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JUST SOME THOUGHTS! I don’t really like the “go from the top up” advice on drapery/clothes - if you’re having difficulty try it like this!

YES I see the typo… I’m so sorry folks… I was in a frenzied rush to make this…… and I’m too lazy to fix it……

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HELLO I HOPE YOU ARE DOING WELL i still love all ur art and everything and i have a question, how tf do you draw noses and mouths?? like i aint able to draw anything other then lines and its painful thank u for humoring me i love u have a good day

Heyo and sorry for the late reply! I hate to repeat myself (do I?) but my first advice would be to draw studies. They don’t have to be great pieces of art, they’re just for learning. I recommend doing self-portraits using a mirror. If you have some clay at home, you could try sculpting too. You’d be surprised how much easier it is to understand the shapes when you’re forced to sculpt them in 3 dimensions!

I was very uncomfortable drawing cartoony human noses for a long time too. Disney-esque and anime styles were too simplified for my taste. When I was in art school, my teachers used to illustrate how parts of the human face were built up by drawing wireframe-esque doodles on the margin of my page, kinda like these: 

(Additional “we’re literally just animals” thought lol)

Here’s an older front-facing-Butts nose thing I did. And a lip post. I love @grizandnorm‘s tutorials, so I’ll recommend theirs on drawing teeth and opening mouths, lips and two nose ones too.

I always found it harder to figure out thin lipped mouths on people, since there’s less to define shapes with. Here’s a chaotic blurb on that feat. Buttons:

Sorry for it being all over the place! I hope these help! 

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Hands exercise :) 

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This one is called “The Unseen”.

It’s an old comic from The Secret Knots archives, only now I gave it a tumblr-friendlier format and fixed a couple of little things here and there. I made it in a sad time, a story I told myself to make me feel better and I think it worked.

I still like it. I hope you like it too.

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Les coquelicots de Monet

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Art Tip #374

It’s never too late to learn to make art.

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disclaimer: these are all based on my body. I know there are a ton of different body shapes out there. It’s important to study all sorts of body shapes but I’ve only ever use mine as a reference.

I’ve never actually studied arms so I had to google what muscles are what while drawing this so don’t quote me on any of this. I’ll make a head tutorial later

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This is gonna sound weird, but do you have any tips for drawing tails? Specifically how a tail would naturally extend and/or fall from the back? And maybe also your thoughts on realistic tail poses? I know it would come out above the rear but besides that... tips would be cherished lol

full disclaimer i threw this together very quickly and i also dont claim for this to be realistic, i’ll take mostly believable anatomy over realistic anatomy any day

tails would start where your spine ends, which happens to be a little closer to the butthole than where myself and a lot of other artists tend to draw the tail starting (I like the lower back tail for most of my arts even though its not strictly correct). for poses, dont put any sharp kinks (hee) in the tail and youre golden

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wizard backstory for your next dnd campaign

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I NEED TO TALK ABOUT THIS SHOW

sorry, I really do. I love it, I’m in love with it, and I want to try and shine a light on where that love comes from. so, apologies, gonna ramble, block me if u don’t want none of that, it’s cool.

so that up there is the first page of the book. what’s fun is to see what the show did with it.

for 1 thing, the show made it fuckton more queer (and btw if we could start saying that instead of describing the show as ‘gay’ that would be awesome, thx, ace pride, nb pride, etc.). 

in the book, we open on aziraphale and crowley mid-conversation. in the show, we see how they met. 

and it’s CROWLEY (crawley but the book lets us know that he doesn’t like that name on the second page so i’m sticking with crowley) who makes the first move.

in fact, through the entire opening scene it’s crowley putting in the donkey work to get the conversation going. he’s the one who approaches aziraphale, just slithers right up to his mortal enemy and starts talking like that’s a normal thing to do when, really, aziraphale’s reaction suggests that it isn’t

like. here’s zira’s face before he notices crowley, when he’s still watching adam and eve walk away 

*fret fret fret oh dear oh dear*

EH?

what. what is happening. 

he’s clearly not sure how to deal with this; his opposite number sidling up all casual-like and providing commentary. should he attack? best not, he just gave away the flaming sword. stiff politeness, then. 

(btw in the book, crowley’s a snake for the entirety of this sequence, we won’t meet human-shaped crowley until he picks up the antichrist. which is one of many many small ways in which the tv show works to make the subtextual romance significantly less so. bit difficult to have chemistry with a reptile. not impossible, god loves u monsterfuckers, but difficult)

oh but crowley plays it cool, he doesn’t treat this interaction like it’s in any way weird or unprecedented. ‘that went over like a lead balloon’ he opens with and then repeats it, in a lazy drawl, when zira’s like wtf 

it’s crowley who keeps the conversation going, commenting about how kicking adam and eve out of eden seems unduly harsh, and what’s wrong about knowing the difference between good and evil, and why was the tree in the middle of the garden and not on the moon, questions questions questions. he’s so curious and confused and he really wants someone to help him work all this out

hungry for knowledge, just like eve

and aziraphale has no clue what to do with any of this. this isn’t what he signed up for. he tries to stick to the party line, with all its circular logic and platitudes, ‘it’s ineffable’, ‘best not to speculate’, ‘it’s not for us to know’, ‘you’re a demon it’s what you do’

he’s doing his best to be a good soldier.

at this point crowley’s starting to tune him out, he’s bored and a little depressed, he’s had the party line recited at him before

and he just wanted someone to talk to and

THEN

crowley notices that the sword’s missing

‘…?’

and he asks what happened to it and at first zira won’t say and then finally zira admits ‘I GAVE IT AWAY!’

it’s the first really honest thing he’s given crowley, that guilty wail

crowley’s reaction:

‘…OH. oh. you’re special.’

they both surprise one another; crowley surprises aziraphale when he slithers up and initiates the conversation for no apparent nefarious purpose; aziraphale surprises crowley when he reveals he disobeyed orders just to be kind. 

oh, also you know how there’s that parallel between crowley and eve’s yearning for knowledge. there’s another parallel; while they talk, adam’s protecting eve from the lion

a moment later, it starts to rain, and. guess who immediately, without stopping to think about it, protects crowley?

while adam and eve walk off hand in hand in the background, adam holding the flaming sword. 

read that opening extract again. having aziraphale shield crowley from the rain instead of himself was a deliberate choice the show made.

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The Mermaid of Lily Lake by Andy Ivanov

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Drawing Clothes Tips by joua.k

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a grass tutorial!!

i like to make grass this way :y

it’s not painterly, but it’s fun!

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Animation techniques and effects from the classic era. For more vintage movie geekery, check out my Old Hollywood Special Effects, and my Early Color Film Processes posts! (And while you’re at it, take a look at my art blog, why don’t ya?)

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Cioccolata Mouth!

I was asked today how I draw Cioccolata’s mouth and threw this together, I thought I could share it here too!

It’s nothing realistic of course, this is just how I like to draw his mouth, and mouths in general!