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[scribbled-death]

First tutorial posted up for Patreon Supporters is now available for everyone! Please read the tutorial carefully. If you have a question that is not in the tutorial I’ll be happy to answer it. Want me to make more tutorials and even video walkthroughs? Support me on Patreon!

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[gillegill]

Would you look at that!

[sorariin]

what if i just delete this blog ahaha….;;;;;;;

[mononokepersonal]

that I would find you and kill you... =A=)

[inmapollito]

New Revenge of the Queen pages available in Tapastic!

[spikedrewthis]

This Is Everything I Know: A 24-Hour Comic About Comics.

Hey, all. This is a comic I started on 24 Hour Comic Day, but I only managed to complete 12 pages on that day. That makes it a technical failure, but I decided it was worth finishing regardless of that.

I sold copies at APE, but I didn’t anticipate the demand and ran out of them pretty quickly. So, I promised to re-post the mini on tumblr when i got home, and here it is.

Some further reading, if this kinda thing is up your alley.

Kevin Kelly’s original essay on 1000 True Fans. He also links to associated articles dealing with the theory, even one that disagrees with it. Interesting reading.

If you don’t know about Kickstarter and what its done for indie comics, get out from under that rock already. Lots of small press and micro publishers now pre-order ALL their projects on KS, myself included.

Patreon is the new kid on the block; not quite up to scratch as of yet, but full of possibilities. Search “comics” to find a number of creators using it to draw a page rate from their fanbase.

I hope someone finds this helpful. I may put a print-rez PDF up for sale, if any interest is expressed.

Enjoy!

[iroga]

It’s still mermay in this part of the world, so here is the queen of the mermaids. Commissioned work for patreon.com/ireneroga . .

#mermay2017 #mermaid #mermay #sketch #dibujo #drawing #commission #pencil #pencilsketch #pencildrawing #art #sirena #sirene #ireneroga #queen #mermaidart

[kingofooo]

by storyboard supervisor Erik Fountain

A few years ago, Erik put together these updated AT storyboard guidelines for new board artists and revisionists.

[kurokoros]

You know, this is why content creators end up abandoning their works, right?

80 likes compared to 10 reblogs means that only 12% of people decided that what you did is worth showing other people.

If you like the thing, reblog it. You don’t even have to add tags, just spread it so that a) other people can see it, and b) the creator gets recognition for what they did.

Obviously, those numbers are never going to match, but the divide should not be that huge.

It’s even more important right now, because tumblr is garbage and they’ve stopped allowing anything with an outside link from appearing in tags. Writers/artists cannot tag things to their twitter/store/writing website. That can cause a significant drop in views, especially for newer creators.

Like… we aren’t asking for much. A few reblogs. Reviews/comments. No creator should have to beg for that much.

[kayjaykayme]

Support artists and writers and reblog!

[catastrophepins]

This is my biggest problem with tumblr and it’s why I get pissed off a lot

[adelaiderowan]

The thing about posts with links not showing in tags makes reblogs SO important - both as a creator and as a fan. It’s not just that my stories won’t get seen, but I might miss out on stories I love that I wouldn’t have seen otherwise.

[nephiam]

Please, if you like an artists work, reblog it!

[nephiam]

Rules | Answer the 20 questions and tag 20 amazing followers you’d like to get to know better!

Tagged by @mononokepersonal

Name: National secret. Nicknames: Nephi, Neph. Zodiac sign:  Pisces. Height: 1'67 m. Orientation: Like, sexual? Hetero. Nationality: Spaniard. Favorite fruit: Banana! Favorite season: Winter. Favorite book: I’d say A Song of Ice and Fire but I dropped it long ago, after A Feast of Crows. So I dunno.  Favorite flower: I dunno… Favorite scent: Pizza. Of course, duh. Favorite color: Blue! Favorite animal: My cat. +Otters, +Seals, +Owls. Coffee, tea, or hot cocoa: Hot cocoa, I suppose. I don’t like coffee nor tea. Average sleep hours: Ahaha… Like, 4 or 5, maybe. Cat or dog person: CAATS. Favorite fictional character: I can’t choose. I have like a bazillion husbandos + some waifus. Loki (MCU), Illidan and Kael'thas (Warcraft), Homura Akemi and Madokami (PMMM)… Number of blankets you sleep with: Now it’s hot so only one but normally like 4 or 5. Dream trip: BLIZZARD HEADQUARTERS IN CALIFORNIA. Blog created: Omg idk.

I don’t know almost anyone on this site so: @yshiara 

[mononokepersonal]

[mononokepersonal]

Rules | Answer the 20 questions and tag 20 amazing followers you’d like to get to know better!

Tagged by @pandanoi

Name: - Nicknames: Hoshie, Hosh, Ms. Bitch. Zodiac sign:  Gemini. Height: Roughly 1,80 m. Orientation: 😈 Nationality: Spaniard. Favorite fruit: Clementine. Favorite season: Winter. Favorite book: The Neverending Story by Michael Ende. Favorite flower: I despise flowers. Favorite scent: Wet ground after rain. Favorite color: Rainbow. :D Favorite animal: This question is too hard;; Coffee, tea, or hot cocoa: Coffee. Average sleep hours: 6? Cat or dog person: I love’em both;; Favorite fictional character: Griffith from Berserk. Number of blankets you sleep with: Shit lots of ‘em. Dream trip: Travel around the whole world. Blog created: June 2014

Taggin’: @kawaiidream @altiegg @sorariin @inmapollito @nephiam @enorie @iroga @glaciarkingdom @kaoruokino @ero-pinku @monsterswaltz @katzyrine9  

[nononorits]

Rules | Answer the 20 questions and tag 20 amazing followers you’d like to get to know better!

I was tagged by @sensitive-eruri​, thank you! It’s been a while I’m not social on tumblr :_3 ♥

Name: T Nicknames: Noiry, Noi. Zodiac sign:  Taurus/Tiger Height: 1.69 m Orientation: Mostly straight Nationality: Spain Favorite fruit: Apple Favorite season: Spring and Autumn. Favorite book: Wuthering Heights Favorite flower: Lily Favorite scent: Lilies,mimosa, fresh bread Favorite color: Pink Favorite animal: This is hard!! pandas, shrews, whales, tigers, dogs…  Coffee, tea, or hot cocoa: Hot cocoa. Average sleep hours: 8  Cat or dog person: Both. I still need a dog to make my life complete. Favorite fictional character: Cloud Strife & Erwin Smith :D Number of blankets you sleep with: sheets and 4-season duvet so 3? 4? Dream trip: Visiting European capitals, specially Prague. And Japan! Rural areas mostly, I wanna see monkeys xD Blog created: March 2011

If you read this, you’re tagged ;D

[mononokepersonal]

Damn you! *shakes fist*

[inmapollito]

I wanted to design a cute character for fun (⚈▿⚈) I named her Valentina because I love that name and I wanted her to be Italian. I want to design her best friend next, I already have the idea more or less <3 *Random*

[mononokepersonal]

¡¡Ay, qué monada!! Quiero secuestrarla. *A*)/

[swedishjazz]

If you're an artist looking to diversify your faces:

click this link

draw whomever you get

don’t worry about making it super-accurate, just focus on the characteristic parts of the face and have fun

the outcome might not look like the ref, but it will be different and more varied than faces you draw out of your head, an dprobably pretty rad on its own right!

feel free to reblog with your drawing, if you want!

[inmapollito]

Just a reminder that I keep updating Revenge of the Queen on Tapastic for free whenever I have new pages to post <3

If you like the series, maybe share the link around? (>3<)

[deadshirtt-deactivated20140420]

Mini SAI guide - "Blending (color blending)", "Dilution (opacity mix)", and "Persistence" settings.

I’ve had a general idea what these things did but wasn’t completely sure what their specific functions were. I decided to sit down and figure it out, and I have thrown together a short reference guide for anyone who is confused about them. I know there are multiple translations of SAI floating around, so if some of these terms don’t sound familiar, just know that I’m talking about the three settings that appear under the texture in the brush tool settings (note that this won’t apply to any tool types except for brushes and watercolor brushes).

I don’t claim to be an expert so if you find I’ve made a mistake, let me know so I can update it, thanks! :3

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BLENDING (Color Blending)

This controls how readily the brush will inherit any colors you are painting over with it. For example, a 0% blending setting will pick up no existing colors, treating it as if you were painting on a transparent layer. A 100% blending setting will ONLY pick up existing colors (provided there are any). So at 100%, the color you’re using won’t even show up, unless you move to a transparent area. Blending is not affected by transparent pixels, so if you’re drawing on a blank layer it will have no effect.

So you can see from this example that the color I’m using gets harder to paint as the blending increases and more of the existing green is absorbed, until at 100% it is just completely turning green.

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DILUTION (Opacity Mix)

This controls how readily the brush will draw on a blank (transparent) part of the layer. A 0% Dilution will result in the brush painting very easily onto a blank surface, while a brush with 100% dilution will literally not paint on blank parts of the layer at all. Dilution is ONLY affected by transparent pixels. So it won’t do anything if the whole layer is already filled in (even with white). Dilution can be thought of as the inverse of the Blending setting in some ways.

So in this example, you can see that as dilution approaches 100%, the color I’m painting with basically becomes invisible. In fact, if you were to switch to binary color mode and look at this layer, there would literally be nothing there anymore!

Keep this in mind - if you ever can’t paint for some reason, check your dilution setting, it might have gotten accidentally bumped to 100!

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PERSISTENCE

This one goes hand-in-hand with blending. Basically, it controls how easily a brush shifts color as you are blending from one color to another. Rather, how long it “persists” if you will. Like blending, Persistence is only really relevant when painting over existing color so it’s mostly unaffected by transparent pixels. Basically, the higher the persistence, the longer it will take for the color to shift as you make a stroke, and subsequently, from which color to which other color it is shifting is dependent on the blending setting.

So for this example I’ve done the same test with three different levels of blending. I turned off all pressure sensitivity (actually I just used my mouse) to emphasize the effects in a controlled environment:

If blending is at 0%, persistence fails to have any real effect. With pressure on, there is only the difference of having to push harder, but the results will be the same as far as I can tell.

At a happy medium of 50%, persistence increase causes the orange that the brush is picking up to last longer as it goes into the green, until it never shifts to blue at all.

At 100% blending, there was never any blue in the first place, because as we already know, full blending causes you to only pick up existing color. So the persistence setting changes only how fast the orange changes to green.

Persistence is dependent upon the blending settings, so having them somewhere in the middle will probably produce the most optimal results.

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CONCLUSION

Ultimately how you use these is up to you, and is largely dependent on what kind of brush you’re making and what it will be used for. And most of these settings are meant to be used together in unison, so play around with them a lot!

If you are confused, or not sure what settings you want or what settings you should be using, a safe bet is to put them all at about 50% - that will produce fairly average results that are easy to work with, and it’s easy to remember in case you want to experiment but don’t want to forget your settings in case you decide to switch back. 

Hope that helps!

[kittykatmaniac]

nODO for those who need help with sai!

[halfarsedhermit]

Spent the last two days working on this little archery guide in art and writing. Considering the rise in popularity of archers in pop culture this hopefully  comes in handy for a bunch of fandoms.

[mononokepersonal]

Sage. | Which oc are you! (I am procrastinating)

You're most like Sage! Whatever patterns he wears materializes temporarily. This character is quick-witted, optimistic, and sarcastic. While certainly capable of being polite and sociable, he frequently intimidates others with a sharp tongue and an unusual sense of humor. Aw yea! (Despite that, he has a super soft side. But don't tell anyone.)

It seems that this cutie and I have some things in common. If only I was as pretty as he is we could be like twins or something. ༼ ಥ﹏لಥ ༽ ᵘgᵍʰ I have to draw him now, I can’t get that face outta of my head. ヽ(o♡o)/ Thanks @tofuvi for taking your time doing this fun quiz and sharing it with us! <3

[wxrmandfxzzies-deactivated20190]

fat bodies tutorial!

ALRIGHT SO my pal @kalreyno wanted help with drawing fat characters and as a fat artist i felt like i could give a bit of helpful insight on that. there’s also been a lot of complaining about “boo hoo fat characters are hard to draw so i can’t include them in my work Ever” goin on lately so if that’s your case then this is for you too!! and also just for anyone who would like help with fat bodies in general, ofc. anyway, let’s get this show on the road!!

let’s start with some common misconceptions. these are the two main attempts at chubby bodies i run into, so i’ll focus on them. 

the Anime Chubby i see everywhere, and it’s just……so wrong in many ways. first of all, there is almost no additional body fat compared to your average thin character - except for where it’s added in “attractive” places (breasts, hips, thighs). the breasts are way too perky, and don’t have the realistic shape fat would give them (though how to draw accurate breasts is another tutorial all on its own lmao). there is still a thigh gap, which usually only happens in very thin people, and bones are still visible on the surface of the skin, which also rarely happens in fat people.

the Michelin Man is better in some ways, but still not that great. it’s a slightly better attempt, but basically all that’s done there is taking a thin character and blowing them up, while giving no thought to fat distribution. the thigh gap is usually still present, and they look a lot more hard than soft - and fat is very soft and pliable.

here’s a chart on how fat usually distributes (if you can’t read my messy writing, “1. next to no fat, 2. moderate amount, 3. most of the fat distribution”). basically, the more muscle an area has, the more prone it is to develop fat, such as the abdomen, thighs, and upper arms. it’s important to note that fat sits on top of muscle, and that it does distribute in different levels, and not evenly across the body as shown in the Michelin Man. 

now, here’s an accurate fat body with all of that kept in mind!! notice how the fat isn’t only kept to aesthetically pleasing areas, and how it sits realistically on the character’s body. their breasts sag a lot more, which happens even in thin people with larger breasts, and the nipples are pointing more downwards than straight out. there is no thigh gap in sight, there are no bones in sight, and most importantly, they have fat rolls, which are very important in drawing a convincing fat character!! as far as i know i’ve never met a single person with no rolls at all, and everyone has them, whether thin or fat - they’re just more prominent and more consistently present in fat people. pay close attention to where they are and how they’re shaped.

here are a couple of drawings showing how fat is affected when sitting vs stretching. as seen in the first, the fat specifically on the stomach is distributed a lot more evenly and stretched out, so it becomes “flatter”. the love handles are still pretty visible, though, as well as the fat on the thighs and arms. the breasts are raised with the shoulders, and the fat on the shoulders and near the neck forms rolls as it’s being pushed together. 

in the second, there is a lot less room for distribution, so the fat is all pushed together. the breasts sag and the stomach forms rolls and spills into the lap. a good analogy for the way fat works is to liken it to a water balloon, and thinking of how its shape would change when resting flat on a surface, hanging off of a ledge, held upright, etc.

here are a few extra tips i find a lot of people miss!

first on the top is the hip/pubic region. the first circle is showing the way the bellybutton is folded in fat people, as opposed to stretched out in thinner people. the second is the stomach fat spilling over onto the pubic region and creating a separation in the two areas, which is something that’s missing in a lot of art. in addition, the pubic mound also gains fat, making it round as seen in the profile drawing i did up there (i’ve heard people refer to it as fupa?). the last in the hip region is the lack of a thigh gap. i can’t stress this enough!!!! if you’re trying to draw a convincing fat character, make sure their thighs are pretty much always touching!! for reference, mine literally don’t separate until my feet are about 2ft from each other.

the bottom right is showing the double chin, which a lot of people are afraid to draw!! fat does distribute itself here too, and there’s nothing wrong with it, so don’t feel like you shouldn’t give fat characters a double chin in your work for fear of it looking like a caricature.

in the bottom middle, it’s showing how fat affects different types of breasts with the presence of more or less breast tissue. 

lastly, at the very right are stretch marks with their usual locations and directions, which i also can’t stress enough!!!!! i sometimes forget to add them honestly, but they’re so important in accurately portraying fat characters, as they literally come from the skin being stretched from fat being gained (and they’re also just rlly neat lookin like why wouldn’t you lmao). some people have less and some people have more, feel free to experiment with them!

the last thing is body types!! there isn’t one single way for a person to be fat, so feel free to experiment with shapes once you’ve learned the basics!! 

so there you have it, a tutorial on how to draw chubs!! now go forth and make some accurate fanart or some rad fat characters, because the world could always use more of both. hmu if you have any questions or concerns, and thanks for reading!!

EDIT: someone pointed out the bad wording in the tutorial. thank you for bringing it to my attention and sorry for offending anybody. i’ve updated the tut, so please reblog this one!

[mononokepersonal]

Thank you so much for sharing this tips with us!! :D