the brightest shade of sun
hope is a skill
hope is a weapon you are trained to wield
favourite additions
You cannot hide this in the tags, bestie. This is too lovely to keep a secret.
happy birthday my babygirl, i hope you get enough sleep
Pride month in seasoning city
Bonus under the cut
miscellaneous h/w and an illustration WIP from my twitter!
Disco dancing at the barricades :)
Apparently La Marseillaise was sung on the barricades during the 1830s
charming & terrible, etc
Happy barricade day !
dunmeshi square prints I'll have at ax!
oops! all chilchucks
I saw this cosplay from kenken_Power (link!) over on twitter yesterday, and absolutely HAD to draw it 💫
When you do gestures and facial expressions, what sort of things are you focused on or are thinking about? Like movement or feel or any guidelines you keep in mind for yourself while drawing?
So overall i would say my general run down when i draw an expression is i first start with the reason for the expression like so:
that fills in any questions i have about the expression, filling it in as much as possible (for example here jodi is also putting away the shopping in the cupboard as the farmer fills the fridge) gives you all the answers you could want.
you can see in this video the general structure of how i form a face typically circle, upper eyelid, eye, eyebrows/nose, mouth, chin/jaw and then details like hair/clothes. sometimes i'll include hairline earlier if it's important. the order in which i draw them is kind of their "importance" for me in conveying an expression.
most of what i keep in mind is the pinch or stretch points when i imagine/pull the expression myself, i broke down the previous expression as an example.
i dont tend to use a mirror much anymore since i can rely on my memory bank but they're very handy tools to get a feel of what changes/where the important parts of the expression are.
Chapter 78 is now available in Japanese! This chapter comes with the publishing of this very sweet illustration of young Agott. An official colouring of her old robes! She has such a different attitude to the Agott we know today - how curious!
Following a hiatus, Chapter 52 of Kitchen of Witch Hat has also been published! I've not seen any indication that it'll return to monthly publishing, but any updates from Sato are good to see. Hopefully she takes her recovery at her own pace!
[ID: A coloured illustration of a younger Agott, still with long hair and her old robes. The robes have a pink and white colour scheme, with a fucshia outer robe and dusty pink robe over a long white dress. She appears sheepish or bashful with a small smile on her face, wide eyes, her fingers knitting together and her feet shifting. The background is a red board with a gold frame upon which are numerous pages of magic runes. They are not complete glyphs - they instead appear to be the magic used to represent animals in sculpture magic. END ID]
an unmatched feeling actually