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A fast little tutorial for my friend @nootaz-with-the-spagethii that was struggling with hands and hips.

I hope you find it useful 

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Hey friends!

Meg here for this week’s TUTOR TUESDAY! This week I go over just a little trick that I like to use when drawing and connecting arms/hands/legs/feet ect. This helps me with foreshortening as well. I hope it helps you folks as well! I have tutorials that talk more specifically about hand/foot/leg anatomy here. If you have any tutorial recommendations send ‘em in here or my personal. Now go forth and I’ll see you next week!

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People often say to me: “You draw like some kind of inhuman machine.  If I eat your brain, will I gain your power?”  The answer is yes, but there is another way. The key to precise drawing is building up muscle memory so that your arm/hand/fingers do the things you want them to do when you want them to do them.  Teaching yourself to draw a straight line or to make sweet curves is just a matter of practice and there are some exercises you can do to help improve. If you’re going to be doodling in class or during meetings anyway, why not put that time to good use?

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Synthetic Human

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could you please give tips on how to differenciate age when drawing?

Well, this is just from my own experience and keep in mind that I’m just some rando on the internet who draws anime, but i’ll try. Here you go, just a quick tip, I guess.

As for someone older than twenties, well that’s not my strong point, I have to admit. But I did find THIS which seems like a good tip on drawing older characters. 

There’s also this website called 101 men which gives you portraits of men and women from age 0 to 100. It doesn’t represent all types of people, but it might be worth looking at just to practice drawing older characters, particularly from mid-30s and onwards. Hope it helps a little.

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Hi! You are my fav Tumblr artist ;^^; Really, ur so awesome How long have you been drawing? I got my drawing pad yesterday and I'm following the small tutorial you did, but could yo please do a small one for eyes? Love you ;^^; ♡

Hey hey, first of all: Thank you very much! I still have a lot to learn but I’m happy to hear that you like my works so much! I really hope that my little tutorials helps you with your drawings

Now then, a little tutorial of how I draw eyes?

Hmm, that’s gonna be a little difficult on how to explain it because I’m afraid I don’t know a special super trick to make drawing eyes easier. But I can try.

Eyes have many different shapes! You should try play around and how they might look like in your style. Here are some examples (and how I did them)

It is also important to know where exactly you place the eyes.(Like I explained from my last tutorial post) the eyes are always in the center of the head. You should always draw lines to help you see if you have placed them right or not. Between the eyes is mostly a distance of at least one eye. 

Of course as soon as you use the ¾ view you can’t use the 1-eye distance trick, there you have to trust your instincts or something

You see (the with my quickly drawn characters) the ¾ view can be a little complex sometimes, I don’t really know how to explain it, but as more as you train the view and the way the eyes look in that view, you should become slowly better as more experience you learn from it.

Hope it helped at least a little bit owo)/

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Arm Rotation Row 1 & 2 Row 3 & 4

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one more from the same cool guy C:

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Hi! You are my fav Tumblr artist ;^^; Really, ur so awesome How long have you been drawing? I got my drawing pad yesterday and I'm following the small tutorial you did, but could yo please do a small one for eyes? Love you ;^^; ♡

Hey hey, first of all: Thank you very much! I still have a lot to learn but I’m happy to hear that you like my works so much! I really hope that my little tutorials helps you with your drawings

Now then, a little tutorial of how I draw eyes?

Hmm, that’s gonna be a little difficult on how to explain it because I’m afraid I don’t know a special super trick to make drawing eyes easier. But I can try.

Eyes have many different shapes! You should try play around and how they might look like in your style. Here are some examples (and how I did them)

It is also important to know where exactly you place the eyes.(Like I explained from my last tutorial post) the eyes are always in the center of the head. You should always draw lines to help you see if you have placed them right or not. Between the eyes is mostly a distance of at least one eye. 

Of course as soon as you use the ¾ view you can’t use the 1-eye distance trick, there you have to trust your instincts or something

You see (the with my quickly drawn characters) the ¾ view can be a little complex sometimes, I don’t really know how to explain it, but as more as you train the view and the way the eyes look in that view, you should become slowly better as more experience you learn from it.

Hope it helped at least a little bit owo)/

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People - Jack and Ashi is terrible! Why does Genndy have to put in a romance?

Me - Well, a consistent theme of the show is Jack’s isolation and loneliness, isn’t it? Hell, we just had several episodes about how useless he feels in the grand scheme of things. Him meeting someone that isn’t Aku in disguise and actually forging a relationship seems like a logical end to his character arc.

People - But she’s underage!!!111

Me - Really?! If she was underage do you think they would have lovingly animated Ashi’s naked ass cleaning the charcoal off her body and then swimming nude in a lake?

People - But father/daughter!

Me - Why would he take on an adult and treat her as a child? A platonic master/student relationship is fine even if the last episode seemed to drop all pretense of them viewing each other that way, but father/daughter? That dynamic makes no sense.

People - But Ashi is a lesbian and she should end up with Flora who she’s never seen and Jack is gay and you’re a homophobe if you disagree and…

Me - Shut up Meg, erm, Tumblr.

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I absolutely adore your art style I was wondering if you could explain how you draw faces and like heads cause I have a lot of difficulty with constructing the face without having it look like an utter disaster sorry if your busy you don't have to do this but I was just wondering if you could help a young artist out thanks :D

Aww, thanks, anon. I’m pretty haphazard with things, but I’ll try to help.

This is your new best friend!!

The friendly neighborhood scribbly circle here is your foundation for drawing heads from any angle.

Like, any angle. 

Because even when viewed in perspective, the head still has the same amount of volume.

As for actually constructing a face and placement of features, you can see that when jotting down a face, I generally lay down those guidelines [here in green] so I have something to work off of when I’m expanding upon a sketch. I would mostly recommend being aware of the underlying structure of the face. 

If you’re going for super-anatomically-correct, you can see that facial features line up in specific, symmetrical ways.  For real though, nobody’s symmetrical and sometimes noses are long or ears are small and faces are asymmetrical or just plain different. So this is a foundation but not a cast iron rule.

I will say that the more you do it, the easier it will become! It all just takes practice. And I totally tried to screen record a sketch, but my computer is being hella slow and it keeps freezing up, so I give up. In lieu of something new, here’s an older process gif that I think shows things pretty well:

YUP. Hope this helps. o/

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How to show expression with the mouth!

This was a request and at first I wasn’t sure if I had anything to provide with, but as it turn out it got a little longer than I expected because there were actually things I had to say!! Wow!! 

Anyway, this is some guidelines I follow when I try to make the face expressfull, more specifically the mouth! It is often neglected, since it’s actually pretty hard, I’ll admit. But I’m here to help (hopefully…)! A mouth expression tutorial as per request. Enjoy and hopefully it will help some a little. ʕ•ᴥ•ʔ

Draw the teeth at the right angle. 

This is super important. The upper jaw follows the angle of the head, and the lower jaw will depend on how open it is. Make sure you have a rough estimate of where the teeth are, and how much of them you’re going to see!

The lips will VERY roughly follow the same angle as the teeth. It really depends on the character, but it gives you a sense at least. 

If you DON’T do this, you’re going to lose so much volume and the mouth is going to end up looking unrelatable. I showed this example in this tutorial:

It’s not just the lips! 

The cheeks, chin, and tongue play a role too! 

Try look at your own mouth or references! I have a very pliable and large mouth, so that’s one reason why my characters have it too lmao.

ASYMMETRYYYYY (ง ͠° ͟ل͜ ͡°)ง

I cannot emphasize how important asymmetry is when drawing expressions. It applies not only to the eyebrows to achieve the Dreamwork Face™, but also the mouth. Seriously if you draw a symmetric mouth I will deliver myself to your mailbox and then shout at you until you fix it. 

Look at the difference between these two for example: which one has more “life”? 

I think you get the idea.

Push and squish - give it flow

Here’s an old drawing I have but it illustrates how I think when I squish the mouth, and use folding and wrinkles to my advantage.

Look at your own face and see where skin bundles up, where it creases the most and when bumps appear on your chin. Subtle details makes all the difference! 

One VERY effective detail is illustrated in the first sketch, where I pull upwards on one side, and downwards on the other. That’s a good detail to use when the character is making a skewed expression, or is extremely frustrated. I encourage you to play around with that concept bc it’s ~super effective~!

EXAMPLES:

Happy: Your entire mouth is pushed upwards, not just the corners of your mouth!

I tend to draw a :3 mouth bc I’ve been drawing Lance too much….. You don’t have to but it’s basically imprinted in my motor memory by now. 

Pouting/frowning: corners are pushed down, middle pushed slightly up. Sometimes, there’s a slight dip in the middle too. It can give a sense that the character is biting their lips.

Showing frustration/intimidating/is intimidated: basically showing a lot of teeth. The corners are as open as possible and the middle sorta more squished. An extremely important detail here is showing some of the gums, and open space between the cheeks and teeth. That way it looks like the mouth it open to it’s full potential. Here is also where you basically MUST add folds and bumps, or else it’s not going to look relatable. 

(Here I am again with the pulling upwards on one side and downwards on the other, as illustrated on the last sketch)

And then again, here’s just another doodle showing how important it is to show the gums. It’s the same face twice, but the second one looks slightly more frustrated doesn’t it?

(from my other tutorial on how to draw facial expressions)

As you can see, this last one is very versatile and I draw it a lot. Play around with the basic shape and see how much subtle details makes a lot of difference! 

That’s it! 

I hope that cleared some things up and was somewhat helpful! Enjoy drawing ✨

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Haven't drawn Céleste in quite a while. Wanted to do it just to see if my style had evolved a bit.

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