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Hello! I was wondering, would you be ok with doing tutorials on how you draw breasts? You draw them beautiful! ;o;

Thank you kind anon! I don’t have a system so it’s a struggle each time. but here is a quick thingie,maybe it will help!

I make details above the line layer. That’s all in general! But better look carefuly at good photos of naked girls, old stupid Osa may be wrong! :)

t-n-r

[pixiv] [part 2]

latesummersolstice

supersatanson

Now that’s a kickass tutorial on how to develop your hair technique!

grimphantom2

This is good tutorial

bumbleshark

can i ask about your pen settings? your sketches have this really cool line quality to them, and i was curious how you get that

here ya go!

lizalot

Skin tone swatches, for use as a resource.

Spudfuzz on Deviantart made the original resource, which I modified to be a bit more realistic. She gave me permission to post this.

☛These swatches, like all art resources, should be used as a “jumping off point!” All colours are relative, and change with lighting conditions. As they are now, these swatches work best for adoptables, character lineups, and other art where local colour is important. ☚

[DA]

lizalot

this is officially my most popular post

noisyghost

Im completely enamored by ur art! I just gotta ask, whats ur coloring process?Its fantastic! Ive been trying to get into digi art w the grayscale process to help w values in painting but i cant figure a good way to color!Id lov ur advice if u can! 💖

Thank you for the ask! Thats sweet ;n;

My coloring process varies every time i do it because art for me has always been just kind of going for it and messing with stuff until it looks ok???? But I usually start with the same few steps, so i’ll try and summarize them the best I can.

1) I start off with line art and base colors. I used to put all my different objects on different color layers, but now i just slap it all on the same layer lmao. If im painting rather than just shading some illustration, my lineart is usually a little less clean.

2) i take the base colors, make a new layer out of them, turn it all white, and then decide where my light is coming from. Then i make a gradient out of that layer. I used to use grey to make the gradient, but now i’ll use different colors (usually red or pink) to suit the mood better/make the shadows look better.

3) I go in with a brush and white and i start painting in my light.

4) this is what it looks like when I set that gradient later to multiply.

5) I make another multiply layer and start painting in more shadows for more depth. I’ll use darker shades of the original gradient just to define some features (here it’s around his lips, eyes, chin, etc.) I also colored the lineart (i just lock the layer and paint the lines) so it’s not just this stark black line.

6) I make another layer to go in and get some general highlights. After that, I’ll make another layer over top of everything and just start painting over the lines to make it smoother.

and from there it’s just a wild guessing game of adding effect layers and hoping for the best haha.

retroautomaton

Some crying tips. I’m pretty bored of seeing movies with clean crying, but wow it’s by no means clean. It’s gross and messy and just downright fun to draw.

forgetmeparanoia

Reminders to myself (and any other artsy people who follow me i guess)

-You don’t get better at drawing by avoiding drawing until you are better at drawing.

- You don’t have to make a new masterpiece every day it’s okay if all you drew is a doodle of a bug. You are now +1 bug doodle better at doodling bugs.

- Also it’s okay if the thing you drew didn’t turn out very good. Everything you draw makes you one step closer to being able to draw good. You are still +1 step better at drawing whatever you drew no take backsies.

- You are the only person who knows if your art didn’t turn out as good as you wanted it to. You are the only person who can see the things in your art that weren’t what you imagined in your head. No one else will know unless you tell them.

- Comparing yourself to other artists just isn’t fair. You get to see all of your art, the best stuff and the worst stuff. You usually only get to see the best stuff other artists make. You don’t get to see that half drawn badly propotioned face they drew at 2 am and immediately scrapped. So don’t compare your badly drawn 2 am face to their best work.

- Just keep making art. The only way you can really fail is if you give up.

trisketched

How to Make Your Art Look Nice: Lighting

Think your drawings are lacking that extra “oomph”? Maybe adding a little bit of lighting can help!

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The “How to Make Your Art Look Nice” Series

fucktonofanatomyreferences

An okay fuck-ton of simple shoulder movement references (per request).

esakris

i absolutely looooove your style and especially the way you draw your mouths & noses! omg.. i was actually wondering if you had any pointers on drawing/colouring lips! i would love to see how you go about it

im not the best at explaining or doing tutorials but here’s a sorta step-by-step of how i draw my lips (literally they’re my own lips hah)

use references!! whether its your own lips or someone off of goggle. i used my own lips in these, take pictures of yourself in different angles and go off of that, trust me it really helps

lips are so varied, their shape and size is unique, experiment

when i colour mine, i always make the upper lip a slight shade darker than the bottom

i always colour my lineart a different colour that’s not something so dark, most of the time its a few shades darker than the upper lip

i finish off with a slight shine on the bottom lip, an even lighter shine usually looks like a glossy lipstick

this isnt super detailed, but hope that helps!

piraticoctopus

For anyone who wants a free pose-able human reference for drawing

The other day I came across this awesome program by accident (I don’t even remember what I was actually searching for, but on the several times I’ve looked for a program like this I’ve had no luck). It’s cool enough that I wanted to share it.

It’s called DesignDoll (website here) and it’s a program that lets you shape and pose a human figure pretty much however you want.

There’s a trial version with no expiration date that can be downloaded for free, as well as the “pro license” version priced at $79. I’ve only had the free version for two days so far, so I’m not an expert and I haven’t figured out all of the features yet, but I’ve got the basics down. The website’s tutorials are actually pretty helpful for the basics, as well.

Here’s the page for download, which has a list of the features available in both versions.

There are three features the free version doesn’t have:

Can’t save OBJ files for export

Can’t download models and poses from Doll Atelier (a sharing site for users; note that the site is in Japanese, though)

It can’t load saved files

The third one means that if you make a pose, save it, and close the program, you can’t load that pose/modified model later. You have to start with the default model. I found that out when I tried to load a file from the day before (this is why reading is important…). Whether saving your modifications (and downloading models and poses) is worth $80 is up to you.

But, the default model is pretty nice and honestly if all you’re looking for is a basic pose reference it should work fairly well as it is. Here’s what it looks like:

There’s a pose tag that lets you drag each joint into place and rotate body parts. The torso and waist can be twisted separately, and it seems like everything pretty much follows the range of movement it would have on an actual human.

Even the entire shoulder area is actually movable along with the joint! See, like how the scapular area of the back raises with the arm:

The morphing tag is one of the coolest features, in my opinion. It lets you pick and choose from a library of pre-set forms for the head, chest, arms, legs, etc. It has some more realistic body shapes in addition to more anime-like ones. Don’t like the options there? Mix a few to get what you want! Each option has a slider that lets you blend as much or as little as you want into the design.

So you, too, can create beautiful things like kawaii Muscle-chan!!

The scale tag lets you mess with the proportions and connection points of different joints. This feature combined with the morphing feature not only allows more body shape variations, but it also means that you can do things like make a more digitigrade model if you want. (The feet only have an ankle joint, but for regular human poses that’s all that you really need, so whatever.)

Or you can make a weird chubby alien-like thing with giant hands and balloon tiddies if that’s more your thing.

The ability to pose hands to the extent it allows is far more than I could have hoped for from a free program. Seriously, you can change the position of each finger joint individually, as well as how spread out the fingers are from each other. Each crease on the diagram below is a point of movement, and the circles are for spread between fingers.

And to make it a bit more convenient, there’s a library of pre-set hand poses you can pick from as well, and then change the pose from that if you like.

In both versions, you can also import OBJ files from other places for the model to hold, like if you wanted to have them hold a sword or something.

Basically, this program is awesome and free and you should totally check it out if you want a good program for creating pose references.

thebookskeeper

I just wanted to add a little more to this. If you have trouble figuring out how light sources work in your drawings this also allows you to choose where to have a light source.

That shaded ball on the left is your light source. You can see how moving the point changed the shadow cast.

Oh and all those other nifty looking things in that bottom bar there, yeah it’s what you think. You can change the model color to one of these presets or even customize your own palette.

Plus for all you lovely people who want something a little more simplified to use as a pose reference

You can turn your model into the classic wire frame.

azureprops

For my artist friends.

swedishjazz

If you're an artist looking to diversify your faces:

click this link

draw whomever you get

don’t worry about making it super-accurate, just focus on the characteristic parts of the face and have fun

the outcome might not look like the ref, but it will be different and more varied than faces you draw out of your head, an dprobably pretty rad on its own right!

feel free to reblog with your drawing, if you want!

glitchedpuppet

i made this to help out someone who was having trouble with palettes and picking colors! maybe it’ll help you guys out too (I hope so anyway)

anatoref

Water Splash Tutorial Top Image Row 2 Row 3 Row 4: Left, Right Row 5 Row 6 Bottom Row: Left, Right Video References Video: One, Two, Three, Four, Five, Six, Seven, Eight, Nine, Ten, Eleven, Twelve, Thirteen, Fourteen. Video Lessons Lesson: One, Two, Three, Four.