#They have similar body types

[hcnnibal]

When the boys think they look nothing alike

they totally dont look alike

[scribbiesan]

*Does a Borzoi Run but in dragon*

Made a thing over on the Flight Rising forums again. This time with a Skydancer!! And a very pretty one at that.

I’m very glad that @passbyers enjoyed this piece, and I had fun making it too!! Hope to be making more art for myself and others.

Anywho, hope y’all enjoy! I’m still working on the second pic for Fever Dream, but got a little overwhelmed by life. So I drew Hati to relax.

(The butterfly gene always trips me up and i hate drawing it but it looks so CUTE)

Toodles~!

[deoidesign]

Hi, how did you learn to draw Steve's physique?

Ohh what a complicated thing to answer...

When it comes to how I learned to draw anything, it's hard to say anything too specific since it's always a culmination of many years of assorted study and practice... but I can try to do my best to explain some of the biggest things that helped me learn, some tips I keep in mind, and maybe at least some places to start/delve further.

(just a little disclaimer it's not like my drawings here are going to be 100% medically accurate.. they're just to illustrate concepts!)

The main thing about learning various physiques is understanding anatomy. Which feels obvious, but I don't mean proportions; these are important, but perhaps more important is understanding the skeleton and how it moves and learning where muscles connect to bones and where fat grows on the body. When you understand how these function on a more mechanical level, depicting form and movement in a way that feels natural comes in tow.

For instance, understanding things like the pronation and supination of the radius and ulna, as well as the fact that muscles can ONLY contract or relax, will help you understand a bit better which muscles will be flexed and which will not while someone moves. It's inherent to the positioning based on the structural makeup of the body... It's not like you NEED to memorize all the muscles and bones, of course, but understanding and gaining at least a passive familiarity with the concepts really helps.

In tandem with this concept is the way parts of the body flow into eachother. Muscles ALWAYS come in groups because they can only contract. Whatever muscle is there to lift something, there is a muscle on the other side to pull that bone back down. What this results in is a series of straight edges next to curves, which gives us a lot of really lovely "s curves" and dents and folds and so on and so forth just naturally occurring.

I would suggest at least learning the "bony landmarks", which are bones (usually) visible on the surface of the body. things like the iliac crest, the great trochanter, the 7th vertabrae, the acromion process... These can be used to help you understand the parts of the body as angles and relationships, rather than trying to remember lengths and sizes, which vary immensely... (since you asked about steve, he can be our model... also study these on your own don't just take my word for it haha, these are the ones I personally keep in mind)

I've done the same thing with body hair... learning where it grows and in which directions... It helps me make up variations without needing reference, because I have a set of rules I can follow.

The biggest thing that helped me understand all this on a much deeper level was my ecorche course. I sculpted this guy. We started by sculpting the entire skeleton to understand the bones, and then we added muscles on top. Not every single muscle, of course, but the "artistic muscles" AKA the ones which directly affect the surface of the body. Doing this let us see where muscles connect, because we would make a shape, put it on the bone where it actually goes, and then you get to see how other muscles overlap that.

This helped me, perhaps, more than anything else. But I also didn't just start with this course, I had been drawing for years before I even took it. I had been in school for years before I took it. Not that I think it wouldn't be helpful to someone just starting out, but I do think that the more you know going in, the better an in-depth course like this will help you and stick with you. Classes are also expensive, though so I'm not really like... recommending you pay potentially thousands of dollars to take one... But it did help me a lot, personally.

I also, of course, have done many figure, gesture, and master studies...

These just help you quickly gain a stronger understanding of generalized anatomy, and gives you real life examples of and practice with of how people move and balance.

What all this does when combined, is gives me a very solid ability to depict movement and form in a way that feels relatively natural from my subconscious without the need for reference.

The rest of how I've learned to draw his physique is honestly mostly just stylization. I understand the body, and this is how I am depicting it for his level of musculature.

And as I move into depicting him in other ways, either moving in comics or in animation, realistically rendered, or extra stylized, these concepts inform every step of that process for me! When he keeps the same/similar relationships between parts, he gets to still look like himself.

It ALSO really helps when putting clothes on, because the way cloth falls and bunches and lifts is all directly related to the form it is on... So the more you understand that form, the more you can depict clothing and movement in a way that feels natural.

This is all, of course, true when I draw anyone, you asked about Steve so I'm trying to mostly show with him! But because I'm just drawing from raw information of general anatomy rather than trying to study one body type at a time, it allows a lot more "give," I think!

Like, here's most of the cast from TTA so far... actually, they're not as varied as I thought they were nevermind LMAO ignore this part

But, it also makes monster and alien design much easier! It's a lot easier to come up with non-human anatomy when I understand human anatomy, because I can manipulate the knowledge I have...

There is infinite more to study in the world of anatomy... The complexity of the human body goes extremely deep. For our purposes as artists, we need only depict a fraction of it, but more information rarely hurts the process.

I'm sure there's something in here that's wrong on a technical level, I'm mostly going off of memory. But that's kind of my point - I understand enough generally and conceptually that when I am missing something and need to find reference for it, I understand what I'm looking at. It's much easier than trying to learn AND draw at the same time.

I hope even one thing in here helped you! Sorry it's so long.

[demegod-dess]

I FINALLY FINISHED THESE TWO. AFTER TEN THOUSAND YEARS. In all seriousness idk why it took so long I just kinda took a break for a while mb. Also forgot to write it down on her thing but Meeshell is prob an ambulatory wheelchair user and otherwise would usually have some form of knee/leg support / mobility aid when on land :3

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[jaxieus]

Thinking of him again

[orangegaytorade]

Fellas, how gay is it to put a workout goal being Hugh Jackman's wolverine from the first x-men movie?

Follow up: how gay is it that that's my FIRST workout goal, and my second is the same man in the same role just in the X-men Origins:Wolverine movie?

[semisolidmind]

this is kinda a weird question, but if you were to put all of your ocs in a boxing ring and have them duke it out (no special powers, just pure strength/strategy) who do you think would win?

...i think id have to put them in weight classes, like wrestling.

otherwise there'd be some real big dudes punting the small dudes into the sun.

(this makes me think about a fighting game featuring all the monsters I've made throughout my tenure here)

[meowreblog]

tiktok is odd bc I posted my redesign of G3 Catty and someone asked "why is Catty fat" I don't know man she's a cartoon. why are you asking me. I do not know Catty Noir. she is not a real person. maybe she just is fat idk

[palilious]

some Post-Space Pirates Saga Yargwynn doodles (ft. Baby KJ and Paradise)

[elliottjpg]

And of course, it's at this stage in my drawing that I remember I WAS SUPPOSED TO DRAW JIGEN DRIVING.

I think. I don't remember. Urgh.

[hacksawboy]

hi tf2mblr im here to show u guys my medic oc

[sergle]

will you also be donating/selling your clothes? ( just curious, sorry if you answered already ! )

no prob, I haven't answered this one yet!! so, I'm probably going to try and get a lot of my Newly Loose clothes altered? before I consider hocking them. also, I was really STUFFING my tits into some of my clothes to start with, so they may fit me even better now, not worse! there are alsoooo definitely certain pieces that I wanna hold onto more tightly than others. but if I've got a pile of dresses/tops that are too big and I don't wanna deal with fixing them, I may make a post to sniff out if anyone wants them.

[bramblesnbones]

trying to get more consistent with how i draw different body types, so here’s a quick Gideon study! referenced from this

[milkbreadtoast]

O BTW i watched the first ep of the dungeon meshi and I RLY LIKE ITTTT ive been meaning to start the manga for yrs but never got around to it TT... trigger seems to be doing rly well w the adaptation tho from what ive heard manga readers say and well just from watching it blind myself i alr rly love it and cant wait to see more...!!!

[littlemaple]

honestly i just love how normal käärijä is

he's like, just a normal guy that you could possibly run into at a kioski or the city center or something. before being a fan of his, i have long since been a c-pop and k-pop fan, where looks were almost more important than talent so its really refreshing to see just jere from vantaa out here being absolutely unapologetically himself

[x3daffo]

i love pam so much y'all don't understand