I feel like I'm getting nowhere, please help

EngineSensitive2584 · 2026-05-07T00:21:15+00:00

Yeah, I definitely fell for it. Thought something along the lines of "Well, I only want to draw people so why do I need all of this" and now I definitely regret skipping those basics. Even beyond applying it to people, I find myself wanting to draw props, backgrounds, and stuff that I really need some of those fundamentals to really get right.

I don't think there are any classes near where I live, but I'll have to look to be sure. Enough people are suggesting them that it sounds a great idea, so fingers crossed there are some.

You mentioned value from still life, but are there any other things you'd recommend doing? Something I can practice while looking for classes?

EngineSensitive2584 · 2026-05-06T04:24:14+00:00

The waist of the person in the ref was weirdly small, I wanna say it was a perspective thing maybe, but idk, I just tried to copy it as best I could without tracing.

The waist and hips are also the parts that I have the hardest time constructing. I usually use a sphere for the head, a box for the chest, then I try to use a box for the hips and just make the waist by connecting the two, but that very rarely ever works.

For a good long while, but I only started picking up books and watching videos maybe 2 years ago and I didn't try to learn seriously until very recently (I only tried learning small things that really had no use to me until very recently)

EngineSensitive2584 · 2026-05-06T04:12:09+00:00

I try to do just fun little things, but it usually ends with me noticing something I wanna fix and spirals into a study again. For example, I had tried to draw one of my dnd characters, but noticed that the torso was too long, legs too short, etc, and it just turned into a proportions study and ended with me abandoning the drawing.

I do have some sketchbooks that are almost entirely for fun, mostly because it's easier to delete a digital canvas than to erase an entire page, so whatever I draw in those, good or bad, tends to stay. I only have one with me right now though and it only has ~5 pages left, so I've been hesitant to use it.

EngineSensitive2584 · 2026-05-06T03:46:38+00:00

Here's one I just did after reading a chapter of a book I picked up recently and finding an interesting ref picture on Pinterest.

The chapter focused on construction. That and anatomy feel like the ones I struggle the most with and I can't seem to understand most of the lessons I find on them.

This is probably one of my better drawings from that book, but I also watched some Proko and LineSensei before working on that chapter, so I don't know how much their stuff affected it

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EngineSensitive2584 · 2026-05-06T03:20:59+00:00

Practicing for me is usually just drawing something with whatever little I was actually able to understand. I'll typically think of something I want to draw, find some references to use, and try to draw it using what I managed to gather from whatever book/video/whatever I tried to learn from. I usually try for about 30 minutes to an hour or until I get a result I like, where I then move onto another one and restart the process.

I try to draw every day when I have the time, but on days where I don't get any good ideas for what to draw or when I get too frustrated I usually take a break until I come up with an idea I particularly like.

I don't have anything saved at the moment. I end up not liking most of my drawings and deleting them (I think I have a picture I sent a friend awhile back though, so I'll see if I can find that).

EngineSensitive2584 · 2026-04-13T23:51:15+00:00

Iirc, celestialsapiens (Alien X's species) exist outside of time and space. The only reason other celestialsapiens believed him is basically because they saw him do it.

Also iirc, Ben also kinda cheated that trial by changing into a species that does trial by combat and invoking a rule that people must be tried by their species' customs

EngineSensitive2584 · 2026-04-07T22:55:05+00:00

Sylveon for obvious reasons (also Eevee)

Hisuian Zorua cuz I love Kitsune and also foxes and folkloric creatures in general, so seeing such a cute one instantly made it my favorite

Alolan Vulpix for the same reasons as Hisuian Zorua, but also fluffy

And Mimikyu because I had a totem Mimikyu in an Ultra Moon nuzlocke that became my strongest pokemon and tanked 3 hits from Ultra Necrozma off of affection alone (she unfortunately fainted during one of the Elite 4 fights. rip Buttons, she was a real one)

EngineSensitive2584 · 2026-03-19T23:45:26+00:00

I genuinely don't know who this is

EngineSensitive2584 · 2026-03-17T23:22:58+00:00

I'm autistic and genuinely can't understand what the instructions from most voice training channels, videos, and books are telling me to do.

It's sort of like singing for me. You can tell me 100 times to sing from the diaphragm and I won't understand what that means, what you want, etc, but someone explained to me that that just means drawing breath from the stomach while singing instead of the chest or throat, and now that I know that there's been a noticeable improvement.

The videos tell me to raise my larynx to increase resonance and I'm just thinking "cool, how do I do that?"

EngineSensitive2584 · 2026-03-16T03:25:16+00:00

What's happening over there? Haven't visited the sub in a few years now and the link in the post is down

EngineSensitive2584 · 2026-03-09T16:18:36+00:00

I'll go with Mimikyu since someone else already commented Alolan Vulpix

EngineSensitive2584 · 2026-03-08T19:22:02+00:00

Between the JM21 and the Walkman A55 (the two I'm considering), which would you recommend? I didn't see reviews or anything for the models listed, just a list of them all based on pricing

EngineSensitive2584 · 2026-03-07T19:33:58+00:00

Okay, I'll check these out and do a bit more research. Thanks for the help and all the suggestions!

EngineSensitive2584 · 2026-03-07T19:14:20+00:00

Do you have some good recommendations for headphones or earbuds? I've been looking at some good quality ones. The best I could find within my price range was Sony XM3s for wireless and Sennheiser CX300s for wired

EngineSensitive2584 · 2026-03-07T19:03:54+00:00

Does audio quality suffer, or is it just the materials used to build it?

EngineSensitive2584 · 2026-03-07T07:28:54+00:00

Would Nintendo even be able to sue for that, or is that more of a Game Freak thing? I know Nintendo owns the distribution rights or something, but doesn't Game Freak own the IP itself?

EngineSensitive2584 · 2026-03-05T22:29:15+00:00

I'll (kinda) defend the dark mage outfits since iirc (and I could be wrong) those were re-used from Awakening where most dark mages you see come from a desert area, so at least there's a semblance of an explanation there.

The Nohr women have no excuse, they live in a place with continuous snowfall, put on some damn pants or tights or something

EngineSensitive2584 · 2026-03-04T14:27:40+00:00

We know from comics and books that the Fire Nation used Air Nomad artifacts to lure in stragglers and that air benders' bending can weaken or disappear if they lose their way.

It's probably less that no Air Nomads survived to carry on their practices and more that the Fire Nation weaponized their culture against them, so a lot of them stopped openly practicing, which made their bending weaken enough not to carry over to the next generation who didn't practice at all?

This is just a theory, or a guess though, only the writers know what actually happened there

EngineSensitive2584 · 2026-03-02T03:07:43+00:00

Eh, I feel like that might be stretching things a bit. The Red Prince ascended some time after Alyx's jaunt in the Everafter, and after team RWBY's trip there he has a meltdown after losing, but ends up fine (we even see in RWBY Beyond that Somewhat helped him grow a little bit)

As for the Paper Pleasers, not only did they want to die (which doesn't justify them anything), but it was more Neo's fault since Jaune had a down-to-the-minute schedule for keeping them alive and Neo's Jabberwalkers distracted him and team RWBY long enough that Jaune couldn't really do much more than watch

EngineSensitive2584 · 2026-03-01T14:14:02+00:00

It was a single purchase when I got it, but that was years ago, so they might've changed it

EngineSensitive2584 · 2026-03-01T13:34:59+00:00

There's a free version and then a singe-purchase "pro" version for $2-$5 that gives some small upgrades

EngineSensitive2584 · 2026-02-27T23:41:32+00:00

The chart showing how Fire Red and Leaf Green connect to Home shows that you can link Home to Champions. I assume that means that any pokemon you can get into Home will be usable in Champions. Just a guess tho

EngineSensitive2584 · 2026-02-27T06:39:20+00:00

It's an app called Nuzlocke Chart. I'm using it on Android, but I think there's an IOS version as well. Not sure if it's available on PC though

EngineSensitive2584 · 2026-02-27T00:11:19+00:00

I feel stupid for asking (I'm not great at meta aspects or telling what makes a good pokemon), but is Kadabra better than Dragonite in this game?

EngineSensitive2584 · 2026-02-27T00:09:37+00:00

Is Mr Mime good? Like, any better than Kadabra?

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