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Hey friends! My comic is now on Tapas! You can read "Bring Back Clamour" on Tapas for free!!!

https://tapas.io/series/Bring-Back-Clamour

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Consistency? The only consistency I've got is that I consistently keep drawing Elliott in different styles, lol.

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Here's Elliott x Sebastian for a DTIYS Challenge over on Instagram last year...

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I saw this on Twitter, and it was so perfect that I couldn't resist... I'm sure someone's already done this, but it gave me joy, hahaha.

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Abigail is everything 💜

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Sam.

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I love Sebastian 🐸

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I've been super obsessed with Stardew Valley over the past two years as a coping mechanism...

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how to draw arms ? ? 

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how do you consistently draw the same character without it looking weird or off every different time?? also how do i coordinate faces, i always make the eyes too far apart or too big or too small or make the mouth too close to the nose or chin edge. If you have any advice I'd really appreciate it since it looks like you have your art shit figured out 🙏

Oh man SO so much of it is just practice, and you're not alone! I honestly think everyone struggles with a sort of "generification" of their characters' features the more they draw them, even seasoned professionals. There's a tendency to just sort of average everything out into an unrecognizable mush over time, and it takes a lot of conscious effort to push back against that.

Here are a couple tips and tricks that I've found to be helpful over the years:

Make turnarounds and model sheets. There's a reason animation/game studios do this, and it is because we are all still bad at drawing a consistent face. Despite being gainfully employed. What are we, graphic novelists?? We wish. Anyway it's a great way to familiarize yourself with your character's face from multiple angles, and it gives you a single source of truth to return to anytime you need a refresher:

Gather real-life reference. Anytime I'm designing a character I'm pulling together a ton of reference of actual people who look, to some degree, like the character in my head. It's always a collection of analogues, never just a single person, but it can be a great cheat sheet for understanding how your character might move, emote, etc:

Make a 3D model. I know it seems daunting, but with the advent of programs like Blender and Nomad Sculpt it's becoming remarkably more accessible. Heck, even James Gurney was sculpting maquettes out of clay for Dinotopia back in the day! It doesn't have to be particularly detailed—just a sort of proportionate lump will do—but it's another great way to have dynamic reference that you can rotate and light accordingly:

Practice, practice, practice. Make expression sheets for your character! Either right there on the spot, just start drawin' expressions, or you can slowly collect drawings of your character that you like, as you draw them, and compile them all in one place for your own reference. Need to draw your character's head from a weird angle? Maybe you've already drawn it before and you can copy your own homework! Doesn't count as stealing when the call's coming from inside the house 😎

I'd love to pretend there's a magical point where you can just immediately rotate your character's head in your brain like some sort of photorealistic apple in a twitter meme, but a lot of the time it's reference, hard work, and whole lotta repetition. 😐👍🏼

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My friend, Kris, has the best outfits. I had to draw our boy Martin dressed as them when I saw their latest outfit.  

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I’m Baaaack...

I mean, I never left, I just kept forgetting to log into THIS account. My super secret account has been active all these years. ANYWAY... Hi!

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I love the idea of Spock being super queer, highly expressive and very emotional from a Vulcan view point. Like...

What humans see:

What Vulcans see:

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I needed to paint Geralt’s ‘horse girl’ moment from @avengeful-bunny‘s absolutely wonderful Hallmark-style Witcher (Jaskier/Geralt) fanfic, “Christmas Downhill”. Check out the fic if you like a good time. This illustration is approximately 8.5 x 11 inches done in inks and watercolours. 

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Sometimes you must humour your demon… RedBubble | Society6 | DA Portfolio | Instagram | Commissions

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actually you will not enjoy hearing this but you literally have to abandon your self deprecating humor. besides the fact that it can drive people away you literally are only hurting yourself by constantly making jokes that further cement the idea in your head that you are not good enough. I do not care that you think its a good coping mechanism it is absolutely not and you need to start challenging negative thoughts instead of feeding into them.