I don't know what I'm doing

I was looking at the new warriors figurines and saw Longtail, and it got me thinking...

What if...

collab with @setonallison and @l1lac-123

the best scene in the whole book

@oobbbear​ has such cool designs (their celesital twin au is what gave me inspo for my lil alien cryptid sun/moon!!)

Their first and last hug.

First off, I looooove references. 3D model, photo refs, taking pics myself. Can't have too many refs. Take my stream of consciousness, as usual for these types of posts:

For a cartoony style you really don't need to go ham on realistic shapes of cartilage and you can simplify stuff. I collected a few pics from different animated media to show what I mean:

These noses are all very 3D but they're all conveyed with such few lines! Even in the anime ones, most of the work in making them look 3D is done by shading.

When I first started drawing cartoony people, I had a really hard time with noses. Looking at how they're done in cartoons with visuals I like and copying real life people in a simplified manner helped me learn. (And obviously life studies and looking at anatomy/art anatomy books.)

Absolutely! Sorry this took a while to answer! Also this is only how I do it!! You don’t have to follow these rules AT ALL!!