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With the final announcement for Viera being introduced I figured I’d go ahead and share a tutorial on how to draw Viera ears for people who were interested. :D No one asked for this! LOL

Sorry this one’s a little long.

I got a good response on my last tutorial, and I want to thank all of you for that. I revived a handful of questions and requests on other subjects too, so, a least for a while, I’m going to post a new tutorial (or tutorial type thing) once or twice a month. If you left a question or request you’re on my list and I promise I’ll get to you, just be patient (these things are kind of involved to make).  Also, if anyone else has a request, please feel free to comment and let me know!

Thanks again!!

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Anonymous said: I know you’ve shown how you draw faces from different angles very briefly before, but I was wondering if you’d ever go more in depth? For example, I always struggle with drawing the eyes at a ¾ angle… 😔

Ok, I get this question so many times that I decided to do something about it. I’ve already made a tutorial about drawing eyes and tbh it should help with drawing eyes from any angle, the tricky part is to understand the human face, its anatomy. If you see the face/head as a three dimentional object you’ll be able to draw it, I can’t say it enough, 3D thinking is important. Also, references are important, drawing from life is important because then you have a 3D model of the head right in a front of you. All you need to do is observe and understand.

Anonymous said: Hi so I have this problem where i tend to always draw hands and arms where they either turn out smaller or larger do u have any tips on it? Like its never proportional to the body?

So here’s a little tutorial. It’s always good to browse the internet, there are a lot of useful tutorials on proportions. If you see an arm or hand is too small or too big that’s good because you can see it and it’s easier to fix the problem. If you draw digitally you can always use a line to measure if everything’s proportional, drag and rotate it the way you need (just use another layer) it helps sometimes :)

Yep… So this is what I think might be helpful. Check this tutorial by Sinix [x] it’s super helpful for drawing faces from different angles. Generally, if I can imagine a head in 3D I’m able to draw it and drawing eyes first helps me visualise everything. (It’s super sketchy but hope it’s understandable anyway :))

Can you do a nose tutorial? Your noses are nice and I just cant understand nose anatomy thank you

Thank you :)

My noses are very, very simple. They're basically half of the cone or a triangular based pyramid. Simplify the shape and see it in 3D to understand it, don't focus on details. You might want to buy some plasticine and sculpt it, could help understand the shape.

Can you do a character design tutorial? I know what character I want but when it comes to drawing them, I get stuck

Look, I'm probably the last person that should teach people character design, taking into consideration that there are people who really know what they're doing out there.

My advice is, study character designers' work. This is an amazing resource: https://characterdesignreferences.com/ This is where you can find works of the real artists.

I'll show you how I create my own characters and what I pay attention to, but keep in mind I do this for fun. I'm not a professional and not very good at all this. When I draw my characters they sometimes change appearances. A lot of things is very intuitive and I just draw until I see my character. So yeah xD Take it with a grain of salt.

This is what I try to repeat in every drawing of the character. Mostly eyes and noses but also face shapes. I try to keep proportions the same. Hairstyles are not that important but they can also be characteristic.

Try to play with shapes, see what adds to the personality of the character. Think why your character might look like this and not differently. Does their world influence their hairstyle or make-up etc.

Good luck with designing your characters! You can do this! :)

Can you do a tutorial on how you draw heads? Idk I have trouble drawing them and I really like how you do them. You don't have to if you don't want to though.

I’m still trying to change my style, so not a lot of what I do is consistent, but these are somethings that I haven’t stopped practicing.

Continuar lendo

Can you do a tutorial on how to draw faces from different angles? Thank you!

Check this tutorial by Sinix [x]

Also a quick little thing:

You have to know how to draw the skull because there’s no other way you’ll know the anatomy and where to put what. Find a good reference of the skull from different angles, draw it to understand the whole structure of the face so you can see it in 3D. Check different photos of people, draw from life, use a mirror and draw people you see around you, this is how you learn the best. Pay attention to what you see (shape of the eyes, how the distance between eyes and eyebrows changes with the angle, what the nose does what you can see and what you can’t depending on the angle). Look at the muscles. When you know the basics everything’s easier. Hope this helps a bit.

i know how hard hands can be and i struggle at it too sometimes

EDIT: i mean to say ‘3 joints’, not ‘3 knuckles’ in the 3rd picture

super super simple tutorial. eyes are my favorite things to draw

I got multiple people asking for help with eyes, so I threw something together quick

EDIT: ah yeah, my bad! thank you @yipyo20

for the anon that wanted more head angles. It’s not explained well, I apologize for that but maybe this will help a little bit. 

Teach me how to draw eyes and noses senpai?

Haha, a daunting task indeed! The best way to be taught is to PRACTICE and teach yourself, and always use reference! I’ve given some advice on eyes before here. Eyes should not be symmetrical, as is shown in my set of eyes drawn from the Disney animation book. More emotion is conveyed with asymmetry. There are a bajillion different ways to draw eyes - just depends what style you want! Anime, realistic, cartoon, etc. 

I find you also convey a lot of emotion using the eyebrows as well, even more so than the actual eyes. Also be conscious of how the eyelids are used! The eyes are the only exposed part on the body that are alive so they are definitely a powerful weapon when used correctly! 

Noses are pretty tricky too, especially from a front angle. This is a pretty good tutorial here. Generally, with noses, simple is better.. don’t draw too many lines, don’t make the nostrils too large, etc, UNLESS your character design demands that. A lot about a character can be conveyed with the nose - i.e Snape with his hook nose. 

There are SO many different shapes you can play with, all just iterations of the bridge, dip and tip of the nose, and nostrils. Generally the nostrils aren’t really drawn much, especially in anime. 

I'm on mobile and it's so hard to navigate, sorry if you've already answered this. Have you answered any questions about how you do profiles. It's like the hardest thing for me to draw and I wanted some advice.

I actually haven’t answered this before!

My life drawing prof just taught us how to properly draw the head. Here’s quick lil tutorial!

You can change the proportions by changing the volume of the circles/ellipses ^_^

can you please do a quick tutorial similar to the head proportions one but on body? i always try to look at references but it's hard to always be right:) thank you so much for being so nice and helpful❤️

I pretty much just regurgitated what I’ve been learning in life drawing haha so thanks for helping me study! 

I hope that is understandable!

Any tips on drawing legs? I'm so bad at drawing legs ahh

As always - use reference, shape it out first to get accurate proportions, and THEN add details/curves/lumps/whatever. 

I hope that helped!

how to draw butts?? like not even nsfw or anything just,, butts

Hmmm I’m not that great at drawing butts either haha. I’ve really only drawn them in life drawing, and even then not really focused on them. 

Here’s my attempt at a tutorial:

As always, when in doubt, block it out with basic shapes FIRST. 

Also if you Google search “how to draw a butt” there are some great references ^_^ 

hey, I've seen someone ask you for help in drawing legs so can you maybe do the same thing with hands? I suck at drawing fingers af xxthms

I’ve answered a few asks about hands already, which you can find under my hands tag ^_^

These tutorials are fun to do and I’m actually learning a lot while I do them, so here! 

AS ALWAYS PLEASE USE LOTS OF REFERENCE. I used reference for all of these - otherwise they WOULD NOT BE accurate. Good luck!

Hey! Can you help with drawing glasses? They're always off

Have you tried keeping them ON? 

Haha sorry I couldn’t resist. 

But seriously here is my attempt: 

Get the head first. Draw a box for the general shape of the glasses that follows the curve of the eyes and head. You can change the shape and style of the glasses after, as those are just details ^_^ 

A small foot tutorial that no one asked for lol but feet are important and harder to draw than hands so here ya go~

hey can you do one of your awesome tutorial thingys about movement?? i know it's a broad topic but whenever i try to draw people they always look so stiff !

Wooo yeah that is a broad topic. I didn’t answer this immediately because I was trying to figure out how best to answer it. 

The most important element of capturing movement in your poses is drawing good silhouettes. Your figure’s movement but be communicated effectively, and the best way to see it is to black out the shape - if you can tell what the figure/pose is doing with no interior linework, then the pose works. If there are arms and stuff overlapping the main body, the movement is not effective. Here’s a good article on silhouettes in character design - one that my animation lecturer showed us: http://characterdesignnotes.blogspot.ca/2011/03/use-of-silhouettes-in-concept-design.html

You also want to exaggerate and PUSH your pose. When in doubt, BLACK IT OUT and see if your silhouette reads okay. If it doesn’t still, add some negative space somewhere and exaggerate it even more.

Please i need help drawing people kissing i'm desperate

Haha I like how you think I can draw kissing :P

I looked up reference and re-drew them with some guidelines: 

Do you have any tips for working on different body types? I try to use references but I still don't get it??

Great that you’re trying to use references!! Body types can be reduced down to basic shapes - just like everything else. Don’t focus on details before you get the basic shapes and structure down!