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i am literally inlove with your artstyle the way you draw the ghouls is so cute!! if your still taking requests could i get some swiss and dew pretty please? <33333

They feed off each others gremlin energy…

(thank you so much 😭 my art isn’t really that good though… but thanks!)

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Every show….

+ bonus victorious Dew

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MOUNTAIN AND AETHER CONTENT PLSSSS 🙏🙏🙏 I adore them and your art OOOGH

Careful with him, he’s scared of heights

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Scaredy ghouls

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Mountain is LITERALLY MY BBG 😕😕😕 plllleeeaasssseeeee draw him taking care of Copia’s rats while he is gone :( I think that would be REALLY CUTE!! :D

(I suggested rain and mountain hugging last time… 😓 you miggghhtttt remember mee..)

@aspenlovessodo I do remember you! ❤️

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Swiss canonically being a biter is my roman empire…

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Do you have any advice on how I can learn angles,poses etc...?

@xoxod3v1l I am quite literally the last person you should be asking for advice cause I am below subpar… but I will share a few things I’ve picked up.

I know people hate to hear it, but practicing is your friend. I know a lot of people suggest using reference photos, but the way I learned was from real life; I watch people in motion as opposed to a photograph. There’s nothing wrong with photos, but I find them to be constricting when you are trying to convey some semblance of movement in your image. When I lived in the city, I used to take a sketchbook to the mall, sit in the food court, and just draw what I saw in motion. They weren’t always carefully crafted and proportionate; a lot of the time, I just scribbled stick figures with a bit of meat to them. Because your subject is on the move, you have to draw quickly if you want to develop what you see into a specific pose. I’ll use a feral Swiss as an example: instead of finding a photograph/reference photo, I played a video clip of the ghoul losing his little ghoul mind on loop and tried to feel what he was trying to say with his body. I wasn’t sure how I wanted it to look, so I scribbled out several “stick figures” before I found one I felt like developing into a sketch. I keep the scribble off to the side as my “reference photo” and just build off of that. I developed the pose by alternating between watching him move in the video and what my mind’s eye was seeing in a stationary image.

Sometimes I don’t draw stick figures first. Sometimes I just start build-a-ghoul and go from there. I think about how my body feels as I draw, using my mental map of my body as a reference. Being aware of how your body feels as you draw is helpful because I feel like it helps assist me in developing what kind of pose I’m trying to say. Drawing is a conversation with yourself; your mind is talking to your body about what the body has to say, and then your body responds with its own advice. From there, the mind starts talking to your drawing hand until you find what you like on the canvas, using loose strokes as you go (I find keeping my hand loose as I draw gives my brain less time to fret over getting it perfect on the first go).

Once you map your body on the canvas, then you can flesh it out a little more. You can be a little more defined with your strokes, because you have a stronger feeling as to what you are trying to say with your pose.

I stroooongly recommend looking into drawing lessons. They don’t have to be a formal school setting; I learn a lot from artists that post their creative process. Not just step-by-step tutorials, but how they form what they want to convey. Watch people livestream their drawings as they’re doing them. Watch time-lapse videos from start to finish. Aaron Blaise has some really good videos, and I’ve downloaded quite a few of his lessons (creatureartteacher.com). My best advice though is to draw from real life. Reference photos are fine, of course, I use them from time to time, but I personally like the touch of learning to draw quickly from moving subjects. That was where I first started learning to draw. It helps you develop a sense of movement and bodily awareness as you draw. Kind of a holistic approach to drawing, I guess lol; I usually draw by feeling the pose in my body, over replicating the pose from a picture. Warm up before you start drawing; it doesn’t have to be good, it doesn’t have to be proportionate, no one ever has to see it. I currently have 306 canvases open in my drawing program, and I’d say a good 289 of them are just warm up sketches. Sketches I’ll one day close without ever sharing. Don’t get too attached to your warm up sketches (unless you plan on developing them into a more coherent sketch later). Warming up is pretty much the only time I’ll use reference photos; any other time, I’m using gifs/videos/models in motion. The pose will make itself known from there.

But seriously, my art is terrible so… sorry if this doesn’t help any. 😅

Also sorry for how long this post ended up being….

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Cumulus for @mari-love-terzomega

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MORE MOUNTRAIN!!!

please :)

Anon, how does it feel knowing you’ve made this a Mountain appreciation fanart blog?

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Tallest boi is shyest boi

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🌸 More Mountain love

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When you’ve got some tattling to do, Mountain’s your ghoul…

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@aspenlovessodo I hear you want a Rain and Mountain hug?

My ask box is always open to suggestions, y’all…

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In all honesty, I wanna thank the Ghost community for such a warm welcome. I was nervous about doing fanart of Ghost, and was worried how I’d fit in, but everyone has been so kind and generous. I felt like such a weirdo, wanting to do fanart based off a band; it’s so nice to feel so less alone now. Really, thank you all for showing me what a great community the Ghost fandom is.

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Aether keeping Dew humble… Everyone knows from experience it’s true though.

(first time publicly posting unmasked ghouls… be nice lol)

heavily inspired by @p1nkcanoe

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@em0bussy he’s getting some comforting, per your request lol

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This is why Dewdrop can’t have nice things…