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battle-goats

how to draw arms ? ?

swagginsloths

holy fuck

shoutsofthunder

holy fuck is right… but… does it work with legs???

yes !!

empresspinto

but how much extend

^^^^^^^^^^

kvothe-kingkiller

gabbyzvolt25

I NEARLY CHOKED

lifeofcynch

ENJFDFNFATFVFDF

finally. i can be accurate

This is too fucking great to not reblog

wishem

I give it MASCLES

BIG MACHO

🤣🤣

urhella-gaychloe

LMAOOOOOO

fernacular

Okay but for anyone who legit wants to know how to calculate it correctly:

The elbow joint on average rests a couple inches higher than the navel, so if you measure how long the distance is from the middle of the shoulder to that point then you have the length of the upper and fore arms!

fernacular

So if anyone’s wondering about legs too, the simplest rule of thumb is that the length from the top of the leg to the knee is equal to the distance between the top of the leg and the bottom of the pectorals:

And I wanna stress that when i say “top of the leg” i’m not talking about the crotch (please don’t flag me tumblr it’s an anatomical term) i’m talking about the point where the femur connects to the pelvis, which is higher up on the hips:

It’s easier to see what I’m talking about in this photo of a man squatting:

So yeah if you use that measurement when using this technique you should get fairly realistically proportioned legs:

But remember! messing with proportions is an important and fun part of character design! Know the rules first so you can then break them however you please!

HOW THE HELL DID I FIND THIS POST OMG

i-am-corbin-dallas

Licherally in the midst of drawing a guy and crying at how bad the arms are. Thanks Tumbles

drrockbell

I only ever saw the part where people started drawing the limbs outrageously long and genuinely wanted to know how to fix that, so I’m really thankful to see the rest.

morticia-butler

@fromeroicawithlove arms

sherlockedcarmilla

I’ll be forever in awe of all artists and art 💜

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snarky-bee

I think another problem with the mindset of kudos/comments on AO3 is part of the “stalking” culture on instagram. If you like a picture that is months old on instagram, its “insta-stalking” because you had to scroll through that person’s profile in order to find those months-old pictures. That is NOT how AO3 works. It’s not cringe or embarrassing to find a fic that was posted in 2012 and like it. It is there to read.

Same for works on AO3. Sure, maybe some of us have some old works that aren’t up to our current standards of writing. But I, personally, am never going to look at a kudos email and think “ew omg I can’t believe someone found this fic from 2016 why are they liking it”. In fact, I am entirely going to go “nice! people are still reading some of my older works too, I’m glad they enjoyed it”. It’s an archive, it is meant to be a collection of transformative works, old and new, and you are meant to find them.

In fact, if you find a work that is from five years ago and you really liked it? I bet the author would love a comment even then.

Stories are written to be read.

Show some appreciation.

barbex

Writers write to be read!

Older stories need love just as new ones. Please don’t let stories and chapters die of neglect after one fucking week!

elfwreck

I got a comment a couple of months ago for a nearly-10-years-old crackfic and I was thrilled!

Part of why there’s sortable searches at AO3 is to let you find fics for a now-dormant fandom, fics that are no longer canon-compliant after the new episodes, fics that work with fanon tropes that are no longer popular, fics from authors who are no longer actively writing… and just fics that weren’t written recently.

Comments on old fics are great! Often, they bring back a rush of memories for the author - oh wow, I remember when I was obsessing about this fandom, how much I loved this pairing, the fics I read that inspired this fic!

nokomiss

Getting kudos/comments on old fics is always a cause for celebration! And also never be embarrassed to leave kudos/comments if you work your way through an author’s catalog of fic. I know that personally, when I open the daily kudos email every morning, if I start seeing the same name repeated, it makes me want to jump for joy. Especially if the person reads a variety of fandoms, because that either means we love the same things (yay!) or they like my writing enough to try out new things (double yay!).

Fics are labors of love, and getting to find that people still love the months, years or even a decade later? Is awesome. (And showing appreciation for fic in the form of kudos or comments is an excellent way to inspire more fic! It’s a win-win.)

Last year i got a comment from someone who’d read my work TWENTY YEARS AGO and sent me a note about it. It made my year

drst

I mean, if you find a pro author you like and go buy/borrow all their older books and leave reviews or something on Goodreads nobody thinks that’s stalking, do they? It means “Oh I just found your work and I’m getting caught up and enjoying it immensely!”

Or you just encountered a band for the first time and go listen to all their previous albums?

It’s totally cool to read a fic writer’s back catalog and leave kudos or comments, is my point.

I’m always tickled when something I wrote a while ago gets a kudo.

out-there-on-the-maroon

My old Pacific Rim fics keep getting likes every other weekend and that brings me such joy. That was a wonderful summer and remembering the fics reminds me of that time.