Wire Tutorial For A Friend

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!

A compilation of stuff I know about drawing Asian faces and Asian culture! I feel like many “How-To-Draw” tutorials often default to European faces and are not really helpful when drawing people of other races. So I thought I’d put this together in case anyone is interested! Feel free to share this guide and shoot me questions if you have any! I’m by no means an expert, I just know a few things from drawing experience and from my own cultural background. 

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)

hey so i looove body horror monster stuff .. and i noticed u do too.. i wanna draw stuff like that but i always end up unhappy with it, SO do u have any good blogs/things for inspiration/tips and also what kind of body horror monsters r ur faves and what kind of stuff do u like to see in that kind of art... write me a paragraph idc i just want inSPIRATION thanks <3

http://guydavisart.tumblr.com/http://deadwooddross.tumblr.com/http://dimetrodrawn.tumblr.com/http://empartridge.tumblr.com/are all good artists for body horror… I would also look up some of the monsters in things like guillermo del toro’s movies and more recent cartoons like steven universe/ adventure time/ over the garden wall

a lot of 80s horror has a lot of good body horror, see movies like The Thing, The Gate, The Company of Wolves, etc.

I would also look at horror movies for a younger audience as they tend to rely more on surrealism and body horror due to not being able to show a lot of blood

(limbs that are just way too long are /great/ by the way)video games imo tend to have pretty good creature design compared to movies, especially ones with simpler graphics. I really like the amalgamates in undertale, for instance:

(the endogeny is a really good example of ‘less is more’… a lot of times, a lack of features, like no eyes or a face that’s just a hole is much more unnerving than adding way too many eyes and spikes)

The designs also take advantage of a minimalistic art style to let the viewer make up some of the body horror… it’s hard to make sense of where everything begins and ends here, and given the character is a melting mutation, the negative space + vagueness is really effective

OFF also has some really nice monster designs… it also takes advantage of a lack of features (most creatures have no or blank eyes) as well as giving a lot of the creatures too many teeth, which always looks scary and wrong imo. Especially if they’re drawn crowded instead of spaced outlower poly monsters are also weird and nasty, possibly because their lack of more than like three angles makes them look super uncanny. there’s just something about flat surfaces + textures…:

human features on non human things are really cool:

people hands on something that’s just terrible and monstrous is just so gross and fun. hands are the worst. teeth are good too. with the second picture here, asymmetry is also adds a lot to the design; it’s very clearly not a natural creaturealso look at real world animals if you can! a lot of fish are weird, things like pink river dolphins and naked mole rats are pretty freaky looking.. leopard seals and their mouths… cordyceps on insects…but yeah, I think the best things you can do with body horror personally is exaggerate features (really jutting necks are super weird, for instance) and pick traits you think look horrific (a lot of people don’t like clusters of holes in the skin, teeth where they shouldn’t be, etc.)

A small guide for people who struggle with this area

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

I don’t really think I’m that good at anatomy (or females) but this is quite a popular request so… I’m making a tutorial, and this is the part to show you what NOT to do with your fellow humans. More coming… eventually.

I suck at breast variations, but I try; see this page for awesome references: x

Hi! Made an incredibly quick and easy to comprehend guide because you freaks need it tbh. Image quality kinda sucks but whatever, you get it. Stop putting yellowface on my dash.