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The Queen of the Night sequence from Mozart’s “Magic Flute”

The first image by Karl Friedrich Schinkel in 1815 The second by Simon Quaglio in 1818

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not the first time you meet, but the first time you recognize each other.

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Visual development art for Mulan (1998) by Hans Bacher

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There's nothing to be nervous about. The curtains are closed, the servants sent home. Even the planets and stars are blindfolded. INTERVIEW WITH THE VAMPIRE - 1.01 | In Throes of Increasing Wonder...

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Domestic lesdaughter to keep the worms in my head at bay

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Any recs on studying anatomy? How did you get a grasp for it? Apart from your own style, which is GORGEOUS, I love how grounded it feels. Sososo beautiful. Thank you for sharing your talent with us. 💖

First of all, thank you so much, anon!! <3

When I first started, my main resources were Proko’s Figure Drawing and Anatomy playlists, Loomis books, and Michael Hampton’s Figure Drawing: Design and Invention. Recently I found Tom Fox’s Anatomy for Artists really useful, too; a thing he said in that book which I’d always keep in mind is that when it comes to drawing the human figure, sometimes believability is more important than accuracy, which is to say depicting something that seems functional and organic is more important than trying to draw every single muscle accurately.  

My approach to anatomy and figure drawing typically follows this hierarchy: gesture -> shape/form -> anatomy. This isn’t to say that anatomy is unimportant; anatomical knowledge does inform the first two steps a lot and you do need to know at least a bit about the shape of the human body and how parts are connected, what I mean here is that anatomical details can only come off as “believable” if they are built on solid grounds (i.e. good gesture and form). 

(didn't have time to draw sth so I dug up sth I did in 2022 to demonstrate my point)

Another thing I tend to keep in mind is that, even though we may have the same building blocks, our bodies are covered by skin and fat, which differ from body to body. I think paying attention to these details makes the drawing look more organic. 

Finally, I think that with art, it’s important to remember that there’s really no “correct” way to do it. For gesture drawing, I do something similar to what’s shown in Proko’s videos where I usually start with a general line of action first, but I���ve seen some people who said that they find this method confusing and start with form right away, which is not something I can do. Some people start their gesture drawing with the head, some start with the rhythm of the ribcage and pelvis, some people prefer the Reilly method over Loomis when it comes to constructing the head… there are advantages and disadvantages to these ways of drawing of course but ultimately the best way is whatever you’re comfortable with that can get the results you want. Just try out a lot of methods and study what style you like and eventually, you’ll figure out what works best for you.

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dollhouse

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"Gazing into The World"-oil on canvas 100x60cm

ITWV is gonna begin filming and would you look at that, I finally finished editing this behemot, what a nice coincidence.

(If painting is hard, taking pictures and editing them is harder or i dread them more. I managed to make time to finish it because a kind person comissioned me for it.)

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and its coming closer

beloved, toni morrison / lucjan / erwina ziomkowska / amy meissner / sun bleached flies, ethel cain / moret oppenheim / marie howe, from ���how some of it happened” / lake mungo

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INTERVIEW WITH THE VAMPIRE | SEASON 2

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Caddo Lake, Texas by Fred R Cox

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Kenny Harris - Moka with teal blue and red (2024)

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all of my interview with the vampire stuff

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Do u have any advice for artists who draw ridiculously slow???

draw faster

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I think I never posted these on their own so here they are :D | you can get these as pretteh matte mirror stickers here