I laughed so fucking hard at this

Read this. Everything you need to know is in this essay.

ive had a rough few weeks and i'm self isolating currently because sick so my brain is just on the endless oc/dnd/ect train if its not obvious already - WHAT ELSE TO DO, BUT CUDDLE CAT AND GRASP AT SERITONINS

hi, not me comparing the first picture i drew of them 3 years ago or anything The arc is satisfying

oops , niall , beloved sassy pirate npc ( @mmothmanners ), didnt make it to the finale . You say 'try not to die' so many times that eventually its gonna happen.

oops , niall , beloved sassy pirate npc ( @mmothmanners ), didnt make it to the finale . You say 'try not to die' so many times that eventually its gonna happen.

some indulgent brynn and niall sketches (belongs to @mmothmanners ) . A future that may never be - it remains to be seen , but i can still draw it :D Brynn has primal savagery as a cantrip which looks fun but does nothing to help his low intimidation bonus

a last minute piece for mermay!! using a pack from @adorkastock and @nyxnaiastock

GREAT JOB ! expression sheets are so fun to draw, and it can show the small nuances between different characters. I'm so glad the ones I did inspired you <3. I see a lot of tutorials on like, oh this subtle expression is too small, make it BIGGER. and yes - exaggeration is great, but not every character is exaggerated. Doing these sort of character sheets and expressions means not just doing ' happy 'but , how does your character appear Happy. Everyone expresses emotions different ways after all, and different features of their face can hold more quirks then others. I remember working on Wander over Yonder, we had some tips on either making something an 'EYE' expression or a 'MOUTH' expression. because the mouth and eyes basically take up a 1/2 of the face - both can be expressive, but you want one to take up more space, not both sharing them equally. It helped not make his head look completely huge. now that was a wackier show then hilda, and I super found that people struggled pushing expressions for the same reason you're finding ! Hilda has a very solid/grounded style with not a lot of taper, but its still flexible ! Use twists and tilts to your advantage - if you tilt the head back ,the eyes can still be wide but now you have more room for the mouth to be really open. Remember that while the nose is still solid, its flexible ! and you can shift it to help accommodate expressions. I'm sure you did adjustments with the expressions, but you could probably push it more and still be on style, if you find that you're having some trouble balancing the features that is ! I like to think the mouth as DRIVING the expression when I really want it to feature, where is it pulling/pushing ? That helps me tilt the mouth since the teeth are grounded, but the lips have a lot more movement for expression. That helps me drive the bottom of the eyes and the bottom of the nose and helps me find a balance with making the face less stiff.

just some lil tips ! Love seeing ya'lls ocs and how you grow the world <3

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Been wanting to do one of these with Lauren for AGES, but I never got round to it. Then I saw the Lydia and Phinium expression sheets on @littledigits’ website and I felt inspiration like never before.

The funniest struggle I have with Lauren’s design right now is that she nose too big for she got damn face. Literally, Hilda characters noses take up a fairly small portion of their faces, and her’s took up WAY too much, leaving little room for her to make facial expressions. But I struggled to find a fix because when I made the nose smaller it just didn’t look like Lauren anymore, so I took this as an opportunity to work on that!

She still has a larger nose than most characters, starting higher up (like her grandad!) and ending lower down (but not quite as low as before). I also made her eyes a little smaller and with a shape similar to Lydia’s (though you can see in some of these I hadn’t quite landed on that yet and her eyes are a bit too big), which works both as a nod to her parentage and because I think it makes the nose look bigger. This still doesn’t leave as much room for the mouth as most other characters, but that’s okay — Lauren is a very private person who keeps her feelings close to her chest, I think it works for her to have subtler expressions, adds to how guarded she is! Oh and I also updated the shape of her hair slightly, just to make it a bit more style accurate.

These changes are pretty small on their own, but I think combined they work well to make Lauren feel a lot more…alive? Far less stiff, anyway. I think she also has a more unique facial structure now, instead of just “what if Johanna was 90% nose”. She’s still got a big old nose and I love it but now she can emote, yay!

This is really all just concept stuff, I’m hoping to get a new fullbody style-ref for Lauren out soon! Now that I’ve improved the main issues I had with her face in the last ref, now it’s onto the silhouette! I want her to read as more of a strong character (though it comes across decently in her current ref, I wanna push it more without being as exaggerated as Ahlberg, which is. A challenge for me lol), streamline her silhouette, and finally make her taller than Johanna like she’s always meant to have been <3 I made her shorter for so long because I thought it would help her read better as her daughter but you know what? That’s dumb actually, she’s tall.

ANYWAYS, thank you for listening in on the annual Lauren redesign, and to the artists behind the show for posting so much amazing inspiring show stopping concept work for free because it makes my autism worse /pos

more sketches of these fellas. i still gotta figure out what Ben's arm tattoo is - but it will be dumb MGS themed.

so @khepdraws gave me brainworms about some ocs of ours.

we're in end game territory for the DND group and the party is having these moments that are really fluffy and cute but they are going to get someone murdered tragically the next day. We're all living for it really. Niall belongs 2 ( @immortanjill )

what is consistency in faces, EH WHATEVER sketchpage done. just some durge/astarion doodles. Drawing Aneria and him together has the same sort of appeal the drow twins have but minus the whole sibling thing. they're just two edgy lil elves

girl fight girl fight

the dark urge has entered the chat. I have this character who was already a bloody edgelord so its been fun to have a reason to draw splatter on her again.

shes my lil gothic spidery fashion doll

btw roleplaying various characters with your friends is the singular most healing thing in the world. playing with toys for adults

click baity title but accurate video !

if you supported the writers and the actors, make sure you support animation come august! Animation is often 'the carney in the mine shaft' and it suffers from everything that has been damaging live action. It exists in an industry that (at least in north america) sees it as a genre and not a medium, and it is often cut first. support IATSE and the contract negotiations this summer !

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