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I made a tutorial-thing about drawing clothing wrinkles - something I’ve had a few requests for. For all the banality of wrinkles, they’re an expansive topic. Anyway, these are some previews. The full tutorial is available to all $1+ Patreon supporters. You can find it here!
And before I forget to mention… The Hat Tutorial is available to all Patrons as well!
Little tutorial on how to paint Ghibli style grass
hello i am here today to not lose track of the art cheats i have discovered over the years. what i call art cheat is actually a cool filter/coloring style/way to shade/etc. that singlehandedly makes art like 20 times better
clipping group (lines)
clipping group (colors)
that is all for today, do stay tuned as i am always hunting for cool shit like this
got a lot of ppl asking me how i drew tears so i made this!! note tht this is just my way of drawing them
♦ FULL SIZE IMAGE OF TUTORIAL CAN BE FOUND HERE
A quick tutorial made with support from my patreon! This is a simple method I like to use when it comes to sci-fi flares. It’s also a very nice base to build up on if you want more complex lights, as shown in the last image.
Some extras to the tutorial:
♦This is a simple guide on how I make straight lines into flares. You can use whatever method you like with whatever brushes you like. The brush settings tool (F5) allows you to customize your brush in infinite ways, and it can give you interesting results! For most flares , You will need to set your shape dynamics box’s brush size to pen pressure to give that tapered end most lights have.
♦ The results will vary according to the settings you use on your FX layer and Layer Style settings you use Remember to keep it simple and do not go overboard, as it can easily overpower your drawing.
♦ Don’t get discouraged, just keep playing with settings until you find something you like.
I hope you find this useful :)! I may make a couple more flares like the last two examples and upload them as a PSD to download, who knows. Let me know what you think
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For best results, I recommend using the SAI marker tool for sketching and “lining.”
My personal marker tool settings:
Now that’s a kickass tutorial on how to develop your hair technique!
This is good tutorial
Someone asked me how I draw the skelebros, so…here’s a guide showing my process :v I definitely spent WAY too much time on this ahhahaha x__x but like, I used to tutor kids and this reminded me how fun it is to teach people stuff so its all good
I don’t do tutorials usually, but I get asked about this a lot! I don’t think many people have thought of it.
I’ve use the same technique for patterns on curved surfaces before. It’s a good one!
Explosion Tutorial! Top Image & Row 4 Row 2: Left, Right (Video) Row 3 Row 5: Left, Right, by Alex Redfish Bottom Image
OMG THANK YOU
Tutorials & Process
Brushes
For digital art theory and techniques, just search on my blog. These are specifically targetted to Paint Tool SAI, but a lot of digital art tutorials would apply.
Ryky did a tutorial on painting hair in MediBang Paint. He’s got a lot of other tutorials for MediBang Paint and other programs on his Devianart page here.
If you want to try out MediBang Paint
Tumblr makes it look really low quality, but they’re fine if you click on them~ :)
Tutorial time! Here’s a quick hair tip tutorial for eat-my-shxrts (I’m working on the eyes/facial features one, but since I finished this one I thought I’d post it :) Hope this is helpful, I wish I was better at explaining how I draw XD
I also included a process gif! Featuring some of my faves with varying hairstyles~ :) <3
This breaks it down a bit more toward the level I need
good tutorials are few and far between ( a lot of artists seem to get caught up in the superficial trappings of portraiture rather than the nitty gritty fundamentals), but these breakdowns by Bryan Lee are just fantastic. Super applicable tips and tricks, no matter your personal technique/approach.
What better day to end the year then with a basic guide to colouring- This is for beginners or intermediate artists. Colouring is a big part to an art piece, whether you decide to use colours or not, that’s up to you, but for the most part, having some knowledge on appliance of colour will really help you out!
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ARTISTS WITH AN INSPIRING KNOWLEDGE OF COLOUR APPLICATION! Please take the time to have a look at other artists work so that you ca research and get inspired!
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COLOUR SLANG: I use some strange slang to express colour types and shades as well as groups. Although they may not be canonically correct, I will use these terms to describe colour palates to the best of my ability! Analogous: Colours that are near or adjacent to each other on the colour wheel, EG: Red and Orange
Oppositional/complimentary: Colours that are opposed or opposite from each other on the colour wheel, EG: Cherry and Green
Triadic: Colours that form a triangle on the Colour wheel, EG: Cyan, Magenta and Yellow. These three colours when mixed together will make black.
Arrowtype/Quadcolour: Four colours, that generally form an arrow shape on the colour wheel.
Tetradic: Colours that form a rectangle or square in the colour wheel
Neons: The very brightest you can get a colour, be careful where you use them as they can look ugly together at the most. Try to use neons when you are adding bright glowing objects to your piece. Neons are great for highlights.
Brights: Slightly washed Neons. Appropriate if you have characters that are colourful.
Washed: Very washed brights with a hint of grey. These are also useful for colourful characters.
Pastels: Colour with white in them to make them seem light.
Baby Pastel: Pastel with even more white in them, good for subtle highlights.
Darks: Colour with black added to them. Used mostly for lineart.
Mustards: Colours with dark grey added to them
Earthen: Colours with brown added to them
Warm and Cool colours: Warm colours are colours that range fromMagenta to Yellow. Cool ones range from Lime to Fuchsia.
Straight tones: A greyscale palate. or a straight scale of one colour from black to it’s neon form.
Warm and cool tones: Warm tones are a greyscale mixed with warm colours and cool tones are greyscale mixed with cool colours.
Skintones: Warm washed or pastel colours generally used to colour in skin, but they don’t have to be warm at all! ( I will not show you a palate for this however)
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WHAT TO AVOID WHEN COLOURING: beginner artists, tend to go ahead and start by colouring their line art with neon and mustard colours. Neons are not necessarily good for base colours unless the character has a glow.
I often see lazy attempts to shade, often a beginner artist with use an airbrush and use black and white to shade and highlight their piece. This is not very effective, and I’m sorry to say… It’s kind of gross as well. Try to avoid being lazy. If you have a piece that has bold black lines, avoid using soft shading and airbrushing at this point of time.
Black and white isn’t always the best option when colouring in your piece, but it also depends on the style you are trying to convey. If you plan on only using straight tones to colour in a piece, black and white is good.
A GOOD BASIC WAY TO COLOUR For this basic tutorial I will show you a nice way to colour in a piece with bold lines. I will be using Minty’s Classic character as an example.
Begin with using brights that have been washed down a little and washed skin tones if your character is human based. Avoid using neons or mustards if you are able. If there is white on the character, such as the white on an eyeball or the teeth, consider using baby pastels. For Minty’s eyeballs I have used a baby pastel blue. I have chosen to use a darker and more washed version for her Irises.
With you foundation colours placed down, use a washed warm colour for the skin tone, such as a salmon. If the character’s hair or fur is warm coloured, use a pink or red orange to shade that as well. Use the cell shading technique. This may mean you will have to erase some of your shading so be sure to do this on another layer. For your baby pastels, you can use a regular pastel to shade it. For Minty’s eyes I have used pastel blue and lowered the opacity by a little.
For Highlights, I have chosen to use baby pastel yellow. I wanted the piece to be warm.
Applying a light airbrush over the top of the piece makes it feel a little softer. I have also applied the airbrush over the initial borders to create colour bleed, giving a very subtle reflective approach.
Colouring your line art layer, particularly if you have bold lines, can really make a piece look more interesting! I like to leave the overall outline black. You can gradient and bleed colour in your line art as well
Light tracing is a technique lots of artist’s use, where they run a sharp line of highlight next to line art to divide borders.
This looks a lot nicer than the black and white shading, doesn’t it!? __________________________________________
This is a very very simple guide to applying colour to your piece! If This helped, please reblog and share this guide around!
If you have any questions or feedback, don’t be afraid to send me a message!
Gonna need this later, can’t color worth a shit
A friend wanted to know how to do grass, whipped this up super quick, decided to turn it into a tutorial!
If you would like to request a personal little tutorial for yourself, please consider taking a look at my Patreon!
I WAS THAT FRIEND!! THIS WAS VERY HELPFUL!! I STILL FUCKING HATE DOING GRASS!!
