I love the way you draw bodies sm! They're always so fluid and unique!! Do you have any tips?? (other than the super obvious look at a reference lol)
hi thank u!! rather than just looking at refs, i explained how i actually use them here in a big old post, and how i keep those poses fluid!
another tip tho, and a more recent thing i’ve been doing, is that i use a ref just to decide a general idea for a pose and then pick my favorite lines either within the reference already or i make up my own
^^ for above, i very loosely used the reference at all. it just gave me an idea to start with for a pose and then i picked dramatic curves i really wanted to do and pushed the pose to show those lines.
a lot of my fluidity comes from caring more about those lines showing in the pose than the pose or anatomy actually making sense LOL
this is a more direct reference !! i liked the angle and the point of the knees, so i started there and then exaggerated what i wanted to draw more swoopy :3
additionally helps line confidence to use as few lines as possible.
it makes a lot of organic swishes and pretty lines if u try to keep each section of a limb or whatever to just a few strokes. 2-3 if ur really wanting to push it!
im sorry but i cannot stop thinking about isha's pastel memories that play during her sacrifice scene.
look at how full of colour this beautiful fuckin shot is:
it's been well established in episodes 4-6 how grim and dark the undercity has become under cait and ambessa's new rule. but look at how isha sees/remembers it - because of jinx.
jinx, who went through a severe childhood trauma that has carried over into her present self - she covers extremely destructive weapons and grenades in bright pinks and blues, neons, childlike doodles, graffiti. (joy and destruction, powder and jinx, a contrast so striking it becomes like a signature for her).
and then we see the world through isha's eyes. when we meet her in episode 2, she's running through sewers, from goons dressed in black; it's grimy and grim. and then all of her recent memories are done in these childlike pastel, almost crayon-y sketches. because what isha saw was jinx covering a dark and grim world in colours.
and so isha covered her world in colour, too.
because jinx made her world bright.
isha looked at jinx and saw the child in her. she saw powder and she saw jinx. she saw joy and destruction. and that's why jinx gave isha so much hope. isha knew the world was grim and dark - but then she watched jinx, and she learned that you can paint over all that grim darkness with neon blue spray paint.
that's why isha believed in hope. that's why in her final moments - in a scene that is lit dimly and dramatically - she sees nothing but a bright world coloured in pastels.
never underestimate the hope of a child.
starting to suspect that tech bros actually just don’t know what reading is
Hello, friends!
I'm sorry to tell you that I'm having a burnout. It's a bit more than one month till the end of the semester and I have A LOT of stuff to finish now. It's been like that for a while and I'm just tired, mostly mentally. I have a few ideas left from before the burnout, but I kinda don't have the energy to want to draw them (does that make sense?? idk).
What I'm saying is, I'm taking a timeout. YES, AGAIN. I will draw, because I literally can't live without creative activities. I NEED to draw or else i will explode. But I don't want to add the pressure of posting stuff online to the pile. I'm sorry. I hope to be back with you by the end of June.
Until then, take care🫶
Lemon s Kendy and Lulu Bebe, two traumatized princesses😞💕
I will give you no context whatsoever.
if you abandon gender hard enough you can unlock the secret state of nirvana where all clothes give you the thrill of crossdressing
there's a scene that just appeared in my head one day and has been living there rent free ever since
Black is sitting on his bed reading Lord of the Flies. in a very demonstrative way. it's more of a statement than anything else. he even holds the book in a certain way, making sure everybody can see the cover
well, everyone exept for Blind, obviously
so Sphinx leans over to Blind and says: "Black is reading Lord of the Flies with the most pretentious and idiotic look on his face"