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Happy birthday to @mennorino! I worked on this gal constantly the past couple of days, bettering the first little sketchy thing when I first "met" her x3

Hope you like!

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Darrell Cartrip!

For @agentsandracartrip, thanks for being the wonderful friend I feel like I can be real with on so many various things, from the ✨ secrets ✨ to everything in between

I'm so grateful for all of our conversations ♥️

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Oops, meant to upload this and looks like I didn't!

Learning how to do much more interesting types of character arts thanks to the inspirations of two very talented idols and friends <3

If you would like to see more arts like this, talk Cars, and have fun, why don't you pop into Motorama City?? We'd love to see you there!

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Some progress for Fanart Friday of Miss Holly Shiftwell 🌸🌸

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@mennorino

your new OC based on your IRL car is cute so I wanted to attempt sketching her xD

thanks for sharing your doodles with us in discord!

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Hey I started animating not long ago, I thought it would be easier to make my comic

(I wanted to draw everything by hand at first then I tried the same on my phone)

But sadly my Characters look kinda ... Stiff? They aren't that curvy like cartoon characters but I don't know how to do it

What can I do to give them more life and let them look more like cars characters?

This Porsche is killing me with his cuteness, I want a Porsche so badly

Hi there! Thanks so much for the ask <3 It's funny you mention this topic because for the past few months.... I've been trying to figure out the same thing!! While I like how some of my older art looks, it feels rigid... like they're just images of cars with the eyes and mouth put on them. No "Pixar-feel in terms of "energy" and "emotions." I've been working on learning how to capture more energy + create my own style

Something that helps them look more "alive" and "energetic" is not following the severity of realistic lines. You can keep proportions to a point, but "warping and bending," I've learned, shows life

I have not done much beyond doodles, but here are some examples that I hope help you!

this dude is squished up with tires pointing inward for kind of a fun vibe. I altered my style around last year to include eyebrows because they add emotions!

And here, his body is kind of in an arc shape. Makes him look solid yet not rigid! Kinda... squishy xD In the (not long ago) past, I would've had him as a rigid box and the only emotion - HOPEFULLY - being in the eyes since mouths are a small annoyance I'm trying to be more flexible with

So maybe bending and warping your character's shape and giving them emotion in their from tires (since that's like their hands!) can make them feel more alive to you

In "Cars" Luigi is very expressive with his tires, as is Mater! It makes them look and feel fun

Another tip is tilting your character's bodies!

I didn't do this for ages, sadly. But thanks to the inspiration of some talented friends I'm grasping it and implementing it into my sketches

This one I'm working on now for a small project, and I am very proud of it! It incorporates tilt, expression in the eyes and mouth, and altered body shape so she's not such a stiff subject. Her headlights turn inward (not realistic, but makes her cartoonish and cute)

I am in love with how this turned out so far and it excites me to think of how my work can keep changing and improving by expanding upon this style!

Of course, if you DO want to keep proportions a bit more real, here's another example that I feel has a Pixar-type feel and isn't stiff, even though I kept the "bendier" shapes with arcs at a minimum. I feel here the mood and expression comes across best in the eyes

As someone who is still learning day by day, I'm can't give a "one size fits all, this is definitely the secret!!" bit of advice... but I hope this can help!

Don't be afraid to have fun roughly sketching your OCs until you hit on a look that just clicks in your head and feels right. That's part of the process till you find the style that makes you happy. And a helpful hint: simpler styles are going to be easier to animate at first!

Feel free to reach out if you ever have any more questions!

~ Ginger

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Little speeddraw of my Darrell post!

Thanks for looking! ❤️

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Quick sketch practice page of my girl Ginger ❤️

These are a fun way to work through art block without feeling totally blah 😂

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Thoughts on Art - a small essay thing

This is something that has been going through my mind quite a lot since I've been learning ways to be better at my drawing, painting, and creation process.

How is it art seems to be the only topic where there is only “one right way” to do it? Have you ever noticed this?

A kind friend (shoutout @garnets-and-dragons!!) introduced me to an interesting art "hack," the “grid drawing method.” I literally never knew about it. For those unfamiliar with what this is, it constitutes drawing a grid onto a reference photography, then transferring the grid in proper scale to a paper or digital canvas. You draw what you see in each box however accurate you choose to, as the artist.

Personal opinion: this has brought a great deal of joy back into my creative life. Actually, that's nearly an understatement. As a perfectionist my nature (probably stemming way back to my childhood if I think long enough), I typically never love a lot of my art. Not an intense “I'm so very proud of this” type of feeling. Because I see everything I get wrong, the struggles, the lack of grounding an idea onto paper/etc. Combine this with the painful lingering headaches I've had as a side effect from my COVID shot last summer, and art very, very quickly felt like torture when it didn't go right.

Especially with cars. Unlike animals, which can be built up with a uniform concept of circles building on other shapes, cars are all different. As soon as I figure out how to draw one of my OCs, I want to draw another who looks entirely different (year and model playing hugely into this too) and it's back to square one again. This is what scared me so much doing commissions, and prevented me from accepting modern cars or body types I wasn't familiar with.

Back on topic… learning how to use even a rough, vague idea of a grid has helped me become happy with my art. I can plot exactly how I want the character to look and then build a background (yay, new skills!!) around it. It actually works together! I believe now I can tackle all of the major ideas for character scenes that have been rattling around in my head for YEARS.

Yet.

Even though quick research proves Leonardo da Vinci, ancient Egyptians, and many other highly respected classic and legendary artists used grids, plumb lines, and other methods to “short cut” a tedious, wholly freehanded, no guides at all, sketch… the internet is ablaze with controversy and I have seen equally positive and negative thoughts. The negative is very black and white:

“If you use a grid to draw, you clearly have no talent.” “Anyone good enough should never have to use this.” “This is cheating.” “You're not a real artist if you use this method. Shame on you.” “This is glorified dot-to-dot for adults.”

Let's take a step back… I'm not defending myself or anyone who uses any “guides” right now. This is just an unbiased view.

• Is using CTRL-Z when doing digital art cheating? (You can instantly remove a mistake!) • Is digital art itself no form of art because you can have potentially thousands of resources at hand that don't cost a fifth of what traditional art supplies can? • Are erasers in trad. art cheating? (You ought to be good enough to not use one at all. right? If we listen to the “grid and plumb line” critics) • Is using Photoshop cheating?? It can completely change an image to be unrecognizable from its former self. Action sets do all the work for you. Yet that's considered an art form.

Or, let's not look at art at all.

• Is using spellcheck cheating? • Is hiring an editor to comb over your manuscript cheating? • Does using a dictionary or thesaurus mean you have 0 literary skill if you don't know the meaning or synonym/antonym for a single word yet can construct a good story otherwise? • Does using a calculator mean you're an idiot with zero skills? Hey, even if you don't understand math, what shame is there in using a calculator?? None!

I would think the answer is NO to all of these things.

So, why is there this huge controversy with art? You can only do it ONE WAY which is deemed “correct” (by who?) and deviating means… you have no talent?

I have a bit of a hard time swallowing that using mathematical measurements to make art I'm truly excited about continuing for the first time in literally years means I'm not a “real” creative person. The grid does only one percent of the work for me.

• I have to fill it in however detailed I chose. It's not a preprinted coloring page, after all. • I have to transform certain areas to fit a cartoony look. • I have to remember what I've learned so far for value, saturation and hue to color it in a way that's either believable or at the least, appealing, to my eyes and a viewer. • I have to hand draw all of my background elements in (again using value, saturation and hue to look nice)

How does using one single tool make an artist a cheater? Using a grid as an aid is not tracing a photo line for line and passing it off as my own creation. A grid doesn't even equal a flawless result! Nor is it the way too common art theft that populates the world where someone steals someone else's art, recolors it (or not) and “now it's mine.”

End thoughts: I hope any creator that uses a tool (ruler, grid, plumb line, compass, French curve, etc.) to make them feel happy and satisfied for potentially the first time in their life with their work doesn't get beaten down by the critics. People who say you're a “baby” or “fool” because you can't do things the way they do it doesn't mean anyone's way is right or wrong. And being severe and hurtful in their opinions is the kind of insensitivity a person with a low self-esteem in what they do does not need to hear.

I wish everyone to create freely, in whichever way works for them (minus outright theft) and can understand there's a whole lot more to life than what one person says is right or wrong.

Oh, and about this one person who said “anyone who has to use a grid has no talent?” Someone asked them if they could draw. They said yes. They drew hyper realistically. Did amazing portraits, in their words. Next was inquired: “I want to see/Show me your art.” By 5 different people.

The person who cried foul about “tools equal cheating” oddly enough refused to share any art, any links, anything at all. Their account was completely empty.

Kind of makes you wonder if they were a troll just trying to hurt others, doesn't it?

— Ginger (V16ClassyCaddy.art)

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hey guys!

So, lil update sort of thing...

Going by everything I've been seeing I'm going to have to start posting my art and character works here instead of my portfolio account like I'd planned :/

My art blog @v16classycaddy-art is just overrun with p*rn accounts following it and nasty videos getting sent to me

If it's not the skin blogs, it's bitcoin, dogecoin crap from a million other countries promising "get rich quick by clicking here" schemes and scams

Really pisses me off but there's too many to report at this point and it's a waste of time I'm not willing to invest in

Will be sharing here now, look for art under the tag #v16classycaddyart

Thanks for reading ♥️