#pose ref used from Kibbitzer

[intothegenshinworld]

remember me. remember me.

please don't leave me. please don't leave me.

©intothegenshinworld. This content above is made for the genshinblr ebg of October 2023, hosted by @i23kazu! Because of this, content like these will contain selfship lore. After the ebg, the blog will return to its usual content!

[rbbtstw]

Day 7 of Hermit a Day May!! One of if not my favorite hermit Mumbo!! ❤️❤️

I love him so much! His editing style is just my absolute favorite and how he is going about building this season!!

I used a pose ref from kibbitzer on Pinterest! They have a huge resource of references be sure to check them out so helpful when you need ideas! ❤️

[artistic-moth-man]

I really love your style!! How do you draw the poses of your characters? Taking references or by memory?

THANKYOU THANKYOU THANKYOU THANKYOU THANKYOU !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

DEFINITELY references! Usually if i see something i can picture as a pose for a character i immediately screenshot/ask the og creator if i can use their art for reference of my own. When i need to look for inspo tho i got a few places like adorkastock, emilodekure (on insta), melon-soup, albenechi, tailuma, kibbitzer, gonzais, (all of which should be on tumblr!) but i also take reference from artists like sleepybacon and wolftinger666 and i even take from live action photos like from jackspeticeye :D im a jack of all refs if you will

Also fun trick: Sometimes i use the same reference more than once for different characters/body types if theres an important similarity !!!

Thanks for asking!!!

[trickstermelon]

yuma thought he was going for a hug

im gonna try drawing kisses for the next few hours. send me ships

[robigos]

Started off as a doodle for feferi february, ended up in arafef; what a time to be alive 😉

[gracielikegrapes]

Some quick fanart of meesi from Misbegotten child on ao3 @toomanytakesreally

Included some aemond anime vision

I used some kibbitzer pose refs and I referenced Rhea Royce on horseback :)

(I did some previous fanart for some of your stories but I tagged your old account)

[florenceisfalling]

YOU!!! HI THERE ITS ME FROM THE COMMENTS HI THERE

ive been roaming your blog for the past hour or so and dude like i said befote i adore your art!! you have such amazing anatomy skills bro- how in the world do you do it!?! gosh i am absolutely in love with your art its not even funny :']]

~krabs :]

YOOOO HEY WHATS UP

you're so sweet?? oh my god??? that's so nice aaaaaa thank you so so much! seriously! your art is wonderful too and im honored that you like mine!

i know this wasn't the point of ur ask entirely but i kinda went on a tangent so...

anatomy is tricky, i have such a hard time with it sometimes- but my best advice is to use lots of references! it's super helpful to work up from drawn references to photo references to studies straight from your brain! over time you learn to separate bodies down into separate building blocks instead of one big confusing thing (something i always struggle with) so that you can a.) make poses easier and b.) have fun and experiment with how they look in your style.

places i find drawn references:

kibbitzer has a million things. very helpful! they also have a whole book of references and studies you can buy!

snuffysbox has draw the squad/draw the ot3 poses in a more cartoonish style, but you gotta give credit & not use them for commercial purposes!!!! always check that kind of thing!!

kim_gilgyu has good refs but since its twitter you might have to do a lot of scrolling to find em :'D

just looking up "art reference" on google images and finding people's twitter & dA accounts through there is super helpful!

places i find photo refs:

adorkastock is a fucking treasure trove of poses, especially action poses and fun stuff. highly recommend!

unsplash is a free-use image site where the photographers don't require payment but appreciate credit or support! their stuff is also good for making moodboards & stuff :D

if you can't find what you need, use a timed camera and take some of your own photos! i have to do this for hand poses a lot...

you can also combine poses! that one antistein drawing i'm really proud of is like the first example that comes to mind, cause i wanted something specific, which meant taking photos of my own hands & knives and photoshopping them onto a photo of 2 people dancing.

another option if you can't find what you want or you wanna go creative: magic poser & justsketchme. some features are for paying or mobile users only, but a lot of it can be done in your browser for free :D it's super handy for making your own references!

tHANK YOU AGAIN FOR YOUR NICE WORDS AND SORRY FOR RAMBLING ABOUT REFERENCES ITS JUST SOMETHING I LOVE TO HELP WITH! PRACTICE MAKES PERFECT AND FIND WHAT YOU HAVE THE MOST FUN WITH!! THATS ALL THANK YOU AGAIN AAAAAAAAa

[dottiechan]

Hey!! I've been following your blog for a while and I love your style! I read you are self taught. I want to learn how to draw people too so I thought I'd ask: can you recommend some resources that worked for you? Thank you soo much! 😸

Hi! Thanks for the ask, and for your kind words! 

A little something to consider though before I proceed with the rest of my answer - take everything I say/recommend with a grain of salt. “Self-taught” isn’t a mysteriously elusive concept, it doesn’t mean someone’s mastered a skill all by themselves, it simply means taking control of your own learning process and allowing yourself to find the methods and ways that benefit you. If something anyone recommends doesn’t work for you and makes you feel bad in any way, I say ignore it.

That being said, you can find the rest of my thoughts beneath the cut:

Find the right platform and tools

This is step 0. Nothing will feel right unless you find a form of artistic self-expression that resonates within you. I find digital art to be much more forgiving and not to mention cheaper than the more tradtional ways, but not every platform works for me. I’ve been using Autodesk Sketchbook for a while now because it is completely free, beginner friendly and has just enough tools to help you make more elaborate drawings as well, but I would break down crying if I had to learn how to use Photoshop (while some people excel at it!). As for tablets, I totally recommend the Wacom ones. I’ve been using my Wacom Intuos Comic tablet with my laptop for years and I’ve never had any issues with it.

References

I suck at human anatomy. There, I’ve said it. I’ve never learned it properly for drawing purposes, and every attempt I’ve made to do so simply left me frustrated, so unforntunately I don’t have many resources for you, per se. Whenever I try using anatomy guides or tutorials, my drawings end up looking weird. So I mainly only use references. IMO anatomy doesn’t matter much as long as the shapes look natural, and as long as your drawing conveys the message you want it to convey. References help guide you, while giving you the necessary freedom to make adjustments as you see fit (while on the other hand I personally find rigid anatomical “rules” restricting). Use references for everything - the lighting, the face, the hair, the hands, the clothes. I always have several photos saved to my phone while I’m drawing that I often look at. 

(If you want to learn how human anatomy works though, more power to you! There is an great amount of drawing tutorials out there by wonderful artists! :))

Some of my favourite places to go to for pose refs:

Senshistock

SketchDaily Reference Site

Kibbitzer

Google images of celebrities or models (cliche, I know, but it’s a good way to get many references of the same body type, face, etc.)

Some tips I wish someone told me when I got into digital art:

If you find poses or faces difficult at first, practice by tracing. A lot. Get familiar and even intimate with certain recurring lines or ratios or curves, and eventually they will come back to you when you draw without tracing. Gradually shift to just looking at references. This will take time, so be patient with yourself.  Tracing is a great way to warm up to a new platform and/or tablet too - this is how I got comfortable with my current setup 3 years ago.  (Out of respect for the creators, do not claim traced refs as your own work.)

It will probably take a while, so practice as often as you can. Unfortunately, there is no way around this, but instead of setting a goal (i.e. “I want to learn how to draw people”), try to enjoy the journey. Even when you think your drawings don’t come out as well or as realisitc as you want them to, you’re drawing people. And you can find unique solutions once you let go of this “ideal state” you want to reach. That’s when your style will emerge. :)

Something looks wonky or out of place in your initial sketch? No problem. Use the Quick transform > Lasso tool in Sketchbook to outline and drag the part where it would look better. I have salvaged so many sketches like this, such an easy fix to when you mess up the ratios in for instance a face.

Find The Brush. The One Brush to rule them all. The brush that makes you feel the most comfortable, the one that accomodates your style the most. (Mine is the Dry Marker. I feel like I could conquer the world with it.)

Always change the background colour from white to something a little darker. That way it is so much easier to add white highlights and make a face or a body look more 3 dimensional. (Especially if you’re lazy like yours truly, and would like to get away with not adding any colours to a drawing.)

Put everything on separate layers!!! Otherwise making even minor tweaks will be extremely difficult.

[sokodraws]

HAPPY VALENTINES

🧡💜

here are my OCs Astri and Solis

pose ref from kibbitzer

(PLEASE DON’T COPY/EDIT/USE/REPOST, REBLOG INSTEAD)

[leviathean-blog]

drew (using a pose ref from kibbitzer) seri and her human bf dmitri from the russia arc. she loosens up a ton being with normal human people.., like she's just an ordinary gal

[alexdrehamilotn]

What pose references do you use???

I actually take reference from a lot of different sources! Sometimes I look up RL people – sometimes I just sort of wing it and hope it comes out okay – search up the pose on google and adjust it accordingly – and there are various artists on deviantART who actually do posing reference to help artists learn and grow by drawing not-so-typical poses?

I know some of the artists I’ve seen (and referenced personally in the past) are kibbitzer, kate-fox, xghostwheelx, etc. Like you can pretty much even look up on pinterest ‘posing reference’ and it’ll tug up a ton of ref you can learn from (dON’T TRACE THOUGH JUST TRY TO IMITATE that way you get the feel for how to do it)

Reference is a huge part of how we learn and grow as artists, anyone who tells you otherwise has never actually attempted to draw people or scenery before. 

I wish I knew how to work those funky 3D programs to draw but I’m a bit moronic when it comes to programs (thank god Sai is easy to use?) but I wish I could use those man… that’d be sweet.