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Any tips for anatomy? Or

how do you avoid same face/body syndrome?

- an artist who is being strangled by anatomy studies 🥲

Shapework before details, line of action before shapework. Don’t jump into the details unless you have sound basics first.

For what it’s worth, my shapework is very angular/blocky (diamonds, triangles and squares) as opposed to rounded.

Some things I sort do automatically/without thinking:

- Elbows at waist-level

- Top of ear aligns with top of eyes, bottom with the nose tip

- Mouth on same level as where face curves into jaw

- Side of head is flatter than it is round

- An unclothed arm looks like a chain link.

I can’t give you any secret ingredients outside of drawing a lot of varied people! Young and old! Especially old, there’s actually a lot of character to cheekbones and wrinkles a lot of newbie artists are wary of playing with.

Anatomy studies can be hell, but remember what I said about breaking the details down into shapework. Your brain will be able to comprehend shapes better than it does trying to mentally trace over an image or still life.

For same-face syndrome, break the face down into its shapes (Remember the planes of the main face, side of head and cheekbones), and play with length or width of the separate components. Different types of noses—button, flat, sharp, aquiline, etc—and different types of eyes, among others.

For same-body syndrome, I’d say the same thing, but I’d also encourage you to watch pro-wrestling. I’d actually encourage a LOT of people to watch pro-wrestling for body studies since they do have a larger variety of bodies than standard ‘combat’ sports (as wrestlers don’t necessarily have to be ‘perfect’ specimens to actually be successful in their work) and they’re almost always in dynamic movement. Pro-Wrestling is where I honed my skill in drawing buffer folk! Which you can probably tell since I lost my ability to draw bishonen a LONG time ago.

Resources for Mending Clothes

We toss out over 80 pounds of textiles each year. These textiles are often made of plastic materials (polyester, nylon), made in unethical conditions, dyed with harsh dyes that often get put into the rivers, etc. Even a single cotton shirt releases carbon emissions and uses tons of water. 

So the best thing to prevent the unsustainable growth of the fashion industry is to make sure that your clothing lasts as long as possible. To do so, mending clothing is a must. So here are some resources to help you learn how to do various things, such as sewing a button, to tailoring clothes, or even upcycling old clothing into new styles. 

* How to sew on three different types of button

* How to hand sew on a patch on a torn pair of jeans

* How to sew up a hole in an old shirt

* How to sew a simple T-shirt

* How to upcycle old clothing into new clothing

* More upcycle and sewing techniques

* How to repair a damaged sock

* How to do an invisible stitch

* 3 different stitches to work with for different results

* How to make a T-shirt smaller so it fits you better

* How to make repairs to your shoes

These are just a few of the things that you can do in order to make sure that your clothing lasts for a long time. Nobody wants to keep buying new clothing, as it is expensive and wasteful. 

So making alterations to your clothing, or fixing small holes hen you see them can be hugely beneficial to your wallet, to garment workers, and to the environment in the long term. 

Richard Goldstein & James Baldwin | The Last Interview

Shout out to all the Black ppl that can no longer participate directly in the fandom they love because of the stresses of racism 👍🏾 you contain multitudes of value and I'm sorry that the color of your skin and the power of your voice makes people not want to acknowledge that.

now say it with me: authors/artists dont owe you moral purity. an author/artist job is not to hold you by the hand & tell you exactly what is Good™ & what is Bad™. you should be able to think for yourself