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Hi Guax, i would like to ask for some G/t advice. I'm trying to figure out how to make some more G/t art, and I would like to ask how you make your G/t art. How do you make G/t characters who big inside of rooms or how they are big around other characters? Do you use any references or have templates to help make your G/t art? If so then thank you Guax

- ⚡️Anon

Hey bud! That's such a cool ask aaaaaaa lemme see

The tool I most use to figure sizes and proportions is Comparing Heights, which I believe is already well known in the community. You can have multiple figures and multiple sizes at the same time and see how big or small they look compared to each other, its very useful!

I also take pictures of my hands or myself to draw some poses when I can't find specifically what I'm looking for. That's how I made Brad's pose in my tumblr header art for example!

And sketch thumbnails! Sometimes I'll make over 10 versions of a complicated drawing, just exploring the possibilities of a composition until I come to a satisfying solution

But honestly? When making g/t art the thing I less worry about is if the characters sizes are proportionally accurate with how they'd look like next to each other if they were real.

Like, I dont worry about that AT ALL. Yes I have set specific heights for them to have a general rule to keep faith to, but I think what really matters is to draw something cool, satisfying and aesthetically pleasant for yourself.

What I mean is: if the tiny looks way too small and too hard to read or if the giant is too big to create a nice composition, adapt it. Change it. Make them slightly bigger or smaller. "Oh but if I change their size it'll be proportiornally inacurate with the height I set for them", it doesn't matter! This is not as important as you think it is. It's better to make a good shot and composition that values your character and the situation you're portraying than to be """"scientifically accurate"""", it's all fantasy dude!

So my golden rule is: the specific heights aren't sacred laws that can't be broken, they're just guides for the general proportions. Artistic freedom is more important than numbers.

When I realised this my G/t art became more flexible, authentic and expressive!

As a final note, I recommend checking @territorial-utopia's quick tutorial that you can check here on how to approach g/t art. It's short and fast and practical!

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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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After plenty of trouble on both my end and etsy's, my shop is finaly updated with avalible dice sets! Please consider at least taking a peak at them!

Finaly posting some items in my etsy again!

These are a few dice sets I have made over the past year that I'll be posting with some others over on my etsy this Thursday!

Link in bio if interested!

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Shop update is on hold for a bit. lost power and internet due to high winds today and thus havent been able to access my etsy stor page

Finaly posting some items in my etsy again!

These are a few dice sets I have made over the past year that I'll be posting with some others over on my etsy this Thursday!

Link in bio if interested!

[shardbinder]

Finaly posting some items in my etsy again!

These are a few dice sets I have made over the past year that I'll be posting with some others over on my etsy this Thursday!

Link in bio if interested!

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actually me fr

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Comics wip~ Mithrax and young wolf.

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Come and fight me >:3

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You draw hats so well and im like so amazed by it because every time i try it looks like they're wearing buckets?? how do you draw them?? :o

pringles

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Actually, all artists will go insane if you draw art of their art. The same goes for fic writers. It could be a stick figure and we'd still love it. We're also kissing you on the lips

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“May I please draw your OC?”

Reblog this message if you encourage anyone that wants to draw your OC to do so.  No need to ask for permission in advance.

Go for it.  Draw my OC.  If you want, I’ll even give you reference posts.  Go to town on it.

You are welcome to draw my OC and surprise me with the result.  Seriously.  In fact, I encourage it.  I will proudly display whatever it is you submit to me regarding my OC.  There is a chance that I will squeal about it for several days.

Even if you feel you aren’t good at whatever artistic adventure it is you do, please feel free to submit it to me.  I want to see what you have done.

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hey can you do me a favour?? Can you go get that nice pristine sketchbook or journal you've been hoarding and put some kind of mark on the first page? Anything will do, like a smudge of graphite or a blob of ink, or perhaps a very scribbly dinosaur. Just put something there. Please, or the dinosaur will be sad.

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Whenever I see an Ivan Aivazovski painting the sea monster in me goes absolutely feral

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yknow AI art has ruined an entire genre of painting to me, i saw one of those smooth anime-realism pieces and immidiately thought ''ugh, AI art'' until i noticed it was posted by an established deviantart user 6 years ago. like ive never been a huge fan of that genre but it looks like a pretty difficult style to master and i feel bad for the artists who specialized in anime-realism only to have their entire market jacked by people typing keywords into midjourney.