#other anatomy knowledge...!

[skunkes]

how did you learn to draw and feel comfortable drawing bodies and figures? I was curious to your own experience, since theres an overwhelming amount of ways to go about learning.

just by doing ! i collect lots of ref images and also use my own body as ref for poses (then mentally edit the body to fit the character im drawing)

though there's something to be said about. 1. the Becoming Obsessed With Something method in my experience, and 2. Finding a balance between motivating self to start, and waiting until its you Feel ready to do so ^_^

i learned to draw and feel comfortable drawing the human body by going section by section (was fixated on drawing isolated arms and hands for some time in high school, in between still trying to draw whatever (full bodies) i wanted as usual. i barely started really learning to draw legs last year. i didnt feel Ready or Motivated to focus on them before then, and now I can actually piece all of that together, and draw in a more Informed way than before) as well as just actually having genuine fascination and fixation on the human body to drive this. I love the body! I want to depict it well!

[dandelion-roots]

Hmm isn't this... kinda gay?

[ID: a digital drawing of Xie Lian sitting on Hua Cheng's chest and putting lipstick on him with a brush. Behind them are red curtains and under them are red sheets. They're lit up by a couple butterflies flying between their faces. End ID]

[cornix-the-void-crow]

Only one character this time, but it allows me to get a little bit in-depth with details

Due to their hollow bones and other anatomical details that I've mentioned before, bird people require nonstandard health care. Yosano is one of few doctors who specialise in treating bird people

She doesn't go clothes shopping in this au. Instead, she buys fabrics and sews her own clothes because that's cheaper and easier and will last longer in her line of work

Oriental storks used to be frequently mistaken for red-crowned cranes in Japan and, therefore, believed to bring good luck and health

After Atsushi tore his first set of clothes during partial tiger transformation, she stared at him, very disappointed, and dragged him to redesign his clothes so they would accomodate his transformation

[rxttenfish]

one of the things that particularly pisses me off about art discussions, either in how nowadays everything has to aim for more and more realism in art styles and even live action to be seen as "real art", and in dismissing more abstract styles of artwork as not "real art" and having no inherent worth, is that they explicitly do not consider realism an art style either. to them, realism is just a given of "good" art, not chosen but rather just default. which i hate, because you CAN pick realism as an intentional style and a purposeful choice to suit a narrative, and all this results in is no one noticing or understanding why you made that choice or why that choice works better than any other possible choice to tell the story you want to tell.

[hwsforeignrelations]

Everybody learns at their own pace everybody learns in their own time everybody everybody learns at the time best for them everybody-

[khytal]

downloaded a bunch of anatomy books idk when I’m gonna read them but now that I have them I won’t be putting it off lmao ~(u<u)~

[godsfavoritescientist]

Tbh? I still feel so out of my depth whenever I try to write Bill. For whatever reason it doesn't come naturally to me like writing Ford does. Every time one of y'all has thoughts on Bill's characterization or writes something Bill-centric I'm mentally taking so many notes

[kjzx]

One day there's gonna be a person online that will take people's requests of any color and draw it in a person's skintone in a convincing way, see: a brown that looks like a light skinned white person's skin in a darker lighting, a green that looks like a healthy person's skin in neon lights, and so on.

And this will be a huge thing for the online art community in the west. I think the thing it lacks right now is this realization that the knowledge that tree trunks are brown and leaves are green are just something observed under the specific conditions of a sunny day, even in these very conditions these very leaves and trunk can look blue and purple and gray and so on if cast in shadow, especially in art

[klonoadoortophantomile]

i want to work on art rn but i have like three separate drawings In Progress currently and theyre all at different and frustrating in the process so instead im just gonna keep wasting tjme probably

[maddy-ferguson]

Yeah and since this doesnt only involve writers but also other production stuff, i wonder how theyre gonna start filming in may or june? Bec that would also be breaking the strike too... like idk how they are going to work around that. But anyway. My estimation is that the strike will at least take 3-4 months at the very least. So like. Yeah. 2025 release seems more likely bc the strike also involves other production staff

i can't lie to you i don't know shit about how american strikes in the entertainment industry work and i was a baby (6) and not american in 2007 but i mean yeah that season 5 is never seeing the light of day i fear

[saintvampe]

while there are so many things seraphina knows,   and she attempts to keep most of her knowledge active,  one area of knowledge that seraphina will never fall out of practice of is her botanical knowledge:     as woman of the woods,    she essentially watched over and cared for her own  (  as they were often left untouched by others  )   woods and this gave her such an extensive knowledge on the plant life around her.    as new plants were introduced by travelers and the animals,    so her knowledge grew.     

[heckahecker]

i changed my desktop blog theme for the first time in 5/6ish years and i expect i will not touch it again for another 5/6 years so. hope everyone is ok with that

[loverdude]

I'm just trying 2 do my homework but I'm like having a crisis about my art T_T

[ozymoron]

hate when im reminded im actually talented and that most people cant draw the kind of shit i can draw and that its actually kinda incredible i can do what i can do and that im just so used to being in art spaces that i forget its a genuine skill most people dont have

[funshinebf]

last night me n my friend were drawing together for a minute and while i was drawing vash he looked over at me and was like "you dont use the little skeletons with the circles and lines??? you just freehand that shit???" and it made me realize that this is, probably not a normal thing? i feel like almost every art tutorial ive ever seen has said to use the skeletons. and like. i USED to, but with my own art i always feel like when i use a skeleton it always makes the poses look stiff and kinda awkward? so i usually just freehand it, unless i need a specific proprotion or such (ie. the arm length) and just go with the flow. i follow where my pencil takes me. if im struggling with a specific pose though sometimes ill draw a mini skelelton of that pose off to the side and then base the big freehanded sketch off of that as a reference. idk i guess i never thought about how this might not be standard practice before he said that lol

[theamazingannie]

Is there like somewhere online that can connect writers to professionals cuz sometimes in my writing I need very specific information that just isn’t available online and I need to discuss it with someone more knowledgeable in the particular field than I am and also don’t want to concern someone by asking out of context/be put on a watchlist