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More How To Draw Manga - Vol. 4: Mastering Bishoujo Characters

Gripping a sword overview

Notes for foreshortening with ERIC by FUNKYMONKEY1945

using yellow undertones is okay (as seen in example) but don’t make them look like the Simpsons

Asian people are not black and they are not white. Don’t straight up bend their race.

whitening is a real thing within asian communities already, and for you to promote the idea that asians can have melanin as long as its “realistic” isnt helpful to us whatsoever

these are all realistic asian skintones. there are also asian people who are darker than this. pale east asians arent the only asians who exist. normalize this.

Chunky Big Shoes !! Shoes are one of my absolute favorite things to draw so I’m glad you like how I draw them! these are the only real tips I have lmao. I always just make a vague shape (sorta,,,looks like a cartoon steak or smthn) and then draw the shoes.

how to draw arms ? ? 

yes !!

finally. i can be accurate

BIG MACHO

The elbow joint on average rests a couple inches higher than the navel, so if you measure how long the distance is from the middle of the shoulder to that point then you have the length of the upper and fore arms!

(non-black artists please reblog)

heres a chart I made for myself showing diffrent undertones and how that affects the skin if anyone’s intrested

And this is how I nose.

*NOT AN EXPERT THO

SORRY MY HANDWRITING SUCKS and i’m not really good at explaining things bc i don’t really follow a guide and stuff so yeah BUT I HOPE IT WAS HELPFUL TO YOU!!

high quality expression references with varied facial types

How to, step-by-step, make expressions mean different things by changing just one facial feature at a time. *shrug* I’m not very good at explaining how I do expressions, I just…feel out what kinds of muscles seem to fit and tweak those. And sometimes, ever so slightly, little adjustments could mean the difference between fury and euphoria. 

So my friend Night expressed a general desire for help with profiles, and I figured I’d go ahead and whip this up! I’m no anatomy master or anything, but this is stuff that helps me quite a bit, so I figured I’d share… even if I have no idea how helpful it actually is. Writing tutorials is hard! Ah well, I hope it can be of some use.

African-American Hair Styles in Depth Row 1 & 2 Row 3, 4, & 6 Row 5

“world of averages” - composite images culled from thousands of individual portraits resulting in symmetrical average faces.