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Athazagoraphobia: The fear of forgetting or of being forgotten

Draw the embodiment of non-physical fears (fear of abandonment, fear of death, etc)

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You might not know what the south park gsh blogs are, but I act as Henrietta over at @henriettasgooglehistory Who happened to recently kiss @anniebarlettsgooglehistory As they are dating

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Be careful, because all of the no eyes are on you

Draw the feeling of being watched when no one is around.

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I’m not the best at perspective or shading, but she’d like to be your friend @drawing-prompt-s

When I was little I used to imagine a girl who sat in my window some nights, she had no face. Draw the girl

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How to show expression with the mouth!

This was a request and at first I wasn’t sure if I had anything to provide with, but as it turn out it got a little longer than I expected because there were actually things I had to say!! Wow!! 

Anyway, this is some guidelines I follow when I try to make the face expressfull, more specifically the mouth! It is often neglected, since it’s actually pretty hard, I’ll admit. But I’m here to help (hopefully…)! A mouth expression tutorial as per request. Enjoy and hopefully it will help some a little. ʕ•ᴥ•ʔ

Draw the teeth at the right angle. 

This is super important. The upper jaw follows the angle of the head, and the lower jaw will depend on how open it is. Make sure you have a rough estimate of where the teeth are, and how much of them you’re going to see!

The lips will VERY roughly follow the same angle as the teeth. It really depends on the character, but it gives you a sense at least. 

If you DON’T do this, you’re going to lose so much volume and the mouth is going to end up looking unrelatable. I showed this example in this tutorial:

It’s not just the lips! 

The cheeks, chin, and tongue play a role too! 

Try look at your own mouth or references! I have a very pliable and large mouth, so that’s one reason why my characters have it too lmao.

ASYMMETRYYYYY (ง ͠° ͟ل͜ ͡°)ง

I cannot emphasize how important asymmetry is when drawing expressions. It applies not only to the eyebrows to achieve the Dreamwork Face™, but also the mouth. Seriously if you draw a symmetric mouth I will deliver myself to your mailbox and then shout at you until you fix it. 

Look at the difference between these two for example: which one has more “life”? 

I think you get the idea.

Push and squish - give it flow

Here’s an old drawing I have but it illustrates how I think when I squish the mouth, and use folding and wrinkles to my advantage.

Look at your own face and see where skin bundles up, where it creases the most and when bumps appear on your chin. Subtle details makes all the difference! 

One VERY effective detail is illustrated in the first sketch, where I pull upwards on one side, and downwards on the other. That’s a good detail to use when the character is making a skewed expression, or is extremely frustrated. I encourage you to play around with that concept bc it’s ~super effective~!

EXAMPLES:

Happy: Your entire mouth is pushed upwards, not just the corners of your mouth!

I tend to draw a :3 mouth bc I’ve been drawing Lance too much….. You don’t have to but it’s basically imprinted in my motor memory by now. 

Pouting/frowning: corners are pushed down, middle pushed slightly up. Sometimes, there’s a slight dip in the middle too. It can give a sense that the character is biting their lips.

Showing frustration/intimidating/is intimidated: basically showing a lot of teeth. The corners are as open as possible and the middle sorta more squished. An extremely important detail here is showing some of the gums, and open space between the cheeks and teeth. That way it looks like the mouth it open to it’s full potential. Here is also where you basically MUST add folds and bumps, or else it’s not going to look relatable. 

(Here I am again with the pulling upwards on one side and downwards on the other, as illustrated on the last sketch)

And then again, here’s just another doodle showing how important it is to show the gums. It’s the same face twice, but the second one looks slightly more frustrated doesn’t it?

(from my other tutorial on how to draw facial expressions)

As you can see, this last one is very versatile and I draw it a lot. Play around with the basic shape and see how much subtle details makes a lot of difference! 

That’s it! 

I hope that cleared some things up and was somewhat helpful! Enjoy drawing ✨

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I’d be careful of these two if I were you (Salt and Pepper are gender fluid children so use whatever pronouns)

Salt(Black moth) and Pepper(White moth) Belong to me

The blue one in the middle belongs to @lonely-mothman

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Yes she would, I hope they can be friend people, I bet Bepis is managing to actually make the sound of exclamation points

Bepis: Awe You fwoating wight nyow? Koshou: Nyo? She’s sitting on his text bubbwe, awso I can’t dwaw men

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!! I love her !! what if bepis stops talking tho?? shed just b ust her ass

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Bepis: Are you floating right now? Koshou: No? (She’s sitting on his speech bubble) Bepis is owned by: @lonely-mothman Koshou is mine

I hope they can be friend people

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petition to rename the usa ‘south canada’

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Iida with heterochromania?

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!!! YeS!!!

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PSA

THANK YOU FOR YOUR TIME

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present mic just casually has a ten hour long audio of himself screaming and he listens to it every morning.

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whomst else is gay and has a lot of gay love to give

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I'm gay and my glasses are dirty

reblog if you’re gay and your glasses are dirty

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digital artists and alignments

lawful good: organized layer folders, each folder has a name, all of the layers have names, finished layers are locked

neutral good: names all the layers and locks them but doesn’t do folders

chaotic good: names all the layers but doesn’t lock em and doesn’t do folders

lawful neutral: layers and folders still have ther default numbers, no names

true neutral: no folders and all default numbers. no names. no locks.

chaotic neutral: sometimes uses names. sometimes doesnt. sometimes theres folders. sometimes theres not.

lawful evil: does everything in one layer

neutral evil: merges all layers as they finish them

chaotic evil: a million blank layers with nothing on any of them

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@tomalgam It’s not that good

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