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an art blog or something for the MILLIONTH TIME here we go again just a lady learning to love drawing again blah blah blah

[grizandnorm]

Happy Tuesday! Today’s tip is a very easy one to remember – VARY Your PROPORTIONS!

Characters that has varied proportion within their shape tend to be more dynamic and interesting. The ones with equal proportion tends to be more static; there’s definitely time to do this; ie. when you want to emphasize the staticness or boringness of a character. In general, I tend to give variety within my proportion and avoid to divide things in half or equal mass. I always keep in mind to use the rule of 1/3 2/3 and S-M-L.

Have fun! Griz

Also on a side note, anything looks cute with 2 dot eyes and a smile! #griz #grizandnorm #tuesdaytips #grizandnormtuesdaytips #characterdesign #cute #kawaii #arttips #tutorial

[grizandnorm]

Tuesday Tips SUPER WEEK - Push it! Clarity is probably the most important thing to think about at all time when boarding. Pushing your poses to an undeniable level of clarity will improve the clarity of the storytelling in general. Don’t leave space for uncertainty in posing out your characters. Your audience will be more engaged and entertained by the sequence. This is the last post for the Super Week. I hope you enjoyed it. Back on the regular schedule next week (Every Tuesday). Norm

[kelpls]

hi Kel!! if you could give some advice/tips to your younger and inexperienced self what would you say is the best and most efficient way to do an anatomy study so it actually sticks in your mental library? like how do you break down a study of a body part

UMM I think the most effective way to learn anatomy varies from person to person but for me, I like drawing the muscles over pictures to see how they work/ their placement in action! SO USING THE ARM as an example

omg somehow this became about arms BUT YEAH I basically do the same for other body parts and DOING THIS rly helps me visualize where what belongs where, and it also helps me with getting a 3d image! Im not sure if THE LAST PART makes sense but I also think it’s very important to understand how things are CONNECTED i.e. when you’re studying muscles, always try to see what other muscles they’re connected to + where they are on the body (do they face outward/ does that change when the body moves?) SAME FOR BODY PARTS (where arm attaches to shoulder/ where leg attaches to hip etc)

THAT’S WHAT WORKS FOR ME!! All the best to you anon 💪

[soledadcatalina]

So, you’re planning on drawing characters with certain undertones but you sure don’t want to make some racist yellowface/redface mess. This subject has been touched on a few times, but I figured I’d give my tips to digital artists out there.

Here’s another really quick tutorial from me:

Start with your base colour on a Normal layer.

Open a new layer ontop of it.

On that new layer, use a very pale yellow, orange, pink (or if you want a cool blueish undertone use a slightly purplish light pink) to cover your base skintone with.

Set that new layer to Multiply, and you’re done.

Note: Multiply layers make the colours of the layer underneath it darker, if you’re drawing someone super pale, mess around with an even lighter colour or change the opacity on the layer. Don’t change the layer to Screen or Luminosity, it’ll completely wash out your image. 

The undertones in dark skin are a little richer in colour (in fact most yellow undertones in brown skin are more of a golden undertone), so you can make that Multiply colour that’s a darker pastel yellow or red or what have you.

You can also use this trick to show a blush on any skintone as well!

And if you want more references on undertones on real people, beauty blogs man. They’re the way to go: 

[blog for undertones in pale to light tan skin]

[blog for undertones in tan to dark brown skin]

[nobodyshere0000]

I drew a visual hair type classification guide. I thought I’d share it here. Mine is between 1b-1c.

[imgoinforit]

old matsu ships from twitter

[imgoinforit]

Disabilityfest part 1 ★ Better late than never right? For Disabilityfest I wanted to draw some favorite characters each with a pokemon. More info about them in the captions. At least one more post on the way.

[darrencalvert]

People often say to me: “You draw like some kind of inhuman machine.  If I eat your brain, will I gain your power?”  The answer is yes, but there is another way. The key to precise drawing is building up muscle memory so that your arm/hand/fingers do the things you want them to do when you want them to do them.  Teaching yourself to draw a straight line or to make sweet curves is just a matter of practice and there are some exercises you can do to help improve. If you’re going to be doodling in class or during meetings anyway, why not put that time to good use?

[obj-shep]

THESE ARE REALLY GOOD. 

[serenity-fails]

Hey do you think you cloud help me out? I'm a sort of beginner artist and I'm trying to draw larger body-types but I'm having a bit of trouble with fat distribution and how to draw it. Do you have any tips?

I’m gonna tell you pretty much the same thing I tell everyone, which is to observe and draw from life! The internet is full of photos of people of all shapes and sizes, you can people-watch, you can study your own form, or that of a willing friend and learn from that. If you have access to life drawing classes or events where you live they will be such a help to you.

As for quick links off the top of my head:-my bodies tag on my inspo blog, not exhaustive but an okay jumping off point-this youtube figure drawing channel which is very useful for people without access to irl life drawing-the photographic height/weight chart is a great resource for getting an idea of what weight actually looks like on different people-and this is a basic fat distribution guide that might be helpful (limited scope and essentialist language, but yeah)

[dconthedancefloor]

How to draw dynamic characters

Sorry it’s in Chinese again!

[drawmaevedraw-deactivated201901]

Hey guys! Here’s a post that I hope some will find helpful, things I have picked up along the way that I wish I had known from the start!  These are not set in stone, and only just suggestions, I’m no expert okay guys THINGS I WISH I HAD KNOWN ABOUT PHOTOSHOP: 1.  FLOW.  Flow was put in place primarily for the airbrush folks.  Now its relevance has changed slightly.  With textured brushes, try reducing the flow to “expose” texture. 2.  Ctrl+U : HUE/SATURATION/LIGHTNESS.  For people who are indecisive about color, use this to slide around the color quickly instead of repainting or replacing the color. 3.  CLIPPING/ LAYER MASKS.  Seriously, take five minutes to do this.  A good online resource is ctrlpaint.  This will be instrumental in creating hard edges, something beginner digital artists really struggle with.  Also non-destructive, you will save SO much time.  4.  With that said, ctrl+alt+g makes the current layer you are on a clipping mask.  You can layer mask a group.  5.  MULTIPLY and the surrounding layer types in its little section is like a dark glaze.  Good for shadows. 6.  OVERLAY and the surrounding layer types in its little section is like a lightening glaze.  Good for lighting. LIGHTEN and the dudes around him are also good for lighting, esp. screen.  7.  MAKE YOUR GOSH DARN BACKGROUND IN THE INTERFACE LIGHTER.  Your contrast will thank you.  Right click on the background of the interface and choose the one you like the best.  I know dark grey looks sexy, I know.  8.  TRANSFORM TOOLS ARE THE BEST (but paint over them).  If you have a tile, pattern, whatever- Image>transform> choose your weapon.  Have a tiled floor? Don’t you dare paint all those tiles. Scales?  Paint them flat in a square, then use the warp tool to push them around the form.  Then make your painterly adjustments. 9.  PAINTING SHORTCUTS:  Numbers affect the opacity. Shift+ Number affects the flow. Holding down alt gives you the eyedropper. Brackets [] change size of brush, these dudes <> cycle between your brushes. 10.  HISTOGRAM. If you have a fairly even histogram, this means your distribution of lights mids and darks is even.  If it is skewed, and you don’t mean it to be, adjust accordingly.  Just be casual about it and love your art I love you all drawmaevedraw.tumblr.com 

[ngoziu]

You should probably follow Maeve now since you’re going to do it eventually

[rtilrtil]

Late last year I wanted to start a series of short tutorials called Tip Jar, as a way of saying thanks to my fans and giving back to my patrons. This is the first of the series I have made, showing my technique on quickly filling in lineart so you can get to painting without coloring outside the lines faster. 

Someday I hope to turn these into video tutorials when I have the income and the time, but for now I hope that I will be able to share useful tips in this infographic format.

Full tutorial image

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[americanninjax-deactivated20191]

This is exactly how I do my flats.

[chillyfeetsteak]

This is how I do my flats! Really quick and easy!

[imgoinforit]

some pages from a little juushikano zine I made my wife for valentine’s day 💕😃💛😂💕

I want to refine it to give/sell to other people too;; but this one gets exclusive stuff of course

[luxememoria]

It’s okay to be slow when you’re making art.

So I kind of wanted to make a post about this.

I know some of you look around, and you see all these artists making such beautiful art in time spans of like an hour or a few hours, and then you look at your work and you get so demoralized because you’re taking so long.

I’m here to tell you that that’s perfectly okay. You’re not other artists. You are you, and your work defines you. If you need to take 10 hours, or even days to complete your art piece, it is okay, because it’s yours. You’re doing your best to make your art what you want it to be, and just because you can’t do it in a few hours like other artists do, it doesn’t make the value of your work any less. In fact, your patience and perseverance is absolutely admirable.

Take your time. You’re using your hands to create something that you love. Don’t let the people around you that you see hinder that in any way. You will definitely get faster in time, but if you give up now, thinking that you’ll always be this slow when you make art, you’ll never reach that stage. This applies not only to art, but also to other skills that you’re trying to pick up.

So look at what you yourself are doing, instead of looking around at others. Don’t worry too much, and enjoy yourself in the process of creation and learning! :)

[lesbianlinkle-moved]

I see this kinda advice passed around all the time here is the thing: shading with black will indeed look bad if you don’t know what you are doing. However, telling people not to do things without explaining why is terrible advice.

Shadows are the opposite of light, this includes in colour.

This means that if you have light in one colour, the shadow will be of the opposing hue, saturation, and value.

Unless the object is white, it has its own local colour -  the object’s true colour, how it would appear if the light were pure white.

The colour of the light influences the local colour of the object. so if you had yourself a brown cube and a blue light, the colours would get bluer and pinker.

now the reason shadows do not tend to be black is because pure white light is hard to find in nature.

the closest you will get to pure white light is during a really overcast day and the sun is filtering through the clouds, but even then it’ll lean towards yellow so the shadows will be slightly blue.

During a clear day, the shadows will pick up a lot of bounce light from the blue sky and have a blue tinge. You can learn more about this in this tutorial: [http://artbyriana.deviantart.com/art/Why-shadows-aren-t-gray-321656856]

But! None of this means you are never allowed to use black.

realistically shadows will have a hint of a colour to them, but stylistically you might be going for, say, a film noir look and deep black shadows are needed for impact for example.

The more you know about how light works, the more informed decisions you can make about shading and the more options you have.

If someone tells you that you can’t do something, they’re wrong! you can do what you like!

yes, black is hard to use and if you just mix a colour with black it’ll get muddy, but thats easily resolved by choosing your colours manually - which ideally you want to do regardless bc the computer doesnt have your eyes & cant choose the colours you like

basically if someone gives you some art advice and says you can’t do something, they’re wrong! you can, you just might need to study a little to figure out how to make things work.

I mean for example, people will say you must make your composition follow the rule of thirds and never align centrally, but while the rule of thirds makes it easy to create visual interest, Mad Max Fury Road is a testament to the fact that central composition can and will work if you experiment.

there are no rules in art! there are theories based on reality, this has been a post on colour theory & light theory, but they exist to inform you, not to restrict you.

Do what you like! Trust your eyes, if you think something looks good, then great! If you don’t, then research & experiment until you do.

Also if you wanna learn more abt colour theory, I go into it in a lot more depth over yonder: http://helpfulharrie.tumblr.com/post/131822744966/ http://helpfulharrie.tumblr.com/post/131958395841/

[anatomicalart]

How to Draw Gesture.

[chlove-art]

This is very important. People have said they liked my drawings especially because the lines feel smooth, and dynamic. I’m merely applying the gestures and curves this guy is talking about. Like the video shows, it’s the feel of the drawing that comes first, through gesture, then add the details.

[hostduraravros]

oh gosh i cannot exaggerate the importance enough this was pretty much half of my sophomore art class and after that I can say my figures improved VERY DRAMATICALLY also learning with 30 second gestures is a great way to loosen up and feel the spirit of the model and their movement and action it can be really fun and relaxing I highly recommend

[ashentongue]

This thing is pretty much the reason why I harp on other artists and tell them to do quicksketches whenever they say something like ‘oh my poses are all so stiff’ or ‘I can’t draw poses’ or ‘I just can’t draw people’. Doing this stuff can really loosen up your drawing arm and give you ideas on how to work on new poses. Most people have somebody they can get to model for them, too, and if you lack live models you can find pose sets online.

[samkingsketches]

lately i've been drawing a lot but i feel like i'm just not getting things right. i used to be really confident in my art but now all i can see is how subpar my art is and i feel really bad and embarassed everytime i post something. i know i just need to keep drawing, but how do you stay confident when you're no longer happy with anything you draw?

Ah, friend, you are NOT alone. I was literally saying those exact same words to @hayoubi just last week.

A painter named Marc Dalessio created a wonderful graph that goes along with this post. (I know it says painting but I think it applies to all arts!)

There are times when our eyes are bigger than our stomachs (or our hands in this case). Our tastes surpass what we think we are capable of.

 And yeah, its true that on the technical side, we just need to keep drawing. But on the mental side, I tend to slow down on what I post for a few days. Worrying about someone else’s perception of my work, that I’m not even feeling good about in the first place, just causes way more stress than an artist’s brain needs. I usually take some drawing “me time” and sketch traditionally away from my computer, with no inner expectation that anyone else is going to see what I’m drawing.

I hope that is helpful!! You’ll be alright, bud!!