#i really liked posing this one tbh

[uldahstreetrat]

Polyamory Week - 2. Domestic Life

It's certainly rare catching an ounce of boredom in their house, Rhea always has some new book idea to share with her partners. It makes good entertainment while Allie cooks (* ´∀｀*)

bonus zoomed out shot cause I added an easter egg to make my sister mad, gottem

[buwheal]

BEACH OUTFIT 💥💥💥💥

He used to surf the web back in 98'.

[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.

[pillowfriendly]

(i cheated and took new pics cause i dont have many on hand. hehe.) BUT. my WoL as a:

Romanceable NPC

Quest Giver NPC

Final Boss

do your guy NOW

[waywardsalt]

refused to let myself rest until i finished making this

[clairrely]

maybe they’re doomed by the narrative but can’t two guys be soft together? as a treat?

[sealrock]

nothing but good vibes. — ♫

[sunflowerseraph]

MoonScarab 4 life❗️❗️

[tsukasageorge]

seems like the perfect weather to fly a kite!

Day 17: Hair Study

for today, i pulled inspiration from how hanacue draws hair!! it's so beautiful and fun to draw, but oh my god is it time consuming lmao

[edmunderson]

reanimating those hearts sure is tiring work

[pinkyjulien]

Valentin & Mitch | 655/?? ▶ When the heat of the afternoon puts you in the mood 🔞

[gnarled-garden]

Spiky

Silly guy just wants to cuddle

[teamoon7]

🇺🇲: A little drawing I did for bugnoire :D I kinda liked her design in general although I'd make some changes. I'll probably redesign her AND make an ADRIEN version of this fusion in the future. (Also I promise I didn't forget my other redesigns, I'm just extremely lazy sorry)

🇧🇷: Um desenhinho que eu fiz da bugnoire :D Eu até que gostei do design dela apesar de que eu provavelmente faria algumas mudanças se pudesse. Eu devo fazer um redesign dela E fazer um design pro ADRIEN com a fusão principal no futuro. (E eu JURO que não esqueci dos meus outros redesigns, só sou extremamente preguiçosa e procrastino demaiskkkk foi mal)

[oh-meow-swirls]

i feel like there must be a gold mine of yo-kai watch stuff that my moms bought and then never actually gave to me.

i have this now-

[hasarjunadoneanythingwrong]

Day 820

It’s incredibly cool to see how arjuna’s noble phantasm has changed over the years, as well as the details that stay and change from version to version-how how every version but his fgo animation update has him cover his face and dematerialize his bow, or how he switches his dominant arm

It’s also interesting to note how, for example in extella link pashupata is launched high into the air, almost into space, and rains down like a meteor shower as it destroys a barren wasteland. Then in arcade, he gets a shot of a moon over his head as pashupata expands around him like a massive sphere of light. In his newest version he keeps the blue oasis full of waterlilies (it’s mostly likely these over lotuses as they’re closer to the water’s surface than a lotus would be) but instead of exploding or expanding similarly to prior versions pashupata seems to instantaneously fracture the area around it.

It’s so good!

[mail-me-a-snail]

was thinking about silvervance again (as per usual) n it popped into my head to show y'all my progress shots !!

the first pic is the initial sketch (very barebones, just scribbling to get a certain Energy on the canvas). the second is cleaning up the first by establishing shapes and the line of action.

and the third is the finished product!

art is fucking insane man.