#draftsmanship

[spencerwan]

Hey y'all! I'm teaching another workshop!

I don't post on tumblr much anymore, so if you don't know me, I was the animation director for the first seasons of Castlevania and The Owl House, the visdev animator for Across the Spider-verse, and the one who drew that Zagreus hair flip thing.

This time I'll be teaching draftsmanship for animation. If you're looking for ways to improve your drawing for animation, storyboarding, or really anything that requires speed and consistency, this is the one for you. I'll be sharing my own approach for drawing characters, as well as tips and tricks that are common in the animation industry.

It's on June 28th at 10am PDT. Hope to see you there!

[craetor]

Wammy's House floor plans I've spent 3+ nights on

From this fic

Was sorta fun. This is my second house draft thing

Also wow i put most of the door handles the wrong way but there's no fixing it now

[justpickupthatpen]

18 Indispensable ‘SKETCHING LINES TECHNIQUE’ To Draw Anything!

[archinform]

Architectural Pattern Book Details

Detail, cottage and constructive architecture, containing 75 large lithographic plates, published under the direction of A.J. Bicknell. First published in 1886 by William T. Comstock, Architectural Book Publisher.

[stivesketch]

been having a blast learning how to paint, but felt like a change of pace was in order, so here's a few draftsmanship studies

[radiodormouse]

This is a great video, and I want to share my own thoughts on the matter. The question for me is: does the style used work for the story you're telling? In a comic meant to feel grounded and realistic, these anatomical errors would break the suspension of disbelief. In a story featuring over-the-top absurdist action with strong horror elements, the bad anatomy only adds to the tone. It's like comparing Watership Down to Looney Tunes: a realistic-looking rabbit would feel off in an absurdist comedy, while Bugs Bunny would be completely wrong for Watership Down. All the anatomical and proportional errors that work stylistically in Hellsing—making it more frenetic in the action scenes or disturbing in the horror scenes—may not work if Hirano were attempting a straight-up Dracula adaptation. I will say two things in criticism of Hirano, however. Seras is meant to be a respectable, timid, even innocent character. In light of that, I find her unrealistically sexualized body (especially the weirdly exaggerated boobs) distracting, much in the same way Alucard's proportions would be distracting in a more grounded comic like Watchmen. One panel that always stuck out to me as "that's just wrong" was when Maxwell looked behind him toward the audience at one point—it looked like he'd snapped his neck. It wasn’t in a horror or action scene; it was just an over-the-shoulder shot during dialogue. Moments like this appear throughout the series. However, for the most part, the limitations in Hirano's draftsmanship come across as deliberate stylistic choices. I think Hirano is aware of his limitations and chose a style and subject matter that play to his strengths. He has admitted to not paying attention to consistent scaling or accurately drawn weapons, focusing instead on whatever looks the most dramatic in each panel. He’s like the Todd McFarlane of Japan.

[misterparadigm]

Did a character design demo in class recently, and I used Pie Girl to show gesture, draftsmanship, ink, color, and lighting.

[starblender-studio]

Character exploration for Paper Plans.

[splattermarx]

Jarvis Cocker’s Birthday Cake

A couple of weeks ago, Pulp were on stage playing the Hollywood Palladium. There’s this thing he gets the audience to do involving short timed bursts of clapping. This usually leads onto the guitar riff for Disco 2000. But on this occasion, the crew brought out a Birthday Cake for him. Monochrome painting in progress

[fionastrashheap]

Another pre @caroodraws sketch. I think this experience has taught me how much I want and need to learn how to draw solidly. Of course the gesture tells the story the most, without the believable anatomy you just can’t communicate as much as you’d like.

[aatom87]

I've been (re)reading kaikisen by satoshi kon and felt inspired to doodle a quick chuckster before work

[3liza]

organizing my file folders (I have a file for just random drawings that aren't inside sketchbooks, like on napkins or whatever) and found this weirdly earnest portrait of Waluigi?????? why did I draw this????

[craetor]

Isolation AU mellonear's home in a bit more detail♡

[artyartpile]

Working on preparing some samples for my commission sheet, drew a Melia uwu

[thegoldendoorknob]

I decided to compile a list of art prompts for my friends based on my past history of drawing and working with classes.

Feel free to use any ideas you like for yourself!

Have you drawn:

[Original Characters: OCs] [Canon is also fine] -oc crack -Date Start! (Any fanfic tag applicable) -oc family eating together or other any homely activity -ocs fighting -oc sharing their craft -ocs interacting with animal -oc trusting someone with a secret -ocs swimming (beach day/lake day/tubing/diving) -oc preening/with eachother -oc 'final boss' doing cool or evil stuff -ocs performing a feat of strength magic or agility -ocs hiking or traveling any landscape -oc sick day -Species swap/Outfit swap -ocs in clothes they would NEVER wear -If their outfit is inspired from a specific culture, depict with an outfit from a different one (The more details you research, the better) -The Flashback Episode | The Tragic Backstory -The Montage -ocs but child/adult -ocs but animal -ocs but furry/furry but oc -ocs but they're in the wrong genre -oc or your own dream -Young oc participating in an activity you once had and miss -Draw how your parents/extended family/guardian would perceive your oc -Draw how your oc perceives themself -ocs expressing with Animal Crossing emotions [X] -Your friends ocs/interacting with yours -ocs interacting with canon characters [Perhaps who inspired them?] -ocs in a style of your choosing -In silhouette

[Visualization] -Your inner/sleep paralysis demon personified -Your art block personified out of spite -The Hyperfixation -The game you last played -The media you last laughed or cried at -The last book, fic, podcast, or audio skit you liked drawn with characters -Draw a frame of your own music video of a song you've never seen one for -Depict your likes/dislikes -'Mary Sue' yourself -Caricature of what you hate about your art -Doodle what you like about other people's art that you want to learn -Chibify/Cartoonify your favorite foods -Give an inanimate object of your choice googly eyes -Draw yourself as a… -Combine two or three animals you like [Actual art advice I got from elementary]

[Analyzation]

Draw Any: -A Flower, Vine, Tree, Stump, Moss, Fern, Vegetable, Fruit, Mushroom, Rock, Shell, Cloud, Slime -A Cat, Dog, Bird, Bunny, Mouse, Horse, Deer, Goat, Giraffe, Cow, Yak, Elephant, Rhino, Lion, Tiger, Fox, Bat, Snake, Gecko, Monitor, Eel, Seal, Swordfish, Ray, Shrimp, Crab, Lobster, Shark, Sunfish, Manta, Flounder, Whale, Cephalopod, Frog, Butterfly/Moth, Beetle, Stickbug, Mantis, Bagworm, Millipede, Anteater, Coral, East style Dragon, West style Dragon, Hydra, Phoenix, Unicorn, Jackalope, Griffon, Manticore, Hippocampus [add 'myth' before searching], Kirin, Tanuki, Nekomata, Tengu, Kitsune -3 Different subspecies of any of these animals or plants -Depict them overweight or underweight -Turn them into an animal sidekick -Take a small piece of one of these and try to texture it -Shrink or Enlarge -Emphasize what you like most about the animal to a ridiculous degree. If you like whiskers, draw them extremely long. If you like tails, draw a super floppy tail. If the wings, draw them huge or add multiple. If you like a dragon's fire breath, draw Trogdor The Burninator -Depict how you think the previous prompt's animals would survive or struggle with these new traits

[Technique] -Shade with only dots -Shade with only hatched lines -Digitally shade with only 3 different colors -Color using one of the random pallets online [X] -Draw swirlies, rainbows, and zigzags with different colored crayons -If digital, Hue-slide [Hue and Saturation] an existing landscape or character and doodle them in the changed colors -Paint/Digitally on top of a real-life picture using it's own colors below -Draw or paint in a medium you are unfamiliar with -Mix paints until they match the colors in a reference (Basics|Sheet) -Draw in mspaint/crayon (badly or not is your choice) -Draw without lifting the pencil or erasing -Draw with your eyes closed -Draw with your nondominant hand -Draw basic 3d shapes -Draw 3d shapes connecting with one another -Draw basic 3d shapes aligned on a 1, 2, 3 point perspective -Draw an organism from memory, trace it 3-10 times, then try to draw it again -Draw any skeleton -Draw The Meatman (Muscular System) -Draw skelly muscled or visible version of hands, feet, elbows, legs -Noses, eyes, ears, lips, eyebrows -Booty, Genitals -The back -Draw Gestures with a time limit of your choosing [X] -Coat an entire sheet in charcoal, then erase a picture into it. For digital, use the eraser to draw a picture into a fill-tooled canvas -Draw a character without using a solid outline -Acquire a bunch of stickers or some stamps, then try to cover up an entire piece of paper or object in them with as little empty space left as possible without overlapping -Take a piece of paper and create as many differently drawn lines or shapes as you can manage. Make sure to fill the page with them.

Ummmm I guess feel free to tag me if you really liked drawing one of these?

[synthaphone]

Unfond of this new style of illustration for item artwork on Neopets- the Chokato Kiko Taffy clearly took a lot of time and effort to render, all for a result that looks vastly more uncanny than the Bubblegum Kiko Taffy + the rest of the item set it was based off of.

The final image is only 80x80px, there's no need to give it that type of rendering treatment! It only makes image less clear. In addition, making the pupils smaller, adding an outline to the iris and reducing the mouth to a pinprick combine to make the face look creepy and haunted doll-like instead of cute.