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Mr. Todd,,, I have a crush on you,,,

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The Room That Doesn't Exist

art by SUIMA

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does anyone understand my curse

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reveal of the assignment that took over the last month of my life. for a star wars film class of all things..... well. sorry for the shitty notes app scans it is what it is

sketches and stuff under the cut 😸

#Star Wars

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New York Winter 2014 2015

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Claude Monet’s paintings of the sea

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Sorry for tagging your art with just # oogh or # oh. Just know this means im profoundly moved

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hello :) i’m a new artist & i’m struggling a lot with learning anatomy and making poses look natural. i was wondering if you have any tips/resources you’d recommend. also tysm for posting previous art advice in your asks, i’ve found it so helpful!

hi there!

as usual im no authority but i can share what ive learned over the years that seems to help the kids i teach!

there's a distinction to be made between what's stiff, immobile and what's perceived as organic, malleable. The easiest visualization is a building vs a forest. Balance, symmetry vs irregularity, imperfection.

in art that difference is represented through directions and the quality of a line. verticals and horizontals are stable, stiff and calm, while diagonals suggest movement, dynamism, heck, the passage of time even.

regardless of the subject matter you'll find both types of lines useful and present within the same image but if you struggle with making things look alive, you're probably lacking diagonals!

All these words to introduce a century (nay millennia) old concept: contraposto , the video speaks for itself but there's plenty more entertaining ones on youtube probably.

Essentially what it teaches us is that diagonals aren't enough. We need to avoid drawing PARALLELS. here's me redlining a stock photo to explain how the brain loves order and stability and how it corrupts our art:

regardless of how well you know (or don't) where each muscle goes, if you forego parallels you're on the right track. I would highly recommend just drawing lines over reference pics like i did, even better if you pause videos (movies, reality tv, sport events, anything) as it captures the most natural way a body behaves (rather than ppl holding a pause.) Combine that practice with gesture drawing and you'll be unstoppable. I can't stress enough how much timed gesture drawing helps de-dramatize drawing bodies. I rec 1 minute poses if you're really uncomfy but 30 seconds is ideal so you have no time to linger on your mistakes, the more you do the easier they'll come don't overthink it, don't even try to draw them in a specific way you've seen in a textbook, whatever comes naturally.

superimposition is another big thing. The brain want's to show everything clearly but things in our field of vision obstruct each other. By making elements cut into each other, you achieve volume without requiring shading. Another stock photo to help illustrate:

in general shapes to avoid are, squares, rectangles, parallelograms, ovals, circles, equilateral polygons of all sorts, their 3D counterparts such as cubes and cylinders. polygons ought to be imbalanced or at the very least skewed by perspective. behold:

I'll leave it at this for this ask.

in conclusion: yes to diagonals, no to parallels, yes to superimposition, yes to tracing, yes to imbalance, no to letting your brain tidy everything up.

hope you found it helpful! my ask box remains open for further clarification.

proper art teachers look away!!

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(having mildly hard time drawing) i hate doing this shit i’m never doing it again (having mildly fun time drawing) i love this shit it’s what i was born to do (having mildly hard time drawing) i hate this shi

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the rose/cass/steph love triangle is real. to ME.

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Taking my son out for enrichment

#the little guys… #dc

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my friend tried to get me into watching wrestling a while back

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in my head the star wars equivalent of tswift is some human woman named tay’lor spiff or something and her stans are losing their minds over theories that she’s secretly a jedi singing about the horrors of war, even though she’s from a neutral system that hasn’t seen so much as a moral panic in 50 years

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harvey twitter struck by tragedy 

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laundry day

(pls click for better quality!)

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 Cat in greenery -   Evy Láás

Swedish, 1923-1999

Oil on canvas on carboard , 23 x 33 cm.