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[gnatryan]

Hi I just wanted to share some art I made of characters from your Fionna and Cake fic “The Story of the Brave Knight Scourge and his Nemesis Promise the Wizard” because I really enjoyed it.Your ideas and artwork is very cool and I always enjoy seeing your work :) Hope you have a nice day !

The artworks and poses I referenced in some of these pictures are in order of illustration:

- The official reference sheets for Prismo and Scarab found on the Adventure Time Wiki

- La belle dame sans merci by Frank Bernard Dicksee

- Riding horse poses -PREVIEW- by Kibbitzer

- One of J Fredrick Smiths couple illustrations couldn’t find the name of the specific piece I referenced

- I think The Tigress by an artist named Benton

- Fionna and Cake S1 E10 Cheers ( I got lazy and heavily referenced that final scene)

OHHHHH MY GOOOOOOOOOOOD THANK YOU SO MUCH!!

i literally screamed and had to do a couple laps around the house to calm down afdlkasdf

honestly i commend you for drawing vengeance, theres a reason theres a stark lack of any art of them lmaoo

i love your takes on the fanfic-ified version of the minor characters! im so grateful you drew my boy <3 my awful petty boy afdljkasfd

[monriatitans]

The image was made in Canva; check it out at the [referral] link here!

Friday, January 10, 2025

Check out what I got from Kibbitzer & Kudos Editore today! HUMAN REFERENCES: Poses, couples, actions, comic panels, and gestures for artists & DYNAMIC REFERENCE SHEETS: Poses in action for artists and aspiring designers! "HUMAN REFERENCES" is the second volume of the References series by Kibbitzer. It contains over 140 pages, including solo and couple poses, actions, comic panels and gestures that can be used by all artists. The works in this collection were created by Kibbitzer between 2020 and 2024. The book is divided into FIVE parts: 1) FULL-BODY; 2) COUPLES; 3) GESTURES; 4) COMIC PANELS; 5) EXTRA. Dynamic Reference Sheets is a rich collection of 119 interactions between couples and among groups, 81 full-body dynamic figures, 55 full-body static figures, and a section with extras like objects and animals, created specifically for artists and aspiring designers who need a rich catalog of several different poses.

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Originally published to https://opinionsandtruth.wordpress.com on January 10, 2025.

[lotusquil]

Sketch using a reference from one of the many awesome poses of Kibbitzer's. At work per usual so a lot of edits needed to this one as I'm not used to drawing a max of 3 people... 2 is my sweet spot.

I like Teen Evan, but idk about Phil Jr yet.

Hadie and Phil are trying to help Evan and Herk study. It's going...well, E and H might pass. Somewhat.

[imrowanartist]

Autumn walks in Glasgow <3

Pose reference used from Kibbitzer. Like my stuff? I’d appreciate a reblog :)

[elliemehl]

Flufftember is almost here!! ☺️ those poses were hard to choose from because they’re all good choices, but, I’m going to go with: Katakuri and my newly created self insert OC, with fluff 3 middle pose. 🥰🥰

Alice my darling ❤️ I literally couldn’t wait to work at your request and have the chance to draw our king Katakuri! I know I told you before, but I really dig this pose for him! The protective way he’s holding your self-insert OC close, while the two are enjoying a romantic sunset 🥰 I hope you’re going to like it my dear, thank you for your immense kindness and for being a sweetheart!  Reference pose by kibbitzer

[kalkoenvsneoklak]

3 years ago, I made this while studying with Kibbitzer’s pose references. Last week, I finished writing Dust in the Wind, my little fix-it for Endgame in the same verse as my Being a Stark story in which nobody dies (except for maybe kind of Vision because I didn’t want to ignore the piece of art that is WandaVision.)

I’ve seen many headcanons going around where Tony lives but lost his arm after the snap. I know not the source of this headcanon, but I see it as the truth. So, after Endgame and dying, Tony returns by with the help of a special friend of Peter’s, and he finally decides to permanently retire from being Iron Man (since the whole world thinks he’s dead). Steve follows his footsteps and gives up his shield, and they spread the word that both Iron Man and Captain America have perished after the infinity war. In truth, they’re living secluded in their lakehouse, being proud parents of Peter and Morgan without having all eyes resting on them. 

[dottiechan]

Hey!! I've been following your blog for a while and I love your style! I read you are self taught. I want to learn how to draw people too so I thought I'd ask: can you recommend some resources that worked for you? Thank you soo much! 😸

Hi! Thanks for the ask, and for your kind words! 

A little something to consider though before I proceed with the rest of my answer - take everything I say/recommend with a grain of salt. “Self-taught” isn’t a mysteriously elusive concept, it doesn’t mean someone’s mastered a skill all by themselves, it simply means taking control of your own learning process and allowing yourself to find the methods and ways that benefit you. If something anyone recommends doesn’t work for you and makes you feel bad in any way, I say ignore it.

That being said, you can find the rest of my thoughts beneath the cut:

Find the right platform and tools

This is step 0. Nothing will feel right unless you find a form of artistic self-expression that resonates within you. I find digital art to be much more forgiving and not to mention cheaper than the more tradtional ways, but not every platform works for me. I’ve been using Autodesk Sketchbook for a while now because it is completely free, beginner friendly and has just enough tools to help you make more elaborate drawings as well, but I would break down crying if I had to learn how to use Photoshop (while some people excel at it!). As for tablets, I totally recommend the Wacom ones. I’ve been using my Wacom Intuos Comic tablet with my laptop for years and I’ve never had any issues with it.

References

I suck at human anatomy. There, I’ve said it. I’ve never learned it properly for drawing purposes, and every attempt I’ve made to do so simply left me frustrated, so unforntunately I don’t have many resources for you, per se. Whenever I try using anatomy guides or tutorials, my drawings end up looking weird. So I mainly only use references. IMO anatomy doesn’t matter much as long as the shapes look natural, and as long as your drawing conveys the message you want it to convey. References help guide you, while giving you the necessary freedom to make adjustments as you see fit (while on the other hand I personally find rigid anatomical “rules” restricting). Use references for everything - the lighting, the face, the hair, the hands, the clothes. I always have several photos saved to my phone while I’m drawing that I often look at. 

(If you want to learn how human anatomy works though, more power to you! There is an great amount of drawing tutorials out there by wonderful artists! :))

Some of my favourite places to go to for pose refs:

Senshistock

SketchDaily Reference Site

Kibbitzer

Google images of celebrities or models (cliche, I know, but it’s a good way to get many references of the same body type, face, etc.)

Some tips I wish someone told me when I got into digital art:

If you find poses or faces difficult at first, practice by tracing. A lot. Get familiar and even intimate with certain recurring lines or ratios or curves, and eventually they will come back to you when you draw without tracing. Gradually shift to just looking at references. This will take time, so be patient with yourself.  Tracing is a great way to warm up to a new platform and/or tablet too - this is how I got comfortable with my current setup 3 years ago.  (Out of respect for the creators, do not claim traced refs as your own work.)

It will probably take a while, so practice as often as you can. Unfortunately, there is no way around this, but instead of setting a goal (i.e. “I want to learn how to draw people”), try to enjoy the journey. Even when you think your drawings don’t come out as well or as realisitc as you want them to, you’re drawing people. And you can find unique solutions once you let go of this “ideal state” you want to reach. That’s when your style will emerge. :)

Something looks wonky or out of place in your initial sketch? No problem. Use the Quick transform > Lasso tool in Sketchbook to outline and drag the part where it would look better. I have salvaged so many sketches like this, such an easy fix to when you mess up the ratios in for instance a face.

Find The Brush. The One Brush to rule them all. The brush that makes you feel the most comfortable, the one that accomodates your style the most. (Mine is the Dry Marker. I feel like I could conquer the world with it.)

Always change the background colour from white to something a little darker. That way it is so much easier to add white highlights and make a face or a body look more 3 dimensional. (Especially if you’re lazy like yours truly, and would like to get away with not adding any colours to a drawing.)

Put everything on separate layers!!! Otherwise making even minor tweaks will be extremely difficult.

[molly2140]

Introducing Octavia Freeman 😎

Includes brief shit about my Half-Life universe.

Gordon has a twin sister, Octavia, she's approx. 4 hours younger than him if that matters haha. Their mother died during their birth (depressing as hell I know but I like the tragedy and dramatic shit), so their awesome father took it upon himself to raise his twin children the best he possibly can and give them a good life. Since Gordon can't speak, he, Octavia, and their father learned ASL in order for them all to communicate. Octavia acts as Gordon's voice and helps translate his signs for those who don't understand ASL. While growing up, Octavia becomes very defensive for Gordon, she hates when people make fun of him for not being able to speak. High school consisted of lots of fights and detentions for Octavia simply because she's defending her beloved twin. The two have a very unique bond, not only are they twins but they are best friends. Gordon has a really hard time opening up to other people, especially other girls, but he's always found it easy to confide in his sister, and Octavia is extremely supportive of him.

About a year after Gordon and Octavia graduate high school, their father falls ill and soon passes away, by then they are sharing an apartment on the university campus. Gordon is undoubtedly a genius, Octavia is quite intelligent as well, but she is studying for casual things such as photography and journalism, compared to Gordon who's clearly working for his PhD in science stuff. Soon after their father passes, Octavia finds herself taking the loss much worse than Gordon, and somewhere down the line she finds herself addicted to heroin. If Gordon wasn't home the night she finally overdosed, she would have died. During her rehabilitation and healing process, this brings the two of them closer and Gordon simply tells her that he cannot lose her, because she's the only family he has left. From that day forward, the two became even more inseparable.

Gordon and Octavia both end up at Black Mesa! Gordon obviously working in anomalous materials, whilst Octavia became the first female security guard, and she and Barney form a great friendship. Barney even tells her about his interest in Lauren, and she instantly hooks them up and everybody watches them fall in love. Octavia, like Barney, is a huge party animal, and enjoys grabbing some beers with Barney and Gordon after a long shift. Did I mention that Octavia and Barney are huge Queen fans? 😎 They will blast their music every day when they hit up the shooting range or while on lunch break. Also, Barney proposes to Lauren and Octavia was so happy when he announced it to her that she literally would not shut up about wedding plans for a whole week.

Black Mesa Incident time, yayyyy.

Octavia loses her shit when she can't find Gordon, she knew he was going in the test chamber that day, she wasn't supposed to know but he had told her anyways. She and Barney team up to fight the foreign alien creatures in order to escape Black Mesa alive. They are extremely pissed about the military simply executing any scientist or Black Mesa employee, however their highest priority is finding Gordon. Octavia and Barney get separated inside the Lambda facility, Octavia is trapped within and simply focuses on finding Gordon. She finds a portal to Zen, where she fights more of the alien creatures and soon realizes there's no way back to Earth. Suddenly the G-Man introduces himself to her, and offers her a job, she hesitates, but accepts when he tells her that he has Gordon. Together, the twins are put into stasis until their "hour has come again".

I'm not gonna get too much into the Half-Life 2 era stuff cause I'm planning on making a fan fic of it but here's some highlights and other facts about Octavia.

The land outside City 17 is fairly different, White Forest still exists, however everything is more inland and not next to the coast. The only large bodies of water are rivers and lakes. Technically City 17 is somewhere in Russia or in Soviet territory because I noticed a lot of the buildings and signs there are in Russian, but let's pretend City 17 is in the US because I want Octavia and Gordon to find their home as well as the ruins of Black Mesa. :3

City 17 has a wall around it that the Combine patrol heavily, the canals still exist but there is also underground tunnels that lie below City 17. The Combine are completely clueless of the underground tunnels, therefore Alyx uses them to help transport supplies and escort citizens to other outposts.

The Combine become aware of Gordon and Octavia's return a couple months after they arrive, unlike literally within the first day in the actual game.

Gordon and Alyx do fall in love of course. :)

Barney and Octavia fall in love too. :) Not gonna spoil shit about what happens to Lauren though I'm sure you can figure it out easily.

Eli's lab is far outside City 17, further west, so instead of it being called Black Mesa East, it's now Black Mesa West. It's actually a fairly large building that is partially submerged underground and is hidden in the trees so the Combine aren't aware of it. There's a nice open area to the south of the lab where Alyx and Dog have plenty of room to play fetch.

Since the lab is partially submerged underground, kinda like some houses where the back end is underground but the front isn't, that's literally this concept. So you can basically walk onto the roof, and that's Barney and Octavia's hang-out spot. This is also the spot where they confide in each other and talk about their tragedies, for Octavia, her heroin addiction and overdose, and for Barney, what happened to Lauren.

Oh yeah they also stole a Combine helicopter and fixed up Black Mesa style. 😎

Octavia helps Barney cope with his reoccurring nightmares over Lauren and the things he's seen working undercover, oh, and about that cat.

Barney managed to save some of the old mixtapes he and Octavia made back in the day, as well as the portable cassette player, which he rigged so it doesn't need batteries. So they constantly jam out to their favorite old tunes when hanging out or going on supply runs or hunting trips.

Octavia is definitely a night owl, Gordon is as well and they both have troubles sleeping sometimes. Gordon sometimes joins Octavia on the roof at 3am to talk some energy out in hopes of going back to sleep.

The classic desert eagle is Octavia's preferred weapon, the one she used while on security at Black Mesa. She is forever grateful that Barney managed to find and keep her prized gun after the Incident, as well as Gordon's infamous crowbar. The crowbar he still swears his life on by the way, ha.

Like Alyx, Octavia is quite fit and flexible, it's obvious they're experts at parkour. ;) If you haven't noticed, Alyx has a hoodie underneath her leather jacket with the Black Mesa logo, so I decided Octavia's shirt should have the Lambda logo with a similar color concept as seen on Gordon's HEV suit.

Octavia sometimes will go undercover with Barney to try and understand what he does every day, as well as gain more Combine information. She starts doing this soon before they confide in each other and confess their newfound love for each other. They definitely feel like they're working together again like in the old days but now forming secret crushes on each other.

Okay I'm not gonna spill too many more details without spoiling everything haha. But this is Octavia, as well as a brief explanation on my Half-Life universe. I showed my finished drawing of Octavia to my boyfriend and he swears she looks like me in real life but I don't see it other than the fact we both wear glasses and we both have our hair in ponytails all the time lol. The pose was based off of Kibbitzer's reference sheets, as mentioned before, you can find Kibbitzer's sheets on DeviantArt, their Patreon, or by simply searching it in Google. So yeah, this is my OC, Octavia Freeman, I hope you guys like her because I've put a lot of thought into her character and I've never done that with my other OCs haha. But I'm really proud of it. :)

[mel-chan366]

Soooo, here’s my contribution to the @feastoffortuna2017 event ;D

@think-indarkblue I’m usually more of a writer than an artist, but since the info said you’d like Fanart, I gave it my best shot. Hope you will like it :3

I used reference for the pose from the amazing Kibbitzer. You can find her here, and more of her references on her Patreon.

[theintrovertowl]

For @thatbellagaze ♥

I saw your recent posts and I’m very sorry that all those unfortunate events are happening to you :’( 

how tf did this take me almost 1 hour tho??? And it didn’t turn out like I wanted to!!! Some artists can draw masterpieces in 10 minutes… Yep, I’m trash

I hope my sketch will brighten your day a bit. Stay strong, my dear! Connor also supports you! :3 (Pose reference by kibbitzer from deviantART)

[shiroe-is-my-baby]

Still being worked on but here's one of my practices from last night! Might post more later ;3

Used kibbitzer’s poses and reference sheets to help with my full body and anatomy so yay! lols <3

[avionenpapier]

A 30 days challenge for improving your art!

Ok so I’ve been looking for exercises to improve my art since I’ve been been very unsure about my art style lately and I wanted to iprove, so I decided to write my own challenge!!

Face and expressions: 

Day 1: Study of the face structure

Day 2: Study of the face as seen from the front, profile and 3/4 

Day 3: Draw some expressions using a photo reference (if you want to add fun use emojis!)

Day 4: Draw some expressions with particular gestures using a photo reference (there are really good in my opinion: x x x x x)

Arms, legs and torso:

Day 5: Study of the structure

Day 6: Study of the body parts as seen from the front, profile and 3/4

Day 7: Draw the body parts in movement (ex: for legs running, for arms punching etc etc)

Hands and feet:

Day 8: Study of the structure

Day 9: Study of the body parts as seen from the front, profile and 3/4

Day 10: Draw a lot of hands and feet using a photo reference (kibbitzer@deviantArt draws perfect hands/feet references but also poses and much more!!)

Day 11: Draw hands holding objects using a photo reference

extra day!!: try to draw shoes, socks or gloves!!

Poses:

Day 12: Study of the structure static and in movement

Day 13: Study of the body as seen from the front, profile and 3/4

Day 14: Draw poses in movement using a photo reference

Day 15: Draw a lot of different poses both static and in movement

Clothes:

Day 16: Study of clothes’ folds

Day 17: Draw a characters wearing what you are wearing or just draw your ootd!

Day 18: Draw a character in traditional clothes or in ancient clothes (medioeval of from Ancient Rome)

Day 19: Draw a character dessed up in 19(insert your favourite decade here)0′s fashion 

Day 20: Draw a character in a super detailed outfit (like japanese idol or a wedding dress)

Colors:

Day 21: Exercise on opposite and complementary colors

Day 22: Try to shade a drawing with different colors and not with the darker tone

Day 23: Try to color a drawing with a color palette (you can find great palettes on @color-palettes or just create your own)

Day 24: Use a texture on your drawings, not as background (if you are a traditional fan try to use washitape or print a texture!!)

Light:

Day 25: Draw a character with different light sources

Day 26: Draw a background with different light sources

Day 27: Try to work with reflected light (like a glass window or a gem)

Backgrounds:

Day 28: Draw a background using a photo reference

Day 29: Draw the same background using different points of view

Day 30: Draw a background using a perspective grid (not central, don’t be lazy!!)

Other things you can try for adding more fun:

Try a new tool/media for lineart, a new one for colouring and a new one for shading

Try to use gradients in a drawing

Try to draw something as seen with fisheye or wide angle

Create a new character using this

Draw a gijinka of the random pokemon this pokedex generator gives you

Draw a gijinka of one object in the room you are right now

Mix some of these challenges to have more fun!

Some tips: Don’t be afraid to use references, this doesn’t make you less good. Art imitates what the human sees!

I haven’t tried all of these challenges so I’m not telling you that your art will improve a lot, but it will definitely improve if you draw a lot!

If you all have some tips, references or more challenges don’t be afraid to add them! And if you want to share your entries feel free to post them here tagging them with #artimprovementchallenge or #30dayforartimprovement !!

[imrowanartist]

Happy Valentine’s Day! Or if you don’t celebrate, happy random Monday in February!

Here are some of my favorite couple sketches I’ve done <3

Amaya (top right) belongs to @amikoroyaiart! I used references from Kibbitzer’s pose packs for most of these.

[imrowanartist]

I’m calling this The Saga of Karsha and Fritz <3

Close ups under the cut!

Fritz belongs to @itsstrangelypermanent. Used some pose references from Kibbitzer’s pose packs.

[imrowanartist]

I saw that it’s @codywanweek and I don’t really have time to participate, but I wanted to do something so here’s a quick sketch for day 3: Keldabe

I love these space nerds so much <3

(used a pose reference from Kibbitzer)

[imrowanartist]

I don’t have many Star Wars ships, but Blyla is definitely one of them. They’re just so cute together <3 And we’re just happily going to ignore canon and pretend they stay together forever :) :)

(Adapted a pose reference from Kibbitzer)

Imagine ID [A sketch of Star Wars characters Aayla Secure and Bly. They are shown from the waist up and embracing intimately. Bly is on the right, facing the viewer. He has one hand on Aayla’s neck and one hand on her waist. He has his eyes closed and his mouth parted slightly, about the kiss her. Aayla is shown from the side. She has one arm around Bly’s shoulder and one hand on the side of his face. She also has her eyes closed and is kissing Bly gently on his lips. End ID]