Quick art tip – child proportions

undergroundwubwubmaster:

Ok this is a real quick one but let me show you how to get more-or-less accurate sizes for child characters.

Kids are tricky to draw, they are – from toddler up to about teens people change radically almost every year so pinpointing character’s size during those years is pure hell.

What you need to do to make everything super easy for yourself is to check their Head Proportion. What makes kids look like – well, kids, is that their heads are proportionally large in comparison to their body.

Average adult is about 7,5 heads tall in comparison to their own body, however with children under 10 that number is just under 6 heads with about 1 head shorter the younger you go down to 3 heads as an infant.

Easiest way to figure the so-so head-height of a certain age is to find images of said age group and do a quick count on them

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at which after you can replicate it in your own works – don’t mind if it’s not 1:1 with reference, finding images that are actually of the age you need is tricky and kids in general vary a lot so someone might be a lot taller than others. You have a bout  0,5 -1 heads of wiggle room before it starts to look way older.

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Proportions are super important in art and i lovingly recommend everyone to figure out basics of them – it’s the easiest way to get notifically better with art. I could go on about proportions but let’s wrap this up.

Need to note however that head proportion is not same as character height – a character can be 15 feet tall but still have head-height of 6, HH is simply a way to scale out the body.

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why are people even questioning obesity in america

why is your tea liquidised?

….. Where exactly do you live that the tea isn’t liquid?!?

ENGLAND. WHERE IT IS IN A BAG AND YOU MAKE IT YOURSELF.

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like what do you do with already liquid tea? Microwave it?

No it’s sweet tea you drink it cold

WHO DRINKS COLD TEA???

HAVE YOU NEVER HAD ICED/SWEET TEA BEFORE?!?

so i reblogged this from a british person and i’ve been laughing at their tags for 600 years

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England, you stole tea from China.  You’ve had it a mere 4 centuries compared to their 30+.  Don’t play like you’re some kind of authority.

[skeletons ooh-ing]

Shots fired. World War Tea has officially begun.

#INTO THE HARBOR

Englad doesn’t own anything

except that time we owned most of the world

If I stop reblogging this, I’ve gone to the other side.

I have only seen this legendary post in screenshots, so today is a blessed day.

HAH

BOSTON TEA PARTY PART 2

HOLY HELL I FOUND IT

And this is why I love Tumblr

garrus:

Kasumi and Steve, who both lost the love of their life, spend time together and find comfort in each other.

Grunt and Miranda, who both weren’t born, but created by their father, become unlikely friends.

Ashley, knowing full well what it’s like to lose an entire squad, comforts Garrus after learning that he lost his squad as well.
When Javik sees them sitting at the bar, he joins them and they drink together.