Just Art

It’s Rarity!

I’m not going to work on this anymore so you can have it.

I just realized I never posted these here.

These were character designs for a school project made from my friends’ favorite foods.

From left to right:

garlic/scallion hummus and pita bread
chocolate raspberry ice cream
panini
japanese curry and panko breaded chicken

there’s a little story to go along with them but it’s super stupid.

All in all I’m not very happy with these, but that’s how school projects usually end up. Not enough time, too much stress, too many other projects to juggle at the same time so everything ends up just a bit lower quality than what you REALLY wanted.

I’m in class and my stomach hurts really badly so I didn’t do my work.

For the anon who was looking for this - here it is! I didn’t repost it to this blog because I’m not really that fond of it. But okay.

bunker55

hey vert! I was wondering if you had any tips for anyone who is trying to study structural anatomy on their own. I know you had a crazy teacher who drilled you pretty hard and a lot of the process is practice but was there ever anything you learned that you felt stuck with you and you wouldn't mind sharing?

I think, ultimately, it all depends on what you want to do with anatomy. If you want to be able to draw super accurate muscle structures basically observation, study, and practice are the only things that are going to help you. I’m not really as worried about that as I am with making my figures seem like they believably EXIST.

I think the most important things regarding anatomy are the basics! For example, it’s always important to notice the angles of the shoulders, ribcage, and pelvis when posing. This is one of the simplest things you can do to avoid awkward poses that make your figure look imbalanced or like its going to fall over or like it is trying to exist on two separate planes.

Flip your drawings (or look at them in a mirror) constantly.

You’re the person who knows the most about how you want to depict the human body! And you already know that studying and practice will help you get there. But no matter how stylized your anatomy is, if the figure doesn’t look like it exists within its environment, it’s kind of a failed piece. So always check your angles and poses!

I’m working on a comic thing for class.

It’s terrible.

There was a sketch on my flash drive that I finished.

Yes, I do still have a sketchbook.

Another fandom I was asked to draw something from - homestuck.

I really like these little guys. I’ve never read homestuck, but I imagine they are exiled from their community when they finally grow arms and are forced to kill themselves by expelling all of their organs from their body.

Tragically beautiful.