IT’S LOTS AND LOTS OF TRAAAAAAAINS
I LITERALLY STARTED SCREAMING ‘OH MY GOD’ AT THE COMPUTER
FUCKING GOD
WHATS IS T AMASHHAPENNEIPNGNE
oH MYG OD
FUCK
[ OH WHAT THE FUCK
RUN BITCHES
RUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUN! ]
When you or your friends make an OC that you get stupidly attracted to
(via impomaniac)
I’m going to be getting back to work as a storyboarder for a 3D company soon so I’ve started doing some simple light/direction practices using little excerpts from things I’ve written or read. I don’t generally bother posting them but this turned out rather cute so here have Mary Poppins giving android Yes Man a proper name because he was being all roboty and depressing and she can’t have that now can she.
Screw the status quo I'ma draw Disney picnics with securitrons, bitch (new tab for the full sized scribbly mess).
More Yes Man because I stalker read crack RP writing like a fiend.
“They were such an unusual shade of blue- very deep, but bright, like a thick plane of stained glass with a sunbeam shining through it.”
It was such a lovely line I had to do something, and lineless practice is always good.
Pull faces.
No, really. Look at this dude;
This is Ward Kimball, a super good animator who really influenced my own work, especially in the expression department, but almost all animators do this. You want a serious piece of advice? Grab a mirror, think about your character’s motivation and just get silly.
I’ve always had quite a rubbery face and people constantly tell me that I am a ‘cartoon’ of a person, but you don’t have to be extrovertal in real life to be able to pull faces back at your desk. Sometimes you don’t even need to be looking at yourself for it to help with drawing expressions; just feeling how the muscles of your face move helps, and it gets you in the mind set of the character. A lot of people do it naturally- ever found yourself drawing something and pulling the same face as the person you’re drawing? Good. Keep doing that.
Animation is acting, you just do it through drawings; illustration or even just scribbling a character with a certain emotion is just as involving and important for me. If you want to draw a character feeling sad, feel sad. Don’t just imagine them being sad, think about what would make them sad; understand why it would make them sad, and in what way. There’s a thousand ways to be sad and a thousand ways to look each type of sad. Don’t be simple, don’t be complicated; be deep. Know what you are drawing from the inside out.
The very word 'character’ tells you that the subject you are drawing, be it a human or a robot or a shoe with a face, has a personality. There are all sorts of tutorials out there about the anatomy of the face and typical expressions, which are really useful and I do recommend looking up, but for me the most critical part of the process is what is inside; realizing that you are drawing something with emotions, not just trying to draw 'an’ emotion on that character’s face. You have to understand what you are drawing. What is an emotion? A reaction. What are they reacting to? Why are they reacting that way? Make it mundane or make it dramatic, but give your character a reason to look the way they do.
Characters are people. Respect them for it, and they’ll help you find the expression that you’re looking for.
Oh my god THIS AMAZING DUDE did a cosplay of this steampunk Sanji I sketched about a bazillion years ago and it’s rad as fuck I love everything right now.
evening, sir.
MOONSTACHE
I just had to reblog. because moonstache
This need a Moonacle.
This is how Batman signals for Alfred…
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