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My contribution to the #cursedcatalastor on Twitter

#hazbin hotel #charlastor #radiobelle #cursed cat alastor

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In which Mammon gets overloaded with compliments/affection 💕

#obey me mammon

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Warmup Velociraptor inspired by Paleo Pines

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Sorry if you've been asked this many times, but would you do a tutorial on how to draw winged horses? I really really love your art.

Hi there!

I've got a couple of resources:

Tips for Drawing Horses

Tips for Drawing Wings

And here's a little page of notes on how I attach wings to horses :)

~ Larn

#pegasi #drawing tips

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Let’s Draw Wings

I’ve gotten the question/request of how I draw wings lots and lots so I’ve decided to make a dedicated post!

Now…I’m no master, but I have found a way that I like to draw wings that’s efficient for me. There three main points: 

References

Simplification

Texture Management

First of all - References

My favorite wing reference of all time is this post by Jenn on Twitter. I have both the images saved but I use the Wing Shapes one, below, alllllll the time. Like for real all the time!

I also keep pretty extensive collections of wing photo reference. When I’m having trouble, I’ll trace a few or do studies to get back into the swing of things. Here are links to my Pinterest boards:

Broadwing Reference (passive soaring and high-speed)

Longwing Reference (active soaring)

Shortwing Reference (elliptical and hovering)

Secondly - Simplification

When I sketch wings, I simplify Jenn’s diagram even further -

For me, the key to drawing wings is simplifying the wing down - from the structure to the feathers - the goal for me is to be able to draw them quickly and have the proper information conveyed. It needs to look like a wing in the base sketch. If it doesn’t, no amount of rendering and extra feathers will help. I like to break the wing into the three main moving parts. The orange is one part, then the purple contains two main chunks feathers that you can group together and move as their own parts. 

On top of that, I like to think of wings like a sheet of paper. They can bend and fold in on themselves, with the orange meaty bits anchoring everything together. 

Lastly - Texture

I like to call wings “texture monsters”. Feathers are hard to manage and can easily make wings look over-busy and muddy. Just like before, I break the wing into chunks so I can spend less time drawing the wing and it’s feathers:

Then you can put it all together and push things further -

So yeah this is how I throw wings together! The wings I draw aren’t super technical or detailed, but I what matters for me is that they look and feel like believable wings at a glance -

~ Larn

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#how to draw wings #drawing tips

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Hey!!! You made a "how to draw wings" sheet, but— how on Earth do you draw horse!?!? The bane of every artists existence

Yeahhh horses are hard. They have lots of little nuances on top of complex anatomy and weird ass shapes (literally and figuratively). Drawing them requires lots and lots of practice. And this is like...entire art book levels of subject matter but here are a few tricks that I've picked up over time -

Key body shapes - shoulder, barrel, hip

I won't go too far into this one because Ken Hultgren does a much better job in his book The Art of Animal Drawing. But TL;DR - a horse's body has three main masses - the shoulder, the barrel, and the hip. Each one is tricky to draw on it's own since they're all weird shapes, but it's helpful to me to break a horse body down into simpler terms.

Key muscle masses

When I draw horses, I like to emphasis curves vs straights. Horses have that built in naturally as their body is often either "pure muscle" or "pure bone". There's some really nice details at the intersections of body parts, like at the front elbow and behind the ears along the neck (aka the "poll") where there's highly definable muscle groups that can help with visual clarity.

Fun fact, young horses grow hip-first. The horse in the photo above is 8 years old. That same horse at 4 years is below. Cracks me up how much taller his hip was at the time.

Ok so the muscles on the front legs combined with the shoulder mass is a fave combo of mine. The shoulder mass itself is something that I've found that is particularly horse-ish. For me, it's a pretty big visual signifier - almost more important than the neck. You can show a lot of tension/action in the body with the shoulder depending how you simplify it. Horses use their shoulders A LOT (too much if you ask any dressage rider or reiner), so emphasizing the shoulder can make a horse more expressive.

Legs. Oh heavens, the legs.

Yeah ok so again, Hultgren goes into fantastic detail on legs and hooves (I still follow how he simplifies hooves to this day my gosh that guy is a genius), but I often break them down like this for quick sketching. Are horse's legs realistically this emphasized? No, but I like the visual language; believable but expressive. This can apply to any size/shape from arabians to drafts.

And finally...

A few head details -

Overall horses have SO many variables. The fun part about that is that they're highly customizable and able to be endlessly stylized. The tough part is that they're hard to draw strictly because of all of the little things to keep track of to make sure the horse reads as "horse".

And so because third time's the charm, Ken Hultgren's Art of Animal Drawing really is one of the best I've seen for breaking down, simplifying, and applying horse anatomy to active drawings.

But most of all, the more you draw horses the easier they'll be.

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#how to draw horses #drawing tips

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The year is drawing to a close and I've been thinking about how things come and go. I hope the holidays have found you all well, and here's to going into the New Year with confidence and lifted spirits even if things are looking a bit dreary in the present.

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People really think Lucifer is some cold villainous evil man when he's canonically gushed over Mammon calling him Dad once, gotten so embarassed over making Diavolo bad cookies he blushes at the mere mention of them, and gotten so enraptured in a novel he cried.

He can be a menace but he's also a mess, never forget.

#obey me lucifer #i love this man more with each passing day

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Cold weather is better together ❤️

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#bakutodo #todoroki shouto #bakugou katsuki #bnha

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Happy Halloween!

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Happy birthday to AO3 🎂🎉

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Belphie howls the night away 🌕🐺

#obey me #obey me nightbringer #obey me belphegor #i love the art of this card #❤️

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It's disheartening to see what is being done to Shoto and it makes me consider if I want to continue reading until the end or drop it now because I don't think I can take the disappointment every week.

I think the only way to survive is if you look at Shouto's plot as his own story. Everyone else is in a Disney-esque feel-good manga with their magic cures, fantastical power-ups, lots of hype and funny interactions with a flat-paper, cartoon evil that feels good to punch. Where death, destruction and consequence is at most a fleeting inconvenience.

Shouto is in a different story, that's somehow inside the overall feel-good story. It's a dark, sad, realistic story, where there are no fairy godmothers and magic cures. Where the true villain is the hurt people inflict on each other. The final boss is the trauma you can't just punch away. It's a story where your best sometimes takes you only so far. Where you give your heart to someone with the purest intentions and they take it and turn into death and destruction. It's a story where the most fervent wishes and prayers won't ever change the past or the future or give you back what you lost. It's our world.

Shouto is locked in a world like ours. He's the protagonist of this dark story, he's trapped inside it and he only gets to look through the glass at everyone else's happiness as he struggles and cries and fights.

He gets no great rewards or recognition for all he does. His childhood hero hands him no power or shining light to hold onto. He has to find the light inside himself, build a lantern out of the pain he suffered and make it shine for the others who are with him inside this sad story.

His fight is a thankless one, but he still shoulders the burden he was given, he keeps fighting for the people who hurt him, scar him, belittle him. He gives everything of himself, every last bit of power until he has nothing left.

And maybe he has no accolades, maybe he can't fix his broken family or change his brother heart. Maybe he reaches out only to be rejected again. Maybe all he can give them is another day to live. And he has to trust that it has meaning. And maybe nobody recognizes him or knows his name or cares about the hero he wants to be. Maybe nobody will ever compare him to All Might. Maybe he'll never be a Symbol of anything. Maybe he'll only ever be known as Endeavor's son, Dabi's brother because he chose to stick with the family instead of breaking free. But unknown to him, there are a couple of kids who smile because of him, who get to be adults because of him and who will carry him in their hearts.

I live in a world like Shouto's (it's unfair, sad and full of pain) and as much as I want to escape to a happy story, where everything always works out for the best, where good people are rewarded, I know I have no choice but to live the life I was given and try to make it better for the people around me and somehow find the light inside myself.

And that's why Shouto is such an inspiration for me - because despite all the trauma, pain and suffering, he has the strength to keep fighting with a heart so full of love and gratitude and that's just so incredibly powerful to me.

#honestly this #bnha meta #todoroki shouto #I'm getting tired... #we all want our favorite character to be treated well #and shouto truly deserves it