Drawing Bases & Pose References Pt 71 🫶

i've been plucking at this fic chapter for months now. i need to get it done but it's also just "you know how it ends, so why are you writing it"

i wanna share it with the WORLD, BRAIN. LET ME WRITE MY DAMN FIC AND STOP BLOCKING MEEEEE

UPDATE: So I have 8 payments to make that must be over $50. I told this to the person who defaulted on the internet bill. "How much is the payment plan" when I told him that $50 over 8 months only amounts to $450.

I have commissions open, though they will be slow due to me consistently depression napping and always in bed lately.

You can find the commissions here: https://ko-fi.com/curruidcoinhenn/commissions

The OG text is under the cut.

Hi.

So, recently, I've ended up in debt. Wow, how could I. The thing is, I've never been in debt before and I, rightfully, freaked out about it yesterday. I owe $730.03 for a service I barely used for a month because it's in my name and the person who was supposed to pay it stopped paying it on time. Leaving it to go to a debt collector.

And yeah, that was my bad! I learned my lesson from it. No more having bills in my name that aren't paid for by me. The rest is kind of long and rambly so you can skip to the tl;dr by pressing ctrl+f and typing in tl;dr.

I woke up yesterday to a text message about it and cried. I cried, I contacted the person who was supposed to pay, who said he'd fix it but never paid anything towards it last month. Leaving me to get called and texted by debt collectors.

And yeah, I get it, money's tight during the holidays. The unfortunate thing is that this guy? I know he's paid bi-weekly to do barely anything but game at his work. He's got loans, he's got debt to a lot of things he never paid off and I should've taken that as a sign.

I didn't. I stupidly believed he'd pay and he just let it get later and later until I bothered him about it. And then he'd pay, and the cycle would begin again. He told me to cancel it, I tried, they wouldn't unless I paid.

The account is closed now. And the bill got sent to a debt collector.

I want to get this squared away as soon as possible. Clear it out so there's nothing tying me to this anymore. To a bill I struggled to pay until I told him to take care of it because I couldn't pay it anymore-- pay for a service I wasn't using. I scrambled month to month to get the $180 needed to pay for that bill because it was oh-so-important.

And I've tried to help him with this. Tried to help him with his finances and bills, as I'm broke consistently due to being unable to get a job (and I have tried for years) and cut things out when I'm not able to afford them. Yeah, he's in debt to people. He's got loans, but he has payments to pay them back that don't affect how much he can put towards bills. I've calculated how much he can put aside back when he asked for my help (which he never took! I may be bad at my own finances but that actually makes it easier for me to help others, funnily enough), and he never did. It was suddenly all gone every time.

tl;dr: I bitched for a while about how I tried to help this guy but he didn't use the help I gave him (after asking for said help).

But. That's not the point here. The point is, just like that damn phone payment he made me pay when I didn't have the money to and had to beg for help on it, he's left me a debt I can't pay.

And I hate it. I hate that I can't pay it.

I have a Ko-Fi set up. A goal set up. It's $750 for the goal because I don't know how much'll be eaten by fees and it's better safe than sorry.

I'm struggling again, and I hate it. The new year has given me a debt that I can't pay, and I have to rely on help from everyone else.

If you want something like a doodle or something for your assistance, just IM me here. I'll try to draw it to the best of my ability (sfw only)

The ko-fi is here: https://ko-fi.com/curruidcoinhenn

If you can donate to help clear it, please do so. If not, please at least share this so someone can help. I appreciate it all.

@dimiclaudeblaigan asked for a tutorial on how to begin drawing. Good news! If you can draw a funky looking stick man, you have already started!

I think that stick people are a great starting point for artists because of the things you can learn from them that will be important later on.

If you are able to draw a circle and a couple of lines, you can easily put together a stick person.

Congratulations! You have started to draw. :)

A stick person is a very minimal artistic representation of a real life person. It is simple yet recognizable, and is widely used in art, media, and signage.

But what can a stick person teach us about drawing people that look more like… well, people? Lets have a look!

By simply adding a few more lines, we can add a pair of eyes and a mouth. Maybe even a little triangle nose! Or half circles for ears. We can now draw a face, which provides a basis for all sorts of expressions.

These simple additions can allow us to explore the wide range of human emotion and individuality.

This may seem like the basics of the basics. But that is what we want! In order to get to the point where we are able to draw complex, elaborate representations of humans and objects, we will need to start with simple shapes like lines and circles and build our understanding from there.

For instance, lets give our stick person some cool new features, such as hands and feet. I chose little squiggly circles to represent hands, and triangles to represent feet.

We can go a step further and modify the body of the stick person to include shoulders, hips, elbows and knees. These parts of the human body are quite complex in real life But here, all we need to do is add a few simple lines and dots to our stick person.

The lines provide some additional structural elements to our stick person's body, which are the shoulders and the hips. The dots indicate the points of articulation - elbows and knees, the places where the arms and legs bend!

Now we can use our stick person to show us an even wider range of human movement, action, and expression.

Our little drawing of a human being is evolving! All it took was adding a few more lines and shapes here and there.

By elongating some of the existing lines and making the head an oval instead of a circle, we can give our stick person proportions that resemble that of a real life human.

By this point, we have managed to add more complexity to our stick person simply by using our ability to draw lines, circles, and other basic shapes!

These basic ideas are the building blocks that will enable us to create more complex shapes.

The next part may be a considerable step up if you are absolutely new to drawing, but I have decided to include it in order to show you how complex objects like the human body can be built from shapes that are a bit more complex than circles and lines.

For example. Two ovals and a rectangle can be combined to create a cylinder.

Six squares can be combined to create a cube, or a box. Here, each square is distorted slightly depending on which way the cube is facing.

Note that the back faces of the cube and the bottom of the cylinder are hidden. These shapes allow us to visualize that which should not normally visible.

A sphere from all perspectives can be represented by a circle. But we can make it more like a sphere by adding lighting and shadow if we so desire.

Cubes, cylinders, and spheres are examples of 'solid shapes' because they consist of 3 dimensions.

Lets see how these solid shapes can be used to compose the human body.

By stacking three cylindrical objects, we can create a torso. Two spheres have been added to form shoulders, while a smaller cylinder forms the neck.

An arm is an alternating sequence of spheres and cylinders connected together. Note that the hand has been simplified for this example.

We can apply these solid shapes to the rest of the body to give us a more recognizable representation of the human form. It doesn't even have to be perfect. And just like that, our stick figure now has a silhouette that is unmistakably a person!

In the above examples, notice that we kept the stick person at the beginning while building up the shapes and solids around it. This is because the stick person serves as a guide for positioning the body and its various parts -> also known as posing.

You can do the same thing to everyday objects! Here, I drew a wine glass by stacking these three dimensional solid shapes.

The cup and its contents are two ovoid shapes that were cut in half. The stem is a very thin cylinder shape. The base is a cylinder with a slightly wider bottom.

Solid shapes help inform us how objects and parts of the human body may appear from different perspectives.

For example, a sphere can be used to demonstrate how the human head appears when looking up or down, turned to the side, or tilted at an angle.

With these examples, I hope I have managed to convinced you that if you can draw a circle and a couple of lines, you can draw a person! You just have to train your eye to recognize the simple shapes within complex objects. Try it with everyday objects as well! Or even your favourite media! A drawing subject can be as simple or as complex as you envision it to be.

Once you have mastered that, there are many aspects of drawing you can explore from here that may require you to seek additional resources or a fellow artist's advice.

Last of all, remember that drawing is an iterative process. Even if you draw something correct the first time, you will need to draw it again and again to get it right all times! And by making small changes like the ones we explored in this tutorial, your drawings will gradually transform!

I hope what I've demonstrated here are enough to provide the basics of how to get started with drawing objects and people, and also to help refresh more experienced artists. :) Hopefully I didn't go too off topic with what was requested, and let me know if there are any more questions I can answer.

Cheers :3

Chibi Foliage Guide: Lavender 🪻

Next part of the guide is already up for my kofi supporters 🥰 This month's one is Cotton "flower" 💕

All deeppink man expression meme collection

i know a lot of ppl are (rightfully) stressed right now so heres a break. look at my cat 👇 baby vinny when he was ababy

Fate/ランサー

30 Days of Art Improvement Challenge

Are you tired of feeling like your art just isn’t improving? Do you want to do a 30-day challenge that’s actually useful? Welcome to 30 Days of Improvement Hell. >:D

I made this because I’ve been feeling super ‘blah’ about my art these days, and I needed something to kick-start myself. Who wants to do this with me!? Start now or whenever you can (now you procrastinators!). Challenge yourself and have fun at the same time!

Tag your posts with #Improvement Hell so everyone can follow along and see each other’s awesome artwork. I may even create a blog and reblog them! :D

What are you waiting for? START!

Self-Portrait - Introduce yourself

Draw a figure using a reference - link to reference

Draw a figure that’s in action, using a reference - link to reference

Draw a part of the human anatomy you have trouble with. x20, with atleast 5 being skeletal/musculature studies.

Draw more figures. Quick gestures and silhouettes. x20, with atleast 10 different body shapes

Let’s have some fun. Design a character from either This or This character generator! Be creative and bring something to life!

Pick the weirdest object in your house/room. Draw it. Shadows and Highlights.

Find 2-3 objects, make a scene with them. Draw it. Bonus points for creativity. Double points for dramatic lighting.

Draw a landscape of a place you’ve never been or drawn.

Draw a BG with 1pt Perspective. Negative points if it’s a railroad or an empty street.

Draw a BG with 2pt Perspective.

Look out a window. Draw what you see. Bonus points for adding something interesting.

Draw an interior setting with the character you designed on Day #6 in it.

BG with either bird’s eye or worm’s eye view.

Halfway there! Draw three ‘action’ scenes with different compositions in each. Quick sketches are fine, just make them interesting and understandable! Bonus points if it’s the same scene, but different composition.

Draw a single page comic with 5-7 panels (the story begins and ends on one page). 

Draw an animal you’ve never drawn before. x10  Link references.

Draw a car. Negative points for whining. Hint: Use a perspective grid.

Think of the thing you hate drawing the most. Guess what? Draw it! Negative points for lying to yourself.

Pick an object in your house/room. Now design a character from it, using the shapes, forms, textures, purpose and colors as inspiration. Also link/post the object you used. Negative points for using a humanoid action figure.

Draw a character/object/scene, and shade them using ONLY solid blacks and whites. Bonus points for good use of lights/shadows

Draw a different object/scene/character. Shade using hatching, crosshatcing, and/or pointillism. Bonus points for lights/shadows and textures.

Colors! Pick a color palette, and paint a scene/character/object using only those colors (some blending allowed). Bonus points for good use of lights/shadows.

Draw and color a scene/object/character - no lines allowed! (aka - lineless art). Don’t forget light and shadows!

Draw a scene/character in a style you’ve never drawn before. If emulating an artist, credit+link. Bonus for color style.

Draw a character. Draw 10 emotions/expressions. Bonus points for ‘uncommon’ emotions. (i.e. anxiety, guilt, despair, loneliness etc.)

Draw three random shapes using your opposite hand (or your foot). Now design characters from those shapes.

Turn on the tv (or load your illegally downloaded movies). Pick an actor and draw them.

Almost done! Let’s have some fun. Draw some fanart. Bonus points if it’s super obscure and unknown. Make people guess what it’s from.

Last day! Find a drawing you did within the last year. Now draw it again using what you’ve learned! Link it for comparison!

 Look at all that amazing improvement! Congrats!

[Update] There is now a sequel challenge, Draw All The Things!