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So there is the whole tutorial animated !!!

 With two examples and colors for each syllabes so you can visualize even more. Larger descripion on Patreon and more tutorials there as well! 

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Some quick animation smear guides I put together for a friend! not sure if it works as a tutorial without my in person commentary, also more intended as a guide to show examples of basic/common smear types :O

Anonymous said: Hi so I have this problem where i tend to always draw hands and arms where they either turn out smaller or larger do u have any tips on it? Like its never proportional to the body?

Do know what EYE LEVEL is? No? You should!

1.Drawing inverted triangle shape for base

2.Simplify the muscles 

Cartoon Hands Reference

Top Image

Row 2, by  Milt Kahl

Row 3, by Les Clark

Row 4 & Bottom Image

Row 5

HANDS!!! sorry for my bad hand writing

Here’s some tips, of course nothing professional, but things I’ve learned myself.

i mean i dunno ! i think a lot of it comes from just. a lot of experience with drawing people. cafe drawing always helps w that

beyond that, and i think this might sort of come out of left field and idk how legitimately applicable it is, id try animating. which might sound weird, but if you’re an artist and you’ve never animated anything; animate something. seriously. and it doesn’t have to be long, but it has 2 be GOOD. and being good means a LOT of frames per second.

good animation, making animation that looks good has has weight and is fluid is an AMAZING feeling because it feels real in a way that. i dont know, is sort of hard for me to even describe? animating isnt just “drawing a lot of similar pictures until they blend together,” its completely mastering an understanding of movement and weight and momentum and the way wind rolls through hair, and. theres just nothing else quite like it, theres SO MUCH going on under the hood of good animation that you never think about if you havent done it

beyond that, yeah. practice. cafe drawing, study people. another thing you do when animating (and i only have minimal experience w this, my major is NOT geared toward animation) is just. collect reference of people moving. all the time. scroll through the frames. looks at videos of real people dancing, look at videos of real people moving, watch their hands, watch how their weight shifts, etc. its VERY informative.

its also important to have a good understanding of anatomy, a lot of stiff poses come from people putting the figure together like a doll because thats the only way they can get proportions right. and as much as it seems like that would make sense, it really shows if you do that! nothing in a human skeleton is actually perfectly straight ! so if you draw like THIS

it will SHOW and it will HURT YOU. you are not doing yourself ANY FAVORS by doing this.

THIS is more what you’re looking for if you just wanna jot down the generals before you get into the rest; which is a good idea !

look how much more expressive that is ! all the landmarks are there, everything you drape over something like this will flow, it will have mass, it will look like muscle and fat hanging off bone in stead of a bunch of wrapping paper tubes glued together

Here’s an example of body motion and fluidity of movement :D featuring Roxas, of course.