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By the way I actually have a lot of Pokémon drawings above my desk.

There’s actually five more give me a bit.

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By the way I actually have a lot of Pokémon drawings above my desk.

There’s actually five more give me a bit.

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Now THIS. This is much better on both fronts.

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This could be one of two things - either a really great corgi with too much Yamper, or a really good Yamper with too much corgi. Back to the drawing board I guess.

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teach me?? how to draw?? the action of kissing????

Step 1. yearn

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Don’t ask me why I drew Golduck and Bounsweet instead of going to the grocery store - if I knew why I wouldn’t have done it.

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A couple days ago I decided to add Larvitar to my team, on my second play through of Ultra Sun. His name is Prince. And Prince likes head rubs. This did not change as he evolved, but petting Tyranitar on the head…

…is not easy. And of course he doesn’t help.

[Image Description: Two drawings of the Larvitar line, followed by a picture of Tyranitar on the 3DS, then a final drawing of Tyranitar. The first drawing shows me petting Larvitar on the head. The second shows me sitting next to Pupitar while he eats a red Poké Bean, with the text “Where even is your mouth?” The 3DS picture shows Tyranitar’s belly taking up the entirety of the lower screen, and his head on the upper screen. The fourth image, or the third drawing, shows me trying to pet Tyranitar on the head. Tyranitar is taller than me, and he is not even bending over to meet my hand. Text reads, “A little help, please? I mean, you like head rubs so much…”]

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A coworker asked for Arcanine and, unrelated, bought me a sandwich. Does this count as a commission? lol

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ayo i found 2 pages with head angles of humans and animals, could be useful to anyone reading this

hoomans

animals

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Rowlet and Yamper, aka indications that I should really stick to first and second gen for this tomfoolery.

Note to self, never draw Pokémon without a reference...

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Okay uh how do you like these guys?

Note to self, never draw Pokémon without a reference...

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Note to self, never draw Pokémon without a reference...

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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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Phoneme Chart by TheEndIsNearUs

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Having troubles with facial angles in your drawing style?

Try a 3D sculpture of your art in your own style in a free program that is simple and very easy to use.

The program is called Sculptris and is a free off-shoot program from Zbrush, that program that you keep hearing about but either takes selling your kidneys or piracy to actually use. 

If you download it and sculpt out a facial model, you can have references for your own work for all of time. No more endlessly searching Google for reference materials or twisting/rotating/flipping a drawing to see if there are flaws. And you can easily edit it to create more facial types. This way, you can make character references for any and every face and facial angle that you can think of.

The program offers mirroring right from the start, so your faces will be perfectly symmetrical. You can turn off the symmetry for things like scars or otherwise. 

It takes a little time. For instance, I downloaded the program on Christmas and, in my spare time, this took a few days of getting familiar with the program (first day) and then sculpting for a few minutes each day, mostly due to my perfectionist nature. And this one isn’t even done. I still have to mold the mouth, ears, and other smaller aspects before I consider it done. However, I was so giddy over the possibilities that I wanted to share this with my fellow artists.

From now on, I have reference for a face in my own style and will be able to create things so much easier in the future.  I hope that this helps you guys and that you have fun with it. 

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Studying Trees by Fabian Rensch