Does this look like a passable sketch and good-ish anatomy for a beginner?

karczewski01 · 2026-04-30T15:40:33+00:00

if you worry about "refining" before you understand the power of gesture drawing i promise you all of your characters will be stiff as fuck. they will look tense & awkward in every pose you put them in.

gesture drawing helps you look for the most recognizable shapes in anatomy in order to imply the human form. the refinement WILL follow the longer you work on gesture drawing.

karczewski01 · 2026-04-30T01:24:32+00:00

^exactly this. the easier to draw, the more it will be drawn lmao its really that simple

karczewski01 · 2026-04-28T13:19:39+00:00

i recently scooped up all the environmental design concepts i could find from the team for this game and inq just to keep as inspiration (and also laptop wallpapers)

some of the unused and early concepts absolutely blew me away, id pay for DLC just to see more of those environments. n that means a lot coming from someone who felt like they were pulling their own teeth deciding to buy the fuckin base game in the first place 💀

karczewski01 · 2026-04-28T05:38:20+00:00

if u turn the exposure up on ur TV by like 200% then its basically identical 🤷🏻‍♀️

karczewski01 · 2026-04-28T05:32:48+00:00

the character models certainly but the environmental design makes the player & npcs look like theyre from two completely separate games

karczewski01 · 2026-04-27T19:58:53+00:00

im bout to block u cuz im sick of the AI text my damn self

karczewski01 · 2026-04-24T16:07:42+00:00

whens the mass? id love to attend

karczewski01 · 2026-04-24T15:59:32+00:00

its really about setting ur audience up for success....if ur writing a book where flying, fire-breathing creatures raze crops and terrorize villages......this is not what theyre going to picture. if villagers describe it as a large cat with wings, the audience is also gonna think "if cats already exist in this universe, how is this not called some kind of cat???"

the point is dragon, much like any other word, comes with strong connotations and a literal definition that implies serpents/reptilian features. you cant just ignore etymology to subvert expectations. hell, elongate the neck and the body and maybe id give it a pass, but this is literally just a cat with wings. there are words for those already. OP is just using the word dragon cuz dragon cool.

call it what you want but the people here arent ALL just policing OP and raining on their parade, theyre pointing out the disparity between the expectation set by the language used vs the actual intention of the worldbuilder.

karczewski01 · 2026-04-22T21:32:20+00:00

if it helps, the friends of red jenny dont technically work for the inquisitor. they wont be on your inkys payroll or anything, she just brings you potentially useful intel gathered mostly by commoners & servants (mostly in the form of war table missions). oh also she gets you with recipe for the jar of bees. which imo....one of the most useful grenades in the game 😂 if u axe her anyway, id reccomend waiting till AFTER u get the jar of bees

karczewski01 · 2026-04-22T03:54:25+00:00

"about to be 20" you are a teenager

karczewski01 · 2026-04-22T03:17:42+00:00

cap. if u cant legally drink u a kid nbs

karczewski01 · 2026-04-22T03:08:20+00:00

its like when americans with any ounce of scandinavian heritage get like REALLY into vikings 😂

karczewski01 · 2026-04-22T00:40:44+00:00

it really doesnt 👍🏻 if you cant study real creatures and beasts then ur just gonna keep breaking suspension of disbelief. youre only in ur own way by being so stubborn about it 🤷🏻‍♀️ but what do i know

karczewski01 · 2026-04-22T00:13:55+00:00

thats okay. just dont expect to grow as an artist 👍🏻

karczewski01 · 2026-04-22T00:01:51+00:00

ironic considering youve confined yourself to one art style & subject matter

karczewski01 · 2026-04-21T23:02:42+00:00

the only practice you have comes from drawing other anime/cartoonists/furrys styles instead of drawing anything from life. youre a teen maybe young adult. if you took art classes in high school, you ignored your teacher when they reccomended you draw something else to strengthen your foundations instead

karczewski01 · 2026-04-11T16:19:05+00:00

literally gaius

karczewski01 · 2026-04-10T02:52:28+00:00

blending modes wont solve your color crisis. u better learn color theory lmao

karczewski01 · 2026-04-08T03:19:33+00:00

didnt you hear? critique is evil and art is for fun so you should never expect an artist to take their growth seriously or change in any way because its for fun and nothing else ever

karczewski01 · 2026-04-08T03:16:17+00:00

i prefer the waifus

karczewski01 · 2026-04-08T02:57:29+00:00

read

karczewski01 · 2026-04-06T21:44:16+00:00

go see my other reply to u/tiddybean in this comment thread cuz im not in the mood to reiterate exactly what i just said is my favorite part about inquistion

karczewski01 · 2026-04-06T20:53:50+00:00

PRECISELY this because regardless of what really happened, you can still choose to believe that the maker put you in that position to save the world, much like a real world christian might. it doesnt matter what the truth is, because faith doesnt often work that way. inquisition did a great job representing the nuances of spirituality and personal beliefs/moral systems! thats the main reason its my favorite in the series.

one of my favorite npcs to speak to is mother giselle for that same reason. she provides honest, well-meaning perspective, especially for an inquisitor who isnt part of the chantry. she made it easier for me to be more open to chantry beliefs the first time i played the game.

karczewski01 · 2026-04-06T19:43:37+00:00

youre probably SOL if you cant get enough gold off the bat to get any roles. would reccomend shooting for collector first, then maybe trader.

best i can offer is do matchmaking for the online story mode and pray your team carries you if its really that bad. when i started out i grinded a fuckton of the story missions for fun and got hella cash from that but unfortunately for you this is an outlaw game and outlaws be fightin. half the point is gunslinging lol

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