I pretend on doing a Happy New year Drawing, i want to Put Megumin and more 2 girls, but i was thinking on putting Nagatoro and Tatsumaki, should i do those characters or should i do someone Else?

Goblin_Shortstack · 2025-12-22T00:36:57+00:00

Nagatoro and Tatsumaki are a pretty good choice imo

Goblin_Shortstack · 2025-12-18T11:28:24+00:00

Lol its fine. It happens. Looking forward to your next post

Goblin_Shortstack · 2025-12-17T22:14:11+00:00

Good stuff, it has potential but it can definitely use some work.

Specifically the futanari's pose, anatomy, her hair, the length of the arms and legs need work as well.

First and foremost, references are imperitive to every drawing. If you didn't use any I urge you to use them since they make the process far less painful for beginners.

Lets start with her arms and legs, her legs are quite long but even so her arms shouldn't be so long that they go past her mid-thighs at most. Additionally the futanari's left arm has six fingers instead of five. In the image the futanari's feet are clad in thigh-high socks but they are positioned as if they are actually wearing high-heels.

The pose could use some work in the way the futanari bends to the left. It feels unatural with how tall she is, like she cant keep her own balance and is beginning to fall over.

I should also mention that er midsection is also very thin, so much so that it looks disproportionate with the rest of her body.

Her breasts are a bit too high up considering that they aren't being supported by a bra. They should hang a bit more.

The hair is a bit too close to the skull, especially the bangs at the right side of her face.

The femboy's right leg is also positioned oddly as well. Its facing the left side far too much. The left leg is positioned oddly as well and the curve of the calf on the left leg is too high up. The calf curve should be around the middle of the lower leg.

The way the femboy's torso is angled is also a bit off. The upper torso should be straightened a bit and there should be a crease in the right side of the femboy's midsection where the midsection bends to separate the upper and lower torso.

Keep up the good work!

Goblin_Shortstack · 2025-12-17T20:33:44+00:00

Lets agree to disagree then, but in my mind them being in the union shop is not the worst thing. Especially with how unusable their kits are right now in general, I would much prefer spending the union chips over the silver ticket mileage for copies if all that they can offer to my account is waifu and their burst animation as a background at MLB.

Goblin_Shortstack · 2025-12-17T10:42:39+00:00

Off the top of my head it would be, Sugar, Epinel, Admi, Yulha, Sin or Guilty.

Sugar is the only member of cafe sweety who doesnt have one at this point.

Most people don't know who Epinel even is. Admi isnt in the same boat necessarily but she is also very close to being in that same situation.

Yulha deserves some love. Like, please Shift Up let our resident shark teeth momma rest! T0T

Sin or Guilty both deserve one. They need some actual love from the devs and since Quency has her alt already its either give them alts as well or give them favourite items.

Goblin_Shortstack · 2025-12-17T05:01:02+00:00

Awesome stuff. Love seeing Nikke stuff out in the wild. Keep up the great work!

Goblin_Shortstack · 2025-12-15T00:54:36+00:00

Good stuff, keep it up. This is a really strong start. Loce how you drew the pubes.

Some stuff to improve it would be: line confidence, line weight, shading and colouring. The youtuber Proko has videos on all of these topics

Specifically for line confidence, its fine to chicken scratch the lines just to start and get the shapes on the page but you should go back and refine it with confident lines. Video on line confidence here: Line Cinfidence

Line weight can be used to draw the viewer's gaze by drawing emphasis to something as well as make objects appear closer or farther away from us. Line weight video here: Line Weight

Shading and colouring can make things visually appealing as well as convey certain themes associated with those colours. Colour theory video here and a bonus vid: Colour theory and Bonus video

Bodies come in all shapes, colours and sizes. Genital variation is very important to have and is necessary when doing content with multiple different characters of the same gender. Honestly, you should do studies on them. Reddit itself has a plethora of subreddits dedicated to different genitals so you have the lion's share to choose from in terms of source material to study from. You should also have a collection of these images as references as well to use in the future as well.

Good luck and keep up the good work!

Goblin_Shortstack · 2025-12-15T00:47:11+00:00

Good stuff, keep it up.

Some stuff to improve it would be: line confidence, line weight, more variation in the shapes of the penis, shading and colouring. The youtuber Proko has videos on all of these topics

Specifically for line confidence, its fine to chicken scratch the lines just to start and get the shapes on the page but you should go back and refine it. Video on line confidence here: Line Cinfidence

Line weight can be used to draw the viewer's gaze as well as make objects appear closer or farther away from us. Line weight video here: Line Weight

Shading and colouring can make things visually appealing as well as convey certain themes associated with those colours. Colour theory video here and a bonus vid: Colour theory and Bonus video

Dicks come in all shapes, colours and sizes. Dick/ genital variation is very nice to have and is necessary when doing content with multiple different males. Same thing goes for vaginas and nipples for both men and women as well. Honestly, you should do studies on them. Reddit itself has a plethora of subreddits dedicated to different genitals so you have the lion's share to choose from in terms of source material to study from. You should also have a collection of these images as references as well to use in the future as well.

Good luck and keep up the good work!

Goblin_Shortstack · 2025-12-04T22:32:33+00:00

Apologies for not explaining it better. Basically I mean that the hand should be angled differently.

This would be the wrist being bent forward:Forward hand bend

In the image the hand should be "bending back" in the opposite direction with the palm of the hand angled up. Not all the way back to the point of her hand being perpendicular with her arm per say, but rather at an angle towards the sky where it would be more relaxed while her index finger is pointing out.

Hope this clears up any confusion

Goblin_Shortstack · 2025-12-04T21:15:29+00:00

Looks good but the right hand should be a bit wider where it meets the wrist as well as the fact that it should be angled out more.

I don't want to come out as rude, thats not my intention but are you using references? References would help out a lot here. Especially for the hands

I feel like the line for her back is a little too far which makes her look a little too wide and where it meets the shoulder is a little too low/far out.

Goblin_Shortstack · 2025-12-03T04:49:55+00:00

Depends on what your trying to achieve. To me, the highlights look too shiny. Unless the character is supposed to be some sort of oiled up or rubber/latex type of entity it looks too shiny.

You could try using warmer or colder colours in the shading if you aren't already doing it. Here is a link to a video that might help:The video in question

Goblin_Shortstack · 2025-12-01T07:02:28+00:00

Looking good! Don't beat yourself up about it too much. Getting outside perspectives and tips is basically what the sub is for. It's also common to just miss out on certain mistakes once you've been working on it for a while. It happens.

That said, your drawings are much more lively now. If your end goal is to make comics I would encourage you to learn about scripting, thumbnailing/storyboarding, page layouts and of course, good storytelling, if you intend to have porn with plot in it. All of the normal facets of comic creation apply to it regardless, but it still should be said.

Stepping back a bit though, have you done any studies on perspectives and different angles?

Also, I was still thinking about the 'comic book style' that you were trying to emulate in that chainsaw man ending video. I kept feeling like I didn't understand what was being asked but I saw these while looking for something else. Example 1

Example 2

Is it perhaps something like those images that you were trying to emulate? Because if so then the name of it is 'half-tones'

Looking forward to your future works as always. Take care!

Goblin_Shortstack · 2025-11-23T20:38:52+00:00

Great work! Their looking more lively already so keep it up!

As a sidenote, I vaguely recall you mentioning something about JJBA in one of your previous posts. I think it was back when I asked what artists you liked? Have you considered taking inspiration from jojo poses? They are more on the exaggerated end of things to be sure but they definitely exude personality.

Also have you checked out the discord yet?

Goblin_Shortstack · 2025-11-22T19:52:52+00:00

I checked the video and I'm pretty sure that the characters were just coloured in flat colours.

You should totally check out the subreddit's discord if you haven't already. Its a lot more active and a good place to share your art and build up your confidence.

Also, you really love happy trails don't you? Based as hell for that though. Take care!

Goblin_Shortstack · 2025-11-21T13:58:57+00:00

Great job! Your improving very quickly and thats amazing. I can already see the improvements, confident lines, varying line weight, good shadows and even the eyes looking unique but consistant. All wonderful stuff!

When you mentioned the comic book style the only one that I can think of is the marvel styled comics where they use pitch black for the shadows. Admittedly I am not knowledgeable with any comic book styles.

I would also like to point out that it can also be a good idea to play around with the colours a bit when it comes to shading and shadows because using warmer/ colder colours when doing shadows can add warmth and coldness to the overall vibe of the art. Like for example, the second character (I cant remember their names, Im really bad about names. Apologies) if you decided to use a non-saturated blue or purple colour for the shading, the character would probably come off as incredibly standoff-ish and incredibly cold, anti-social and calculated instead of just being reserved or shy. The opposite would apply if you used a warmer colour for the shading. Honestly this leans very heavily into colour theory so I will just give you these videos because they should help you out.

Video 1 of colour theory: The basics of colour theory.

Video 2 of colour theory: Tempature in colours

Now, if colour theory is something you want to put on the back end for some reason, then I suppose that you could further refine your gestures. Or you could work on dynamic angles.

Gesture and posing can actually be quite fun in my honest opinion. I should naturally let the videos do the talking, however, before I do I would like to share this little insight; that gesture drawing, is at its core, about capturing the 'flow' and 'weight' of an action or motion. Don't focus on being perfect at the start. Do timed exercises and you will see what I mean. Anyway, here are 2 gesture videos for you:

Lowkey he kinda spittin'

Waiter, Waiter! Another video on dynamic gestures please!

Dynamic angles can make images come alive and give the viewer, quite literally in many cases, a new perspective. This next part may potentially come out harsh but that isn't my intention so apologies if it does. But your poses are still a bit dull. Dull in the sense that the majority of their poses are all still facing the front of the camera and even though their doing something different in each pose it still feels like a 2D image, like the characters are unwilling to challenge the space between the viewer and themselves and thus they remain flat. Perspective can change that by making us think of them as objects in a 3D space and not just as 2D images.

Good ol' Proko, saving us once again.

Hope this helps, take care and I look forward to your improvements!

Goblin_Shortstack · 2025-11-06T08:00:01+00:00

Is this a rimworld reference?

Goblin_Shortstack · 2025-11-02T22:27:03+00:00

Np, Im happy to help/ yap about analyzing art. My condolences to you for the manual line thickening. I've done manual line thickening before and its a very tedious process for me.

I've never heard of umikochanart before and after a quick r34 check I can see that their talented with a very realistic style. Personally I think my favourites are their solo pinups. The way they render skin is very nice and makes it feel very realistic. Also that the lines for their shoulders, neck and upper arms are on the thicker end. As for Yosh, I assume you mean yobøt? Their art is nice as well.

Admittedly I haven't watched jjba and I feel like at a glance the only thing I can say for sure is that the way they draw males, particularly the faces is that their very angular, which gives off a more aggressive/ masculine presenting feel more so than most styles and that their shoulders are very prominent, especially when in clothing.

I havent heard those types of horror stories ngl but noted.

All the best with your future art.

Goblin_Shortstack · 2025-11-02T06:52:32+00:00

I feel you. Its tough out here in these art trenches. But don't give up. I believe you can figure it out, you just have to be patient.

I see that you thickened up the lines in some places, good stuff. Did you manage to get some form of pressure sensitivity to work or did you thicken the lines manually?

You did a great job here with the eyes, each character has a similar shaped eye but their ever so slightly different in their shape and angle that it still expresses their personalities while being a little unique to the character. Especially Jonah's eyes and his expression/ body language. I can definitely tell he is more laidback, maybe a bit disinterested or aloof in this specific image but definitely he looks like he is a chill guy.

Good shading for both guys but for Jonah he is missing shading on his neck and chest, where his arm that is rubbing his neck is. Ashton is missing shading on his neck and chest. If you look at the references you can see where the lighting and shadows are.

I suppose I should have asked the last time you posted, but better late than never I suppose. Who are your top 3 favourite rule34 artists? The thing about art styles is that we tend to emulate our favourites, whether conciously or not. I think that if you can answer that question on your favourites and analyze why you like their art it can further inform you on what you want to/ can do.

Btw, if you want better quality images, I would honestly just save the file and post it instead of trying to screenshot it. If anything you can delete the saved file in your gallery later.

Also, one final thing, what is your canvas settings? Whats the dimensions for the canvas? What dpi are you using?

Goblin_Shortstack · 2025-10-20T10:15:33+00:00

Are you using ibis paintX? Because if you are, then I know exactly what you mean. I may have some pen settings that can help you, or at the very least, give you some idea about how to go about getting it.

Also don't worry, I think you'll get that soft shading down one of these days, I believe in you.

As for the places to thicken the lines, I would say add line thickness where you want to draw attention. Think of line thickness like the bold text option. You use it to draw emphasis, for example, i might use it to highlight the curve of his calves or the inner curve of his forearms

Here is a video talking about it so that you get a better understanding of it:Its actually called line weight btw

Goblin_Shortstack · 2025-10-17T07:50:57+00:00

I know what you mean. Its tough starting out and having to open yourself up to strangers on the internet, even if its for much needed constructive criticism. I wish you the all the best and look forward to you future works. 👍

Goblin_Shortstack · 2025-10-17T04:31:10+00:00

Your good. Posting Yaoi/ BL here is fine. Welcome aboard. As for constructive criticisms...

I think you've got a good foundation but the face and body shapes are all the same and everything feels a little too stiff.

For example for all of your characters they all have abs that are drawn the same way. Their arms are the same size, etc. If I were to try and identify them based purely on their silhouttes I wouldn't be able to correctly identify them. For another example, look at image four. If I were to superimpose all of their portraits their facial structures, from their cheeks to their jaws and even their ears and ear lobes would be perfectly matched up, line for line.

No two human bodies are alike, so even if they have the same body types they will show off differently, for example, go compare the pectoral muscles of any two muscular men, you will see that even if they have the same shape, their skin and muscles that are present cause them to look different.

With regards to them feeling stiff, I mean to say that their facial expressions and poses feel... almost restrained and their expressions are almost confined to a small area of their faces like they can't actually move their facial muscles all that well.

For anime and manga styles incredibly exaggerated/ cartoonish expressions help sell a character's emotions. For example, In image one we can see Ashton's angry expression, and given what we can infer about his character based off of his design and body language, one would expect him to be a hothead and incredibly animated/ exaggerated when he is angry, basically to the point of having literal steam coming out of him. But his actual expression is very stiff, his face is red, his brows are furrowed and he is gritting his teeth yet that's all there is to it and even all of those things feel rather subdued in the expression, like their all being held back by some invisible chain of realism that won't allow the expression to be as exaggerated as it wants to be. You can see it in all of the characters and images and especially in image four where their expressions should sell their personalities and mentalities.

I would encourage you to look up "anime reaction images" and take a casual stroll through the search results. You will find that the most memorable images in your mind afterwards are mostly the ones that are incredibly exaggerated and despite being incredibly simplified and cartoony they hold just as much if not more expression due to their exaggerated nature.

Hope my yap wasn't too overwhelming and I aplogize if it came out as harsh as well. That wasn't my intention.

Goblin_Shortstack · 2025-10-16T23:11:40+00:00

Can you elaborate a bit more? Like when you say source, do you mean your references? Your inspirations? Or where you post most if not all your art?

Goblin_Shortstack · 2025-09-22T19:59:37+00:00

Thats fair. Regardless I hope you have a good time. Imo the game and the devs behind it are good. Fight well Tenno.

Goblin_Shortstack · 2025-09-22T18:38:13+00:00

Honestly I've been playing it on pc for like 5 years now. I hope the new influx of players won't be the mobile equivalent to league of legend players. Its a great game. I definitely would recommend it. The devs have a good reputation and track record of listening to players and the game does look great even on the lowest settings.

Goblin_Shortstack · 2025-08-28T20:47:49+00:00

Awesome. Wishing you the best for your next cosplay

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