OMEGA-DEKU

HI SORRY THIS REPLY IS SO LATE. Yes, if you're still up for it!

Hi! I’m so sorry about the late reply. D: I hope you don’t mind if I take this opportunity to address all the anon messages about how we can improve as artists. 

I have a tough time answering this question because there is so much I need to learn. I’m super flattered that some of you feel that my art is good enough to ask me for tips, first of all!! So thank you, guys. <3

It’s a struggle because I only recently started taking up art again. So I’ve forgotten a lot of the things. So I’m probably not the best person to ask about this.

I used to draw all the time as a kid, but after high school, I stopped drawing. I stopped drawing for almost a decade, pretty much. I really regret it. I feel like I could have come such a long way if I did keep going. My parents really discouraged me from pursuing art, even just as a hobby, too. Even when I left home (I’m back now tho), my ex-spouse, greatly discouraged me from doing art too. I mean, “proper” art. They told me my art wasn’t “real art” because it’s not studio art, it’s “sellout” art, like anime/cartoons/fanart. I had even worse self-esteem as I do now, and I listened to them and gave up. I convinced myself I hated drawing. 

Please don’t deny yourself things that make you feel engaged and connected. If drawing makes you feel good, if it makes you not realize how much time has passed and makes you feel like you’re accomplishing things, even little by little, please don’t stop. Even if you suffer from depression and feel like things like this are pointless, remember that just doing things in general will help you. Drawing is an awesome way to get into the flow state. To me personally, it’s almost like a meditative state and I find it helpful in dealing with chronic pain and mental health issues. 

Anyways, I’ll try to compile some advice sort of things.

ART IN GENERAL

1. Draw what you enjoy! I think the most important thing is to draw what you like. It’s okay if it’s “dumb stuff”. Draw your favorite characters or pairings from your favorite tv shows if that tickles your fancy! You’re much more likely to be spending more time drawing if you’re drawing stuff you like. And as long as you’re drawing, you’re improving. (But still, challenge yourself and get out of your comfort zone!)

Especially for those of you who are planning to pursue art as a career, it’s essential that you don’t view practicing art as a chore. 

2. Draw from life. If you really want to take your art to the next level, drawing from life is vital! I think many of us have come across artists who are just amazing, but there are things that look a little “off”. For example, the anatomy doesn’t look quite right, or the perspective is a little wonky. Things like that can be a tell that they’ve learned to draw from other people’s art rather than from life. Or just haven’t practiced the basics enough. (My art isn’t amazing or anything close to that lmao, but it definitely suffers from this. I need lots of life drawing practice.)

There is nothing wrong with learning from your favorite artists, but to really train your “artist’s eye”, you need to strip away all the stylistic choices and go back to the basics. Training that Eye is one of the most crucial things you could do as an artist. 

Just take a piece of paper, a pencil and start drawing what you see. If you can, take figure drawing classes at your local community college, or draw the animals you see at the zoo. Sit on a bench and draw the scenery in front of you. Over time, you’ll start to recognize common patterns, simplify/think of things in terms of lines and shapes.

If you can’t afford a class or have the ability to go outside easily, drawing from photographs can be the next best thing. (See the Resources below for an online figure drawing tool.) I’m not experienced enough to definitively say why this isn’t the #1 idea, but from what I hear, there are things that you’ll miss out on, such as subtle shifts in shadows, colors, and other things that will happen from small movements in pose changes, a cloud moving, or whatever else. A different “feel”, if you will.

With the digital art boom, a lot of artists are learning how to do cool digital effects and fancy things, but forgoing basic anatomy, perspective, shading, etc. Which is all fine if you’re just having fun, but isn’t the best idea if you’re really serious about improving. Practice the fundamentals!

(If you have been dreaming about CalArts at one point like I did when I was in high school, one advice I came across from everyone who went there was to draw from life. All the time. It’s not an answer I expected from people who draw funny looking characters all day. You mean all these people who draw such simplified cartoon people and animals can actually draw like masters? Perfectly rendered bowls of fruit? I didn’t realize how much work goes into animating simple characters.)

3. Put in the time. 

It’s really easy to get suckered into just watching “how to improve” videos all day and thinking about improving. Watching how other artists work is an important learning tool, but you’ll never actually make progress if you aren’t practicing. 

Sometimes, the best thing to do is to not think about it. Just do it. 

It’s like when I’m spending a whole lotta time thinking about getting physically fit than just, you know.. just doing it. “Tomorrow for sure.” 

It may seem like it’s worthless, but doing those lame 5 push-ups a day instead of the 20-minute workout you wanted to put in, is better than nothing at all. You are making progress, no matter how small it may seem.  

Make it a habit to practice every day. That way, you don’t even hesitate. It’s as automatic as brushing your teeth.

All the artists you see who have fantastic, awe-inspiring art may seem like Unreachable Gods sometimes, but those artists didn’t just pull that out of their ass one day. They put in hours and hours and hours of work. Let’s not disrespect other artists by ignoring that and chalking it up to “talent”. No one is born with an innate ability to draw. WE can get there too if we practice!

I want to get good enough to draw the things I have in my head one day!

Some resources that may be helpful:

Draw a Box - This is a site for free lessons for absolute beginners. Look under “Lessons” to learn. The creator of the site is the mod for r/ArtFundamentals. You can post your work there to get critiqued.

Check out Proko’s videos on gesture drawing, art fundamentals, etc. Daily routines of successful artists.

Use this site to practice figure drawing, gesture drawing - Set aside some time to practice drawing people and animals every day. Start trying to see things as lines, shapes, and go big. Don’t get too caught up in the details, and tiny drawings. Learning to draw fast (not draw FAST as in speed, but as in capture the gesture in a post, the “feel” of the movement) will force you to do this more, and with more experience, make your figures less stiff looking. 

And it’s okay if you’re aren’t good at it. You’ll make loads and loads of shit drawings until you can get decent. 

I’m most definitely in this stage right now, trying to train my Artist’s Eye. As in, I can’t just draw a figure from memory. I don’t really know what goes where without a reference, or how they move, etc. You can tell by how stiff my drawings look.

Lulusketches How to Improve video - She has similar advice, but her point about looking at “Art of” books something I have come across from multiple professional artists; Her advice on worrying about finding your own “style” is really good too. Do challenges like she said!

Her playlist of art tutorials & advice is great. They’re short and sweet. Her beginner digital art tutorial got me started on digital art (the one with Ginny Weasley). 

Not free ($30 a month), but these online Schoolism classes look helpful. It’s run by Bobbie Chiu. I saw some great reviews and I want to try them someday. They’re taught by artists in the animation/film industry. But you gotta have a basic grasp on digital art/photoshop for many of the classes, I think? I’m not 100% sure. They’re pre-recorded video lessons. 

You can pay more for feedback from the teachers, but you can also just use it as a self-learning guide. 

This drawing faces from any angle video was pretty helpful for me. The artist has loads of other tutorials.

COMICS

I don’t feel qualified enough to give much advice on comics. I mean, I don’t even draw the lines for the boxes, haha.. However, these comic books are basically required reading for some courses:

Scott McCloud’s Understanding Comics & Making Comics.

I can’t remember which one it is that I read, I think it was Making Comics? But wow, if I remember correctly, it was FULL of really useful things about how to make effective comics. I lost the book while moving years ago, but it was FANTASTIC learning material. I loved every panel of it. 

He talks about everything from perspective, placement of characters, speech bubbles, how big panels should be, etc. 

PLEASE DO NOT READ IF TALK OF GENITALIA/SEXUAL THINGS MAKE YOU UNCOMFORTABLE.

So sorry for the late response. (ノ﹏ヽ) Oh, alpha/beta/omega-verse isn’t unique to BNHA. It’s a common fandom kink trope thing. I don’t exactly know to explain 100%, but basically, it involves fantasy-animalistic behavior/biology sort of thing? Like mates, pheromones/smells and stuff. Every author’s omegaverse differs though!

But usually, there are three “layers” or different combos characters can be:

- Alpha, Beta, Omega: Alphas can impregnate, and omegas can become pregnant. Alphas usually express dominant behavior and omegas submissive. Alphas can get into “ruts” and omegas into “heats” - in which their bodies don’t want to do anything but satisfy the desire to mate. In some stories, there are “suppressants” that the characters can take, similar to modern-day birth control pills, shots, patches, etc. to prevent ruts & heats.

Alphas and omegas can sense emotional states through smells. They often have a lil’ bit of control over the kind of pheromones they want to release. Like an alpha releasing calming chemicals to relax anxious omegas. Or angry/possessive, warning smells to other alphas to stay away from their omegas.

A good match/potential mate can smell exceptionally good to an alpha/omega.

Betas don’t always exist in every story, but when they do, they aren’t affected by the pheromones released by alphas and omegas. They can smell them in some stories, and can’t in others. They’re often subordinate to alphas and/or they can act as “buffers” between alphas and omegas. They’re able to impregnate or not, depending on the story. 

- Female, Male, Both/Intersex: This has to do with body parts. Female alphas can impregnate, depending on the story, and male omegas pretty much always are able to self-lubricate their butt for mating - leading to mpreg. Alpha penises can “knot”, meaning they can swell into a ball at the base when close to ejaculation, to prevent slipping out. This means the mating couple has to wait until the swell goes down before being able to physically separate. It can be like 10-30 minutes, sometimes longer. Occasionally, characters have both male and female genitals (or breasts). And internal female parts are really common, even when lacking female external parts. Which makes mpreg possible. 

- Boy/Man, Girl/Woman, Non-binary/Dubious gender: This is more of a social/mental thing than body parts. For example, a character can identify as a man, but have both a penis and a vagina, and be an omega.

PART TWO

Sorry, posting just the art from my Ranma ½ crossover post because the images aren’t enlargening (at least for me :/). Separating the posts because I can’t add all the images into one post! Sorry for spamming gais. D:

Sorry, posting just the art from my Ranma 1/2 crossover post because the images aren’t enlargening (at least for me :/). It won’t let me add all the images so there is gonna be another post!

HI GAIS. Sorry I haven’t posted in forever. I was trying to learn how to digital art!! Two of my very first practice paintings are in here, but I kept them super simple bc I’m a noob.（´＿｀;）

SO. Ranma 1/2 was one of my favorite mangas growing up. It’s a rom com manga and it’s hilarious.

Here are the posts with just the art that you can actually enlarge:

PART ONE

 PART TWO

Basically, Ranma is a teenage boy, but because he fell into one of the cursed springs, he turns into a girl every time he’s doused in cold water. Hot water changes him back. Hence the “1/2″. As a raging bisexual, this series pleased me. (͠≖ ͜ʖ͠≖) Okay, I didn’t know at the time but still.  I mean, c’mon. 

Anyways, I had this bakudeku AU in my head for months now and I just wanted to draw random crap about it. I’ll talk more about it under the Read More cut. :) 

Please don’t mind the wildly changing styles, I’m just experimenting!

I meant for this to look more digital-art-y but I accidentally picked the wrong brush so it just came out like I scribbled colored pencils on it. :T Ah well! 

The girls wanna play dress up with Izuku after he/she/they comes out to the class. Momo makes the outfits!! :D

Morning cuddle sleep~ (♡´౪`♡)

More comic-style stuff under the cut~.

Hi guys. Sorry I have been gone so long. Between my mental & physical disabilities (part of which is chronic pain that can get unbearably severe at times), school and my other hobby (ingredient analysis/research bc i’m a boring mf), I didn’t get a chance to draw more. I have a bunch of failed sketches but idk if I’m gonna upload those lmao. 

I drew this a while ago laughing like a maniac after the confirmation that Deku has a serious case of baby face. How does he have the same face proportions as a 6 yr old? I have no idea. This makes me feel more weird about anime!Deku bc his extreme baby face + hella muscular body lmaoooooooo. He looks like a normal teenager in the manga so…

I have assloads of homework rn but I really needed to get this bakudeku body swap sketch dump out of my system.. (i tried to tone down the blinding brightness but it became a gradation thing instead.. -.-;;;)

Thank you so much!! I’m so glad I have your support! :D I have NO plans to drop it, I’m sorry it’s taking so long. I’m taking some harder science courses this semester that’s taking up so much of my time. :S But I’m gonna try to draw as much as I can!

I am absolutely obsessed with Bakudeku and I have soooooo many comic ideas it’s not even funny. I’ve been ITCHING to draw and also practice digital art/coloring but stupid school is taking up a lot of my time atm. D:

(Edit: o wtf. The post deleted the rest of the text for some reason.... fixing..)

Oh no, I’m totally fine with recommendations! :3 It’ll probably take me a really long time to get to though,, bc school. >_< But I’ll get around to it eventually. : P

I’ve been really loving bunny deku and wolf Kacchan stories so! (But the furthest I can go is ears/tails. >_< Claws and animal legs and a lot of fur and stuff like that scares me..)

This fic is totally not to blame or anything (IT’S SO GOOD PLEASE READ)..

Some sketches before homework since I haven’t drawn anything for a while. 

Anyways, you know how Kacchan is basically good at everything/is a super fast learner in canon? Well, my headcanon is that after a little bit of testing the waters with Izuku, he becomes an expert at pleasing him, much to the amazement (as usual) of Deku. KACCHAN SUUUGOI

Kinda n s f w under cut╰( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡° )つ──☆*:・ﾟ