animatorzee:

artkat:

cassiesart:

scribblingaladdertothemoon:

Having troubles with facial angles in your drawing style?

Try a 3D sculpture of your art in your own style in a free program that is simple and very easy to use.

The program is called Sculptris and is a free off-shoot program from Zbrush, that program that you keep hearing about but either takes selling your kidneys or piracy to actually use. 

If you download it and sculpt out a facial model, you can have references for your own work for all of time. No more endlessly searching Google for reference materials or twisting/rotating/flipping a drawing to see if there are flaws. And you can easily edit it to create more facial types. This way, you can make character references for any and every face and facial angle that you can think of.

The program offers mirroring right from the start, so your faces will be perfectly symmetrical. You can turn off the symmetry for things like scars or otherwise. 

It takes a little time. For instance, I downloaded the program on Christmas and, in my spare time, this took a few days of getting familiar with the program (first day) and then sculpting for a few minutes each day, mostly due to my perfectionist nature. And this one isn’t even done. I still have to mold the mouth, ears, and other smaller aspects before I consider it done. However, I was so giddy over the possibilities that I wanted to share this with my fellow artists.

From now on, I have reference for a face in my own style and will be able to create things so much easier in the future. 

I hope that this helps you guys and that you have fun with it. 

I absolutely recommend Sculptris!

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GUYS????

This really useful oh my goodness. It takes a little figuring out, but once you get the hang of it it’s actually pretty easy. Just watch a couple youtube videos. Seeing how other people do it helps you to make sense of it.

OH BOY LOOK AT THIS HANDSOME SILLY do you know how hard his stupid face is to figure out at different angles? DO YOU??? Now I have a 3D ref!!! AAAHH!! so excite much 3d wow very angles wow

I’ve said this before and I’ll say it again: sculptris is an amazing 3D modeling tool for how small it is and is a great place to start whether you just want drawing references for your characters or you actually want to get into 3D modeling.

I highly recommend it.

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shortcuttothestars:

Pixie warrior by shortcuttothestars 

Term from pidgequeen <3

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missmithen:

ladyyatexel:

An illustration from something that is not mine!  This happens rarely, but this had too much stuff in it that I love to ignore. 

This is a bit from Wish You Were Here, which, despite appearances in this image, is a post-canon story.  Thanks to G’Kar’s extended time with Lyta and the fragments of the link he made with Londo ages ago, he’s makes this jointly dreamed space for Londo to get away from his daily fate out of the memory of a trip he took with Garibaldi’s family to ‘The Happiest Place on Mars’ and I just could not stop being enchanted with the idea. 

 G’Kar is just largely delighted that it worked and steers Londo around while Londo himself is baffled and confused for most of it.  It’s not stated out right what the place is, because neither of these two would know, but there’s enough in the story to tell you.  The idea of using this theme park, but empty, as a place to escape from the horrible stuff going on for Londo post-canon really struck me, and the image of this fake castle going up into an orange sky. Plus G’Kar pouring some generic cola which I’ve made into a Coke bottle, because I just really love that he has no idea how commercial the things he’s picked are.   This is just before he pours into some cup that I’ve decided just magically appears, because dreaming.

I kept thinking even that it wouldn’t even be the ‘real’ park, but would be whatever G’Kar remembered of it.  Landmarks bigger or smaller than they were, layout not quite perfect, logos and signs indistinct.  

That this managed to be sort of wistfully sad but have this kind of surreal juxtaposition of images made me unable to stop thinking about it.  It should be a crack fic that basically says ‘and then Londo spends every night dreaming about going to Disney World’, but this just manages to hurt kind of softly.  After I revisited it a few times and doodled it in my sketchbook, I decided to paint it properly.

OH GOSH OH WOW OH OH.  I just—wow!  Their gorgeous clothes, and Londo’s expression, and G’Kar holding a Coke bottle is an image I so needed to see.  And the castle behind them, all wavery and indistinct against the orange sky—it’s lovely!  You know, I wanted to set it on the Earth Disneyland, and then realized it was all under quarantine in canon at this time so no go…and yet moving it to a version on Mars with the orange skies ended up feeling perfect, and this illustration really makes me see why:  it’s just that mix of familiar and alien that fits with Babylon 5 so well.  *happy dancing*

Oh, hooray, I’m thrilled you like it! I took some gentle liberties with the clothes and the coke bottle, but I’m so so pleased you approve.

I’m glad the Earth version would have been closed and you did this instead! I’m enchanted with the idea of Martian Disney, this is a delightful thing.

Thanks for posting something that got so thoroughly into my head that it needed to come out through my hands!

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yoheezy:

frantzfandom:

awisemanoncesaidnothing:

Usain Bolt posing with his winning tortoise at a tortoise race

are you telling me the fastest man in the world spends his free time racing slow ass animals

are you telling me the fastest man in the world has the fastest slowest animal

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