#but my subconscious sure can

[felinoidrose]

i just had a dream where garak was secretly captain kirk and princess celestia

[sysig]

Recently had a silly Handplates dream where Papyrus was trying to snoop around Gaster and Alphys’ lab, but didn’t know who Alphys was and so was trying to pass it off as his own lab lol (Patreon)

[rocketbirdie]

Cloud Strife

1 in 3 chance for each played 7 to create a Planet card when scored.

[meamiki]

5% of a color headcanon.... two versions since b&w emphasizes the dagger more i think but i still like the warm tones ASFSADA

i am not biased towards rainbow daggers whatsoever i promise (lie)

((also friend is streaming now and im there too!! bit more info linked here, its rated mature tho))

[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.

[luck-of-the-drawings]

smth smth about 'the thing that the character did that you thought was rly rly funny in the moment is actually linked to a terrible trauma that lies within said character.' or wahtever.

[aroanthy]

i love how fraught and complicated discourse around various utena characters ‘dying’ is when anthy is literally stabbed to death eternally by a million swords imbued with human hatred. and then utena gets stabbed to death by them also. like. ‘death’ is incredibly interesting in rgu because most of the time it’s this ambiguous figurative thing that has interesting implications re: ohtori as a closed-off world one can escape. we are all trapped in our coffins. mamiya is the only named character with a grave. nemuro memorial hall functions as one all the same. ruka is implied to have died in the hospital— was he dead all along? who was the boy we saw for these two episodes? is this dead boy the same boy, or is this just another coincidence from the shadow girls, cutting like a knife? it’s heavily implied that akio and anthy murder kanae by poisoning her, adding to the previous implication that they were poisoning mr ohtori too, but there are no perceptible consequences of this. kanae’s absence is not felt. she’s fed an apple slice. what happens to the bodies? we know what happened to the 100 boys, but what about everyone else? and so on and so forth. ‘death’ is a tricky thing in utena, i think it’s constantly functioning on figurative and literal levels in very different ways for very different purposes. dios died. dios was dying. dios didn’t die. he grew up. etc etc

[iamespecter]

My mom: *psychologically makes me feel worthless and invalidated of my existence unintentionally by not letting me have autonomy and independence I've been wanting and asking for the last 4 years*

Also my mom: WHY AREN'T YOU TAKING CARE OF YOURSELF!!!!!! OMG YOU ARE SO LAZY!!!! 🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬

Asian parents istg man like gee I wonder why I feel worthless and act worthless, it couldn't be because I was told I wasn't important, but had to keep earning for the family! Jesus fucking christ

[clerical3rr0r]

I already knew TMAGP had a chokehold on me, but last night I dreamed up an analysis of the latest episode. It’d be a shame to let all that hard work go to waste. Part 24 spoilers under the cut.

We all know the demon baby trope. We all begrudgingly tolerate the demon baby trope. It’s fine. There’s nothing actually wrong with it. But there’s nothing really exciting about it either. You see one evil baby, you’ve seen every evil baby. When I first saw that in the descriptions, I was skeptical about the episode.

BUT the thing that made it work is that the demon baby wasn’t the real horror in this episode. Little Rupert was merely the backdrop. The fears actually being drawn on are much more real. The first thing that hit me about that episode wasn’t actually the feeding element. It was the isolation.

The statement giver was a single mother, who from the first recording admitted to struggling to provide for her baby’s every need. Even her support group didn’t seem to give much practical help, with the only piece of advice we heard from them being “sleep when your baby sleeps.” Which, as anyone who’s ever dealt with infants and small children knows, really sucks as far as advice goes.

She mentions how none of the other moms seem to need bandages, how they’re holding it together just fine. It’s an odd choice of words. It doesn’t sound like Rupert is the only baby feasting on human flesh. It sounds like the other moms are just not tending to their wounds, not ‘needing’ to. Which raises some more questions about Celia and her kid, but that’s about par for the course at this point.

And things really escalate when she stops showing up to the support group entirely. Sure, the other moms weren’t helpful, but at least they were there. When it was just her and Rupert and her thoughts, the sense of obligation to give and give and give won out time and time again. The health visitor, who was definitely an avatar orchestrating this whole thing, doesn’t count as company. They were most likely just feeding the statement giver’s downward spiral.

What was most chilling to me was that at the very end of the final recording, even as she died, she worried more for Rupert than herself. She’d stopped seeing herself as a person outside of him a long time ago. And sure, part of that is the consumption. But it’s so much easier to let yourself be taken advantage of when you don’t have a network of people around you to help and validate and fight for you. When she died, she was effectively alone.

[thanks-obillma]

i like to think that in universe, the scenes inside mike's head are a) animated/cartoon, and b) questionably canon. like they asked him a few questions to get a general idea and then just animated whatever they needed for the plot

[galaxythedragonshifter]

Question:

How do y'all "write something for yourself" that you intend on posting?

Cause I still subconsciously can't "write for myself" unless I don't intend on ever posting it, and then I can only get 100 words or less out onto a Google doc.

Idk if this is a byproduct of taking too many writing classes and writing for assignments or other people or not.

How do I fix this?

[kelpermoosee]

I need to draw Booigi real soon, the lack of them is making me itchy

[krowmeats]

Quick comic of the stress dream I had last night

[parachutingkitten]

My biggest Ninjago confession is answering to Jay's name when the show is on in the background.

Oof.... you're in too deep. Back out slowly. Turn around and look at the projector. You gotta break out of the media suture.

[manicali]

I may absolutely hate my entire physical form but I literally will never get voice dysphoria simply because I have accidentally trained my voice to go up and down how I want from screaming along to mother mother

[backpackingspace]

Hey this just in? Ptsd sucks balls