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how to draw arms ? ? 

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Dont know if you were joking about needing catboy references a couple of weeks back but here ya go

Theres one for sheep too if you need that

the sacred texts.... thank you for bestowing it upon me

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I keep forgetting I have this blog, honest to gods

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perhaps a tutorial about front legs?

yea sure !

i’ve already done a tutorial on back legs, so i guess this will be like the other half to it haha

so ! while a cat’s haunches are a trapezoid, a cats shoulders are like a very skinny and squished half circle. this shape is actually a simplified version of the scapula + humerus bones. it extends from the tip of the shoulder down to the elbow

some things to note about cats is that they have FLAT chests. their chests will not protrude like a dogs. yes, sometimes their fluff and fur may make it look like they have extended chests, but in reality it’s flat

the rest of the leg is fairly simple, it’s just the shoulders i notice a lot of people have problems with. so let’s draw a cat then yea?

i started with the head first, followed by the chest. you can see i used a rounded rhombus for that. starting with the chest + head can help your character feel more stable and proportional and help give weight to the character. then i threw in the shoulders and the rest.

legs are fairly simple, they will get smaller slightly towards the feet. you can make them more muscular or skinny depending on the character you want. 

HERE IS AN EASY TRICK FOR PROPORTIONS. A cat’s elbows WILL ALMOST ALWAYS align with their stomach. The beginning of the leg will align with the end of the chest. (obviously if you’re drawing super longhaired cats thats different but)

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tutorial for drawing a cat's hind legs?

sure! 

so the first thing you should know is that, in essence, a cat’s haunches are a trapezoid

a mistake i see a lot of young artists do is making the infamous “circle” haunches, with the heel being way too high. cats have very low heels and the hind leg will never be straight down like that

another mistake i see a lot is what i like to call the “dinosaur leg”, where the leg will be in 3 distinct parts. going off of a cat skeleton you might think that this is correct, but cats have very large and strong muscles in their hind legs which allow them to jump and run and climb and do cat things

 cats have butts!! and butt muscles!! draw them!!

there are different ways to draw the legs too! i’ve used the “joint” method before where you draw the joints and then draw the rest of the leg, similar to the way they teach you in school

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A compilation of stuff I know about drawing Asian faces and Asian culture! I feel like many “How-To-Draw” tutorials often default to European faces and are not really helpful when drawing people of other races. So I thought I’d put this together in case anyone is interested! Feel free to share this guide and shoot me questions if you have any! I’m by no means an expert, I just know a few things from drawing experience and from my own cultural background. 

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if you don’t mind me asking, how do you find the right colors for your designs? your color choices are always so pleasing and i’d love to know what steps you take when designing a character :’>

Sorry for bad handwriting but here’s kind of a mini demo on how I pick colors! I hope this makes sense lol

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being a self-taught artist with no formal training is having done art seriously since you were a young teenager and only finding out that you’re supposed to do warm up sketches every time you’re about to work on serious art when you’re fuckin twenty-five

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Lmao it's not about taking credit. Its about the fact that the signatures don't fit, look ugly and obnoxious. Besides, it's not like you can stop people from chopping them off

Stfu and get away from my blog. Is it your art? No, shut the fuck up then. You don’t like the signatures? Make your own god damn art you selfish entitled lazy up your ass piece of shit and stop shitting on actual hard working artists.

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Just some sketches I made the other day.

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“How arw you paying for photoshop” im not LMAO

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“Nothing’s happened, you can calm down now. You’re not a monster, and no one’s gonna shut you out. Mom and Dad love you, you can come home now. Of course your friends love you, what are you talking about? Have the strength to push away all the pain from yesterday. Cause there’s nothing worth crying about. Your heart is a candle, and I won’t let you blow it out.” - Cavetown, “Candle”

So, a bit of a more positive vent this time? It's really nice being able to accept the fact that you're important to people and that you have family and friends who love you. That despite all the darkness and pain you suffered through, there's still a light inside you. Maybe you can't see it right now, but I promise you, someone else can, and they love you because of it.

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And in the dark, I could hear your heartbeat. I tried to find the sound. But then, it stopped, and I was in the darkness, so darkness I became.

So, a bit of vent art with Lostpaw. I’m super proud of it, tbh?

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This was needed.

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“you’re an art model does that mean you’re NAKED?” “yeah” “whoa….those lucky artists ;)”

…buddy.

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slightly ridiculous 

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Okay, so, on her I just need to do shading, lighting and some sort of a background....  But yeah, a profile-shot of my OC Jynx.