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A master post of Thomas Romain’s art tutorials.

There’s not enough space to post all of them, SO here’s links to everything he has posted (on twitter) so far : 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12. 

Now that new semesters have started, I thought people might need these. Enjoy your lessons!

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Lines Drawings of Ancient Figures

Part 3

I don’t own the book or the drawing only the scans don’t repost without crediting the original owners first.

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I don’t even know. It’s from a book about languages my friend’s been reading. (it’s creepy that I can understand it …)

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toucan wearing a soup can

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A'RIGHT HERE WE GO~(ง •౪•᷄)ว

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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. 

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The Miya twins featured on Vol 10 of the Haikyuu!! LN that will go on sale 4 Dec, with the Karasuno-Nekoma face-off illustration as the inner cover.

Source: Official Twitter

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Day 2 of inktober!

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Inktober Day 1

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Finally I finished it!! I was drawing the first half for at least half a year going back and forth to it and then I got too excited about finishing it and I drew the whole second part in like three days, ahah!

Please, turn on the audio first and look at drawings as you listen:”) Hope you’ll enjoy! I know it’s quite messy because I was trying to be super fast with each panel, but I hope the feels are gonna be there.

I am so so sorry to everyone who had to scroll through this monstrosity. I wanted to add read more thing, but when I post drawings into the text they get squeezed in my main page;; thank you so much for watching! 

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Someone in the notes of the last Leyendecker post I reblogged mentioned having difficulty telling his work and Rockwell’s apart, and I know from experience that many people get them confused, which is somewhat astonishing as, to my eyes, their styles are very distinct. Leyendecker was Rockwell’s idol and mentor, but they were very different people and were interested in portraying different aspects of humanity, even when the basic subject matter was the same.

Surface-level, here are some differences:

Leyendecker smoothed out faults and imperfections (in the young. he stylized them in the old); Rockwell exaggerated them to mild or moderate caricature

Leyendecker approached his paintings as sculpture- even the merest clothing folds are carved out of the paint; Rockwell approached his paintings as drawings- the underlying contour always shines through.

Leyendecker used broad hatching brushstrokes and areas of smooth shine; Rockwell used more naturalistic texture and lighting

Leyendecker created idolized, larger-than-life figures that feel Hellenistic in their perfection; Rockwell created intimate scenes populated by figures that feel familiar in their specificity

Leyendecker’s best and most comfortable work was as a fashion/lifestyle illustrator; Rockwell’s best and most comfortable work was as an editorial/humor illustrator 

Leyendecker created beautiful still lives with his figures; Rockwell told compelling stories

Leyendecker often created erotic tension in his paintings; Rockwell almost never did.

See below: Two paintings of soldiers with women, but in Rockwell’s there is a clear punchline, and while the poses are contrived for the sake of composition, they’re not self-conscious. The women are pretty- as demanded by the central joke- but not truly sexualized anywhere but in the mind of the young soldier who is being overloaded with cake and attention. 

Contrast Leyendecker’s soldiers with a young nurse. Everyone in this image is posing attractively- no one has their mouth full or ears sticking out. Each crease and fold is sharp and sculptural, and the light picks out their best features- in particular the shoulders and posterior of the soldier facing away from the viewer. There is neither joke nor story, merely a group of beautiful young people, portrayed with deft brushwork and graceful lines. (and check out that hatching! That’s indicator #1 that you’ve got a Leyendecker image)

Leyendecker was very comfortable with “hot young things wearing clothes”, and did them very VERY well, but his facility with idealization came at the cost of personalization, which was fine for fashion illustration, but shows in his domestic scenes: 

Beautiful, but… cold. (Also, that hand on the left- who holds a baby with their hand like that??? Good lord, J.C.) Compare a Rockwell illustration (for a baby food brand, I believe) of a mother and baby: this is clearly a real and individual young mother and baby, interacting exactly how parents and babies really interact.

Even when they did basically the same content, and putting aside posing or composition or anything other than objective visual analysis, it’s still obvious who is who:

Red: NR’s smoother rendering vs JCL’s super cool hatching

Green: NR’s naturalistic cloth folds vs JCL’s sculptural stylization

Blue: NR’s natural lighting vs JCL’s world where everything is shiny

Now go forth, confident in the knowledge that you’ll never confuse a Rockwell or a Leyendecker ever again, and can refute any claim that their styles are ‘virtually identical’. 

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Some pointers I keep in mind while drawing difficult angles. Posted these on twitter last month.

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Inarizaki & Foxes

The HQ panel at Jump Festa 2018 gave us official meanings behind the Inarizaki names, aka the foxes each member’s names were based on (except for the Miyas and Coach Oomi, who aren’t based on foxes).

So here’s a bunch of comparisons between their English names and Japanese names, along with some fox comparisons. 

Coach Kurosu: Cross Fox

クロスキツネ (ku-ro-su-ki-tsu-ne)

Ojiro: Rüppell’s Fox

オジロスナギツネ (o-ji-ro-su-na-gi-tsu-ne)

Kita: Sakhalin Fox / Ezo Red Fox 

キタキツネ (ki-ta-ki-tsu-ne)

Oomimi: Bat-eared Fox

オオミミギツネ (o-o-mi-mi-gi-tsu-ne)

Akagi: Red Fox

アカギツネ (a-ka-gi-tsu-ne)

Ginjima: Silver Fox

ギンギツネ (gi-n-gi-tsu-ne)

Suna: Tibetan Sand Fox

チベットスナギツネ (chi-be-tto-su-na-gi-tsu-ne)

Kosaku: Corsac Fox

コサ���クギツネ (ko-sa-kku-gi-tsu-ne)

Riseki: Marble Fox

マーブルフォックス (ma-a-bu-ru-fo-kku-su)

Fun facts below the cut:

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여어- 히싸씨부리 （ ɔ̸ᴉʇɐ͟N͞さんのツイート ）

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my entries for the FFXVogue zine!