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Ink Drawing Tutorial by Bryan Schiavone

For more: artwoonz.com

exeivier

small tutorial/warmup exercise i did some time ago.

I never uploaded it in my own tumblr blog :c it got 15k notes and i never got a single follow here from that lol.

posh-nachoman-deactivated201511

why you should make a webcomic and why you can make a webcomic

why should you make a webcomic?

it’s regular drawing practice

you get to draw and develop the universe your OCs live in

you could draw your OCs making out with context

see number 3

how can you make a webcomic?

make a new tumblr

install this theme https://www.tumblr.com/theme/37061

post comics as you would on any other tumblr they show up on their own webcomic site

what if nobody sees my webcomic :(

too bad you got to draw your OCs making out and nobody can appreciate your artistic genius obviously the world is not ready for this webcomic genius

irlmun

It also might be good for an artistic resume or portfolio.

Welp, guess that settles it. I need to start a webcomic.

dreadofthegrave

reblogging this to add while the original link to the theme in this post is inactive, you can find the newest webcomic theme here

robobuddies

Or if you don’t want to use a tumblr, there’s other free hosting sites like tapastic or smackjeeves you can use

comicartcorrections

Subway Sandwich Thighs: A Blight Upon Women's Legs in Comics

Please, No More Subway-Sandwich Thighs!

I want to talk about a comic art convention I see from time to time that really gets up my nose. Now, when I say convention, I mean an accepted technique or practice in the field rather than a gathering of gloriously enthusiastic nerds in costume. In this instance, I am talking about a particular drawing shortcut that is accepted as “solid” and “professional” in the industry that I find teeth-grindingly lazy and bizarre. I call it “Subway Sandwich Thighs”. As illustrated below:

As you can see, the thigh and the calf are sandwiched together, mid-air, without anything pressing against the underside of the calf to make it that way. Legs do not work that way, not even in bendy women. We cannot bend our legs and make them do that in mid-air. For that to happen, we need to put our weight on our bent legs, kneeling on the ground. It is the weight of our bodies that pushes the two parts of the legs together. Usually, the legs splay to the side, so that they aren’t pushed together too hard. We often sit on the side of our butts after about three or four minutes, cause that shit is uncomfortable.

As an experiment, go in front of a mirror, and try to bend your leg as much as you can, pressing your heel to your buttock. Do not use your hands to press the foot and buttock together – just check how close you can get naturally. If you’re a guy, I really want you to try this.

Now, stand there and imagine flying for more than ten minutes in that position. It fucking hurts, doesn’t it? It’s tight, it’s unnatural. It’s the sort of thing a dancer does for two seconds before leaping away into another pose. It is not a natural position to take.

I half-jokingly wonder if artists employ it because it evokes the mental imagery of a woman splaying on top of a man during intercourse, straddling him. It can display the buttocks in a pleasing way, and it also makes much of the crotch. But it’s the most ridiculous bloody drawing convention outside of the Rubber Spine thing, and I’d be more than happy if it died a quiet death.

Here are some gymnasts, naturally flexible people, bending their legs in the middle of routines. Notice their aren’t squishing the two halves of their legs together:

Here are some women kneeling. Just for reference for later corrections:

And now, some corrections:

Okay, enough of me picking on JSC. Here’s the nitty gritty of the matter, and a hat-tip to stylistic choices:

Thanks to tumblr’s downscaling, the red text is: Leg too long, No pelvis all butt, heel goes where? and Where leg go? as well as “This looks odd but my body is really like this”.

The anatomy I’ve done isn’t perfect, but I think I illustrate my point.

The Anatomy of a Fuck Up:

So what’s happening here? Why are people making this mistake over and over? The reason is twofold.

One: Mistaken anatomy. When these artists draw their stuff to arse-up, face-down, no-time-to-fart deadlines, they don’t have the leisure I do to stop and think about how a woman looks when doing these poses. So when they have to think about a woman flying mid-air, they think about a woman kneeling, rather than an actual woman with her leg in the air. They just transfer the kneeling leg position to the upright position, even though the human muscles, tendons and body mass DO NOT ALLOW for that to happen. With kneeling positions, they just go ahead and trundle out the shortcuts they learnt earlier in the piece, without thought to how heels and butt-cracks work.

Two: It’s Not Important.

In most situations, accuracy of a woman’s anatomy is not important in a comic book or graphic novel. A female character must be alluring above all, so certain anatomically impossible conventions get the wave and are never fixed. Other people learn these “shortcuts” and that it’s okay to draw like that, and it keeps on happening. FOREVER.

I’m not saying don’t use sweeping lines for style. I’m just saying let’s not have utterly ridiculous anatomy going on. These women characters take up so little space already. Draw them as the leg is supposed to look and suddenly they have legs and tendons and physical signs of strength. I guess that isn’t sexy enough?

eschergirls

One of my favourite blogs highlights and explains something about how women are drawn in superhero comics that has bugged me for a while but I couldn’t put it into exact words. Almost all of these pictures have also been on this blog before. Artists do this with a lot of other stuff with women too, such as with breasts, where they create cleavage with clothing or poses where there should be none because their references are from pictures in a different context from what they’re drawing (and they seem to hate having characters wear bras).

isharton

Thing i learned some time ago! hope you all find it helpful ( perspective grids can be your friend!)

kihublue

HOW DID I NOT KNOW THIS

sarahconnorjr

Allies, please boycott "gimp"

Warning: quite a bit of bigotry, halfway in the company switches to racism, and apparently they think that the N-word is also a funny word that is the equivalent to gimp and they are allowed to get away with that because many of their volunteers are not US citizens… You know, because the US is the only one with the problem. And the American members get a free pass because they are friends with “foreigners” apparently

Gimp is the name of a free art application run by volunteers. I’ve gotten a lot of use out of it and I have a lot of respect for projects like these that run on the support people can actually provide and not one set dollar amount.

The name is offensive. The name was chosen because they thought it would be funnier that way and the last few days whoever runs their twitter, and other volunteers, have been completely out of line when multiple disabled people tweeted them to ask for a name change. “Gimp” is continually questioned about their name and at this point are far past pretending to be professional

The justification they give for using the word gimp is that this is an acronym for their program so it’s completely coincidental

Even though they’ve already admitted they did it as a joke and the actual acronym for GNU Image Manipulation Program is GNUIMP. GNU is an operating system which is its own acronym.

Handpicking letters to create a brand name that is also a slur is not how acronyms work. Logically their name should have been IMP which seems like it would work just fine because it also is an actual word and thus easy to remember. And they’ve already admitted to using gimp because they found it funny

In case you don’t know, gimp is a derogatory term for someone who is physically disabled or an otherwise “contemptible” person.

And I know the argument of “no one actually calls disabled people that anymore” is coming and once again you would be incorrect in thinking that. As someone who has spent their entire life physically disabled I can tell you it’s quite common and usually used during a hate crime. The word is also still professionally used in the medical field despite our best efforts to end that.

Whoever is running the Gimp twitter account has gone beyond being a troll, some of the highlights include:

Take notice of how few notes everything has. No one cares and the company has been behaving like this for so long they have given up justifying anything and have just started mocking people

Shout out to @Scereyaha, their responses were articulate and on point, all my replies were just backing them up which is fine because it shows that some of us still care, some of us haven’t just given up because we know there will be no accountability for things like this in our lifetime but if we want it for someone else’s lifetime we have to work now

Please tweet @GIMP_Official and say something as simple as “refusing to change your name is unacceptable” or “stop talking over disabled people”

Anything

Those of you who proclaim to be allies of disabled people or those of you who have been asking what you should do to be an appropriate ally, this is what we need. We need your privilege in situations like this to prop up our voices.

Please signal boost, especially able-bodied and neurologically typical people. Please actually do something as an ally, it’s just a simple tweet and I already hear the excuse of “I don’t have an account” but people make accounts to do nothing more than complement celebrities, it’s not hard and complaining about having to actually “do” something that is so effortless honestly makes you worse than these people at gimp. They may be fighting against us but at least they are fighting.

Use your privilege, signal boost.

#ableism cw

effingdecaf

SO YOUR ART’S BEEN STOLEN AND PUT ON TEECHIP

You spend hours on a design. You slap it on tumblr. It gets lots of likes and reblogs. Two weeks later, some shitlord steals it and uploads it to Teechip or some similar cesspool and makes hundreds of dollars. You throw a fit, you start a flamewar, you get nowhere. That’s because you’re dealing with greedy enablers who don’t care about you. They don’t, and they won’t. Ever. You’re dealing with a company whose BBB rating has zero positive reviews and whose twitter feed is 99% boilerplate infringement replies to defrauded artists. Their business model is largely funded by turning a blind eye to the black market they cultivate. And they will do the absolute minimum to protect you against their own financial interests. So here’s what I’ve learned from dealing with these useless assholes.

1. The infringing parties follow a pattern.

If you’re dealing with some generic idiot, you might try contacting them via message or comment first. However, most of these guys are part of a well crafted abuse system. You usually spot them in a Facebook fan group. The biggest warning flag is text that resembles this:

[insert name here] - Just Released - Available with Tshirts and Hoodies Get it here => [insert link here] Not sold in stores - Tag your friends who love it.

This account probably belongs to some shady offshore bank account that would piss on your parents’ graves if it got them another buck, so don’t bother trying. Facebook is very responsive to takedowns, just report the page and follow the links to their copyright infringement form. Easy peasy.

The next thing to note is the timeframe of the campaign. Seasoned infringers set up automatically repeating 24-hour campaigns so that, by the time you’ve noticed the infringement, the damage is already done. Teechip’s max DMCA response time is 24 hours, and their minimum campaign time is also 24 hours. Criminals use this to their advantage. Teechip knows this. They don’t care. So….

2. Don’t take it personally.

They don’t see you as a person. They will go out of their way to service their soulless, thieving sellers, but the best you’ll get from them is a week-long runaround while they rake in illegal payments without incurring any liability.

We artists are often temperamental. It’s OK to be angry and to even fly off the handle. But no matter how much energy you expend arguing with Teechip, they will not budge without you taking the proper steps. So take a deep breath, pretend you’re a cool, silicon-based being of pure and absolute logic, and read on.

3. You have to deal with this their way or not at all.

DO NOT immediately engage Teechip on social media. It will feel good, but it is useless venting and you won’t get anywhere.

DO NOT send your friends, fans, and family on an email crusade. Teechip will respond to some or all of those emails with a form letter and then wipe their hands of culpability.

INSTEAD:

*** You must send one concise, properly written DMCA takedown email to [email protected] ***

Here is the format I used, which was for a piece of fan art that I created:

My name is [insert full name]. A campaign that your company hosts is infringing on a specific piece of artwork that I created.

The original artwork [add a creation date if you have one, you want to establish a timeline] can be found here:

[insert link to your original work, or say “see attached” and include attachment]

The unauthorized and infringing copy can be found at:

[insert link to infringing work]

This letter is official notification under Section 512( c ) of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (”DMCA”), and I seek the removal of the aforementioned infringing material from your website. I request that you immediately notify the infringer of this notice and inform them of their duty to remove the infringing material immediately, and notify them to cease any further posting of infringing material in the future.

Please also be advised that law requires you to remove or disable access to the infringing materials upon receiving this notice. Under US law a service provider, such as yourself, enjoys immunity from a copyright lawsuit provided that you act with deliberate speed to investigate and rectify ongoing copyright infringement. If service providers do not investigate and remove or disable the infringing material this immunity is lost. Therefore, in order for you to remain immune from a copyright infringement action you will need to investigate and ultimately remove or otherwise disable the infringing material from your servers with all due speed should the direct infringer, your client, not comply immediately.

I am providing this notice in good faith and with the reasonable belief that my rights are being infringed. Under penalty of perjury I certify that the information contained in the notification is both true and accurate, and I have the authority to act on behalf of the owner of the copyright(s) involved.

Should you wish to discuss this with me please contact me directly.

[insert your full name] [insert your mailing address] [insert your phone number] [insert your email address]

It is ABSOLUTELY FUCKING NECESSARY to do it as close to this as possible (it may need modification if you are acting on behalf of a company). Do not leave off any of the contact info. If something essential isn’t in there, you’re gonna have to do it all over. They won’t take a DMCA notice in two parts. Remember, you are a being of pure, cool, unmovable logic right now. Do it this way, and only this way.

*** Take note of the opening phrase “infringing on a specific piece of artwork that I created”. If you are fighting the theft of your fan art, you must never claim copyright over an IP that doesn’t belong to you, accidentally or otherwise. As a fan artist, you’re already on thin ice, and Fair Use may or may not protect you from a counter-DMCA; so unless that’s your original IP, make sure you only claim copyright over your specific piece of artwork. ***

Teechip will respond to a properly written DMCA sent to their copyright address in 24 hours. You can escalate it by calling them on the phone. If they don’t take the infringing campaign down within 24 hours of your 100% properly formatted DMCA email, THEN you can consider additional legal action. If they do take it down in time, you might still be entitled to damages from the seller – ask a lawyer before making any demands of Teechip, though. I can’t advise you further on this matter.

TIP: If, like me, you fear for your privacy, rent a PO box. They’re usually not prohibitively expensive.

illustraice

sometimes, it hurts. to see my art reposted, edited on without credit, used without credit and anything of the sort.

i used to be that person who thought i wouldn’t get hurt about it. because if anyone knows me that well; i try to be friendly about it. you reposted my art without credit? just saved it and posted it? it’s fine jan just credit me and we’re all good. you show up to my instagram dm, my inbox, my whatever asking for permission? sure. you edited without knowing it was even mine? just credit it.

it’s not that something blew up in me today, it’s that it blew up a long time ago and i didn’t notice. it was because i tried to be nonchalant about it; yes i have read the arguments about how it’s inevitable because it’s the internet. im even still neutral in that topic. i’m not the artist you see gathering friends to fight off reposters (nothing wrong with those people by the way), i’m the artist you see trying to work around them on my own.

i’ve seen countless friends fed up with it to the point where they left fandoms and i sat there supporting them but thinking i could still go on because i thought i won’t be hurt about it. i thought i was that friend who could maintain it, who could just accept it but work around it.

let me tell you beyond those posts telling you not to repost, let me tell you beyond those watermarks and those long rants and that anger; it’s probably sadness, bitterness. a sort of feeling people who defend themselves when they repost or use without credit will never know. it’s this feeling of being used and left; it’s small little feeling until it rolls uncontrollably into something else. you see artists who might seem like they don’t care but i can assure you they are probably trying to keep it to themselves knowing this fact that it will get reposted. it is such a destructing feeling; it is such a bitter experience. i really should not have to show up to a person’s inbox to tell them they took my work and ask for credit.

every time you defend reposting, there’s an artist out there losing their spark. there’s so much pressure for creators to keep creating; to pull out more content. you’re leaving the free show with their material; with everything they used to give you a show for free. more than anything, all i want is for people to understand that it’s not just a raging fire you broke out on an artist but each time you bruise them as well; artists are fragile as every person out there. don’t ever expect them to be bulletproof because they actually start to believe they can be.

a psa that shouldn’t really have to be a psa; surprise, you’re actually hurting a person each time you repost and woah, artists are normal people. don’t do it

joyouscatus

You remember that post about the homestuck t-shirt design contest collaborating with hot topic? And how Hot Topic are the biggest art thieves? This is recent. As you can see above, I stumbled upon Hot Topic’s website and they are selling a very popular fan art put on a t-shirt, and did not ask permission from the original artist (rismo).

This shows Hot Topic still continues their art thievery. Hot Topic are still taking art from artists without their permission. This is disrespectful and appalling.

languidness-blog-blog-blog

EXCEPT YOU DID GIVE THEM YOUR PERMISSION.

BY AGREEING TO TERMS AND CONDITIONS ON DEVIANT ART.

THEY SOLD IT TO A THIRD PARTY ROYALTY-FREE.

http://www.deviantart.com/submit/agree

mythicalpiranha-moved-deactivat

woah oops deleting my deviantart account

adu101

*instantly puts logo on my best pictures*

girldoesnothing-deactivated2016

6. Payment Unless otherwise agreed between Artist and deviantART in a writing from deviantART, the license granted to deviantART under this Agreement is royalty-free.

DeviantArt you literal piece of shit

teaandhoneybees

Uh what

That’s not okay

silascaptor-deactivated20210107

yo okay this is REALLY FUCKING IMPORTANT and imma be deleting my DA very soon because of it.

popstick

are you fucking for real

your-bud-crud-deactivated202112

Just a heads up for people hosting their designs on DA

naughtyjester

Okay. I just read through the “agreement” that DA has implemented, and it is truly heinous. I will not be posting on DA anymore.

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3. License To Use Artist Materials. As and when Artist Materials are uploaded to the DeviantArt Site(s), Artist grants to DeviantArt a worldwide, royalty-free, non-exclusive license to do the following things during the Term:

a) to prepare and encode Artist Materials or any part of them for digital or analog transmission, manipulation and exhibition in any format and by any means now known or not yet known or invented; (DA can post them on their website and edit them in any way they see fit)

b) to display, copy, reproduce, exhibit, publicly perform, broadcast, rebroadcast, transmit, retransmit, distribute through any electronic means (including analog and digital) or other means, and electronically or otherwise publish any or all of the Artist Materials, including any part of them, and to include them in compilations for publication, by any and all means and media now known or not yet known or invented ; (They can publish your art in any media, use it to showcase their website or even promote certain groups without your knowledge. For all you know, your art could be promoting the KKK.)

c) to modify, adapt, change or otherwise alter the Artist Materials (e.g., change the size) and use the Artist Materials as described in Section 3(b); and

d) the right to sublicense to any other person or company any of the licensed rights in the Artist Materials, or any part of them, subject to the terms and conditions of this Agreement. (They can edit, change, or otherwise modify your artwork in any way they want, as well as sublicensing it to third parties, such as Hot Topic.)

e) Artist acknowledges that Artist will not have any right, title, or interest in any other materials with which Artist Materials may be combined or into which all or any portion of Artist Materials may be incorporated. (By posting on FA, you forfeit your right to dispute any third party profits or copyright infringements upon your art.)

f) During the Term, DeviantArt’s licenses under this Agreement include the right to use any part of the Artist Materials in the promotion, advertising or marketing of the DeviantART Sites. (DeviantArt can use your art to advertise anything they want.)

g) As used in this Agreement, the term “Artist Materials” means any content uploaded to the DeviantArt Site(s) which may include without limitation Artist’s name(s) (including professional names), trademarks, trade names, likenesses, photographs, biographical materials, audio-visual materials, artwork, liner notes, and other graphical, textual, video, film or audio materials and any and all “skins,” computer-generated images or other artwork or images that Artist submits to DeviantArt in any medium or format whatsoever. (ANYTHING you submit to DeviantArt belongs to DeviantArt now. Including your drawings, your photos, videos, your stock materials, your music/audio, your written stories, and your artist name.)

Yes. THEY CAN EVEN USE YOUR ACTUAL ARTIST NAME. THEY OWN IT NOW, IF YOU ARE PART OF DA.

ponyking

Fuck DA.

rajii-scraps-deactivated2018121

Deleted my DA account a long time ago for this very reason. Fuck DeviantArt

kiokushitakaa

this is why i deleted everything off da and stopped using it

thatmew

Maybe people have forgotten over time but Wacom deliberately makes their tablets with a rough texture that has been getting increasingly more and more severe over the last decade or so to increase wear on both the nib and the surface itself and if you buy a $10 surface protector you will never have to replace the nib again, and, more importantly, your tablet will last for years as opposed to the surface getting scratched to hell after a few months.

Wacom makes good tablets but they’re a shit company as I’ve said many times throughout the 10-odd years I’ve been using their tablets. After putting the protector on over a year ago I have not once needed to replace a nib. And anyone who knows me knows that I use a lot of pressure on the pen.

Get a surface protector. Don’t put fucking pasta in your pen.

valmoxium

EDIT: This post is inclusive to ALL art forms.

Likes can only go so far for artists. Artists may exclusively upload their artwork to tumblr, or don’t have the time to use other sites and prefer tumblr over deviantART due to its simplicity, but the tagging system can make it harder to navigate. Many artists on tumblr tag with high-traffic tags or use their own tags to prevent tag clogging which eventually become lost. That’s why it’s very important to reblog an artist’s work.

I’m not trying to push you to ruin your blog’s aesthetic or something, nor am I saying that “you must absolutely reblog your favourite artist’s work or you’re trash”, all I’m saying is if you truly want to support your favourite artist, instead of just liking their posts, try to reblog them once in a while. The more reblogs they receive, the more exposure/notes/followers they may receive, and it’s just one of the easiest ways to show you care about them.

*This does not mean to reblog unsourced artwork or works reuploaded to another person’s blog without permission (re:stolen). Nor does this mean to reblog artworks without the artist’s consent, even if this case is slim.

mixtapecomics

I don’t normally post pieces my other artists on this blog but I feel like this is important and well-said. Likes are always appreciated but Reblogs are appreciated and helpful.

rosalarian

It’s a really easy (and free) way to support artists you like. We are like plants and this is our sunshine.

commander-ledi

i feel bad for people who use sai but dont know about stabilizer, transparent brushes and clipping groups

commander-ledi

this is where you find stabilizer:

i personally prefer to use S-4 for default drawing and S-7 when i need to draw really long smooth lines. this is what it does:

this is where you find transparent brush:

when you enable it, you can use your currently selected brush as eraser. this is what it does:

this is where you find clipping group:

you have to have at least two layers, the base layer and the one for the colors. when you draw on the layer with little red bar on side, the stuff you put on the layer appears only on top of the things you have on the base layer. the effect is p much same as preserving opacity except you dont change anything about the base layer and you can still use layer textures and effects. this is what it does: