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the way you color/render makes me think of hard candy, your colors are always so vibrant and lowkey I want to eat it because it looks delicious. also your lineart is so crisp and your line weights are just gorgeous. anyways have a nice day!

TYSM!! i don’t rly have any intentions when i color, but i’ve gotten the “candy” comparison a few times now and it makes me so happy that ppl think my colors naturally gravitates towards that vibe!

i don’t have a lot of new examples rn, but here’s some more candy colored art i haven’t posted 🍭^__^

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halbuggy

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hello!

Sorry if asking this But i'm kinda curious, I heard someone asked you if you saw Barry's villain disguise from Flash Vol 5 #61 And 62 but i wondered if you plan on drawing him in a halbarry fanart? Just asking if is in your plans~

sorry, no such plans

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transmasc Barry Allen…. love him so much, my baby boy, love how you draw him, want to pick him up and shake him

cisgender barry allen is the au to me

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Hiii, I really love your HalBarry art, your art style is just so pleasing to look at :D

ty, they are pleasing to draw! ^__^

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Halbarry chiikawa anon here. Omg i did not know that halberry was a yuri variant. I honestly misspelled it, so it was such a pleasant and cute surprise!!! I love my yuri like I love my yaoi: indistinguishable.

Halberry yuri worldwide yayyyy yay! 🐿🐿

i’m pretty sure the dif spelling is only a variant to me lol, it’s just how i like to differentiate my tags when i’m posting them. and hey, if the typo leads to more accidental yuri, then who could complain!

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speaking of halberry yuri

rough vs lines

[ID 1: halberry yuri rough guidelines. berry and hal are facing each other in back-to-back panels as hal holds berry’s chin, attempting to apply blush onto him. berry looks at hal with mesmerized sparkling eyes, cheeks reddening with blush. hal looks taken aback by the reaction and eye contact, slightly blushing in response.

ID 2: the same halberry yuri panels, now properly lined. hal’s hand breaches the 4th wall of the panel, reaching out to berry from the reader’s point of view.]

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halberry chiikawa,,,

i was gonna say @halitis already did this, but then i realized you spelled halberry the yuri way, so here you go anon. my halberry chiikawa yuri

[ID 1: hal jordan and berry allen as chiikawa characters on a fast food date.

ID 2: the flash and green lantern as chiikawa characters. berry is running in joy and hal is floating in disgruntlement.]

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ive been having a hard time trying to draw halbarry and i really like how you draw them and i wanted some advice! any pointers?

you ask me this after i wallow abt how i’m struggling to draw them 😭

idk man, this kind of thing is layered. what are you having a hard time with? what specifically do you like abt the way i draw them? advice like this is less advice and more like a back-and-forth conversation, you’re gonna have to give me more to work with if you want personalized pointers

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drawing anything other than barry and/or hal for personal free time art feels like cheating, but i need to draw smth other than a white person for my own sanity.

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expression sheets are now a commission option btw ^__^

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Some expression notes ! 💖 | Instagram

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hello mx toy, i was wondering, howd you get good at drawing faces and expressions? your expressions are some of my favorite parts of your art!

wow, tysm!! :D facial expressions are one of my fav things ever, so i’m rly glad it shows in my work! i don’t think there’s anything i could tell you that you wouldn’t be able to learn from online tutorials, but i’d be happy to take advantage of this opportunity to infodump give you my thought process ^__^

in the same way that art is more observation than drawing, i love looking at expressions and saving a mental roster of faces from characters/irl to mirror. hell, sometimes it’s not even for art, sometimes i’ll rewind a video a few times if my brain latches onto a good expression, it’s like coco melon to me lmao

intentionally or not, i can usually tell where i “source” my expressions from, like muscle memory or artists that subconsciously make the same face that they’re drawing

^ it’s practically a hobby in itself

expressions = personality. it gives character and context to your subject, and it’s always personal. whenever i struggle to draw someone’s face, chances are it’s bc the expression doesn’t feel “in-character.” most emotions are universal to some degree, but the way those emotions are expressed is unique to the individual. every character has their own style of emoting, which is why i have to “get to know a character” before i can draw them. if i don’t have a sense of their personality, even just visual personality, then i won’t feel like i have the tools to properly portray the character

a lot of ppl already understand the concept of “he would not fucking say that,” and the same thing applies to art. two characters shouldn’t have perfectly interchangeable styles of expression. if they mind-swapped, you should be able to know just by looking at them. “he would not fucking smile like that.”

^ dif or simplistic art styles, but still signature expressions

additionally, expressions = storytelling. i tend to plan out comics by drawing expression thumbnails before anything else bc the emotion is the first thing we recognize in a given exchange. i’ll usually already have a script written out by the time i put pencil to paper, but the most important part when transforming my scripts into actual panels is capturing the Feeling (which is why my first drafts are so rough lol)

it kinda ties back into the personality thing: if you rly know your characters, you can portray them at their barest essentials, even as stick figures. body language is such an effective form of communication that you can even tell a story thru the characters’ faces alone, no dialogue needed

for more tangible advice, you can put this into practice by just copying other ppl’s expressions. i feel like i learn best when i do redraws, but i try to copy the feeling rather than the exact expression, looking at the emotion rather than the individual lines creating them, and then build off of it:

this def could’ve been shorter, but i love thinking abt this kind of thing. thanks for giving me the chance to talk abt it!

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the boys are back! CHARMacden has been restocked ☀️

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just joined a polycule, you guys jealous?

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have you.... seen the script for bathroom problem...

I HAVE! those old sunnies were originally for a broader queer hcs post that was going to involve the whole gang w notes and sources, but i lost them on my old phone 😭

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i don’t think i ever posted these

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