#Drawing tips

[frutigermortisqueen]

Yup.

my fave writing reminder

honestly, this phrase has been on my mind more times than i can count. i've kidnapped it, taken it as a hostage with no ransom money because i need it to live permanently in my head.

[character---obsessed]

Is using other people’s colour pallets stealing art???

[saszor]

Overview of some topics when it comes to drawing characters who are burn survivors.

DISCLAIMER. Please keep in mind that this is an introductory overview for drawing some burn scars and has a lot of generalizations in it, so not every “X is Z” statement will be true for Actual People. I'm calling this introductory because I hope to get people to actually do their own research before drawing disabled & visibly different characters rather than just making stuff up. Think of it as a starting point and take it with a grain of salt (especially if you have a very different art style from mine).

Talking about research and learning... don't make your burn survivor characters evil. Burn survivors are normal people and don't deserve to be constantly portrayed in such a way.

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edit: apparently tum "queerest place on the internet" blr hates disabled people so much that this post got automatically filtered. cool!

second way more important edit: How are people seeing this post where I specifically talk about burn survivors being normal, real people, and still tag this as "TW body horror"? Not a single one of these drawings or pictures is a fresh injury. All of them are healed. How the hell would you feel if someone tagged a photo of you as "trigger warning: gore"?

Disabled people are not your fucking body horror. Grow up.

[sabertoothwalrus]

You probably get asked this a lot, but how do you draw hands? Even when I'm tracing, they look so weird 🙃

I could probably go on and on and on about hands, but here are some key points I compiled! I LOVE drawing hands, and I never hesitate to use my own as a reference

[laboratoryrats]

“Notes on skirts and pants”

Source: miyuli on twitter

[schweizercomics]

Hello, friends!

I reworked the ol' "Schweizer Guide to Spotting Tangents" lecture from my comics-teaching days, figured I'd share it here. If you want a free, printable PDF for yourself or to share (especially if you're an educator), you can find it at the bottom of this same lesson on my website.

-Chris

[laurzaboonart]

I'm currently doing an online art school program and I thought I'd share some notes on clothing pieces for anyone else whose like me and for some reason can't understand objects with free from lol I hope you find some of these observations/ notes useful for any of your art journeys!

[mandrawsdog]

Draw Thoughts #3: How do I make my characters look different from each other?

[sparklingcamelia]

Learning anatomy... ouch.

[ayyy-imma-ninja]

Heeyyyy

Not an ask about your character lore like usual, but do you have any tips or references on drawing hands?

here take these:D

[gammagoop]

ive been wanting to make smth like this for a little while now and i finally finished it up ^_^ hopefully my tricks are helpful

EDITS: since this post is gaining a lot of traction, i want to highlight some of the suggestions and addendums that other people have made. i'm imperfect, which is why i recommend that you use references of real people along with my simple tips!

as many have pointed out, the yellow in the last diagram should cover the entire body, especially around the stomach area. the only parts of the body that are consistently bare are the palms of the hands and the bottoms of the feet

check out this reblog from @proxykiwi for a diagram of the distribution of hair on the back of the body

the texture of the hair can differ between the head and the body-- much of the time body and beard hair is curlier than the hair on the head

like when drawing head hair, its helpful to break up facial hair into descriptive shapes, and add lines for texture as needed. i tried to communicate that in the images, but i think its also useful to write it out

check out this reblog from @jodjuya for a detailed explanation of how beards tend to grow throughout teen-adult years

thank you to everyone who's suggested and added things! i encourage people to look through the replies and reblogs of this post for more information

[snow-lite]

Never posted any of my drawings but here goes. My current wip related to my fic, What Remains, with both of them being adults, pregnancy trope, J'ASSUME !

But my question is: any tips for how to draw Ekko's hair?

[barnlarn]

Revising some of my horse drawing tips pages, starting with necks!

Corrected some muscle names and added more explanation/ method.

[saszor]

Tutorial for drawing characters with Down syndrome!

DISCLAIMER... Please keep in mind that this is an introductory drawing tutorial and has some generalizations in it, so not every “X is Z” statement will be true for Actual People. It's more of an overview of features that are common in people with Down syndrome, not meaning to imply that every person with DS has all of them 👍 thanks.

If you draw any characters using this feel free to tag me!

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[jururenu]

Hello! I love your work! Do you have any anatomy or line art tips for those who might struggle? (*^▽^)/★*☆♪

Hello! thank you so much. For anatomy I recomend doing a lot of quicksketching focusing on gesture and proportion, I learnt most I know about anatomy from doing that and Proko's course on drawing fundamentals and then the anatomy one (which I haven't finished yet XD) , both super complete and free on youtube. For lineart I recommend practicing a lot the line quality (the variation in thickness of the lines) and also your confidence with your lines, which you only develop drawing a lot and not overthinking, quicksketching also helps with that!! for practing quicksketching, line-of-action.com and quickposes.com are both great, tough lately line of action has been more useful to me since you can be more specific about the pictures you want to draw and has a larger collection in general, but I have used quickposes a lot too in the past, you could also just take reference pictures from pinterest and time yourself, and if you have the oportunity to do live drawing you should do it, nothing better than live references. I hope that helps!! good luck.