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A long time ago an anon asked my thoughts about drawing backgrounds, so I finally got around to putting this together. It’s more prop-centric, but it still represents my philosophy to backgrounds. 

I’ll try to do something more about drawing actual background spaces in the future! Please let me know what you think, if anything is unclear, or if you have suggestions for other tutorials you might find helpful!

Hey sorry to bother, tumblr mobile is hot garbage and I was looking for something specific you posted a while back. It was a post with some tips for drawing I think outfits, and I honestly only remember a bit I think you said basically pick where you want more details to be focused?? With example like simple top+detailed bottom and vice versa. Sorry if that's a weird or bothersome ask? U don't gotta answer obv. Maybe I imagined the post or smth. I was just wondering if by chance u could reblog

i couldnt find it either but i think you might mean this stuff

enjoy

i wanted to update my VERY OLD nose tutorial now that ive learned how to draw! as always, this isn’t an all encompassing guide– just a jumping off point for practice@

Wobble Tutorial

Someone asked for a tutorial on how I make my art wobble like in the above gif, so that’s what this is! It’s not very hard, all you need is a drawing program with layers, preferably Photoshop or another one with animation capabilities, but if you don’t have one, you can just export the frames individually as jpgs or pngs and compile them in another program or online gif maker. I’ll be using Photoshop in this tutorial because that’s the program I use.

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Hi mani ! I started to draw recently and not very sure of my talent I want to improve ,got any tips for me ? Have a lovely day ❤💕

Hello~ and thank you, wish you a wonderful day, dear 🌟

I wanna preface this by saying I’m self-taught, so I probably lack so much of the basics, heh. Everything I say here is based on my personal experience!

Love that you’re eager 💪🔥

It’s a fairly wide range, art is, I don’t know what you want to accomplish in it or what to say to guide you in specific terms, but since you came to me I’ll assume that drawing characters is in your list of interest at least, and I’ll gladly give you general pointers to how to go about it— like in your thought process indulging in drawing.

 The first and the most important thing about drawing for me is to enjoy it. If you don’t, it’s frustration, and that probably will not encourage you to get better or have you tolerate the tedious parts of it, heh. Enjoy what you do right now, and never worry because the next one will be always better just simply because of practice, e.x. you’d be training your hands to do certain strokes easier and faster and overall shape your ability. I like to show you my first character, the first masterpiece I considered and still it’s counts as one— I enjoyed the fudge of it, I remember how I was proudly making his eyes mixture of lilac and blue.

Medo, the linker of fairies, 14 years apart from newest in 2018

 Don’t be intimidated to do what you really want no matter how hard it looks, if you like it enough you’ll be always on the search for a way to execute. Again, by continuance practice, you automatically train yourself and get better at it, rather than just setting it on a stool and considering it above your abilities. It’s as simple as if you don’t start doing it, you won’t get anywhere with it.

 Use tons of reference of things you like, don’t be afraid to, you need a base to start. And please be wary of credit rights and so on.

 You can draw anywhere, take as long as you like. You don’t have to set a limitation of time and place to do it, I know I have always done so and it never helped me to do much, but if you function in reverse, set yourself a time and prepare the place to do so, set the mood 🌟

 Remember that you don’t need to know how to draw everything to make art. That being said; the more you know the better you can deliver the image and form it the way you wanted. So it’s all about choosing what you want to make, really.

 Don’t be discouraged by other people’s views of your piece if you did not expect it, if anything they can be a fresher set of eyes that may spot something you have never noticed (Such as me and not noticing drawing Sev in heels, heh). And remember there’s a massive difference between constructive criticism and rudeness when you find yourself confronted with a situation using the term criticism to justify rudeness. Either way, it lies with you to give it real weight, try to always take from them what inspires you to be better💛

Your art process is yours, not the others’. What works for some might not work for others, and there are always other ways to do it and much to explore and find out. You can have a comfort zone and you can step outside it whenever it suits you.

Now to the actual art advice, I can split them into three broad sections: A good structure, need to learn and observe body’s and shape’s anatomy. Understand basic color theories and how to choose what harmonise with each other. And lastly, inspiration! And you can find all your needs in the endless art tutorials online.

Here are random simple artistic tips about characters that I do:

• Try to distinguish your character with basic shapes for their facial features. Example; Juicy has an oval face, square nose, narrow eyes. Severus has a sort of a triangle face and a triangle nose as well. Albus has a square face and a broken arrow nose, and so one. The same goes for the rest of the body parts.

• Color, hot with cold background, cold with hot background! I made an old post about it here. It gives an easy satisfying look to your piece if you try and include the character with the background.

• Just go wild cuz honestly 57% of the time I don’t know what I’m doing, hehehe

I’m sorry if that’s not the thorough answer you looking for and I hope this helps you in any way.

Hiya how do you draw arms crossed over?

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!!!

Do you have any advice for maintaining a celebrity's likeness in a drawing without compromising your art style? When I try to draw real people they look completely different from how they should be and my art style ends up totally skewed as well. Thanks in advance!

This is a tough skill to develop! but with some hard work and research you’ll be able to do it!!!

 My recommendation is to study professional caricature! Even if the end goal isn’t to do exaggerated crazy portraits of the the celebrity, studying the art form can help you learn to apply those concepts more subtly in your own style! 

The key element of caricature is studying a persons face and looking for what makes them unique or different from the ‘standard’ anatomical face model, eg how do their proportions stray away form the ‘rules’.

once you take note of these things experiment by exaggerating them in different ways through quick thumbnail sketches 

thumbnails by Court Jones for Proko.com

They might not look like the person right away but keep experimenting! trial and error is your friend!!!

(for more info on Caricature the Proko youtube channel has a whole in depth series by Court Jones the artist above!  I  Highly recommend checking it out and the other lecture series the channel!)

Once you have done this research you can apply it to your style and design the celebrity just like the design team on Netflix’s BoJack Horseman designed Character actress Margo Martindale! She and many other celebrity cameo’s on the show look like themselves but also like they belong in the world of the show!

The final thought I want to leave you with is: don’t worry too much about art style or let it get in the way of learning new ways to draw. There is a lot of pressure on the internet to find your own unique art style and have everything be consistent all the time but this thinking can actually get in the way of your artistic growth if you focus on it too much or to early. 

I Personally dont care about consistency at all in my art, I design the style of the drawing based on the project (eg. am I  going to animate this character, is it an illustration, what age group am I targeting? what Genre? if you want to see examples of this I have plenty on my instagram)

I have a lot of feelings on the topic of art styles but I dont want this post to be essay length or take me a week to write so please watch this video by Kesh on youtube about it : Stop Trying to Find Your Art Style He talks about this issue way more clearly and concisely then I ever could!

Hope this Helps!!! 

-Mod Todd (ko-fi) 

Symbols and Signs: Flowers

Sometimes by using flowers we can convey messages about a character and their motives. Meanings behind plants can differ by country or region and some can be completely different. Using flower symbols is a subtle and poetic way to say things. Like instead of saying Trump is wanker, you can describe him as holding Aconite, Begonias, tansy and hollyhock. (See below for meanings)

Positive Flowers

Aloe Vera: Healing, protection, affection

Amaryllis: Pride

Anemone: Forsaken

Angelica: Inspiration

Apple blossom: Preference

Arborvitae: Unchanging friendship

Aster: Symbol of Love, Daintiness

Basil: Good wishes

Bay: Glory

Bluebell: Humility, kindness

Red carnation: admiration

White carnation: Innocence, pure love,

Pink carnation: Rememberamce

Yellow carnation: rejection

Chamomile: Patience

Cumin: Fidelity

Daffodil: Regard

Daisy: Innocence, hope

Forget-me-not: memories

Gardenia: Secret love between loves

Holly: Hopefulness

Honeysuckle: love

Hyacinth: play, rashness

Blue: Constancy of love

White: Loveliness

Ivy: Friendship

Lavender: virtue and loyalty

Lily: Beauty, freedom, death, purity, Motherhood

Oak: Strength

Roses:

red: love

pink: Happiness

White: purity, innocent, worthiness

Rosemary: Remembrance

Valerian: Readiness and calmness

Rue: Grace

Sunflower: Adoration

Thyme: Courage and strength

Violet: Loyalty, devotion, faithfulness, modesty

Yarrow: Everlasting love

Negative Flowers

Aconite (Monkshood): means ‘hatred’ and ‘be cautious’. Also poisonous.

Butterfly weed: ‘Leave me’.

Orange lilies: symbolize hatred, pride, and disdain.

Petunia: symbolizes resentment and anger.

Begonia: Beware

Cyclamen: good-bye

Hollyhock: Ambition and pride

Purple Hyacinth: Sorrow, forgiveness, regret

Yellow Hyacinth: Jealousy

Yellow Rose: jealousy, decrease of love, mourning

Dark Red Rose: Mourning a lover

Tansy: anger and hostility

Willow: Sadness

Yew: Death

If you struggle drawing heads in different angles watch this!

OMG I found this video and it is a absolute goldmine! Its filmed by a Disney story board artist and they make drawing heads in any angle easy! now granted it takes practice to get this technique down but it soooooo helps.

The video below goes into deep details.