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Mens Fashion  - www.GoGetGlam.com

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A titan?Excuse me what the ****

REBLOG: go to your blog and click the egg to see what hatches

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Thank you doggo.

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How strong is Steve? (Long picture)

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Consistent faces from different angles

Mmm ok, let’s talk about consistency in faces to ease the awkward silence here a bit

My rule of thumb is usually this: if I can sketch a tiny character’s face in a couple of seconds with a handful of lines and it’s still recognizable, it’s a good face. 

Comic artists have to quickly produce lots of high-quality art, so tricky faces aren’t best for business. But let’s forget that reason for a sec.

In drawing, it’s important to focus on the general form of shapes rather than details. Art schools make students draw these weird choppy heads to help them focus on the abstract planes, before they can draw realistic detailed portraits:

Focusing on the broader task before defining the details goes for anything, really. In writing, you outline the entire plot first, and then write each chapter. Smaller parts organically follow the main narrative, so everything feels harmonic instead of disjointed and confused.

So if you successfully define the general shapes, you can observe how exactly they correlate with each other. Earlier I’ve posted sketches of two of my characters who have pretty basic face structures. I tried to make them expressive without losing those correlations to the point of making the characters unrecognizable. I actually made some notes for myself after this little exercise:

Now, if you focus on faces and forget about details like strands of hair, eyelashes, monolids etc, you can see what the most important features are shaped like and where they are placed:

Even if I quickly and sloppily sketch them, while keeping those proportions in mind, you can still tell it’s them:

I’m not necessarily talking about character diversity here, btw. Even if your characters look mostly same-ish, that common face structure can have its own unique proportions. Case in point: V’s face unintentionally formed from Dolly’s face (aka CalArts face) from my previous work. Awkward.

Anyway, if I know the proportions of my heads, I can rotate them all I want:

I have two things to keep in mind here: the placement of the features that I figured out previously and the general anatomical rules of what a head looks like from different angles. It’s not always easy to balance them out with each other! For example, when V looks down, the general rules say that the nose gets closer to the mouth, but the big distance between her nose and her mouth is pretty much her defining characteristic, and I risk losing the similarity. 

However, I don’t think that the character looking slightly off is a big sin. If it actually crosses the line, I usually just experiment with those proportions, until the face looks recognizeable and functional enough for me. Or better yet, start the sketch from the scratch. Don’t make your doodles suffer countless corrections.

If you have problems with the correct rotation of the head in 3d space, I don’t know what can help you aside from practice, practice, practice. 

John K offers a pretty interesting exercise in drawing toys of cartoon characters from different angles to better grasp the volume. Those choppy art school heads or skull studies are also hella helpful. I wish we did them when I was taking classes as a kid :c 

Again, one of the most common beginner mistakes is focusing on details, rather than general shapes, so if you decide to practice on your friend or some 3d model of a head, please remember about it. It’s hard at first, but worth trying.

P.S. I know you guys often send me requests for tips or tutorials, and I wish I could answer them all, but the issue of time and bad articulation never goes away. Sorry if your questions get ignored, I collect them for my random spurts of rantposting

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Cher photographed in 1974

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Happy Valentine’s Day, everyone!

To celebrate this special occassion, we’ve made 16 Themed Cards for you to choose from and gift to your special other, friend, family…you name it! 

You can check out the whole album clicking this sentence!

We hope you have the best of days, and stay tuned for an Indiegogo Campaign update a bit later today!

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No one asked but here’s a brief tutorial on digital underpainting and how it can add some extra flavor to your art!

(I got asked this a couple times so just to clarify: I used “overlay” in the second slide… but the rest of these examples are JUST painted on, no effects! Try playing with the opacity on your pencil/water/brush tool to allow the base color to show through!)

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Undertale, Battle Royal edition?

oh yeah, in celebration of 2019, i feel like it is important to note that 2019 is the last year that chara falling into the underground can happen….

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For those of you that like everything neatly organised, here’s links to EVERY ONE of my first 150 how to THINK when you draw TUTORIALS, in ALPHABETICAL ORDER for #SkillUpSunday! Enjoy, link, pin, share! Cheers! Lorenzo! How to draw ANGRY EXPRESSIONS How to draw BIRD HEADS How to draw BOOKS How to draw BOXES How to draw BREAKING GLASS How to draw BRICKWORK How to draw CABLES and WIRES How to draw CAR CHASES How to draw CATERPILLAR TRACKS How to draw CAVES How to draw CHARACTERS (3-SHAPES) How to draw CHARACTERS (FLIPPED-SHAPES) How to draw CHARACTER SHAPES How to draw COMIC COVERS How to draw COMPOSITION How to draw CROSS-CONTOURS How to draw EARS How to draw FABRIC How to draw FEET & SHOES How to draw FEMALE HANDS PART ONE How to draw FEMALE HANDS PART TWO How to draw FOREGROUND MIDGROUND BACKGROUND How to draw GAME BUILDINGS How to draw GEMS and CRYSTALS How to draw GIRL’S HAIR How to draw GRASS How to draw HAIR (1940s styles) How to draw HAPPY EXPRESSIONS How to draw HORNS How to draw HORSE HEADS How to draw IMPACT DEBRIS How to draw IN 3D How to draw INTEGRATING LOGOS How to draw INTERIOR BASICS How to draw IN-WORLD TYPOGRAPHY How to draw JUNGLE PLANT CLUSTERS How to draw JUNK HOUSES How to draw LAMP POSTS How to draw LAVA How to draw LIGHTNING and ELECTRICITY How to draw MECHANICAL DETAILS How to draw MUSHROOMS and FUNGUS How to draw MONSTER HEADS How to draw MONSTER TENTACLES How to draw MOUNTAINS How to draw NEGATIVE SPACE How to draw NEWSPAPERS How to draw NOSES How to draw PERSPECTIVE BOXES How to draw PIGS How to draw POD HOUSES How to draw POURING LIQUID How to draw ROBOT ARMS How to draw ROCK FORMATIONS How to draw RUNNING FIGURES How to draw SAUSAGE DOGS How to draw SEA WEED   How to draw SHADOW COMPOSITION How to draw SHOULDER ARMOUR How to draw SIEGE WEAPONS How to draw SILHOUETTE THUMBNAILS How to draw SMOKE EFFECTS How to draw SNOW How to draw SPACE BIKES How to draw SQUIRRELS How to draw STICK FIGURES How to draw THE HORIZON How to draw TIKI STATUES How to draw TREASURE CHESTS How to draw TREE BARK How to draw TREE ROOTS How to draw VEHICLES How to draw VINTAGE PLANES How to draw WATER How to draw WOODEN HOUSES

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several pieces from this May 2018. one image a day initiative. it was worth it!

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Ness: Yikes…

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Reblog if you hear it in your head.

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@john-paul-jonesing-for-liberty your Facebook viral screenshot is making the rounds again!

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Do you want to know, what I think about Tumblr’s new policy?

No? I don’t care if you don’t, so don’t even try

Tumblr admins have no idea how wrong they are. Did someone ask them for this kind of idiotic policy? Did someone sign a petition or something? No. Everything was working perfectly without banning the NSFW content. There were half of Tumblr users who did interesting and beautiful content with a bit of porn. But no, that’s not right, let’s ban them for all their hardwork. They should have sticked with killing pervert and cp accounts off but not brainlessly aim for all that is not NSWF. 

It’s my opinion and I texted it and don’t you (even though it’s doubtfull you’ll ever see this post but yes, YOU) even try to dare to delete this post and/or ban me. I’ll just find a better place to go, away from this self-destroying site.

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what were the purpose of those super tiny arms? I can't imagine they were any good for hunting or fighting so what's the point of micro arms?

That’s a good question! Carnotaurus and other abelisaurs have ridiculously tiny arms:

Those two bones that look like the wrist? That’s the entire forearm.

There’s some indication that they may have been especially flexible, which could point to them being used in some sort of display or other intraspecific behaviour. It’s also quite possible that they just…didn’t really serve any function. They could just be vestigial - that is, an evolutionary “leftover” that just hasn’t had the pressure to evolve away (like kiwi wings, or whale hips).

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Tumblr’s Ban-cident in a nutshell.

#Good lord how did they mess up this bad #Tumblr please #you are shooting yourself in the foot twice