P for Potato

Hello! This is my sideblog and i posts practice sketches here! :) Thanks for browsing!

[potatodraw]

so i tried to draw greater dog

[nim-lock]

Hoi!! I saw a little bit of the process on your Instagram, but could you explain how you go about making a pattern? I absolutely love how that neato cactus/desert one you did turned out!

Alrighty!

So to make a repeating pattern: 

1. Open a canvas and draw in the center WITHOUT touching any of the edges. 

2. [Below: Light cyan lines] Divide your canvas into four equal parts.

Make four guides framing the canvas, and two across the middle. 

For the ones in the middle, View > New Guide > Horizontal or Vertical for needed orientation > type in 50% to get the exact middle of your canvas. These are photoshop shortcuts, may be different on your programs. 

3. [Above: Yellow arrows] Make sureyou have ‘Snap’ checked under View > Snap, then select each quarter of your piece > layer via cut > move diagonally to the other side.  

After you’re done moving things diagonally, you can either turn off Snap so your doodling won’t stick to the center lines, or toggle the guide visibility off (Ctrl+;). Merge the layers back together. 

4. Draw in the middle without touching the borders, color the entire thing if you plan on doing that.

5. Setting your image as a pattern After your image is done, merge all layers into one > select the entire canvas (Ctrl+A) > Edit > Define Pattern

Open a new canvas bigger than the one you made the pattern on, and paint bucket it in! (Instead of the Foreground button at the top when paint bucket is active, select Pattern then your pattern)

If you aren’t using a program that lets you define patterns, merge everything into one layer and duplicate & tile them manually. 

Cheers! 

[kingcholera]

These are the brush settings I have found and adjusted myself over the years. I’m pretty sure that the sketch one is just a modified version of makanidotdot’s. I can’t take full credit for them, but I hope they are useful all the same!

(also the paint brush works best for me at a smaller size, and on S-4 in the stabilizer. I usually sketch on a lower setting like 15.)

[spudfuzz]

Was too fun to make.

[d3dans]

For my followers to reference:

do your research and go wild

[poultrymancy]

Holy shit this is seriously fantastic!!!

[ourartandsouls]

Dude… there’s highlights and shadows of each color too?? BLESS YOUR SOUL!

[tealeaftieflings]

This is amazing for d&d character’s when creating literally any race.

[potatodraw]

hshs ^q^

part of doodle series: #moanforme

[theartofanimation]

NanoMortis  -   https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.731799496835035.1073741915.140494719298852&type=3  -  http://nanomortis.tumblr.com

[littlekaida]

[potatodraw]

so i drew add ;v; 

[deliciousboards]

Part 2 will cover Elemaps, Blotmaps, Brushtex, how they work and how to make your own. 

Fun fact: The Airbrush is just a soft edge pen tool and is also completely useless

I also meant to include What The Hell Is A Stabilizer and it’s thrilling sequel Oh My God How Did I Ever Live Without This but I ran out of room.

Part 2

[potatodraw]

[kingsdarga]

just bros, gettin drunk, bein bros

[seventypercentethanol]

submerged forests

[intro-irma]

[pussycat-scribbles]

Since you are sick (and I hope you get better soooon) I thought I should tell you how much I freakin-frack love your art and your art style. Its. All. So. Wonderful. And as a suggestion for what to draw I have literally had this idea FOR EVER. And I don't know if anyone has ever thought of this but in my eyes it's PERFECT. Okay. Okay. But just imagine. Hinata. As Peter Pan. If you hate it that cool but YACHI COULD BE TINKERBELL OR WENDY OR KAGS COULD BE WENDY AND

Thank you very much! And thank you for this suggestion - I was very taken with it <3 Hinata makes the cutest Peter Pan! I was going to draw more of him but then my brain kinda went ASDFGHJKL; SEIJOU MERMAIDS and short-circuited…

[potatodraw]

[potatodraw]

[potatodraw]

ngghh 

okay im done; dont let me near hq