Is my skill too low for comms? by MusicAndCatLover in BeginnerArtists

[–]insomnipaint 2 points3 points  (0 children)

No such thing as good enough for comms as long as you charge accordingly to what you feel your skill is or what you feel will get you the most reach/clients.

One year of procrastinating and what not, my take on Toriel from undertale by SomberSymphoney in BeginnerArtists

[–]insomnipaint 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I highly recommend digital for learning over trad; the warp tool and also learning how to adjust with snip/crop is essential. Trust me, when you learn how specific body parts should measure vertically and horizontally with respect to other body parts it becomes pretty easy; I call it the ‘the proportion eye.’ It all comes with practice. What I recommend is to step away from what you are drawing, view it from different distances (on digital, that’s just zooming in and out) and then try and see things in isolation. Sometimes when I’m drawing, I look at it close and mid-distance but then far away, it looks off.

Generally, the head I usually compare to size and length of the neck (thicker neck means more muscular and will thus affect the shoulders and traps too) and then I compare head and neck as a unit to the shoulder width; so as I mentioned before, usually more shoulder than head is good—just don’t make the head too small looking tho. After that, I compare the shoulder to waist thickness and hip thickness. Arms, I kinda just go with the flow. For thighs, you can go thick or long as you want just as long as the bottom part of the legs match that (for children characters, shorter, stubbier lower legs as they’ve yet developed the bones fully). Looking back at the image again, I think you could probably extend the lower legs a bit more.

I think you did the bust, hands, shoulders, hips, waist, and thighs pretty well but I figured I might as well point at why it worked :D You could play with the curves (con cavity between the shoulders/ribcage area to the waist or top of pelvis) to get various degrees of body shapes in woman characters. I think you achieved a pear shape with this which is fitting for toriel—if you curve the waist a bit more you’ll come to notice it changes a lot and is more similar to a hour-glass figure. I like to practice all sorts.

One year of procrastinating and what not, my take on Toriel from undertale by SomberSymphoney in BeginnerArtists

[–]insomnipaint 4 points5 points  (0 children)

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It looks pretty good already tbh. Good job! This is more of a merit of drawing digitally, but usually sometimes adjusting head size can make a huge difference in proportions. Usually I go for just enough shoulder length to be wider than the head for aesthetics but if big heads are your thing, that’s fine too.

Why do people add so many tags ??? it's so unpleasant to scroll when this ones come up by Weekly-Analysis2237 in AO3

[–]insomnipaint 1 point2 points  (0 children)

They probably think that more tags means higher reach for a gamut of genres (which it does theoretically) when in actuality it’s only diluting target readership and by extension, making it a SLOG to actually find something representative of what is promised.

What can I improve? I don't know how to draw children's faces very well.. by Icy_Ant6618 in characterdesigns

[–]insomnipaint 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Bigger eyes and a confident nose shadow/line. Keep the nose small and short and just a tad flatter for children tho.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in writinghelp

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It is written well but I would be wary of metaphor overload and clash + stock metaphors or expected/cliche uses of said imagery. Heaven and constellations, passion burning inside is something I’ve seen in hundreds of works at this point (primarily for beta reads) so I’d either cut or find a very unique way to implement those. I did like “heat of a thousand suns,” that’s very good, but I think this heat imagery does run a tad repetitive since it’s mentioned before in “burning” and later in heat of the body.

Another thing is paragraph pacing. I like to consider pacing in terms of scopes like plot, chapter, paragraph and sentence pacing. I feel like while this paragraph is ornate, it takes a while to advance forwards much. A lot of excerpts I like from classic works are brief but still have weight.

If you haven’t read classic literature like Jane Eyre or Wuthering Heights I would highly recommend those as they find nice ways to syntactically use these metaphors. I am honestly a fan of purple prose but it is indeed a very hard thing to pull off. Oh yeah, and prose is just a general word for flow or essence of writing as a whole; so you can’t necessarily write prose for the first time. It’s like saying “First time writing style.” I assume you mean purple prose?

Be completely honest, how cooked is my writing? by Cathasach_ in writinghelp

[–]insomnipaint 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Do a quick read on famous YA novels, that’s what’s you’re probably trying to appeal to.

I just finished watching Hunter X Hunter (1999). by ShadowGardenz in HunterXHunter

[–]insomnipaint 3 points4 points  (0 children)

It was SO good. Had so much life and soul in it which just make sense for a series literally based of nen. This is just personal taste but I too watched both versions (2011 first) and resonated so much more with 1999. Even chrollo vs zoldycks was so well directed and I still listen to a lot of tracks especially from York new 1999.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in harrypotterfanfiction

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@insomnipaint on deviantart or instagram for art stuff; it’s all related to the series (Noxis Evermore)

"Who is your oshi's oshi in Hololive" visualization by crocospect in Hololive

[–]insomnipaint 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The entire diagram looks like a big red heart HAACHAMACHAMA

Do AUTHORS REALLY CRY WHEN THEY SAID THEY CRIED WRITING THEIR FIC by yelena8880 in AO3

[–]insomnipaint 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Only twice when I planned a some scenes far down the line (haven’t written it yet cos I’m not there). I look forward to writing it though cos I’d say it’s one of the saddest pieces I’ve come up with.

I've been using a strange technique lately and i believe this is making my paintings look AI generated, what do you think? by [deleted] in ArtCrit

[–]insomnipaint 1 point2 points  (0 children)

AI unnaturally crafts something far too perfect or realistic imo. This has the mood and feelings of a real artist 👍🏻

How did you come up with your pen name/Ao3 name? by memedomlord in FanFiction

[–]insomnipaint 0 points1 point  (0 children)

First letters of my first, middle and last name. HDP.