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hemi-demi · 2 months ago

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Tip for adult artists if your focus is improving your anatomy and drawing bodies that feel more grounded in a space, genuinely one of the best exercises for that is to draw smut.

You don't have to post it. Hell, you can burn it when you're done for all it matters. But hardly anything will give you more of an understanding of a realistic human body interacting in 3D space when you smush two or more of them together.

#art advice #18+ art #obviously not the only way to go about it #but I definitely learned more from drawing smut than from gesture drawings alone #if you're adverse/repulsed by images then non-sexual intimacy would work just fine #I'll admit references are hard cause I hate searching for irl stuff #but worst case scenario 3D model poser apps can help you find the general positions of things and you can pose however you need to #at this point I've been practicing construction a lot so I can just draw from my own understanding of anatomy #and I'll fill in the rest by using reference which can often just be my own photos or looking at my own hands/mouth/etc #added bonus is if you do it enough that embarrassment goes away eventually #but don't be upset with yourself if you are painfully shy at the start that's perfectly normal #ok sorry this turned into a ramble #artists of tumblr #demirambles

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