Drawing Fat Characters Will Make You A Better Artist, Btw. Unironically, Once You Know How, You Will

Very happy to finally post my third tutorial! Thank you so much for your overwhelming support of my last tutorial, I am so happy it was useful for you guys 🙇‍♀️. I feel like this topic was harder to explain so feel free to ask me some questions if you want!

Like last time, I really hope this helps some of you in your art path 🙌

Day 26

so i definitely started this past midnight but who's keeping track

She's dancing :)

or stretching?

day 4

the school of merms is growing

I should probably add more than just blues and greens maybe (and that one outlier purple)

loved

Guess who's falling asleep again

meeeeeeeeeeeeee

(day 10)

edit;

The fuck are her poor hands

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Gave myself a little homework! It's always a challenge to keep up with good study habits when you're already balancing work and life. While this is hardly a tutorial (nowhere near enough to comprehensive I think to qualify as one), I realized as I was sketching from reference that it might be beneficial for others if I wrote down my thoughts on how I approach drawing hands.

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hip stretches

hot artists don't gatekeep

I've been resource gathering for YEARS so now I am going to share my dragons hoard

Floorplanner. Design and furnish a house for you to use for having a consistent background in your comic or anything! Free, you need an account, easy to use, and you can save multiple houses.

Comparing Heights. Input the heights of characters to see what the different is between them. Great for keeping consistency. Free.

Magma. Draw online with friends in real time. Great for practice or hanging out. Free, paid plan available, account preferred.

Smithsonian Open Access. Loads of free images. Free.

SketchDaily. Lots of pose references, massive library, is set on a timer so you can practice quick figure drawing. Free.

SculptGL. A sculpting tool which I am yet to master, but you should be able to make whatever 3d object you like with it. free.

Pexels. Free stock images. And the search engine is actually pretty good at pulling up what you want.

Figurosity. Great pose references, diverse body types, lots of "how to draw" videos directly on the site, the models are 3d and you can rotate the angle, but you can't make custom poses or edit body proportions. Free, account option, paid plans available.

Line of Action. More drawing references, this one also has a focus on expressions, hands/feet, animals, landscapes. Free.

Animal Photo. You pose a 3d skull model and select an animal species, and they give you a bunch of photo references for that animal at that angle. Super handy. Free.

Height Weight Chart. You ever see an OC listed as having a certain weight but then they look Wildly different than the number suggests? Well here's a site to avoid that! It shows real people at different weights and heights to give you a better idea of what these abstract numbers all look like. Free to use.

Day 18!

edit;

WOW

i didn't realize how asleep i was when i drew this. The layers were all fucked up in the paint file too. still not as fucked up as her face though

Day 28

Maybe i gave her a lot of jewelry instead of going to sleep on time. Who can say.