KAICHI🌟

Bonus Happy Moon. Moon is happy.

Commissioned by the lovely @samanthafrank / Invader_Sam from her wonderful movie Sonic fanfic!

this is emmett and cullen they are best friends

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My last drawing tutorial was back in 2017, whoa, welp it looks like my drawing skills have gotten better. Since I have some more spare time, I will be doing new/updated art tutorials revisiting some of my previous topics.

I’ll post the tips publicly but my reference material and examples will be Patreon exclusive. If you like these tips and want to see more, support my Patreon! It allows me to focus on more material like this and I would really appreciate it .

Disclaimer: I’m completely self taught so my art is not necessarily anatomically correct nor realistic. This is just how I personally draw shoes.

The cool thing about line-art is that, if you know the tricks, you can make a black and white drawing look good without the need of colors!

The weight of a line can express different things, like lighting source, depth of field and the weight or material of a specific object.

(Since Tumblr is being a whiny little baby, if you click on the pictures and they don’t zoom in, then right click > open in a new tab that should work!)

So let’s check this first drawing I did with a rather flat line-art:

As you can see, all the lines her have somewhat the same weight. The drawing is nice and clean, yes, but there’s just no personality to it. Of course, it’s not forbidden to use this kind of line-art, but it’s more appropriate for things like animation (check out cartoons like Adventure Time, or almost any anime)because of the simple and clean lines.

Now, let’s check the same drawing, but giving those lines the thicc-ness they deserve!

LIGHT/SHADOWS: When you’ve established a light source, the lines closer to the light source will be thinner (the part being “hit” with the light) and the lines on the side away from the light source  will be thicker (the “shadow” side).

DEPTH OF FIELD / PERSPECTIVE: The object closer to us will have a thicker line-art than the ones behind it. This also helps to separate objects from one another.

OUTLINE/ DETAILS:Small details (like wrinkles on the face or scratches on the staff) will always be thinner than the outlines.The outlines being thicker help again with separating objects or characters from one another in the drawing.

MATERIAL: Depending on the material an object is made of, it can have thinner or thicker line-art than another, thus representing the strength, elasticity, softness or fragility or other characteristics of said object.

WEIGHT: The heavier the object, the thicker the lineart will be, and vice versa. Look at the feathers compared to the staff. The staff is made of bone, definitely heavier than a feather. You can see I even interrupt the line-art of the feathers in some parts, to give the feeling of “light” even more. Same as the hair: a lock of hair is heavier than one single hair. Also here for one single hair, the line-art is interrupted.The human brain is able to make out and finish the shape of something even if we don’t see the whole thing.

SEPARATING ONE OBJECT FROM ANOTHER:The main ways I use to give this effect are:- The object on front has thicket outline- The line of the background object doesn’t touch the line of the front object- Using white lines where there’s more black

Here I found other tutorials that show more examples!

http://rapidfireart.com/2017/08/15/lesson-7-introduction-to-line-quality/

https://www.tomrichmond.com/sunday-mailbag-179/20/12/2009/

https://www.deviantart.com/michaelmetcalf/art/Line-weight-Tutorial-384281679

other parents: how did you do that?

Me:do what?

Other parents: your teenager is eating a salad..

Me:i never forced him eat, now he will pretty much eat anything…except chicken casserole which we both agree is gross

Other parents:we don’t get it.

Me: our only rules are bed at eleven on a school night and don’t hack any important government agencies.

Other parents: you don’t restrict screen time?

Me: you know 95% of kids will self regulate, given the chance?

Other parents: thats not true

Me: have you tried it?

other parents:…but, now he’s reading 1984

Me: he has had a university reading level since he was 12, what am i going to do censor his reading material?

other Parents: what if he reads something you don’t approve of..

Me: i fail to see your reasoning…

Me: you know he cooks too..it’s our mother/son time, we talk about his friends…

Yeah, kids talk. If your kid doesn’t talk to you, it’s because of one of two reasons:

You’ve created such a hostile/unwelcoming home environment that they don’t feel comfortable enough to talk

You have signaled to them somehow, some way, that you don’t care about what they have to say. That what they have to say isn’t important.

Kids are not stupid, not at any age level. They pick up on shit and they remember and then when they grow to be teenagers, they know who they can talk to about stuff and who they can’t.

My 13 year old nephew is not particularly affectionate with his mother and he rarely talks to her about anything important, but there are times I can’t get that kid to stop hanging off me and he has those serious conversations with me, like when we discussed his friends coming out to him as bisexual.

It’s not even that hard to make a kid feel loved and welcome. I don’t even know what my nephew is talking about half the time with his games, but they’re important to him, so I let him talk and I make appropriate noises of shock and sympathy when they are needed.

He watches a lot of YT channels, so we’ve discussed the importance of regulating your media, because I don’t want motherfuckers like PewDiePie shaping his world view.

He reads anything from Stephen King to manga and he does that because I’ve been reading him books since he was a baby. I do it with all of my nieces and nephews; when they get school-aged and old enough to read on their own, our “us” time is going to the bookstore and letting them pick out a drink and a book.

Because reading is important to me and I want it to be important to them, too. Now, it’s not something I suggest, it’s something that my nephew asks for.

“I finished my book, Aunt [Dessie], when can we go to the bookstore again?”

And when I tell him a date, I make sure to keep it.

Saying, “You can talk to me about anything” and “you can rely on me” is all well and good, but words are just words. You have to mean it and you have to show them that you mean it.

Here is a secret:

Children and adolescents are actually fucking desperate for adult attention and approval. They really are. Even the ones that have in fact kinda got fucked up so far and have learned that The Only Kind Of Attention They’ll Get Is Bad and so act like shitheads, or the ones that have learned to be inhibited (and it might not even be you who inhibited them, it mighta been their peers or some teacher somewhere, which sucks!) and learned that by showing need they’ll just end up humiliated, or whatever?

Yeah them too.

Kids want to make you happy.

They’re often TERRIBLE AT IT. They’re kids. Their brains don’t work right, their bodies are weird, they have terrible impulse control, horrible deferred satisfaction, they’re shitty at projecting future consequences, and especially if they HAVEN’T been taught they’re probably bad at showing you positive emotions!

They’re BAD AT IT. And they often don’t want anyone to know it. And they’re embarrassed about it.

But they desperately want to. So much.

So one of the most crucial things is:

a) make sure they know how to make you happy. Don’t assume they can figure it out! They probably can’t!

b) make sure that’s something that is literally possible for them to do.

c) make sure, when they do it, that you SHOW THEM YOU’RE HAPPY WITH IT.