#I wanna just draw them more cartoony and more stylized tho

[fellafell-anthony]

Tied up in bad business

Twisted fate and Malcolm Graves gets captured (again) and thrown below the decks.

a doodle sketch I decided to color

[calware]

I love your young!Rose design with the braids & hair beads, it reminds me of the Black girls i knew in elementary school (2005-2011), so its deffo “period accurate” and also a delightful choice. The way you draw the human kids in general is really nice, youre really good at conveying specific features with minimal lines (like her & Mom’s nose shape). Do you have any tips for how you draw faces to make them not same-face or repetitively “white” features, especially when drawing in a less “realistic” style (i dont wanna say your style is cartoony but idk what i would call it tbh)? I took a life drawing class back in 2019 but we mostly drew the same two models or our classmates, and it was both a limited pool of features plus feels hard to translate into art that isnt attempting to be 100% realistic.

Sorry if this is rambly. Congrats on 10k. Love ur new icon, tho i miss the Horb. Do you take commissions? I think i asked this before but i forgetful af.

thank you for the ask :)!! i'm really flattered that you think i'm good at avoiding same-face syndrome because i am VERY LAZY when it comes to drawing and i could definitely be doing a better job ;^^ i'm also not the best at drawing people diversely(?), it's just something i have to get better at. there are people way more qualified than me to give advice about this... but i can try giving some tips

the first is that, like with anything, if i'm not confident that i can accurately portray something or a specific feature i will usually look up a reference. i like paying attention to things like the position of the browbone, height of the cheekbones, shape of the chin, shape of the eyes, length/width of the face, width of the nostrils, shape/position of the bridge of the nose, roundness of the cheeks, etc. when i draw characters (specifically the homestuck characters i like, because i think about them a lot) i have an idea in my head of how they look and how they differ from one another. for example i see jade with a longer diamond-shaped face while rose has a shorter heart-shaped face, so i do my best to depict that in my drawings

(idk if this illustration makes ANY SENSE bc like i said i think that i also struggle with pushing myself in regards to this and i think i still have more to learn/practice)

i think it comes down to paying attention to the proportions/types of specific facial features and adjusting them each to create a unique face

that said when it comes to stylizing what you see from photographic references, i understand that it can be tricky to simplify it. i really don't have any advice for this.... i just play around with it until it looks good while also being recognizable as the specific thing i'm trying to draw.......... so in that case i think it helps to use other people's art as a reference too! i don't really care about sticking to one "style" so i don't mind drawing in a slightly different way if i want to do something another artist is also doing. so for example if you're struggling with drawing 4c hair i recommend looking at other people's drawings of characters with 4c hair that you like and playing around with if you can incorporate their techniques into your own art.

i hope this all made sense ;^^ there are definitely a lot of tutorials out there that are way more informative than this one

also, to answer your last question, i plan to open up a few commission slots next week! (as long as i have enough time to that is)

[tumblunni]

Anyway look at this beta me and my tiny lil noodle legs

One on the left was my first attempt back when I was gonna let’s play Pokemon Platinum, which has now been put on the Eventually pile because it turns out hacking sprites into it is Unreasonably Complex and also my new laptop isn’t strong enough to run DS emulation and recording software together at a good framerate. Then on the right we have my fresh attempt today when I was like “ehh lets not keep frustrating myself with something thats not working, let’s just give it another go”. Also I’m gonna use it in the cool fangame Pokemon Reborn, which has actual developer-intended support for custom sprite edits, and makes it much easier to stick them in! Woo!!

I think I was struggling with the first one cos I was using the Pokefan trainer class as a base, and it has kind of a weird subtle pose with the slight leaning and odd head angle. I couldn’t really manage to turn that pose into anything else, especially with the kind of stylized cartoony anatomy I tend to give to my drawings of myself. I was also still developing that doodle-self, honestly, I’ve kinda realised that I’m a bit more top heavy in the shoulders so maybe it’d look better if I still drew the noodle legs but more realistic arms instead? Tho beta 1 is before I even decided on the noodle legs lol. And then the second version uses the Collector/Supernerd ruby and sapphire version, as you can tell by the top 20% of it. It has a similar awkward angled head but I’m gonna completely change the face anyway so its no big deal. Actually lol since I redrew the entire body there won’t really be anything left?? But using existing sprites as a base even for your scratch spriting around the outline will help you get a better idea of the scale and anatomy of each game’s particular style, yknow? Tho I also changed it up to be diamond and pearl sized since Reborn’s trainer sprites use that.

Anyway, I wanna make a less maniacal and more Me kind of face, tho maybe still SLIGHTLY maniacal? The first sprite attempt just uses the outfit I was wearing IRL at the time I drew it, but I wanna try and invent a cool new trainer-lookin style for this one! Maybe even cosplay as a hex maniac since ghosts are my forever fave? but maybe the ruby and sapphire hex maniac since the modern design is a lot more..uhh..drawn as a sexy supermodel by the fandom. I kinda don’t wanna butt in on those people’s weird fun by shoving a fugly potato shaped me in their face XD

Oh! also also!! i like the idea of changing my trainer’s outfit each time I start a new Episode in Pokemon Reborn, or after other big plot events! I would have loved to do that in a lets play of the regular games too, but yeah hacking is much more time consuming and I’d like to minimize the work. It’s a simple plug n play for this game, plus the smaller overworld sprites can be edited more quickly.

OH YEAH! here have those too!

Top row is me fiddling around with trying to display my glasses in such a tiny sprite, ended up just giving up. Bottom row is the lil map sprite icon, compared to the canon NB protag one from the game and the one I made for my Platinum LP. And then a Hatless Update on my VS sprite that I showed last time. Also a Bunni Sucks At Shading White Sweaters Update?? I decided to just do a plain base version of all my sprites first, if I’m gonna indeed go with the idea of multiple outfits.

Oh also have

Complete crack: Bunni vs canon protags

[crypt1dcorv1dae]

my life is a constant internal battle of trying to have ocs that have height differences without exaggerating it too much