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Yay now everyone can draw two potatoes stacked on top of each other!Related content
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This is somewhat similar to how I draw Sans.Also love your art work!
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hey can i borrow this so i can draw sans properly
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Holy crap, this is so doable. 
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From my drawing experience, the higher oval should be more bigger and slightly looking kind of circle oval.
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Yeah you're probably right about that. His upper head should be a bit rounder.
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....Yeah....
Don't get me wrong, I love your art, but your version of Sansy has never been among my tops. Yeah, he's fairly game-accurate, but yours is one of the least expressive versions of Sans I've seen, and that's the main reason we all think he's so cute, kuz he's so expressive.
You draw Pap about six zillion times better. You take liberties with Papyrus deviating from his game design. You take no liberties with Sans.
Aaaaand here I am giving you a blunt critique when you didn't ask for it.
My mental image of Sans will always be winking, bleeding from the teeth, and somehow complaining that I'm wearing a dress. Because corrupting that boss fight was one of the most fun things I've ever done.
....... I'm STILL really sorry you can't poop, skelly.
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Thank you thank you for the honest feedback! It's absolutely refreshing to get some criticism, I wish I got more of it. This way I know what to improve on in the future.
I agree that my version of Sans is super inexpressive, and lately I've been putting a lot of thought into whether I should change that. Up to this point I've been working under the logic that his perma-smile is so ingrained into his character that he'd be a different person if his mouth moved.
Maintaining the integrity of the characters is absolutely vital in this fic because one of the most interesting things about it is how it could almost be canon. Therefore, any deviations in design must have a strong logical justification. I think I could justify Sans being more expressive in the future; I'd probably chalk it up to him being super cautious around the human, but around his friends he lets himself emote normally because they're, well, his actual friends.
and lol your last line
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It was something Kaiya said in one of our Corrupted Sans Fight recordings. Sans started Nyeh-ing and Ngggggyaaaa-ing like Papyrus and Undyne. Kaiya, recognizing Undyne's text, said she'd like to see Sans suplex a boulder. I told her if I heard someone making that sequence of noises I'd probably think they were having difficulties on a toilet. Kaiya responded with. "Awww! I'm so sorry you can't poop, skelly!"
Corrupting his dialogue also had an effect on his sprite, and he randomized his facial expression. He literally winked and shrugged when saying "So you put on a dress" or something like that, and bled from the teeth while telling me he knows this isn't a real date (WHAT?)
In retrospect, Sans in-game talks about Papyrus wearing his battle-body in the shower, but their house does not appear to have a bathroom. Also, the outside of the house has a balcony. From the inside, it seems like it should be connected to Sans's bedroom, and yet it's not.
Some thoughts on increasing his expression range without changing the style very far:
Raising Sansy's eyebrow ridges a bit higher and giving him more of a forehead will give you more to work with without changing the face. I stared at that skull a LOT during my corrupted recordings.
His dimples from his teeth into his cheeks are not a permanent fixture, he can actually smile straight, and his grin changes in height a bit, suggesting he might have some form of bony lips or something (He has cheeks after all).
His eye lights change size a bit. In the game, they shrink down to pinpricks to show shock, but that's how normal human eyes dilate. You could totally change the size of them with his expressions the same way you would with human eyes: big and extra glowy for sad Sansy, and so-on. He is also capable of squinting his eye sockets in addition to winking, the bottom lid comes up. It's not a stretch to think he'd be able to squint them independently, which further increases the range of what you can do with him. His eye sockets also grow in height slightly with the "pinprick" eye-lights to show shock.
In his fight, when he's sort of pleading with you, the inside corners of his eyesockets tilt upwards towards the center. It's also not a stretch that he can do this independently, cocking one brow-ridge while leaving the other straight would give him a sarcastic expression.
Oh here. Watch this.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=2cM1F1…
Pay attention to how his eyesockets change shape a lot, and how his dimples disappear when he does the "shock" expression. Yes, this is the viddy where Kaiya says that.
.... I started watching the video again myself and noticed that sometimes when he squints with the pleading look, his right eye stays open wider than his left eye. O.o I took a screenshot.
OK, I think where I'm going is, you can change his grin, especially at the corners, without removing it and still keep him in cannon, and his eyes have a MASSIVE range of movement that you're not really utilizing when you draw him.
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How to draw Sans:
wut to do: all de stuff above
wut no to do: add glowing dik.
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Oh yay! I'm glad to see you making a Sans one <3 I hope it'll help me. Thank you for making this!
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Yay! Potatoes are hard to draw XD
I just love how you draw this particular potato too, he's just so... Sans-like, it's amazing.
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Thank you! I've always wanted to draw two potatos stacked on each other, but I could never do it properly! Now I finally can
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I wonder if papy is like potatoes
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Papy is spaghetti and meatballs. XD
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