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im alive and im drawing my favourite white boy sorry im basic

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Digital artists who use layers: do you actually name them?

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hello mx toy, i was wondering, howd you get good at drawing faces and expressions? your expressions are some of my favorite parts of your art!

wow, tysm!! :D facial expressions are one of my fav things ever, so i’m rly glad it shows in my work! i don’t think there’s anything i could tell you that you wouldn’t be able to learn from online tutorials, but i’d be happy to take advantage of this opportunity to infodump give you my thought process ^__^

in the same way that art is more observation than drawing, i love looking at expressions and saving a mental roster of faces from characters/irl to mirror. hell, sometimes it’s not even for art, sometimes i’ll rewind a video a few times if my brain latches onto a good expression, it’s like coco melon to me lmao

intentionally or not, i can usually tell where i “source” my expressions from, like muscle memory or artists that subconsciously make the same face that they’re drawing

^ it’s practically a hobby in itself

expressions = personality. it gives character and context to your subject, and it’s always personal. whenever i struggle to draw someone’s face, chances are it’s bc the expression doesn’t feel “in-character.” most emotions are universal to some degree, but the way those emotions are expressed is unique to the individual. every character has their own style of emoting, which is why i have to “get to know a character” before i can draw them. if i don’t have a sense of their personality, even just visual personality, then i won’t feel like i have the tools to properly portray the character

a lot of ppl already understand the concept of “he would not fucking say that,” and the same thing applies to art. two characters shouldn’t have perfectly interchangeable styles of expression. if they mind-swapped, you should be able to know just by looking at them. “he would not fucking smile like that.”

^ dif or simplistic art styles, but still signature expressions

additionally, expressions = storytelling. i tend to plan out comics by drawing expression thumbnails before anything else bc the emotion is the first thing we recognize in a given exchange. i’ll usually already have a script written out by the time i put pencil to paper, but the most important part when transforming my scripts into actual panels is capturing the Feeling (which is why my first drafts are so rough lol)

it kinda ties back into the personality thing: if you rly know your characters, you can portray them at their barest essentials, even as stick figures. body language is such an effective form of communication that you can even tell a story thru the characters’ faces alone, no dialogue needed

for more tangible advice, you can put this into practice by just copying other ppl’s expressions. i feel like i learn best when i do redraws, but i try to copy the feeling rather than the exact expression, looking at the emotion rather than the individual lines creating them, and then build off of it:

this def could’ve been shorter, but i love thinking abt this kind of thing. thanks for giving me the chance to talk abt it!

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pride at providence <3

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I DON’T DO COKE I DO PEPSI - Submitted by: fastman27

#FFACE8 #FF5AE3 #B31FE4 #47108F #12072E

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lucky girl redesign!!! im pro gwen getting to wear real clothes when she goes anodite, but unfortunately her ov costume is ugly so we had to change that

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dd3166 - fedecb - b2276e - fecb8b

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this ain't a watch it's an omnitrix !!!

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The Smell Of You In Every Dream I Have

#ff8cfe | #e28cfe | #aa8cfe | #708cfe | #028cfe

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me forgetting i had reblogged a palette specifically for colouring that rex drawing OOPSIES................ i need to fucking log on here more often ...........

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can i offer you a rex in this trying time (for @pmkn2-0!)

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Delicate Crumble

#f5b0b8 | #f4d0bd | #f7d5a8 | #f7b46f | #eb5a5b

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A Frog Selling Jams

#d7517a | #dc7d8b | #ffecce | #a2cc8a | #438440

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I need to say tho,(abt your poll post) despite me following you originally for Gen rex stuff I just like your art, period. like it doesn't matter what you draw it's really cool and pretty and fun!!! (yes even the wet cat reigen(beloved<3)) I'm always to see when you post something and it shows up on my feed hehe <3

this is so sweet 😭😭 thank you so much !!! and i really appreciate it cuz like sometimes i do feel like i need to be drawing only for certain fandoms so i need the reminder the real ones are around for ALL my nonsense <333

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the fact that no one cares abt mp100 doesnt phase me it just means i want to draw sexy sickly wet cat reigen even more!!!!

am curious and i love attention pls answer. i think these are my main drawing fandoms but chime off if there's something i forgot

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am curious and i love attention pls answer. i think these are my main drawing fandoms but chime off if there's something i forgot

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really cute comm i did for the lovely @wombatking :)