All Colours Are Relative.

I would like to make a new bunch of tutorials… I wish I could carry out my intention. Incidentally, It’s going to be “How to draw poses by using gesture drawing method ”, 

Hey how did you do that line effect on your models? asking for a friend.

So for a simple outline the easiest thing to do is open up your properties window (which should be displayed by default on the rightmost side of the screen. It’s got all of your render and output info displayed) and go to the section marked “Post Processing” 

Open it and check the box called “Edge.” This’ll give your model a nice little outline when you render it (you can change the color by clicking on the rectangular box underneath the threshold slider) 

and that’s just a simple way to get the basic result. 

NOW if you’d like something a little more dynamic-looking, like this 

Then you’ll want to go back to the properties window and instead of clicking on “Post Processing,” click on the box marked “Freestyle” (it should be at the very bottom) 

Now, at the top of the properties window, click on the “Render Layers” tab. It’s gonna look like a stack of photos, right next to tab with the camera on it. 

Once you’ve clicked on that, scroll down to the very bottom of the window, and click on “Freestyle Line Style” 

Once you’ve opened that up, click on the “Geometry” tab. This’ll let you alter the style of the line. 

and now you can add your modifiers! There are a lot of different styles to choose from, so don’t be afraid to experiment with them! “Sinus Displacement” makes a sort of zigzag pattern, “Blueprint” adds in some fancy circles, and “Spatial Noise” or “Polygonization” will typically get you that sort of loose, sketchy look if that’s what you’re going for. 

blender is pretty neat, huh! 

My best friend and I were talking sigma anatomy (since idk how to draw him) so I doodled over this for future reference, red is her and blue is me

BioShock Resource Masterpost

Due to multiple requests I’ve decided to collect all the free BioShock material I’ve shared under one post for ease of access. Because of size restrictions, some will have to be downloaded to be read, but I hope you enjoy anyways!

BioShock Artbooks

Breaking the Mold: The Art of Bioshock

Deco Devolution: Art of Bioshock 2

Art of Bioshock Infinite

If you like the physical books better, you can buy them here: The Art Of Bioshock Infinite & Deco Devolution: The Art of BioShock 2. The art book for the original Bioshock is very rare and expensive.

BioShock Novelizations & Original Pitch Document

BioShock: Rapture (eBook) (audiobook)

BioShock Infinite: Mind In Revolt (Spanish edition)

BioShock: First Person Action Horror  

If you’d like a store-bought copy better, you can them here: BioShock Infinite: Mind In Revolt & BioShock: Rapture eBook or audiobook.

Extended Resources

Artbook Masterlist: All non-BioShock artbooks I’ve collected

If you’re worried about the downloads being infected/bugged or whatever don’t be- I bought them legally and am putting them up on a private google docs for easy access.

bestie can we get an egg tutorial please? no one is doing it like u…..

for sure!! here's a process video and some steps along the way!

first you wanna get yourself a little reference, but as you can see i mostly just use it for inspiration, shape, and base colors. i'm not looking to recreate it realistically. after i get the lines and base colors down i just start slapping MORE colors on that bad boy!! (no blending!!!!) i like to add bits of the background color and whatever color is going to be in the other egg im drawing (in this case it was green) which you can see in the circle around the yolk, which is just a stylistic choice.

umm what else... you gotta make sure to add that pepper... oh and i like to add a lighter version of the background around the white highlights (the highlights are the only place i use pure white and i only accent them with another color sparingly)

hope this helps!!!

so playing andromeda and drawing kaleans got me thinkin’ on another minor complaint i have about ME and it’s this:

dang they can’t figure out how to make digitigrade legs work on a humanoid character and they end up adding extra joints to the legs to try to make it make sense

like i watched the animation cycle of that angara working out at the resistance camp and when he started doing crunches and his legs made an M shape i was just like smdh

i mean i think they handle it better with the angara since they have those weird little hand-feet (angara are so cute i cannot stand it) but the worst offender is probably the salarians

anyway i love the concept of humanoids with digitigrade legs so here’s some notes about it. it’s not beautifully formatted or anything but maybe it’s helpful!

basically the main thing to get out of your mind is that you’re not going for “backwards knees.” i am sure backwards knees could work and would be an interesting design, but it’s gonna change how this character moves and sits, it’s gonna affect the character’s center-of-gravity, it’s gonna be a much bigger overhaul of the anatomy than creating a digitigrade leg requires.

when you’re thinking of a digitigrade leg as having backwards knees, it’s probably because the joint you’re thinking of as the knee is actually the ankle

both plantigrade and digitigrade legs will have four major points of articulation: the hip the knee the ankle the toes and a digitigrade leg isn’t a plantigrade leg backwards, but on its tiptoes:

that’s basically all you gotta do! then you exaggerate the effects by changing the proportions of the leg, starting with making the knee-ankle length shorter, and the ankle-toe length longer.

the benefit of drawing digitigrade characters like this is that they can sit in chairs without looking ridiculous!

and finally, if your character doesn’t have paws or hooves or talons, they probably want to wear shoes! hell, even if they do they still might wear shoes. the ground is nasty! think this through and let it be another cool design opportunity. a good place to start if you’re stuck is looking at wedge heels, then drawing them without the heel!

aaaand here’s some aliens

now get outta here and draw some weird-ass legs aight

they took my best friend…

he’s in the forest.

eerie crests, a webcomic by @littlestpersimmon! it’s so cool yall go check it out!

high quality expression references with varied facial types

For the anon who asked me about tips on drawing faces, hope this helps!

Some fun Susie sketches