Draw More Fat Characters Ok. I Love You

being born lonely is so fucking suffocating bc you feel like no matter what you do or who you’re with deep down you’re just not palatable to other people. something about you is so inherently other and nothing can ever dispel that. and it haunts you w every social situation you walk into but you just have to be okay w it for the rest of your life

Art by Yliade

The Egyptian Gods series

My favorite Afghan-Uzbek dancer. All I know that he’s from North Afghanistan. Anyway I really admire his skills, his charisma, the way he communicates with audience, his moves, his gaze, his smile — everything is just fascinatingly enchanting. And the way he looks genuinely happy when he dances, it reassures me. He is certainly one of my most favorite beautiful beings and I sincerely wish him health and luck, may God guard him 💙

Same awesome performer in my previous drawing

PS: In case you watch the videos in the second link post, please don’t pay attention to all the negative and hateful comments, many of them are just ignorant about the different culture, which, at least, started to get better. I do not in any way protect any offenses or crimes, however I can’t allow the innocent and talented artists to be confused with some gruesome thing. Let’s just prevent misconceptions and learn to think logically. Thank you.

oK But thisss

European raven

Turkish raven

North African raven

Himalayan raven

Western (American) raven

AUSTRALIAN RAVEN

look at it look at that weird birb it doesn’t know how to raven

He won't leave me alone I'm being forced to draw him

Quick and ugly sketch of Vivec my dear

You know what? Moominvehk

i smudged the ink on that last scribble and was inspired for low quality scribs so..

I've always loved drawing people and especially portraits. Your art is so inspiring! Do you have any advice on drawing portraits with accurate proportion? What aspects are the most important in portraits, do you think? And what are good exercises? I'm sorry for bombarding you with so many questions! :3

Thank you! There’s one thing about drawing portraits that I don’t think I’ve ever touched on, and it’s the technique of constraining features.  Basically, it becomes easier and more intuitive to rotate the face in 3D space once your mind grasps exactly where the features are located and, furthermore, where they can’t be located.  

I use a weird double trapezoid shape that I’ve depicted below in red to keep track of facial feature placement every single time I draw a face.  It follows the top of the eyebrows, touches the corner of the eye, traces down to the corner of the lips, and finally ends at the bottom of the lips.  

The shape of the constraint will change depending on the person’s features, and it works for every angle of the head.  For me it really internalized where each part of the face was, as well as where it started and ended. It kinda helps moderate your drawings; i.e., you’ll stop drawing features that are wildly misplaced or off-sized.  I don’t literally draw this shape out every time I draw a face, but I see it in my mind’s eye 100% of the time.

If you’re still learning proportions, a good exercise is to grab pictures of people and trace this shape over them (either digitally or with a marker or something) to get an idea of what realistic constraints looks like.  Then go back to studying faces, and constantly check your drawing by tracing along the eyebrows and down to the bottom of the lips to make sure that things aren’t off (e.g., the constraint isn’t terribly asymmetric).  It takes a while to get used to, but it might help you get a good feel for portraiture.  

There’s one other unrelated thing I like to do with faces, and if you’ve seen a lot of my pics you’ve already picked up on it.  If you kinda add some shading to the area on the cheek just below the eye and down to the nose, I think it adds a decent amount of depth to a face.  Don’t go overboard of course but there’s another little tip that could be of use.

Hi Nerevar

P.S. Really loved Kirsten Lepore's "Hi stranger" back then