Drawing Point 64

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Técnica de desanimação...

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Emotional image for the day!

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Calendário grátis para 2025

Um calendário econômico, para os tempos atuais! Eu o fiz menor este ano, de modo a caber dois meses em uma folha de sulfite A4… e, assim, você obtém dois calendários.

Você pode fazer o download do arquivo pdf, aqui.

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Free book on Composition

If I were asked what is essential in Drawing, I would answer: two things, the line and the composition. I have already talked a lot about the first thing in previous posts in my blog, such as here and here… so, I can only say a little more about the second.

Composition has to do with the way you organize the elements of a drawing. It will be useless to know how to draw beings, objects and landscapes with impressive detail and realism, if you arrange all of this in a confusing or uninteresting way for the reader. Your entire work will be harmed.

The opposite is also true: if your art is simple, without much detail, but you try to compose it in an interesting way, it will have a much better chance of attracting the reader's attention.

Fortunately, there are books that deal with composition. Today I present one of them, "The Art of Composition", by Michel Jacobs, published in 1926. The work is available on the Internet Archive, and can be accessed here.

In addition to dealing with classic examples of composition, the book presents different small examples, such as these:

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Tutorial: How I sketch in Krita

Tutorial: How I sketch in Krita

In Krita, I make my sketches and shading studies, using a (I believe) little-known method of the program… and, since this might be useful to other people, I decided to share it.

No, you won't need to install any additional resources: everything is already inside Krita, you just need to perform some small and easy configurations. And it also works in older versions (mine is Krita 5.2.3).

I made a small free manual (a 10-page pdf file), explaining what you need to do and giving some usage examples. The manual has two versions: English / Português Brasileiro.

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That typical recruiter question! / Aquela típica pergunta dos recrutadores! :D :D

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Five ways to animate faster

One of the best tips: the correct order of planning an animation.

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How to animate a Tail

This one is a little more advanced than the previous one tutorial and the method in it is also different.

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Principles of Wave motion

The principle of waves can be used to animate a series of movements such as hair, fabrics, tails…

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Is there still time to make your dreams come true?

The other day I found this video. He talks about something that I (and perhaps many designers besides me) have already thought about: giving up on drawing. The video is narrated in Brazilian Portuguese, but subtitles are available.

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AI Vs Pro artist: who wins?

(a short video showing a small experiment done by an illustrator).

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Simple animation table

If I want to make a short animation, with 24 frames per second and lasting six and a half seconds… how many frames will I need? And if I want to increase the duration by another second, what will be the total number of frames?

For simple questions and to avoid making calculations, I use this table, which I am making available above.

The purpose of the table is mainly to assist in short animations; for this reason it goes just over 14 seconds. I don't know if it will be as useful for long animations.

Another point: the values in seconds are rounded (for example, nine frames would be 0,375) and I preferred to leave it that way for the sake of simplicity.

I ended up inserting the values at intervals of three frames, just because it made it easier for me to put together the table. Nothing stops you, of course, from using even frames: the table is there just as a guide.

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“Drawing techniques for the structure and appearance of the fingers when the hand is extended”

Source: Twitter

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Damn

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Great tutorial! For more, visit Lab Rat.

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OK, let's try our luck... :D :D

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Storyboard: a study tip

If you are interested in animation and, more specifically, storyboarding, see what artist Joscha van Deijk did:

"This week I completed a project I’d been working on for more than two years: sketching out Terminator 2 in its entirety. Every day, before I start working, I’d do a single page of 12 panels, picking up where I left off the day before. At the steady pace of 12 panels per day I made my way through the entire film.

And now it’s done: 438 pages, 5256 panels… So at this point, you might wonder if I’m insane, but to me sketching out complete movies is -by far- the best way to grow your visual storytelling skills and to study films. And I don’t understand why more people aren’t doing this."

To read the rest of his article, in Linkedin, click here.

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Patterns for Web

More 64 more patterns I made. Unlike the previous ones, these were designed for exclusive use in webcomics or other works intended for the internet.

Avoid using these patterns for printed work, as they were not designed or tested for this purpose. Some of these patterns are available for free to try, while others are part of a special package, for sale, as follows:

TEST PACK - Containing 4 patterns. Free download here.

COMPLETE PACK - Pack available for sale here, containing all 64 patterns.

Both packs also come with a manual, in pdf, containing instructions for use and installation, a small basic tutorial on using patterns in Krita and a list of patterns that are part of each pack.

Here are two works in Krita, where I used two patterns from the complete pack. In the first one I applied a pattern to the boards behind the character, to simulate the texture of old wood:

I added black strokes above the pattern and shades of gray below it, in addition to editing it with a transparency mask. To make this more evident, I separated it into the screenshots below:

Finally, in this illustration I applied another pattern to the shield, in the lower left corner: