to be consistently the most helpful when it comes specifically to painting are by sinix design and marco bucci. in general, and sorry if this sounds banal to say but it’s how i’ve always done it lmao, if you find someone whose art you’d want to learn something from, always try to see if they have tutorials or speedpaintings laying somewhere
sorry about the wall of text and i hope it doesn’t sound too chaotic;;; painting is honestly a pretty overwhelming thing, so i guess the thing i actually care to say the most is to not beat yourself up if looks like too much to keep track of at first, as long as you do targeted practice sooner or later you’ll get where you want
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How do you draw paws so well? They're always so cute and round and the toes look great. I can't seem to master it. ;w;
ok so i drew this for you but it’s a fucking mess (i’m sorry) so i’ll try to put it into text form...
if you’re studying anatomy sometimes you get too caught up in exactly how something looks. but when it comes to natural stuff sometimes you wanna force yourself to look at it less rigidly (unless rigid works for you), you can do this by drawing faster and thinking sketch > rendering
keeping things loose + organic help sell the natural look
use curves and round lines. to prevent shapes from turning to mush, know where things angle off like the arc of each toe, it’s not a perfect curve all the time (some cats got round af toes though)
also along the lines of ‘don’t be too rigid’: paws are squishy like a lot of natural forms. boobs aren’t perfect spheres at every angle and position, you gotta think of them more like water balloons or whatever. teardrop shape. same with paws, they’re not gonna be perfect circles/squares. it can help to think of organic forms as broken down shapes, just remember they squash and bend so use non-standard shapes
unless you’re doing super stylized chibi paws it’s easier to stylize after you learn how the irl anatomy works. then you can fuck it up all you want
don’t force all the toes, sometimes you don’t see them all based on the angle
middle toes are bigger/taller with larger beans
different animals have different paw shapes, paw pads, etc. you know which artists have done their homework when you see people put paw pads on rabbits
check out tutorials, you never know when an artist’s tips/tricks work for you. i learned how to draw paws and wings off of devart tutorials way fuckin back as a kid
use and study from photo references. practice. if you don’t like what you’re churning out from memory, go back to studying refs. build up your brain library then you’ll have more material to use to tackle your next drawing and it’ll get easier to do stuff from memory
it’s ok to go back to studies no matter how experienced an artist you are. focus on learning + improvement. don’t ever beat yourself up over this shit. as an artist you WANT to constantly be learning and that entails sometimes just straight up not being satisfied with what you put out cuz you know you can do better, just gotta help your brain and/or hands catch up with each other.
if you’re trying to focus on one area (like paws, or maybe you’re studying a certain kind of animal, etc.) i think it helps to check out what works for other people (tutorials) and do studies where i redraw what i see in a photo. it’s ok to trace off stuff if you’re learning, just don’t post it. it can help you understand the curvature/angles of something as you work on studying it, but it’s a good practice to keep those studies private. unless maybe you own the photo then do whatever
he he squishy beans
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