I Got The Opportunity To Do The End Credit Animations On Powerpuff Girls…just Did Something Fun And

@curdalert, asked me a few weeks ago,  “How do you approach figure drawing?” While this isn’t really figure drawing in the traditional sense. This is just me trying to show how I see the human form, how I simplify things for myself to understand it enough to move past all the bullshit and difficulty of drawing. I’m by no means an expert on anatomy. I don’t know all the ins and outs of every damn bone, ligament or muscle. It’s all too much. A lot of this I learned from sifting through tutorials and browsing the internet.  But figure drawing itself in the traditional sense is more about capturing the form. The force and flow of a pose. But I do keep a lot what I’m showing here in mind when I’m drawing from memory. I should however be doing a lot more life drawing, which is like zero at the moment. What I’m showing here can help de-mystify the human form a bit.  So basically, this little tutorial I threw together is really about these 3 SHAPES and how everything is a mix of those 3 shapes. No magic. No abiding by rules of how many heads fit into a body. It’s all just shapes. Hope this helps. If there’s anything else you’d like to know, please send me more questions and I’ll do my best to answer them :)

Fabio Lignini - Wonderfull piggy bank

Kara and Barry from World’s Finest, which is my favourite episode from season 1 because it’s just the cutest thing ever

muzzle/beak lipsync assignments for animation class! i can already see stuff i could improve but i had a lot of fun with it :’) (also reused an old background haha)

audio from parks & rec

*dies slowly since there's no way to send an anon message* Would it be a bother if I asked how you make your sprites? ((Or whoever makes them, sorry!)) they look amazing and I'm really curious by the style!

Aww, thank you! It’s not a bother at all! I do the same process I use for my non-pixel art drawings: I sketch something, then I do the lineart using only one color, then I paint the drawing using flat colors, after that I add the shadows and the lights, and then I recolor the lineart so the lines blend better:

I’m pretty amateur with pixel art, so I only know a few things, but one of the most important things to consider is to avoid messy/jagged lines, here’s an example from this thread:

Also, one of the best pixel art tutorials in my opinion would be this one. There are a lot of tips on how to properly shade sprites in order to avoid “pillow shading” and bland color palettes.

Dr. King Schultz is a new favorite character of mine. He was easily my favorite from “Django Unchained.”

It’s getting darker and chillier outside~

I got inspired by Jeff Turley and Tadahiro’s style~~

some exploratory stuff. the kids in the first set are revisions from a story/world i based on the kalevala way back in like.. 2010?? looking at those old things was a bit of a nightmare, haha

Old Tomb - Kirokaze

HOLY FREE ART PROGRAMS BATMAN

I’ve had this list sitting around for a while (in case I ever want to try something new) and I thought I’d share it, because why the hell not, everybody loves free stuff. I’ve only used a couple, so for all I know these could be complete shit. BUT YOU NEVER KNOW, RIGHT?

*= available for both windows and mac os

GIMP * - Does a lot of the same stuff as Photoshop.

FireAlpaca * - Similar to Paint Tool Sai, so it’s a good alternative for Mac users.

Autodesk Sketchbook Copic Edition * - Simulates the look of copic markers.

MyPaint * - Basic stuff, nothing fancy.

Pinta * - Drawing program modeled after paint.NET.

Inkscape * - Vector/drawing program meant to be similar to Illustrator.

ArtRage * - Digital painting program; you can get the trimmed down version for free or buy the full version with more features.

Sumo Paint * - In-browser drawing app.

DAZ Studio * - Some sort of 3D model poser thing.

Pencil * - Software for animating.

SketchUp * - Tool for making 3D models. Looks handy for stuff like architectural drawings.

Blender * - Pretty popular 3D software.

escape motions * - Some browser apps, fun to fiddle with when you’re bored (the fluid fire simulation is pretty cool imo).

Twistedbrush (Pixarra) - Seems to be meant for replicating the look of traditional media.

Pixia/Phierha - A popular program in Japan, according to the website.

Krita - This was originally made for Linux and it looks like the developers haven’t ironed out all of the kinks in the Windows installer.

Artweaver - Another trimmed down free thing if you don’t want to buy the full program.

paint.NET - Pretty basic kit, probably good for simple stuff.

Project Dogwaffle - I’m not sure what this one is all about because I couldn’t stop laughing at the terrible website.

Speedy Painter - Lightweight digital painting program.

mtPaint - Originally made for pixel art; simple enough to run on older computers.

Chasys Draw IES - Supposed to be some sort of drawing+image editor thing.

PaintRibbon - Seems to be another plain old basic image editor.

DrawPlus - Looks like it’s made for graphic design and vector stuff.

SmoothDraw - I’m guessing this is a basic thing for people who don’t want to bother with complicated stuff.