#Ok i did this very fast

[keanurye]

Reversetober Day 13 - Family

Do you remember their faces?

[crystalpallette]

no witty caption today; I just love ringo hiii ringoooo

[hawnks]

You guys have to get weird about dandadan with me I can't do this alone

[deoidesign]

Hi, how did you learn to draw Steve's physique?

Ohh what a complicated thing to answer...

When it comes to how I learned to draw anything, it's hard to say anything too specific since it's always a culmination of many years of assorted study and practice... but I can try to do my best to explain some of the biggest things that helped me learn, some tips I keep in mind, and maybe at least some places to start/delve further.

(just a little disclaimer it's not like my drawings here are going to be 100% medically accurate.. they're just to illustrate concepts!)

The main thing about learning various physiques is understanding anatomy. Which feels obvious, but I don't mean proportions; these are important, but perhaps more important is understanding the skeleton and how it moves and learning where muscles connect to bones and where fat grows on the body. When you understand how these function on a more mechanical level, depicting form and movement in a way that feels natural comes in tow.

For instance, understanding things like the pronation and supination of the radius and ulna, as well as the fact that muscles can ONLY contract or relax, will help you understand a bit better which muscles will be flexed and which will not while someone moves. It's inherent to the positioning based on the structural makeup of the body... It's not like you NEED to memorize all the muscles and bones, of course, but understanding and gaining at least a passive familiarity with the concepts really helps.

In tandem with this concept is the way parts of the body flow into eachother. Muscles ALWAYS come in groups because they can only contract. Whatever muscle is there to lift something, there is a muscle on the other side to pull that bone back down. What this results in is a series of straight edges next to curves, which gives us a lot of really lovely "s curves" and dents and folds and so on and so forth just naturally occurring.

I would suggest at least learning the "bony landmarks", which are bones (usually) visible on the surface of the body. things like the iliac crest, the great trochanter, the 7th vertabrae, the acromion process... These can be used to help you understand the parts of the body as angles and relationships, rather than trying to remember lengths and sizes, which vary immensely... (since you asked about steve, he can be our model... also study these on your own don't just take my word for it haha, these are the ones I personally keep in mind)

I've done the same thing with body hair... learning where it grows and in which directions... It helps me make up variations without needing reference, because I have a set of rules I can follow.

The biggest thing that helped me understand all this on a much deeper level was my ecorche course. I sculpted this guy. We started by sculpting the entire skeleton to understand the bones, and then we added muscles on top. Not every single muscle, of course, but the "artistic muscles" AKA the ones which directly affect the surface of the body. Doing this let us see where muscles connect, because we would make a shape, put it on the bone where it actually goes, and then you get to see how other muscles overlap that.

This helped me, perhaps, more than anything else. But I also didn't just start with this course, I had been drawing for years before I even took it. I had been in school for years before I took it. Not that I think it wouldn't be helpful to someone just starting out, but I do think that the more you know going in, the better an in-depth course like this will help you and stick with you. Classes are also expensive, though so I'm not really like... recommending you pay potentially thousands of dollars to take one... But it did help me a lot, personally.

I also, of course, have done many figure, gesture, and master studies...

These just help you quickly gain a stronger understanding of generalized anatomy, and gives you real life examples of and practice with of how people move and balance.

What all this does when combined, is gives me a very solid ability to depict movement and form in a way that feels relatively natural from my subconscious without the need for reference.

The rest of how I've learned to draw his physique is honestly mostly just stylization. I understand the body, and this is how I am depicting it for his level of musculature.

And as I move into depicting him in other ways, either moving in comics or in animation, realistically rendered, or extra stylized, these concepts inform every step of that process for me! When he keeps the same/similar relationships between parts, he gets to still look like himself.

It ALSO really helps when putting clothes on, because the way cloth falls and bunches and lifts is all directly related to the form it is on... So the more you understand that form, the more you can depict clothing and movement in a way that feels natural.

This is all, of course, true when I draw anyone, you asked about Steve so I'm trying to mostly show with him! But because I'm just drawing from raw information of general anatomy rather than trying to study one body type at a time, it allows a lot more "give," I think!

Like, here's most of the cast from TTA so far... actually, they're not as varied as I thought they were nevermind LMAO ignore this part

But, it also makes monster and alien design much easier! It's a lot easier to come up with non-human anatomy when I understand human anatomy, because I can manipulate the knowledge I have...

There is infinite more to study in the world of anatomy... The complexity of the human body goes extremely deep. For our purposes as artists, we need only depict a fraction of it, but more information rarely hurts the process.

I'm sure there's something in here that's wrong on a technical level, I'm mostly going off of memory. But that's kind of my point - I understand enough generally and conceptually that when I am missing something and need to find reference for it, I understand what I'm looking at. It's much easier than trying to learn AND draw at the same time.

I hope even one thing in here helped you! Sorry it's so long.

[swearingcactus]

played the Small Man, Big Mouth gig yesterday and got thoughts of streetkid V's and Kirk's short-lived acquaintance. they're sitcom chaotic roommates forced to live in a cyberpunk genre to me.

[bluestonewings]

These two brothers are now happily reunited across the rainbow bridge so I cannot be too sad to miss them both. The first rats I ever got and they were such little characters!!

Goodnight Maibock and Grisette 💜 sweet dreams

[foxgloveinspace]

People jumping ship cause of the new masks is very ahhhh. Telling. Tbh.

[msmimundo]

Its about Little My knowing what replacement feels like when Thigumy and Bob Its about how Snufkin was that replacement Its about how he was abandoned in a box

[aprilblossomgirl]

random sound win moment [11/?] a brief compilation of sound hitting and caring for win after all that "Then I’ll hit on you until your heart beats fast. Okay? Bring it on. I’m not afraid of you. You’ll see. (my school president, episode 9)"

[revvywevvy]

hi guys im still alive lol. havent been drawing too too much lately (depressions a bitch xd) but i do have a few things yay yippee!!!! i ended up doing a style study of sorts a few months ago (i dated em so yk when theyre from) and ive been trying to make this my new style bc i really like it (with some hiccups but hey. arts hard lol) so heres some pyrrlinas :-] (yes ik its a redraw (and u may have to zoom a little bc the croppings kinda. yeah.))

[faaun]

pls i need to provide updates

[kandiarus-secret-archives]

As a reader of SL raganarok i can tell you, that is not SL ragnarok

[elscottie]

I’m unappreciated in my time. Why did nobody like this? It’s my magnum opus

[eyrieofsynapses]

ok so I started listening to Where the Stars Fell on, uh, *checks Spotify history* ohfuckthat'smorerecentthanIthought Tuesday.

Friday, current status: nineteenth episode done. the emotional shit has been kicked out of me and the kicker moved on to my heart. everything's fine

[fisheito]

What is this weirdly feelyweely status exclusive to yakumo

[blackjackkent]

The game doesn't prevent us from long-resting within the Wyrmway, so I'm going to take shameless advantage of that. All rested up and ready to take on more trials.

There's another "Journal of Past Adventurers" in the Chamber of Courage:

Interesting. Lanceboard is basically chess, yes? Is there going to be a chess trial? Hector, huge nerd that he is, is deeply excited about this possibility.

Into the second trial room and...

Yessssss.

"Prove your strategic wits," the statue intones. "There is but one rule. The dark king must fall in two moves. Are you a commander of armies or a shivering pawn - fodder for cleverer minds?"

Wyll shifts uncertainly. "I'm afraid I have little experience with lanceboard... let alone the command of soldiers."

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Karlach grins. "That's all right," she says cheerfully. "Hector is just waiting for your permission to go full nerd right now."

And Hector is, indeed, bouncing on the balls of his feet with sudden eager energy. It's a bit of a relief to see, in truth - he has been visibly anxious, in spite of all his self-control, about their forthcoming encounter with a dragon, and all of them are glad to see that this intellectual challenge has, for the moment, distracted him.

Wyll grins. "Well, by all means, then, I bow to the sage of Selune," he says, giving a grandiose gesture to indicate Hector should move ahead of him.

Hector trots forward at once, circles the board carefully, examining it from all sides. "Mate in two, the statue said," he mumbles. "Should be simple enough..."

And then he stands there, utterly still with his head cocked, for a solid minute, his whole expression solidifying like stone into an attitude of pure intellectual exercise.

Jaheira and Wyll watch this with some amused curiosity, and Karlach leans herself up against the wall so she can watch his face clearly, deeply enjoying witnessing him in a moment where he is in his element and excited.

All of a sudden, he bursts into motion, reaching out to tap the white rook. A flash of magical energy rises around it, and then, at a gesture from Hector, it drifts one spot sideways. "Rook to G8, " Hector murmurs. "Check."

At once, the black cleric flares to life in answer, sliding backwards to claim the white rook.

"Uh oh," Karlach says, raising her eyebrows, but Hector shakes his head.

"No, no," he says. "As expected. A forced move - cleric takes G8, threat cleared. Which means..." He lifts his head and gives her a wink. "The queen takes all, as it should be."

He flicks a hand out, and this time the white queen lights up and slides, at his direction, across the board into place next to the black king. "Queen to G7. Check and mate."

The black king shatters apart in a sudden dramatic burst, sending pieces of dark marble scattering across Hector's boots.

"The black king has fallen," the statue intones. "May you always crush the wicked, be they pawn, knight, or monarch. PROCEED."

Hector lets out a heavy breath, looking extremely pleased with himself.

Wyll grins. "A point for the power of teamwork," he says. "Nicely done. We're another step closer to Ansur."

"And not even any blood spilled," Jaheira points out with a dry smile.

Karlach swings her arm around Hector's shoulders and hugs him against her side, pressing a kiss to his temple. "It's not fair, you know. You can't be gorgeous and a genius like this."

"Why not?" he says innocently. With the puzzle solved, a little of the anxiety is starting to creep back - but he has visibly relaxed, having had the moment of victory.

"Well, it's terribly distracting for one thing," she says mischievously. "But don't worry, I'll see you make up for it later."