Water Arts?

What indeed? Art blog of This Person

[color-palettes]

Check out Color Supply! The site has inspirational colour palettes from designers & illustrators around the world!

It’s got some tips and tricks about picking colours. They also have a Hex Colour Palette Generator!

(Thanks to @magnetholic for showing us!)

[kkumri]

some tips for drawing hair that you guys have been asking for!

[prinsomnia]

summer

[kkumri]

this is my own personal method and it might not guarantee results, but don’t overwhelm yourself and start small if the canvas is too intimidating. starting small also makes me more open minded to creating more dramatic poses. don’t overthink and have fun! hope it helps!

[kmmcmdraws]

PREORDERS + GIVEAWAY

Really excited to launch my next set of pins! In celebration 2 pins are up for grabs!

kmmcmdraws Etsy

Giveaway:

Reblog this post (you can do as many times as you like!)

2 winners will be chosen from the reblogs, each will receive 1 pin of choice from my store (shipping included)

Giveaway ends 9:00am AEST May 25th 2018, winners will be notified via DM

Pre Orders:

Preorders for the “Plus Ultra” design are available at preorder price here.

Happy shopping + thank you so much for the support!

[anatoref]

Studying Trees by Fabian Rensch

[unwrapping]

Tumblr Dashboard Image Display Sizes (Updated July 13, 2015):

Photo Post: 540 by 810 pixels for dashboard view. Use 1280 by 1920 pixels for high-res version (except for superwide panoramas).

“Tall” Photo Post: Tumblr takes a 300-by-810-pixel version of your image then stretches it by 80% using HTML height and width attributes to make it 540 by 1458 pixels. Image quality may be diminished. Aim for uploading at least 710-by-1920-pixel images in case Tumblr switches to a better image size on the Dashboard. (It’s happened before.)

Photoset: 540-pixel width for one image in a photoset row. 268-pixel width for two images in a photoset row. 177-pixel width for three images in a photoset row. Gutters are 4 pixels.

Audio Post: 169 by 169 pixels for album art.

Link Post: 130 by 130 pixels for the thumbnail image grabbed by Tumblr from web link (if available).

Text Post: As of March 30, 2015, inline images can appear full-width (540 pixels wide). Any inline images that are 300 pixels wide or larger will display as full-width.

Avatar: 64-by-64-pixel icon next to posts.

[finkspiration]

How to post art without tumblr making it look like a blurry mess. I can’t believe this is a website made for posting images sometimes.

[usefulartshitifoundon]

one of the most reblogged comics i’ve ever made is on my tumblr with half of it blurry as shit and the other half not so pay attention to this stuff :/

[fishinsidethewater]

Fell Dragon

[verovagdevi]

Disney + movie shots

[buwakuda]

[tr333333]

Devilman crybaby!!

[frothystars]

devilman and the world 

[itslulustucru]

hey hey summoners! for the new CYL events let’s vote for our celica! give her a chance to win! we could may get her rigain class with the beloved zofia as her weapon o/ let’s do it celica supporters because she deserves to be on the top o/ do it for Erica Lindbeck😎

[fishinsidethewater]

“Your Angel...?”

[ceejles]

I know I asked this before but honestly i’m desperate, how do you draw folds? I understand pressure points and everything but I still can’t draw them. T^T

ACK! So sorry! Anyway. Tbh it’s a bit hard? But not to the point where you’ll get super frustrated. That’s why I didn’t emphasize this. Also it’s hard to explain but here are the rules I gathered: 

- Remember direction. Observe real clothes and understand the type of objects that will push or pull the cloth.

- practice on random lines/ziggy zags and make them the fabric. After you make random shapes or lines, give them the folds. Limit the folds! Large fabric and small objects, MORE folds. Small fabric and large objects, LESS folds. Equal, only NECESSARY folds. 

- The type of the fabric will always also limit your drawing of folds.

- KNOW YOUR OBJECTS. BE PATIENT. Don’t just copy references of folds all the time. Try to understand the objects first that will affect the clothe and make folds. So in any angle you’ll make folds you don’t need to worry. But do lots of observing. There’s so much pictures in Google that’s easier to determine folds. Good luck! 

[asterein]

As promised, here is a very brief overview of transparency art! Thank you all for your interest! Note: the images are transparent too!

Below the cut I included a sort of walkthrough of one of my transparency pieces!

Firstly, thank you for your interest! I will give a walkthrough of this piece here!

As a short disclaimers, I just want to say that this is my way of doing it, and there are many other ways different artists may make works as well, and all ways are correct! I’m just showing you how I do it!

Secondly, I’m specifically talking about photoshop CC, which is the program I am using. The concept itself is the same, but how to implement these features may vary program to program. 

Lastly, I still consider myself sort of a beginner, as I have not done transparency arts for that long, and I still have a lot to learn, so take these tips and walkthrough with a pinch of salt!

When deciding what to make, I wanted to go with the concept of a background inside someone, and the idea of the ocean and Lance hearing it through a shell kind of came to me. 

I first started with the lineart of Lance! It was initially drawn on white:

Then, I made a pure black background layer on top of the white background layer. That would be to see the white! Following that, I solid colored lance with pure white. It’s helpful to make the background color semi transparent so you can see both the black lineart and white. 

The use of layer masks was key to making these kinds of transparency works. They allow shades from black to white to be drawn ‘normally’ on the mask and translate them into levels of opacity! 

In this image, for demonstration, I made a bunch of rectangles on a mask layer over the plain white layer. The rectangles were drawn with different shades, but because they were on a layer mask, that translated those shades to opacities. White = completely solid Black = completely transparent

Using layer mask, I made the gradient for the ocean. 

The next was drawing the ocean and sky. I made these with pure white at different opacities. I tended to alter the opacity of the brush a lot to achieve the different variations of white. These were done on many white layers on top of one another.

I continued doing this and layering whites on top of one another until it resembled an ocean, then went back to the original white layer and added shadows using layer masks again! I repeated switching between layer masks and drawing on top with white these until they look satisfactory! 

I also used the voltron symbol and colored it pure white and added it in! Along with stars and other sources of light! I used a blurry brush with a low opacity for the ‘glow’ around the clouds and the icon!

Lastly, I opened Lance’s eyes! They were ‘drawn’ just by erasing the bottom white layer with the pencil tool I used for the lineart, but they could have also theoretically been done using layer masks too.

And he is done! 

Important: When saving the image, ensure you are saving it in a format that preserves opacity! For example, in photoshop I save it as a .png file! Make sure that you get rid of the background so you are left with nothing there! 

On photoshop it looks like this:

I hope this was helpful! Depending on the type of art, the techniques used in transparency works may vary! Sometimes I use mostly just solid erasing rather than layer masks, other times, like this, I use a lot of masks and layers. Often if you are doing works with gradients, varying levels of grey, shade and smaller details, masks are better, while for the type of “disappearing/changing” parts of linearts, erasing is better. This is only one way of doing it - the potential in this kind of art is endless!

I hope this reads okay, and if you have any other questions, you can always message me! If you got through this long walkthrough, thank you very much for reading!

If you are interested in seeing more transparency works, I made a blog dedicated to them @transparent-art and if you make transparency works, show me, I’d love to see them! (I love this type of art so much!) Have fun experimenting!

[art-res]

What a cool tutorial! I love this idea, very unique and well done.

[miumiins]

Hey any tips for drawing hair I know you put out one a while back about eyes and faces and angles a while back so just seeing if you have anything that might help with this love your art btw!!! ❤️

oh man, hair is one of those things i just kinda guess on and hope it turns out ok LOL

but basically, i try to keep in mind where the scalp or hairline is because that’s where the hair comes from and it can help with the flow of hair

drawing simple lines for how you want the hair to flow can give you a better idea of how you want it to look (straight vs wavy)

it might help to draw the basic shape of the hair/hairstyle and try to draw from there!

i hope this helps in some way! (also sorry for the messy traditional tutorial fjds new tablet still has yet to come orz)