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Character artists

If you feel like you wanna improve your designs

May I suggest

A Big Hat?

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DUDE I JUST WANTED AZUL

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Cat Names on PetFinder - A Collection

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I FORGOT TREY

HE HAS A FOOD PROCESSOR

The goobers so far! (from my instagram series)

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The goobers so far! (from my instagram series)

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Mmm amphetamine

In my science era. cells and stuff

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❦ღBOOK 5ღ❦

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TWST DOODLE DUMP AGAIN!!

Jade w/ mushroom

Baby Azul w/ coin

Cheka!

Tall(er) Malleus

Floyd x Riddle thing

Sebek x Epel (but they're in more casual outfits)

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The way he took it so seriously lmaoo

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QUEERS!!!!! THE WHOLE LOT OF THEM!!!!!!!

LOOK AT THEM!!! DANCING TOGETHER!!!!

GAY AS HELL!!!!

WHY ARE YOU AS A MAN DANCING WITH ANOTHER MAN??? ARE YOU GAY OR SOMETHING????

/j /ref

🥺🥺🥺 also them.. they’re the brothers/family ever….

The pookies

ALSO GRIM SPINNING?????!? THAT WAS SO FUNNY AND CUTE TOO!!!! 🥺🥺🥺🥺 WAHHH MY SON

He’s so happy…

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TWST DOODLE DUMP!! (Might draw some digitally later)

ft. Riddle (slightly smaller than normal)

Idia being microwaved

Floyd eating Riddle (in a non kinky way)

BABY AZUL!!

Idia (O O )

(Sry if any are blurry I have a bad camera and these are pretty small irl)

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Got bored in class and drew these fuckers

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THE SUICIDE HOTLINE JUST HUNG UP ON ME ???????

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I was wanting to try doing an art piece in the style of the signature spell poster art pieces you create. But I’m not really the best at coming up with a composition for such a thing.

Do you have a process for how you come up with the compositions for them?

oh, awesome! it is an INCREDIBLY enjoyable style to work in; I hope you have fun with it! :D

I'm not great at putting my thought/art process into words, so my apologies if this doesn't make a lot of sense, but I'll try! my first step is always to do a LOT of thumbnails to figure out both the idea and how I want to show it; not trying to do a real sketch or anything, just little doodles to figure out what exactly I'm trying to portray. (I also call these "garbage passes" because they're not meant to be any good, they're just there to throw things out. aha. ha. ...anyway.) I think it's important during that first stage to really focus on the idea and the layout and not to get too bogged down in the actual drawing yet!

I tend to save my final thumbnails, so I'll use 'em as examples (I posted the ones up through episode 5 here if you're interested!) (and, uhhh, spoilers through episode 5 also in this post, hopefully that won't be an issue!)

the main thing I try to think about in composition is balance -- not necessarily in terms of symmetry, but in where each element is placed and how much space it's taking up. remember, empty space is still space! it's also really important to think about the parts that don't have anything in them, as much as the parts that do!

personally, I like to divide things up roughly by both halves and by thirds -- there's a lot more in-depth info out there on why the "rule of thirds" in particular works well visually, but in short, our brains tend to focus on things that are placed closer to imaginary division lines, instead of in the exact center of an image. so even when I'm doing something that is very centered and symmetrical, I try to keep that in mind and generally aim around those for landmarks like faces/eyes (or...where they would be, anyway) and other focal points.

it's not a formula of "the character's face should be in this division of this grid" or anything, more like "our minds like to focus on these areas, let's think about how to use that", if that makes sense! and of course rules are made to be broken, art is lawless anarchy, and so on. but it can be a good starting place for deciding where you want to put things!

(blue - thirds, red - half)

and against the finished versions, because they do usually end up changing a lot (including the empty space of the border):

(...these actually lined up a lot better than I thought they would. :') it makes me look like I do things way more intentionally than I do.)

other stuff I just try to keep in mind is that our eyes like following arcs and paths, which can be a good way to guide the eye:

and frame and control the focus:

honestly, composition is one of those things I feel like I struggle with a lot, so I'm not sure how much of this is helpful or actually makes sense outside of my head. but hopefully it helps a little! it's all just stuff to think about while drawing and not anything hard-and-fast, so don't, like, stress out about making sure things are lining up exactly on the thirds or anything. again, it's more "our brains think these are the dopest parts of the rectangle" than anything else! take advantage of the cool parts of the rectangle!

NOW GO HAVE FUN DRAWING seriously though, it is always super cool that other people like this idea and style enough to want to do it themselves and for other/their own characters! thank you! ❤️❤️❤️

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Silidia on the fucking math homework