#so i guess im learning how to 3d model

[imflyingfish]

Now ive moved out my list of material priorities is so different. Cheese grater with one of those tubs underneath. Exact same backpack you wanted when you were 11 years old. Vaccum cleaner. Minecraft toy. Rice cooker. A new pair of washing up gloves. A tube of tomato puree. Hdmi connector (for my Nintendo wii.) Jesus christ.

[bug--png]

hi i’m an older artist in my 30s trying to get back into art, i used to draw all the time and took commissions but lost passion over the years. back when i was active 3D was really inaccessible, i messed around with it when i was a teen but if was really confusing.

i see a lot of artists now making 3D models and i’ve seen blender mentioned and i’m wanting to try out 3D again as it’s something new and interesting to me. what programs do you use and how difficult are they? i’m guessing it’s not free so are they expensive? (i’m an experienced pirater but sometimes it’s just easier to buy if you can afford it you know?)

very cute art and adorable unique characters (i do follow you haha), sorry if this intrusive!

hi there im in no way a 3d modeler and actually struggle soo much with those kinds of programs, i used paint3d since it lets me "draw" the shapes out instead of any of the complicated jumbo (BUT that means its crazy limited and tbh if you want to learn modeling its not the way to go) You could start with blender its free and a very popular option used for 90% of 3d modeling work! I personally cant give much advice other than that, but there are plenty of youtube tutorials that can help you :> Just keep in mind that 3d modeling is a completely different skillset than artwork so its a very challenging thing to start (i myself gave up on it)

[melmonquartelz]

hey! im learning blender and I am guessing ur vtuber model was made with blender and the effects were made in unity? (correct me if im wrong) , since im a new beginner I wanted to ask do you have any resources or anything you can link or recommend to get good at rigging your oc into blender/modeling etc, because I notice your an artist mainly I never saw 3d models you've made before and seeing it now is so cool! did you practice a lot behind the scenes? Im just amazed how good you got so fast at the program! I want to also rig an oc of mine in vrchat but i guess i wanna find out what ur process was!

I just made her with unity yes! I'm not smart enough for blender yet..

SO, I actually use a base called deira! I've slowly learnt over the months (Since last Oct) how to mess around with VR models, sorry if it's a bit disappointing it wasn't made by scratch!! But I'd argue added assets and clothing is scratch enough LOL

Here where all the assets I've used that's on Pastel!

Hair

Wings

Sweater

Leg warmers

I have had help from my friend Khai on how to do these so she was the one that mainly taught me BUT tutoriels by Snipps Avatar Box has been really helpful for me! They're short, simple and get to the point

So all I did was use the deria base, attach all the clothes to her and add 50 glowing emissions everywhere LOL The next thing I gotta learn is how to make clothing toggles

But I'm not sure if this was helpful but I hope maybe it was by 1% !!

[starcutterlor]

trying to plan out how im gonna make the base of the gunslinger out of kandi and ohhh man. i have no clue what i'm doing [ramblings under cut]

i've already got the hand bits thanks to @/practicalsolutions' 3d print models so the hardest part is out of the way. my current thoughts are uhh. lemme make a drawing

like a 2x base with the extra layer on top right. like my hot topic cuff

but the issue is there's also this piece here;

that grey bit with the buttons(?). if i do a 2x cuff that'll be harder right. so my next thought was to make the whole thing a multistitch built on a bumper base- like my sun and moon cuff but just. yk. Longer. but the issue with that is that's gonna be SOOO fucking bulky. my next best guess is combining the 2x style with the multistitch bumpers which will probably work. but at the same time i'm still kinda nervous about it

i can handle those yellow wires and stuff with just some single strands probably. that'll be fine.

so that piece i'll have connected to the gunslinger umm. somehow. theres a hole in the base i can run a string through and maybe make a chain stitching them together.

but then we have The Bullshit with the other piece

i think it's kind of an octagon? on the front there's this keypad, wires, and a light (i think). the wires have a tab they stick out from, which has a smaller light on it.

here's the back, an elastic strap. this part makes me mad.

so it looks something like this from the bottom. if anyone complains about the quality of this drawing i will kill you.

i think i could do something like peyote stitch for the base of this piece, but after that point i think i'd need to learn how to do shape cuffs for the octagonish spots. i can probably make the lights & keypads out of perler beads?

this would hug the inside of my arm nicely & i could switch colors midway for the elastic strap. the main issue i can foresee is stitching on the shape cuff bits so they don't look awkward. engineer tf2 i love you but this is a wack ass design to translate.

[kodachromantic]

yo! lot's happened since i was last actively here. i turned 22 and graduated college!!!!!

i'm not doing much these days, as i'm waiting to find work once i move back up to where i used to live in august. new area but same general vicinity. so right now we're just going through the storage unit so that's ofc been taking up some time.

okay onto actually being here. i've been real down in the dumps about my art lately, feeling like i have no chance in the industry, leaving school with a portfolio i don't think will get me places. i kinda flip-flop on that when i actually look at my website, but i know there's so much more i can/have to do.

SO. i've decided instead of sitting on my ass and living in the sadness as i try to draw and have what i make leave me upset, i'm taking the step to do something about it! i'm gathering some resources and am just gonna start from the beginning with foundations.

i'm hoping to post my (almost) daily progress somewhere (as in here) just to have it out in the world and hold myself accountable somewhat. it's gonna suck, i know it will, but i have to remind myself that a bunch of terrible drawings will lead to something good.

i was watching a samdoesart video where he was talking about older creatives who're upset when they see these teen prodigies and he brought up a good point: those kids are likely spending every single day drawing for hours--they have more active art time under their belts. and looking at my k12 years and how focused i was on getting good grades, being president of clubs, and dealing with my own array of issues, i did leave art to the wayside at times. it got bad as i got older because more intensive work (honors/aps, yucky)--even during college i wouldnt draw much as I was modeling and 3D animating and all that!!

there's a lot of topics i wanna cover as an artist, which i know is frowned upon by some in the industry as you should have a designated, specified portfolio (for multiple reasons all of which make perfect sense), but i'll see what happens as i keep going through my learning.

anyway. i think im using this as an opportunity to not get started teehee SO LET'S GO

here's the spreadsheet i'm using to get a bunch of my resources from: marie lum (puccanoodles)'s resource sheet

right now i'm going to be using line-of-action and drawabox. i've literally taken anatomy and figure drawing classes before and i loved them but uugghh. they're saying drawabox is tough and i'm like sure, but it's free and you go at your own pace. idk, i guess i'll see what happens. LET'S ACTUALLY GO THIS TIME

[hydrossity-zone]

since you’ve mentioned using blender before, how hard is it to learn? i’m curious what other people’s experiences are with the program.

That.. depends on your definition of “hard”, really. Despite its accessibility, Blender really isnt an intuitive program; Im still learning new stuff about it every day, and Ive been using it since version 2.74(!) (geometry nodes my detested..)

Though, if youre just using it for basic box-modeling and rigging, then Id say 90% of the battle with Blender is just memorizing all the damn keyboard shortcuts lol. The good thing about it being free is that theres thousands of tutorials for pretty much anything, so even if the program looks intimidating there are countless ways to get started and break into it.

I dont actually use Blender as much as I should to give out proper advice myself since Ive been prioritizing 2d work and just use 3d as a supplement and a hobby tbh….

My experience with 3d is definitely a bit different than most though, since Ive had formal education in CAD-modeling which is VERY different from modeling for animation and games — stuff like products and engineering and prototypes for 3d print (3d-printing our models was actually part of the course in fact— it was fun! I have professional CAD certification from those years now). The primary software we used there was AutoDesk Inventor, SolidWorks, AutoCAD… we did have Maya and technically could use it if we wanted to, but it was never part of the course.

Point being, I was working from a vastly different mindset when it came to 3d modeling where next to Nothing was actually transferable to modeling for creative work like what Maya and Blender are for. So, starting Blender during its 2.7x version, doing something entirely different for 4 years and then coming back to Blender’s 2.8+ version was…. A Lot. For sure. (Blender’s 2.8 update was one of the biggest if not the biggest updates to the program that completely redefined it as a whole — all the version updates between 2.0 and 2.79 and 3.0 and 4.0 dont even come close to what happened between 2.79 and 2.8.)

I guess Im saying is that, even if you know nothing, or if what you do know is wrong/not useful, you can pick it up and figure it out any time. There are so many resources that can help you, at least one of them is bound to be the one that clicks. (No, you dont even need to do the infamous Blender Donut Tutorial to figure it out— I myself never did it, after all!)

A big part of figuring stuff out for me is just looking at what other people have done and figuring out why, which is also why I wanna make my model rips open to people, bc model rips genuinely have helped me. Just taking what was made already and playing with them like theyre touys does actually help! Just seeing their geometry for yourself up-close or posing them and seeing how their bones and rigging work, its good learning material! (Id probably recommend looking at people’s personal rips if possible before going to places like the-models-resource or SketchFab, seeing as theyre pretty hit-or-miss in terms of quality. I also just have a lot of beef with tmr in general lol.)

This has been more summarization of personal experience rather than any actual advice, but I hope you could at least take something from it!

[peopleplacesthingsideas]

What art form is your favorite to do? Photography, drawing, poetry, making music…-What do you like about them?

i just wrote like a 5 paragraph response to this but tumblr decided to delete it so let's just write it out again i guess! basically this is a HARD ASS QUESTION but lets break it down

i think that the appeal to me with poetry is that im already kind of okay at writing and so when i have really really complex ideas in my head i can use it as a medium to articulate them in more detail than i could otherwise. you can just make up ideas out of words! how awesome is that! but i do grow tired of my own voice and style so that sucks.

i am really bad at drawing most of the time so it can be stressful to try to make something artistically valuable in that way. i do enjoy trying really hard to practice it but it takes a lot of brain power for little or uncertain reward so it's hard to make myself do it. i do really want to get better at it though

photography is very cool. i would consider myself to be a very very capable photographer, i think that the only thing really separating me from pros is the investment in the gear. the thing with photography though is that at least how i experience it its more of a reactive thing, i.e. you are trying to stylistically capture what's around you especially while exploring or living life or going somewhere. i would love to get to practice some more studio environment stuff though where i have more minute control over the shots, especially if i had some models i was really close with to work with. id also love to apply my lighting expertise in that area. for me photography is an invitation to try and see the world around you in a beautiful way.

3D rendering is similar to photography in that it can create photorealistic environments and scenes, but it is different in that you are not limited to things that you could achieve in real world setups like you are with photography. you can create things that are limited only by your imagination and they will have a resolution far beyond anything that anyone could ever draw or paint, but there are limitations. you have to have a vision beforehand, you have to create every element of the environment yourself and so you have to have your own vision and be able to accurately represent your vision in the software in detail, which can be difficult depending on what you are doing. I think it's very cool and that it can create some very interesting pieces, and I want to do more of it, but my licenses have expired and so I'm not able to do any of it at the moment until i get the money to renew them. I also have forced myself to learn it enough that I can usually create some basic scene out of an idea i have, this is not always the case but it does give me the ability to come up with things and ideate them and make them into something beautiful without too much work or struggle.

I am very bad at making music by myself. any time that I somehow am graced with some sort of musical vision I immediately try to record it, but I struggle to make much more than small snippets. I am able to add on to other people's ideas that they have started, but it is very difficult for me to make the basic structure of music in the first place. it's similar to drawing in the sense that it will make me very frustrated if I try to do it for too long and express an idea that I have that I don't have the skills to articulate.

that's it!

also graffiti is fun to mess around with lol

[yokomation-blog]

Last Model sheet before i Begin on the 3D Models to this project

i have made Doily, Nat and Kitube unanimateable because i want the best out of them and knowing WHAT i´ll do to Alex, Conner, Yoko Ruby and the T-Rex, indeed all the models for Jurassica Safari Park, Yeah i Guess i´ll make it the same for all the other models comming down the line, you know Willa Brown and Hercy and all that shit too,

It´s soon time for summer hoilday so why not Do it now? and No not just doing with the Quoll Alone Models won´t Cut it for me, i Gotta Get this out sooner or later and now is the best time,

The World is starting to becomeing more and more aware of what i Can do now and i Got a Bear To Take care of after all and if not now, there´s always tomorrow, then agian i do this because i always Enjoy makeing movies and it´s honestly always been a Childhood thing i wanted to make a dinosaur movie, this came to me agian when prehistoric planet first came but i didn´t have the Skill and all, i shouldn´t be Scared over what i wanna do After this is done because i got 25 loglines and likely to add in more too, it´s been a long journey from Leaving Twitter to now, i think i might actually be Home agian on YouTube and Newgrounds too.

once this Dryosaurus is Done, is it finally Time for modeling whice i can sculpt quickly in one to two days but i wanna put in as much love and effort into it as a i can here. i Got a Good plan how i wanna do it all, there´s a lot of work to do but Gotta Work smart and hard on it, Take it Easy and give it all i got,

i might have Given up the last Two Times i Worked on Jurassica But in that time i have grown and even better last time, got a whole Storyboard animation ready, No Reason to Quit anymore, this is it.

final Stretch for Jurassica Safari Park : Just Another Day, after this i can ANYTHING! more Jurassica, Future wildlife, Quoll Alone DragoGen you name it for fuck´s Sake,

WISH ME FUCKING GOOD LUCK with Tomorrow and this whole Project now im here and got my ass Together to Get Jurassica done, Hopeing the Best and maybe that comment i left on that Glitch video might come ture and if not well i think i made a cool dinosaur movie and learned some new Skills for future modeling and animation too, even if this one is a project i Quit too, whice hopefully won´t Happen

this will be a whole new Yokomation Studio´s Considering Yoko Ruby´s Going to Start it off and indeed once that intro bit with her is done i might actually make it my Channel intro for YouTube, as i´ll likely do for every one of those in the future.

No Clue if it´s the first scene i animate but i do have a plan none the less,

i think i forgot one thing during my last two times i did Jurassica is that assumptions is the mother of all fuck ups.

I thought i could do it but wasn´t able to, 3rd times a charm as they say and i have had Project´s Before i sometimes went on and off on, mainly a YouTube Poop where Mr,Krabs Lost his millionth Dollar to a Tylosaur of all things, Let´s do this guys...

[anosh-ahmad-final-year-project]

THE SOLUTION IS SO... UN REAL!

Lo and behold, I've done it! I've found a solution to one of my biggest worries. Its FREE to download, but it'll certainly cost me nearly ALL of my upcoming weekends.

For the longest time I felt like the nerd, staring at the 'cool kids' from the Games Art & Design dept. talking about 3D Assets, Meshes, Baked lighting and what not. These daunting terms made me want to understand this 3D CGI world even more so. But everytime I tried stepping into that barrier, I was bombared with a barrage of even more overwhelming questions: Blender? Maya? ZBrush? Industry standard? Where to learn? Who to follow? What to do? Time and again I folded my hand and simply resorted to licking my wounds by playing with the tools that I was already familiar with (mainly the Adobe Suite). Plus my experience with Maya from over 10 years ago, had instill an idea in my mind about how time consuming and hardware dependant these softwares can be. But one fine day, on a mere whim, I just installed the Epic Games Launcher, downloaded Unreal Engine and just started playing with it while following the instructions from one of the revered online gurus of this software: UnrealSensei.

And I cannot believe just how amazing this software feels. I didnt even know that the latest version of it, was purposefully built for making short cinematic animations now.

In a span of nearly 48 hrs, I learned a great deal about the basics of creating enviornments in Unreal Engine with global illuminations and textures. This will be a HUGE help in bringing my vision for this project, to life, especially when its comes to developing the epic cosmic "COLLOSEUM" I've cooked in my story.

Im even considering whether I should take this a step further and try using the model creation and character animations in this software as well to create the whole action sequence.

I brought this point up to Sean in class and he helped me realize that before I get ahead of myself I should focus on whats the best way to get a cohesive look for merging live action, 2D VFX and 3D envriornment. Now how much I'll be able to use this tool truly depends on how much I can actually learn in the weeks to come. I have to recalibrate my schedule again I guess.

I've asked for some help on this from a couple of students from the Game Art & Design dept as well. (Who I finally met and befriended during the Symposium classes. Knowing some of their lingo helped a lot :D)

[prylc]

THANKS FOR THE TAGGG @elizakai @swiftmitsu ✨

1. Are you named after anyone?

Irl? Don't think so

2. When was the last time you cried?

If feeling like crying and holding it in counts, then yesterday

3. Do you have kids?

My neighbourhood cat :D (actually tho, I don't have any XD)

4. What sports do you play/have played?

I play badminton with friends ^^ the occasional volleyball too

5. Do you use sarcasm?

Not often? But I guess occasionally XD. Depends who I'm around too at times

6. What's the first thing you notice about people?

The way they act around other people and their overall vibe. Idk but for some reason irl my instincts can tell me who gives off a bad vibe. And I'm usually right sadly, even if I try to ignore my instincts and give em a chance >< oh and also people's body language

7. What's your eye color?

Dark brown, basically black. Fun fact for anyone who doesn't know, your eyes can't be black <w<

8. Scary movies or Happy endings

Happy endings. My tolerance for horror is non existent LMAO

9. Any talents?

I guess I'm more of a jack of all traits but master of none. Like, in art I'm decent at most mediums, in schools I'm decent in my subjects, for other arts like writing and acting im also decent. But I don't exactly excel in anything for the time being

10. Where were you born?

Somewhere in asia

11. What are your hobbies?

Art(needle felting, drawing, 3d modelling, etc.), writing and streaming (if that counts)

12. Do you have any pets?

I used to have a hamster as a pet, their name was sniffles back then

13. How tall are you?

154cm, 5'1''

14. Favorite subject in school

English my beloved ✨ (school art here sucks at my age rn)

But ngl, I actually like most of my subjects here XD I like learning em

15. Dream Job?

Not exactly sure but something design/art related.

Tagging: @faerein29 @vanthropa @vensvin @akitagure @ksopaz @tuxibirdie @safwunnz @bluedove216 @zucchichat @randomassperson-09artz @gin-astro @hiro-doodlez @askpocketsans @asterclaw @enri-ch

15 Questions 15 Mutuals

The rules are: Answer the 15 questions and tag 15 of your mutuals.

ty @trvbblemaker for the tag :D

Are you named after anyone?

not that i know of

2. When was the last time you cried?

like last week after the orthodontist lmao

3. Do you have kids?

i have plants

4. What sports do you play/have played?

i did gymnastics and dance now i do nothing~

5. Do you use sarcasm?

it's somewhat of a coping mechanism

6. What's the first thing you notice about people?

how they dress/their hair

7. What's your eye color?

hell if i know

8. Scary movies or Happy endings

happy endings :]

9. Any talents?

i'm rlly good at overthinking and ignoring problems (like genuinely tho ig i'm good at art)

10. Where were you born?

america 🇺🇸 (i hate it here)

11. What are your hobbies?

crocheting, watching shows, drawing

12. Do you have any pets?

cat named otis <3

13. How tall are you?

i think technically 5'4 1/2"

14. Favorite subject in school

art

15. Dream Job?

something i don't hate hopefully in an art field

no pressure tags: @newtness532 @lirdgorl @rainysaturdayafternoon @justkeepwalkingnothinghere @snek-amiga @deusetco @crayonssmellgood @arshemelsoe @lizvi @bbreaddog @noworneverphantom + open tag

[rexscanonwife]

OK y’all, I’ve finally finished outlining the AU for Gill that I have put entirely too much thought into! Am I actually gonna do anything with this? Possibly! I mostly just wanted my thoughts to be more organized so you guys could get the gist in a more understandable way than through a series of incoherent rambly posts so ENJOY! 

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1vC4EtO1RRFNZV-53MoFKV_ybyAMX4p7Vkif8CLtrM-g/edit?usp=sharing

[swordmaid]

I know you’ll probably answer things like ‘hell ;))’ (and probably you’d be right too), but can you describe both your high school and university experience? Bc I have to choose what I want to do with my life and I’m considering to go to an art academy. love u ✨

In high school and university I honestly focused an Art right LOL I legit skipped classes (esp in high school) to sit in my art class. Before you consider going to art school though, consider if you selling art/working with other people/working FOR other people’s projects and less of your own is something that you want to do since there IS a difference with wanting to learn art formally/doing it as a hobby, etc. and making it as your career.

I’ve met people who’s good at art and who’s been doing it for so long but absolutely loathes working for other people’s projects bc most of the careers you’ll find in art (I’m speaking about digital art mostly since that’s what I’m studying. Sooo in terms of animation, concept art, etc.) is all about collaboration and doing things for clients as opposed to doing your own projects. You CAN do your own projects obvs but even then, you’ll probably be working with a whole group and it’s just a whole lot of collaborative work

But as for experience— I can’t really say much for high school ?? I mean I went to it and had fun but it wasn’t eye opening or anything LOL. I had a friendship with my art teacher and she suggested that I look into animation since I like illustrating. But for uni def consider what you want to do in the future before studying since it’s pretttyyyy broad. If you want to work with games, def look into coding as well as 3D modelling. For animation, it’s super useful to practice doing it. One thing tho is that you def don’t need to learn how to draw !! Idk if it’s just my school or what, but having the knowledge IS useful but they pretty much teach you how to draw lol. The most important thing is that you have ideas and that you can execute them. Drawing, illustrating, etc. are things that you can develop over time but the most important thing is having ideas and a story to tell !

[oekaki-chan]

same anon here that asked about references and expressions here - i think what you say really makes sense. when i use csp's 3d models, even if as reference, drawing takes a lot longer and overall just Really Unfun. Visual libraries contribute a lot and its what ive been trying to do- i never really liked using references in the first place (especially in the first 3-4 years of digitally drawing) because of how long it takes to study a specific pose, so its already built up naturally and i try to observe people in Real Life when i go out.

A general advice ive seen is always reading manga- which i never really had the time for, so i guess thats why i personally am struggling with expressions, haha

also with drawing steamy stuff- you're completely right and im just always amazed at how people can draw in so many dynamic angles. i also think an advice you gave in an earlier post - about adding perspective to the characters youre drawing - really helps convey form and action, as those are also the angles you generally see in cinematography- no character is always looking straight ahead nor is the camera showing the profile of someone explicitly.

this was mostly just me rambling so feel free to ignore, but yeah i just overall. appreciate your art a lot! i hope to some day be able to reach your level of skill haha

Yes! You're right about reading manga contributing to your art improvement! Studying poses and anatomy from textbooks is boring to me, I literally have 0 books about them (aside from the fact that they're hella expensive) so from manga is where I study stuff the most because you get to learn 3 main aspects at once: anatomy and poses, expressions, and angle. The screenshots on my phone are mostly taken from doujinshi and manga I read 😂

It takes a while, I was there too, I was also struggling with everything you're struggling with during my first years getting into drawing. It might be a piece of overused advice but patience really is the key 😭 you'll get there eventually, I'm sure of it!

[mikeyfuckinway]

and he would be willing to accommodate me in that way because he cares about me and loves me and i love him and also

ok i was talking to my friend the other day abt what i want in a relationship and i was like i want a guy that i live with but i dont always have to be with like we might wander into each others spaces but we also dont have to do things together we can just hang out in the same space and sometimes we cuddle and do something Together but most of the time we just exist in the same place and wander in and out and i realized i just want a cat. but this guy is like the most cat like man ive ever met like hes a cat person for one which is a bonus but his pfps are always cats and we joke that like all white cats in memes are just him its very funny but also he is very calm and we are both um. oh i dont know how to describe it. i guess im trying to describe autism but like not totally i mean hes like a cat. hes got his own hobbies and shit he likes to do and sometimes he disappears for a week bc hes making a sword in his garage and then he comes back and goes hey guys i made a sword in my garage and i remember over covid we would just sit in vc together and hang and it was very nice and i think we both like to be around each other and we both think each other are funny and cool and i think we understand each other and i dont know if it is me projecting or what but it also feels like he views me as someone like him and someone he is similar to. but i like how he views me he respects me and cares about how i feel even when im being kind of silly i guess but hes very straightforward and also is able to interpret how i feel the way i want people to. like when im being dramatic like when i actually feel very extreme emotions but i know they are silly it feels like he also understands that i am being for real dramatic but i know its unwarrented and im just expressing the feeling. like i feel like he gets it and takes it in stride. he doesnt try to coddle me or go aw im so sorry :( he just goes Yup that is how you are feeling information received kind of but like in a nice way that i like and i really like that. and also he is very handy he bought a house recently which is insane bc he is in his early 20s but he is fixing it up and i think that is very cool like this is partially it would be very convinent to be married/partnered with someone who knows how to fix things and make things but i also just think it is cool!!!!!! even if i knew how to do some of that stuff myself i would still think it is very cool adn would want to marry him over it. having hobbies is like the speedrun to my heart i love people who have sick hobbies and he owns like 3d printers and resin printers and made a forge in his garage and he is so so so fucking cool he is so awesome and sometimes i feel like i dont measure up but then i remember i spent 50 hours learning how to and then making a vtuber model and also spent all winter break crocheting and knitting so i think i am also cool like he is just in a different genre also a much less practical genre but i am still cool nonetheless. i just really like him and want to hang out with him forever. i love hanging out with my first guy and listening to him talk about movies is so much fun and theres a lot of cool ones hes shown me oh yeah hes a film guy like a hardcore film guy thats like his Thing so i have done the 'watching weird avant garde shit bc the guy you have a crush on wants to show them to you' thing but they are actually cool and i have become very interested in film because of it im doing a film and media studies concentration because of it so. i can say im girl who did a film concentration bc of a guy she liked which i think is very very funny. anyways. but my sword guy is who i think i would want to come home to. like hes who i want to make breakfast with and own cats with. i would like to do that with movie guy as well but whenever i imagine it its always in a very traditionally romantic relationship and i alwys enjoy the idea of that but i dont think i would be comfortable with it long term. i /like/ the idea of dancing outside at 2 am with him but thats more of my dreamy romantic brain and

auuuhhg everyday of my life im like this guy and i are so incompatible. it would never work if we were to date and tbh i do not want to date him traditionally however i am deeply charmed by him and think hes one of the funniest loveliest and most interesting people on this planet earth i WANTED to listen to him talk about the beatles for an hour over lunch and he made me a beatles playlist after i made him a they might be giants playlist and hes so wonderful and i want him to be like. my best friend forever like i want him to be my guy like hes not my bestest estest friend someone else occupies that position and they always will its like that thing where u know someone for so long and your relationship has gone through so many weird phases that nothing is ever going to make you not want to be friends with them anymore like theyre my ultimate person who i will know and love forever. but like i want this other guy to be one of MY guys and. you know what i dont think i have a crush on him anymore. my friends and i were talking about love languages and i am severely physically affectionate and he is a germophobe he has ocd but like thats one of the things i like abt him bc he has things like i do like ticks and habits and we both habitually chew our nails and we are so similar but at the same time we are both so different and hes also really really straight and cis so like i dont think itd ever truly work but anyways we were talking abt love languages and hes like a big quality time guy and im very like i wanna do my things like i love you but if youre doing something im uninterested in i dont want to do it. like i have done things that i wouldnt otherwise do bc he was doing them but like it wasnt a "i dont want to do this" to a "i want to do this bc hes going to be there" it was more of a "im indifferent to this but it sounds fun im just not specifically interested" to a "i specifically would like to do this now bc it sounds fun and also he is going to be there" idk its still a thing where like. im just not a specifically quality time kind of person but since im a physical affection kind of person it can kind of come with it but i dunno oh well oh well. either way i dont think we would fulfill what the other wants out of a relationship idk maybe i would for him mostly but i dont think he would for me. unless our understanding of each other changes dramatically and he spends like a month and a half reading queer theory. then like maybe but still. my biggest problem is i need someone who will understand me and understand why i am the way i am genderwise and the thing is. the people who fully understand the way i am will also probably identify like me bc my identity is a product of my understanding of gender and society and that shit, not the other way around. i identify the way i do mostly bc of how my ideas about that shit have changed and the reading ive done about it. and like also the autism but he kind of has that too like not totally the same but like i said we have like some of the same little things but when it comes to like our ideas of ourselves i think we are very different i also have severely pathologized myself from a young age and also i hated my mom and wanted to kill myself and as far as im aware he was much more well adjusted as a child but i guess i dont really know. hm. but i met his parents when they came for family weekend and also he was like surprised when i said my family doesnt eat dinner together very often so they seem pretty like normal midwest american family and didnt seem like they had many familial issues like my household did which honestly is the least big deal thing to me. like if it was just that id be like whatever that doesnt matter but in addition to all the stuff yknow thats just one more thing that is like very extremely different about us and how we developed as people. like honestly its mostly the queer thing. and the germophobe thing like when we were talking abt it like he did say he would probably be very bad at it in a relationship like i oh wow i hit the character limit

[gauntletqueen]

hii im super sorry if you've answered this before (tumblr's search function is. not being helpful), but what 3d modeling software do you use??/any tips for someone who wants to learn 3d modelling?? your work is super cool and i hope you have a restful and helpful hiatus!! thank you!!!!

Hi!! First off tumblr doesn't have a search function, it's a hoax.

Second, I use Blender, which is free! I learned Maya when I studied game art in college and moved over to Blender when my student license ran out. Both programs have their pros n cons and both are like wrestling a wild animal. Because I had veterans teaching me firsthand what to do, I always find it hard to give people advice on how to learn by themselves, yknow? I guess in terms of tips I guess what I'd say is to first follow some tutorials to grasp the basics, then just kinda go off and try to make something, look up stuff as you need it, don't worry about doing everything perfect cause you'll get better with each new project! I think doing it that way will make it more fun and engaging than if you just followed slow indepth tutorials exclusively. At least that's how it'd work for me. Good luck :>

Third, thank yoouuu!! I appreciate that and I am working so hard to work out these mental health issues so I can stream again soon 💖

[hjeojeo]

Hi, I hope that your day is going well! I don't know if this is something your okay with answering but I'm curious as to how you approach anatomy and how you create defining characteristics when drawing characters, like Texas and orchid?

i was like waiting to find time to draw some demonstrations or something, but I realized I’m gonna like

forget to reply to this if I wait to have the brain space to organize all that ahaskjdf

so here comes a text wall!!

so for the anatomy, i think like most anything when it comes to A LOT OF INFORMATION i go with macro to micro. big to small. so some exercises i still do is draw people silhouettes, but small! but practicing with like general like bathroom symbol people/stickman to like realistic silhouettes but simplified i think it helps like make a box in my head to hold the information of ANATOMY

and then when im just drawing i like to think in larger chunks like if you think about how 3D-modeling/sculpting goes where there’s like big blocks to represent the torso and pelvis low poly to high poly

anatomy’s just really hard cause it’s like different proportions, how each element moves and then sits when you adjust.

but trying to find a mental like organization to place all that information usually helps me! and ofc patience with myself cause it takes a long time for that information to really settle down

and for the creating defining characteristcs.

i think it’s about relativity. like just like colors where

a color isn’t just inherently VIBRANT, it’s more about the colors surrounding that specific color. if the surrouding colors are more muted and the specific color is less muted, then it will look vibrant.

so same way

gotta start off with what feels like

a generic base for you. what’s your go-to  person you’ll draw that you think is an average look

and then you from there and make decisions on like

maybe 2x the size for the waist

or maybe 50% longer for the nose.

and then i guess last thing to realize that

bc it’s all about relativity. a character might only look very distinct when they stand next to another character who has contrasting features.

for example i have no idea if anyone but me knows this but i draw texas with a longer chin than i’d draw another character. (oh my god that reminds me to shorten up exusiai’s chin a bit, cause i did not intend for them to have a longer chin LOL)

OH that also reminds me

EXAGGERATION if you want to get across a point without there needing to be someone else to contrast for comparison.

like how everyone looks at my texas drawings and knows that she got thick eyebrows

cause i exaggerate the thickness.

and i think exaggeration is also relative to a style’s range. like going beyond the range a bit, just to get across a point.

but depending on the style, even a slight adjustment wil be BIG IN YOUR FACE DIFFERENCE. while other styles even a big adjustment might not be noticable cause the entire style is already pretty exaggerated

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im so sorry if this is like overwhelming amount of info or really disjointed information

i just wanna assure anyone reading this that

it feels overwhelming but

if you dont stress about retaining it immediately and just

keep going and observing and being patient with yourself

you’ll eventually like start to notice and grasp the nuances of what you’re portraying.

i feel like it’s difficult cause like i know that for me

i had to go through a long process of learning to stop hating my art enough so that i can just

calmly look at what im doing, and instead of being dsitracted by how much i didnt like it, to start taking it little by little of like

oh what do i want to change.. and why.

and how do i make that change.!