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Fren wants more ask game emojis??? Okay.

☕️ and 🎼 plus 📚

Yeah, dynamism is a bitch, so I don't blame you at all for getting nervous about it. Of course, the biggest change you can make is foreshortening and perspective, but that takes finding a source that can teach you in a way you understand, a lot of studying, and then trial and error. Which is worth doing, we (I'm saying this to myself too) really should study that. And it's a nightmare because first, you gotta find a source that explains the material in a way that makes sense to you, then you have to find a way to make the studying more fun and worst of all, you have to actually commit and do it. With foreshortening and dynamic posing in particular, the study can take a long while to complete because it does demand an understanding of anatomy, breaking the body down into simple volumes, applying perspective to each piece then knowing how to shade each volume correctly. So, depending on where you are with all those components, you may have to backtrack further.

So, what little changes can be made to increase dynamism in the interim? A pretty easy one is Rim Lighting, pure white is common, and so is really dropping the color values paired with a vibrant colored rim light (red, cyan, magenta are popular). Pushing the shading a bit more will help accentuate bent limbs, rotated torso's, overlapping body parts without having to go ham on foreshortening. Exaggeration of shapes like how Sonic uses big ass hands and big ass feet. Or the Big Pant Big Jackt meme and its variants from Twitter/X. You can try making frames and having feet, limbs, weapons or the top of the character's head extending past the border (typically the more, the better because if it's too little, it reads as a mistake than a choice). Line weight variation is pretty easy (thicker lines towards the shadows, thinner towards light source). Or extending certain lines past the outline and into the shape to create a more 3D look. While the whole trend of "fixing" other artist's art is controversial, one good thing I've learned from watching a few vids is the idea of using the Liquify tool on a finished piece to exaggerate the line of action on something a bit too static.

I hope you don't mind the ramble. If you're interested, I can send you a link to some vids or my playlist of tutorials I've saved.

Spice.

☕ Do you do warmup sketches before drawing? (Bonus: do you have any to share?)

No I do not do warm up sketches i just get straight into it usually. So no bonus sketches but he's a doodle page of my robot oc L-11AC

🎼 Your favorite music to draw to right now?

Future Funk music! It keeps me awake and i can groove~

📚 How many layers do you typically use?

Max i use is 50 layers, but i think i use 20-30 layers daily

Also thank you for comments too! These are literally all the things i think about. Still i do try to teach myself new stuff when i can

#artist ask meme

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🌊and can you give an example that you've tried to draw. feeling evil

🌊 What’s the hardest thing for you to draw? 

Armor of course, like i hate drawing Dark Cacao's armor... and Bumblebee from transformers lol

I don't save all my fuck ups because i need to save space but here's dark Cacao examples

#art ask meme

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🖍 and/or 📏

Spice Anon

 🖍️ When did you start drawing? Do you remember?  

Yes, elementary school, I believe it was the 3rd grade I started getting into art. I drew a lot of sonic, and traced most of my stuff in the beginning. I still have all my elementary school drawings!

📏 What’s your go-to canvas size?

Usually 2224 x 1668 px on procreate

#Art ask meme

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📏? For the ask meme!

📏 What’s your go-to canvas size?

I use procreate so my default is the screen size, sometimes I do the square too

#Art ask meme #procreate

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🍀

🍀 You wish your art was more..(fill in the blank)

I wish it was more dynamic. I feel like I’m trying to build to more flexible and fun poses but I always chicken out… Still I try.

#Art ask meme #oc

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✨ for the ask game!

✨ How often do you draw?

Almost Everyday…. The grind never stops.

#Art ask meme #I don’t post half my doodles because it’s either nonsense or ocs

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🎁?

🎁 Do you prefer drawing fandom stuff or your own characters?

I think I prefer drawing Fandom stuff more. Don’t get me wrong I love my ocs and I do like showing them off and telling people about them, but I also like playing with my blorbos and putting them in silly situations. It’s also just easier to do fandom related content because you don’t have to come up with ALL the rules yourself like you do with your ocs. 💕 But like I said I love doing those things but if I just want to relax drawing from my favorite series is just easier~

#Art ask meme #warden ingo #gateau

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🐻 Your go-to things to draw when you need comfort?

🐻 Your go-to things to draw when you need comfort?

Idk man I draw fucking who ever makes me feel good you know?

#Emmet pokemon #Art ask meme #I dedicated a month to him because I was stressed from school #Of course he became my comfort character lol #Also I do draw porn of him a lot ngl

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🙌 (artist meme thingy :3)

🙌 Draw a doodle with your non-dominant hand

Take this doodle of my cookie run OC Creme Fraiche Cookie drawn with my Left Hand!

#Art ask meme #creme fraiche cookie

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Send more emojis from the ask meme please! I didn't reblog it for nothing!

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🙃 For the artist ask game!

🙃 Which is easier: faces facing left, right, or front view?

For me, I wanna say facing the Left, it's my go-to, i realized. lol Here are just 3 examples, 2 are recent and one from a few months back.

#art ask meme #cookie run #dq11

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🌼Artist Ask meme!🌼

There’s probably a lotta these out there but I wanted to make one of my own! Hopefully these are fun<3 

Send an emoji for each question!

 🖍️ When did you start drawing? Do you remember?  

 ✏️ Do you prefer traditional art or digital to relax?   

📏 What’s your go-to canvas size?

☕ Do you do warmup sketches before drawing? (Bonus: do you have any to share?)

🙃 Which is easier: faces facing left, right, or front view?

📚 How many layers do you typically use?

🐻 Your go-to things to draw when you need comfort?

🎁 Do you prefer drawing fandom stuff or your own characters?

🌈 Do you use more warm or cold colors?

🎼 Your favorite music to draw to right now?

🙌 Draw a doodle with your non-dominant hand

📐 Whats your favorite kinds of lines to draw?

💐 Do your drawing suit your aesthetics?

🦋 Do your drawings resemble you?

✨ How often do you draw?

🌗 Is night or day better for drawing?

🍭 What’s your main art blog / what do you tag your art with?

🍀 You wish your art was more..(fill in the blank)

🌊 What’s the hardest thing for you to draw? 

🙊 Share your latest silly doodle with no context

#reblog #fill my inbox

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Commission from the wonderful @the0reoz 🩵🩵

Creme Fraiche Cookie teasing his boss about his crush that lives across earth bread 💕 They drew my boi so handsome I must show all 💕

Bonus: Doodle I gave them for reference

#cookie run #Cookie run oc #creme Fraiche cookie #clotted cream cookie #dark cacao cookie #cookie run kingdom #ClottedCacao #Little does clotted cream know that Creme Fraiche ships them the most

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sorry for yelling in the sticker cutter ask. im speaking as a guy who bought a cricut explore air 2 and those use lights to read where the boarder alignment lines are. and glossy materials confuse it bc they are shiny. and you have to pull a lot of shenanigans to make it actually read the lines and even then they will be misaligned. hell on earth. i can only sell matte stickers now.

oof yeah definitely saved me. I have these cute lamination pages and I would like for them to come out nicely the first time lol

#cakeku ask #stickers

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WARNING YOU THAT IF YOU WANT GLOSSY STICKERS AND NOT MATTE ONES YOU SHOULD BE SIGNIFICANTLY WARY OF GETING A CRICUT SPECIFICALLY ESP AN EXPLORE

Oh! Thank you anon!! I'll look into my options If ya'l have suggestions please share.

#stickers #cakeku ask

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Investing in a sticker cutter... fuckit we ball...

#I made a test batch of stickers and realized i am to under qualified to cut these stickers by hand #I will try to order it next pay day #preorders will be over by then

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New Cookie OC specifically made for my Queen AU 🩷😊 This is Creme Fraiche Cookie, the Consul’s apprentice. In this AU Dark Cacao has asked for Clotted Cream to marry him and live in the Cacao Kingdom as his Queen. Clotted Cream Cookie now feels like he has to make sure that the Creme Republic will be able to function without him. He wants to reorganize the Elders and have his apprentice take his place as Consul. It is taking time and the longer he takes the more he feels like he is giving the message that he does not want to be with him, which he does it’s that his he has a strong sense of duty. In my hypothetical fanfic I would like to focus on Clotted Cream coming to terms that he probably should trust his system and the people he chose for the job.

#cookie run kingdom #dark cacao cookie #cookie run #clotted #clotted cream cookie #Queen AU #cookie run oc #creme Fraiche cookie