#eh: tutorial

[sunny1927]

ENA TREND IS REALL FOR SUNNY!! >0< 💥💥/pos

Anyway please enjoy my ENA Oswald/Mickey trend animation?? Yeah something along those lines haha! (ENA Oswald/Mickey (my vers) inspired by @rockhousejai of her ENA Mickey/Oswald version , she drew them so beautifully and definitely should check out (along with her art too :DD) teehee :3)

[keferon]

I'd love if you'd do a breakdown for Cyclonus! He's one of my favorite characters and I think his design is really cool.

I actually think it’s the first time I’m drawing him haha

Enjoy my highly elaborate and very precise research

[hatekawa]

Your art is so good and I really like your style! I was wondering, how do you draw backgrounds so well?

You probably mean that one background in the most recent part of the 3 months au comic which the making of was quite of a journey so im gonna explain it step by step

step 1. Pretend that you know what you're doing and practice (for example this background that I drew over a year ago for RinRee's comic "Broken Bonds" (the characters were drawn by her)), gain some experience

step 2. Get a minecraft reference (if you suck at perspective like me)

step 3. fail miserably

step 4. get more references

step 5. figure out what you did wrong, study (for ex. your references), practice some more (i cant show because my practice were other backgrounds for the 3 months au comic)

in my case what i did wrong was lack of warm up (the last time i drew an actual background was few months ago which is WAY TOO LONG), making it not look like an actual train and in general making the room look too organized and empty. Mikey is a chaotic and artistic soul so it's obvious that he'd have a mess in his room (it's important to think about what a character would have in their room, ex. art supplies, sticky notes/stickers, junk, posters etc)

step 6. try again

BONUS: I genuinely enjoy making backgrounds, so it's easier for me to stay patient and pay the attention to them that they need! :]

[hummingjay]

@dudelymantits Fir!

[mustasekittens]

valentine💉🩵

speed art/commentary

[nebulousmedic]

yay yay tutorial!! remember, this is a milk tutorial.

[the-speyeral]

how obvious is it that i have never in my life rendered water

[redhotarsenic]

Yay my new friend hobie <33

[pyrosomatic-metamorphosis]

rough art tips to learn and then break at your leisure.

the distance between your eyes is roughly one eye. the corners of your mouth dont extend past the middle of each eye. ears are roughly in the middle of the tip of the nose and the eyebrow. the eyes are in the very centre of the head. the neck is just a Little slimmer than the width of the head (varies with fat distribution, but fat tends to build up under the chin). hair is easier to draw when you plot out the hairline and then where it parts. leaving appropriate distance on the side of the face (cheekbone area and back to ear) contributes to making characters look more realistic/hot as hell. i dont know specific tips for that so use reference. an amazing reference/study site is lineofaction.com . if you think of the face in planes it makes it easier to construct (look up tutorials). if you draw a spiral like a tornado it can help you figure out awkward perspective for extended limbs (look up foreshortening coil technique). tangent lines are when two lines intersect and cause visual confusion (when it looks like a line that defines an arm is part of the line that defines a building, for example) and avoiding them makes your art way easier to comprehend. quick trick to good composition: choose a focal point (where you want your viewer to focus), detail that area the most, and make sure various elements of the piece are pointing to that focal point. you can use colours to contrast hue, saturation, and brightness and make certain elements of your drawing stand out. drawing in greyscale can help you figure out values. using black in a piece isn't illegal but you should know what you're doing when you do use it- it desaturates a piece and if used as a shading colour can desaturate and dull whatever youre shading too. if you use almost-black lineart and then add black to darken the very darkest areas it will do a lot to add some nice depth. the tip of your thumb ends just above the start of your index finger- your thumb also has two knuckles and all your other fingers have three. if you see an artist doing something you like (the way they draw noses or eyes or hair or anything else) you can try to copy that and see if you want to incorporate it in your style <- this is ENCOURAGED and how a lot of us learned and developed our styles. there are ways to add wrinkles to faces and bodies without making the character look a million years old, you just have to keep experimenting with it. The smile wrinkles around your muzzle dont connect to your mouth or to your nose; there should be a small space in between smile or nose and the wrinkle line. eyes when viewed in profile are like < aka a little triangle shape. think of the pupil like a disk and apply foreshortening to it (it looks like a line when seen from the side instead of a full round dot). subtle gradients can add a LOT to a piece. texture can also add a LOT. look up Tommy Arnold's work (his murderbot pieces are some of my FAVOURITE) and zoom in. find those random little circles he added and try to figure out why he added them there. light bounces. there's lots of way light bounces. sometimes it even spreads through the skin. i do not know these light tricks yet but i want you to know that they exist. draw a circle to indicate hand placement, draw a straight line between that circle and the shoulder, and then (normally at a right angle) draw a straight line on top of that line to find the placement of the elbow. elbows are normally placed Just above the hip when standing and your arm is at rest. there are no bad colour combos if you're brave enough about it, just fuck with the saturation and brightness until it works. keep playing. try new things. add your own tips to this post if you want or even expand on some ive mentioned here. good luck go ham etc

[episims]

The previous ask made me remember that it's possible to sort of mix different terrain types by editing the NeighborhoodTerrain.ini in the game files, too. Doing this instantly affects all the neighborhoods using the edited terrain type.

The lot view still shows just one terrain type at a time, though. But when done like this, I assume the lot terrain type will automatically change based on what terrain the lot is mostly placed on.

I've never found a way to utilize this well for my own use, but that's probably due to the lack of patience to fiddle with it lol.

Underneath are the settings I used for the preview above, along with my notes. Just click on the pic for the bigger version (or open the picture in a new tab if you're reading this from the blog).

[chipjrwibignaturals]

also fun design tidbit yall cant see in that piece: (at least as of rn) my cleo design has one paralyzed droopy eyelid, always half-lidded! she doesnt usually open the other eye super wide, though, so its usually a bit more subtle to notice

[nox-in-a-box]

First time posting a crochet project here.

Ta-da! 'Tis a little cactus.

[strangedisciple]

won't you please say that again?

[sundial-bee-scribbles]

idk what to caption this one tbh

[kyeterna]

OC-tober day 15 prompt: meme

Featuring K.A., Kali, Adam, Kaylyn and Eri from Universe Building Tutorial (first just one of those draw your ocs prompts and then just normal meme edits)

Sixteen teenagers are tasked with the creation of a universe, problem is three of them are control freaks and half of the others don't get along well. Plus there is no tutorial out there for how to achieve such a thing. Who let a bunch of teens handle such an important task-

For this prompt I only chose five of the characters. The afformentioned control freaks are K.A. and Kali (Denis is not present here), while the other 3 are chosen because: Adam is K.A.'s unfortunate guyfailure punching bag, Kaylyn (gay intent), and I really really love Eri's design (plus despite her overall foul behaviour she s one of the few people that can get along with K.A. so i thought it would make sense for her to be here)

I could go on for days for the complicated dynamics between all sixteen members of the cast but this is not the relationship prompt entry.

From bweirdart's OC-tober prompt:

While I am doing this challenge mostly to keep an archive of my characters on tumblr (and to incentivise myself to draw them), if you, person stumbling upon this post, are curious and wanna learn more, my askbox is open >:3c

[keeps-ache]

okay, my plotting