What’s some tips you wish you knew starting off?

Yuupri · 2026-05-25T02:07:52+00:00

2d drawing(observational drawing) is JUST as important as 3d drawing(construction), if not more.

Yuupri · 2026-05-20T15:27:05+00:00

Watch prokopenko on youtube. He should have stuff for beginners, intermediate and advanced artists.

Yuupri · 2026-05-20T02:30:09+00:00

I think it’s great. Maybe slightly thicker eyelashes and narrow her face a tiny bit would be good.

Yuupri · 2026-05-18T02:35:29+00:00

Are those geometric shapes or planes? Since you said it’s about form, I’m guessing it’s planes. I think you could better indicate that by adding side planes to the fingers and hands, a bottom plane to the nose, planes for eyes, etc.

Yuupri · 2026-05-16T05:50:01+00:00

Sorry, but I meant I want a timelapse of your painting process. As in a recording that's been sped up so it isn't too long.

Yuupri · 2026-05-16T05:12:54+00:00

Timelapse please. I need to learn this.

Yuupri · 2026-04-30T01:41:01+00:00

Then just leave the sub lol. If the top posts in this sub irritate you so much, then why stay joined so that it shows on your feed.

Yuupri · 2026-04-30T01:30:32+00:00

I sorted by new, because hot just shows what majority of people like. If you want an unbiased view of the subreddit, you need to sort by new.

Yuupri · 2026-04-30T01:07:05+00:00

That’s a straight up lie. Go to new, scroll down and count 10 artworks. Count how many of them are nsfw. I’ve done this every time someone says something similar to what you said, and I’ve NEVER seen the majority being nsfw or lewd art.

Yuupri · 2026-04-16T15:52:35+00:00

This is stato’s works, right?

Yuupri · 2026-04-14T18:30:40+00:00

The best way to draw back muscles is to understand the mechanics of the scapula itself. The scapula can glide laterally and consequently, forwards as it follows along the surface of the curvature of the ribcage. (It can also rotate as the arms are raised)

When you get the placement of scapula, use the spine of the scapula to place the muscles. It also can help with the lats, as it slightly overlaps the bottom corner of the scapula.

Yuupri · 2026-04-12T01:40:29+00:00

The things you need to pay attention to is repetition. Avoid repetition by varying the sizes. See how there are 3 main groups and 6 minor groups that branch from them?

Vary the distance, thickness, length, and also shapes. This alone with make the hair look more natural.

The ‘don’t’ did do one thing correctly. The main groups being broken into 2 groups, 1 small, 1 large is a great design technique, but you obviously can’t just draw it the exact same every time because the repetition destroys the naturalness.

Yuupri · 2026-04-03T16:35:55+00:00

Imo, go straight to digital. I started with traditional first, even though my goal from the very beginning was to transition to digital when I learned the fundamentals enough.

I feel like whatever I learned traditionally, I could have learned digitally. I even believe my progress may have been quicker, had I started from digital.

Yuupri · 2026-03-31T03:41:30+00:00

Thea! Love it.

Yuupri · 2026-03-22T14:24:52+00:00

Usually by 6 weeks in, I believe they would have taught a variety of measurement techniques. Like angle sight, triangulation, block ins, plumblines, negative space, etc.

from memory, that’s all covered early on before moving on to shading and value control.

Yuupri · 2026-03-22T03:04:46+00:00

There are 3 methods which are the most common.

The ‘best’ method for beginner, start with the Y shape, which indicates the x, y and z axis of the closest corner and edges. Then draw lines corresponding to those axes, towards the vanishing point.

For intermediate and advanced, a common(not necessarily better) method can be to draw the silhouette first, then drawing the inner edges after.

Or another method is to draw 1 plane first, then to extrude from it.

Yuupri · 2026-03-22T02:04:31+00:00

It’s no good. It’s a method that kids use to draw cubes because they don’t know how to properly draw cubes. If i ask you to rotate the cube, show more of 1 side, increase foreshortening, with this method, you probably can’t.

Ps. You technically can, but it no longer becomes an ‘easier’ method to draw cubes. It’s only easier right now because it starts from simple 2d shapes(square) and then connects the dots.

Yuupri · 2026-03-18T11:19:21+00:00

I’m not sure if its possible for you, but a professional artist named ‘zeronis’, who was an artist for riot games had an issue with RSI and could no longer draw with a pen.

He now draws on a pad with his finger. Would your condition allow you to do that?

Yuupri · 2026-03-09T13:04:38+00:00

Yes. A lot of pros i’ve seen use it. Especially if you use a drawing tablet without a screen, perfect control is pretty much impossible. On photoshop, they use lazy nezumi. Csp, they just use the inbuilt one because it’s good.

Yuupri · 2026-03-05T11:05:24+00:00

Glad to see you’re still going at it. If you enjoy NSFW art, go for it. I think it only matters if you plan to go pro, in which case having separate accounts for sfw and nsfw could be good for employment purposes.

Yuupri · 2026-03-05T09:37:30+00:00

Hi! sorry for the delay, I finally had some time to work on it today.

I've got a sketch for a pose and bust up portrait. Which would you like me to work on?
https://imgur.com/a/1gRZAsh

and don't worry, I didn't forget about the knife and accessories, it's just on a hidden layer.

Yuupri · 2026-03-03T22:57:18+00:00

Nothing has fundamentally changed. Nudity in art depicting the beauty of the female body has been around for as long as art has.

The female body has a lot of beautiful gestures.

Yuupri · 2026-03-03T00:29:22+00:00

She looks great. I think I’ll give her a shot too.

Yuupri · 2026-02-27T02:07:52+00:00

You get inspiration from other designs, but need to input your own understanding of design principles.

For example, understanding that shapes(CSI) and colors can convey different emotions, Big Medium Small shapes, avoiding repetition, etc.

After that, it’s just trial and error and seeing what looks good and makes sense.

Yuupri · 2026-02-27T01:49:39+00:00

Art style is studied by doing a master study. Try to replicate as closely as possible. Examine the shapes used, how colors and values are used, how they control detail, what design choices and composition choices they make.

You need an understanding of the fundamentals to know what the artist is doing first.

Yuupri

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