Deimon Chick's

My art. My fantasy.

[fujifingerz]

Damn, you draw expressions so well. Any tips on where to find good reference pics? Love your art btw, every time i see it it makes me wanna draw and have some fun while doing it

Expressions are HARD! but I feel like YOU YOURSELF are your BEST reference when it comes to drawing them! I mean of course you can look up references for the expressions you want and follow that but if you yourself make the face you’re trying to draw (perhaps not in public because people might look at you weird) then you can FEEL which muscles in your face are working and use that as a guide! for example when you smile you FEEL your CHEEKS rise, your eyebrows raise and if you notice sometimes your head may TILT maybe you raise your head? it really depends on the expression but doing it yourself and NOTICING what parts or you body, NOT JUST YOUR FACE, are moving! like did your shoulders shift? did you move your head? did your weight move to another part of your body? also! it may help to look up the muscles of the face to see WHERE muscles are and how they move!

ALSO ALSO are really good guide that I remember from when I was really young was Scott Mccloud’s “Making Comics” Book (really awesome book btw) where he has this really good diagram of expressions and mixing it up!!

TRY IT OUT! think of all the different feelings you could feel and try to convey them! What face would you make if : ???

another good tip is DON’T BE SCARED OF IT LOOKING quote on quote “Ugly”.

HUMANS HAVE WRINKLES! HUMANS HAVE FAT! HUMANS HAVE GUMS IN THEIR MOUTH! HUMANS HAVE BAGS UNDER THEIR EYES! HUMANS HAVE MANY CHINS OR NONE! use them to SHOW what a character is feeling! STRETCH THEM as little or as MUCH AS YOU WANT!!!

Have Fun!

[bonkalore]

Trying to draw buildings

[archive7481465]

yo here’s a useful tip from your fellow art ho cynellis… use google sketchup to create a model of the room/building/town you’re trying to draw… then take a screenshot & use it as a reference! It’s simple & fun!

[moorecolinart-deactivated201810]

Sketchup is incredibly helpful. I can’t recommend it enough.

There’s a 3D model warehouse where you can download all kinds of stuff so you don’t have to build everything from scratch.

[vanjestic-deactivated20160131]

reblog to save a life

[bludragongal]

This is an incomplete tutorial, and it drives me crazy every time I see it come around.

We live in a pretty great digital age and we have access to a ton of amazing tools that artists in past generations couldn’t even dream of, but a lot of people look at a cool trick and only learn half of the process of using it.

Here’s the missing part of this tutorial:

How do you populate your backgrounds?

Well, here’s the answer:

If the focus is the environment, you must show a person in relation to that environment.

The examples above are great because they show how to use the software itself, but each one just kind of “plops” the character in front of their finished product with no regard of the person’s relation to their environment.

How do you fix this?

Well, here’s the simplest solution:

This is a popular trick used by professional storyboard and comic artists alike when they’re quickly planning compositions. It’s simple and it requires you to do some planning before you sit down to crank out that polished, final version of your work, but it will be the difference between a background and an environment.

From Blacksad (artist: Juanjo Guarnido)

From Hellboy (Mike Mignola)

Even if your draftsmanship isn’t that great (like mine), people can be more immersed in the story you tell if you just make it feel like there is a world that exists completely separate from the one in which they currently reside – not just making a backdrop the characters stand in front of.

Your creations live in a unique world, and it is as much a character as any other member of the cast. Make it as believable as they are.

[shatterstag]

Great comments and tutorials!

I’m a 3d artist and have been exploring the possibilities of using 3d as reference for 2d poses. I want to add a couple of tips and things!

Sketchup is very useful for environment references, and I assume it’s reasonably easy to learn. If you’re interested in going above and beyond, I highly recommend learning a proper 3d modeling program to help with art, especially because you can very easily populate a scene or location with characters!

Using 3ds Max I can pretty quickly construct an environment for reference. But going beyond that, I can also pose a pretty simple ‘CAT’ armature (known in 3d as a rig) straight into the scene, which can be totally customized, from various limbs, tails, wings, whatever, to proportions, and also can be modeled onto and expanded upon (for an example, you could 3d sculpt a head reference for your character and then attach it to the CAT rig, so you have a reference for complex face angles!)

The armature can also be posed incredibly easily. I know programs exist for stuff like this - Manga Studio, Design Doll - but posing characters in these programs is always an exercise in frustration and very fiddly imo. A simple 3d rig is impossibly easy to pose.

By creating an environment and dropping my character rig into it, I have an excellent point of reference when it comes to drawing the scene!

Not only that, but I can also view the scene from whatever angle I could ever want or need, including the character and their pose/position relative to the environment.

We can even quickly and easily expand this scene to include more characters!

Proper 3d modeling software is immensely powerful, and if you wanted to, you could model a complex environment that occurs regularly in your comic or illustration work (say, a castle interior, or an outdoor forest environment) and populate the scene with as many perspective-grounded characters as you need!

[askoursquad]

reblogging to save a life

[bludragongal]

!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Look at this amazing addition! This is fantastic!

[deimonchick]

Testing new brush set with Zhu and Bai :3

[deimonchick]

“I have a friend, plays Glory very well. Later, he died.”

[deimonchick]

Don’t let your clothes wet in a stormy day.

[deimonchick]

Bai Yu as Joker in Halloween <3 

 "Want some candy?"

[waniwaniwani02-deactivated20220]

🍬🎲

[deimonchick]

[deimonchick]

Still finding a way to do digital pieces. Since I’ve been working with realistic style recently, it affects me a lot while I was painting this.

Anywayyy, it’s Mid-Autumn Festival! Have a good time with your love ones <3

[xnightrainx]

Artworks Collection by Maoshu. I cannot express enough how in love I am with this. ❤️

[thekingsavatar-fan]

You can get Collector’s Edition Artworks with Maoshu’s ( 猫树 ) signature at the upcoming signing events during National Day holiday:

Guangzhou·China International Comics Festival X Animation Game Festival  Time: October 1st 12:30-14:00 Location: Interactive Stage (2F)

Shanghai· Firefly Animation Cartoon and Games expo Time: October 3 13:00-14:30 Location: signing stage

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Collector’s Edition Artbook is available for pre-order on taobao. There is limited amount of the 6 collection cards (?).

Official shop: Yunaxingye Book Store

Clear File

Giveaway

[deimonchick]

love it <3 <3 <3

[runefisker]

Cover illustration for financial newspaper Barron’s. This issue is about the future of gaming: cloud gaming. Thanks to AD Zak Bickel

[mattjabbar-deactivated20240609]

For all of you who use @procreateapp for digital painting: I just updated my both Watercolor Sketching and Painting custom brushes sets for the new Procreate 4.1 file format! Now you can install them with just ONE file for each set! Additionally there are THREE new presets there for all of those of you who have the previous versions already installed. 

Both sets are 0$+ to get HERE: https://gumroad.com/mateusz_urbanowicz

[anushbanush]

It’s the thought that counts

[h-l-w]

Fair is foul, and foul is fair. o_O

[deimonchick]

Today is 7/7 in lunar calendar, which is Chinese valentine’s day Qixi (七夕) I decided to draw something for myself instead of fanarts like I usually do. And here it is! Whether you are celebrating this day or not, have a nice day with your partner

[deimonchick]

Bai Yu was so adorable in the pony event! 

Love the way he cover his face when he get embarassed ///v//

[deimonchick]

Long time no see, watercolor!

I have been praticing on digital painting so I really don’t have time for inking or watercolor these days. Also, it seems that I left this piece of paper on the table for such a long time that I can’t use it normally T__T (you can look at the bottom part of this...)