#balance steve

[fandomandangstlover]

STEVETEMBER: Day 19 - CHANGE

i didn't know this prompt list existed till now and ah am. So Happy it does. i get to draw silly guys :D!!! Balance, from a fanseries of Favremysabre's Steve Series. i donno if this counts or not so feel free to tell me if it doesn't—

anyways, LotB Ep.206. i uhh... drew the wrong sword. uh... whoops. i know it looks funky, swords are hard to draw :[

[steddiealltheway]

Eddie thinks he’s cool and mysterious but is really an open book because he’s a compulsive oversharer.

Steve thinks he’s an open book but is “cool and mysterious” just because he forgets to share.

Example of course:

Dustin: Steve hasn’t been the same since the Russian truth serum.

Eddie: The what?

Steve: Did I not tell you about that?

Eddie: No. Just like my dad didn’t ever tell me he loved me, but maybe that’s because he was in jail.

[imfinereallyy]

Steve Harrington is a gold jewelry man. I will be taking no questions at this time.

[taskmastersource]

TASKMASTER EPISODE TITLES — Series 17

[deoidesign]

HOT VAMPIRE SUMMER

1800 CLICK NWO VAMPIRES NEAR YOU (it's a link to my webcomic (about vampires (who time travel (and also are gay (and may or may not be in your vicinity (no guarantees)))))

[theemosiders]

more outsiders dump :3 can you tell i love them so bad

(btw asks are open!! send in drawing requests ..)

[fandomandangstlover]

did i start this last year & just finished today, just 6 days before the day this project was started? yes. yes, ah very much did.

ough.. this took... 13 hours.... & am so happi about it jahdgcjskalxjs. luv all of 'em<33

creators' paintings undercut:

[livwritesstuff]

Just to be clear, when I say steddie dads

I mean Eddie is the dad who is gentle and loving in his support for his girls, because he was raised by Wayne, and Wayne was all of those things to him. He’s the one who cuddles with them when they have nightmares, soothing them back to sleep and reassuring them it was just a dream. He’s the one putting notes in their lunch boxes and worrying if kids might be mean to them that day and feeling his heart drop into his stomach when they fall and scrape their knees.

Steve, on the other hand, had to fight for his life with a pack of feral teenagers in the midst of a horror movie, and he learned that kids are resilient and tough and all that shit, so, yeah, when his five-year-old who's like 90% of the way to being able to swim independently wants to be hurled headfirst into the pool, he's the one catapulting her into the deep end, and if his kid wants to be held upside down by the ankles and swung back and forth like a pendulum, he's her guy.

He’s the one saying, “if you ever see a kid sitting alone at lunch, you go sit with them. got it?”

He’s the one who found out that Moe had trash-talked a little too close to the sun during a basketball game and had the coach bench her for a month.

He’s the one calling the girls on their bullshit when it’s needed (and as they start to hit middle school, they need it all. the. time).

Granted, this DOES NOT HOLD when the girls are babies. Steve was terrified of his daughters when they were babies – he barely slept his first six years of parenthood because of how worried he was that something might happen while he’s asleep. Eddie was the one who's like "What is she gonna do? Cry forever? No. Eventually she'll start talking and can yell this shit at us instead."

And the thing is, he's totally right.

[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.

[postpunkindustrial]

john balance /coil/, david tibet /current 93/, steve ignorant /crass/. somewhere in germany, hamburg perhaps |?| ca. 1985. sickness of snakes, nightmare culture era

[pizzaqueen]

Steve has to wear jeans all summer, even on the hottest days when all he wants is to wear shorts, because Eddie keeps biting his legs (mostly his thighs). Honestly, he’d never admit it, but he doesn’t mind the biting—maybe even likes it—it’s just that sometimes Eddie leaves bite marks and they’re getting hard to explain

(This starts before they get together by the way)

[lemonhemlock]

Backing up other anon; Criston hate is rooted in racism. Aemond can burn innocents and have fan girls, but think about how many people really ride for Criston? Same with Aegon, a canonical sexual predator in the show, but played by a white guy, so he’s always had more fans. Not saying of course you shouldn’t like those characters, it’s tv. But Criston has always gotten more hate and had less defenders, even though Fabien is (obviously) a very good looking man. Some of the things certain Rhaenicent fans said about Fabien as a person were just horrible. Casuals dislike him for being upset Rhaenyra rejected him (not what happened, but you know) but they wouldn’t hate him this much if he were played by a white man. Show Corlys is kind of middling, but he doesn’t do anything really notable tbh. Although he also gets hate from various “fan boys” for the same reasons

criston-hate is racism-flavoured, whether consciously or subconsciously, no doubt about it

but i do think the fact that corlys has chosen rhaenyra's side kind of shields him from so many haters and doesn't make him stand out as much, so to speak. that's why, perhaps, his shitty actions aren't so notable. in the show, so far, he tried to marry his 12-year-old daughter to the king and knowingly left his bastard children to starve. abandoned his wife and granddaughters after his children's deaths to have a long cry on his own. that would be enough reason to view him as a shady character, i think, if targ stans were truthful about their outrage on topics concerning feminism and general morality. so in a way i think corlys has become one of the token POCs for black panther activist rhaenyra t

whereas with criston, i often find, even amongst greens, that there's this reluctance to just enjoy him and, even if someone likes him, it has to come with disclaimers. all the while those same people shamelessly stan aegon or aemond (as they should!). some of this is a direct result of the present, exaggerated anti-criston climate

we should be riding more for criston, is what i'm saying. have fun with it!!

[vb-void]

Steves as Tumblr posts

[fandomandangstlover]

dumps all my current art that ah wanna show here. hi :3

(VoidBalance, Balance, and TScott & Rinzler [Staff version])

[smithsibsceo]

"steves soulmate is eddie and robins soulmate is nancy" dude i dont know what to tell you i am so fuckign sorry but that isnt true. stobin are cosmically-destined twin sisters eddie and nancy have to drag them away from eachotehr at double dates. Im sorry you had to hear it this way dude

[stucky-headcanon-bot]

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