Maru draws

Ah. I usually stream as a spur of the moment thing, so at most I might give an hour warning on a day I do stream on bsky (sometimes on here too). Though, I do delete the link to streams and whatnot when it ends. I personally use picarto.tv to stream, so maybe if you follow me there, you'd get notifications when it starts, but then you run into the problem of no warning again.

Baroryuus, as requested, posted here too. The last one is Ryuu-chan topping, ofc : ) I'm sure you can tell who said to use that image for blocking.

Drawn for the brry12moons prompt home on bsky! Home is where the heart is. Happy Valentine's in advanced🫀🫀

Here are the other sketches before I settled on just this. I thought of making the heart be the prosecutor badge's red diamond for that Ryuu showing Barok Justice imagery and reinstating his faith but it felt too busy and I just didn't like the way it was going at that moment.

I’m trying to push away from anime influences and lean towards a more stylized but somewhat realistic style

Eh, "general" rule of thumb is to space them about one eye away from each other. There's also that rule that faces are split in 3 with the nose being about the middle of the face and ears going from eye corner to mouth corner and the mouth spans the length from the center of one eye to another(quick drawing to show those "rules").

Now. There are "general rules" not reality- I don't really use them myself. People can have more or less space between their eyes, higher or lower noses, wider or smaller mouths. It'll require practice, and you should do so by drawing real people with reference. Learn how skeletons look like and what the most obvious muscles/fat deposits are by simplifying the shapes of it until you get it, or by observatio. That would also help you know how to plane things.

After you have a general idea of how what's under the skin works, then you know how the shadows/depths of it would work, so you can skip to just this:

You want to draw real people- don't bother with the current popular hollywood or influence celebrities. They have a lot of work done (or higher chance of it), you won't see the breadth of possible features and their combination on a face as well as how they look like at different angles (or know how to 3D rotate them yourself to know what type of reference to look for). That way, you'll have more features under your toolbelt to build a character's face to reflect how you read their attributes. (ok I'm exaggerating, you can look at them some times, but your artistic skill and imagination as well as "what does a general person look like" would suffer severely if they are your only examples faces)

Never forget to have fun.

If you are practicing on PC, remember you can always play with the layers to see how your drawing matches. I would say to do that after as a check your homework after you referenced by looking.

Also I'm going to paint or slightly colour, I try to get the shadows plane right from the getgo- it'll pretty much break or make your face and if Idont get those shadows right at first then I'll have a nightmare of a time getting the features right after.

I didnt draw the details of Barok's face in the drawing below until after I got the shadows right so like I did most of the skin texture (the left skin texture TM is a re-creation of what I did- this barok is from November. That's also why theres a random skull, it's from a doodle layer)

I found out about you through your DDS art around when I got into it in like 2020. And I haven’t really found any artists who do it quite like you do. It’s so raw and clear yet messy all the same, and I love it.

I can’t quite understand the way you do things yet, but I hope your influence on my art is very clear because I have really looked up to you for years.

Thank you for the wonderful art. ❤️

Thank you, I'm really flattered to hear! I hope someday you're comfortable enough to show me a piece. Don't worry, I understood it was more of inspiration and not copying that you wanted to do. I think dissecting what others do to see why you like it so that you can digest it and give it your own touch is good. You only improve by studying and all.

I think making sure that the values are clear can help something messy still read very clear. A lot of it is also just finding what you can get away with implying rather than drawing to help guide the eye- which is pretty hard. I still gotta get better at that lol

As for thought process. I would say being a pervert will give you a boost. It's also a bit more difficult to explain, because often it's just my brain making random connections that sometimes make sense, other times not. The short answer is I vibe and let the folds of my brain trib.

QDS Heatserph, and the euphoric grief of eating the apple.

2025 fanart summary ! I did no fanart on jan-feb -- at least none that I found? I do tend to not save a lot of stuff in their own files so I have no idea of their dates, oopsie

As for the april one... don't worry about it.

Was fighting for my life trying to upload this what the fuck. Anyway, recording from the stream of this drawing, there's no audio. I kid you not I had to record my screen playing the stream recording sped up to get it in a viable way to upload. Absolute nightmare. No idea if this is parse-able.