Crabs-with-sticks - I Am A Stick

Would people be interested if i make an OC template free to use? 🤔

But how can i make it accessible for people w/o the necessary softwares to edit it? Canva? MS paint?

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.

Broke: deleting the ladders in the pool so your sims can't get out

Woke: downloading mods to give your sims agoraphobia and chronic illness

“Do you wear it because you still love him?”

“No. I never loved him.”

“Then...why?”

“When we were taken to Kendall’s estate, Nelaros could have gone home. We had only just met. The wedding was interrupted. He owed me nothing. And yet, when my own alienage was resigned to leave us for dead, he convinced them to fight for us. For me. I don’t think he had ever picked up a sword in his life, and still he came. He came, and he died.

All my life, I have worked to protect what is mine. My family, my alienage, my people. That’s it. So if I am to do this, if I am to be a grey warden, if I am to fight and die for this world of strangers that doesn’t give one sodding shit about me—I need to keep him close."

[inktober2019: ring]