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I believe part of being an artist means you never stop improving. For one reason or another, a lot of artists are afraid to paint dark complexions or Black characters. Sometimes deeming the idea too complex or difficult and they’d rather focus on lighter skin tones. If you truly want to get better on skin tones, improvement will come when you keep drawing diverse figures.
Heres few tutorials I like that might be of some help! :
- Dont be afraid of Dark Skin by Ririarts. (I visit this one most frequently)
- How to Render Dark Skin by jordynl33
- Oil painting process by Ellie Mandy Art
Older but honorable mention from Sinix: Painting Dark Skin Tones and Anatomy: Skin
I hope these tutorials help, if anyone has any youtube videos they like feel free to share as well i’d love to see! And remember that practice makes improvement.
Lebanon, 1978 🇱🇧
Photo by Raymond Depardon
Serena Motola for Ashley Williams ph. Daria Kobayashi Ritch
I made these brushes for CSP a while back, and I've used them a LOT, but I've decided to share the files on my ko-fi. :-)
A while back, I worked at a comic book store five days a week, so I had access to a lot of old Marvel and DC comics. I made these brushes from scanning the comics directly. My brush set has all 64 colors which were possible to print on newspaper at the time.
The names of the brushes are the same names that a colorist would use if they worked for Marvel or DC back in the day. For example, R is 100% red, Y2 is 25% yellow, Y3 B is 50% yellow and 100% blue.
For a long time I told myself I wouldn't share them because I thought I could find more work as a colorist if I had my own tools. Well, I still haven't found much work as a colorist, and I thought it would be nicer to share with other artists.
It's $20 or pay what you want for a zip folder with 64 brushes. Yippee!
Just in case you forget this exists.
It exists.
With those “when you want to design a character but you don’t know color theory” posts flying around I thought this would be relevant again.
SLAMs THE REBLOG BUTTON
there’s also Coolors website that gives you randomized palettes!
Don’t forget ColourLovers, either! It’s a social media-esque site where you can browse tons of palettes and share your own.
You can browse the most popular ones or search for certain colors, themes, and even specific hex codes!
When you find one you like, you can download a wallpaper swatch of it and also select the specific colors it uses to look at more palettes that use those same ones.
ColourLovers is my go-to for when I’m having trouble coming up with a color scheme! It’s also been around for over a decade, so there’s plenty to browse through.
@color-palettes also has a lovely curated collection of palettes to work from!
A lot of people on twitter wanted me to explain how I draw expressions, so here you go
Unless you're drawing explicit realism, in my opinion, expressions should be exaggerated to some degree. If you aren't doing a 1:1 recreation, the point is to get the FEELING across. Try making the expression you want to draw and feeling how your face pinches and stretches.
Skin doesn't just "disappear" when your face moves it around --- that's where wrinkles come from! Pay attention to where your skin creases when you emote, and use it to your benefit. It's a fine line between overdoing it and underdoing it -- find your own balance.
Ultimately, every expression has a little bit of push and pull, unless your face is completely neutral (and even then, there are still some wrinkles...). Learning to think of expressions as actions and reactions is VERY helpful in learning to draw them without needing a reference, and in learning how to stylize and push expressions based on references as well!
I think a lot of people end up with stiff or unexpressive emotions in their art because they're just trying to recreate a picture instead of understanding WHY and HOW the face is moving --- and it's a tough thing that takes a while to really pick up and learn. Hopefully is helpful in showing a way of thinking about it that can influence your process and approach to emotions!!!
Also, bonus: even without the lines, the planes alone still show a LOT of emotion.
Toni Frissell. Woman with Flowers, June, 1967.
courtney love photographed by michael lavine, 1994
After a long hiatus (sorry, RL ate me), I am doing braids! Here are the first two pages.
On my list of braids to go in depth into are cornrows, micro braids, box braids, ghana braids, and tree braids. Stay tuned in the next couple of weeks and I will release them one by one, and then put them together in one big compilation.
More Black Hair In Depth:
Drawing Natural Hair
Dreadlocks
Draw your characters like this
Buster Keaton in The Electric House, 1922
A master post of Thomas Romain’s art tutorials.
There’s not enough space to post all of them, SO here’s links to everything he has posted (on twitter) so far : 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12.
Now that new semesters have started, I thought people might need these. Enjoy your lessons!
archive.org links (because fuck twitter):
1: interior design
2: detailed buildings
3: drawing streets
4: eye level
5: shadows
6: characters in layout
7: lens views
8: background shadows
9: eye level
10: street slopes
11: futuristic city from reference
12: animation layout stages
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