Unique Animal Anatomy: Spotted Hyena by =BittersweetDisease
oh lol I was supposed to just make a boss design… ended up with a guide. Ahwell, enjoy!
“Profiles-profiles generally fit into a square from the tip of nose, to top of the skull, to the back of the skull, to the bottom of the chin. These 4 points help us create the abstract notion of a squared proportion.
The ear fits in the lower left quadrant if the profile is drawn facing the left, lower right if drawn facing the right.
The top of the eyes and the top of the ears, the bottom of the nose and the bottom of the ears generally line up horizontally. Caricaturing the head bends this rule.
Dividing the skull into 1/3rds at the hair line, top of the eye brow, bottom of the nose where it attaches, and the bottom of the chin.
More fine tuning of proportions, from the top of the skull to the tip of the nose or base of the nose is the same or similar in distance to the bottom of the nose and the pit of the neck, or the sternum, and the same distance from the sternum to the zyphoid process. But this is for our figure discussion…
The eye socket is attached to the check projection line, creating the second profile contour of the face.” —Ron Lemen
If you are a Photoshop user, Actions will make your life easier. If you’re anything like me, even saving the tiniest bit of time while working is a godsend.
This is the action I use to separate my lineart from the background it comes on after scanning it. (All that white.) I prefer my lineart to be on its own layer.
There are a few steps involved, but if you go through this you’ll never have to do it manually again. Under your Actions tab, hit the Record button. Then:
1. Go to Image > Mode, and switch to Grayscale. (Select Don’t Merge, Discard, if it asks you.)
2. Go to Select > Load Selection.
3. Go to Select > Inverse. (OR. Check ‘Inverse’ in the Load Selection prompt on the previous step.)
4. Make a new layer.
5. Hit Shift + F5 to paintbucket. It will fill your new layer with the lineart. Now you could stop here, but if you want to make this a super automated awesome process..
6. Hit CTRL + A to select the entire layer of lineart.
7. Hit CTRL + X to cut out the lineart.
8. Hit CTRL + Z + Alt to back up uh.. I think seven steps. You can see it indicated above. It should bring you back to the state of your piece before you did anything. Meaning, back to RGB if that’s what you scan it in with.
9. Hit CTRL + V to paste the lineart.
10. Stop the recording.
And you’re done! From now on, whenever you scan something in, you can simply hit that button and it does all the work for you. This might be common knowledge for all I know, but I thought it better to share!
I’m always leaving out feet because I really suck at drawing feet and shoes… So here some studies.
this is the best reference……
(via flyingmangos)
EVEN MORE STOLEN IMAGES, PLEASE RE-BLOG
Please look at these images. This “stall” belongs to a Dealer who exhibited at London Expo this weekend.
Images look familiar? They should. They’re all STOLEN.
This guy claims to be the “genius” behind these works of art. Truth is, the majority, if not ALL of them, have been swiped from deviantART, printed on canvas and sold WITHOUT PERMISSION.
This guy is a fraud, a plagiarist, a thief and liar. Why is he even allowed to exhibit at London Expo.
We all need to gather proof that this guy isn’t all he claims to be. If you recognise ANY of these images. PLEASE SHARE OR COMMENT BELOW. A lot of these works are by American artists. We need to inform them and put a stop to this.
Please, please share and let a team of us put this right. We need to gather a lot of solid evidence to get this guy thrown out.
He didn’t have any business cards (no surprises there) but he’s exhibited and sold at London Expo many, many times.
I intend to write a deviantART journal about this and spread the word myself. It would help greatly if you could share your photos here too and we can pool all our evidence in one place and compare photos.
BY THE WAY, THE GUY IN THE FOURTH PHOTO IS THE MAIN STALL-HOLDER, I BELIEVE, HE WAS PUTTING ALL THE CANVASES OUT ON DISPLAY.
Thank you all for reading.
(via skysscribbles)
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