Cooki the Potato

I stumbled upon this ballet mime guide the other day. It’s really neat. When I first started watching ballet, I really struggled to understand anything the dancers were “saying”. This would’ve been helpful back then.

I’ve been really nervous about posting this because of possible backlash. Then I realized that the people who would give me shit for thinking a character is trans are terrible anyway, so here it is: Transition Through the Centuries! I have like a book worth of stories for Liam’s backstory, which includes pirates, a greaser gang, and a romance that never came to be. All the while, Liam discovered who he really is and continues to discover more things about himself. Happy Pride Month!

I am the enemy,

I will succeed

My mission, yeah,

Thanks very much!! I’m not entirely sure what you’re asking but I hope this helps ;;

So our faces are shaped the way they are because it’s skin and muscle draped over an underlying structure aka our skull. Spooky!

This looks eerily similar to the typical ball/crosshair/etc face frame… because it is lol. If you’re having trouble with the cheek you can mark in the area where the cheekbones are as a reference point when setting up your face.

If you don’t want all your people to look like Benedict Cumberbatch all you have to do is draw a curve from the edge of the cheekbone down to the chin.

UMM for necks I think the basic thing you should know is that there are 2 strips of muscle that come out from behind the ear and wrap around to attach to your sternum. Usually people simplify it to 2 lines on the neck like in your favorite animu but now you know what it really means!

so, a face tutorial i guess? It’s 4am now i really don’t know what I was writing hdjsjagfi

Let’s take a look on eyes!

1. My first tip on drawing eyes is to stop focusing on the fact that it’s an eye. People are often intimidated by eyes, the windows to the soul, blah blah, it’s still a bunch of lines and blobs of color, and the sooner you stop being afraid of them the better.

2. That being said, an eye is more or less almond shaped from the front, and kind of taaingle shaped from the side. What alters it’s general shape is the upper eyelid. Playing with the shape of the eyelid gives your character a distinct look and allows you to show their emotions, which combined with the position of the eyebrows gives you a wide range of expressions. To me that’s more important than drawing a super realistic iris with tiny specks of color dancing in the shimmering pools of his blue eyes, you get what I mean ;)

3. An eye is a three-dimnesional structure. It’s a ball sitting in an eye socket, and you have to keep that ball in mind. Also worth remembering that the ball is wet and shiny. That glossy reflection is what gives your drawing a realistic vibe.

4. Eyeids and eyelashes throw shadows over the eyeball. This is important. 

5. Never use pure white for the eyeball. White is reserved only for the shiny spot. Trust me. 

6. Asian eyes look different than Caucasian eyes because of a skin fold partially hiding the upper eyelid and the inner eye corner. Pay attention to that detail when drawing your Asian characters. 

7. Pro tip: watch make up tutorials and pay attention to the advice on where to put highlights and where to apply darker eyeshadows to achieve the desired effect. Same with shapes of eyeliners and eyebrows. Then apply that knowledge to your drawings. 

this is more of a demonstration than a real tutorial because i’m bad at explaining things exactly as i do it? these are all really quick and cartoony sketches but hopefully they get the point across!

but basically, the expression of body types depends a lot on the skeleton’s proportions how muscle and fat etc are distributed, 

as well as height; a taller person and a shorter person of the same weight will have different proportions and expressed body types (the shorter person will look fatter and the taller person will look thinner, because of how the weight is distributed on the body)

@dredsina​ did a really good tutorial on bodies as well which you should check out

and when in doubt, looking up references can never hurt! comparing sketches of anatomy diagrams really helps too, and it takes a lot of practice and playing around to really get the hang of it.

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