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Do you happen to have any tips for drawing horns?

Hi, Anon! I’ll definitely try my best. Horns are a little tricky since they’re so subjective and the styles/textures vary so drastically.

Mostly I’m going to be talking about texture here and I’ll try to keep it simple since they’re time consuming to draw.

Smooth horns are great and easy, can come in any and all shapes, but if you want to add more interest and character to the horns, it all comes down to how you texture them.  Here’s a simple smooth horn. It’s okay, it’s basic, but it works and will especially work better once it’s colored if it has a sheen or a matte look.

You can add simple lines to it to give it a bit more interest, but you can take it farther than just the cylinder look like drawn here. The lines give it the easy, quick illusion of being more dimensional, but it’s not the most interesting or dynamic.

You can play with the lines however you like to give the horns more uniqueness, such as a line down the center to sort of pinch it inwards. Still more dynamic than the smooth horn, but more interesting than the rounded one.

You can leave the lines as they are for an easier horn, or take it a step farther and use them as guides to texture them. This is where it gets fun, but time consuming. Definitely look up references of what you want to go for if you’re not sure. I highly recommend Ram, Ibex or Antelope references, Antelope being my favorite. They have so much texture to them in the forum of smaller and larger ridges, so here’s a horn based loosely (artistic liberties taken) off a mix of Ram and Antelope.

Getting into plates which are my favorite, there’s little to reference off of. Here’s a more dynamic, spiky look with plates using the guide lines as a base to get an ideal direction you want the horn to shape into.

Just take your guide lines and then extend outward. Add as little or as much wear, tear and damage as you want. Horns can get dry and crack, they can take a hit and break, age can cause grooves, your imagination’s the limit.

Outside of plates, you can look up any horned animal to get ideas for texture, anything from steer to deer and elk (if you want to get more into the antlered look), or mix and match textures from a few horn styles you like. Hope this helps! Sorry I can’t go more in depth, but I tried to explain it as best as I know how. Good luck with your horns!

Symbols and Signs: Animals

Animals are among the first symbols any human race has used. From birth we know that certain animals represent traits that are human, such as courage, wisdom and strength. I would look into Viking, Egyptian, Christian, Native American Legends and Greek/Roman mythos for animal motifs.

Tigers: a symbol of strength, power, energy, passion, ferocity, sensuality, beauty, speed, and wrath.

Panthers: symbolize strength, , adventure, loyalty, triumph, and a spiritual mind or personality.

Lions: courage, power, royalty, dignity, authority, justice, wisdom, and ferocity.

Koi Fish: fortune and luck, perseverance in adversity, and strength of purpose. (Japanese)

Dolphins: gracefulness, playfulness, gentle, harmony, intelligence, friendship, community, and generosity.

Crabs: trust, emotion, protection, regeneration, and transformation.

Shark: calculation, perceptiveness, and instinct.

Dove: peace, hope, love, freedom, promise, maternity, and messenger. (Christian)

Eagle: patriotism, spiritual protection, guardianship, opportunity, freedom, skill, authority, vision, power, and leadership. (Native American)

Peacocks: Glory, royalty, power, beauty, awakening, refinement, and incorruptibility.

Hummingbirds: joy, energy, vitality, healing, peace, infinity, agility, playfulness, loyalty, and affection.

Snake: duality, the search for balance, rebirth, patience, awareness, wisdom, ambition, evil, healing, intellect, protection, royalty, and awareness. (Christian, Greek, Egyptian)

Frog: f fertility, luck, purity, rebirth, renewal, healing, metamorphosis, and opportunity.

Turtles and tortoises: steadiness, protection, patience and stability

Butterflies: beauty, metamorphosis, transformation, fragility, grace, resurrection, transition, and change.

Spiders : fate, death, rebirth, and signifying a crafty or resourceful personality.

Dragonflies: prosperity, peace, good luck, purity, and harmony.

Scorpions: death, transition, sex, control, solitary, passion, protection, and defensiveness.

Horses: power, grace, beauty, strength, freedom, and nobility.

Foxes: cunning, playful, quick thinking or strategic personality, wisdom

Ant: group mind, patience, action

Antelope: action, agility and sacrifice

Armadillo: safety, boundaries, medicine shield

Bat: rebirth, secrets, blood and initiation

Beaver: builder, protector

Boar: Fire, savageness, power, the sun

Buffalo: sacredness, life, abundance, prophecy (Native American)

Cat: Royalty, cunning, evil, independence (Egyptian)

Bear: Strength, Motherhood, power

Coyote: laughter, humor, foolishness

Crow: Death, greed, murder, wealth

Deer: gentleness, trust, innocence and purity

Dog: Loyalty, nobility, true friendship

Hawk: Speed, persistence and quick wits

Lizard: Self-reliance, longevity, age, wisdom, evil

Mouse: Timidness

Otter: Laughter, curiosity, mischievous

Owl : wisdom, deception, death (Greek/Roman)

Rabbit: Virtue, serenity, low curiosity, quiet talent, fertility, (Chinese)

Ram: self worth, stubbornness (Chinese)

Raven: Magic, the messenger, mystery, dreams, death (Norse)

Sheep: trusting and naivety

Wolf: knowledge , leadership, savagery, teamwork, fear, Motherhood (Native American, Norse, Roman)

animation run cycle notes for my upcoming 2D animation video course package

Wolves by Ivan Bilibin.

Passport Photo Series London-based visual artist Max Siedentopf recruited a cast of friends and strangers to sit for passport photos. Above the shoulders the participants are straight-faced and rigid, yet below they are balancing full wine glasses along their arms, taped to a wall, or even on fire.

shading colour tips

hey yall its me the Art Mom™ to help you shade pretty

rule 1: DO NOT SHADE WITH BLACK. EVER. IT NEVER LOOKS GOOD. 

red- shade with a slightly darker shade of purple

orange- slightly darker and more saturated shade of red

yellow- i think like..a peach could work but make it a really light peach

green- shade with darker and less saturated shade of blue or teal

blue- shade with purple

purple- a shade thats darker than the purple you’re using and maybe a little pink (MAYBE blue)

pink- darker shade of red

white- a really light lavender or blue..or i guess any really light colour??

black- okay listen dont use pure black to colour anything unless you want to leave it with flat colours because you cant really shade black lol

grey- a slightly darker shade of purple or blue (less saturated)

brown- slightly darker and less saturated shade of purple or red

aaaaand thats all i got lol. let me know if there is anything i should add to this list!!

A basic tutorial on how I do ghoul skin for anon!! I wanted to include how to do fat/veins and stuff underneath the skin, but this tut is already long enough so I just stayed with the basics! Sorry if this is a bit messy, but I hope it helps!

Hey sorry to bother, tumblr mobile is hot garbage and I was looking for something specific you posted a while back. It was a post with some tips for drawing I think outfits, and I honestly only remember a bit I think you said basically pick where you want more details to be focused?? With example like simple top+detailed bottom and vice versa. Sorry if that's a weird or bothersome ask? U don't gotta answer obv. Maybe I imagined the post or smth. I was just wondering if by chance u could reblog

i couldnt find it either but i think you might mean this stuff

enjoy

Hey got any tips of drawing in the cr style?

Well first off, study the sprite sheets of the characters. They can all be found on the Cookie Run wiki.To draw in a style it helps to study the style too and figure out the elements of how the characters are put together. For Cookie Run it goes hand in hand with my style because a lot of it is very Geometric. Even with cookies who are oddly shaped. 

I talked about this with my Discord once about how basic shapes can really go into making the character design solid and this seems to largely be the basis of how CR renders it’s characters.

Even characters build like Purple Yam and Milk Cookie use this more basic geometry when building the foundation of the character. It all comes down to a more simplistic style based on shapes. 

That being said, When I build characters I use basic shapes to do it. That’s why a lot of my earlier drawings of the CR OCs look so different compared to now, because back then I was learning it. The easiest way to do it is to try drawing a CR character, build them as you see them, and then adapt that into how you draw. 

And obviously cookies aren’t all the same shape! Shapes really can go into how people will interpret your character and their personality! So don’t be afraid to think outside of the box and look at different shapes for different characters! 

That’s about as many tips as I have for now, but that’s the fundamentals over how I go about it.

How do you draw a nose with a bump Also my Nena thinks your art is beautiful and that you’re very talented

a bit quick but this are some examples of many cute noses!

ofc this is not the only correct way this are just portrayed in my style you can create many many more! just don’t be afraid to do different noses than just the petit button nose! ( also ayeeeee shoutout to ur nena tell her I say hola lol )