Via Underwater Photographer Alex Mustard. @alexmustard1.
“Striped mackerel are filter feeders opening their cavernous mouths as they swim and sieving zooplankton from the water with their gill rakers acting like a net.”
i’m still learning anatomy myself so i wouldn’t use this as more than just a general tip but…. I am fascinated by speculative monster anatomy and this is something i discovered years ago and thought i would impart amongst my fellow monster enthusiasts :)
mind you, the second set of pectorals can look kind of funky so i understand aesthetically why people would prefer not to draw them but! if you are someone interested in anatomy, i think this is a thing people dont really think about when giving their OCs wings/extra limbs and i think it’s kind of neat!
Some face studies from back around the same time I did those wing studies.
I’d thought about the face of this character design project in terms of being a difficult thing for me to draw. But then I realized that this was the face for a character design project - as in the focal point - and the character was supposed to be, like, attractive? So I dropped what I was doing and spent several days watching tutorials and drawing faces.
This piece of paper went through a lot. Drawn on cut up glued re drawn gessoed more drawing. Sometimes when drawing I try to keep the surface immaculate and it works and other times I screw it up which often leads to a more interesting surface and mark making. —— Yoga for Goya 2018 ink collage and gesso on paper 70cm x 100cm —– #ink #inkdrawing #drawing #disegno #cutup #contemporaryart #contemporaryartist #contemporarydrawing #arteitaliana #arte #artecontemporanea #artecontemporaneo #artcontemporain #kunst #nycart #montrealart #canadianart #hamont #torontoart #vancouverart #collage #portrait #recliningnude #nude #cubism #contortionist #arthistory #smoking #anatomy #bones
The creator of the original, the animal reference tool, made their own human reference tool which allows you to search based on different body parts and poses!
Some more traditional sketches. All of these are from reference for practice. I know supposedly artistic nudity is okay on Tumblr, but I’m really not trying to get my blog to become unknowable.
a friend of mine was having trouble with a character of hers, he was middle-aged but looked too young, so she came to me for help. i’m something of a middle-aged-man-fan so i whipped up this quick thing to help her out. it might be useful to somebody out there so i’ll share it here too!
