Improve Yourself And Try The 30 Day Background Challenge!

Improve yourself and try the 30 Day Background Challenge!

1. Child’s Bedroom 2. Adult’s Bedroom 3. Living Room 4. Bathroom 5. Kitchen 6. Dining Room/Area 7. Garden 8. Your Outdoor Space 9. Park 10. Forest 11. Beach 12. Desert 13. Cave 14. River 15. Small Shop/Café 16. City Street 17. Suburban Street 18. Rural Street 19. Farm 20. Housing in Nature 21. Outside Government/Royalty Building Pick an area and make it in: 22. Spring 23. Summer 24. Autumn 25. Winter 26. Floor-level view 27. Bird’s-eye View 28. Two-point perspective 29. Interior Space at Night 30. Your Room

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You're one of the best artists out there imo when it comes to drawing flower/forest scenery!!! it's always so beautiful ;w; !!! As someone who is loves flowers and wants to depict it more in drawings can you give any tips on how you go about them? Thanks for your time either way!

omfg thank you so much that means a lot;; 😢 I’ve studied a lot of plants both from real life and photos and I’ve noticed it’s all about knowing where to place convincing blobs really! I did a rough example of my process below

I hope this helps!

you are absolutely Stellar at drawing wavy/curly hair, do you have any advice on this...? (i'm sorry, i can't quite recall if you've already answered a question like this or not...)

Thank you! Looking at reference and learning about how curly hair is styled and cared for is key of course, and drawing from life if possible and doing studies, but other than that I can share some things I think about when drawing curly hair

First of all I generally start from a general shape - curly hair has a lot of body, it’s a bit like a foam, it’s mostly air and fluffs out into space. The curlier it is, the more it defies gravity.

I’ve found it helpful to use a very textured brush with soft edges to create the initial shape of the hair and go back over it to add stray hairs here and there, define a few curls, and add shine if appropriate (tighter curls aren’t shiny, afro texture hair is velvety rather than glossy, so ditch the sharp specular highlights when drawing kinky-curly type hair)

All hair has a flow, an energy to it, and it flows over the head and body - curly hair is a bit more white water than placid stream, but it’s the same idea, it flows. Don’t be afraid to just… draw spaghetti, go wild with scribbles initially, focus on creating an overall shape and flow, and use the hair to make the head and face look dimensional.

With curly hair more in the wavy to large curl range, something to keep in mind is that the weight of the hair will pull the hair straight while it’s drying from being washed. So this range of textures tends to have it’s clearest curl and most severe waves at the tips. Smaller curls (like afro texture curls) keep their shape down to the roots. (google hair curl chart to get a better idea of how much curliness can vary and what the different kinds of curl look like)

One thing I think that helps make curly hair look more real is to depict imperfect locks - curly hair is kind of magical the way it forms into ringlets and locks, and it’s easy to draw a bunch of those locks and call it a day - but make some hair from one lock reach over and join another, make a bit of hair disconnect from it’s lock and go do it’s own thing and tada, you’ve got something much more genuine looking.

It also helps to make the locks and ringlets slightly different wavelengths - don’t make them a uniform size, make some slightly tighter curls and some slightly looser waves, just all mixed together. The bigger/looser the curls, the more variation in wavelength.

And just in general, stray hairs help to make things feel more real - curly hair especially tends to not smooth down into perfect shapes, even if you get a lot of it into neat little locks there’s gonna be a few hairs that are just like “fuck yoooou” and break the silhouette - the bane of every curly haired person’s existence, but it gives drawings of curly hair more charm if you just go with it, because it reminds people of themselves or their curly haired loved ones which creates a connection.

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How to show expression with the mouth!

This was a request and at first I wasn’t sure if I had anything to provide with, but as it turn out it got a little longer than I expected because there were actually things I had to say!! Wow!! 

Anyway, this is some guidelines I follow when I try to make the face expressfull, more specifically the mouth! It is often neglected, since it’s actually pretty hard, I’ll admit. But I’m here to help (hopefully…)! A mouth expression tutorial as per request. Enjoy and hopefully it will help some a little. ʕ•ᴥ•ʔ

Draw the teeth at the right angle. 

This is super important. The upper jaw follows the angle of the head, and the lower jaw will depend on how open it is. Make sure you have a rough estimate of where the teeth are, and how much of them you’re going to see!

The lips will VERY roughly follow the same angle as the teeth. It really depends on the character, but it gives you a sense at least. 

If you DON’T do this, you’re going to lose so much volume and the mouth is going to end up looking unrelatable. I showed this example in this tutorial:

It’s not just the lips! 

The cheeks, chin, and tongue play a role too! 

Try look at your own mouth or references! I have a very pliable and large mouth, so that’s one reason why my characters have it too lmao.

ASYMMETRYYYYY (ง ͠° ͟ل͜ ͡°)ง

I cannot emphasize how important asymmetry is when drawing expressions. It applies not only to the eyebrows to achieve the Dreamwork Face™, but also the mouth. Seriously if you draw a symmetric mouth I will deliver myself to your mailbox and then shout at you until you fix it. 

Look at the difference between these two for example: which one has more “life”? 

I think you get the idea.

Push and squish - give it flow

Here’s an old drawing I have but it illustrates how I think when I squish the mouth, and use folding and wrinkles to my advantage.

Look at your own face and see where skin bundles up, where it creases the most and when bumps appear on your chin. Subtle details makes all the difference! 

One VERY effective detail is illustrated in the first sketch, where I pull upwards on one side, and downwards on the other. That’s a good detail to use when the character is making a skewed expression, or is extremely frustrated. I encourage you to play around with that concept bc it’s ~super effective~!

EXAMPLES:

Happy: Your entire mouth is pushed upwards, not just the corners of your mouth!

I tend to draw a :3 mouth bc I’ve been drawing Lance too much….. You don’t have to but it’s basically imprinted in my motor memory by now. 

Pouting/frowning: corners are pushed down, middle pushed slightly up. Sometimes, there’s a slight dip in the middle too. It can give a sense that the character is biting their lips.

Showing frustration/intimidating/is intimidated: basically showing a lot of teeth. The corners are as open as possible and the middle sorta more squished. An extremely important detail here is showing some of the gums, and open space between the cheeks and teeth. That way it looks like the mouth it open to it’s full potential. Here is also where you basically MUST add folds and bumps, or else it’s not going to look relatable. 

(Here I am again with the pulling upwards on one side and downwards on the other, as illustrated on the last sketch)

And then again, here’s just another doodle showing how important it is to show the gums. It’s the same face twice, but the second one looks slightly more frustrated doesn’t it?

(from my other tutorial on how to draw facial expressions)

As you can see, this last one is very versatile and I draw it a lot. Play around with the basic shape and see how much subtle details makes a lot of difference! 

That’s it! 

I hope that cleared some things up and was somewhat helpful! Enjoy drawing ✨

i never know what to do with the body when i do these so here’s one of those things with arms™