#will i ever learn how to draw faces???

[ifearloveisviolence]

#present mic #yamada hizashi #bnha #bnha fanart #mha fanart #I want to learn how to draw this man so bad #I cannot ever get his face right #:( #tw: smoking

[theblacktiecacti]

jay went to clown school. let’s talk about that

#art by me #jrwi riptide #jay ferin #i was drawing wherever the wind took me #and it took me to clown school jay #the best destination i could’ve hoped for #i feel like so much could be explored or expanded there in fanon #but i barely see anything #welp if there is none make some #sound off in the comments if you ever think about how jay rarely retracts into herself when faced with conflict #but instead goes to clown school or hitches a ride with the loserest boy she can find #and it’s the rare (and most impactful) moments when she responds differently #shutting down after the phone call with her grandmother #or blowing up after learning about lizzie and ava #or crying as she’s told to shoot her friend in the chest #but the every day conflict almost always gets humor as a response #which leads to very out of pocket moments but we love jay for it #oooooough jay ferin the way you express emotions is so important to meeeee #ALSO the fact that often it’s insult based humor or overly confident in self humor #let’s dissect that jay how do you relate to your friends in the hierarchical structure of the navy academy #did you feel like your humor had to subtly place you at the top? or you would not be enough? jay? #your relationship with kira hinges on fixing this structure by being better than it hm? let’s talk about that #let’s talk about how your life centered a lot around being the best even if not directly or intentionally #should i do a full analysis on this? #i kinda wanna do a full analysis on this

[skunkes]

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denying so hard that there's a disconnect between what im learning within art, and other skills needed but it's undeniable that like. ill draw anatomy studies and faces all day but when i try to Make Something Else, Something Real, it's like all the information leaves me....

i always joke that ill be stuck on the foundations and fundamentals of art forever but it seems like its real because mechanical skill and comprehension of Structure is very much a different thing than. being able to connect a head and body in a streamlined way. good stylization. informed stylization. creativity. knowledge of composition, color and what makes a piece work.

i keep trying to make things and realize i still need more time in the fundamentals. more and more and its never enough....and then i forget em constantly !

#talkys #ill just keep filling pages and pretending its doing anything #as if ill ever draw more than just. floating head. figure standing. floading head. figure standing #i dont understand how people gain knowledge cumulatively #just because I can draw talon's face doesnt mean i wouldnt need another 3 years to master another character enough to draw them well #ive drawn al for over a decade i already need to relearn to draw him #information leaves me and doesnt seem to transfer. every new thing needs 5 years dedicated to learning it to draw it well. #and then the knowledge leaves as soon as i have to switch subjects. #because every single subject is a different and unique challenge #i dont knowwwwww #so sad...i mean people have not gotten what they want for years and years but so sad that this isnt what i was meant to do #that ill never make work that is the work id like to make...! never beautiful illustrations...never fun sequential art...alas. alas #wrong body wrong brain #im glad other ppl enjoy my work and i recognize that but i want to like it too.....!

[chiropteracupola]

steadfast sailor, paper captain...

#em draws stuff #hornblower #william bush #horatio hornblower #first and foremost! sorry for melting bush's face off in this image #but for a bit more context this is because I had the idea that a hornblower story based in 'the steadfast tin soldier' would be interesting #so here we've got pewter-cast model bush and paper theatre guy hornblower (and things are not going well for them!) #this one was an interesting challenge since I wanted bush to look like the metal was sort of melting out from under his paint #and then hornblower's paper hasn't quite caught alight yet but is starting to char at the very edges of him and where he's touching bush #both of them are much more complex designs than I'd originally been planning for (bush has got ball-and-socket joints and all...) #(the original original plan was that I would learn pewter casting and make him Real. as you can see I did not do that.) #but hey I'm pleased with how they turned out in the end! this took me three sharpe episodes to draw :| #(eleven episodes in and I think it made me weird in the head so I think I will slow down for the time being! too much riflery!) #aaaaaanyway. I don't know if I'll ever write anything about this idea so I'm releasing it into the wild if anyone else likes it #part of this was. an excuse to put some sequins on hornblower yes. fellow should sparkle a little more often!

[britneyshakespeare]

My toxic trait is that I like how my incomplete drawings look better than the finished things

#im sorry i cant be her (my searching lines) #i cant stop thinking about this drawing i have a sinking feeling that im gonna be very unhappy when its done #or. not unhappy. but not as excited as i feel about it now! #i only worked in two short chunks on it but both were pretty productive #i have a feeling that when i take the time to really dedicate myself to it im gonna fuck something up #like i can see areas i need to/can improve already but the glaring flaws are ok! bc it's not finished! #it OVERALL looks cool and LOOKS like it has the potential to turn out well #but will it... WILL IT??? WILL IT EVER? #i have never been so totally completely satisfied w any finished drawing ive dedicated myself to fully. #tales from diana #this is also only the second time ive done a really deliberate self-portrait that wasnt in some for or another. practice #like of course ive drawn my face before. not that often actually. but since yes i do draw. i have drawn myself #i probably should've drawn myself more times for how often i think id like a nice picture of myself #but then again its not gonna be so 'nice' if i make it and am not totally happy w it? #see one of the ppl who inspired me to learn to draw is ned @sneez my dearest. he's spoiled me before #and drawn me very beautifully on several occasions and it's very much a thing to move one's heart #to see someone dedicate their talent to depicting YOU. #and i might say HE has made me look more beautiful in art than i think i'll ever look in the flesh #which is not to say he drew me inaccurately. but he's so talented that his art is more beautiful than life. #and i dont compare myself in skill to him bc he's been doing it for YEARS and way more trained than me in the visual arts. #like it simply wouldn't be fair so i only compare myself to myself. naturally #but i used to think. very VAINLY i might say. that if i could draw like him id draw beautiful pictures of myself all the time #well ce n'est pas ca mon ami. since learning to draw i've found im much more interested in drawing ppl i find beautiful #rather than myself. im not art. not through my own eyes at least. #i should really draw ned sometime. i really should. #actually somewhat embarrasingly i tried to draw him like 5 or 6 years ago. and i NEVER tried to draw then #i did show him tho and he thought it was very impressive but that's probably just bc he loves me. xoxox #maybe ill post that someday as a throwback just for the hell of it. lol. thatd be cute

[joelletwo]

[ID from alt: ORV fanart of no-scenarios au reinheit and nirvana eating in a restaurant booth. nirvana nods to show reinheit something and says "life row inmate eating his first meal." reinheit looks at them in frustrated bewilderment when he realizes they're talking about a baby being fed at another table]

@orvweek day 7: TECHNICALLY A THREE-FER SWEEP but really just roommates lol. do NOT let the two most annoying fuckers in the galaxy leave their apartment they'll inflict themselves on strangers

[citing my sources wifi tagged this post as them and im tickled by the multitudes of disappointment this natsume expression holds always]

#art tag #orvweek2023 #reinheit von djerba #nirvana moebius #reinvana #WHY DID I FORCE MYSELF TO LEARN HOW TO DRAW FACES IN PROFILE THIS WEEK. like i had to look at youtube videos and everything. #no one ever taught me. lol. turns out theres tricks and now i sort of get it.

[syncrovoid-presents]

I got a art tablet!! Just some doodles and figuring out how it works (how does rendering work)

#welcome home #wally darling #art.txt #syncrovoid.txt #i am decent at drawing animals but humanoids are a little new and faces are difficult so! #also hands are fun to draw @:P #i know it isn't the best but i am still learning! plus this is just a day of doodles haha #once i figure out how to render it is game over for you all #joking joking!! there are so many artists here that have levels of talent i will only ever aspire of reaching @:) #anywho!! #doodles #syncrovoid.art

[7-7-cherry]

Ichiro day!!

#hypmic #hypnosis mic #ichiro yamada #happy birthday to our poster boy :D #oh my god finally i've made a bday card for each hypmic character over the past year i am FREE #(main male characters. unfortunately i've forgotten how to draw women so no chuohku cards for now </3) #never doing this again gshhshd 18 drawings per year doesn't sound like a lot but. it is to me #the good thing is the bdays kept me drawing at least once per month so i couldn't ever truly slack off #another good thing is i learned a lot! and got to know the character designs of everyone better #but hoo boy am i excited to finally not have to think abt these. maybe i'll get back to drawing personal ideas again now #anyway i was surprised by how well this turned out cuz i've been struggling so much with drawing lately (especially faces) #and i had never rly drawn ichiro before so i was worried but!! it's fine wooo!! #or like. i'm moderately happy at least #7-7-cherry drawingz

[cold-neon-ocean]

A Trojan sketch for myself ;; he actually serves 'world's comfiest boyfriend' when he isn't fucking scowling

#Cyberpunk Dragons #Trojan #My OCs #[ Having to learn how to draw your own oc akjsdf #Trojan gives me a lot of trouble at times but sobs I really like this sketch ;; #I don't draw him comfy looking enough #and not scowling LMAO #he does have a kind of resting lidded eyes look but he's also got quite the baby face #few people ever get to see it lol! ] #Neon Ocean Art

[pluto-attacks]

Erng on her outing to the arcade

#I just caught up with this show #you ever see a colour pallet so fun it makes you wanna play with it? #I had to try and draw Erng + superpowers #I have no ability to capture likeness though #sorry girl I turned your beautiful face and beautiful tote bag into unidentifiable generic cartoons 😅 #and I made your beautiful wavey hair look greasy like the spook from The Ring… #But none of that is the point - the point is I tried 😭 #and I learned how to make things glow!!! #I Hope someone else has made fan art using colours swatched directly out of this scene - that would be great to see! #I ment to but was too lazy and just guessed… it is not the same effect #UMG #Unidentified Mysterious Girlfriend #pluto vs procreate

[angel-of-sweet-revenge]

Y'all I've been watching the classic Thomas the Tank engine episodes while revising for exams and when I say I have never seen a group bully each other so much before I genuinely mean it.

If anyone wants to know how siblings actually are just go watch a few of those old 5-minute long episodes. I'm not kidding, the amount these lot bully each other while also still being friends is on sibling level.

Come on, one episode literally had them (and by them I really mean just Gordon, the biggest one who pretty much started it) go make Percy, who's pretty much the smallest engine, go ask the fat controller about something that they didn't like but didn't wanna ask themselves, and I kid you not it read EXACTLY like the adult siblings making the baby sibling ask a strict parent for takeout. EXACTLY.

#no dont ask how my brain ended up on this planet #and no i dont know why i suddenly got the urge to watch this in my twenties #i just did and it's so ridiculous i love it #also sidenote but there's something very satisfying about the animation they used (i dont even know if its animation) #speaking of which if anyone wants to learn how to draw facial expressions just look at these trains #they have the best pouty grumpy and disgusted faces ever #ttte #thomas the tank engine

[spaceratprodigy]

was drawing faith and max smooching and I've decided I need to draw them kissing each other's scars for the millionth time

#whenever I draw his body I give him scars from past fights and prison brawls and what not #and I had it written out last year at some point about the first time they'd be intimate #and she'd gently run her hands over his scars and plant soft kisses on them #reassuring him how loved he is how he doesn't have to be blinded by his past his obsession his revenge his anger his anything anymore #etc etc etc I can ramble on forever yeah yeah okay #but #I've never drawn the uno reverse #I've never drawn the moment he'd finally have to lay his eyes upon the hidden scars she'd gotten from her life on earth #(of which only phin knows about at this point) #and just ough the idea of him asking about them or either immediately being able to recognize what caused them #and closing the distance. planting his lips on every single one. telling her he'll never let anyone hurt her like this ever again #perfect segway for at some point after she'd finally confide in him those details about her past #and the pain that would grow on his face when he learns just how much more the have in common #(i.e. her own history with religion. violence. anger. etc etc etc) #rambling #faith and max

[carbonateddelusion]

I spent Four Fucking Hours on a larger thing and these are the only parts I can show you

blackberry, zhe, and Isaac. what an odd combination of characters

#doodle #doodles #i'm so exhausted #that's 4 hours not including sketching time #blackberry #beanie zhevaros #beanie isaac #ig even though i'm not satisfied with it that's how You Learn and all trial n error n practice #but man am i wiped the fuck out #suggestive cw #ig?? it's just isaac's face #i wanted to draw smth similar to that mir@! n!kk! pose that everybody ever uses

[mars-ipan]

genuinely the smartest (and funniest) choice i ever made in junior high was completely ignoring people who tried to bully and/or annoy me

#i fucking slayed for that #i built the patience and skill for ignorance when in middle school these kids who would antagonize me on the bus learned my name #and so every day was ‘hey marley hey marley hey marley’ for the rest of the year #idk how the bus driver didn’t go crazy and kill them. anyways i got Really Good at tuning that out #and by the time i got to middle school i was a fucking expert #i’m not talking like ‘choosing not to respond/pretending i didn’t hear’ ignoring by the way #i was such a master that i was able to Not Percieve People. #there was a kid in my art class who just generally tried to be annoying #and every now and again i’d be the one he tried to annoy #and i literally for almost the entire year acted as though he did not exist #he waved his hand in front of my face. i kept drawing like it wasn’t there #he would poke and tap me. i would have swayed more in a gentle breeze #he would ask my friends (who i made aware of this plan of mine) things about me for ammunition #they would provide general info bc they knew it didn’t matter #my friends would tell me to look in the direction he was standing and vying for my attention from #i would look Through Him and go ‘i don’t see anything what are you guys talking about’ #i think the evilest idea i ever had was to write like a fully formatted essay #like psychoanalyzing this kid and trying to guess at his psychological problems (a need for attention most likely resulting from a lack #of it at home) #but i thought ‘no that’s like actually mean’ and didn’t do it #BTW this only worked for me bc none of my harrassers in middle school were trying to physically hurt me #they just wanted to get a rise out of me. so i beat them at their own game #they wanted to take joy in my anger? fools. i would simply be amused by their inability to affect me #genuinely it is such a powerful thing. i wonder if i ever drove people insane #it’s why i take that approach to anon hate (although i do acknowledge its existence) #ooooh you want to hurt my feelings sooo bad. oh you refreshed the page waiting for my response #you care about me lmao. and all i care about is how funny that is #i grew up on looney tunes btw. so maybe this is just the bugs bunny strat. but it’s sooooo fun

[aeide-thea]

the problem with having semi-fixed my sleep schedule is that now there’s all this day i hear i’m supposed to do things with???

#the learned helplessness is SO bad i’m just like. sitting here blankly #it’s a LOVELY blue and green and breezy day #76 going up to 78 #probably i should go on a bikeventure but the prospect sounds so exhausting lol #even though realistically the nice thing abt biking is like. if you get tired yr already sitting down #anyway usually i try 2 draw a bit of a veil over my total hideous uselessness #but i think like. if i can’t even admit to it anonymously on a site full of other strugglers how am i ever supposed to face or tackle it #and if you guys think poorly of me for it‚ well‚ it’s not like you’ll think anything more cutting than i’ve already thought abt myself #actually probs what i SHOULD do is finish changing over the tires on my bike #i got gatorskins last summer and swapped out one and then didn’t do the other‚ lol #and i’m pretty sure the remaining bontrager tire is like. FULLY punctured in spots at this point #could also stand to clean and relube my bike chain… might just cheat and use the combo product again lol #probs none of this would actually even take THAT long but i keep putting it off out of laziness #anyway am currently supervising feline yard exploration but like. could in theory multitask #slash eventually she WILL want to go in for lunch #but yeah tl;dr having even yr most harmless impulses hypercorrected from childhood on… #WILL eventually mean you stop trying to direct yr own life‚ or even being in touch with yr own impulses #you heard it here very not first #and when eventually the ppl controlling you either die or run out of preconceived hoops to chivvy you thru… you’re just. there. drifting #🍃

[delta-the-mando]

Don’t know why but for some reason I can draw bananas pretty well imo

#don’t repost thanks #I register for art class thinking I’ll learn how to draw faces better #I walk out being able to draw bananas better than I ever could #bananas #delta’s dumpster