How I Did The Mosaic Effect

E.J Sue’s “Mechaforce” is one of the few “How to Draw” books I would point newbies looking to get into drawing robots to. It emphasises knowing the basics (Very difficult to draw a robot properly if you can’t use perspective) and fundamental shapes and even arm techniques, and gives a neat insight into how mechanical forms work in art. 

These are just a few of the examples from the anatomy section of the book. It’s currently on sale on Amazon and worth checking out, though I will note it is not a “be all end all” resource, thankfully you can fill in your knowledge gaps elsewhere. 

Hi there I am a person trying to learn art but I was wondering if you could make a endo sketch of a person please and could you make a mans body bc I am not very good at it it would be really help full plus it doesn’t have to be the best work you’ve ever made just a nice endo sketch please

okay hahhahah

actually, those are the only things I remember while drawing and I am so used to them that I'm not even sure if I use them at all XD

But yea! Here you go! If you want me to draw a female body, I can do that too uwu

✧ simple tips for how I draw full beards ✧

[ I don’t take tutorial requests, so please don’t ask for more! ]

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Here's my guide to how I draw fat masc bodies! (please keep in mind that this is not an in depth tutorial. I only put the information that explains how my brain interprets it)

ok heres a small thing for drawing freckles bc i keep seeing artists just putting dots wherever they Feel Like It and as a freckly boy i feel Personally Attacked

try to avoid putting frecks on places that clothes would go a lot

dont space them evenly 

dont draw freckles on a Fresh Born Baby 

thank u for ur time

i wanted to practice portraits from photos ;_; but i ended up colorpicking a lot 

photo: ashley moore (i think)

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.

im a bad advice giver but in case anyone finds this handy?

The way you draw men is really good, I noticed in your post where you drew some of the trolls as gems. How do you go about constructing a male body? What's your sketching process? You also give Eridan an interesting face shape to accommodate his glasses. I'm very curious about your sketch process and your art in general!

Thank you!

I scribbled a quick thing to show you how I generally think when I draw… Disclaimer, my style is quite stylized, so in no way is my art accurate to real life nor should be used as a source material for accurate anatomy. 😂 Rather, this is a tutorial on how I conceptualize the human body when I draw it…

Usually when i draw bodies (not just masculine types), I usually conceptualize the torso into three “chunks.” What’s important about how to conceptualize these though, is understanding the volumetric shapes these take on and also where these chunks “end.”

Below is an example of my take of a muscular body type with a strong triangular silhouette. The goal below was to emphasize on a strong, confident, and yet also appealing stature. I also put my emphasis on things I find personally attractive lol \o/

The red area encompasses the general shoulder and breast area.

The green area is an indicator for the rib cage. (In some instances it would be better to draw the rib cage first because breasts overlap the ribcage.)

The blue area encompasses the rest of the stomach area. Technically the pelvic bone rises a bit higher into this area too, but for the sake of simplification to understand the basic shapes didn’t draw it in the above example.

Here’s how it generally applies to some other body types!

I don’t always draw like this sometimes, but i think it’s a good start on how to conceptualize the body into simpler shapes.

Also, for much more lanky body types, I tend to simplify them moreso since they don’t need as much definition on muscle structure.

Please do remember it’s better to understand how to simplify the human body after doing studies of anatomy from real life!! I can’t emphasize enough how important studies are

As for how I draw faces, I’ll save that for topic for a rainy day 😂 Hope this helps!

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