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garnetdawn · 5 months ago

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Your art is so beautiful, I especially love the tarot style stuff you did recently - really beginner question but how did you get the faces to be symmetrical without everything being in the wrong position?

AW THANK YOU!! they are all drawn with a symmetry ruler! It did take me a while to get used to drawing faces like that, and even now sometimes I need to do a lot of readjusting for the proportions to feel right.

If the symmetry is feeling uncanny, something that helps is adding assymetrical elements like letting the mouth be handdrawn without the ruler, adds some naturality to the front facing humans.

Overall what actually makes symmetrical art appealing is sprinkling assymetrical details in.

#garnet answers #ramblings #wasnt sure if you meant the tool used #symmetry ruler on SAI2 but every program has it somewhere pretty much!#or if you meant like #actually making it look good #bc it is hard #human faces are so weird to draw symmetrically #i do have some speedpaints of these captured too #i could fetch some of those sometime

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cardo-de-comer · 3 months ago

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the devil you know

#art #oc #yourenotsupposedtobehere #ynstbh #sooo good news - i have a script; bad news - now i need to make an actual game (hard)#honestly Imri looks no less chthonic than his ethereal companions

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katsinspats · 3 months ago

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I think my copy of the game is broken they've been doing this for 30 minutes

Crop of the Biolizard edit I did bc it makes me laugh:

#art #sonic the hedgehog #sonic #shadow the hedgehog #rouge the bat #their dynamic is so funny to me like hello what episode of Untucked is this #I am rotating them in a 2 bed 1 bath apartment in my mind #Also very proud of how this turned out I think I'm finally finding a comic rendering style that doesn't make me want to rip my hair out #Simplify baybee it's a comic not an illustration you can get a little crazy with it #Spoiler alert. Getting looser with lineart and better at colour schemes and simplifying shading. Is good actually.#It's so much easier to eyeball what a colour would look like in a setting instead of colourpicking the OG palette and struggling with...#...like 9 overlay and multiply and soft/hard light layers #Approximating colour genuinely looks better than forcing local colour into the piece. As long as the values are still there it works out #comic

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egophiliac · 3 months ago

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buckle up lads we're going BACK INTO THE BOOK

#art #twisted wonderland #twisted wonderland spoilers #lost in the book with nightmare before christmas #hajimari no halloween #(the origin of halloween huh) (oooh)#why yes i did wake up way too early to watch the stream and will have no memory of drawing this later #anyway THE MAGIC BOOK IS BACK TO EAT US ONCE AGAIN!!!!#this does make things make a lot more sense if it doesn't have to. y'know. actually take place in the established world #like how jack and sally are apparently just gonna be THERE as themselves WHY NOT #i'm certainly not complaining mind you #scully looks like he's gonna be super adorable and i love him already #spooky scary skeleman who just goes :O a lot and is excited for halloween #he seems like he might actually be more of a fusion of jack and sally? or maybe i'm just reading too much into it #still getting jazzy vibes off of him though. is not scully j graves an incredible jazz musician name.#does this open up the possibility that the last time we went into the book there was a sexy anime boy stitch just offscreen the whole time #...maybe some things are best left uncontemplated #god everyone in this event looks fantastic i'm so glad i saved up some keys after all #a little sad that there's no lilia but you know what the fact that a halloweentown malleus exists is still pretty dang good #and sebek's hat is SO tall #the biggest hat for the loudest boy #i hope oogie is here too i need him and jamil to meet #i need jamil to be faced with a guy who's just a bunch of bugs standing on each other's shoulders in a trenchcoat #i am not coherent right now i just needed to get this out before i go pass out again

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lgbtlunaverse · 1 year ago

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There's a version of the "don't go grocery shopping while hungry" rule specifically for writers where you should never under any circumstances be allowed to touch your draft within 3 hours of reading a really good story. Because sometimes when you read something great your head goes "fuck this is so much better than my stuff I should make that more like THIS instead!" Look at me. That's the devil talking and you should close the document NOW.

#you will make superficial edits that do not gell well with the rest of your work #and won't actually capture what you thought was so good about that story #close the doc. sit down. think about it for a while. inspiration is fine. getting a 'eureka' moment from another story is fine #but if you find yourself comparing your work one to one with someone else's and taking any differences to be flaws on your part then STOP #you will never write good stuff by trying to make it look less like you wrote it #writing #writing advice #guess who just had to go into her google doc history and undo a bunch of panic-induced edits #because she read a fic about the same characters she's writing for?#meeee. they aged badly within just a few hours of hindsight. learn from my mistakes #self-hatred is not a good motivation for creation #fic writing

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andstuffsketches · 5 months ago

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finally watched Reign of the Supermen

#kon is three apples tall.... good luck getting anyone to call you superman when you look like you should be in middle school #the second pic was inspired by that scene where lois is on the phone w steel and kon is peeking over her shoulder #superboy #conner kent #john henry irons #man of steel #lois lane #reign of the supermen #rots was fun bc i knew kon and steels situations but had no idea what visor and cyborg supes had going on #so i was like IS it him...? no.... it cant be....#it was funny when he was like please. just call me superman.#like even if he was the actual genuine clark kent back as a cyborg bbgirl youre not going to shake 'cyborg superman'#superman #digital art #comic #comics #dcamu #dc #dc comics #2024 #id in alt #also why is lois dressed like asami in the finale #and for the record steel is the most respectable of the titular supermen cause like #he wasnt trying to pass himself off as clark he was literally just a dude who was inspired to be a clearly separate superhero #i mean you could make a claim of copyright infringement cause of the S but in his defense it was a symbol of hope & clark was dead sooo

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datcravat · 21 days ago

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It seems there's a new lawyer in town!!!

#I think she's one of the most underutilized characters ever I will DIE on this hill #she can hear people's feelings that is the COOLEST concept ever #you get people who can hear thoughts a lot and that's cool but hearing FEELINGS is such a sick and unique concept #AND SHES A LAWYER #THATS THE COOLEST CAREER YOU COULD GIVE SOMEONE WHO CAN HEAR FEELINGS THAT OPENS DOORS FOR SO MANY GOOD STORIES #I'D LOVE IN AA TO PLAY CASES AS HER WHERE YOU HAVE TO WORK BACKWARDS FROM PEOPLE'S EMOTIONS TO FIGURE OUT MYSTERIES #IT'S A WHOLE NEW SIDE TO THE EVIDENCE #AND SUBTLE HIDDEN FEELINGS KEEP GUIDING HER AND PPL JUST CANT KEEP UP WITH HOW SHE WORKS... STUFF LIKE THAT WOULD BE INTERESTING #WHY ISN'T IT UTILIZED WHY DO WE JUST HAVE PSUEDOSCIENCE MINIGAME #ATHENA IS SO LIKEABLE AND CHARMING AND FULL OF LIFE TOO #PLEASE CAPCOM #I LOV E HER PLEASE #GIVE US A CRAZY MOMENT WHERE SHE TAKES PHOENIX ASIDE HALFWAY THROUGH A CASEAND TELLS HIM HIS CLIENT WAS JUST ELATED AT THE SIGHT OF A CORPS #OR DO IT IN THE GAMEPLAY WHERE THE PLAYER SPOTS IT IN THE MOOD MATRIX #omg yeah actually that'd make me shit my pants that'd be so cool #proper ghost trick moment #THERE'S SO MUCH COOL STUFF YOu can do fuck okay sorry there are so many tags now #can you tell I got feelings abt this character I LOVE HER so much Im in love w her tbh and she's also so me #ace attorney #athena cykes #my art #have a good day thanks for looking at my art haha

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ink-the-artist · 2 years ago

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Rabbits

Some bonus art, I initially started making this in a totally different art style but changed my mind about halfway through lmao, here are the parts I finished

#edit: terfs fuck off #this is literally about people like you #flashing #pulsing light #eye strain #(only under the read more cut)#art #comic #colored pencil #Illustration #I realized like halfway through making this that this is just the leopards eating peoples faces party joke lmao #im glad i abandoned that original art style bc the way it gets compressed when converted to a gif is so bad 😩#actual reason i abandoned the original style was it was taking super long #especially if i wanted it to actually look good #but i still liked how it came out so i wanted to post it anyway lol

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sparrowlucero · 2 months ago

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dr who is (apparently) redesigning this turtle from the classic series to be just a green human elf lady instead and twitter is eating it up because "no one would take the show seriously otherwise" and "the audience isn't able to empathize with something that doesn't look human". another fascinating data point in the psychology of doctor who fans.

#i know people will read this and think i'm saying the show should look stupid #i'm actually saying 'why are doctor who fans so rejecting of the idea that you can make an alien with a beak look good in a dramatic contex #and why do so many of them think the audience are incapable of feeling empathy towards a lizard #when the show so often asks you to read emotion into a puppet as simple and inhuman as a dalek #also a lot of people comparing making it human to shape of water #come on #he was not passing the harkness test and he still won the oscar

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spookberry · 4 months ago

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Gyaru Clawdeen based on her creepover doll, for funsies

#clawdeen wolf #monster high #fanart #my art #i didnt notice before that all of her creepiver stock pics actually use her base screening not the actual creepover one #so her makeup irl is quite different #couple tweaked details and it could make for a good gyaru look tbh #at least i think so

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uncanny-tranny · 1 year ago

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Learning to internalize the message above, but art is in all of our bones. If you feel afraid to create art because it won't be "good enough," it's worth it to explore why you feel that fear. Creating art is one of the basic impulses of people, and if you want to create art, then you absolutely must.

#art #positivity #described images #image description in alt #i'm like 80% sure that's a lynx but i've never seen one irl #i'm going to weld this meme into my brain as i start crochet #maybe i have seen a lynx at the zoo actually. but that's beside the point and i haven't been to a zoo in years (sad!)#the zoos in my state are actually from what i understand VERY high-end and VERY good with their animals #which definitely makes me more willing to support them <3 #i have been informed this is not a lynx btw #IN MY DEFENSE they look similar #thank GD tumblr unlike twitter lets you edit alt text. staff was real af for that (rare compliment i have for staff)

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lotus-pear · 10 days ago

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