#quick tutorial

[nikoco11]

I love the way you draw bodies sm! They're always so fluid and unique!! Do you have any tips?? (other than the super obvious look at a reference lol)

hi thank u!! rather than just looking at refs, i explained how i actually use them here in a big old post, and how i keep those poses fluid!

another tip tho, and a more recent thing i’ve been doing, is that i use a ref just to decide a general idea for a pose and then pick my favorite lines either within the reference already or i make up my own

^^ for above, i very loosely used the reference at all. it just gave me an idea to start with for a pose and then i picked dramatic curves i really wanted to do and pushed the pose to show those lines.

a lot of my fluidity comes from caring more about those lines showing in the pose than the pose or anatomy actually making sense LOL

this is a more direct reference !! i liked the angle and the point of the knees, so i started there and then exaggerated what i wanted to draw more swoopy :3

additionally helps line confidence to use as few lines as possible.

it makes a lot of organic swishes and pretty lines if u try to keep each section of a limb or whatever to just a few strokes. 2-3 if ur really wanting to push it!

[elythegardeningbard]

Quick Braiding Tutorial

I used this to make handfasting cords for friends and some other crafts ~ I thought I would share

[secondary-colorentimy]

hellooo to my friends who have never drawn a sonic character before but like my twst x sonic au 👋

so ive never been good at tutorials, so don’t expect something detailed here, but i CAN offer some tips! but as a general note, the sonic style doesnt have to look like one way, MANY sonic artists stylize them to fit their own style or what’s comfortable for them! so heres my way of drawing them !

first, lets start with something simple, a hedgehog! specifically, i will show you how to draw Riddle since he is one of the easiest (imho) of the designs ive made to draw! to me, the hedgehog is the basis of all characters really, if you know how to draw a hedgehog you can draw other species! i always start off with this general body shape

most male characters will follow this shape, but not all, for the sake of keeping this simple, i wont go into the different shapes. the main shapes that will be your friend while drawing sonic characters will be the circle and cylinders! usually legs and arms are a little longer as well as hands and feet being just a little bigger. these guys (mobians) are small most of them average in height around anything between 3ft to 4ft

this muzzle shape is universal, every species starts from this shape, if they have a beak or a long snout, it will start from this shape! (the nose placement is what will give the illusion of a longer snout) riddle, like sonic, has a mono eye (which basically means it doesnt connect to the muzzle in the center, you can have two eyes just by connecting them to the muzzle)

ive broken down riddles hair/quills into 4 parts, the quills that frame his face are a lot like amys, his back head quills follow a shape similar to shadows, but they arent as long, then are his bangs and the little hairs that form the heart shape

after that just add the clothes to the base body shape and here he is!

fun fact for my non sonic fans: did you know that male mobians aren’t technically allowed to wear pants? canonically they just arent supposed to! i, however, think this rule is DUMB!! so i give them pants

it takes some practice but remember you can stylize them as much as you want!! they dont have to look like the canon style!! just have fun !!

[bobbieraimondi]

This is not the best way, but it's intuitive and quick, if you want to start trying a new method :) If you do try and it helps, please let me know! And, artists, feel free to add more tips or correct anything

[paluding]

could the tattooer theoretically be used to convert sims 2 tattoos/skins/etc. to sims 4? if so, how do i reverse the process?

Hi! Of course, it would be a matter of swapping the materials and doing the baking process the other way around, selecting the ts2 mesh first and then the ts4 mesh. Pretty easy stuff! It shouldn't take you more than a couple minutes to set up. I'll put the process on how to do it under the cut.

First, with the "ts4 body" mesh selected, click on the black and white ball icon and on the drop down menu select "Material".

Then, do the same for the "ts2 body" mesh. Select it and on the drop down menu select the other material, "Material.002" in this case.

You're almost done. All that's left to do is making a new texture for baking that will work well in the Sims 4. Select once again "ts4 body" and unlink the texture by clicking the X icon.

Click on that "New" button to make a new texture.

And on the menu that shows up, give it a new name (I named it "Bakedts4" this time) and change the height from 1024 to 2048 pixels. Leave the width at 1024. Then click OK.

And that's it! Save a copy of this template if you want to use it in the future. This "materials swapping process" should work with any of my 4t2 templates I think. So once again, to bake textures with these new templates, you will need to load the Sims 2 texture on the Sims 2 mesh, then select first "ts2 body", hold down the Ctrl key and select "ts4 body". Then click the Bake button and you will find your new Sims 4 texture in the UV Editing tab on top, just like the regular Tattooer process.

I have to say though, as I already said when I shared the original templates, these are not 100% perfect, so you might find some stuff looking warped, or some weird pixels getting baked where they shouldn't, like here.

It'd be a matter of manually editing them out using a 2D editing app. Sorry for the inconveniences you might find! If you run into any issues or struggle swapping the materials, feel free to DM me and I'll see what I can do to help :)

[journey-to-the-attic]

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(+ a longer look at each scene:)

[barksbog]

panther chameleon plushies!!!

based on the Amilobe locality of Furcifer pardalis

magnetic little hands for to grab things

soft

funny eyes

doesn´t need high humidty or complex care!

teddy joints for to move their little legs

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adopt one from my bog

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[yrsonpurpose]

Are you intending to talk all the way through this?

[agendratum]

✨🐱✨ © adorable

[stealingpotatoes]

plz we need tutorial how you draw characters please please please please please please i will order u a bag of potatoes please please please

i think my process is better than any tutorial I could give, so here's the timelapse for my may the 4th art!!!!!

[nikoco11]

another add on is that i do the same lines in diff places and directions for diff hairstyles as well!! twists locs braids esp

hii, first of all your art is absolutely gorgeous and you are so talented 💞!! i was just wondering if you had any advice on how you draw curly and textured hair? no worries if you don’t have the time to answer this!!

hi thank you!!! sorry this took me forever HAHA i wanted to put together a coherent detailed thing but realized i uhhh honestly don’t think that hard abt it when i draw

i tend to just plan out the hair parting n hairline

and then i just simplify n stylize curls by only drawing the front half of the curl? like this ^^ i like drawing them in an implied sort of style

rest of advice i’d give is to just observe how real hair sits (ie looser curls being more visible from further away n coming off as bigger etc etc) n how other artists draw hair !

[eggtomatosoup]

How do you pick colors for the gore rendering? I'm mesmerized withe the vibrant yet mildly sickly tone of colors you use, that along with the paint marker way of shading is amazing, I love it

thanks!! admittedly I've been meaning to do more studies and such bc I'm missing out on a lot of things imo but here's my lazy guy method where I put varying reds down regardless of lighting....

i generally go between dark reds and lighter pinks/oranges, and then have some "blue(grey or just Less Red Reds" and green/yellow. green and red are just fun to work with so I think a lot of my drawings have that. Pinks and greys can be fun too so I'm trying to do more w those..... bleh. I'm very much not an expert at drawing or anatomy so. You know how it is. Here's a picture i tried to explain with a while ago

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[azuhrasims]

Have you ever wanted to download that one amazing build from the Gallery only to be shocked by how many packs that creator used? Do you want to download that Sims 4 build, but you're afraid of what will be missing if you don't own those packs?

Its actually pretty easy to check. From the build information screen in the Gallery, click the pack icon you would like to know about. That will bring up an information page about the pack/content. From the pack information page, click the button in the lower right corner that says "Show Used Items."

Find out if the creator is someone like me, building the build I'm showing here, who grabs one shiny candlestick from a whole expansion pack and that's all there is in the build. This build would be safe to download if you don't own Lovestruck.

*Please note it does NOT show if the creator used Debug or LiveEdit objects from this screen, so there may be more missing than what is shown.*

[ukulelekatie]

not to be all “old man yells at cloud” but why is the internet suddenly allergic to simple tutorials? why is everything an 11 minute long video where the person talks for unrelated nonsense for the first 3 minutes? why is every written tutorial inundated with ads and other useless info you have to scroll through in order to get to what you need? what happened to a quick step by step guide with maybe a few pictures for reference?

[epicdogymoment]

twisting ft. @miodiodavinci's SALVADOR Auto Recovery

credits under the cut

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