last minute! it’s still january 31st in california. my submission for clareiow’s #drawbenedict challenge. bic pen on strathmore bristol smooth, probably about 7 hours. open in new tab for 1280 x some larger number. [my art tag]
Finally after 3 months of working on this, here they are!
My personal take on Taako’s outfits from the first 6 chapters! I might add a few bonus outfits later like his outfits for the live shows or the Stolen Century one under a cut for spoilers, but this was really fun! I really love Taako’s character and his style of fashionable elf who doesn’t give a shit about gender-restricted clothing. I feel like out of all the tres horny boys, Taako is the one you can have the most creative freedom and fun with designing his wardrobe.
If you haven’t checked out The Adventure Zone yet, I 100% recommend you go give it a listen. Even if you don’t listen to podcasts or aren’t into dnd it’s a great story that has lots of funny and emotional moments. I can’t even begin to describe my love for this show, it’s changed me so much and brought me joy when I was in my worst states.
Thanks Griffin for the adventure and I hope the new ones are just as good!
if you feel like you can’t draw for shit but still Want to Practice, just draw over random shit
practice anatomy without having to work too hard
also 10×1
this is a huge part of art development!! so many people are afraid of being accused of “tracing” even in their unpublished practice that they never ever do it. DO IT, just don’t claim it as your own or post it if you’re uncomfortable?? Getting the hang of anatomy is so much easier when you trace at the start, and then move on to using reference images. Once you trace a hand enough times, you understand how it’s supposed to curve or bend or flex in the reference photos. I have like 4 folders full of anatomy studies that I’ve done by tracing, and it helps a ton with getting out of same body type/same face syndrome!!
and here’s a reproduction of the statue with the colors restored
i honestly think that what we consider the height of sculpture in all of Western civilization being essentially the leftover templates of gaudy pieces of theme park shit to be evidence of the potential merit of found art
“I tried coloring it and then I ruined it”
And you know what the funniest part is? The paint didn’t just wear off over time. A bunch of asshole British historians back in the Victorian era actually went around scrubbing the remaining paint off of Greek and Roman statues – often destroying the fine details of the carving in the process – because the bright colours didn’t fit the dignified image they wished to present of the the cultures they claimed to be heirs to. This process also removed visible evidence of the fact that at least some of the statues thus stripped of paint had originally depicted non-white individuals.
Whenever you look at a Roman statue with a bare marble face, you’re looking at the face of imperialist historical revisionism.
(The missing noses on a lot of Egyptian statues are a similar deal. It’s not that the ancient Egyptians made statues with strangely fragile noses. Many Victorian archaeologists had a habit of chipping the noses off of the statues they brought back, then claiming that they’d found them that way – because with the noses intact, it was too obvious that the statues were meant to depict individuals of black African descent.)
Sorry, I keep reblogging this over and over, the last comment is unbelievable. Wow.
WUT
Knowledge bomb!
Many more fig leaves in strategic places appeared thanks to the Victorians too.
the vatican has a drawer of dicks that were taken off of statues
the vatican has a drawer of dicks that were taken off of statues
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