Having troubles with facial angles in your drawing style?
Try a 3D sculpture of your art in your own style in a free program that is simple and very easy to use.
The program is called Sculptris and is a free off-shoot program from Zbrush, that program that you keep hearing about but either takes selling your kidneys or piracy to actually use.
If you download it and sculpt out a facial model, you can have references for your own work for all of time. No more endlessly searching Google for reference materials or twisting/rotating/flipping a drawing to see if there are flaws. And you can easily edit it to create more facial types. This way, you can make character references for any and every face and facial angle that you can think of.
The program offers mirroring right from the start, so your faces will be perfectly symmetrical. You can turn off the symmetry for things like scars or otherwise.
It takes a little time. For instance, I downloaded the program on Christmas and, in my spare time, this took a few days of getting familiar with the program (first day) and then sculpting for a few minutes each day, mostly due to my perfectionist nature. And this one isn’t even done. I still have to mold the mouth, ears, and other smaller aspects before I consider it done. However, I was so giddy over the possibilities that I wanted to share this with my fellow artists.
From now on, I have reference for a face in my own style and will be able to create things so much easier in the future.
I hope that this helps you guys and that you have fun with it.
Because i had a really bad week and need to vent on it a bit. People keep asking me for a new expression meme sheet and here you go after all those years. You can use it or not use it as you like QwQ just pls credit me. Thanks :3
five steps for not writing a boring story? i can never ever write something that doesn't end up boring 😂
Hiya! Thanks for your question. Writing an engaging story is complicated, but it can be done.
First off, there are so many aspects to writing a gripping story. Honestly, it can’t be done in five steps (and certainly not in one blog post). To prevent a boring story you need strong characters, an exciting plot, good pacing… the list goes on and on.
So rather than type out a 3000+ word response, I’m going to give you a mini-masterpost of the key aspects of writing a non-boring story with links to other LGF posts. Here you go:
How Not to Write a Boring Story:
Descriptions:
How to Write Better Descriptions
Showing vs Telling
How to Create Interesting World-Building
Dialogue:
How to Create a Unique Character Voice
Writing Unique Dialogue
How to Prevent Your Story from Being Dialogue-Heavy
Characters:
What Do You Do When Your Main Character Doesn’t Jump Off the Page?
Three Types of Character Traits
Writing Character Arcs
Plot:
How to Make Your Conflict Less Plain
The Element Every Story Needs
How to Avoid Unnecessary Scenes
Pacing:
Why Your Story Feels Too Fast
How to Pace a Scene More Quickly
Pacing Through Details
Beginning:
What to Write in a First Chapter
How to Avoid Info Dumps in the Beginning
10 Ways to Start Your Story
Middle:
How to Build-Up to a Climax
Plotting the Middle
Creating and Maintaining Tension
End:
Traits of a Strong Ending
Examples of Narrative Endings
Dual Duties of Chapter Endings
Misc.:
What Aspects Make a Good Story?
The Four Horsemen of the Bore-Apocalypse
Thanks again for your question! If you need any more writing advice, feel free to send in another ask! Happy writing!
- Mod Kellie
If you need advice on general writing or fanfiction, you should maybe ask us!
do you think we as a society can finally acknowledge that “this thing didn’t have a name until recently” doesn’t necessarily mean “this thing did not exist until recently” or (worse) “this thing doesn’t exist at all”
Where do you find anatomy references? I can never find any good ones
I have a Pinterest just for this!! It’s open to public and I never go anywhere else to find references (because Pinterest is just too good to me ww) so feel free to peruse my whole account to find whatever you need! Here are the anatomy specific boards that I have:
(Potential nudity warning for almost all of them, pretty much!)
We’re only finding out recently that a lot of animals have colors and patterns that we cannot see because they’re outside of our visual range. It calls to attention how much of the world we can’t experience because our senses are limited.
When we shine UV lights on them, they glow pink or blue, but these are the colors that we CAN see…. they could be a bunch of different colors, which we SEE as all pink.
It’s also interesting to consider that most of these animals are not aware of having glowing patches on their bodies…. isn’t it also possible that we have skin or hair patterns that were not aware of?
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(There is actually some research out there to support the idea that our own skin fluoresces as well and that there are gender differences in the pattern and glow.)
Other places to see my posts:
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Natural Black Hair Tutorial!
Usually Black hair is excluded in the hair tutorials which I have seen so I have gone through it in depth because it’s really not enough to tell someone simply, “Black hair is really curly, draw it really curly.”
The next part of Black Hair In Depth will feature styles and ideas for designing characters and I will release it around February. If you would like to see certain styles, please shoot me a message!