Nap Time!
It’s been a minute since i’ve done one of these big sketch book updates here, mainly because I’m more than a little concerned about getting flagged under Tumblrs new adult content terms.
Unfortunately, many of my previous posts have been flagged and removed under the same criteria that a pornographic post would be removed.
To be clear, I don’t consider anything I draw pornographic, or even especially adult in nature. I don’t fill these sketchbook pages with anything I would think that anyone would find sexual in nature. There is a huge difference between a nude figure and sexual nudity and lumping those two things into the same category is in my humblest of opinions, totally bonkers.
How is it ok for me to draw someone being decapitated but a simple representation of a nipple is somehow nsfw and offensive?
Weird.
With this in mind, you can still find high resolution images from my sketchbook here:
and I update my instagram with semi-regularity:
I hope this stays up long enough to be useful!
Have a great weekend,
-Alex
necromancier-deactivated2019120
Anonymous asked:
by any chance could you do a lil tutorial/process of how you draw limbs in different poses? esp. legs/thighs, your legs always look so jaunty and charming i love it but i never know what to, ,, ,,, do with mine, like where to put them so
Okay! I’m going to try to answer this best I can, but before I do, please remember I am just a humble animation student and by no means a professional artist or a seasoned expert, so this might not be the correct way to do things or be extremely accurate. This is just how I do it, and a couple tips I’ve picked up from teachers at school.
First of all, getting familiar with the anatomy of legs helps a lot! (I know this is the dreaded answer to every art question) I don’t know too much about the muscles of the legs other than the basics, so I don’t talk about them here because I don’t want to look like an idiot. They’re very worth studying though, especially the muscles that form the inside of the thigh and back of the calf.
Those are some leg studies I did from life in class last year, with the key parts labelled.
Chances are you’ve tried to draw legs and??
Unless you’re going for a certain style, legs that look like straight tubes or 90 degree angles are gonna look a bit weird.
As you can see with the life drawings above, legs have certain natural curves and rhythms to them! None of the bones in the legs are straight or tubular, so your legs should not be either.
Sorry for the really mediocre pelvis it’s not my strong suit oh god. It’s easy to characterize the legs as something like this:
Remembering that the knee is a hinge joint and that it has a sort of curved offset from the upper leg to the lower leg really helps.
So when you keep that offset in mind and apply some curves over the muscle and fat layered on top of those BEAUTIFULLY RHYTHMIC bones, you get dynamic flow in your legs. The hip (trochanter), kneecap (patella) and ankle (fibula/tibia malleolus) are good landmarks to keep in mind.
So by applying some curves, you get a softer/more dynamic/rhythmic feel to the legs that makes your figure look a lot less static even if they are standing entirely still. It’s also worth noting most people shift their weight onto one hip or another, position their feet weirdly, etc etc.
Hope that helps!
Wait, wait…. Is that seriously it? How their clothes go?
that genuinely is it
yeah hey whats up bout to put some fucking giant sheets on my body
childrentalking
lets bring back sheetwares
also chlamys:
and exomis:
fightthemane
trust the ancients to make a fashion statement out of straight cloth and nothing but pins
Wrap Yourself In Blankets, Call It a Day
awhiffofcavendish
Wear blanket. Conquer world.
That last one looks dope
the chlamys is more of a dick-almost-out look
Sample pages from Dante, Héctor and Miguel’s model sheets. This was the Bible for the Animators who were animating these characters. (Via @leeunkrich on twitter)
How to Draw a Damn Fine Ass Top Image, Row 5 & 6 Row 2: Drawing People by Barbara Bradley Row 3 Row 4 Row 5 Bottom Image
cassandrashipsit
I don’t even draw, I just like booty.
rootbeersweetheart
Same.
dconthedancefloor
Found some hands tutorial by me
Not in English but hope it will help???????
My friend @nuclear333 asked me how I shaded hair and I promised her a hair shading tutorial, which of course became a hair…everything…tutorial.
Lots of great tutorials have already been been made on the subject so here’s me throwing in my own two cents. The usual disclaimers apply: this is how I think of hair when I draw it, and is by absolutely no means the only way, or even necessarily a correct way, to do it. I’m always happy to hear about how others approach the same subject!
Winners of the Storyboard Artist Brushes and Character Designer Toolkit Brush Selection set from the Follow/Reblog giveaway of June/July.
http://art-of-guiff.tumblr.com/ http://pink-pastel-world.tumblr.com/ http://hlobato.tumblr.com/ http://crocodilejaw.tumblr.com/ http://b-rekks.tumblr.com/ http://yurikobet.tumblr.com/ http://tamparties.tumblr.com/ http://redartwork.tumblr.com/ http://flufens.tumblr.com/ http://knotwyrks.tumblr.com/ http://toiling-lad.tumblr.com/ http://buketpam.tumblr.com/ http://blackphantombro.tumblr.com/ http://taochris.tumblr.com/ http://drayldan.tumblr.com/ http://quailtopia.tumblr.com/ http://artmorons.tumblr.com/ http://marceltrindade.tumblr.com/
Thank You!!
oh yea!
i had a poll on DA so i will be doing basic how to stuff of the results
Anonymous asked:
could you explain how you give clothes so much volume/life?? i suck rly bad at drawing clothes w/o them looking like body paint or just draped over-- the way you do it gives it a lot of dimension and believability. also any tips on how to draw the same outfit in twisted poses?? (turning at the hip, bending over, etc) THANK U I LOVE UR ART SFM!!!
notice the tension of the cloth on the figure on the top right. it twists to the figures direction.
here are some examples of cloth folds
hopefully this helps!! please let me kno if you have any other questions!!
So difficulty with posing is usually a symptom of another underlying problem.
I’ll focus on poses for now, and I’ll discuss framing in another post!
Problem one:
Lack of a solid gesture.
I shan’t talk too much about this, as there’s a fantastic video series by stan prokopenko about gesture & figure drawing that you can find here! :
and you can find more on the subject in my gesture tag here:
Problem two:
You need to reframe your thinking!
Posing is a word that brings to mind picking up a toy to arrange its limbs into a certain position, or asking a fashion model to stand in a way that shows off all their clothes, etc. Ultimately, it’s a very stiff and lifeless word about putting something into a static position, and it’s not how I’d recommend approaching your art!
Instead you want to think about how your subjects are acting - they’re living, breathing characters, and you’re just catching a snapshot of them while they are doing something. The image you’re drawing may be still, but the character inside it is not.
This is especially important in comics and sequential media, but even in a single image you want to think about what your subject is doing, how they’re feeling, and how you want to convey this.
Consider your character’s body language, and when drawing a conversation think about how your character gesticulates.
It’s not uncommon in animation to get up and physically act out what you want to animate. It’s good practice, it’s easier to understand what you’re drawing if you do it yourself!
I recommend studying films and paying close attention to how the characters are acting. try watching a single scene a few times, and watch how the characters express themselves.
For example, watch this clip from kung fu panda 3!
It’s just 12 seconds, but pay attention to how the characters act. If I were to make this into a comic page it’d probably look something like this:
Do you see how the characters’ acting informs the still poses :?
For some further reading you can find some posts about body language in this tag: http://helpfulharrie.tumblr.com/tagged/body%20language
as well as a post i wrote last year about making poses dynamic: http://helpfulharrie.tumblr.com/post/146669907351/do-you-have-any-personal-tips-for-making-and-poses
And an exercise I would highly recommend doing is this body language one: https://paraparano.deviantart.com/art/Body-Language-Meme-182498610
It’s like those expression memes, but instead you’re focusing on the whole figure!
Also, when thinking about your characters’ acting, don’t forget about how they might interact with props or things in their environment!
Part of the problem might be that they don’t feel grounded in the scene, leading you to feel like something is lacking. Roger rabbit is a fantastic example of how to ground characters in an environment:
The toons obviously aren’t real, but they feel like they’re tangible and inside the scene because they pick up props, physically interact with people, smash into tables, and just generally leave a real impact on the world around them.
Try remember to show how your characters are interacting with the things around them to really sell their acting! Best of luck, I hope this helps!!
Tuesday Tips - The Mask Helps to figure out the shape of eyes in perspective by thinking of its surrounding area instead of guessing it. -Norm #tuesdaytips #100tuesdaytips #grizandnorm #themask #drawingtutorial #drawingtips #arttutorial
Anonymous asked:
When doing full body sketches do you use shapes for different body parts? (I.e triangles for the torso, circles for the face, etc.) If so, could you show us how one could use said shapes to get their anatomy right? Thanks!
lucky you, my latest figure drawings have just been posted so i feel like i can use them for my explanation here!!
above all: THINK IN THREE DIMENSIONS, NOT JUST FLAT SHAPES. THE CONTURE/ANGLE IS VERY IMPORTANT!! THE RIB CAGE WITH SHOW THE ANGLE UR BODY IS AT THE MOST!!
Caryatids holding up lights at the entrance to a theater. . Materials and documents of architecture and sculpture. v3. 1915.
Useful if this is how you think, though often I don’t see the outline until after the draft is written, because after awhile one just internalize this kind of stuff from all the media one ingests. Point is, use if helpful, ignore if not.
Another suggestion for anyone interested: because one of my weaknesses as a writer is sustaining narrative momentum, I’ve recently started using this mystery novel breakdown as a template, even though mystery/detective isn’t the genre I write in. It’s really useful as a way to keep track of what the story needs at a given moment in terms of balance and character.
Source: helpingwritersbecomeauthors.com