#i LOVE doing these realistic portraits

[raiiner]

william afton jumpscare. colored version under the cut

[hinamie]

i don't normally participate in these redraw challenges but it's megumi so i'll make an exception

[kokoasci]

00:05

[laurrelise]

five, five, & five

should i have drawn brisket five instead. i know hes a fan favorite

[hiort]

nice andsweet guy who did nothing wrong

[melishade]

hiya, just wanted to pop in to say I'm obsessed with aop and wanted to share how I imagined your Megs and Op :) if I got the time I might follow up with Arcee and Jackie

I couldn't put it on part 5 of the Masterlist because there's an apparent limit on how many hyperlinks I can put! but I'm so happy for this! Thank you! EVERYONE GO LOOK AT FOOLISHER!

[novelconcepts]

Every year, I make straightforward lists of the books I want, and every year, multiple family members tell me I'm too hard to shop for because "I'm not just gonna buy you BOOKS." 😭

[anitalianfrie]

Some doodles I made for my girl!vale au

[thekendallkathryn]

💙 cooper 💙

[mcl-mia]

//zeus week day 2 - family

zeus taking his sisters home from the chuck e cheese :)

bonuses for this under the cut!

this is the actual portrait of zeus' parents in the bg! i tried a more semi-realistic style, and i was heavily inspired by the family portrait in the netflix castlevania show. the file name is literally "brundlevania mama and papa" lol.

and these are the quick concepts for the rest of the family!! i gave mama brundle the name "iris" after the greek goddess, plus pretty flower. i imagine that she's a little sad that her kids don't look a lot like her (save for lulu and belle having her eyes), but thor's genes are just too strong LMAO. she's also definitely the legit cool mom, and supports her kids no matter what.

also, i should mention that lulu's hair (unbraided) is more in-between mom and dad. i like to think that kureha is their retainer, and that she helps them do their hair every morning :) you'll never guess what belle's favorite anime is (hint: it's sailor moon. lulu's favorite is naruto).

i do have a design for kureha, but i need to render it digitally LOL. plus i need to design hiro's mom...... one of these days.

[3amsnek]

birthday bastard boy!!! went in a completely different direction this time with my annual Jim Appreciation Art and had a blast painting him with some fun brushes :3 love my strange lil son

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reblogs >> likes!!

[ice-diameta]

Inktober 2023 Day 28: ✨️Sparkle✨️

I've always admired how animated shows could create such sparkly and beautiful eyes (not to mention that I'm not very confident with eye stylization), and so I wanted to draw something similar👁✨️ I hope this makes sense! I don't think the prompt Sparkle is clear enough, but I had less time than expected😅 I do hope the image qualities are good enough so the sparkles can be seen well!

[ghosttotheparty]

started a realistic portrait of hobie and i’m losing my mind he’s so pretty

[art--harridan]

[Image description: A traditional drawing of Nobuko Miyamoto as Hanako Inoue in Supermarket Woman. Here, she's a middle-age Japanese woman with a short, choppy haircut. She's smiling widely, her eyes beginning to close in joy. Her head is tilted to the left, and the piece cuts off a little below her shoulders. She's wearing a red blazer and a black bow tie. The background is a similar red to the blazer. This piece is drawn with markers, using bold, unnatural colours. In the top corner, it says "#2 - film by Juzo Itami".]

#2 - Film by Juzo Itami

Film - Supermarket Woman

[than487]

someone shared their brushes and they feel exactly like what I wish my artstyle was like and IF I GET EM TO WORK RIGHT FOR ME YOULL NEVER HEAR THE END OF IT.

[hansoeii]

Hello! Hope you're having a great day/night! I absolutely adore your art, you are one of my favourite artists. I love the way you shade and do backrounds. Also everytime I get into a new show I immediately see your art for it??

I was wondering if you had any advice on drawing more realistically (backrounds, anatomy etc) but still keeping a style?

Hey hey!

Thank you so much!

I have a pretty good understanding of facial structures, because before I got into drawing more semi-realisticly, I heavily focused on realistic portraits. Here are some example, these are from around 2019!

(yes, I was really into danmei and kpop back then, haha)

I just always loved drawing/painting faces and it was all I did. But at some point I realized that I wanted to do more than that because just portraits felt super restricting. So it took me around 2-3 years to somewhat find my style. Thought it would be fun to show a little timeline! Advice will follow afterwards :)

2020

I began working on my OCs in 2020 and since I didn't have an exact reference to work off of, I struggled a lot. My art from this year is super wonky.

2021

Still wonky, but the Lokius obsession was the jumpstart into finding my style! My work from this year is all over the place haha, I was experimenting a lot.

2022

This first ofmd piece is pretty much the first drawing where you can see where my style is gonna go, which I think is pretty cool! This is the year I made the biggest progress cos I was drawing SO much. These two pieces are only six months apart. The one on the right was the first time I gave drawing a background a proper go, too! It was a good year.

2023

And this is where I am now! I'm still constantly learning and improving, but I'd say I have a style you can recognize now!

Now here comes some actual advice, haha:

What I highly recommend you to do is to study your favorite artists as much as you can! I have like 5 A4 sketchbooks all from 2020 that I filled with sooooo many studies, where basically all I did was look at artists I like and copy how they draw stuff, to try and figure out how to stylize certain things. Some of my favorite artists are Ami Thompson, Velinxi and TB Choi. But I also liked to just scroll through pinterest and study all the art I came across that I liked! For example, if I saw a really great drawing of a pair of pants I would copy it many times in my sketchbook and try to learn how they stylized the folds. Doing this for a prolongued period of time will naturally improve your own work! It'll be difficult at first, but you gotta push through, it's gonna be worth it!

I also highly recommend studying unique faces to try and avoid the same-face syndrome. Find some cool looking people and try to draw them as simple as you can! Maybe even draw a little timeline where you first draw them as cartoon-y as you can, and keep going until you end up with a more detailed, realistic drawing. Maybe in the middle of it you find a step that feels the most fun to you, so you can try to build on that! It's a great way to figure out what kind of style might be the best for you.

Here are some cool faces I found on pinterest!

I have a pinterest board with many more!

One REALLY important part of learning how to draw all kinds of things is to understand forms and shapes and how to manipulate them. I have so many pages in my sketchbook filled with just shapes that I drew from all kinds of angles without any references.

This is a great video on it:

6 Ways to Draw Anything by Proko

Learning how to do this is so crucial! Young artists often think they first have to learn all kinds of detailed anatomy before doing anything else, but all that's gonna do is make you tired and hate drawing. Shapes are where it's at! Once you understand how shapes work and which ones to use for certain parts of bodies or objects, drawing is gonna get so much easier! Once you understand them, you can get into details such as muscles and bones!

And honestly the most important point is to just absolutely love what you're doing! I wouldn't be doing this if it wasn't for the fact that I get extreme hyperfixations on certain media that turn me into some kind of beast where I can suddenly draw 10 detailed illustrations a week, haha. Just be passionate about what you do, find something you REALLY love and go crazy!

I really hope this was somewhat helpful! My inbox is always open if there's any more questions :)