#draw a character with different hairstyles

[viviraptor-art]

loosening up with another drawing meme featuring dino boy! i'll never get tired of putting him in situations. 🦖

blank templates under the cut!

i redid the template myself just to improve the spacing! with + without transparent boxes. the original is credited to cheesedburger on twitter!

[eydilily]

I absolutely love your art and how detailed it is! If you don't mind me asking, how do you draw/break down faces? Your style is like exactly what I'm hoping to get close to when I draw them

OKAY so huge disclaimer. im self taught and i dont know what im doing most of the time! frankly i have a long way to go with shape language and character design so i will always suggest people to go to actual professionals and masters LMAO.

i am NOT qualified whatsoever, but, i tried to breakdown my thought process in how i currently draw things!!! for my mcyt designs, obviously i take huge inspirations from the actual ccs.

tango has similar hairlines and beard patterns to cc!tango. joel's hairstyle is very much inspired from his younger hairstyles, and pearl has a similarly long oval headshape from cc!pearl.

all of which are completely personal preference. some people take shape inspiration from personalities, voices, or whatever prophetic visions they have in their heads!

this would be the case for my cleo and etho designs. Cleo to me has a sharper voice & personality so i tried to incorporate that into what id think their face would be! etho is kind of . wet cat, but his voice for some reason gives me... round?? shapes?? so he has floppy hair and rounder eyes and ears in my design.

(another disclaimer: looks does not equate to personality, but like. its a lil easier 2 draw. and theyre shorthands and associations)

^ cleo has a higher eyebrow arch, sharp inner eye corner. etho has ears that stick out, uneven haircut, and his roots are darker :D

so its basically 2 big steps! Picking the face shape and then picking out details that would be unique to that character. to make characters different, i try to always pick something different between each person. so more contrast!!!

pearl and gem are easy since theyre opposites visually -- oval vs square, sharp vs round. for skizz and tango, i draw their eyes very similarly. but i decided my skizz would have a longer face and rounder cheeks, whereas tango has a bushier mustache and flatter face.

i am personally very fond of super stylized artstyles,,, i think cartoony / stylized artstyles take a lot of skill and a lot of character design thought into creating unique silhouettes that are still very recognizable! (for instance, huge fan of @/wasyago and @/alienssstufff)

unfortunately my artstyle isnt geared towards that lol, and alot of my face shapes tend to be very similar. so instead, i try to change up eye shapes (very common method of separating characters) and hairstyles! i have a long long way to go and i have a lot of bad habits lol but i hope this shows a little bit on how each of my characters are detailed differently.

[yourpalsalamander]

October 20th!!!

didn't know what to do so I did this with my OC Salem

[bellwethers]

Some yues

[cutie-lumi]

Let's make a deal~ ❤️

[squoobest]

this pleasant étoile shows up at your door

[wintr-wandr]

Artwork of Bargello that I made for Project Path Action.

[godbirdart]

if there's one [1] thing i will be forever grateful for in the internet era it's the vast variety and availability of pose / anatomy references supplied by photographers and models

i can go online and find PERFECT references for how fat folds crease the skin or how muscles wrap around the body and as someone who habitually draws most of his OCs ~modestly lean~ and wants to hone his skill in other body types, it is literally a godsend to have those refs so readily available

seriously, thank you all models and photographers for providing me the resources i need to expand my art skills i owe u my life

[inumbrapugnabimus-maybe]

OCs :)

[cirqueduroyale]

Hairstyle meme featuring the clown with the with the best locs in the kingdom, Leo! (And a Claudette cameo)

Since we're here, I'll write a bit about Leo's hair:

Dreadlocks (locs) are a very important part of Leo's father's (Aries) culture/side of the family. It is believed that their locs hold memories and give them strength. Leo started his locs when he was about 10 years old because he wanted to be like his cool big sister and hasn't cut them since. Though, he once accidentally cut one off and Freaked. The. Honk. Out.

Leo doesn't really care about his father's culture and wouldn't consider himself "spiritual" but he is still very careful with his hair. It's rare that he even lets someone else touch it.

[scrumptiousobjectcollector]

I need yall to learn what "redesign" means

[internetgiraffekid1673]

Miraculous Ladybug, Marinette Dupain-Cheng Drawings

I drew a lot of Marinette Dupain-Cheng from Miraculous Ladybug. I have the same love hate relationship with this show that most of the active fandom has. I may repurpose the time lapse from this drawing to use as visual while I rant about it and turn that into a YouTube video.

This is technically a redesign of Marinette, except I mostly like her canon design, so it’s actually just putting her in a bunch of different outfits to fit the occasion.

I started by tracing a picture of her and starting to adapt it to my style, thence freeform drawing her canon design in my style, then went from there.

Imagined context for each one:

Canonette Trace: Marinette at a regular school day.

Canonette Freeform: Marinette attempting to greet Adrien like a normal human being and mostly succeeding.

Girlboss Marinette: She had a big presentation that she wanted to look professional for.

Bakinette: It’s 2 a.m. and she’s making brownies for some reason.

Dancinette: She’s ballet dancing alone in her room, cuz she’s not confident enough to dance in any public capacity.

Grouchinette: She hasn’t slept in 3 days and someone just asked her a really dumb question.

Fashionette: Showcasing her newest design

Pridenette: It’s a pride parade and she’s having a little too much fun.

[kiisaes]

scrunchiez

[silusvesuius]

i legit love when a character's gender is so integral to their personality (and perception obviously.) like so concrete that if genderbent their whole shtick would just be absolute dookie. anyways i'm just writing this text so i can talk in the tags (My beautiful safe haven)

this 14 minute song is soooooooooooo FYRE

[batcastlesociety]

simon belmont goes to his local mcdonald's (interaction based on literally every time i have to order anything from a restaurant)

please ignore my crooked handwriting,,, (Q_Q) text translations under the cut!

Simon: "Oh... oh sheesh..."

2. McDonald's Employee: "It's okay, sir! Take your time!"

3. (Simon wound up only purchasing some chicken nuggets.)

4. "10 Chicken McNuggets! FOOD GET!"

Simon: "terrifying..."

[ratsetflummi]

making ocs is all fun and games until you have to draw them and need to come up with different face shapes and hairstyles for them