Avrora's Domain

please, everyone who lives in the UK and you are a creative! Please, reblog this so everyone can be informed. The UK Government is being REALLY SNEAKY.

Looks like he's on his steam deck lol

JAMES SUNDERLAND in Silent Hill 2: Remake (2024) ↳ 4/?

JAMES SUNDERLAND in Silent Hill 2: Remake (2024) ↳ 9/?

My favorite Death Stranding character

I guess I can put a personal art vent here. Basically, I am really anti-ai, a lot of my videos are about that. Sometimes, I get real petty people who go after my person, my life, my intelligence, recently my art.

I am pretty much okay with the goofy.aah comments except talking about my art. I got a "shitty Tumblr artist take".

Except I was never a Tumblr artist, I never had a following here and never posted my art either.

Still kinda shitty cuz i feel my art sucks eternally.

Its early o clock, I'm here unable to sleep after 4 hours like a crazy person. I made 2 videos last night for my channel but I'm not sure why. I think it's mostly because I'm trying not to think of depression quest type shit my husband put me on. He brought up that he'd be crushed if we can't have a child, on top of bringing up the ages of both of our cats.

He has autism, so he kind of gets to bring up the stuff that I don't want to think or talk about it. I dont bring up a lot of my thoughts that bother me because I got some trauma, and only a few people are on my white list. You'd think a husband would be on it, but he's very emotionally sensitive, and I can't put his feelings first when I'm having my own. I'll deal with the negativity first of my feels, and then I'm in a better place to talk to him.

I dont and do mind it. I'm just in a weird place. I don't like to bring up the PTSD thing, but it adds like a coat or filter onto everything.

He's done some things that are shitty, not terrible or traumatizing, but I can't talk about my feels to save his.

Off-topic, I love helping artists see news that effects them when it comes to the AI thing, but now I need to post things that aren't that on my other channel. I shouldn't need validation, though , but I do, and it's annoying.

Fml lol also..morning. the upside is hearing my cats makes the waking up noises.

Let’s Draw Wings

I’ve gotten the question/request of how I draw wings lots and lots so I’ve decided to make a dedicated post!

Now…I’m no master, but I have found a way that I like to draw wings that’s efficient for me. There three main points: 

References

Simplification

Texture Management

First of all - References

My favorite wing reference of all time is this post by Jenn on Twitter. I have both the images saved but I use the Wing Shapes one, below, alllllll the time. Like for real all the time!

I also keep pretty extensive collections of wing photo reference. When I’m having trouble, I’ll trace a few or do studies to get back into the swing of things. Here are links to my Pinterest boards:

Broadwing Reference (passive soaring and high-speed)

Longwing Reference (active soaring)

Shortwing Reference (elliptical and hovering)

Secondly - Simplification

When I sketch wings, I simplify Jenn’s diagram even further -

For me, the key to drawing wings is simplifying the wing down - from the structure to the feathers - the goal for me is to be able to draw them quickly and have the proper information conveyed. It needs to look like a wing in the base sketch. If it doesn’t, no amount of rendering and extra feathers will help. I like to break the wing into the three main moving parts. The orange is one part, then the purple contains two main chunks feathers that you can group together and move as their own parts. 

On top of that, I like to think of wings like a sheet of paper. They can bend and fold in on themselves, with the orange meaty bits anchoring everything together. 

Lastly - Texture

I like to call wings “texture monsters”. Feathers are hard to manage and can easily make wings look over-busy and muddy. Just like before, I break the wing into chunks so I can spend less time drawing the wing and it’s feathers:

Then you can put it all together and push things further -

So yeah this is how I throw wings together! The wings I draw aren’t super technical or detailed, but I what matters for me is that they look and feel like believable wings at a glance -

~ Larn

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I made an art/anatomy tutorial about birds! I hope people will find it helpful!

WHAT DID THEY JUST DO

some cyberpunk speedpaint by me i did christmas last year! 12 hourrss