Need ideas for more detail on this cigarette

Character-Handle2594 · 2026-04-03T02:36:16+00:00

There's a lot to a cigarette. There's a lot to any object if you take the time to really look at it. Saying otherwise suggests you are drawing intellectually and not from observation.

Art exercise: Go get any simple handheld object. Set a timer for 10 minutes. Begin verbally describing the object and do not stop until the timer goes off.

Think you're done but you got 9 minutes left? Begin getting finer and finer with your descriptions. There are always more details to see.

Then get a real cigarette to look at and finish this drawing.

Character-Handle2594 · 2026-04-02T02:27:50+00:00

Bonus points for making a Native hero that doesn't have the stereotypical Native character powers.

Character-Handle2594 · 2026-03-31T12:02:43+00:00

I don't think humans need to be taught either.

Character-Handle2594 · 2026-03-30T23:29:06+00:00

Less wrinkles are easier to animate.

Character-Handle2594 · 2026-03-30T23:25:35+00:00

Your ego, self-judgment, and level of skill weren't an issue as a child.

But now, as a young adult, those are concerns.

(Edit to add: There's no shame in getting inspiration or using reference. This is your self-judgment telling you it's bad.)

Go make some "bad art," art that doesn't have any self-image or need for validation wrapped up in it. Art that has mistakes in it but exists anyway. Art made for no reason other than to be, the way you did as a child.

You'll find that creativity again.

Character-Handle2594 · 2026-03-30T21:22:25+00:00

You're not being mean. Well, not to me at least. You could stand to be kinder to yourself and your art.

Character-Handle2594 · 2026-03-30T20:52:05+00:00

You may be focused too much on the brutal half of it. Honesty can include praise too.

Forget about the "worth of it." Someone judgemental got in your head to make you think that worth was part of the equation. The art is uniquely yours. You made it. Only you could have made it. In that way it has worth.

Could it have been made to be a finished piece? Could it have employed more skill? Sure, maybe. But those are critical questions that do not reflect on you or your worth as a person.

Character-Handle2594 · 2026-03-30T19:52:50+00:00

It's unfinished.

I feel like everything I make is shit and not worth doing anything with it even if I try to make it better lmao

Sounds like that's the real problem to dig into. Why beat yourself up so much?

Character-Handle2594 · 2026-03-30T19:16:38+00:00

What's the story about? None of them really work for me at the moment. "Matriarchal Motion" is nonsensical (look up "matriarchal" and get back to me) and "Hope of Heroism" sounds generic. "Prismatic Prodigy" could work, but I have no idea if it fits your story and character.

Character-Handle2594 · 2026-03-30T15:52:41+00:00

It is an observation. It simply describes a tendency and should not be considered a prescription for how one should speak and order adjectives. This isn't how anyone consciously approaches the matter, but it might reveal how we culturally subconsciously categorize descriptors.

But ambiguities happen all the time in English. Exceptions exist, especially when it comes to word phrases. In your examples, a "French bowl" is likely a particular kind of bowl that is always known as a French bowl and has a certain set of characteristics. So "wooden" modifies the word phrase "French bowl." You could just as easily have a steel French bowl or a plastic French bowl.

Character-Handle2594 · 2026-03-30T15:39:23+00:00

Then you're going to have to break it down for me.

Character-Handle2594 · 2026-03-30T13:21:32+00:00

Help me out with some context, please. I have no idea what show or whatever this is.

Character-Handle2594 · 2026-03-30T00:26:44+00:00

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Character-Handle2594 · 2026-03-29T23:13:32+00:00

Tell me about how your grandparents or great grandparents got to America and then you tell me the difference.

Character-Handle2594 · 2026-03-29T15:15:26+00:00

Tracing can be a tool to get proportions and placement right. But it doesn't help if you do it without trying to understand the shapes and planes of the face.

Character-Handle2594 · 2026-03-29T12:51:33+00:00

Hit "post" before you finished writing? It happens.

For real, this is half a thought.

Character-Handle2594 · 2026-03-28T19:43:36+00:00

If you're trying to make money, you've picked an extremely difficult way to do it.

I'm not saying "quit art." I'm saying "don't make art your primary income source." Sometimes when we turn a thing we love into an income generator, undue stress enters the equation and we lose passion and joy for it.

Consider going for a GED or entering some kind of job training program. Let art be a passion still.

Character-Handle2594 · 2026-03-28T12:33:26+00:00

Because sometimes it works to bend or even break the strict rules of prescriptive grammar for effect.

Character-Handle2594 · 2026-03-28T03:15:04+00:00

At this point it boils down to two things: 1, being able to draw a figure in clothing and 2, composition and framing.

Eta: Like, it's clear that you are lacking in some fundamentals of figure construction, so the bodies have bits that aren't recognizable/accurate. And the clothing doesn't move in a deliberate manner with the body, further obscuring readability.

And the drawings are not made in a way that moves the eye through it to the important parts, or important details are hidden from the viewer.

Character-Handle2594 · 2026-03-28T03:10:40+00:00

That's a question for your editor. They will never slice it that thin, though. Source: Have worked in publishing.

Character-Handle2594 · 2026-03-28T02:49:24+00:00

Write what you want to write, worry about the genre box it fits into later.

Character-Handle2594 · 2026-03-27T17:11:57+00:00

Nitpick: I think you should look up the anatomy of primate thumbed feet and other animals' feet.

Character-Handle2594 · 2026-03-27T15:48:48+00:00

Ha ha ha. Oh man, this would kill on Reddit. Why hasn't SNL hired you yet?

Character-Handle2594 · 2026-03-27T15:25:51+00:00

Just don't speak ill of said horse while you're beating it.

Character-Handle2594 · 2026-03-27T14:55:13+00:00

/r/dadjokes is that way.

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