#tutorial

unregisteredcat:

Did a small #tutorial for class on “How to Improve Storytelling in Panel Layouts”! Thought it might help some peepz around here!

I’ve been asked a couple times how I do my stained glass pieces, and its a lot easier than people think. So here’s a little tutorial that I hope helps!

Ko-Fi

Trying to reacquaint myself with how to draw characters after a month of mostly drawing buildings and designing light

So here’s a nifty little

tutorial on pushing expression without caricaturing the characters too much 

The thing about these actors is that their expressions rely so much like micro expressions to carry very very heavy emotion across in fairly restrained people, so either we caricature/stylise their faces and make them more comic-y or we rely on rules of design to push a more realistic style.

In the case of Jyn and Cassian the expression is a lot in the eyes, so we’ll focus on that:

Eg: usually with sadness, the eyebrows will pull up at the centre, pulling the eyes with it with a triangle where its highest point is closest to the bridge of the nose. But Cassian’s eyebrows don’t always do that. Sometimes he furrows them instead, but we can still play with that triangle!

So what I do, is I usually have the line of the eyelid moving up like the eyebrow, emphasising that as the long shape, and have the lines inside the eyebrows move in a rhythm to emphasise that triangle. Similarly I’ll try to draw the shape of the eye socket in a shape that also emphasises that (here I’m using diamonds, because squares are better for masculine characters).

Further, I changed the edge of his cap so it moves up subtly, rather than down, to emphasise that sadness once more time.

Same with Jyn. Here, too, I’ve furrowed her brow a little more than it was in the original shot, because eyebrows that move up can also imply joy, and the realisation that they’re trapped on Scarif definitely is not joyful.

Compare to this one, where I had the lines inside his eyebrows push down on the eyes, and the eyeshade tilted a little to emphasise the downward turn at the centre of the face.

something like this

Tutorial !!

i hope you find this useful

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destiny-islanders:

Finally got around to making another speedpaint– this one covers how I draw line-art! :>

A fantastic fuck-ton of human neck references.

People have been asking about adam’s apples and why they don’t show up in skeletal anatomy. The adam’s apple technically isn’t bone; it’s cartilage that protrudes to a certain degree. And, contrary to what some believe, everyone has this. It’s even more prominent in a few females than males. It depends on your body. It’s typically associated with a deeper voice because the cartilage lies in front of the vocal chords and, as you go through puberty, the cartilage drops and fuses together with the larynx, and the result is slightly broader in males (which is why we often have deeper voices). In the above images, you can see that there’s a break in muscle in the front of the neck, and the thyroid cartilage (that blue shape in the “medimagery.net” image) pokes through that break.

And, so you know where the shape of the bottom image comes from, I’ll throw in this diagram, too:

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A delectable fuck-ton of feet references.

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An glorious fuck-ton of kimono/yukata (for females) references.

Yes, the last one is in Japanese… hopefully you’re fluent. And, for the longer images, you gotta reverse-image search ‘em to see the text.

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A scrumptious fuck-ton of human mouth references.

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