WHY IS DRAWING HANDS SO FUCKING HARD

WHY IS DRAWING HANDS SO FUCKING HARD

this was gonna be a tutorial and i guess it still is but if anything it’s just a really long and drawn out “essay” on drawing people with epicanthic folds. one of my biggest pet peeves is people drawing asian people exclusively with the same type of eye they’d give white people or anyone else who typically doesn’t have the fold! however i know that most people are taught with the standard white person eye (google image search for “eye” and it’ll all be pictures of white people’s eyes) so learning to draw epicanthic folds is a consciously learned thing. 

therefore i bring you this, which attempts to break the mechanics of epicanthic folds down into something that’s a bit easier to digest and implement in your own art! 

style can be argued i guess but it’s not that hard to stylize eyes with folds if you do proper observation and research. eyes with epicanthic folds are as diverse as eyes without so it’s not like you have to adhere to a strict model for them (although many people think that you have to) and all it takes to distinguish the two in stylized art (and even in semi/realism once you think about it) is a few lines! like i said this is a learned process but it’ll make your asian characters (and characters of other races even) a bit more interesting and believable.

Kind of a little random (probably incorrect) guide to basic sorts of shading- I also forgot flat shading which is no shading or highlighting at all But here’s something to ah… look at I guess.

Katara will be the name of my future daughter <3

Flower crowns in paintings ❀

Okay so I followed this video about foreshortening and…

Sycra. I love you so much for making this video.