Here it is, the tutorial I’ve been asked about the most: Etyas liquids. I tried to make them as visual as possible, sorry, if it’s a mess for you c: Every gif is separated by numbers, and an explanations can be found below:
1) Lighting
- After drawing your contours, think about the location of your main light.I’ll also add for myself some back light, like… Candle or something. Yeah.
- Your main light will track down the surface of your liquid string from the side it is shining. - Liquid itself will distort this light to the sides. - Same goes to the backlight, just in a smaller amount~
- It doesn’t need to be picture perfect. Liquids tend to be chaotic in structure.
2) Cover lighting
- Liquids are not just strings and tubes that hang everywhere. They can cover stuff too! With the following effects… - Here’s our basic test tube. It has it’s own shine coefficient, but when we pour some liquid over - It implifies shining effect of the weird test tube, folowing the rules from the previous gif - It also will make coloration of the tube a bit darker… I’m sure you’re familiar with multiplying layer effect.
3) Distorion
- When the liquid crosses something, it will distort it, mixing colors with the background. - I prefer to draw that effect above every layer in the pic, copying colors around
4) Colors and opacity
- By adjasting colors, opasity and lighting strength, we can manipulate our drawing to appear like other liquids. There is nothing to show off here - you should try it yourself!
5) Viscosity
- Don’t forget about the viscosity of liquids. They can behave differently depending on their type.
6 - 7) Little tips
Drawing liquid covering an object without contours
- Apply your liquid via Multiplier layer effect or Screen effect with the gradient tool or airbrush. - Make holes in it wherever you want - Draw your lighting over it, avoiding the holes and bending the light around them a little - Erase the light where your gradient ends - Draw light around the borders of the liquid
Drawing puddles
- Draw basic shape vith Multiplyier or Screen effect, blur at some points, maybe add holes. - Puddles tend to reflect large amount of visible lighting, and less in the shadows - Draw your lighting, bluring it on the blured sections and bending aroud crisp borders Something like that. Hope it’s fine. Pawtreon Fur-mur p.s. Animations working?
dayum :o that’s awesome
