female anatomy by mojette

Wow FINALLY a decent reference of the muscles on the female figure WITHOUT the breast content. It has always bothered me that they always have to include the breasts when showing the muscle anatomy on the female body, considering breasts vary in size and shape a lot and isn’t even muscles to begin with.

nosoytuchiste:

I’m Not a Joke is a campaign spreading awareness for the LGBTI community through art and design, created by Daniel Arzola (@Arzola_d) for the school of Visual Arts Rafael Monasterios in light of the recent violent acts against the sexually diverse community in Venezuela. It initially seeks to expand in the online community. If you’d like to share your opinion please do so via twitter using the hashtag #ImNotaJoke. Like our page on Facebook and share our designs to support our cause! 

I solved my slouching-problem, lol

I totally forgot the shoulders.

Hey guys, remember sycra’s video about foreshortening that got a shitload of notes?

this one is one of his older ones but it’s still pretty interesting. The “lighning bolt-technique” is something very new to me, so I’m gonna try it out myself!

Bad art is excusable. Boring art is a crime.

Choose effort over excuses.

Action over apathy.

Only then will you have a chance at true greatness.

The result is far more valuable than the idea.

*Not sure this is entirely original. More than likely it’s just a patchwork of borrowed, influenced & reworked bits & pieces that I feel I must have read or encountered consciously or subconsciously over the years. But it is something that I was pondering quite heavily this morning.  Concepts & ideals I need to remember & more importantly, implement each & every time I set out to create something. Anything really.

I should probably print this out nice & big (in Comic Sans so as not to seem overly pretentious) & stick it over my workstation.  Better yet, tattooed on the inside of my eyelids (still in comic sans of course).

-Clarke

(via csnyde)

casamancy:

if you think that artists shouldn’t use refs

or that an artist is a bad artist for using a ref

or that using a ref makes anybody less of an artist

then you are dead fucking wrong (◡‿◡✿)

spoiler: all your idol artists used refs

Okay so I followed this video about foreshortening and…

Sycra. I love you so much for making this video.

savoto:

satanic2chainz:

mmanalysis:

foervraengd:

Saying that people of color cannot show any visible blushing is a big fat myth that only proves how little people actually know about skin tones.

I have seen a lot of skin-tone palettes that includes dark skin, but it is very rarely put in use as examples. And many times I’ve found them to only appear monochrome, while darker skin tones are just as rich in tone variation as fair skin.

And just to be extra nice, I even added the basic colors I used in these two examples. A big protip is to start with the darkest tone as a base and then work to light tones. Use the highlights sparingly, they should not be large but more like small spots. Dark skin is more “reflective”, meaning small highlights pop out more than on lighter skin tones.

I made this set mainly for all the anime artists out there who probably would love to color more poc characters but don’t really know if it’d work out as kawaii as their usual stuff.

News flash: it’s drop-dead super kawaii in all skin tones<3

While I’ve never seen an actual black person blush, here’s some good info for artists.

yeah I was just thinking that too

in my entire life I’ve never seen a black person blush 

To be honest I haven’t either. Even in very light-skinned people just one little drop of melanin makes it so their faces aren’t that vulnerable to changing color just because some blood is rushing up there.

Since the tutorial seems to be for the anime artist crowd then having a way to show blushing on various skin-tones is good to know. Blushing is a big trope in that genre.

“I haven’t seen a thing IRL so that means it doesn’t exist”

Excuse you but this post was actually made for ppl like you. But I guess I’ll have to show you some better examples:

(source)

(The picture above is of the Turkana tribe in Africa, one of the people with the darkest skin in the world. And as you can see, they clearly have some blush on their faces)

(source)

Using your personal experience as an argument doesn’t really work in all cases, especially if you maybe are white (like me, Swedish and all).

Some people blush more than others, some people rarely blush at all - both for white and black people. (and let’s not forget how makeup can affect this)

Before assuming things about people, do some research next time. trust me it’s always worth it. 

My illustration might be in kawaii anime style, but it’s based on research and studies I’ve done on darker skin tones from the resources I’ve found.

Have a nice day.

Another hand study.

reference (obs: not stock photo. I only use non-stock photos as refs if it’s only for art studies and not for final works.)

Doing some hand studies atm. Decided to try to make a little GIF of the screenshots I use to take while drawing.

also, ref source here: link!

ok so I finally got my shit together and made that scattered leaf-brush in corel painter that I’ve promised myself for ages

Saying that people of color cannot show any visible blushing is a big fat myth that only proves how little people actually know about skin tones.

I have seen a lot of skin-tone palettes that includes dark skin, but it is very rarely put in use as examples. And many times I’ve found them to only appear monochrome, while darker skin tones are just as rich in tone variation as fair skin.

And just to be extra nice, I even added the basic colors I used in these two examples. A big protip is to start with the darkest tone as a base and then work to light tones. Use the highlights sparingly, they should not be large but more like small spots. Dark skin is more “reflective”, meaning small highlights pop out more than on lighter skin tones.

I made this set mainly for all the anime artists out there who probably would love to color more poc characters but don’t really know if it’d work out as kawaii as their usual stuff.

News flash: it’s drop-dead super kawaii in all skin tones<3

Mirre vs static objects (her wacom Intuos4)

oh god I just did a “wacom-tablet-discovery-that-probably-could’ve-been-known-earlier-if-I-read-the-manual-THINGY”

ok so on the intuos tablets (dunno about the bamboo series) there’s more than 1 port to connect with the USB-cable to your computer, thus making it more adaptable for left-handed people like me.

However, I’ve only found one port on my intuos when it says in the manual that is has two ports.

So yeah it looks like this. But according to the manual….

… this should also be a port for the USB-cable???

So my guess was that it’s hidden behind that little bit of plastic. But how do I remove it? It’s impossible with your hands and I didn’t wanna dig out a knife and risk ruining it…

But then I discovered this slider. I’ve never really thought about it before. It’s located between those two ports so I took a guess and TOUCHED IT….!

*GASP*

COOL NOW I KNOW ANOTHER THING THAT I PROBABLY COULD HAVE KNOWN IF I READ THE MANUAL A BIT MORE

eyecager:

Gottfried Bammes

This guy was one of the main resources I used when I made my anatomy tutorials. Definitely helpful.

I’ve come to the conclusion that Inkling’s purpose is to make you feel better with your art because no matter how bad you think your drawing is, Inkling shows you that it can always look even worse.