Do You Have Any Tips For Working On Different Body Types? I Try To Use References But I Still Don't Get

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! 

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

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: 

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.

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.

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 :))