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How to paint an ocean wave?

Not really a tutorial, but maybe copy what this person does?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dmLa3qjASuQ

Hi! Here is an article I wrote about the biggest mistake an artist can do. If you find it helpful can you please reblog it?

Adrienn

#no worries m8 #submission

I want to improve my motion, composition, and creativity whet it comes to urban back grounds. 2 point perspective feels slow, and older cities are not made of boxes. :p

Don't we all! :D

I recommend taking it one step at a time - study study 3 point perspective, then study 4 point perspective, then study composition, then study motion. One thing at a time! If there are multiple things you're uncomfortable or unconfident drawing in, you may get overwhelmed trying to compensate your current ability trying to do all of them for a complete piece!

Tumblr itself has a lot of great architecture in it's "architecture" tag. I have some perspective tutorials on this blog's search system as well.

Hello, so I just recently got into digital art and I was wondering if you knew any basic tutorials for a beginner like me. I have never used a tablet or photoshop before so it's all new to me and the tutorials I looked up were advanced and confusing. I am trying to digitally draw/paint an anime like character but I have no clue how to paint or shade digitally. Can you help me? I would greatly appreciate it.

Hi there

You may wanna start with cell-shading :)

The best way to learn shading/highlighting is to reference from life I think. I've read... wow, what's probably been hundreds of tutorial in the past for how to paint and shade certain ways, but it gave me a hard time when I tried to do things on my own, rather than using the tutorialist's carbon copy.

Alternatively, there are some tutorials in the "shading" and "digital painting" tags if you go thru the search bar on my blog. I tag all my submissions for ease of search in the future! There may be something that will help you in there already :)

i just got an idea for a double exposure drawing using smoke, but the only hq reference pictures i can find are very thin smoke and i'm looking for super super thick billowing smoke (it's will be coming from a train). Is there any you can find? if not it's okay, just thought i'd ask. I love your blog and i use it all the time, so thank you!

Hi There!

This may have seem the obvious, but have you searched trains billowing smoke? D: You probably have.

I am not sure what other alternatives to offer you to help you out, other than maybe getting some screencaps off of films where there is a train with smoke billowing from it.

For some reason, Back to the Future III came to mind. With the colorful smoke coming from it hahaha

Sorry I'm not of any help here, and sorry if I'm late.

If any followers have any ideas, comments are always open!

I found this among the Slow Mo Guys’s videos and they recorded a dog running and leaping and since its in slow motion, it looks to be super useful for drawing canine creatures in motion because you can pause the video and get really amazing reference photos for various motions!