#ive got an entire pinterest folder

[likesdoodling]

Remembered Fullmetal Alchemist is a thing recently, so here's Colonel Mustang, aka my shading study of the day~

[bogusbyron]

do you have any suggestions of websites to use for drawing references or tips for anatomy? i love your art and im obsessed with how you draw bodies

Ohh thankyou so much! Ive been practicing relentlessly trying to figure out anatomy lately so I'm glad its paying off !!!!

Honestly i dont use any websites in particular? It depends on what im drawing. I save refs in various places, whereever i see them. I've got #art refs here on tumblr, a refs folder on instgram but the main one i use is pinterest. If nothing else I'll usually just google.

Admittedly i do also look at, um, not the safest for work sources for some references. Vintage gay mags, that sort of thing . Style-wise i find Tom of Finland the most fun to look at especially when it comes to torsos and the like. Huge guy tits ftw . (Dont look him up if you've got someone standing next to you).

Ive got some websites saved that are specifically for refs (like referenceangle) but i dont really use them. I find pics from pinterest are enough, and if i need a specific head angle i'll just take a picture of my own head ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

As for anatomy tips? Urm.. i'm still working on that myself if i'm honest. From what ive gathered though, overthinking it is where it starts looking a bit wrong. Starting with sketching loose shapes really helps your intuition with proportions, figuring out if something looks wrong or not. Its really important to study anatomy, and don't stick to what other people tell you you have to do, its all up to whats comfortable to you personally.

For a while now ive looked at different artstyles and how they draw bodies and its only recently ive actually looked at like real models . I find studying stylised cartoons help because you can kinda learn how far you can shape something before it starts looking weird. It entirely depends on your own artstyle and processes .

Also: don't be afraid to trace references. I used to stave off it but i found its very handy to help you learn shapes and muscle memory for how to draw them in the future without references, which i think is important

I'm not an expert and i just draw for fun so i havent done much serious studies and whatnot . Hope this makes sense? Or helps at all . 🙏🙏

[hinamie]

hi hina! i hope you've been well 🩵 for the art asks: 5, 6, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 22, 23 🎨🖌️🖼️

Mariam !!! It's so good to hear from you I hope you've been well also <3 <3 <3 this will get long

5. Anything you haven’t drawn yet but want to?

oooooh I've had an idea in my head for an s/e piece inspired by visuals from the blood sweat and tears mv for like 5 years but no matter how hard I throw myself at it I can never get it to look right so i've just been waiting until i manage to catch lightning in a bottle i guess :< (((I also found a few notes in an old "to draw" folder from like 2 years ago that include but are not limited to: jjk band au with guitarist brothers yuuji+sukuna/bassist megu/drummer nobara; gojo in crocs. ))))

6. Which artists inspire you right now?

HHHHH its the same crowd as usual i am so hides face in hands bc they intimidate me /pos :'))))) vacuumchan, ohprcr, gloomyhome, trickywagon, meru90 to name a few ANYWAY RUNNING HIDING

15. Biggest artist pet peeve?

this is a tough one im such a hater and everything inconveniences me ,,, when the perfect csp brush costs money >:C,, when u cant find reference from this One Specific Angle >:C,, when u dont realize youve merged the wrong layer until you've been working for hours and all of a sudden your folders are out of order and its a mess >:C SPEAKING OF MERGING LAYERS hot take i think that they should invent a way to let u merge layer modes without converting them all to the same type. let me put my multiply with my glow dodge !!! cowards.

16. What’s the most daunting part of your process?

rendering :') so much of it is trusting the process and there are so many ugly phases that make u wonder if u were ever good at art to begin with

17. What inspires you?

hdsj i mean im a fanartist so i think it goes without saying that I'm mainly inspired by the content I like ,, but i also am very inspired by fashion !!!! saw a guy walking the other day with a hoodie that said CASH FOR SOULS | COLD HARD CASH | CA$H4SOULZ.com and i had to take a picture of it like a creep bc tht + Sukuna ??? hello??? anyway yea ive got a pinterest board dedicated to insp-y clothes and a notes folder dedicated to jotting down cute outfits I see in public

18. Do you have any larger projects you’d like to pursue?

I've always wanted to do speedpaints ! but even more than that I want to do something aNYTHING with my ocverse but alas...time.....planning....plot.. so in the meantime they simply live in my head bouncing around like globs of wax in a lava lamp

19. Favourite character(s) to draw?

megumi jjk gojo jjk sukuna/yuuji jjk kotori love live rina love live ichigo tokyo mew mew + shiro n eden from My Brain ,,, im crying the duality of my fav chars is either feral shounen twink or idol/magical girl and eden is both simultaneously actually

22. When is your prime time to work on your art?

usually mid to late afternoon but it depends on the season because it gets so HOT in my room in the warm months which I dread >:( How it works is if I start in mid-late afternoon then I'm able to hit my stride and draw basically through the entire evening (also because of the aforementioned Heat I vastly prefer drawing in fall/winter because that means I don't have to evacuate my room at 4pm sdfhdgshd)

23. Do you listen to music or watch shows while you work? If so, what’s your favourite?

I have to have music or something on while I'm drawing or the fans in my cintiq will drive me insane . Sometimes i listen to music that matches/drastically contrasts the piece I'm working on but most of the time I can't be bothered and just throw on my youtube mix which consists embarassingly of mainly vocaloid and utau ,, though sometimes if a piece is kicking my ass and I need to just hunker down and get shit done then I'll put the entire discography of an artist I like on shuffle (some favs include 1D/waterparks/former vandal/harumaki gohan) and for some reason the Predictability activates intense productivity mode?? I cant explain it gdsj its like I have music on that I like but it's not jumping around between artists so I don't get too distracted or excited whenever the song changes

[goldenhour-goldenboy]