All you need to know is that I am a young adult and struggling artist and casual geek looking for my purpose in life while indulging in my myriad of geeky interests.. While here I analyze different and fascinating aspects of this nebulous concept known as "Geek Culture" as well as bridge the gap between geeks and non-geeks.
May god have mercy upon my soul for my goals are sheer MADNESS.
Since it was Munday, I decided to do a small art reference project for myself. And then I decided to make it public with the following notes.
From Left to Right, Top to Bottom:
What NOT to do (front):
Don’t chicken wing your arms! Although it might be easier to hold the rifle, you will make yourself a bigger target.
Don’t close your one eye! You will lose your depth perception, which is crucial when you are on the move, or are trying to determine how far away your target is
Don’t keep your legs haphazardly strewn about. You need to make sure you’re balanced!
What to do (front)
Keep both eyes open
Bend your elbows downwards and towards the ground to make yourself a smaller target
Bend your knees to control the gun’s recoil + be ready to move.
What NOT to do (side)
Don’t put the stock above your shoulder
Don’t lean back.
Both of the above reduce your control over the weapon and may result in a black eye, and the rifle flying backwards and out of your hands.
What to do (side)
Bury the stock of the rifle into the meaty part of your shoulder
Lean into the gun to keep the gun under control when the recoil of the gun kicks the gun upwards or to the side
Bend your knees slightly to lean forward, as well as make yourself a smaller target
Patrol/Relaxed Stance
The soldier is relaxed and is most likely moving around.
His eyes are searching for possible threats
His hands are still on the rifle, even if he has a sling on
Low Ready Stance
Possible threat has been detected
Entire body shifts towards threat direction
Stock is shouldered
Eyes are focused on the possible target
Gun barrel is pointed in the target’s general direction, but not directly at the target.
Firing Stance
Immediate response
Soldier fires off shots while screaming to the other people in his team
“CONTACT!” or “THREAT!”
This is really good because it gives out actual information as to how and why the stance changes the way it does which helps artists be able to draw the poses without having to find a specific reference so godspeed to you.
Reblogging this not only for artists but also for people who write werewolf (and other animal transformation) fiction. If a human turned into a wolf, their knee joints would not reverse– what some fic writers mistake for the knee is actually the ankle. A wolf’s hind feet are relatively long, and they are always walking in way roughly analogous to human “tip-toeing.”
Person A: You know… the thing Person B: The “thing”? Person A: Yeah, the thing with the little-! *mutters under their breath* Como es que se llama esa mierda… THE FISHING ROD
Also consider Person A: pass me the thingy Person B: Cual thingy? Person A: The thingy on top of the deste
Sometimes bilingual peeps shuffle phrases while we think things through, just in case that language’s patterns trigger the right word or idea we want to use. But “turning off” language? Nah…
“Do you have a liga? You know, a… The fucking… the liga. The liga, that… El deste, para tu cabello. The hair… tie. Shit.”
I’m not bilingual myself, but I’ve worked with several people who are, and sometimes while conversing with each other, they switch back and forth between languages, seemingly at random, without realizing that they’re doing it.
little art tip: the position of the ears on a human does a lot to communicate the angle of the head—whether it’s tilted forward or back.
tilted back with the chin forward, the ears are going to look lower down, closer to the mouth; tilted forward with the chin tucked, the ears look higher up & more in line with the eyes.
Sorry I’m not hijacking, but this is a really good tip if people don’t know this. Like it does look really strange at first, but it is more realistic than drawing them in the centre of the side plane of the head. So it looks like this;;;
MousArt Reference 