Remember that blood is a liquid and it moves and reflects like one too! I recommend looking at references like stills from slasher/horror movies! I hope these help ❤
Okay, so this is a lot to work through – after all the entirety of anatomy is a rather large subject! Instead of explaining it all myself I’ve put together a bunch of different youtube videos I’ve found have helped me with different aspects of anatomy which would be a good place for you to start from!
I hope these help you find a good starting point with anatomy! If you find yourself having trouble with a particular piece feel free to send it in for us when our submissions are open again.
If I find any more useful youtube anatomy videos I will add to this post and give it a reblog, but for now, I hope these help!
Hello friends, this is the long awaited tutorial on Line-Quality, Art-Style, and Same-Face-Syndrome.
Line-Quality is improved by building Muscle-Memory.
You build muscle memory through Drawing-Exercises.
Art-Style is developed over time through Observation and Routine.
Routines such as… Drawing-Exercises.
And now for… the Ultimate Drawing-Exercise-Routine!
It’s called Snake-In-A-Basket!!
Draw any kind of snake inside of any kind of basket. You have 5 to 20 minutes to complete it before each/every Big-Serious-Illustration to tackle. No more, no less time!
Draw it… NOW!
(my example that I drew in GIMP)
Art-Style is not necessarily what you think it is. A fairly common style issue discussed in artist circles is the inability to draw the same character twice while retaining their likeness or the lack of uniqueness which makes our art (recognizable) distinguishable from another’s “oh! YOU drew this!”.
Here are the fastest pathways to attaining the elusive Art-Style:
Repetition!!!!!
Recurrence-of-Thematic-Elements (everyone is sad, robots, someone is always shirtless, etc)
Same Color-Palette used for everything you draw
Same-Tools (line width, brush set, same paper, canvas size)
or Same-Program
(examples of palettes!! you can’t go wrong with having a rainbow)
Some Amount of Explanation:
If you draw on the same size or same scale (A6, A5, A4, A3 | B6, B5 | Letter) or in the same orientation (Landscape or Portrait), it helps you learn Composition intuitively by training you to make use of the space you have. Also it’s easier to print out and frame if you draw on common photo print sizes 4×6, 8×10, etc.
Even if you make a lot of use of Blend/Blur and you’re more of a Painter than a Cel-Shader– deciding to use a Set Personal-Default-Color-Palette instead of randomly choosing them on the Wheel/Triangle-Thing will still give you enough stable consistency.
Onto the next thing!
Same-Face-Syndrome is normally caused by one of two things. If it’s not one then it’s the other: Same Shapes or Same Details.
To make noticebly different characters you have to Exaggerate.
Before you try your hand at drawing any Face or Body Type, draw another Snake-In-A-Basket first.
You think I’m joking?
No. I’m not.
So to wrap up, you need to Warm Up to draw, you need to make a color palette and stick to it –or just use the same Crayola pencils, or the same kind of Bic pen, same kind of sharpie, .7 or .5, and have themes like “plaid flannels for everybody” or “hoodies and jeans”. Find those things you can execute consistently, like hatching or stippling, and if you like it, stick with it!
Hope this helps!
Now draw a SNAKE-IN-A-BASKET!
Why the snake in a basket though?
This is the alternative looks a bit more abstract. The Snake-In-A-Basket makes use of different lines going in different directions but in one visually comprehensive Object. Its purpose is to build confidence in making long, medium, short lines.
Gender: Genderfluid i think but tbh who the fuck knows
Height: 5’2 and a half.
Sexuality: Pansexual, probably.
What image do you have as a wallpaper? it’s the Renholm Industries one from the IT crowd. I’d share it, but my laptop freezes when i try to post pictures, because you know, fuck linux.
Where do you see yourself in ten years?:
Pffffffttt, idfk. Hopefully with a job and/or in uni, but i mean, dead also works lmao.
If you could be anywhere else right now, where?
uuuuhhh bed, assuming i could actually sleep for once. But i would also like to go to Belgium again. So that’d be nice.
What was your coolest Halloween costume?:
Um, most of mine have been pretty cringy tbh, I was Sollux from Homestuck one year, yikes. The best was probably the year before last. I was vampire Brendon Urie from the It’s Almost Halloween video lmao.
What’s your favorite 90’s show?
ah fuck dude, i have no idea. I don’t know when the shows I watch and have watched came out. I’m honestly drawing a blank right now. When I can think of something, I’ll edit this and fix it.
Last kiss: just family pecks on the cheek and stuff.
Have you ever been stood up? yeah, but not in a date way. I’ve been stood up a few times when i’ve arranged days out with friends. so uh, ouch.
Have you ever been to Vegas? nah, never even been to america.
Favorite pair of shoes: uuuuh, either any of my chelsea boots, my platforms, or my New Rocks.
Favorite fruit: every fruit is good fruit, but probably bananas.
Stupidest thing you’ve ever done: I’ve done a lot of stupid shit. Like, a lot. I do something stupid fucking daily. I think the dumbest was chugging half a bottle of vodka and vomiting on my friend though, that was so bad. He dared me to though, so that’s what he gets for daring me to do shit.
Favorite book: UM FUCK i own a lot of books. I really like Dirk Gently, and The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy. I also really like Dracula. I like Lolita too, even though it makes me cringe every half a second.
So I spend 3 hours of my life making these on an iPhone app. Free to use for all my fellow LGBTQ+ X-Men fans! Happy Pride!
Like/Reblog if you use.
(P.S. I tried to make other flags but many contained a black stripe and because of the black background, they made the design unrecognizable.)
Bring this back for this year’s Pride! (Like I said last Pride I didn’t include them because the black stripe didn’t work with my format….. so it’s still not the whole flags but I hope it’s still recognizable!)
Modern Life is Rubbish 