Drawing Better Worms: A Tutorial

[Akuryou13]

ok, in the past there have been great artists and crap artists, but 90% of them on both sides of the spectrum have drawn the same old boring worms over and over again with different clothes.

why?

why does everyone always draw the "perfect" body shape for a worm? where are all the fat, disgusting worms? the bean pole worms? the bad ass thugs? the cheerful neanderthals? why is every single character drawn with absolutely no character to them? everyone just draws the same thing over and over again with little variations and leave the character portrayal to the text. the best artists portray the character with emotion, but even most of them keep to the same body type while doing so.

well, I've come to try to remedy that. I recently ran into a series of tutorials on deviantArt and they portray how to draw humans. those tutorials are here: Face (http://alexds1.deviantart.com/art/Face-Tutorial-109889834) Expressions (http://alexds1.deviantart.com/art/Expression-tutorial-77399204) Hands (http://alexds1.deviantart.com/art/Hand-tutorial-83785318) Poses (http://alexds1.deviantart.com/art/Pose-tutorial-72010406)

but to follow up with those, I've come up with a basic tutorial on how to portray your fancy human characters as worm characters without dropping the character. this tutorial is for use in learning to convert a human face to the top half of a worm's body (the bottom half is up to you). use your own style in doing this, obviously, but keep in mind the similarities so that you can portray your character's overall attitude without text.

http://img103.imageshack.us/img103/2881/humantowormtutorialhe3.th.jpg (http://img103.imageshack.us/img103/2881/humantowormtutorialhe3.jpg)

let me know if I didn't explain anything very well.

I also plan to do a version showing how to depict various human poses in worm form (and get some practice for both myself).
and now for a poses version to show how to convey a human's pose with the limitations of a worm's body (be warned, this one is VERY basic. the first one was the actually useful one :p):
http://img519.imageshack.us/img519/9088/humantowormtutorial2hr8.th.jpg (http://img519.imageshack.us/img519/9088/humantowormtutorial2hr8.jpg)

[Pyramid]

The last image from the second one is really beautiful and romantic

[Akuryou13]

The last image from the second one is really beautiful and romanticwhy thank you. I wanted to portray their love as beautifully as it is in real life. I think I did a good job, myself. :cool:

[Plasma]

I don't know whether that last pic should be insulting to me, or flattering to me.

I'M SO CONFUSED!

[Vader]

I'M SO CONFUSED!

Let me clear everything up for you: Kelster is actually CoLoN.

[Liketyspli]

I like the tutorial, just the 2nd pose of the last one, shouldn't there be hands behind it's head, it doesn't really look like the human pose.

Let me clear everything up for you: Kelster is actually CoLoN.Pooper?

[Error404]

It's pretty fun to see this comming from you, the same guy who once was prepared to defend sprite comics til death.

Kudos for the initiative! ;)

[hdhdhd]

Yay! Thank you for the inspiring message, Akuryou.

[Akuryou13]

It's pretty fun to see this comming from you, the same guy who once was prepared to defend sprite comics til death.

Kudos for the initiative! ;)I still defend the validity of sprite comics :p

but if you're drawing you may as well do it right.

[.JeT]

Even though I must say, I know all of these techniques in the tutorials you listed. I just don't use them. I should do, though. I'm not very good at it either, so maybe I should get working on that. I'm actually pretty good with dynamic poses when it comes to the test, but all the stuff I want to show off always looks stiff to some extent. It's always the small doodles I make in my school papers, and stuff like that.

Also, I think the idea about human to worm translation is completely repulsive. :P I just don't like that transition. But if you want to do it like that, go ahead.

[Akuryou13]

Even though I must say, I know all of these techniques in the tutorials you listed. I just don't use them. I should do, though. I'm not very good at it either, so maybe I should get working on that. I'm actually pretty good with dynamic poses when it comes to the test, but all the stuff I want to show off always looks stiff to some extent. It's always the small doodles I make in my school papers, and stuff like that. not many people DO follow it. I imagine everyone who can draw decently knows how to do everything I listed as it's all fairly basic in terms of the standards for drawing a human, just not many actually follow it whilst drawing worms as well for some reason. that's why I made it what I did. I'm not trying to teach people HOW to draw, as that's something I'm working on myself pretty thickly; but rather I wanted to show people that it's possible to use the same variations of technique all across the board and to give them a reference for how that's done. not that I don't think anyone CAN do it, just that no one here DOES.

Also, I think the idea about human to worm translation is completely repulsive. :P I just don't like that transition. But if you want to do it like that, go ahead.everyone else seems to feel the same :p the point was just to give everyone some frame of reference.

[SgtFusion]

Aaaaagh! I can't take it any more! Please, Aku, for the sake of my sanity, capitalise the necessary letters in your sentences! I can't handle it when someone does that kind of thing (not capitalising anything).

[Akuryou13]

Aaaaagh! I can't take it any more! Please, Aku, for the sake of my sanity, capitalise the necessary letters in your sentences! I can't handle it when someone does that kind of thing (not capitalising anything).get over it and stop spamming :p

[yauhui]

B-e-a-utiful.

EDIT: And somewhat true, too. Splapp is a FAT LAZY COW.

[yakuza]

Let me clear everything up for you: Kelster is actually CoLoN.

Did you actually expect anyone here to know who CoLoN is?

[hdhdhd]

CoLoN is that mega spammitupper, right?
Am I right?
If no, did I win a consolidation prize?

[Vader]

Did you actually expect anyone here to know who CoLoN is?

No. I expected very few people to know who he is. That was part of my intention - a sort of inside joke, if you will.

It's true, though. Kelster == CoLoN

[AndrewTaylor]

It's pretty fun to see this comming from you, the same guy who once was prepared to defend sprite comics til death.

Kudos for the initiative! ;)

That was my first though, too -- but he's done a pretty good job there by my reckoning.

[Kelster23]

No. I expected very few people to know who he is. That was part of my intention - a sort of inside joke, if you will.

It's true, though. Kelster == CoLoN

...who's CoLoN?

[yakuza]

http://worms2d.info/People/CoLoN

[Vader]

Best. Entry. Ever.