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The importance of anatomy. Understanding anatomy is crucial to many aspects of your art. You'll notice that anatomy is essential for drawing. It becomes difficult to accurately draw a complex pose, or even a simple one, if you don't understand what's under all that skin or fur, or even bark.  Knowing how everything fits together is important. Once you notice where that certain muscle is, shading and form become much more accurate and more natural. Knowing why the nose and eyes fall where they do make it much easier to draw from memory, and nail that natural look you were going for. Learning the anatomy of the subject you're going to draw

[edit]Thank you for all entries :huggle: !!! The contest is closed now, the polls will be up by today or tomorrow, and judging will be started asap.  Prize donations are still very welcome (until the contest judging and polls is done :aww:)  Good luck to everybody!! ♥♥♥ :happybounce: Signed, We-Heart-Pastel (https://www.deviantart.com/we-heart-pastel)'s crews :new: Even more prizes added! :la: :new: 5 entries reached :aww: 3rd prize is available now! :new: Since some of our members asked us for some time to finish their part, after discussion with another admins, we agreed to extend this contest's deadline to May 8th 2014. :new: More prizes added! :iconwe-he

As a Christmas/New Years thank you to all my watchers i want to hold an icon contest! Before i open commissions and get busy with school How to Enter: ♦ :+fav:Fav this and comment below you want to enter and I'll give you a number ♦ If you also do a poll/journal about this raffle you'll get another number (just comment with link below) ♦MUST be watching me! ♦ If you win you need to have a image for reference or I'll draw another number ♦Most likely will be 2-3 winners depending on how many entries i receive -------------------------------------------------------------------- ♦ Winners announced!♦

Okay, so I'm gonna do another contest.  Same as the last one, but different prizes. NO THEME.  SUBMIT ANYTHING, JUST NO MATURE CONTENT. ___________________________________________________ RULES ~You must submit by December 15, 2013 at 10am Pacific, or you will receive last place. ~No boasting or bragging to other contestants who got lesser scores than you. __________________________________________________ PRIZES: 1st Place~ 3 FREE OC Customs, or Pick any 3 of the open adopts in these folders: http://sammichluva13.deviantart.com/gallery/46800012   ............SoulWarrior18 (https://www.deviantart.com/soulwarrior18)!!! 2nd Place~ 2 FREE OC Customs, or Pick any 2 of the open ado

I want to start a short story anthology project with other writers. I'm just going to throw my idea out there and see what happens. Anthology #1: First contact :bulletblue: A collection of stories about first meetings. Boy meets Girl. Girl meets Girl. Boy meets Boy. Girl meets alien species. Boy meets AI. It can be a romantic, platonic, antagonistic, etc. meeting. Any genre is accepted. I intended it to be about two characters meeting for the first time, but take the prompt however you see it. The story cannot be fan-fiction. It can be about fan characters, but the setting cannot obviously be fandom. Ex. Your Harry Potter FC's can attend a g

Well, I'm not sure if that's what these icons are called ~imsotiredplz (https://www.deviantart.com/imsotiredplz) But oh well, and I'm only posting this here so I can have easy access to the icons so I can remember them... [Stash isn't much of an easy access for me, kinda awkward for me to use tbh...] Other icon journals I've made: Onion Icons | Hug Icons | Hyouka, K-On, & Higurashi Icons | > Face Icons < | Monkey Icons | Kagerou Project Icons :iconididntcomeplz: :iconicameplz: :iconiepiccameplz: :iconimegacameplz: :icondesufaceplz: :iconohshitplz: :iconohshityesplz: :iconimsupersurprisedplz: :iconnewlightplz: :iconimseriousplz: :icongwahplz: :iconhappylightplz: :icon