Do You Have Any Tips For Drawing Solas? You Draw Him So Beautifully But I Find His Features Are So Hard

Do you have any tips for drawing solas? you draw him so beautifully but I find his features are so hard to capture :(

Any advice you can offer is greatly appreciated ^^ !

Hi Anon! I’ve always found it hard to explain my thought process like this, but I can give it my best shot! Putting the explanation/timelapse beneath the cut because it’s a little long. (Also, sorry if this is formatted horribly, I’m on mobile and this app makes my life so hard 😭😭)

Anon, just like you, I once found Solas’s face to be the most frustrating thing in the world to try and get right. And he’s still frustrating! But, what helped me the most was figuring out what his basic shapes were and then building off of that!

Despite all of the egg allegations, his face is actually super angular! The lines from his forehead to his cheekbones are just a big diamond. His jawline is super curved as well.

Literally all of his features follow a curved line upwards, except for his sad, sad eyes. Even his nostrils are higher than the tip of his nose.

Another important note, his jaw ends at the same place where his mouth is and the inner corner of his eye lines up with his chin. I highly recommend finding a good picture of solas and mapping out his face like this to see what lines up with what. That way you can know for certain you’ve got things in the right place 😊

Here’s a quick timelapse of the above drawings! Sorry it’s such low quality lmao I don’t know what I’m doing.

When you visit your bestie

some quick lotr studies :]

prints

Well, the final result is a tie, but one of them is correct! Ghilara would never scream at spiders! She loves insects and will share insect facts with you if you suggest you are interested in hearing them. The nickname that Varric is 'bugs' because their first trip out to the hinterlands she infodumped to him about the role of bugs in the ecosystem.

And yes, Ghilara does not consider herself to be a creative person. She is an excellent craftswoman, and sews, embroiders, knits and basket weaves, but she views these as more practical things rather than a creative project.

Ghilara Lavellan: two truths and a lie

RULES: post a 24-hour poll containing two truths and one lie about your OC. Have your followers try to guess which is the lie.

Got tagged by @libraryofawesomeness :D

Tagging it forwards (no pressure to ofc, deepest apologies if you've been tagged before) @meg-does-art @cat-appreciator @dragon--sage @ammoniteflesh @telanadasvhenan :D

Cause of death: “Kindly remove your blade from my neck”

explain your gender in 10 words or less without using boring words like “male”, “female”, “nonbinary”, “masculine”, “feminine” or “androgynous”.

go!