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NOTE: one type of fold will rarely appear on its own - they interact with each other quite a bit! for example, spiral folds might define the outline of a pant leg, while the interior folds might be zig-zag folds.
iām trying to re-learn how to draw clothing, so i made this little guide to the most common shapes of folds that appear. hope it helps someone else too!
This is the art tutorial Iāve been needing
New header and addition to my streams.
āYouāre Beautifulā Hope you enjoy!
Decided to try to make a outfit meme, not sure if itās any good. In case tumblr makes the image too small to read what it says on the outfits are: BU - Darling Youāre DIFFERENT EU - Smol BT - Cupid AT - Sugar Sweet EY - Lucky Charm Feel free to change the color scheme, cause I am definitely not great at putting colors together to look good. Donāt repost
Trying to draw buildings
yo hereās a useful tip from your fellow art ho cynellisā¦ use google sketchup to create a model of the room/building/town youāre trying to drawā¦ then take a screenshot & use it as a reference! Itās simple & fun!
Sketchup is incredibly helpful. I canāt recommend it enough.
Thereās a 3D model warehouse where you can download all kinds of stuff so you donāt have to build everything from scratch.
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This is an incomplete tutorial, and it drives me crazy every time I see it come around.
We live in a pretty great digital age and we have access to a ton of amazing tools that artists in past generations couldnāt even dream of, but a lot of people look at a cool trick and only learn half of the process of using it.
Hereās the missing part of this tutorial:
How do you populate your backgrounds?
Well, hereās the answer:
If the focus is the environment, you must show a person in relation to that environment.
The examples above are great because they show how to use the software itself, but each one just kind of āplopsā the character in front of their finished product with no regard of the personās relation to their environment.
How do you fix this?
Well, hereās the simplest solution:
This is a popular trick used by professional storyboard and comic artists alike when theyāre quickly planning compositions. Itās simple and it requires you to do some planning before you sit down to crank out that polished, final version of your work, but it will be the difference between a background and an environment.
From Blacksad (artist: Juanjo Guarnido)
From Hellboy (Mike Mignola)
Even if your draftsmanship isnāt that great (like mine), people can be more immersed in the story you tell if you just make it feel like there is a world that exists completely separate from the one in which they currently reside ā not just making a backdrop the characters stand in front of.
Your creations live in a unique world, and it is as much a character as any other member of the cast. Make it as believable as they are.
Great comments and tutorials!
Iām a 3d artist and have been exploring the possibilities of using 3d as reference for 2d poses. I want to add a couple of tips and things!
Sketchup is very useful for environment references, and I assume itās reasonably easy to learn. If youāre interested in going above and beyond, I highly recommend learning a proper 3d modeling program to help with art, especially because you can very easily populate a scene or location with characters!
Using 3ds Max I can pretty quickly construct an environment for reference. But going beyond that, I can also pose a pretty simple āCATāĀ armature (known in 3d as a rig) straight into the scene, which can be totally customized, from various limbs, tails, wings, whatever, to proportions, and also can be modeled onto and expanded upon (for an example, you could 3d sculpt a head reference for your character and then attach it to the CAT rig, so you have a reference for complex face angles!)
The armature can also be posed incredibly easily. I know programs exist for stuff like this - Manga Studio, Design Doll - but posing characters in these programs is always an exercise in frustration and very fiddly imo. A simple 3d rig is impossibly easy to pose.
By creating an environment and dropping my character rig into it, I have an excellent point of reference when it comes to drawing the scene!
Not only that, but I can also view the scene from whatever angle I could ever want or need, including the character and their pose/position relative to the environment.
We can even quickly and easily expand this scene to include more characters!
Proper 3d modeling software is immensely powerful, and if you wanted to, you could model a complex environment that occurs regularly in your comic or illustration work (say, a castle interior, or an outdoor forest environment) and populate the scene with as many perspective-grounded characters as you need!
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Look at this amazing addition! This is fantastic!
Itās for a group on Deviantart Iām modding. I had a fun setting up the charts and adding the information. I always love wings so I wanted to do something with it for fun. The top picture is what I aesthetically enjoy, haha. I was inspired by Haibane-Renmei on the process.Ā
Tickle monster Decided to post the SFW part of this on my main, so here it is. The NSFW part is on my side. Hope you enjoy!
A Single Rose Can Mean So Much More Than A Dozen. Happy Valentineās Day everyone! Hope you enjoy!
since Iāve drawing a lot of glowy magic/fire things lately,,,,hereās a tutorial with brush settings!! :0
Tuesday Tips - EARS In storyboards, I often donāt put too much thinking into drawing ears. I mostly draw them as shapes. The only time I really need to know the ins and outs of ear anatomy is when I draw an over-the-shoulder shot. I never wanna draw attention to it, but a poorly drawn ear WILL stick out. Other than that, you can only simplify something adequately if you know it well. Maybe Iāll do another posts later on ācartooningā ears or modifying ears. Message me if you have requests. Norm
Can you draw Error x Ink?
I canāt say I know too much about these AUs, but I tried.
Eye ātutorialā by Remarin
i had a poll on DA so i will be doing basic how to stuff of the results
Just a little guide. It really bugs me when I see people make those mistakes and it irks me even more when I see people make those mistakes even tho they wear glasses themselves :B
āDonāt traceā originally started as a warning against tracing as art theft (as in, tracing someone elseās art without permission or credit is art theft) and then over the intervening years turned intoĀ āyou canāt use references because itās cheatingā and I think thatās one of the worst cases of the telephone game Iāve ever personally experienced
you are allowed to trace as practice
you are allowed to trace your own work (for example photographs you took yourself or to keep architectural consistency)
you are allowed to trace things the original artist is encouraging you to trace
you SHOULD use references
you SHOULD be allowed to pick up other artistsā artistic tics you like (ā¦as long as theyāre not offensive, like blackfacing, but thatās a different kettle of fish)
you SHOULDNāT go around moralizing at other people about how they learn best because you can and will lose friends that way and you can and will hurt other artistsā development that way.
Also other than art theft there IS no such thing as cheating in art okay use sparkle pens and fan brushes to your heartās content why is that even a thing I have to say (ā¦and yes Iāve had conversations in the analog world about fan brushes asĀ ācheatingā Iām so tired of snotty artists who think you shouldnāt be allowed to use tools that make things easier because they can do it the hard way)
But honestly, this need to be said louder, as an artist you end up feeling like you aint getting better, trying to draw in perspective without having a guide line . And when others shame artist for using references its like they are expecting the artist to know by memory how everything works on every perspective.
To Consider that fan brushes, or custom brushes are cheating and expecting the artist to do everything in the āoriginalā way is like wanting the cashier to charge you without using a calculator to do the sum. Tools are invented to be used.
ātools are invented to be usedā well put
Not allowing using references is same as telling to a chef they canāt use recipes but they have to pull any dish in the world out of their asses just like that. The first thing, the very first thing my photography teacher told us was āWhen photographing was invented, ARTISTS took pictures of cities and traced them on their paintings because hey - easier work! Why bother to work hard when you can make it easy for yourself and save your time and energy?ā
when I was studying illustration our tutor straight up told us it was a good idea to trace reference photos. It get the bare bones of the image down so you can mess around with it later. Saves time, can improve quality of work, gets commissions finished faster
Professional artists use photo reference. Anyone that thinks someone learning to draw shouldnāt use references doesnāt know shit about professional art and should keep their fool mouth shut.
TO THOSE MAKING NATIVE OCS
I see this a lot, no one has actualĀ names, or any reference for names, that are legit Native American, varying among the tribes, for their characters.
Babynames.com and shit like that will give you names made up by white people.
However, Iāve got your solution.
Native-LanguagesĀ Ā is a good website to turn to for knowledge on a lot of native things, including native names. If youāre unsure about the names youāve picked, they even have a list ofĀ made upĀ names here!
Please donāt trust names like babynames.com for native names, theyāre made up and often quite offensive to the cultures themselves.
Thank you!
