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Your art is so pretty!!!!!!! How do you pick colors and color!!!! All your works are so vibrant yet cohesive hhhh so nice to look at <33

thank you!! I made a little guide :> it's mostly about hair color picks but this is how I choose my colors in general!

i tend to stick to a similar value with all my colors! the only colors that get a higher saturation tend to be the highlights

and a way to make your colors pop is contrasting your warm and cool tones :> with yaoyao, I have a warm-tone base with a cool-tone shadow and kazuha's is a little more messy, but the bright teal pops in contrast with the red and warm tones.

this chart is helpful too if you're stuck on what kind of color scheme you'd like to go with!

I tend not to use pure white/black in my base color or lineart either my whites will either be warm/cool grays depending on the character! and I tend to have cool blue/purple blacks color has so much personality so I love adding lots of it :>

I'm physically incapable of base coloring as a solid color to save my life... it takes a while and most of it is intuitive at this point so it's a bit difficult to explain for bigger pieces, but I hope this helps!!

zephyrine-gale

Your art is so pretty!!!!!!! How do you pick colors and color!!!! All your works are so vibrant yet cohesive hhhh so nice to look at <33

thank you!! I made a little guide :> it's mostly about hair color picks but this is how I choose my colors in general!

i tend to stick to a similar value with all my colors! the only colors that get a higher saturation tend to be the highlights

and a way to make your colors pop is contrasting your warm and cool tones :> with yaoyao, I have a warm-tone base with a cool-tone shadow and kazuha's is a little more messy, but the bright teal pops in contrast with the red and warm tones.

this chart is helpful too if you're stuck on what kind of color scheme you'd like to go with!

I tend not to use pure white/black in my base color or lineart either my whites will either be warm/cool grays depending on the character! and I tend to have cool blue/purple blacks color has so much personality so I love adding lots of it :>

I'm physically incapable of base coloring as a solid color to save my life... it takes a while and most of it is intuitive at this point so it's a bit difficult to explain for bigger pieces, but I hope this helps!!

gingercatsneeze

1. Ah Fai was a chief animator for McDull’s animated features. He’s super cool. Ultimate senpai.

2. Previous post on breakdowns right here

Some thoughts on acceleration and force

I presented this in the order of how I slowly understood the trick of delivering force - first an abstract concept of impact taught by Ah Fai, then a more complicated discovery on the acceleration pattern, last back to a more abstract concept of breakdowns.

Like I’ve previously stressed, 2D animation is everything but one single approach. There’s no one rule that rules them all, but interchangeable ideas with math, or physics, or music, etc. There’s no “perfect” animation either, but what is perceived as organic and dynamic. E.g., using the Fibonacci numbers to animate didn’t bring me a perfect animation! On the other hand, a tiny change in the pattern could already make the feeling of force so much more powerful.

Not so much of a tutorial than a personal experience. I hope you find this interesting hahaha

devinellekurtz

My new Grass & Field’s brush pack is officially out for Photoshop CC, Procreate, and Clip Studio Paint!

You can download it from this page (click!)

Like all my brush packs it is free, with tips welcome but optional. You can use these brushes in anything - personal work, freelance work, professional work, commercial work - including things you sell, no license required. Demo videos are linked on the product page. Enjoy!!

onebadnoodle

hi! how do you determine where to put thick and where to put thin lines in your drawings? id really like to know :3

here's some pointers I made hope this helps!

thedawner

✨✨Dawner's Free Procreate Brush Pack✨✨

I’ve been sitting on this set of brushes for a while and finally found the time to organize and upload them for free! Here’s a download link for them:

https://ko-fi.com/s/ed3403783d

Howdy, here’s a set containing 60 brushes for Procreate made out of personal resources and default assets! There are brushes for sketching,

I also have other resources over here as well! Both for Procreate, CSP and texture packs!

I've opened a Ko-fi shop. Come take a look!

bunabi

Simple & Intricate Decoration Brushes are now live and alive! Free to download & use, Clip Studio only, etc. The attachment is at the bottom of the post on Patreon, so go have fun with em!

The ever lengthening list of previous drops:

Stamps 91-93

It's lovely to be working on art again :>

arlatius-art

fast rendering tutorial for when you dont want to put in any effort

art-res

Helpful when learning layer effects!

raitoskitchen

somepony asked how i draw shoes & here is my thought process :)

visualc--x32redistributable

two (2) people asked how i did the matchbook thing so take this

this is just a simple idea but if you spend some more time you can get real krazy with it:

making fake prints is so fun please do it immediately free resources under cut xoxo

herssian

the biggest art tip i have to bestow upon you is to never leave color correcting or filters as the last step of your piece. tweak the colors/saturation/values and then build on that as if you’d done it manually. go a step further after you’ve applied filters. it’ll elevate your art

dast4rd

hope its ok 4 me to reblog but completely agreed + i would say if you’re unsure about picking colours, starting with like 3 or 4 colours and then changing colour balance + applying the layer early works really really well for finding a more unique selection

dast4rd

i was actually thinking about this on my drive home + wanted to add some pics to show how useful it is on getting colours. so i had this painting, this is how early stage it is. like it’s a shape. this is basically 30 seconds in. i didnt think about the colours at ALL. it’s just black red brown and white on top of green. that is all it is

i want the final thing to have a vignette so i sprayed literally just straight black on the edges. no filters or special layers it’s just black

then went to colour balance and changed it to warmer tones

and yeah:) now it has colours that i can go ahead with that fit the vibe im going for and work well together and i didn’t even need to put any thought into it! and then i can paint further and build onto those colours:)

artbyeloquent-deactivated202602

This is a GREAT tip that I can’t wait to try for myself. I also wanted to offer a related resource for those like myself that are struggling to put together a cohesive color set early in the composition; I normally spend way too much time just trying to lay down colors I MIGHT keep.

Then I found this website:

https://mycolor.space/

My suggestion is to put in the starting hex of any color that dominates your piece; for instance, I may use the main navy of a character’s outfit. Then it gives you a TON of different combinations that complement it based on whether you want a simple a gradient, or something that contrasts its position on the color wheel, or to tweak tones/shades.

My Color Space is a great way to get started, and now I’m excited to try to the advice above with it as well!

oooocleo

put up a little pack of Clipstudio flower brushes I made on ko-fi at request! I share them via my discord community server as well but for the Wider Public: click!

archivebottles

Not sure if this is common knowledge but here is a little tutorial of some stuff I learned about gradient maps in CSP to spice up drawings!

If anyone has an further questions I can try my best to answer them but the best way i find is to find already made gradient maps and mess with opacity and layer blending effects until you find something you like!

Here are links to some CSP assets to get anyone started ->

https://assets.clip-studio.com/en-us/detail?id=1764669

https://assets.clip-studio.com/en-us/detail?id=1906324

https://assets.clip-studio.com/en-us/detail?id=1899636

https://assets.clip-studio.com/en-us/detail?id=1898961

https://assets.clip-studio.com/en-us/detail?id=1898960

https://assets.clip-studio.com/en-us/detail?id=1889520

and the one I used here in this tutorial ->

https://assets.clip-studio.com/en-us/detail?id=1801353

bonkalore

Trying to draw buildings

archive7481465

yo here’s a useful tip from your fellow art ho cynellis… use google sketchup to create a model of the room/building/town you’re trying to draw… then take a screenshot & use it as a reference! It’s simple & fun!

moorecolinart-deactivated201810

Sketchup is incredibly helpful. I can’t recommend it enough.

There’s a 3D model warehouse where you can download all kinds of stuff so you don’t have to build everything from scratch.

vanjestic-deactivated20160131

reblog to save a life

bludragongal

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 couldn’t even dream of, but a lot of people look at a cool trick and only learn half of the process of using it.

Here’s the missing part of this tutorial:

How do you populate your backgrounds?

Well, here’s 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 “plops” the character in front of their finished product with no regard of the person’s relation to their environment.

How do you fix this?

Well, here’s the simplest solution:

This is a popular trick used by professional storyboard and comic artists alike when they’re quickly planning compositions. It’s 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 isn’t 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 – 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.

shatterstag

Great comments and tutorials!

I’m 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 it’s reasonably easy to learn. If you’re 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 ‘CAT’ 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!

askoursquad

reblogging to save a life

bludragongal

!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Look at this amazing addition! This is fantastic!

punkrockclone

Not just poses, you can also do this with lighting. Playing with lights in Blender is pretty fun.

Another cool thing: http://www.makehumancommunity.org lets you generate a human model. Like a character creator in a game, but more flexible, and the result is ready to import into a 3d editor like Blender.

art-tnt

This was a lot shorter last time it appeared here. Reblogging for the updated tips and to save a life!

bunabi

do you have any tutorial on how to paint gold? your gold motifs are so beautiful and it's something i struggle with. Any advice would be appreciated

Thanks! Uhh it generally shifts based on the texture & shape I’m going for, but here’s my general process / rule of thumb:

Or if you lock layer transparency — or however its called in Photoshop — you can use a textured brush to quickly pepper in some highlights & shadow to add a gold-ish effect:

bunabi

I forgot one more thing! Adding extra details can help make gold pop even more in your paintings. Putting on some well-place highlights, a little blur, and a lil overlay layer makes a world of difference:

bunabi

I saw a few folks asking about my Virelle piece so here’s a tip:

You can make shiny & glittery gold pretty easily when you use a dappled airbrush. It’s the same process as above, but with a spray of large-to-fine dots. It takes a little more time, but the result is cool.

The standard version of ClipStudo comes packaged with the saturated line tool, which generates sunburst effects. And so we wind up with something like this:

I dont know how this translates into Photoshop, but for CSP users I’ve updated my airbrush pack with the customized brush. Good luck. 😭

bunabi

The airbrushes aren’t on Gumroad anymore but I’m uploading new (more!) (free!) ones to Patreon this week 🥰

Three stamps for the first commission order in my queue. This particular order was for alleyes007 on Flight Rising. An interesting note, the flags in the parda skull's mouth are maritime flags that mean 'you are entering dangerous waters', which I thought fitting for a group of pirates.

Program used: CSP

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