#god the anatomy on this is so good. and your lines are soo. so. they look so effortless you are so delicious op.

[pandemique]

I love your style, do you have any tips for anything, like proportions, shading, etc. for digital art?

thank u :> i have tips in the #art advice tag, and a coloring tutorial here if u haven’t seen it. i’ll try to offer more about those other aspects below the cut!

i’m a total noob too especially for digital so i do believe other people will have much better tips! here are some who make very high quality art explanations: (these are all on youtube!)

Sinix (especially his anatomy quick tips series, soo goodd)

Marco Bucci (10 minutes to better painting series)

Sycra (more in-depth stuff)

Sara Tepes (slightly more stylized)

LavenderTowne (very stylized, comic artist)

lemoncholy (art-video-design, in love with her character design)

Kim Jung Gi (The god of anatomy & perspective)

i watched a lot of these when starting out; now if i have time i love finding individual artists i just love and try to break down their art to see what i love so much about it :)

i’ll try my best to explain my own style and methods!!

💙 Stylized

Faces: my style is very anime / chibi inspired, so that means regular proportions but cutesified, so more exaggerated childlike proportions -> big eyes, big heads, small (dot) noses. its lowkey a cheat to draw faster but still expressively hehe,,,

Bodies: mine are so basic 😅 i often use references and just simplify them into more basic shapes

i don’t do this enough but i really suggest pushing the shape language and also having clear silhouettes of who and what ur character is doing at all times

a sense of movement makes your art more dynamic and interesting and life-like. i try to keep my characters doing something in every panel, and even when staying still i think having a clear line of action is preferable (shoutout to @alkalinefrog and @li-wri for the best dynamics in their sketches imo 😌🙏)

For shading, i explain in much more depth in the coloring tutorial! I personally only cell-shade in one block the general area that i think would be covered from light on a multiply layer, and then add different colors for transitions (between shadows and light) and for secondary/reflected light (within shadows)

💚 Realism

for the most part, i agree that u prolly wanna learn to draw realistically in tandem with stylistically if u wanna develop ur art

to study proportion, i personally think there’s no way around referencing real people. i highly suggest quick figure drawings, gesture drawings and also breaking down figures into shapes!

shading is also something u learn through practice and develop intuition for, BUT i think if u look up tutorials on shading basic shapes like spheres and blocks, u can quickly apply it to more complicated shapes. u just need to know several concepts such as these:

i did this while trying to figure out a george design lol (i’m still getting there, that’s why he looks like a shapeshifter in my comics T_T)

and when drawing real people’s face proportions, it tends to have to be pretty exact, so i often use grids!!

i also saved some digital-specific art tips for someone who migrated from tradi:

know u feel hella rich with literally any color now at ur disposal, but limit ur color scheme!! not as in the amount of colors, but more so be more purposeful about the color set u choose (personally i find it good to mix both saturated and desaturated colors :>)

take the time to learn about the functions of the magic buttons for the program you’re using, i swear it will save time in the future

editing colors and proportions after you’re already done is a thing now and its amazing

there’s gLOW ✨✨✨✨ (play around with blending modes!!)

that’s all i got for now, i hope any of this was useful!! good luck, we’ll be learning and improving together for sure!!

[poisonpeche]

HOLY SHIT CAN I JUST SAY. ROGUE TITAN SHIFTER LEVI IS JUST >>>>>>> like ur so right bestie that’s absolutely what he’d use his power for. He’d say an IMMEDIATE “fuck no” to using his power to aid a government’s political agenda and instead turn his attention to protecting the poor and marginalised. MY HANDSOME HANDSOME MAN KANENTJN. And can I just say I love your art style as well??? Something about the line art has a really traditional woodblock-carving sort of look to it and your Levi anatomy is SO GOOD like this man is BLESSED with the THICKNESS. Anyway that’s enough out of me, have the best day!

KJDNBKDFJN Rogue Titan Shifter Levi is overtaking what is left of my smooth lil’ chicken breast brain okay??

Bestie LISTEN…Maybe one day, ONE DAY I’ll write his story, but I am not quite ready for that leap hehe. Regardless, I am always so, soo happy y’all are just as excited for his story as I am. He has so much potential for gritty renegade thirsts wHEW.

And I CAN’T believe you hit the nail on the head with my art style 😳 I was a Printmaker for some time in art school & developed a drawing style based on woodblocks there. Since then, the rhythmic line density has stuck and my line work is something I’m really proud of. I’m so glad people can see my love for it and how intentional the flow is. My own way of body worship in a way and god does thique Levi deserve every stroke purrrr. I won’t lie I exaggerate them thighs & tiddies just a lil’ bit, but imma LIVE. 🖤

There will NEVER be enough outta you, Mia! Thank you so much for you ask!!

[tinaysabella]

Hmmm.

Tagged by @otabek-deserved-better 

This is word vomit, btw

cuz I’m bored (and nervous to do my hw):

1.What was your biggest dream as a child?

Hm. I don’t exactly know. I mean it felt like I said “doctor” because everyone in my fam was throwing that around. And scalpels look cool. Well sharp things. Drawing anatomy and shapes seemed interesting...

but... I don’t truly know.

2. What is your biggest dream now?

Helping. In any and every way. Don’t really care about fame, but I tiny part of me wants to be acknowledge (especially for my fanfics and my originals that are left as WIP in the dust).

Mostly I ache to volunteer at my old high school again. They have this project (The Tungtong River Project/TRCP) that entails river clean ups, tree maintenance (watering plants, taking out trash etc), fund raising marathons (those are the best; It’s a beautiful view), fauna and flora research (gosh it’s AMAZING). the biodiversity in species is... wow. We used to have overnights in school, for research on bats and birds.. our teacher/professor taught us a lot in experimental designs for these kinds of research. Specifically bats and birds.. although there’s also amphibians and reptiles, who are given to students who were willing to take this area of research.. Recently (as far as three years recent, the time when I was still a senior high school student), mammalian research has started, I guess.. my groupmates and I were assigned to determine the census of civets (Paradoxurus hermaphroditus philippinensis, if I could remember? but yea google searched it and yea, I still got it haha).

But I felt.. that I would’ve learnt much more... if I put my heart into it. I lost motivation during that time (it was... yea.), and I think my teacher knew (who everyone adores including me) I was slipping... but someday, one way or another, if ever I finish med or while I’m in med, I could come back and volunteer and learn new things.. Maybe I’d help assist in research, or maybe I could get a job as a high school teacher in Biology or English. Not the ideal future my parents set (I never told them about this, but they were always gunning for me to be in med) but this is something that I’ve thought of in passing before, and until now... 

After everything that’s happened, after all the people I’ve left, after... Nicole, this is something I’m still thinking about. Surprisingly...

God, I’m ranting again. word vomits.. lol

Honestly, it made more of a sci-fi author instead of writer for research journal articles... hahahahaha *cries*

3. What did you fear most as a child?

Whip. Scold. Nagging.

4. What do you fear most now?

Either letting someone in and/or fucking up a relationship (platonic or otherwise).

5. What’s a place you really want to visit?

Hm. I’d say my old school. Not really my school (UGH, hate the people.. at least a lot of people but yea), but you know the river near school. 

Pretty much anything that’s nature related. I”m in for hiking, trekking, all those things..

I’m interested in historical sites..

(kung sana hindi mahal ang bayad haha)

6. An experience you really have to try?

Bungee jumping? Tee hee OOOH. Climbing the tallest mountain in the Philippines.

there’s tons, but yea, that’s part of the list.

7. How many fandoms have you been in so far? (roughly?)

6 or 7?

8. How many of them really stole your soul and transformed you as a person? (if any?)

4... :) 

9. A character you relate most to and why?

AHAHAHAHA There’s a lot.. There’s no most, because there seems to be a single factor that I kind of notice?

but my mind’s struggling with Otabek from Yoi, Izuku from bnha, and Hiccup Haddock from HTTYD. 

In general, all of them have this.. intelligence? smartness? but they don’t flaunt it. They’re the black sheep, the dark horse, which is what I see myself most of the time, even now. They’re quiet, and sometimes they stay alone, or sometimes they have a set of friends that they hang out with. 

And there’s more than what’s seen with these characters.. well there’s always more than what’s seen with any character.. it’s just that they give this similar vibe that’s familiar... almost me... I can’t exactly explain, but I get that from them. They’re always sitting in the background, quiet, minds their own business..?

Unremarkable is their utmost advantage, I guess? No one (the audience) exactly knows what to expect from them (in their own way, ugh, the word is just somewhere IT WON’tT COME TO MIND UGH), and that’s the greatest advantage I ever had.

(and it never failed me)

10. What’s your most beloved belonging?

there’s no most haha. little prince notebook, earrings, a friendship bracelet, and cellphone.

11. Do you see yourself living in the same place in the future?

Hmmm. Sometimes.

my questions. Woooh.

1. Do you ever think how this planet earth dies? (There’s a book about it, with some extensive research, but I’m just wondering)

2. Do you ever think an earthquake would look beautiful if it weren’t dubbed as a calamity?

3. Do you ever see the blurred line between good and evil?

4. Have you ever went to a place where it’s all nature and less urban? Ever just sat/laid down and let the sun bask over you?

5.Do you know Avatar Korra? If not, do you have a fave anime/cartoon/live tv series?

6. Follow up question from #5. What do you think would the world be like if Zahir did defeat the avatar, if there was no longer a line of avatars? If you don’t know Korra, what was the most memorable villain that isn’t exactly the typical villain you’d expect?

7. Who is your favorite ship? Why do you ship them?

8. What would it be like if you were a teacher/professor?

9. Have you ever studied a feline carcass? If you did, what was the most memorable experience you’ve had? If no....... would you want to study a dead cat’s body?

10. What would you make for someone special? 

11. Did you ever think that it would be best to just dump all the trash out to space (I mean my dad says so, but... uhh... idk.. it just.. it’s too good of a plan.. and I just feel like there has to be some flaw in plans like these)?

Tagging:

@clairles, @samanthacdsantos, @otapecs, @hello-em75, @els-main, @voxane, @lisaa-d-a, @eclair, @pheony1882, @fruityinthebootysehun, 

...or anyone who wants to answer hahahahaha

Looking back, these are all...... word vomit.. soo...