I had a hard time with this one, I really liked the pencil sketch…I wish ink made as much sense to me as graphite does…in any case, many thanks to @lilithprime for helping me shade…I think I need more grey shaded markers…bahahaha I guess I have to go shopping!!!
I finally managed to paint an environment from imagination without giving up halfway through, and the best part is that I actually like it!
I’ve been trying hard to improve my values, colors, lighting, rendering, etc., and while I have a lot more to learn I’m happy to see some good progress.
Check my ArtStation if you’d like to see a couple process pics.
Tonight I worked on muscles. I liked skulls better. Muscles are hard. There are 5 months of these streams for me to catch up on, so this is definitely going to keep me busy this summer!!
#anatomyjam #facemuscles #muscles #musclestudy # pencilart #pencilsketch #pencil #sketch #anatomy
Hey, this looks pretty cool! Knowing how the muscles and bones are shaped beneath the skin will really help with drawing proportions, too.
If anyone is interested, follow PamadaK and JHansonArt on Twitch. They are super awesome!!
I will not claim to be an expert at real wing anatomy by any means, but here’s a quick lil tutorial on how I draw wings.
Most wings can be divided into sections, which helps when drawing them. I call these sections of feathers the ultra-technical terms Top, Short, and Long. (I know there are real anatomical terms for these, folks…this is more of a shorthand to stylize type of deal.)
Sometimes people draw the Short feathers section going all the way up over the tops of the Long section, but there are generally always Top, Short, and Long sections even in stylized wing art.
Once you have a process for drawing wings down, you can just sketch them out, but when you’re just learning it helps a lot to think about what the shape is under the feathers. Here’s a good process to try:
Draw a stick figure wing with circles where the joints are.
Pretend it’s a bald wing (spicy chicken wing?) and draw the shape you think the fleshy parts are under feathers.
Draw the basic outline of the wing. It’s good to think of where the edges of the Top, Short, and Long sections are as you draw the outline.
Add more feather details, keeping them short except for in the Long section.
You can apply this same kind of process to wings with different numbers of joints, chibi wings, bigger more elaborate wings…
Tips & Suggestions:
Try making the feathers pointy or round on the ends.
Draw the feathers going from the top edge downward. All of the tips point down unless you’re drawing wings that are really fluffy on top.
Remember the feathers overlap – draw the edges of the Top section first. so the Short and Long look like they are coming from underneath the Top.
Knowing how to separate the wing into sections will help you draw wings from different angles and in different poses, too.
Curving lines will make feathers look soft, and very straight lines will make them look stiff. Both can be interesting looks for wings, especially sharp or armored wings!
Reference pictures are the right way to learn to draw something! I encourage you to type “wings” into Google Images and look at not just photos of real wings, but how many other artists have stylized wings in their art.
Since you are stylizing, don’t stress about being perfectly anatomically correct. Of course there’s nothing WRONG with drawing accurate-to-life wings, but it’s not a requirement.
Mess around with proportions – make the Long feathers reaaaally long, or make the Top feathers fluffy and the rest smooth, etc. Have fun with it!
This is why, if you asked me as a child, what I wanted to be when I grew up, I’d say “a cat”
Woke up in the middle of the night to find #briankesinger doing a live drawing!! Love watching these and getting to soak up your hints and tricks of the trade!! #art #inking #coloring #mashup
Before I go into some tips and references I use for body
language and facial expressions, I’ll just give my opinion on the first part of
your question.
I think the reason small “moments” resonate more
than a kiss is because a Kiss is Easy. Not easy to draw, but a narrative
short-hand. When you see two people kissing the automatic assumption is
“oh, they like each other.” which, based on the surrounding evidence
(or lack thereof) can make it either bolstered as a moment or confusing/frustrating
if it feels like it comes out of nowhere.
Little moments like a look, or a touch, or just being
visibly comfortable in one another’s space resonates more because it’s subtle
and comes across as unthinking. They’re much more difficult to pull off and get
right but very rewarding when you accomplish it. Whereas a big kiss moment can
be perfomative. If you’re looking in on a scene and you feel like it’s
happening because “the script says so” so-to-speak, it’s not going to
feel as genuine.
Now for some Tips on how I’ve gone about learning to get
better at body language and facial expressions.
Use References
It’s not cheating to do this. The easiest way to learn how
to draw something is by studying it. Unless you have an eidetic memory, you’re
not going to be able to draw something the first time you try without some sort
of point of reference.
Use References…but don’t be limited by them.
When you’re using references, as a start you tend to copy
exactly what’s there in order to get a feel for it. But when you’re working off
photographs or a model copying exactly can lead to some stiff-looking poses.
Just because you use something as a reference doesn’t mean you have to copy it
exactly, and you really shouldn’t. Use the reference to get a better
understanding of what you want to do, but then make it your own. Exaggerate it,
move limbs, change the posture, maybe the character is taller or shorter, maybe
they have an animalistic face. Whatever reference is your starting point, it’s
up to you to run wild with it.
Watch People, Watch yourself
Study the body language of others and yourself. It might make you self conscious at first, but since I’ve started doing this it’s been a lot easier to improve. Do quick, rough gesture drawings of motions (Something that takes no more than 10 seconds) in order to get a feel for the movement. It can be tricky at times to use yourself as a reference, especially if you don’t have someone to help you snap a photo from the angle you want, but you can use your body to get a feel for motions and gestures.
Really Watch Yourself (Buy a Mirror)
Sometimes the easiest way to capture the expression you want is to draw your own face. Animators do this all the time, so set up a mirror in front of or on your desk. Some artists mimic the faces of what they’re trying to draw naturally, so take advantage of that.
The Second Most Expressive Part of The Body
It’s hands. I’m sorry, but it’s true. You can have a great facial expression, but very stock body posture and hands hidden behind their backs and it won’t be as impactful. I’m a person who talks with my hands, so it was sort of easy to insert hand gestures into my art once I forced myself to start doing it. Hands suck to draw. I get it, but the more you do it the better you’ll get at it.
Use the Entire Body
You can tell an entire story with how you pose someone. If you ever pick up any books by Will Eisner, he goes into this really well. Art isn’t limited by reality, so just go all out if you want.
Resources
While the internet is great for quickly (or trying to
quickly) find something close to what you want/need, I love books and I have a
few physical books that I’ve studied over the years to help me improve.
If you go to any of these links you’ll find the ISBN numbers
for each of these books and using that you can find these books via Amazon,
Ebay, ABEbooks, or another online store you may prefer. You can also keep an eye out for them at comic/anime expos if you ever go to one. I’ve bought half of mine at events like that.
Reference books can be
expensive, but they’re worth it with how much content they hold. And, with the
Japanese books listed above, something I love about them is that they show the
same poses through multiple angles, and/or the full follow-through of motion.
These companies have other reference books and I imagine they’re just as good.
Awesome…I really suck at drawing people…give me a tree any day…
Karate, SPN Demonic Octopus Guardian 