Jessy's Place

[makanidotdot]

freeglassart asked:

You may get asked this a lot, so please excuse my ignorance - but how do you go about constructing character expressions and body language and such? Thanks!

Besides The Basics (construction of heads and skulls and muscles and skeletons and how they move), I’ll go over some things I’ve been trying to work on myself lately:

1. Treat expressions as a single gesture of the face/head, as opposed to a head and then individual features dumped on a plate and arranged into an expression.

First, just get down the big shapes of your expression, just like you would for a pose.  

So say I wanna do a low angle angry pose.  I know the features are gonna be all mashed down at the bottom because of perspective.

 Scribble it down

start to put on features

fix stuff

put on more stuff

fix stuff again

erasing and flipping and stuff a whole bunch until you are happy with it or stop caring

Whole head is a gesture!

2. Just like a facial expression, jot down where the important parts of an entire pose goes first.  You can force the rest of the body to fit the pose.

So here I knew I wanted the shoulders tilted a certain direction, and te hand to be in that particular position in front of her face. 

That’s the simplest explanation I got.  Don’t be afraid to push and pull faces and bodies around! Worry about being “on model” last!

[sean-buckelew]

I had an idea to try to do a cool animated camera move the other day and it’s turned into a total compositing nightmare.  I animated the 3D rotation of the door in the background with tweens in Flash, and thought it wouldn’t be that hard to match a texture to the perspective.  Turns out I totally suck at perspective and the whole thing looks really weird and sloppy.  We’ll see if it stays in the final cut. The final GIF isn’t an actual glitch, just a slipped layer that kind of encapsulates what a mess this shot has become.

[hamletmachine]

Winter Soldier x long hair♡

[hamletmachine]

Some Eddie/Waylon Outlast: Whistleblower drawings for kanbasさん! These were meant to cheer you up after your tablet broke, but.. I took too long to make them and you already have a new tablet! My apologies!! 

I’m really happy that you have a new tablet! It’s great to see your art again, I love your style! ♥ ♥

[plonestrashbin]

I feel like I could’ve done better on this vector. Originally drawn by thesassyjessy colored by yours truly.

Michelle is Jessy’s take on the FN@F night guard.

[genotter]

Really crappy/quick tutorial on how I draw muscles?

I tend to draw muscles very simply, and there are tons of other tutorials that are waaaaayyyy better! But I hope you enjoy yungterra!

[deathgurgle]

Lullaby in Ragtime - John C. Reilly

Won’t you play the music so the cradle can rock,
to a lullaby in ragtime.
Sleepy hands are creeping to the end of the clock,
play a lullaby in ragtime.
You can tell the sandman is on his way,
by the way,
that they play,
As still, as the trill, of a thrush, in a twilight hush.

So you can hear the:-
Rhythm of the ripples on the side of the boat,

as you sail away to dreamland.
High above the moon you hear a silvery note,
as the sandman takes your hand.
So rock-a-by my baby,
don’t you cry my baby,
sleepy-time is nigh.
Won’t you rock me to a ragtime lullaby,
So rock-a-by my baby,

don’t you cry my baby,
sleepy-time is nigh.
Won’t you rock me to a ragtime lullaby.

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