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I made a detailed rock painting guide (Includes some rendering basics too!)

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Trying to figure out how to draw armour. These are some of my notes I uploaded on patreon. A lot more to come since I really want to figure this one out.

drawingdreamboats

HAIII. mutual very politely asked for tips on how 2 draw hairy bitches (read: body hair) n who am i to refuse if it means less bald pussy in the world...

it's been a long time since i did a 'tutorial' of any kind [and i wouldn't consider myself overly qualified, so you know, do ur own research] but i had a lot of fun making this <3 probably a million inaccuracies but we ball!!!

(edit: wait months later but i forgot to clarify the #bodynegativity was a joke. all bodies are good bodies. this is a joke about standards of conventional attractiveness and personal preferences bc people often discuss body hair as though it is disgusting and gross and also i made this at 3am on a random thursday. sosorrys...)

[feel free to repost elsewhere with credit !!!]

tried to make an example sheet of recent work and it's just all mista LMFAO sorryyyy

eameschairs

me and @microbiologistmusings made a guide! we were talking about how frustrating it can be when so much (well meaning!) art of wheelchair users seems to get the chairs...not quite right. so maybe this will help :) i had a lot of fun drawing it and thank u to levi for your unending wisdom <3

drawingden

Colour Tips by yuming_art

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drawingden

How to Paint Ghibli Style Grass by justin_donaldson_art

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anyrava

Saw my recent rock tutorial blow up a bit, wanted to also share this mountain painting tutorial I‘ve made!

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iktend

I believe part of being an artist means you never stop improving. For one reason or another, a lot of artists are afraid to paint dark complexions or Black characters. Sometimes deeming the idea too complex or difficult and they’d rather focus on lighter skin tones. If you truly want to get better on skin tones, improvement will come when you keep drawing diverse figures.

Heres few tutorials I like that might be of some help! :

- Dont be afraid of Dark Skin by Ririarts. (I visit this one most frequently)

- How to Render Dark Skin by jordynl33

- Oil painting process by Ellie Mandy Art

Older but honorable mention from Sinix: Painting Dark Skin Tones and Anatomy: Skin

I hope these tutorials help, if anyone has any youtube videos they like feel free to share as well i’d love to see! And remember that practice makes improvement.

krowfaced

People seem to like my hands, so, here’s my first "tutorial", tackling my approach on how to draw and construct hands! I hope to do more of these, and that next one will dive into hand gestures and applying it with this structure.

Hope you find this helpful! :D

askani4935

Someone @ Rob Liefeld and see if they have one for feet too

anyrava

Another tutorial I‘ve made, about digital brushwork this time!

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tiktoks-i-enjoyed

The art of mindless embroidery.

by @ toolbburs (no pronouns in bio).

wizard0rb

what they dont tell you is that value is way way more important than color in painting, esp digital painting since you can alter the color super late in the process. like value is literally makes the entire painting

wizard0rb

i just got out of work and i’m tired as fuck so idk if this makes sense but learning abt light falloff is lowkey a game changer. so in the top image see how the light gets dimmer as it gets further away from the lamp? that’s light falloff, basically it means that the lights get dimmer the further away you get from the light source. the shadows stay the same tho

in the bottom pic, the light source is coming from the camera. both her forehead and the front part of her drum thing are facing the camera (light source). but because the drum thing is closer, the lights are brighter there. the shadows are (basically) the same values everywhere tho so there’s actually less contrast in the face

i know this sounds unimportant and negligible but it is literally a game changer trust. also value is how light or dark something is i forgot to mention that

wizard0rb

another major game changer is soft/hard edges.

this is a very large generalization of a complex concept BUT basically if a shadow is being cast by another object, it has a hard(sharp) edge. if it’s following the form of an object, it’s soft

before vs after applying this to my shadows. insane how much of a difference it makes

wizard0rb

when i posted this a lot of ppl complimented the “colors”. but the colors on this piece are actually pretty unremarkable, like 90% of this painting is actually just shades of plain blue-gray. its literally just values making it look good bro

a lot of people think colors/color theory is the most important thing to learn for painting, and completely neglect values or treat them as “secondary”.

this likely goes against your initial gut artist feeling of wanting to have super bright saturated colors that “pop”, but a painting w/strong values and mid colors is basically always going to be “better” (from like. a technical perspective. obv you can do whatever you want forever) than a painting with weak values but bright colors that look good next to each other while flat

above on the left is a painting i did before i learned abt value, on the right is after. the left one has bright colors but the value sucks bad. the one on the right has colors some people might avoid because they look “muddy”, but stronger values