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Thank god for Sketchfab. Drawing the car was so worth it

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I been staring at a commission I got of some of my OCS for the past hour. I think I have a new spending obsession

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Misc again more under cut ✨

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The winners, waiting for nothing and everyone, someone and no one

Then you got this guy

I think they’re all intimidating and dangerous and lonely and traumatized in their little winner’s void then this Dom Toretto wannabe comes flying in on his car like this is a back alley drag race.

(Ps I have fallen victim to the true fact that his celestial body is just ‘car’)

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You will not guess where this is going

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bamboozlers as team rocket?

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I'm crying over these tags

2012-09-03

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$5 Sketches!

Hello everyone! from now until January 1st, I am doing 20min sketches for just $5!

they will look something like this (minus the reference)

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Unquestionably one of the funniest things I own is the draft first chapter of an evolutionary biology textbook written by one of my grad professors, in which he made approximately 1/3 of the figures himself in MS Paint with absolutely no graphic design skills or artistic ability.

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"Wow omg you drawwwww? I wish I was a drawer soooo bad omg I suckkkk so bad at arrrt"

me:

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On the topic of asking you how to draw things we’re struggling with… how do you handle arms? Specifically arms and their proper connections to the body.

I’ve gotten into this habit of drawing only headshots (shoulders included) and when i try to extend it into an actual full body, I can never do the arms.

Everything else is fine, but the arms are just… no. They stayed pinned to the sides, or conveniently nonexistent, as I don’t know how to draw them proportioned properly otherwise.

I will try to explain but you can definitely find better advice elsewhere

I think first, having a solid understanding of what's going on underneath is important, here's some of the bones/muscles that are the most relevant. Knowing what the understructure looks like and how it all connects will help you figure out the surface stuff

When you move your arm, all those muscles and bones move too, when the arm goes up, it affects your clavicle, your scapula, your pecs, etc. So you're not just moving an arm, you have to think about how the shoulder/neck/chest will go along with it

same kind of deal with the back view

proportion-wise uhhh arms go down to about mid thigh and a persons wingspan is around the same width as their height head to toe

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oh my god god god god god my dad just tried to complain about me wearing earrings with ghosts on them because they're "not very festive" so i said Well Actually ghosts are very appropriate for christmastime and he said tell you what if you can show me a single christmas themed thing that has ghosts in it i won't say another word about your fashion choices this entire holiday. i Promise. so i got him to lean in realllllll close as i opened up the browser app on my phone and slowly began to type "A CHRISTMAS CAROL" while the blood rapidly drained from his face.

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A crossover for the ages.

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Asked my mom for a binder for Christmas

No, mom, that’s not….

Oh I see what you did there