#exos are so hard to draw....

[ripe-beetle]

A bunch of Destiny NPC's I've been drawing to help practice my portrait skills :] This is the first of a group of 5 (why did I do this to myself)

[lyriumsings]

i was tagged ages ago by the lovely @sunshinemage thank you so much! this was so fun!! I decided to do this for my destiny oc eiva! :3 praying the formatting doesn’t break bc i am chronically on mobile

5 Character Associations

Emotions

loneliness

grief

rage

hubris

hope

Colors

white

yellow-gold

red

black

blue

Scents

outside

iron

gunpowder

leather

sunlight

Objects

bullet casings

worn leather boots

red cloak

weighted blade

dog tags

Body Language

steady hands

nose scrunching with laughter

narrowed unflinching gaze

stock-still posture

blowing stray hairs out of face

Aesthetics

Fading light

driven snow marred with soot

pinstraight pale hair

fields of edelweiss

a broken locket

Im gonna tag: @exotic-inquiry @777greywolf and @retconomics no pressure ofc! <33

[haezysol]

a little kyungsoo piece bc exo is backkkk

[your-fave-is-bi]

Artfight may kill me lol

I spent tonight just doodlin poses for most of the characters I’ve bookmarked and yall. I forgot how many I had bookmarked hdhdh

[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

[trilobitepunch]

favorite art you made?

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This question is too haaaaard

And a bit vague, haha! Is it in general? Specific fandom or something? I don't...particularly have a favorite, that position is always subject to change every time I draw things. It's hard to narrow down, that's like picking a favorite child or something lol

I have consulted my scrapbookish thing to see if anything has popped up and since I went to a Destiny Art Show today, I'm inspired. So here is one of my favorite pieces- perhaps my best piece of my favorite Exo, Cayde-6. Done quite a while ago, but I consider it fitting since my style has leaned more into this type of traditional media with grays and washes.

[hyunpic]

list of songs hyunjin has played on his lives/recommended:

note: im probably missing some & i couldn’t put links to all of them cause apparently tumblr has a link limit 🤨

lauv: julia, lonely eyes, invisible things, paris in the rain, never not, im so tired, the story never ends, i like me better

offonff: photograph, cigarette (ft. miso & tablo), dance, bath

beyoncé: crazy in love (remix)

billie eilish: i love you, &burn, idontwannabeyouanymore, ocean eyes, before i go, tv

honne: day1, la la la that’s how it goes

christina perri: a thousand years

shawn mendes: mercy, treat you better, in my blood

dvwn: phobia

dpr live: jam & butterfly

jehwi: dear moon

leehi: rose

bts: dna, waste it on me, make it right

colde: where love begins, string (ft. sunwoojunga), the museum, wa-r-r, your dog loves you (ft. crush), control me, a song nobody knows, im in love

got7: miracle, hard carry

justin bieber: lonely

josef salvat: call on me

taemin: criminal

night off: sleep

sam kim: make up (ft. crush), like a fool, sunny days summer nights

niki: lowkey

iu: the visitor, lullaby, knees, love poem, give you my heart, my sea

cha ni: starlight

sia: snowman

akmu: happening

sunwoojunga: run with me

the black skirts: everything

korea cracker: ocean (ft. hoyeon kim)

cosmic boy: can i love?

penomeco: no.5 (ft. crush)

yerin baek: blooming memories, limit

10cm: so…., however

day6: i’ll try, love me or leave me, when you love someone, you were beautiful, congratulations, zombie, days gone by, afraid

dean: d (half moon), instagram, what 2 do, bonnie & clyde

exo: first snow, the eve, love shot

sam fischer: this city

jukjae: do you want to walk with me?, lullaby

ph-1: nerdy love (ft. yerin baek), as i told you

baekhyun: love again, un village

amine: blackjack

young k: come as you are, guard you

flume: say it (ft. tove lo)

twice: dance the night away, fancy

ariana grande: thank u, next

hajin: we all lie

about: it has to be you

caroline says: winter is cold

h.e.r: u, wait for it

bol4: to my youth

monday kiz: winter is as i wished

paul kim: the road, additional

sweden laundry: the winter

jung seung hwan: in that winter

chungha: gotta go

zion.t: no make up, snow

airman: gloomy star, i’ll be your spring (ft. j_ust)

motte: dont run away

seventeen: a-teen, super

khalid: location

lukas graham: 7 years

imagine dragons: believer

bo kyung kim: dont think you are alone

jung ilhoon: spoiler (ft. babylon)

davichi: falling in love, 이 사랑

coldplay: everglow, viva la vida

lyn: my destiny

jus2: focus on me, long black, senses (jpn version)

crush: beautiful, you and i

ed sheeran: lego house, perfect, photograph, beautiful people

croosh: why

20 years of age: x

tori kelly: paper hearts

seulgi: always

luna: do you love me? (ft. george)

wisue: someone’s shining

epik high: eternal sunshine

jp saxe: if the world was ending

seori: fairy tale

bruno mars: marry you

the weeknd: earned it, die for you

jung seunghwan: its raining, an ordinary day, dear

sam tinnesz: play with fire

post malone: motley crew

jihyo: stardust love song

kim feel: your voice

sung sikyung: solar system, heejae

younha: stardust

wonpil: a journey

taeyeon: invu, some nights, toddler, drawing our moments

nct dream: boom

ha hyunsang: 3108

huhgak: memory of your scent

se so neon: nan chun, a long dream, midnight train, stranger

umi: remember me

tvxq!: mirotic

johnny balik: honey

red velvet: psycho

new jeans: hype boy

christian kuria: losing you

cigarettes after sex: k. , each time you fall in love, sunsetz, apocalypse

dpr ian: nerves, no blueberries, 1 shot

samm henshaw: broke

woodz: drowning

kelly clarkson: underneath the tree

kimmuseum: to you who cant sleep

taylor swift: betty

lana del rey: young and beautiful

harry styles: watermelon sugar, she

pink sweat$: honesty

masego: tadow

olivia rodrigo: vampire

troye sivan: youth, for him

kai: mmmh

2pm: my house

oasis: wonderwall, hey now

mac miller: that’s on me, everybody

nothing but thieves: amsterdam

bren joy: sweet

back number: i love you

mac ayres: next to you, roses

daniel caesar: blessed, ocho rios, get you (ft. kali uchis), take me away (ft. syd), do you like me?, disillusioned

green day: dilemma

puma blue: already falling

bruno major: nothing, easily, places we won’t walk, the most beautiful thing, old soul

[sylenth-l]

This is probably such an odd question, but it’s so very relevant for something I swear…

How tall is Saint-14 compared to your Osiris and Felwinter?

Got a similar question before, so not that odd! :D

I mentioned that to make things easier for myself, I stick to the general rule that Felwinter is the tallest and Tevis is the shortest, so any other character is somewhere between these two (with an exception of Exo!Big Red, who purposefully made himself taller than Fel).

It's hard to say exactly w/o drawing a proper lineup, but I have a rough idea that since Saint is really tall the way I see him, Felwinter is probably only half a head taller than him. That makes Osiris almost a head shorter than Saint and barely shoulder-high for Felwinter. (And keep in mind that Osiris himself isn't short, he's pretty average).

I also must say that I'm not very consistent about heights... Sometimes I simply fail to draw the proper height difference and sometimes I purposefully shrink it so the characters fit better in the same frame together 😅

[braindamagedrizz]

Im taking the reveal trailer very well, clearly, I am so so normal, so normal about Cayde.. I swear. Anyways, Ruxiz and Cayde, because I absolutely love drawing them and frankly I need to post them more. Drawing exos is so so hard.

[savyir-genesizz-the-wizard]

gotta ask abt cogito & the cane, if you don't mind. even as a (phys) disabled person I have a hard time thinking of circumstances with D2 where disabilities wouldn't just be either a. healed by light or b. negligible with abilities or c. too much of risk on the field. hadn't given much thought to exos in regards to all that- I know pretty much nothing about exo anatomy either. I know we see some stuff with banshee's memory impairment, but that's not physical. au thing or did you find a way that the rep makes sense? /gen

Hello! So I think I've talked about it a few times in various Discord servers but didn't make a post so here are all my thoughts on this topic (as examplified by my oc(s))

Case A. Cogito is disabled because he was disabled before he died and it did not cause his death. His exo model is highly custom and a leg he kitbashed from a dead exo (when he was lightless) is very faulty (causes pain when he walks too much or runs, and sometimes doesn't bend).

This could also happen with human/awoken guardians (especially if they were born disabled). As Speaker said: "Devotion inspires bravery, bravery inspires sacrifice, sacrifice leads to death" - it would be fucked up if disabled people were somewhat except from that. If a guardian can be rezzed old (like Osiris) then it probably means that they get rezzed as they were at the point when they died so case closed.

Back to Cogito though - yes, light can help him as a mobility aid (he's a Warlock, he can fly pretty well) but obliviously can't always work (light restriction zones for example). And also yeah, it's very much a problem in the field sometimes. It's a big reason why he does solitary reaserch work and only raids with a big group.

Another example of this would be Kobzar-13 with his poor eyesight (this one is for me. I have very bad eyesight too tho it's not as bad, yet). His optics were damaged some time before he died so now it's like this. He could probably get them fixed but he just rolls with this. His ghost audio describes everything to him in his head which I think would be very cool.

Case B. Wawrzyniec is disabled (amputee) because his arm got cut of by Crota. Aka "various light restricting devices and light restricted zones". In this case soulfire. Cogito's scratch (on his head, I don't always draw them) also goes under this category.

This one is more of a stretch but I think that it's plausible. I guess that guardians more often die in these situations than escape disabled. There is also the fact that ghosts might be not able (or want) to heal certain injuries. You can say that Sloane is a lore example of this.

Another oc example of this would be Enebish who got burn scars and lost an eye during the Red War when the Traveler was caged. I don't really remember if anything was said about it at the time.

Bonus case C. I know that some people headcanon guardians getting disabled because of extended light usage. I personally don't think it makes sense and goes kinda against the healing power of light stuff. Case closed.

And about the non-guardians - multiple characters have these sci-fi prosthetics (Camrin's is super advanced and Variks'es is pretty shabby) that I imagine can depend of how much cash or girlfriend in STEM you have. Eramis even has ones for her both feet so the field must be pretty advanced. There is also brother Vance who is blind and clearly did pretty well (before he jumped into piramid zone and vanished forever (John Bungie, if you heal his eyesight I'll kill you)).

Bungie seems to be generally very indirect when it comes to showing disability. Except for PTSD. Which is to be expected from an fps shooter. Everyone wants a cool robot arm but no one wants to talk about the attitude to disability in different cultures.

Speaking of which - humanity is probably not much different then it's now. There are probably a lot of disabled veterans. I wonder if insulin is expensive in the Last City. Awoken and Cabal are probably weird about it. Neomuni, well, we've seen Maya Sundaresh. Eliksni are the most normal.

So yeah, that's all from me. Thanks for the ask!

[martyr-19]

My name is Martyr-19. Just Martyr, really. Martyr nineteen is a mouthfull.

I tend to be a very private person— but there are things I’d like to remember. People, places, thoughts…

I have a hard time remembering.

Prophet, my Ghost, says it’s time I begin logging things just in case the day comes where memories get blurry and I start to forget again.

That day always does come. Maybe this time it won’t leave me so lost.

Feel free to stick around, reach out— may as well. We’re here for a good time, not a long time.

Keep your eyes up, Guardian.

M19

My names V! Making this a sort of roleplay account since I’ve grown very attached to my Guardian over the past…nearly a year? I’d like to make content for him whenever I have time and motivation hits. I aim to post renders, drawings, and writings— it’ll be good practice.

Always looking to meet new people!

Logs:

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Bio:MARTYR-#

Bio:KEIRAN

Bio:LILLIAN

Bio:SENTRY-#

Bio:VUASS-#

Bio:BEV

First-Fireteam

Click-Update

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Small posts:

Personal space

“Smile More”

Lying

OOC:

Fireteam Question

Q&A:

Exo Face Mechanics

TikTok where I post my destiny edits and stuff: https://www.tiktok.com/@greyisblue?_t=8n9rCwKSJwp&_r=1

Account where I post about other games and my other Guardian characters and content:

[sovhina]

Tagged in wip Wednesday by the lovely @harumeau thank you sm! <333 so I come bearing the full Eiva lines and one of their fireteam members prem I didn’t draw the third bc exos hard lmao not tagging anyone bc I’m lazy and it’s hard for me to remember @s rn FJFDKH

[ao3wasntenough]

I want trying drawing exo suit for headmaster transformers but I not sure how, I meant in I managed to drawing superheroes outfit and dress but since exo suit all full body I am not sure drawing head part

So this is 👇 fan art I see in Pinterest this exo suit really imagine if Lennox becoming iron head headmaster, this is how Lennox look like

Well the fan art obviously for nest soldier but I think it will more fitting for Lennox exo suit that made from Ironhide's head, because well Ironhide is weapon specialist he definitely will put badass weapon in exo suit

Sam definitely going to start calling Lennox master chief as a joke but in a good way,

If I was designing the suits I think I’d find it hard to balance realistic, looking cool but also referencing the bot the suit is made out of all into one. It would probably be more actiony super hero if you go to hard on referencing the bot it’s made from and it’s so uninspired to just have a hyper realistic robot suit with no symbolence of bot characteristics

A tough challenge

[chocolate-milk-fanfics]

Runaway Bride spoilers

Ok so I’m planning my next chapters for runaway bride right? (spoilers)

For context I’m a neurodivergent college student and when I get distracted during class I either space out, draw or write stuff. One day during class I was spacing and wrote future chapters for RNB and just look at this...

“I choked her and then unloaded a clip into her. through her body and one of the factories and set it on fire after removing the bullets.” Tommy said with little to no emotion as he recalled the memory of killing his mistress. breathing became hard as you listen to his confession. why? why was he telling you this? Grace was unrelated to you, just another woman in love with the wrong man.” I won't cheat again. I'm sorry.” Tommy said suddenly, as if he didn't just admit to murder.” I love you. and I won't let you go; not again not ever.”

“ I don't love you. not anymore.” you said in a soft voice “ I won't go with you. I'm happy here and you have a son of your own now.”

“ that can change.” Tommy said as if it was nothing and your heart broke. how can the man you love not only cheat on you and then kill his mistress but is now is offering to kill his bastard child? was Tommy always this type of person or did you just choose not to see all of his red flags? “ I'll kill whoever I need to to get you back son or no son. boyfriend or no boyfriend.”

Bro what was I on??? The way I gasped when I read this...

Taglist:

@mysticalfairytales @iwanttohitmyself @exo-kai15 @iikximii @dang-shawty-okay @warrior-of-justice

[neptuniadoesstuff]

ITS A TRAP! /hj (Adrastea's Official Ref)

So I have been working on this fella for a while (In Ibispaint it says like 26 hours but in reality its been a few days) ever since I decided to take a small break from working on Ryan. BUT I may have uh.... Got into some chaos since MY PROGRAM CRASHED LIKE 2 TIMES, ONE TIME FOR THE IMAGE & ANOTHER FOR THE FILE RECOVERY! But in the end I was able to finally finish it. So.... yeah... :')

This guy (Yes guy, I'm not sure you read the title but this is infact a MAN) is for a DT I'm having with a frend based on my Lil universe/story called "A Stargazer's Diary" & this guy is a antagonist in the story.

On the left is his Drag Queen/Dancer get up while on the right is his Gang leader get up. Yes he's a gang leader & will brutally myorder you if you lose to a game of poker with him). He is often referred to as Mr. Casanova when he is in his gang leader suit but when he is not & working as a dancer/entertainer at the casino/Hotel he owns, he is referred to as "Queen Rosette". (& yes teh rose motifs are everywhere)

If you wanna read some of his info, you can go here (The Tumblr bio) or here (His official file created by me on TH).

Theres some extras but here's a warning: One of the extras contains LARGE AMOUNTS OF BL00D! The other extra is just him but with shorts & a crop top on bcs I don't know if I can show his full body without being murked to deth.

Extra 01:

This is the gang leader get up but with LARGE amounts of bl00d on it. (Bcs he is very brutal to his victims in this ver of him)

Extra 02:

Just a image of him but it's actually showing his face & w/o his long ahh hair that was a struggle to draw. (Why do curly hair gotta be so gosh diggity hard to DRAW!)

Btw he does have a tail but it's pretty small due to him being a Humonculus of a exo-human + plant alien hybrid created by a evil space colony.

Anyways.... hope this enjoy this hellhole I went through bcs IbisPaint decided to be a lil jerk to me & crash on me for no reason.

Character was created by me but made for my frend Al.

Art: Mine.

Program: IbisPaint x

Bubs' TOS: Plz don't repost/steal, trace, or recolor my art WITHOUT MY PERMISSION! If you do, I'll take yur femur and pelvis.. SO, DON'T THINK ABOUT IT! (The PNS on my blog's pinned post clearly means "Please No Steal" plz follow that rule.) If you do post my art on anything like yur blog or somewhere else (With my permission) PLEASE CREDIT ME!

[nova--spark]

imagining thea (human form) in battle, what is her fighting style? what weapon does she use the most? would she be involved in missions against m.e.c.h.? i would love to draw her (to practice and possibly share it if it turns out good) in action and didn’t come up with a scenario yet!

Alrighty this is a fun question to answer because it's so fun.

Anthea, for lack of a better term, is a cheater in fights.

She fights entirely to what can bring her an advantage, because if she's fighting against bots 2 stories tall or more, she needs all she can get.

Because her opponents won't be fair, they'll fight dirty. So she will too

She aims for the eyes, the joints, neck, anything to get them down on her level. Helps that being a hybrid of sorts also makes her semi immune to certain weapons focused on purely Cybertronian biology.

A lot of her attacks are mixed martial arts, you can thank Plasma's training for it, and he's taught her a variety of weapons as well, being a former assassin and current recon and spy for the Autobots.

Anthea, when in her exo-suit, resorts to all kinds of weaponry.

This exo suit projects her holoform disguise, known as Astrea, as well as creates hard light constructs to craft into weaponry, like this:

That said, as this exo-suit [Sirius M01], can also work a little like Noah's Exo-Suit from Mirage. Anthea's Cybrid nature makes her have some light influence on the teach of the suit, meaning she can will it to construct some weapons if necessary, or added armor.

Mainly, she will summon some gauntlets, or a shield of sorts if necessary.

She did fashion an Energon whip, which is tied to her own energy signature. She's quite versatile with it.

Lastly, Anthea was taught proper marksmanship from her mother, and has years of experience with firearms since she was 18.

Anthea's prosthetic legs also have many weapons added into them, courtesy of suggestion from Wheeljack, Plasma and herself more than a few times.

Within just her prosthetics, Anthea has

Blades that can double as arm blades

2 Energon firearms concealed within her thigh panels of the legs

Ankle Jets

Magnetic soles

Ice Skates

Rollerblades

Reinforced Plating

As for Anthea's interactions with M.E.C.H, yes indeed, Anthea is involved with missions relation to their activity.

As she is a hybrid, the kind that MECH would adore getting their hands on, Thea made a deal with Fowler.

She would help, with Plasma, to hunt down their remnants, so long as any evidence of her condition, and missions, were scrubbed and under the table.

M.E.C.H would not get information they wanted, to create something like her.

She also has volunteered to take on the missions the kids can't or are not allowed. Missions of much higher stakes, that her hybrid/techno organic nature means she can easily survive and is better suited for.

Her involvement can very, from running recon, stealing information, or leveling bases with Plasma.