#stuff looks wonky but im too lazy to fix it

[listenerofpodcasts]

uh oh

[aria0fgold]

Gotta love how my gallery looks so messy when the artblock started creeping in like, there's horror art, sketch, sketch, sketch, sketch, sketch, sketch, sketch, and then suddenly a full on proper drawing of my dearest son Alec with a mermaid form.

You can see the three sketch attempts I was desperately tryna do for Mermaid Alec until I managed to settle on something finally.

[skullzy20]

Thinkin about,,,, , them,,

[cerealmonster15]

Do you have any advice on drawing halo spartan armour?

hwell,

wwell,

well..,

yes and no. mostly no, because i am a coward who always Avoids Drawing Armor bc i am afraid of it, so i dont have much experience results to show there.

BUT, as far as learning to draw things in general, and general advice that i plan on eventually following when i stop bein lazy, is lots of reference photos. drawing things from “life” and sort of copying what you see, then comparing what you’re doing with the source, then fixing or redrawing where you made mistakes can help you with learning where you’re consistently messing up and help you notice details you often forget. 

maybe start with a simple and very basic sketch out of just the essentials and basic shapes youre going for, then slowly add more details, but trying to stick with adding detail gradually all over, bc if you try and focus on lots of details on like, just one portion, you could end up with really wonky proportions [thats a mix of my advice + stuff my drawing teacher taught my class WOO]. but maybe taking it one section at a time might help you learn it better [like, if youre drawing a full body, youd wanna do the all over/gradual adding detail, but if you wanna learn bit by bit maybe you’d just practice drawing a bunch of chest pieces?? i dunno, that one’s just an idea lol]

but as far as specific armor stuff, i cant be much help there as i dont have the Experience. 

THIS IS A VERY GOOD LOOKIN GUIDE ON DRAWIN RVB/HALO ARMOR THAT I’VE HAD SAVED! i havent tried it out but i really love that artist and theyre very good with drawing armor. this guide also mentions having them good ol’ reference photos. a good rule of thumb for drawing anything is having some nice references nearby ;p

SPEAKIN OF REFS, THIS POST HAS SOME GOOD HALO ARMOR PIECES TO TAKE A GANDER AT SOLO,  so u can get some good angles there 

i think once you get the general idea you could probs do some simplified versions of it too. ive seen some real basic designs that still look Really Great

you could also creep thru some art tags of cool rvb fanartists and get some inspiration there [as long as ur not like, copying or tracing anyone’s work, it can help ya get over some blocks to see different approaches that various people will take to different tasks]. my cool hip radical mutuals @gdipalomo @amvial @mercuryblacksleg and @scribbleboxfox have some pretty sweet takes on how they do armor if u creep thru their art tags enough c;

EDIT: im also a fan of how @fandomescapades and other artists do the underarmor thing c; so that’s a fun alternative