Hi! Since U Mentioned Dreads Earlier, I Thought It Would Be A Good Time To Ask If You Have Any Tips On

Since a lot of people adviced me to improve on body variety I practiced a little bit. Loosely based on the lunar zodiac character traits to make it more fun.

I taught myself to paint because I don’t have the patience for crisp lineart and now you know how to paint too

How do I choose which details to draw in non-photorealistic art? I feel so tempted to try and draw everything, but then it looks too busy and cluttered. So many illustrators seem to have a balance of realistic proportions and stuff but not as many details

In semi-realistic styles, you have to choose what to keep and what to simplify. My advice would be to keep detail in the areas of focus (the face and the hands are good points of focus). Within the face, you also have smaller areas of focus, such as the eyes, nose, and mouth. 

If you’re having trouble with drawing TOO much detail, try this exercise:

1) Try to draw the body/object/face in as few lines as possible while still looking like the original. 

2) Then, figure out which parts look weird without the detail (the face, and eyes especially, will probably look flat or fake) and add in as much as needed. 

Also! Don’t be afraid to look at those illustrators you think are doing this well and studying where they put how much detail in their drawings. You can learn a lot from observing other artists! 

-Mod Future (ko-fi)

Figuring out some tiefling stuff so here I share. Make some tieflings they’re great.

wire tutorial for a friend

skin color ref because some of yall non-black poc and whites keep fucking up as if yall don’t know there’s other shades of brown when u racebend for woke points or something 

(non-black artists please reblog)

Horns and Antlers

took a while, but i'm mostly back on my feet and have energy again.

I received an ask a while ago about how to add horns and antlers onto a humanoid, so here are my thoughts on that:

(image description: a stock image of the human skull from four angles, front, back, side, and three quarters. Next to it, the same image faded and traced over in blue, with red circles all around the top front portion of the skull. A note on the image says, "there are lots of places you can anchor horns or antlers". end description.)

Here I have marked out some common placements for horns/antlers, and I will show them each in more detail below. The four main areas are: the brow, the center forehead, the top, and the sides of the skull.

As a general rule, horns and antler anchor directly to the skull, but they do not emerge from the skin as solid bone. There is typically a covering layer of some sort, like a keratin sheath, that starts where the horn or antler emerges from the skin. This makes horns and antlers look a bit funny when you remove the skin, because the actual bone base is thinner than the covering layer.

(Image description: same as before, with the four angles of the human skull next to traced versions of it. This time, each of the four images shows the skull with simple horns added and the skull altered to accommodate them in the four basic horn positions. Brow, sides, top, and center forehead. end description.)

Depending on the size of the horns or antlers, you may want to add more bone to the skull, or even thicken the neck bones. Bigger neck and shoulder muscles will also be important to keep the head upright with the additional weight. For horns at the brow and forehead, I've made the brow bone bigger, and for horns at the top and sides, I've made the skull a bit wider and thicker in those areas. It isn't a huge difference, and may not even be very visible on a skin layer, but it's important to be aware of.

And now I also have four sketches of how each horn/antler location would look on a person with the skin and hair in place.

(image description: four simple sketches of people from the shoulders up, in basic shaded colors. From the top left, clockwise:

A man with a mohawk and short beard, frowning. He has curved horns over his brow. A woman with long braided hair and a neutral expression. She has a single horn in the center of her forehead. A man with a beard and long unkempt hair, looking tired but happy. He has moose-like antlers on the sides of his head. An androgynous person with short hair, smiling. They have pronghorn antlers at the top of their head. end description.)

It's very easy on the sides and top of the head to cover the base of the horns/antlers by layering the hair around them. But any horns on the forehead area will be harder to cover this way. I've put thicker skin where the horns and antlers emerge, which has made the brow very heavy on the first two sketches. To balance that out, I also made their nose bridges a bit bigger and more connected to the forehead.

So I hope that helps! Horns and antlers are very fun, and they come in so many shapes.

hii i saw some tutorials floating around on avoiding same face so i wanted to share how i do it! heres something quick :’D

Hi! I've always seen you around the sonic community and I decided to see your other art and I am in love! especially with Faust! He's living in my mind rent free!

Hope you don't mind me asking, what's the secret behind how you draw paws? they look so meaty (at least Starline and Faust's) and I love it!

Hello!! Thanks to Twitter's 'For You' page I've been coming across A LOT of sonic stuff, it's quite tragic and I'm sorry /j

I'm very glad you are liking with little horrible bat man! <3 (This is not really /J, he is kind of a mix of the worst kind of people except covered in loser and gay energy) Hope you are ready to see more~ Now! Today has been an exceptionally good day so let me use my energy to whip you some simple tutorials!

There's two main ways I draw paws! I think I've given Starline both of these kinds, meanwhile Faust almost exclusively is drawn with the second method.

First, the more soft, cute type!

And then this type when I want it to be sexy or uncanny or scary (or all of the above)

Those are a bit wonky here and there, but it's a bit late right now and my wife will get mad if i let my soup get cold~ Hope those help!! If they're too small you should be able to 'right click and open the image in a new tab~

Thanks a lot for the message =D <3 Love getting those

This got big on Twitter but I never posted it here! A silly little presentation I made about drawing babies 👶