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.
Hi!! I absolutely love your colors and wanted to ask how you color skin tone :0!! I love how you shade it sm and would love to know how you do it!!! ❤️
HIII i thought i'd make this little tutorial to illustrate my thought process c:
we're starting off with grayscale because i place form sculpting and values above colors...
that's basically it! though, when dealing with different skin tones (both realistic and fantasy-based) i usually make the first layer of shadows a little more colourful to make the transition a bit more visually interesting/appealing
here's some more examples:
hope this was clear! i mentioned some tips in a post here too :]
do you have a reference/tutorial for the way you draw teeth??
I kinda just freehand it myself since i got it memorized but i made one for ya- i hope it’s alright;;v;!!
hylictober day 4: least favorite enemy
it's not that i hate them, but i swear, when that lil shit calls for help
morty how the heck do you draw top heavy bodies (kinda like kuins) because its hell 2 me
OK SO THIS IS LATE AND IM BAD AT EXPLAINING SO I JUST SCREENSHOT’D MY PROCESS
FIRST, GET YOURSELF SOME MOOD MUSIC
BASE SKETCH: I don’t usually draw what’s in red there, but this is your basic inverted triangle shape. Basically, as long as you make sure the shoulders create an exaggerated silhouette that highlights the waist, you’re doing the top heavy thing right. Generally, you don’t wanna shrink the waist too much or else it looks REALLY weird, so if you want to exaggerate the shape more, try to focus more on the arms and shoulders. Keep the hips narrow.
LINING SHIT. Add some core muscles to actually support all that up top. I like making the pecs particularly pointy just to drive home the triangle thing.
It’s ya boi
hii i saw some tutorials floating around on avoiding same face so i wanted to share how i do it! heres something quick :’D
I get asked a lot for tips with coloring black people, so i put together a little tutorial! (and bumps my kofi if you found this helpful)
You should make more of these tutorials! They are very helpful :3
Well… I once made a torso tutorial.
black panther was released in theaters less than half a week ago (2/19) and i’ve already seen the main characters with white features and people making the characters too light and you absolute buffoons have let these posts blow up so im here’s a post on how to avoid bleaching black characters
skin color reference lip reference lip/nose/hair reference
if you want to take a skin color reference do not play by eye use this bitch right here
i wish this was obvious but if the source is an edited picture say like this
don’t use that source. it’s best to use a source where there is more natural light or you can look up the actor/actress and get a solid picture of them. also take note of what kind of facial features these characters have (nose, lips, etc) by looking at stills or posters of them. not all of these characters have slim noses or smaller lips.
i know this is going to be a new experience for people drawing black characters so if you make a mistake, learn from it especially if it’s from a black person. get the okay from black people before posting. you’ll get better with time and practice. this isn’t a “let people draw them the way they want” thing because this movie respects african and black cultures like how they put so much effort into the costumes and i really would not hurt to respect black people
feel free to post more sources
(non-black artists please reblog)