Art tutorials and references for artists

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Incredibly excited after watching the teaser for Mockingjay Part 2.

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Another play around with style, using photographed acrylic texture and Photoshop.

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Thankyou!

Thanks for all the new follows! This blog will be more active from now on, if you have anything to submit then feel free to send references this way!

I will be working on some of my own tutorials too in the new year, if you would like to see my personal work head on over to http://jloneillart.tumblr.com/

Happy New Year everyone!

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Anonymous asked you:

Hey, is it okay if you like do a tutorial on trees and shrubs? PS: I looooooove your art and tutorial they are just soooooo wonderful, inspiratonal, amazing.

[erebun]

aww thank you so much!! ;v; haha well I don’t know a lot of trees so here’s two I actually know lmao, oak tree and pine tree I will go study more tree names when I have the time ohgosh _(:3 7 hope it helps!

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I just started making some references for myself, but got carried away hahah… ha :’D I figured I’d share. I’m hoping to make a series of these things for all the drawing bits that give me trouble: woman torsos, hands, wings, different body types, etc. I hope you also find them useful!

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a quick and sloppy tutorial on drawing profiles for the anon who requested it. hope this helps some people! 

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Even more hands!

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Painting snowy rock in PS by smuli

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Hair style references by Farvus.

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Much like my leaf/tree tutorial this is another crazy simple guide but it might help a few of you! I love to get a lot of thumbnail type ideas down first before I settle on something final so I like to use this quick method as a way of exploration, basic research into what I’m trying to achieve and a means of creating variety in my work (I hope!) On the flip-side I know a lot of people struggle with creating environments in general, this could be a good way to ease yourself into drawing them without getting too bogged down in details and technicalities, just blasting your ideas down onto a canvas!

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Can’t remember where I found this, but from the watermark I can only assume the source is ImagineFX magazine, the September 2008 issue.   If this gets enough notes I’ll caption each photo with the text displayed in each page! (‘Tis a bit small. Curse you, tumblr, get some better zoom! <shakes fist>)

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Background Tutorial by IntroducingEmy

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HOW TO SKETCH CLEAN

HIGH RES IMAGE HERE: http://oi40.tinypic.com/f05c3c.jpg

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Sitting Poses References

Kneeling and Sitting Stock Pack by KxharaSitting

Stock Pack 2 by KxharaSitting

Stock Pack 3 by KxharaSailor

Sitting 27 by SenshiStock

Tuxedo Jay Sitting 2 by SenshiStock

Sailor Team Sitting 3 by SenshiStock

Tuxedo Jay Sitting 3 by SenshiStock

Pose ref: sitting leaning forward turn around by Sinned-angel-stock

Pose ref: sitting cross legged turn around by Sinned-angel-stock

Pose ref: sitting turnaround by Sinned-angel-stock

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Portrait Step By Step by Daniela Uhlig

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semi realism lips!

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Forest Interior tutorial by dpaint

Here is a way to organize the complex information of an interior forest. This will work no matter what your rendering style happens to be. Whether you are an impressionist painter like me or a realist, the basic building blocks for the picture are the same the only difference is how far you want to carry the finish. This photoshop demo is based on a traditional painting I did a while back.

The challenge is to arrange the information to give you the illusion of space where no horizon is apparent. Forest scenes work best when you use clearings to establish a foreground or middle ground to help divide space in the scene. It doesn’t matter if you are painting jungle or alpine forests the abstract qualities of design still apply.

It helps to visualize the anchor points of the composition first. These objects will have the most detail and can be flagged or spotlighted for greater effect. They will give your eye a place to go in the image allowing you to use areas of less detail as counterpoints.

I always start with large areas of color keyed to the average for that mass this helps to unify the shape. I set up the different layers and work between them to balance color value and shape. Once these are established to my liking I begin to develop and refine the painting adding interest as I go.