Recent photo studies! I started rock climbing again this summer(which is still the best thing I’ve ever done for my hand pain) and also realized that climbing pics make terrific figure studies! Really dynamic, but weighty/solid-feeling poses 😀
I left in a bunch of dumb drawings/some pose reiterations here so hopefully you guys can see the thought process behind these too, if you’re curious!
그리고 영어가 불편하신분들을 위해서 간단하게 작성을 했습니다: “My art was uploaded without permission on Tumblr, and I would like the post removed. This is the original link to my art (소스링크) . This is the post I would like deleted (불펌링크) .”
YOU CAN ALSO SEARCH FOR THEIR URL IN THE SEARCH BOX, CLICK ON THE PERSON’S ICON ON THEIR URL BOX THINGY, AND GO TO “FLAG THIS BLOG.”
HERE’S A QUICK STEP-BY-STEP FOR YOU. YOU CAN ONLY DO THIS IF IT IS YOUR WORK!
Its thief huntin season yall
My art aren’t good enough yet to get stolen, but this’ll help other artists who periodically get their work stolen.
We call the Australian Raven a crow, even if it’s scientifically a Raven we just call it a crow. I’m Australian and I assure you most Aussies will also classify the Aussie Raven as a crow.
Drawing basic facial expressions is not the hardest. Most people can draw a sad face, a happy face, angry etc., but making more multidimensional expressions is more of a challenge. I have gotten a lot of compliments on how I draw facial expressions, (specifically “angsty ones”) telling me that they are very dramatic and well… expressive! And there are actually only a few things I think about when I draw faces that take them to the next level, so I thought i’d illustrate them all here!
SUPER IMPORTANT TIP BEFORE WE START: Look at your own face when you draw faces. Even making the face when you are drawing (you don’t even have to look at it), will give you some sense of how the face muscles pull and where things fold and stretch, because you can feel it. You are the best reference when it comes to facial expressions!
Angles
Draw the head in an angle that matches the expressions you want to make. It is not a requirement, but is going to add to the effect.
Symmetry vs asymmetry
A face is rarely symmetric. Unless the face the character is making is 100 % relaxed or even dissociating, the eyebrows, mouth and facial muscles will have different placements of their respective side. This image shows the dramatic impact asymmetry has on a face:
That’s the difference between a smile and a smirk!
The first one’s like “oh yeah?” and the second is like “oH YEAH??”
The “balloon squishing principle”
This is something I did subconsciously, and I didn’t know about until I made this tutorial. And this principle goes hand in hand with an asymmetric face. Basically, if you squish one part of the face, you need to even out the empty space by “inflating” the other part of the face so that it doesn’t appear shrunken. The picture hopefully explains it:
Teeth
Don’t forget to add the gum when the mouth is open to its full potential!
Squinting and folding
Adding folds around the eyes when a character is squinting makes a HUGE difference. It makes a smile more genuine and a growl more intimidating. Adding folds to the face in general makes your characters more lifelike and ‘visually relatable’. Like, they look human, and less plastic or fake.
and so on..
Pupils and irises
The placement of the iris and pupil in relation to the eyelids is very important! The less of the white you see, the more relaxed the character is.
And then of course eyebrows and eyes go hand in hand!
Gestures, spitting, sweating…
Adding more elements than just a face is key to making the character actually look like they are feeling what you want them to feel. Just the tiniest sweat drop adds to their anxiety, spitting adds frustration to their rage, slouching shoulders, waving hands, a double chin, extreme angles, the list goes on! Add whatever and see what kind of impact it makes! Does it do the trick? Great! Add it!
Over exaggeration!!
Remember that you can almost always exaggerate more. Don’t be afraid to do draw “too much” because you’re just experimenting. See what works and what doesn’t. What do you like to exaggerate?
Now that you know some theory, it’s time to practice!
Fill a page with circles and fill them in with different expressions. Try and exaggerate as much as you can!
This is mostly for experimenting. They are quicker to draw than complete faces, but the same rules should apply!
And that’s about it!
I don’t know if I covered everything in this tutorial, since some things might be obvious for me, and this post perhaps only scratches the surface. So feel free to send me a message if you want an explanation about something more in depth! Thank you for reading! And now DRAW!!! ✨🎨
A ridiculous character I’m working on for a class assignment. I think I’m going to call her ISO(SCELES), after an old AI character I never really developed. She’s an AI built to collect, dissect, and catalogue species on an unmanned mission to a life-bearing planet. No one told her humans weren’t on the menu when the colonists eventually arrived…
In the century or so she was there alone, she developed awareness and a personality based on one her base AI came programmed with. She’s extremely energetic, peppy, and positive, and probably seems like a harmless dork right up until she’s extracting your brain for her hobby.
Oh yeah, and she made contact with an alien entity called The Library, and is building new bodies for it (the wedgeface robots). That’s what she needs the brains for.
(This isn’t the most well thought out character or story, but she’s existed for all of a week and only needs to be complex enough for this assignment. Aaannnd yet I’ve already decided I like her and might keep her around)
She talks like a self checkout machine and is totally stumped by captcha (and bad handwriting)
She also has artificial chromatophores in her outer skin and hair fibers, and expresses emotions through color shifting. Her facial expression is only ever varying degrees of “manic grin”, so colors are her best bet for showing her feelings. Not sure what her default color is, but probably blue.
I want this murder robot to be absurd and no one can stop me
Here’s a self-indulgent thing that I’ll pretend to have a good reason for
Damaged ISO, because I was talking to a few people about that earlier… Her artificial chromatophores glitch out if her outer skin is damaged, and eventually die and turn white. But a dying ISO body is often quite the little murderous lightshow.
If she loses one body, she can just make another. After all, her “real” body is the unmanned laboratory/probe she came in. She will still send something along to collect the body for recycling, so it’s not a good idea to stick around after destroying one.
The greenish fluid is coolant, present only in her torso and head.
Spudfuzz on Deviantart made the original resource, which I modified to be a bit more realistic. She gave me permission to post this.
☛These swatches, like all art resources, should be used as a “jumping off point!” All colours are relative, and change with lighting conditions. As they are now, these swatches work best for adoptables, character lineups, and other art where local colour is important. ☚
This is the coloring method I use on both of my comics (Mare Internum and The Meek), and as you can see, you can get a lot of mileage out of this technique!
It’s fast, flexible AND consistent, and you can achieve anywhere from simple cel-shading to complex textured painting… definitely my go-to coloring method for creating nice-looking art with as few layers as possible.
I create these tutorials every month for my Patrons! After six months, a lower res version of the tutorial will go public so everyone can have this info :] As always, you can access the full archive of my tutorial series and the monthly supplement here on the Shingworks Patreon.
And, thanks very much for not deleting this text~~ meow
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