#studying polygons. lol

[pivsketch]

"so long gay bowser" - mario sixty four

[nickeldalm]

I know I'm not accurate with the style replication (which is fine) I know I could've done it better if I had been in my right state.

But anyway, these are some observation I made from the film A Few Moments Of Cheers. (I reverse-engineered so hard while I watched it lmao)

The main reason I love the style sm because it somewhat resembles to what I'm aiming for. Not totally the same but you know, close enough. It's hard to replicate the "3d object" feels in my opinion, because you need to have a good grasp with the light direction and how the shadow look.

Also please take my studies not so seriously, I can be stupid and make mistakes sometimes

oc/study

[beatcroc]

a year!!! as of today i have now been drawing these funny little pizza freaks, to the exclusion of almost everything else, for!!! an entire year!!! i wanted to do a nice group shot/lineup of everybody to compare to when i first started trying to draw them because oh boy were they bad. i never even posted most of them anywhere because they were so bad. but im posting them here, now, to see how everything's changed/evolved.

this is probably the hardest time i've ever had trying to figure out how to work with a style, but we got there eventually; i'm pretty happy with the handle i've got on everybody now...dont let ur memes be dreams. lots of unimportant journaling and idle thoughts abt it below.

older pics

the first one is the VERY first time i drew them, before i thought i was going to actually have any interest in drawing them [lmao]; it was just the one isolated image, for my friendserver, to illustrate the funney message, so there was no attempt to make it Good or actually understand anything going on w/ the designs or style.

second is the original run of practices sketches to start trying to figure them out for real; done after i started having ideas for the comics and such and realized oh god maybe i am actually gonna draw fanart for this. [again, lol, and lmao.]

third one is the first pt art thing i posted on here. there were a couple weeks of sprite studies between this one and the previous image. the one on the top right wasn't part of that post i just threw it on as space filler; i'd intended to shift to doing Sprite Redraws But Stylized to explore tings more, but that was the only one i did. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

individual characters

peppino: by far the hardest dear god. bro what ARE your shapes how DOES your face work. jesus christ. everything i have trouble with this style for, peppino has it in excess. i draw in polygons! i need consistency! and that is the last thing this kind of style is concerned with. they are made of squarshy clay and i do not understand how to mold them. i was really hoping trying to learn this game's style would GIVE me that kind of flexibility for fun exaggerated facial expression but i don't think much came of it in the end 😔. anyway on the bright side all this means once i got peppino figured out a little bit everybody else clicked way easier.

fake peppino: honestly i never did anything with him on purpose except for how his eyes work + the perma-smile thing. i figured ok hes supposed to look weird and off model so whatever happens with him happens. and it did. and it kept happening. it is still, in fact, happening.

noise/ette: somehow, for every bit that peppino was the least natural thing i've ever tried, these two worked pretty much right off the bat. i still don't understand it, seeing as pretty much all the things at play for peppino are also at work for them. i think the new sketches are actually a little worse than older ones but not enough that i care.

gustavo: really funny bc i drew him on model twice and just went 'okay, cool nice, easy, um. he doesn't have any fucking legs?' fortunately he was the only one i had a strong idea for how to stylize him [square] and it worked exactly as i was hoping so wahoo.

brick: is an animal and therefore 5000x easier and more natural for me to draw/stylize than anything else in the cast. that is Just a rat bro. i can draw a rat.

gerome: i think the funniest one here. the most drastic and least necessary change imo. i was gonna have him be really small at first, like smaller than the noises, but then i just... didn't. he's just peppino-sized now. also i gave him like. actual human facial structure, which is funny bc in most cases i'd do anything to avoid, but it works well for his being A Rock to give him some angles and definition like that+ to differentiate his vibe from the rest of the cast who are all very squishy. also since he is essentially Just A Head it's good to emphasize that too ig.

john: i only drew john a couple times but he gets to be here because i like him. and because most of the stuff i applied to gerome was readily applicable to john, though i did try to keep him a little more uncanny because he is a Huge And Lanky Freak. i hate that he is barefoot btw but idk how to make his color balance look right with shoes.

pizzahead: i did not want to put him on here honestly but i Have drawn him a handful of times and more importantly i didn't know what i was gonna do with john's pose if i didn't have him there to be glared at. the only thing that's different with him is giving him wider-bottomed pants, which i got from when i tried to draw these guys in clone high style [i never posted that one either][i will eventually]

snick: he gets to be here because 1. he's like 6 lines 2. i like him and 3. ive scribbled him a few times offhand and it went pretty well

misc

there are some guys missing because those are guys i didn't draw enough [or at all] to have gotten comfortable with them. sorry

i would have Liked to shade these but for the time being i have accepted that my grasp of light/shadow has decayed to the point im not going to be happy with anything i try there, so For Now i am working on my presentation with flats i guess. gerome has a shadow only because he's shaded like that ingame and looks naked without it

anyway if you are still reading [hi?] i get to shamelessly plug now. i'm over the hill of my pizza run now, and while i still have plenty of things i want to make here, most of the bigger more in-depth ones have passed. pizza tower was the first thing in THREE YEARS to get me out of my oc groove to doing fanart, and once i am done with my ideas here i will be going right back to it. if you like my art or how i write characters/interactions you should check out my oc/webcomic blog @jamverse . i can't promise people who like pizza stuff will be terribly into my designs, but i can guarantee i treat my guys with the exact same sort of tone i handle the pt guys with. and hell, i've mentioned it a few times before, but like 70% of my characterization for fake pep is just copied off one of my characters, so if u are going to miss him... he will still be there in spirit >;p

and if you dont care about any of that and are still reading thank you anyway. actually making these comics + seeing how shockingly well-received they've been has done a lot for my confidence, and for seeing that my kind of stuff IS something people enjoy :')

[chibishortdeath]

I did a little bit of background practice yesterday. I usually forget that I could be drawing scenery and stuff so I’m kinda rough at it. It took like three tries to get the results of that first picture (second picture was one of those tries, and I’m not even showing the other one it was really bad 💀💀💀)

Also just throwing in some other doodles cause yeah :3. Simon. Some of these are from the same page and some of these are ones I think I forgot to post a bit ago so if there’s repeats then eh whatever lol. Explanations under a cut :)

This is pretty much just a study of a photo of a graveyard I ran into on Pinterest. Liminal spaces are very nice for finding background references because you can be sure no one is gonna be in them and they have the weird vibe that The Guy™️ should be in. But holy HELL trees are HARD. Like obviously I know what a tree looks like but the second I have to draw branches trees suddenly do not make sense anymore 💀

Another liminal space, this one was a path with the sky completely blacked out. I tried putting Simon into it but he kinda ended up a little muddled and too small augh. I’m also not very great at combining people and backgrounds so uh yeah. This one was also a much faster doodle just trying to warm up for the first one. But eh it’s cool idk. I need to put him in more liminal spaces or like try to draw the Simon’s Quest areas in 3D eventually.

Small practice comic! There’s no words, Simon just kinda walks a bit and passes out. I was gonna have more things happen but I didn’t have the room for it and decided to just leave it as a little practical piece. He’s probably gonna get up in a little bit and freak out about how much time he wasted.

Just a Simon head :3. His hair is fun to draw! I usually end up simplifying things as like a little uh polygonal… I think that’s the word… When drawing skulls, I usually go for octagons instead of circles because that’s much easier, but that ends up bleeding into how I draw hair making it kinda spikey and pointy in some spots on the top. I feel like I draw pretty inconsistently, but he’s very pretty and fun to draw regardless of how he ends up :3

This is some weird ass fan art of two things that aren’t related at all lmao. Sometimes you gotta crossover things that don’t make sense for the fun of it. This is Simon drawn based on a scene from the Fear Garden music video! Fear Garden is a banger, shout out to Chaa fr, it’s a vocaloid song about a girl who has a weird obsession with hands (Kira joke lol) and kills people to plant their hands in her secret garden where she treats them like flowers. Yeah, again it makes no sense, but the pose with the two mirrored characters was really cool and idk the vibes were there—

Simon sitting in between two graves, both say “BELMONT” in big letters, but one is for Christopher and Cyncia and the other is for Soleil and whoever his significant other was, we don’t have a name so it’s cut off. This has me thinking about the time in between all these characters hmm. Doing the math, Soliel would’ve been in his 90s when Simon was born, so there’s actually a good chance he wasn’t Simon’s grandfather, rather his great grandfather :O. Which means that there’s two generations we know nothing about between these two. And also that Simon would’ve never met either Soleil or Christopher or Cyncia :(. Then that has me thinking about fan comic stuff and how I’m gonna depict Simon hmmmmmmm. I imagine Simon spent a lot of time in the family graveyard tbh.

Simon is totally me when I dramatically collapse on a large marble monument of some sort in the graveyard— There’s also a couple attempts at drawing his paldrons at different angles but aaaa I can’t visualize these things properly. They’re just like kinda flared half ovals, why are they so hard to draw at any angle but like head on and top view 💀💀💀??? I’m trying to get out of the habit of drawing them bent in angles that don’t make sense but argggggg it’s hard lol.

Yeah, recent doodles tho yippie d(^^ )!

[tshortik]

Artist ask game! #7

7. A medium of art you don't work in but appreciate

Oh so much... 3D - I tried to get into it during my game design study, but it just didn't click and I've not had the time nor the patience to try it again. When it comes to sculpting organic models (objects are ok mostly) I suck so badly and where some people pick it up quickly, I just get really frustrated with it. I feel much more at home just doing the plain old vertices by vertices route on Blender or Maya where I can see all the polygons, but ya. I have so much respect for 3D artists, and also animators, and vfx, and really everything in the 3D area - all these things that I really want to learn, and also had the opportunity to learn, and just didn't. Right now I don't have the time and discipline for it, but I am in awe by it frequently.

Music - I played piano for over 10 years and I think I was ok at it (as in, my teacher and also strangers would tell me often that I played "very emotionally", so that was really touching for me lol) and then I started studying and I just stopped. Just didn't have the time anymore and then I didn't feel like it, and now I'm sad I stopped haha. I still have a huge appreciation for playing piano and for instrumental music in general. I definitely want to get back into it at some point. Because of this I pretty much developed into a music nerd when it comes to instrumentals. I am really obsessed with soundtracks and modern orchestra of all kind, like I REALLY geek out there on my own haha. Someday I really want to go to a videogame or movie concert.

Other stuff that blows my mind is wood carving, smithing, sculpting, anything where you shape something into a thing that is/used to be solid. I never tried any of those but would love to!

[exhausted-archivist]

@polygone-moi

Thank you for asking for more😭

All embroidery on her clothes was either done by herself or her mother.

She comes from a house that journeyed to the surface after the first blight. They trace their linage back to the Hormak thaig and were originally merchants. Once on the surface they continued being merchants but also broke into houses that specialized in various fields of knowledge because they endeavored to protect knowledge from future loss like they saw in the first blight.

Anjou's house, Baskar, focuses on natural studies to put it broadly. Flora, fauna, agriculture, animal husbandry, and the like. Anjou studies gastronomy and is more keen on "living" evolving history.

She also isn't a traditionalist dwarf on the surface, and dislikes the caste system from Orzammar. Anjou and her house have a special privilege as they are considered/treated as Grey Wardens more or less due to their contributions to the Warden as well as they regularly have volunteers from their house. Anjou was even considering being one but her cousin Lorena enlisted.

What else... if she could eat anything she would love to try some of the rare, more exotic or even extinct creatures of Thedas. She is the very definition of "opportunistic" eater lol

I've decided Anjou hates parsnips.

She loves pears and pomegranates.

She will fight someone for a bowl of whipped cream (but she loves dairy in general)

Leliana would hate her because Anjou raises nugs for prime cuts not prime pets.

I kinda wanna yell more about her but...I dunno lol

[blue-star-doodles]

Donnie is super hard for me to draw, particularly with his accessories, so I did some more studies. This time they're centered around him. I'll try to share some of the stuff I noticed. I'm not exactly sure how much I learned, but I think I got something out of it lol.

One of the ways I figured out to draw his head was similar to Raph's circle, where it's just an oval with extra steps. The eye line is on the center of the oval, and his snout is just a little below the eye line. The jaw connects to the bottom of the oval. The sides of his head go straight up the oval to the top, and connect. Alternatively, you can make his head a circle and extend the jaw/snout downwards, with his head and such still following a similar shape. The start of the goggles is like an ear's, with the top of the round part directly on the eye line. Goggle ears.

Donnie's body is built using angular tube like shapes. Different to Raph's, they're far longer and slimmer. He's built tall and lanky. His palms and base of his feet are built with polygons. His knee and arm pads still perplex me, but I think they extend forward and away from the joint. They follow the shape of the lower outside limb then extend past it, connecting back to the rest. His battle shall has two main parts, being the frame and then the actual outer part. It's like the other's carapace's, but with harsher separations and boxier. The upper part of his plaston dips at the same point as his shell. His plastron also doesn't have that bump right below the upper plastoron the other turtles do. It's smooth. His plastron follows a similarly boxy shape similar to Mikey, thought with harsher edges.

In conclusion, Donnie is tall, long, has a lot of squarer shape language, and a bunch of really confusing to draw accessories.

[ghostedglitch]

happy one year to my hypnospace comic!

(and one day, just pretend i had this up yesterday shhhhh)

here's a little series of fun facts about making it

- started as a poem. i wanted to make a Millenium Anthem animatic and/or write a fic (i ended up doing the latter) but this came to me in the meantime and, being hyperfixated and eager to make something about it, it developed into a comic.

- that said, i was deep in the throes of an art burnout. i tend to make a lot of art around the new year, usually due to being in multiple gift exchanges, as well as working on my own things during winter break since i don't usually have the time to during school, and that wears me out. both this year and last i struggled with having energy to draw. however, i'd just recently found out a style that was pretty easy to work in even in that state: polygonal! so the comic is pixel polygons.

- the comic actually sort of ties into (and is directly quoted in the summary of) the aforementioned fic i wrote—which is called "do(n't) be afraid"—as evidenced by the focus on the HSPD badge as well as the Enforcer being almost a self-insert

- the typography is done by hand. i looked at the game's font file for the standard font and copied it. to this day i can pretty reliably just. handwrite in hypnospace font with the pixel pen. and i do! it's very space efficient!

- the dithering is also done by hand, because i'm a madlad. well, for each pattern i did like a portion by hand and then copy-pasted it until i covered as much area as i needed to, because i'm a madlad but i'm not a masochist. and then when i needed it again i just copied and pasted the layer and used a clipping mask to change its color. now though i have that big pixel brush pack on clip studio paint. so i won't be needing to do that again anytime soon.

- in panel 3 we see the Enforcer's face as well as glasses on their desk. like i said. pretty much a self insert. we also see their computer and hypnospace headband; i studied that intro video for this but between not seeing it a whole lot and the artstyle i was using being really simplified, i'm probably missing something lol

- in panel 4 we see dylan merchant at his desk. there's a calendar behind him. i actually looked up what day of the week was december 31, 1999 so i could circle it. it was a friday.

- the girl in panel 5 is supposed to be rebekah, the girl who likes squisherz and won the fan art contest but didn't get to find out because her dad took away her hypnospace headband. there's only one small picture of her to go off of, though.

- panels 7 and 8, which can also go together as one tall panel, were fucking FUN. what i did for the glitchy static bits was i made various clusters of black rectangles, each cluster on a different layer so i could copy and rotate them to fill more space. then on a clipping mask i used airbrush without antialiasing in white, RGB, and CMY. boom, static pattern. the elements from the game (the error message window, the cursors, the car) i had to copy by hand. see, the wiki doesn't have many screenshots, and if you try to screenshot the game or a video of it then it scrungles your image clarity. so i had to take those screenshots, eyedrop the colors from there, and then do such riveting and time efficient (that's a joke, it took forever) tasks as Count Pixels So Everything Is The Right Size. which for the shiny new HypnOS 2000 look was painstaking. look at those gradients. gradients everywhere. it was worth the work because it looks fantastic but man. and then to scrungle those elements i just used the rectangular selection tool, grabbed arbitrary bits and pieces of the things and Moved Them Elsewhere.

oh yeah babey

[bitwynn]

Living in the spaces between the lines.

A short "Behold!" AU world study. Inspired by these fics:

Poetry older than words

The Ballad of a Black Hole

Read them, theyre good. And yes, i literally reread both series in the span of like... i dont even know and got the writing bug lol

Hyde/Paimon/Phantom!Reader is left and italic, Jekyll/Diluc is right and bold. Both is bolded italic.

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You were a human. You are a human. You will always be a human. And yet.

And yet, here you are, ripped from the shell of flesh and bone that is your body and binded to strings and lines of ones and zeroes and code. Lines of text and equations that when combined will reveal a constant predictable outcome.

If apple is equal to 300 hp and consumed by [character], then [character] has 300 more hp.

If [character]'s shield has 1500 hp and receives 2000 dmg, then shield breaks and [character] receives 500 dmg.

If [character] hits [enemy] weak point, then [character] will deal Critical Hit.

True. Constant. Predictable.

What happens then when something that doesn't abide by these constant, steadfast lines is introduced?

You are a glitch in the matrix. A virus in the code of the machine. And yet, viruses and glitches must also abide by the numbers and text that dictate their existence. Of which you have none.

How many lines and strings of code does it take to create a human? What sequence of numbers, and letters, and symbols equate to a soul? How then, does a soul be bound by the very principles that dictate something without a soul? Something not designed for the containment of souls?

Your existence is a paradox. An anomaly. An impossibility. And yet, here you are. A ghost, puppetered by strings made of ones and zeroes, and lines made of numbers and text.

You interact with the fabricated world around you as if it were real, polygons and boundaries and 3d modeling imitating reality. But now that you are here, who's to say this isn't real? This table, made by lines upon lines of code that dictate that it is a table, is real in some manner of existence.

This fruit, this bird, this table, this world. It's all real and yet, all a lie.

You learn to hide your thoughts from him, the story of an ant and knowledge and a circuit board thrumming through what would constitute your mind in this fabricated reality. But you feel his touch inside your head, like a cat purring up your leg.

The ant only goes mad when that understanding, the eyes that give it knowledge, is ripped away.

You chuckle and lay a ghostly hand on his black fur coat, lines and strings of code telling you how warm and soft it is.

And I certainly can't take away a blind man's vision. Especially when I'm the one that gave it to them. And especially when i dont know how to dont know if I want to dont know if I have to take it away.

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TAGLIST:

@chromatic-fate

[aprilrainsimblr]

TSM to TS3 Female Executioner Apron conversion

I’m not dead, just needed some time to focus on my health and my studies

Idk what to say, I just think this outfit looks cool so I converted it. Here’s how it looked like in TSM:

afBodyExecutionerApron

Available for everyday, athletic and career. Has all morphs including maternity (just in case lol). Two presets: one with original texture and one with recolourable gloves. Requires invilible shoes (you know the drill... here’s the link).

Polycount: LOD1 - 5116 polygons, LOD2 - 2000 polygons, LOD3 - 829 polygons (gameplay-friendly).

Download (google drive)

Alternative download (dropbox)

Male version of this outfit is a work in progress.

[cravingstudyvalidation]

25/30 dop~ 15/7/22 ( late post)

Today was a shitty day. ok well not completely but hear me out. first half of skl was ok and the second half, Jack in the box came out so obvi I was hyped up( equal sign<<<<). I came home and practically did nothing for an hour except for attending a class. I had too much shit to do and I felt rlly overwhelmed and anxious. With my exams in less than 10days and the debate being on mon ,I was just feeling lost and my mental health was deteriorating.(idk if that makes sense) Ig I just needed a breather. As if my day wasn't already getting worse, one of my debate mates texted and said that they CHANGED THE TOPIC. Like excuse me? Aren't u like supposed to ask my opinion too and wdym u just changed the topic without asking me? I spent 5+hrs researching and reading endless number of articles and was almost done with it and u dare to text me and say u guys changed it? Like u could've atleast told me that when we were in skl. I wasn't angry that they changed the topic it was just they've could've asked me if I was okay with changing it and like they just changed it just like that, as if I'm not a part of the team•_•

Bcoz of this chaos, I totally forgot that I had to pick up my anxiety meds from my doc, so I had to rush tot he clinic 20mins before they closed to get em. Just revised some phy and did olevel past Yr qs and researched for the debate. I could've not given a fuck abt the debate and should've prioritised studying for exams but I had to get extra credits:[

Sotd: Arson by Jhope( yea burn it all)

26/30 dop~16/7/22

Today was a much better day. I surprisingly woke up around 630 without my alarm and went on morn run. The weather was rlly chilly and calm. I did a deep study session for 3hrs after. Did a whole lot of physics and practiced Ray diagrams, since that's my weakest link. Had a grp call with debate mates to discuss and finalise the speakers for the debate. We're doing it in British parliament style this time ,which none of us has ever done before so we're all a bit nervous( mostly me lol) I also watched some debates that was on the topic we had and got some rlly good arguments and counterpoints. So that was it for the debate. Went for dance class later and we learnt this new piece which was sm different than the other pieces we've learnt. It's a fusion of various types of dance forms and we're gonna perform it in a upcoming event so I'm rlly excited for that!( atleast I have one thing I can look forward to after exams lmao). Came back home and did some qs on polygons and mensuration. I'm also done with her last mistake, this was the first book I've read in the Gina Harte series and I loved it. I might even check some of her other books too.

Sotd: Stargazing by The neighbourhood and STOP by Jhope

[za-ra-h]

Ask anything?!

What about......what kind of things did you used to doodle in your notebooks during school? I always drew polygonal prisms (rectangular, triangular, octagonal...) or little planets. In university I upgraded to drawing dinosaurs in top hats with speech bubbles. They were usually saying something important I should remember for studying later, but sometimes they told jokes.

Hearts and flowers!! Sometimes eyes. I always draw that stuff at the borders of the page of any notebook I have in my hand. I can’t focus without doing that.

I thought I was over it after college, but yesterday in my D&D session I decided to start taking notes and brought out a notebook. Immediately my hands started doodling all the hearts and flowers lol

[kevin5319438]

Week 8 Exercise Reflection

Week 8 was an exciting and painful week for me. I especially like learning modeling software, such as rhino in the last term. I like the precision and logic I feel in the process of software modeling.

This week, we had a preliminary understanding of some basic operations of 3dsmax, a modeling software. Including understanding the composition of UI, modeling logic and the use of some tools, etc. I think I have done a good job in understanding software modeling methods. In class and Autodesk tutorial, I have learned a lot about how to make efficiently in 3dsmax. I can express what I imagine through the skills I have learned. In this regard, I think I am successful.

Difficulties

But this process is still very difficult, because I have been very familiar with the operation of rhinoceros before. In a sense, I have formed a modeling idea in rhinoceros. Therefore, in 3dsmax, there are many operations that are very different from what I expected, including rotation, translation, viewing angle, etc. During the production process, I felt a little uncomfortable. But after a period of trying and learning, I can naturally be handy.

But another problem has been bothering me: the system compatibility is not high. In my acess, both resolution and system response speed make the whole modeling process very bumpy. Including the incompatibility of magic mouse and the incompatibility of ALT and option on the keyboard. In addition, due to the performance of GPU and the way similar to simulator operation, display problems often occur. But under such difficult conditions, I still successfully completed the exploration of some models.

1. Modifier: love

In task 1, I start with a sphere and superimpose different modifiers on it. Including bend, stretch, squeeze, taper, etc. Then, I used symmetry to turn the original model into two staggered together to form such a heart.

2. Edit polygon: sofa? chair?

Later, when I began to study some methods and techniques about edit polygon. This method allows us to modify the appearance properties of a shape in some detail. Including extrusion, chamfer, etc. Through these methods, I designed a chair (or a single sofa?) with a base integrated with an armrest.At the handrail, I use the chamfer adjustment to make the overall visual feeling more comfortable.

Interesting fact: the angle of this sofa chair and cushion is based on the famous Barcelona chair.

3. Pratical attempt

When I was basically familiar with these techniques, I tried to create my Olay moisturizer bottle in this. The final product looks okay. But I think the shape formed by adjusting the surface is not smooth enough, whether using edit polygon or edit mesh, but I have no other solution.

If I had a chance to do this. The best thing is to prepare a Windows computer lol. If it is really difficult to achieve, I think it is necessary to prepare a mouse with a scroll.

After I finished this exercise, I thought about it. I think learning modeling software is a very important thing, because it provides a new idea for us to express our ideas. Due to the development of science and technology, all kinds of modeling software are good communication tools. It is more intuitive and comprehensive than painting; it is more convenient than a physical model. But we can't rely entirely on it. Our communication skills must be comprehensive.

[corpsentry]

elmo! hi! I saw your post about how you want to learn proper anatomy and re-do your artstyle. I'm fairly new to digital art, but I'm determined to get the learning process right (is there even a right way to do it?). Just wanted to ask how you're approaching your practice. Are you doing anything new? How do you advise I go about practicing art? Best of luck to you!

man you guys gotta stop giving me excuses to talk about my process before i’ve even figured out What the process is exactly (in the background, a herd of cows is being beamed directly out of the earth’s atmosphere) to answer your first and perhaps most important question, i don’t think there is a right way to learn anything. i am one of those motherfuckers who will walk circles around you and then stomp on the floor and declare that there is no objective truth and god is dead and so it follows that my current view of art is this: draw thing that make brain go brrrr.

with that in mind i really don’t know a fucking thing about the Art Process beyond ‘i open csp -> breakdown -> i close csp’ so i probably shouldn’t be dispensing advice and will be describing my current ‘process’ instead.

i started out with a duplicate of momentum december. 31 days in january, yeah? all right, then, 31 photo studies of people. 31 headshots, if you will. pick different angles every day, pick different kinds of faces, do something new. this was meant to address a huge root problem i have which is that i don’t know how to draw the outline of a human face. here is hatsune miku to demonstrate. see those red arrows? these lines have been giving me grief for the past nineteen years.

and the thing is, i’ve spent my whole life drawing anime shit. i grew up on fruits basket and cardcaptor sakura and copied the shit out of my mom’s 90s shoujo manga tankobon covers, but i never actually sat down and thought about how, exactly, a person works. and because i don’t plan these posts we’re going to segway into a brief aside in which i lament the fact that drawing has always been a completely thoughtless process for me. thoughtless as in 1) i give no shits but also as in 2) i have never known a thing about art. i have never had any ambition. i have never had vision. i have never, in particular, tried to do anything, because i’ve always accepted that i’m a writer first and a clown second and an artist somewhere down the line. ‘i can’t draw backgrounds’. ‘i can’t draw cute people’. ‘i can’t draw.’

so these are like, mindset issues, right, but i also have a bunch of habits stuck in my muscle memory that are baseless and completely pointless because that’s what happens when you try to move forward with no direction in life.

so here’s what i’ve been up to. i’ve always started drawing faces with the eyes, nose, mouth, then shape of the head. right now i’m starting with the line of the brow and then the nose, the outline of the face, the eyes, the mouth. up until now, my guidelines have been stick figures. right now, i’m trying to use spheres, cubes, polygon (DOT COM VIDEO PRODUCER)(GOOD LUCK BDG). and the biggest thing of all, unsurprisingly, is photo studies (pensive homo dab).

i started out with, you know, photo studies of heads. like just. the head. the nose mouth eyes ears etc because i just wanted to draw cute faces but it occurred to me as i began to change how i look at the world as a whole that i suck at everything LOL so i’ve been troubleshooting my understanding of the human being, bit by bit. when i realized i couldn’t draw foreheads properly i did studies of bald people. when i realized i couldn’t compute the shoulder i did studies of torsos. i just finished a round of lip studies because god the mouth has always confused the living FUCK out of me, and now i think i’m ready to apply what i’ve taken away to some sketches of botw link (i have 300 sketches of botw link now and all of them look different).

from a mindset point of view, i’m changing the way i process photos. before this, i’d done referenced art and photo studies before, but i focused on a one for one likeness instead of capturing the motion, the flow, the proverbial dick energy of a photograph. now, i’m breaking things down into shapes. before i do a study i’ll go over the photograph with straight lines. here’s the nose. triangle. here’s the chin. flat line, short, slightly curved. here’s the cheekbone. square. rectangle. hexagon. i’m trying to process 3d space. here’s where the cheekbone turns away from the camera. here’s where the neck folds. here’s where the nose looks shorter, and the eyes look larger, and the brows disappear. it’s kind of interesting, honestly, because this was how i ended up settling into background studies too. i stopped thinking about it as ‘i am going to draw a mountain’ and started thinking about it as ‘i am going to render some shapes’. sometimes you need to think about the water and not the ocean.

but for all my dramatics, how much have i actually succeeded in changing? fuck if i know. i’m running around with my eyes squeezed shut on a tightrope strung up over the mouth of a volcano, but if there’s one thing i’m sure of, it’s that all of this. all of this is fun

SO i am going to have different thoughts in a few weeks’ time but here are my interim takeaways: learn from the world. the world is so fucking cool. it would be a pity not to do so. apply your learning. i do a photo study and then an applied sketch where i try to use what i just learned in a separate, slightly different sketch. but really, right, really really, ultimately, my biggest takeaway up until now, still running around naked on top of the volcano, is this: there’s nothing you can’t draw. there are only things you’re too afraid to draw

[radellama]

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Answer 21 questions and tag 21 people you want to know better.

Tagged by: @starstealingirl

Nicknames: Rads / Ads... I like Rads more

Zodiac Sign: Aires

Height: no clue.. average for a female ig

Hogwarts House: dont care

The Last Thing I Googled: properties for rent close in my town lol.. im trying to move out

Favorite Musicians: Yasunori Mitsuda? Jamie Cullum?? sjalkhd I dont really know ig I just like the artists I have in my playlist

Some Song Stuck in My Head: Roslyn by Cullen

Following: 423  (but it feels like only 4 are active rip)

Followers: 153

Do You Get Asks: rarely.. I usually get asks on my Chrono sideblog but even then its only a few

Amount of Sleep: anywhere between 2-7 hours usually... yea I don’t sleep very well lol

Lucky Number: 9

What You’re Wearing: My long loose black pants and my very long black cardigan with my grey polygonal 1998 spyro shirt.. basically classic drama teacher look minus the graphic on my tee

Dream Job: fuuuccckkk I don’t know.. I currently work as an assistant editor in a media company, but I don’t know if I want to continue this looong term or branch out into other media stuff and study and get into making movies and shit,, or I could go study fine arts or even recently I’ve become re-interested in sewing so studying dressmaking wouldn’t be so bad..... ughghg I just don’t know and none of these are easy options lmao

Dream Trip: Japan.... I was forced to forfeit my scholarship to study there and couldn’t make it to the school trip either.... :’(

Instruments: ocarina??? I guesss??? I can only play like 2 1/2 songs on there tho and no one can teach?? Bad singing is my instrument

Languages: English..studying Japanese

Favorite Songs: I’m just gonna list a few I’ve liked recently

-  SEVDALIZA - HUBRIS

-  The Cinematic Orchestra - 'To Believe feat. Moses Sumney'

-  Julia Henderson - Corridors of Time

-  Fenne Lily - More Thank You Know

-  Richard Walters - July Bones

-  George Ogilvie -  Surveillance

-  Billie Marten - Heavy Weather

-  RY X - Deliverance

-  Matt Maltese - Even If It's a Lie

-  Local Natives - Mt. Washington

-  Timberwolf - Washed Out

-  Ocean Alley - The Comedown

-  Jamie Cullem - Get a Hold of Yourself

Random Fact: uhhhh.... Chrono Trigger (1995) is the best video game I don’t make the rules. Also any edge villain you like, Magus did it first and he did it better

Aesthetic: muted, desaturated colours, low contrast in photos, focal colours in monochrome, the trees in autumn and winter, rain in the evening, heavy and fluffy blankets, shelves filled with books and dvds you love, long cadigans, phone calls that go on for hours, old video games, watching star trek with a nice warm drink, freshly made hot chocolate, messy but nice curls.....

I’m just going to tag @chronomedley @kanonavi @fanimefreak @themodelthecitythesoul @wigwoo-what-is-my-life @bowieboosh @ask-captain-faris @cynk-pop cause they’re people in my notes a lot lol

[the-apocryphal-one]

DR x Pokemon: New Dangan Ronpa V3

Yeah, this is late. I have no excuse. I’m sorry.

She gets the other ‘musical’ Pokemon Sayaka and Ibuki didn’t. Cherrim matches her optimism and energy, at least when awake, and the pink and yellow match her sweater and hair. Beartic is a reference to her liking both bear gifts and the clock gift that produces more bears.

Steelix and Cloyster she can make…certain jokes out of. Klinkang and Donphan are for the same reason as Kazuichi. Hypno helps her test all her sleeping inventions and has Wake-Up slap for when she wants to work without sleeping. M-Alakazam is because she feels it’s almost a match for her IQ and thus the only good conversationalist.

As if the Ultimate Cosplayer wouldn’t have Cosplay Pikachu. As a mastermind attempting to mimic Junko, she shares a few Pokémon with her idol. Ironically, she also shares Mimikyu with Junko’s sister, since she cosplays as Junko for quite a time. Leavanny helps her make outfits. M-Glalie represents her cruelty, since when not Mega-evolved it enjoys freezing prey and eating them slowly. Plus it’s also rumored to be born from negative feelings of stranded hikers; sounds like how Team Dangan Ronpa was born from the desires of the population for killing games, yes?

She either has fighting-types to reference her Neo-Aikido, or Pokemon that can only be female. Her entire team is made of girls, of course

Ultimate Maid and Ultimate Housekeeper are really close, so she also gets Cincinno. Ariados and Araquanid are for the web design on her dress. Deboinar Furfrou just looks like it’d fit her, it’s got a very upper-class feel. Ninetales and Armaldo are both references to her name, which according to the wiki means ‘slicing (Armaldo) beauty’ (Ninetales).

Smeargle because she’s an artist…again lol. Propobass and Sigilyph are…weird, no two ways about it, much like Angie herself. Alola ‘mons are because she’s from a tropical island, so she has more ‘native’ ‘mons.

Her team is built around m a g i c and helping her perform on stage. Delphox is the quintessential magician ‘mon, even having an ability called Magician. Zoroark is a master of illusion. Mismagius looks like a witch, c’mon. Musharna is because she’s lazy, because her name references dreams, and because making dreams real is a pretty cool magic tr—er, magic. Reuniclus is pretty stinkin’ cute and a Psychic type, that’s it. Finally, she gets Vigoroth because of her character growth—at first lazy like Slakoth, then she becomes energetic. She doesn’t evolve it because that’d be regressing.

A team centered around different types of assassinations. Decidueye is an archer for long-distance kills (and references her crossbow). Weavile is sneaky, knife-in-the-night types. Arbok she has for poisonings. Electrode she has because she once says explosions can be useful assassination methods too. Carnivine ambushes its prey. Finally, she gets Ninjask for chases, because lore, Speed Boost, and its high Speed all mark it as something that can pursue for ages.

Some ‘mon overlap with Kyoko, thanks to their shared Talent. He has Umbreon as a bit of a counterpoint to her Espeon + the color scheme also works with him. Wailord is a reference to him loving the ‘Helping Yacchi’ whale plushie. Typhlosion starts out as a shy, timid Cyndaquil, before growing out of it, much like he does.

Since he travels a lot, I figured he’d have Pokemon that have a lot of field moves like Fly and Surf; are Ride Pokemon for crossing difficult terrain; or just something he can regular-ride to move faster.

Klefki, Sableye, and Male Meowstic have Prankster. Sudowoodo ~is a liar~ since it pretends to be a tree when it isn’t. Wobbufet because of his tendency to get physically attacked by his classmates yet always bouncing back, and also because it’s considered annoying (to fight, at least). M-Absol is a Pokemon that is thought to bring disaster but doesn’t, which serves well with Kokichi pretending to be the mastermind when he isn’t.

Lots of Steel-types here for a robot. He repeats Chihiro and AI Chiaki’s Polygon-Z because even though he’s not an AI, he is manmade. Luvdisc is because he wants to learn about love. Dragonite looks intimidating but is a big softie.

BUGS. I tried to grab ones representing different species (ie, picking only one of Butterfree-Beautifuly-Vivillion, as they’re all butterflies) since he’s an entomologist and studies a lot of different types.

The first three are cats because he loves them. The last three are all small (below three feet) powerhouses, to refer to how he took out the mafia.

Claydoll, Cofagrigus, and Alola Marowak he has from his visits to other cultures. Roserade is because of the flowers and vines in his official art. Kabutops helps him murder people. Spiritomb, he has because it requires 108 souls and he’s a serial killer. Cofagrigus, Alola Marowak and Spiritomb are also all Ghost types, which fits with his study of séances. And of course, his entire team save Roserade is pretty creepy.

As if the LUMINARY OF THE STARS could have anything other than space-mons. I did consider letting him share Clefable with Nagito, but ultimately tossed him Magnezone because it’s a UFO.

Phew, that’s that! I honestly had a lot of fun designing these teams, and I hope y’all enjoyed seeing them. Maybe I’ll do something for the Warriors of Hope and Komaru too, but if I did it’d be an even longer wait than this one.