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[kiraoji]

art cheats

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

80’s anime style

glitch effect

glow effects

adding colors to grayscale paintings

foreshortening ( coil )

foreshortening ( perspective )

clipping group (lines)

clipping group (colors)

dramatic lighting ( GOOD )

shading metal

lighting faces

that is all for today, do stay tuned as i am always hunting for cool shit like this

[kiraoji]

guys stop reblogging this these are cheats the CIA will come for you

[bunnsandbutts]

Not sure if I've asked this, butt in regards to your last picture you uploaded and all of your drawings, how do you know where to line up the head/cranium with the rest of the spine in cases where the head is turned or posed?

well that is simple, the head ideally sits in the middle of the spine…

positioning the head is not the difficult part, in most cases ‘artists’ don’t need to make things ‘look’ right but make it ‘feel’ right. specially when drawing idealized and/or from imagination altering proportions and poses is rather common ⁽ˢᵘᵖᵉʳʰᵉʳᵒ ᶜᵒᵐᶦᶜ ᵃʳᵗᶦˢᵗˢ ᶠᵒʳ ᵉˣᵃᵐᵖᶫᵉ⁾

the easiest way⁽ᶦᶰ ᵐʸ ᵒᵖᶦᶰᶦᵒᶰ⁾ is to use the shoulders. Most of the time when drawing poses i will actually place the shoulders first and then draw the head. Maybe try ‘gesture drawing’ as exercise.

[meabhd]

How?? Do you draw kisses?? So well??

[noshitloki]

IF YOU LOVE WRITING BUT DON’T HAVE THE INSPIRATION FOR A 10-PART BOOK SAGA YOU SHOULD TAKE A LOOK AT THIS SITE

IT’S INCREDIBLY HELPFUL AND CAN FOR INSTANCE GENERATE TOPICS AND FIRST LINES, CONTAINS LOADS OF EXERCISES AND YOU CAN FIND PLENTY OF WRITING TIPS.

[shadowstep-of-bast]

BLESS YOU I LOVE YOU OH MY GODS I’VE NEEDED THIS

[impishtubist]

WHERE HAVE YOU BEEN ALL MY LIFE?

[thereal-tsuki-llama-blog]

This is a really cool site…

[rltoiek]

this might be a weird question but how do you draw eyes? I always get them wrong and they always seem off

eyes! eyes! eyes! 

[mrhaliboot]

Any tips on hands?

Yes! Hands are one of my favourite things to draw! before you settle on any sort of style, you need to study real hand anatomy either online or via life drawing, understanding hands can be really tricky (which is fine, we learn as we go along).

As for some tips on the way I draw hands, here is some pointers I came up with, apologies for my monstrous handwriting:

I personally love to exaggerate the hands to be as bold and expressive as possible, especially if the mood is something action or adventure-based. Hands are almost like little characters of their own. You can modify them with big gestures or little details (like the pinky finger out if it’s a posh character) as long as it stays believable-looking. Some of my examples!

(Also, use your own hands for reference! You have hands, use them!)

[vi14m2lg7m]

Made these for fun, feel free to use them separately or not!!

[20th-centuryghost]

HEY ARTISTS!

Do you design a lot of characters living in not-modern eras and you’re tired of combing through google for the perfect outfit references? Well I got good news for you kiddo, this website has you covered! Originally @modmad made a post about it, but her link stopped working and I managed to fix it, so here’s a new post. Basically, this is a costume rental website for plays and stage shows and what not, they have outfits for several different decades from medieval to the 1980s. LOOK AT THIS SELECTION:

OPEN ANY CATEGORY AND OH LORDY–

There’s a lot of really specific stuff in here, I design a lot of 1930s characters for my ask blog and with more chapters on the way for the game it belongs to I’m gonna be designing more, and this website is going to be an invaluable reference. I hope this can be useful to my other fellow artists as well! :)

[darkchocolate-creature]

FOR ALL MY SISTAS HAVING TROUBLE FINDING THE RIGHT SHADE OF FOUNDATION/CONCEALER, THE KEY IS TO KNOW YOUR SKIN TONE AND UNDERTONE. HOPE THIS HELPS :)

More info on artbecomesyou.com

[jolinxo]

This is important !

[freshest-tittymilk]

This is a great resource for artists who have trouble with skin-tones other than white

[sov-ja]

Hi i am new to Tumblr and your drawings are amazing do you have an tips on Anatomy i really suck at it and i wish to get better. Thank you.<3

HI! THANK YOU but are you asking me, a person who cries every time they have to do a full body, for anatomy tips?? 

well…,,, i’m not sure if i’m the right person to help you with that (i'n not even sure if i can!), but insted i’ll tell you what i do to improve the anatomy of my drawings!

the most predictable and common advice is: use references!!! watching and trying to imitate the reference picture helps you understand and memorize the way things work. i’ve always wanted the characters on my drawings to be more expressive so i’ll tell how i use references to help me practise this.. let’s go! 

we’ll take these two photos as an example:

source: (x), (x)

so first of all i draw basically the same thing. i don’t aim for realistic style, so just understanding the pose works for me. i guess you can trace the image, too, but i really prefer redrawing. anyway! now i have something like this:

so what i do with these is try to change the pose just a little bit to make it look more… action-y. definetly no tracing here! draw just by looking at your fisrt one and the original reference! for example with the first picture: you can bend the body forward or backwards:

so it looks like something this:

  and the second one:

aaaaand that’s about it.. you’re absolutely right to look for art tips!! there are lots of them done by amazing artists who know what they’re doing! many of the tips i found iver the years helped me so much, but not everything worked for me, some things i kinda had to figure out myself. this one might o be useful for you BUT the best thing to do to improve any aspect of your art is practice!! if something is hard, good. do it anyway. let it be crappy for the first time, for the second time, for the tenth time, it’s okay.  eventually you’ll get it, that’s for sure!

GOOD LUCK!!! <3 

[faerie-daze]

two essential skills for artists

“good enough” and “fuck it”

“good enough” is when you are working on something and are happy with most of it but can live with a few imperfections, useful when needing to move on from sketch to inking/coloring or what have you.

“fuck it” is when you absolutely hate what you’re doing every step of the way but you post it anyways, very useful during art blocks.

both are useful to help you move on and not obsess over making it perfect, because art is anything but perfect, even photo realistic artists probably see imperfections that someone else might not catch 

these can also be applied to other things in life

[frauleinpflaume-deactivated2020]

For artists who have problems with perspective (furniture etc.) in indoor scenes like me - there’s an online programm called roomsketcher where you can design a house/roon and snap pictures of it using different perspectives.

It’s got an almost endless range of furniture, doors, windows, stairs etc and is easy to use. In addition to that, you don’t have to install anything and if you create an account (which is free) you can save and return to your houses.

Examples (all done by me):

Here’s an example for how you can use it

[ladytygrycomics]

Great find, thanks!

[keiko86chanart]

OMG HEAVEN!!

Bless you!!!!

[cloverinblue]

bruh

[aryinspires]

oh shit

[portentous-offerings]

I love this series hopefully the link is ok, I watch it here: http://www.dailymotion.com/playlist/x4dqih_HabaneroScans_urasawa-naoki-no-manben/1#video=x4nnj2k is a sort of documentary where Naoki Urasawa interviews mangaka about their process. it’s amazing because you see them struggle through their work, and their processes, really inspiring.

[swedishjazz]

If you're an artist looking to diversify your faces:

click this link

draw whomever you get

don’t worry about making it super-accurate, just focus on the characteristic parts of the face and have fun

the outcome might not look like the ref, but it will be different and more varied than faces you draw out of your head, an dprobably pretty rad on its own right!

feel free to reblog with your drawing, if you want!

[halfarsedhermit]

Spent the last two days working on this little archery guide in art and writing. Considering the rise in popularity of archers in pop culture this hopefully  comes in handy for a bunch of fandoms.

[sweetsarsaparilla]

For anyone who wants to draw the Hanzo

[giancarlovolpe]

Gonna need this later…

[sa-likod-ng-mga-tala]

So I went to an art conference at my school. We discussed things there, like how colors can be very powerful and our subconscious picks up the subtlest of hints. Pixar’s UP was a very unforgettable example. The colors of UP had a lot to do with why we cried. You all know what I’m talking about, right??

Ellie’s death.

We were told that her color was pink. That’s why her hospital room had pinkish hue.

And the next scene had strong pink hues. He misses her. I think it’s got strong colors because of her personality.

Also, It’s like her presence is still lingering.

When he got home, only a small part of the frame (window on the right) has a pink hue as the sun is setting. By now, we know her presence is drifting away.

Mr. Fredricksen walks up the porch and goes into his house.

And when he shuts the door, the final frame looks like this:

Ellie is gone.

The entire frame is desaturated and cold because the warmth in Mr. Fredrickson’s life is gone.

And that’s another reason why this masterpiece is heart-wrenching. And that’s how powerful colors are in films.

[randobambo]

Thanks, I hate it!

[wannabeanimator]

This New Storyboarding Software Is Both Free And Open Source

A new piece of software - both free and open source - wants to upend the market for digital storyboarding applications. Meet Storyboarder.