Excuses, Excuses

Saw my recent rock tutorial blow up a bit, wanted to also share this mountain painting tutorial I‘ve made!

a lil on my process for illustrations !

Tried something new with this! My kickass gal, Ceifia Be’sashi: tactical fashion designer, model, and girlfriend of @straypurplebread’s turian, Spectre, Nex Galius.

I then left it messy for artistic reasons and Definitely not because I am Lazy and have the attention span of a gnat on caffeine.

Fun fact: this was my first time drawing an asari! How had I not done that yet?

Oh! And here’s a WIP shot I took (i May Have Forgotten to flip the canvas back whoops)

Re-creating my first webcomic from 12 years ago, "Hair Expectations vs Reality."

I can't help but feel all kinds of emotions after re-visiting the original comic: the one that started it all. A lot has changed since then, and I feel so fortunate to still create art and tell stories for a living. Thanks for your support, and sticking around for so long ❤️

Check out the other versions:

2014 (OG)

I'm still in China, so stuck on mobile + without my drawing tablet, but I'll post my horse sketches and a modified version of my general animal drawing tips:

Horses, like any other animal, are 90% shapes. You want to get good at drawing these shapes. The most important place to start for a horse are at the SHOULDERS. You want to draw starting with the intention of the ENTIRE horse in mind. Don't do a bunch of disconnected hooves and legs and horse head shots until you're actually comfortable knowing what connects where. Doing a bunch of piecemeal 'studies' before you understand the whole animal's shape is a trap and a copout! You can see in my cleaned up horse lines that I always always draw out the shoulders, hips, and haunches.

Horses are hard for people to draw because their legs are weird. So this seems obvious to say, but get good at understanding their legs. You wouldn't believe the amount of people who go "horse bendy noodle legs hard" and leave it at that. It's best to look at a diagram of horse and human homologous limb structure, because then you can understand why they bend in the places they do. Like in math, actually understanding horse leg anatomy than simply memorizing what they look like at one angle is better, because then you can extrapolate what they look like from any angle using fundamental theorems.