#tutorial (by someone else)

[saszor]

Hihi! I came from a couple of reblogs on both your tutorial on how to draw cleft lips and people with Down Syndrome, and both made me extremely happy, as someone who wants to focus their art on including as many disabilities and physical differences as possible. I was wondering if it would be alright to request a tutorial on how to draw the anatomy of people with Dwarfism? I have troubles nailing the proportions down, but i want to be able to draw them for fanarts for a fandom I'm in. Thank you for the great work, dude. Have a nice day/night and remember to eat a meal and drink some water!

Hi, I'm glad you enjoy them!

I could technically make one but there is literally no one "look" for people with dwarfism as there's hundreds of different kinds. The thing below focuses on facial features because that's more of my thing, but the same applies to body types - a person with achondroplasia and someone with Morquio syndrome will have different proportions despite technically having the same ("disproportionate") kind of dwarfism

You can check out Gary Parker's photography as it features a lot of people with dwarfism and is one of the better pose resources that I have found before. Especially the "Varieties of Dwarfism" gallery is really useful because it has exactly what I mentioned earlier; all these people have dwarfism and they look very different. So to actually nail proportions and features of disabled characters you need to know what kind of proportions you're looking for first (if a canon character has just Vague Dwarfism - research achondroplasia. it's the most common and has the most resources, reference poses, etc.), otherwise it's just gonna be difficult

[worldwidenoise]

[gerardwayyuh]

I don't care what you people say,, frank is so hard to draw I get artblock trying what the hell

[rbtlvr]

& by the way i literally CONSTANTLY think about how loop uses the partys titles to create distance to remind themself that those arent 'their versions' of them. that theyre not loops party anymore. and yet and yet and yet

[ducksydoodlesofficial]

Wanna know how to draw Alastor? Here, we gotcha 😉 Alastor insisted on "helping" (he got in the way) zoom in for best results!

[ilta222]

I love your art so much!! It's inspiring me to get back into pixel art (I gave up quickly). A huge problem I had was I didn't know what size was best to set my canvas for specific projects. I always ended up overestimating and making it too big and then it looked less like pixel art and more like grainy digital art. Do you have a rough guide you stick to for landscapes/bedrooms/cities VS. things like animals and characters?

aw thank you i'm happy to hear that! i hope u stick with it ♥

with landscapes/bedrooms/cities i use 275x155. this provides a fair amount of detail while still keeping it pixely, plus it resizes to wallpaper size. for vertical i just reverse it at 155x275.

i've also recently started to use 215x215 (same amount of pixels as above) so that i can resize my art to easily fit both wallpapers, and mobile videos... since tiktok and instagram reels are everything nowadays 😒

for characters and animals, generally i will base the size of the canvas around how i stylize eyes.

so i'll draw the eyes first, then just draw everything else around that.

i also have a smaller resolution style with 2px dot eyes that i use for adding characters to landscapes, since my landscape resolution is too small for my regular style unless the character is close to the screen.

hope this helps!

[six-demon-bag]

hi i was wondering how you do the watermarks on your gifs? i'm old and only used to seeing people use a pixel font in the corner and thought yours looked cool. do you make a png or something similar? thanks in advance :) <3

for sure! the watermark like this one ↓ for reference

so the actual bulk of how i do this is from this phenomenal tutorial by @yunaevis! having it a custom shape is why it's clean at this size, and easy to stick onto gifs.

the specifics of mine - since gifs have to be 540px wide, it's definitely best to have a sans serif font for clarity. i used Lemon Milk which is free here. the brackets are...uh. lucida something, italicized. one is upside down.

it's set to white fill and exclusion so that it shows up no matter the background and gets all weird like in this gif 😌

size-wise, ive usually ended up having it be 75x45px with the dimensions of my gifs, but of course ymmv depending on the shape of the watermark. my name worked well with the diamond format (and it makes it nearly impossible to crop out without royally fucking up the gif)

EDIT: since i answered this, ive been tinkering with it, as one does. ive dropped the size down to 38px tall, and the opacity is typically between 15-25%, though with some gif backgrounds ive gone up to 50% or so. most of them are fine at the lower ones.

its been helpful for me since i did get my gifs stolen once and someone let me know!

[yourmamashoe]

"For the Japanese, who know so much and intuit more, human relations are predestined by a red string that the gods tie to the pinky fingers of those who find each other in life. Legend has it that the two people connected by this thread will have an important story, regardless of the time, place or circumstances."

[neriyon]

Small test run of Infinity Nikki done! Mostly just finished the tutorial (and kicked Momo around), but it so far it seems pretty fun~

Also photo mode is so nice ♥

[raisengen]

Design of Strife's design is a real mystery to me.

After thinking about it, I think the intention is:

You play it like reverse CC: fight a hard enemy while helped by a large number of buffs, then whittle down the buffs until you're fighting them au naturel. This then unlocks the next difficulty, rinse and repeat.

Within battle, you're meant to exploit the lava fissures by deploying operators on top of them, managing the burn damage in exchange for bonus damage against enemies.

The thing is, the game is absolutely terrible at conveying this. There's no effort to make sure you know about the buff system, and there's no effort to make sure you know how lava fissures work.

The most the tutorial has to say is "if you use buffs you can't unlock the next set of stages". OK? The buff system isn't even available at the time they say that. It's not even unlocked until you lose a run at that rank (and even then it's relatively easy to miss). And besides, all I've been told is that I shouldn't use them, and since they're off by default maybe I should just ignore them.

Compare to CC, where you have to pass through the contract selection screen every time you start the stage.

The lava fissures have no tutorial at all, forcing you to rely on the poorly-worded tooltips. (Did you know you can long-press on special tiles to bring up a notification explaining them?) And you're unlikely to intuit their interactions, either; the lava only hurts friendlies, unless you put an operator on top, in which case they can scoop up some of the eruption and throw it on your enemies. Of course. They didn't even get a good animation, since they appear to only hit low tiles, but still deal damage to high tiles.

Compare to... pretty much any event with a stage mechanic, where they have dedicated tutorial stages focused on the interaction.

If these are (well, were) meant to be the experiments for new high-end content, then surely you should want players to be able to engage with it as intended, right?

[whoupsqlointing]

i understand that people are busy. and that plans can change and get delayed. but why is it that so many people are incapable of just Telling me when they get delayed. i keep getting told 'oh ill be there this afternoon, or ill call you back in a couple hours' and then no one shows up and i hear nothing for days. and i reach out and im like. hey. you still willing to help? or should i ask someone else? and they insist oh yeah im gonna help something just came up and i still cant be there but let me call you back and give you a time, ill be there. and then no one calls and no one shows up. and my whole day i have to just sit here and wait cos i dont know when or if anyones gonna be here or not. literally just communicate with me! thats it! thats all i ask! please for the love of god

[jihnari]

just for anyone else who somehow failed to notice

you can auto equip outfits for infinity nikki battles.

it's right there. it's RIGHT there. can't believe ive been suffering this whole time for nothing.

[i-really-like-phrogs]

Hey there! I just wanted to say that I absolutely love Beetlejuice your art, and it's inspired me to try drawing him, too! You're how to guide on drawing BJ is super helpful, and I just wanted to say thanks. :)

OH. MY. GOODNESSSSS!!!

Look at this fantastic work!!! The expressions and line confidence are incredible! And the handwriting? Oh, the handwriting! It’s so neat, and flowy, and gorgeous- I just HAVE to point it out! —And you drew this in PEN? That is so impressive! Pens are my favorite to draw with, but it’s so much harder to not make mistakes! It took me three years before I was able to draw toonjuice with a pencil, let alone anything non-erasable. My mind is positively blown!

I am so happy you found the tutorial useful— I was worried it was too cluttered and hard to follow. Even if it may be, look at the incredible person it managed to inspire! I am so grateful you took the time to show me this! It’s not every day you get to hear your work was helpful to someone! If you ever have questions or comments going forward, don’t hesitate to reach out to me! If you couldn’t tell, I love a good yap… so I might as well make it useful! Thank you, Thank you, THANK YOU for this beautiful Valentine’s Day Gift! Its more perfect than any box of chocolate-covered-beetles I could have dreamed of. 🪲🪲💕

[doom-nerdo-666]

How to make Vanilla arches! (feat. BTSX E2M03)

[infizero]

hehehehehehehe

[artemx746]

Do people not realise that a person doesn't suddenly gain full maturity and knowledge of everything when they turn 18?