MNellium

Slowly falling back in love with my tablet and drawing. Twitter: twitter.com/mnellium

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When I was in Year 9 my art teacher gave me three colour pencils (red, yellow and blue) and told me I was only allowed to use these three colours for the next couple of pictures I did, I absolutely hated it at first, but now it is my favourite way to draw irl.

I decided to draw the gooftastic markiplier in this style, I know the pens are not good at all, they are the only pens I have in my house, so I had to make do. Want to do more drawings like these in the future, so hope to get better pens for them. 

Anyway want to say massive thank you to Mark for everything he’s done for us all, he has definitely helped make my life a lot happier the past two years.

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Photoshop Brushes?

Does anyone know any good photoshop brushes for a more cartoony feel, I want to try and do some more cartoon drawings but have never really found a style I like (or even good at!) I think a different set of brushes might inspire me 

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Procrastination at its most fun! So I'm meant to be revising but I thought I would draw my two favourite ladies of the yogscast. Definitely not the best drawing I've ever done but I feel I have to stop otherwise I could spend hours changing the smallest detail that don’t really needs to be changed! 

I used the thumbnail from Hannah’s Eurogamer 2013 video but changed a few things just to make it easier for me to draw! Lots of love to both Hannah and Kim for all the amazing things they do

I want to try and reward myself for doing work by doing smaller drawings or sketches, so expect a few of those, and if you want to give me ideas please do. 

lomadia 

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Happy Birthday to everyones favourite dwarf! 

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Yogscast Drawing Finished! 

lomadia, trottimus, alsmiffy and turps, from one of my favourite things to happen on the internet last year!

I finished this a lot quicker than I thought I would but hey I quite like it! I couldn't decide if I wanted a coloured background but I quite like the rough edges and white background! I really focused on the eyes for this piece, and I'm really proud that they came out well. I've got some WIPs and variations on the eyes that I did, I want to start experimenting with style and and might put these up sometime this weekend! 

Anyway, I would love to do more drawings of the yogs, so if anyone has any good reference photos send them my way please! :)

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The sketch for the next drawing for my YT appreciation series (or whatever this thing I'm doing is!) This includes just a few of my favourite members from the Yogscast, I was trying to find a photo with more members in, but I remember watching this stream (not live unfortunately) and loving every second of it.

This line work is a bit weird in places so excuse that, hopefully will be better once its all coloured!

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aureylianmc finished! I had to make the hair less curly, the whispy bits were difficult, but I like the way the hair turned out anyway! :) Aurey really is one of my favourite mindcrackers as she just seems like such a genuine person and I know is an inspiration to so many people so I knew that I had to draw her next

BTW I won't have access to my laptop for a week starting tomorrow, I would love to hear any suggestions anyone might have for my next drawing, leave me links to reference images that I could use, I am mainly doing Youtubers at the moment, but they dont have to be gamers! 

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Trying to finish this before the end of the week, I won't have my laptop until for a week starting Sunday so am aiming to finish by Friday! The hair is getting there, it took me a while to get into a rhythm of making the hair strands the right colour and curling in the right place!

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So a few people have asked me if I do actually paint these drawings, as apparently they look more like they are just edited photos, so to try and show you that I am actually drawing them I made a (very quick) drawing to show the method I use to make them. I used a baby giraffe as my subject because why not! This drawing I obviously didn't spend as much time on as I do the others so its not as polished and I only did a small section. I do sections like this when I'm doing bigger drawings so that's why it can take a long time just to do the skin for example. 

Just remember whenever you are doing a still life drawing have the reference image next to you so you are referencing the image for every stroke of the brush you do to  is actually what is shown on the real image.

I hope this clears some stuff up for you guys and that if you still don't believe me then I don't know what else to do!! Sorry if this makes no sense, happy to answer any questions you might have :)

Oh and also this was made on photoshop, and using different layers is very important when using this method

edit: i split the image in two incase you couldn't zoom in well enough to see! 

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i dont wanna call you out or anything, its not a bad thing, you should just say it, i think at least.

See my answer to the question underneath! :D All my drawings are drawn by me, from scratch!

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question concerning your drawings, are you actually drawing or just using a smudging tool and smudge the original pictures? because it looks like that a lot, especially with the eyes/buttons and the headphones, with all the white smudged in there. also the cats fur has like the exact colors and pattern and it just looks smudged. i dont wanna offend you, just curious because i draw myself and it just looks 'suspicious' to me, you never commented on your technique.

I really am drawing this, the way I draw on photoshop does involve smudging the colours that I have drawn. I zoom in quite close on different sections, say the eye, and from the reference images i try to match the colours as closely as possible, I draw dots of colour, for the really detailed parts these dots can sometimes be down to 1 or 2 pixels of colour, I build this colour up and then smudge them together so they are blended. A few people have said this, I think I will do a step by step to show how I do this. I have worked on this technique ever since I got into digital art about 5 years ago, I don't know if this will convince you that all my drawings are real drawings that I start from a blank canvas but there you go :)

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So here is the finished Chad! 

There are some areas that I feel I could still refine, like he has less of the adorable smirk, but for now I am happy with this, and may go back to it later on just to change it slightly 

Have to say a massive thank you to everyone liking and reblogging my stuff, to see the appreciation really makes me smile and want to draw more. Anyway enjoy!

omgchad

Also here's the reference image I used 

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are you sure you didn't just throw some effects on the original photo and blended/coloured over your "art"? lol.

Nah pretty sure I've painted that! I mean I've sat drawing for the past couple hours to get it how it is right now, and for the past few years I've been doing the same to be able to draw like that! Well thank you for the back handed compliment, knowing that you think I've just edited it makes me know I've done a good job :)

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aureylianmc face and skin complete, onto that amazing hair, wish me luck!

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So I have found the next person for me to draw in my appreciation series, aureylian really is an inspiration to me, and when I saw this picture on my twitter I knew that I had to draw her next!

I appologise in advance if the hair I draw doesn't turn out as fabulous as this (hair is difficult!)

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It's Chud! ( omgchad ) The photo I am using as a reference only has half his face and I'm debating with myself if I should try and fill in the other half ad lib? Also cat butt coming soon, I've never actually tried to draw fur/cat hair before so this could be interesting!!

(I now also realised I have given him a bum chin! :D)

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So after watching a few YT videos recently I wanted to start a sort of series of drawing showing my appreciation to some of my favourite. Here is my first WIP, don't know how long it will take to finish. But I wonder if anyone can guess who it is, hint they are a Mindcracker  (Try not to be creeped out by the blank eyes and eyebrows!)