Art Ref Party

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Cosmic Surfin' - Submitted by: fastman27

#341646 #4A2299 #9AAAE4 #D3D9E7 #EBBEE2 #EC87B3

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A House That Sees the Stars - Submitted by SeesawSiya

#f6f6b0 #f7c1d9 #7b82b8 #2b324c #3b59a2 #add6ec

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We’re doing fine, I’ll see you on the night line - Submitted by: fastman27

#F6AFAB #EF7878 #B23965 #6C2270 #3A0D30

[blue-ten]

Trakoclock asked:

Hey, if you don’t mind sharing, I’ve always wondered how you got that soft celling look on your characters in your comic. Any tips? I’m currently working on my own comic and I kind of want to go for a less harsh form of cell shading. Thanks!

A couple people have asked about the way I color things and I’ve been meaning to post a tutorial on it :]. I’ve never been too good at describing my process, but I hope this helps!

[felinewastelandarchive]

That ol’ chart of mine makes the rounds online periodically and it drives me crazy because it’s frankly not very good. So, I finally got around to remaking it.

I doubt this will get anywhere near as popular, but I wanted to make it.

Good reference for animation, comics, and for visualizing phonetics!

[beneathsilverstars]

>Watercolor Textures For Artists<

These are textures that I painted and scanned for use in my art, and I'm happy to share! Anyone is free to use them for personal or commercial artwork, as long as they're substantially modified or part of a larger piece. (i.e., if you're drawing a character you can stick one as-is on the character's shirt, or you can use one to texture an illustration that you're printing on a real shirt, but do not just print one as-is on a real shirt).

There's definitely no need to credit me when you use these, though it would be nice of you to keep the link to this post handy in case a fellow artist asks for it!

As I said anyone is free to use them, but if you want to tip, here's my ko-fi. If a lot of people like these, maybe I'll make more and add them to the google drive.

Here's a tutorial on how I use these textures in my own illustrations.

Have fun!

[helloyesthisispapermario]

(NEW?) TUMBLR TAGGING PSA:

heads up, folks! it looks like - EVEN AND ESPECIALLY ON YOUR CUSTOM BLOG VIEW!!! - tumblr only counts the first twenty tags! on a post! after this, the post won't show up in that tag, not even on your blog

so if you have a personal art tag but you put it at the bottom of the post under all of the #switch #nintendo #mario #bros #64 etc etc etc bloat tags, it doesn't work.

please put your most relevant tags first! having an art tag that doesn't have all your art posts in it is basically useless, after all

there used to be a saying that tumblr search only counted the first five tags on a post, which is why crosstagging for reach was pointless. tumblr has since updated to count twenty tags - at a cost. any tags after #20 apparently do not show up in that tag on your own blog.

i found this out because i was looking at someone's cool mario 64 art project, and because they put the tag for the project at the very bottom of their tags, the final post NEVER showed up in their tag for the project when i was browsing it ON THEIR BLOG (very different tumblr behavior than it used to be years ago!). i did finally stumble on the final post of the project, thankfully, and realizing what happend, i started counting. tumblr counts the first 20 tags, but tag #21 and all after are useless.

psa!

[no-129]

🎨color study note

[beanswithbones]

So you wanna make gradient text?

this was originally made just to help a friend but she suggested I post this publicly to help bcs the other tutorials out there aren't very straight forward. with that said pls ignore typos:

↓↓ Site Link ↓↓

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Note: you can still continue typing in the preview

Hope some peeps find this helpful

[thundercluck-blog]

Hey, friends! It’s Meg with another TUTOR TUESDAY!, I’ve finally bit the bullet and tried out a hand tutorial! Hopefully there’s something new that will help you along with hands! If you have any tutorial recommendations for next week, lemme know! As always, keep practicing, have fun, and I’ll see you next week!

[real-oddity-deactivated20240907]

RadenWA is honestly a hero for these

they're got even more than these, too!

[darrencalvert]

People often say to me: “You draw like some kind of inhuman machine.  If I eat your brain, will I gain your power?”  The answer is yes, but there is another way. The key to precise drawing is building up muscle memory so that your arm/hand/fingers do the things you want them to do when you want them to do them.  Teaching yourself to draw a straight line or to make sweet curves is just a matter of practice and there are some exercises you can do to help improve. If you’re going to be doodling in class or during meetings anyway, why not put that time to good use?

[saphushia]

btw. i made this quick guide of some of the natural size and proportion reference points in the human body. of course this all varies even irl, and you can stylize however you want, so ymmv but thought it might be helpful for some folks.

[naturalnecrosis]

Compiled some basic information I know about drawing fat characters for beginners since I've been seeing more talk about absence of really basic traits in a lot of art lately.

Morpho Fat and Skin Folds on Archive.org (for free!)

[galoogamelady]

How do you draw blood? I always make mine look like they got ketchup on them

It depends on what kind of blood we’re talking about. Not like I’m a specialist or anything but the color and consistency of blood depends on where it’s taken from (veins, arteries, organs), how it was applied (splatter, drip, soak), when it was applied (old blood goes black) and what kind of material it is applied to (human skin, scales, fur, fabric, etc). Now obviously I’m not known for photo-realistic rendering but it’s good to know the differences anyway.I am still experimenting with drawing blood but here are some different things I’ve done so far:

This is just your average blood stuff on skin, fabric and fur. I sometimes combine random splatter brushes but I almost always end up using kyletwebster‘s watercolor brushes. (And some other ones mostly from his megapack.)I do separate layers because older, dried blood turns dark with time while fresh blood still has a shine to it. I try to keep it balanced between clean edges (drops, pouring) and smeared parts. I think my style allows me to use both but for a cel-shaded look I’d do something like that last orc picture.^My favorite cartoony blood is definitely from Venture Bros. It’s nicely stylized and easy to animate.

Another thing I like drawing is dynamic blood squirts! As you can see on the second image, I draw the little triangle-shaped drips along an action line, complete with its own inside-shadows and shines. Then I select it part-by-part (not all at once!) and motion blur each part in the direction of the sprinkle.

And finally, here’s a thing I did last week. Blood bath!!Of course you don’t have to use a fancy grid to transform it accurately, you can just draw a quick perspective plane for yourself.This drawing was a quickie so I didn’t bother to add real details and shine to the blood but if you want to make it look chunkier you can thicken it by giving it a bit of a shadow.

So yeah, uh… I hope this helped somewhat. I’m still figuring stuff out myself. :)For the full size images please see my blood tag!

[galoogamelady]

All right, so after talking a bit more about this, I have collected some more thoughts of basic blood drawing:

For all your bloody needs.

[raitoskitchen]

somepony asked how i draw shoes & here is my thought process :)

[elviraaxen]

My animation process (in a GIF!)

So you've learned the 12 principles of animation but don't know where to actually apply them? Fear not!! For here is my step-by-step process, very very condensed, into one singular giant GIF.

Hope it helps!

(You may need to open it in a new tab to read the text)

[animationdesk]

This is truly phenomenal @elviraaxen! Thank you for creating this!