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Tim excited to ride in the Batmobile in "Dear Mr. Batman" by StoriesAreMagic on Ao3

Tim is confused as to why Batman had a man arrested for hitting his daughter. After all, the man was just giving her consequences for misbehaving, right? But Batman doesn't see it that way. So Tim decides to blackmail Batman with his secret identity so Batman won't arrest his parents.

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@dimiclaudeblaigan asked for a tutorial on how to begin drawing. Good news! If you can draw a funky looking stick man, you have already started!

I think that stick people are a great starting point for artists because of the things you can learn from them that will be important later on.

If you are able to draw a circle and a couple of lines, you can easily put together a stick person.

Congratulations! You have started to draw. :)

A stick person is a very minimal artistic representation of a real life person. It is simple yet recognizable, and is widely used in art, media, and signage.

But what can a stick person teach us about drawing people that look more like… well, people? Lets have a look!

By simply adding a few more lines, we can add a pair of eyes and a mouth. Maybe even a little triangle nose! Or half circles for ears. We can now draw a face, which provides a basis for all sorts of expressions.

These simple additions can allow us to explore the wide range of human emotion and individuality.

This may seem like the basics of the basics. But that is what we want! In order to get to the point where we are able to draw complex, elaborate representations of humans and objects, we will need to start with simple shapes like lines and circles and build our understanding from there.

For instance, lets give our stick person some cool new features, such as hands and feet. I chose little squiggly circles to represent hands, and triangles to represent feet.

We can go a step further and modify the body of the stick person to include shoulders, hips, elbows and knees. These parts of the human body are quite complex in real life But here, all we need to do is add a few simple lines and dots to our stick person.

The lines provide some additional structural elements to our stick person's body, which are the shoulders and the hips. The dots indicate the points of articulation - elbows and knees, the places where the arms and legs bend!

Now we can use our stick person to show us an even wider range of human movement, action, and expression.

Our little drawing of a human being is evolving! All it took was adding a few more lines and shapes here and there.

By elongating some of the existing lines and making the head an oval instead of a circle, we can give our stick person proportions that resemble that of a real life human.

By this point, we have managed to add more complexity to our stick person simply by using our ability to draw lines, circles, and other basic shapes!

These basic ideas are the building blocks that will enable us to create more complex shapes.

The next part may be a considerable step up if you are absolutely new to drawing, but I have decided to include it in order to show you how complex objects like the human body can be built from shapes that are a bit more complex than circles and lines.

For example. Two ovals and a rectangle can be combined to create a cylinder.

Six squares can be combined to create a cube, or a box. Here, each square is distorted slightly depending on which way the cube is facing.

Note that the back faces of the cube and the bottom of the cylinder are hidden. These shapes allow us to visualize that which should not normally visible.

A sphere from all perspectives can be represented by a circle. But we can make it more like a sphere by adding lighting and shadow if we so desire.

Cubes, cylinders, and spheres are examples of 'solid shapes' because they consist of 3 dimensions.

Lets see how these solid shapes can be used to compose the human body.

By stacking three cylindrical objects, we can create a torso. Two spheres have been added to form shoulders, while a smaller cylinder forms the neck.

An arm is an alternating sequence of spheres and cylinders connected together. Note that the hand has been simplified for this example.

We can apply these solid shapes to the rest of the body to give us a more recognizable representation of the human form. It doesn't even have to be perfect. And just like that, our stick figure now has a silhouette that is unmistakably a person!

In the above examples, notice that we kept the stick person at the beginning while building up the shapes and solids around it. This is because the stick person serves as a guide for positioning the body and its various parts -> also known as posing.

You can do the same thing to everyday objects! Here, I drew a wine glass by stacking these three dimensional solid shapes.

The cup and its contents are two ovoid shapes that were cut in half. The stem is a very thin cylinder shape. The base is a cylinder with a slightly wider bottom.

Solid shapes help inform us how objects and parts of the human body may appear from different perspectives.

For example, a sphere can be used to demonstrate how the human head appears when looking up or down, turned to the side, or tilted at an angle.

With these examples, I hope I have managed to convinced you that if you can draw a circle and a couple of lines, you can draw a person! You just have to train your eye to recognize the simple shapes within complex objects. Try it with everyday objects as well! Or even your favourite media! A drawing subject can be as simple or as complex as you envision it to be.

Once you have mastered that, there are many aspects of drawing you can explore from here that may require you to seek additional resources or a fellow artist's advice.

Last of all, remember that drawing is an iterative process. Even if you draw something correct the first time, you will need to draw it again and again to get it right all times! And by making small changes like the ones we explored in this tutorial, your drawings will gradually transform!

I hope what I've demonstrated here are enough to provide the basics of how to get started with drawing objects and people, and also to help refresh more experienced artists. :) Hopefully I didn't go too off topic with what was requested, and let me know if there are any more questions I can answer.

Cheers :3

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Tim about to (rightfully) get Bruce in trouble in "Your Heart's my Heart (You Know me Best)" by @fuckyeah-phantom

After being benched and subsequently replaced as Robin, Tim goes out on his own only to run into trouble after an Arkham and Blackgate escape. Thankfully he meets a civilian who keeps the hallucinations away.

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Alfred finding an injured Danny in his bed in "Contractual Obligations" by @hailsatanacab

Alfred makes a deal with the Ghost King. The Ghost King will protect Alfreds family but if ever needed Alfred must provide safe haven for the Ghost Kings "ward" Danny.

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Danny and "Jasons" first meeting in "Choke on the Whispers (You Never Got to Scream)" by @castrian-amore

A mute!Danny fic where superheros are getting attacked by giant dogs and the mysteries surrounding it and Dannys past.

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Jason meeting his son Danny for the first time in "Dp x Dc short idea Jason is Dannys Dad" by @noisilyscreechingsong a woman shows up to the manor with the intention of leaving Danny there.

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I've been thinking about it for a bit since some scenes I draw aren't super accurate to the overall fics but what do you guys think?

Would a summary make you more likely to check out the fic yourselves?

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Barbara and Jasons first face to face meeting in "The Right Substitution is Key" by @addictedapple

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Red Hood walking into his warehouse to see that Robin!Tim has made Hoods goons take him hostage in "What You're Longing For (You Claim to Abhor)" by @ghost-bxrd

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Danny sharing his homemade soda for the first time in @dcxdpdabbles fic "Mr. Flavor"

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Grandpa Clockwork teaching a young Diana (Wonder Woman) how to skip rocks in "Family is More Than Just a Word" by @thebubblesareevil

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Danny talking to firefighters after helping with a train derailment in "Survivability Bias" by @audliminal

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Red Hood and Nightwing after Hood saved Nightwing for the first time in "Riptide" by @punkrockhades

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hello!

just wanted to drop by and say that i found your blog a few days ago (and just saw another one of your fanarts) and they all bring me so much joy!

your entire blog just gives me so much joy, and i love seeing your art and finiding new fics to read through them <3

thanks for doing what you do and sharing it, you entirely brighten my day ^-^

have a nice time! :)

- @yourneighborhoodneighbor

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Danny watching Red Robin save a baby in "Yeti Orders" by @dcxdpdabbles

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Flash reacting to finally spotting roadrunner Danny in "Just a Little Guy, Just a Little Meep" by @foxgivenblank

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Val watching her fiancée Danny sing and dance with a mop in "Knock Three Times" by @numinous-scribe