#EXOS

[violet-919]

How do you think Exos manage to get their heads in their helmets when they have horns/other head features that Definitely Would Not Fit in a helmet?

[erismourn]

also. do you have any advice on how you draw exos. specifically when it comes to like breaking down their form in a 3d space. chewing on them /pos

ok so my 3 biggest tips for drawing exos:

USE A REFERENCE. the reason I can make my exos passable to look at is because I reference heavily. 3d models are best of course, but half the time I don't care to open up blender and look at them.

PRACTICE. do some exercises to get better at 3d shapes. trace some images of exos! tracing is a really good way to learn.

LOOK AT THE WAY OTHER ARTISTS DRAW EXOS. some artists I like are lavenderarts, rivaldi22, ninthriven, trialsofsaint14, monstyra, sylenth-l, and fmab. i look at what they simplify and what they don't, how they shade, and so on, and try to implement their tricks into my own style

this is one of my fav exercises that has helped me get better at understanding 3d shapes. it's smth I really struggle with - my brain doesn't picture objects in 3d space well, which makes driving a car very interesting. but this has helped.

this exercise just gives you an idea of volume and form that I really like. I'll fill up a whole sketchbook page with just these blobs for a warmup. it's great!

with that said I'll try to take you through my process of drawing an exo but please take it with a grain of salt as I'm still learning

some things to note:

despite being robots, exos are humanoid in shape. familiarizing yourself with human anatomy, ESPECIALLY the skeleton as exos have no skin, is really important

exos generally have the same shapes underneath their external plating, approximately the shape of a human skull (open a 3d model of an exo and remove its external face plating and you'll see what I mean)

the mouth on an exo is generally higher up than it would be on a human face. they don't have a nose to get in the way of the mouth, so the mouths are a little higher up

you can do whatever you want forever. there's a lot of stuff that I simplify when I draw exos - for example, I have very little patience for figuring out what the struts and supports inside the cheek/jaw area look like so I usually just draw them all the same unless I'm going really hard at it

when I'm drawing exos I try to focus on how the features relate to each other. I know where the eyes are supposed to go on a human face (about halfway down the cranium), so I know where they go on an exo. from there, it's about relating things to the position of the eyes.

I try to take note of important characteristics on an exo's face. I don't necessarily get as detailed as taking notes like in the image below, but this is a good start it you want to get familiar with exo features. I grabbed these two pics off destinypedia as an example

it's also important to remember that exos are very angular and have facial planes versus the smooth transitions we typically see with human skin. you don't need to necessarily draw them super precise - just a line hinting at the change of plane works wonders for making it look 3d.

these are very sloppy because I did them in like 2 minutes each but I hope it comes across how I've implemented what I said???

I hope this is helpful. you just gotta practice a lot, and if anyone faults you for your robot anatomy being off slightly they can go fuck themselves lol. everyone who draws knows that robots are hard to draw and shouldn't dunk on you for making mistakes. godspeed brave soldier

[ratatoskryggdrasil]

William Horace Littlefield, Exos, With A Bow, 1933

[braindamagedrizz]

Completed Commission for [Ace] over on Discord! Thank you for your patience <3

[the-light-finds-its-way]

Anthem-99, buying a new ship: Uhh, honey?

Misraaks: *heavy sigh* Give me the pen.

[suuho]

sehun in jakarta ; exo-sc back to back fancon behind 

[telestoapologist]

MY THREE GUARDIANS

✦ FLYNN EZRAAL (WARLOCK) ✦ JUNAN-2 (HUNTER) ✦ MYSELF (TITAN)

[l3rking]

I’m playing warlock again. Mostly because I just really love Stormcaller but Shadebinder has been a blast lately. Even if stasis really isn’t all that strong rn. But also just look at them!

Bungie went hard on the exos. Would love more race-specific content. Even if it’s just more subtle dialog changes like how awoke are “cousins” and how Rahul calls exos “mysteries”. I also want to meet more civilian exos! Where are they? What are they doing? How do they integrate into City society? Do they have doctors? Special restaurants or stores? I need MORE.

[hustlemeanokay]

Wyatt joking with Cassidy; talking about how he should start referring to him as Cassidy-2.

[slayanyhivegodslately]

So I’ve seen some thumbnails on youtube showing this, so I went to check it out myself. Wonder if Rasputin self destructing had anything to do with it, or maybe something Clovis is doing? His AI is still just hanging out there on Europa, is Elsie still keeping an eye on him with all of the other stuff going on?

[kstarvibes]

Watch: Lee Kwang Soo, EXO’s D.O., Kim Woo Bin, And Kim Ki Bang Are Chaotic Rookie Farmers In Teaser For New Variety Show

Lee Kwang Soo, EXO’s D.O., Kim Woo Bin, and Kim Ki Bang’s new variety show “You Reap What You Sow” (idiomatic translation) has unveiled fun new teaser and posters! Produced by producing director (PD) Na Young Suk, “You Reap What You Sow” adopts a lighthearted documentary style as it follows its four stars on a farming adventure in the countryside. As none of the four men know much about farming,…

[torinisbored]

Why are EXOS SO HARD TO DRAW FU--

[the-light-finds-its-way]

Anthem-99 tried so many times (99) to erase the archived data of his deadname, but I chose to write that, it still remains and haunts him. Like a computer can never erase anything forever, neither can Anthem. In fact, he corrupted his memory so much that all he could remember was the basics (eat, sleep, speak), to protect Crow at all costs, and his deadname. He couldn't function at all, until Crow got him a memory chip. Now, Anthem remembers everything, entirely, and he has to manually delete memories. But the deadname is so deeply programmed into him that it'll never be able to go away. It can't be deleted. And he lives with that.

It's based on the fact that I myself want to forget my past. I want to erase the time spent not presenting male and going by my deadname, but no matter what, I can't do that. Regardless of what I do to transition, like Anthem, my past haunts me persistently and always will. Even when I can't remember anything at all, the past will remain. And I'll never be free of it.

But, just as Anthem found solace in his acceptance that he'll never be free, and he uses this to teach other trans people, especially trans Exos, that they are who they have become rather than who they were before, I accept this myself, and continue to grow as the man I am. Just as Anthem does.

The world only knows Anthem as Anthem-99. The only records of his previous existence remain with himself, and those he's told about this other life. But those around him don't care who or what he was before becoming Anthem. They just see him as himself, who he is now.

I love you robots and artificial intelligence with mental illness. I love you repression being depicted as literally deleting archived data to preserve functionality. I love you anxiety attacks being depicted as a system crashing virus. I love you ptsd being depicted as an annoying pop-up. I love you anxiety disorder being depicted as running thousands of simulations and projected outcomes. I love you artificial beings being shown to be human via their own artificiality.

[detournementsmineurs]

"Stella" par Céline Laguarde (1904) à l'exposition “Céline Laguarde Photographe (1873-1961)” au Musée d'Orsay, décembre 2024.

[the-light-finds-its-way]

Anthem-99 would absolutely be the guy who, just because he's fucking ancient as hell and was literally a senior citizen elderly man supreme before becoming an Exo, he'd joke all the time about old person things. And of course, being a dad, he's legally obligated to make these old jokes to his kids.

Anthem-99: Damn tech these days, always so hard to understand...

Crow, at his fucking limit: Dad you ARE technology.

Anthem-99: Back in my day we accessed the Vannet both ways uphill in the snow barefoot and naked.

Eido, lifting a chair overhead: Traveler forgive me for the atrocities I'm about to commit.