Two Of My Teachers Are Expecting Their First Baby. I Made This For Them. I'll Also Count This As My First

Two of my teachers are expecting their first baby. I made this for them. I'll also count this as my first Inktober drawing.

protips for artists who want to improve their ability to portray facial expressions:

see if you can express the emotion without using facial “symbols” (e.g. half-moon closed eyes, sweat drops, starburst popping veins, jagged teeth, etc.)

try to feel the emotion you’re portraying yourself, then pay attention to how your body feels.  Are you tense? Are your lower lids tightening up into your eyes?  How do your cheeks feel?  Is your jaw set or relaxed?  How high up are your eyebrows?

look into a mirror while doing the above tip

ask a friend to do tip 2 and watch/take pictures of them

think about how you’d react to seeing the face you’re drawing. If you wouldn’t be scared seeing that expression in a dark alley, maybe that scary-angry expression ain’t scary-angry enough

amplify the effect of the expression with body language!!!!!

How to Organise your Commissions

I thought I’d upload this here too!! full version

“artists dont work for the love of art anymore, they just rely on commissions and patrons”

this is how art has literally always been the fucking sistine chapel is commissioned fanart of the bible 

A pair of shoes drawn with pen & colored pencil.

Inktober #2. @hyoka-ice-demon-stuff and I were talking about the "bald" scene from the SpongeBob SquarePants movie. 😆