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You guys the art director has a hand ref sheet if anyone wants some good references
I'm kind of decent at simpler hands, I use my own for reference... it's body stances and proportions that are hell for me...
I recommend trying @adorkastock. I remember when they were getting started on Deviantart. Good pose refs.
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Subsurface Scattering
Advanced Lighting Technique!
Thank you to @tamberella who mentioned this in her IG story!
They have more examples, but here’s a good highlight from their DA account. @cgcookieconcept
https://cgcookie.com/exercise/exercise-50-subsurface-scattering-sss &
https://cgcookieconcept.tumblr.com/post/156095437561/subsurface-scattering-tutorial-watch-here
Bobby Chiu’s YouTube channel is amazing
Wikipedia also has a great article on it.
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here comes small shading…tutorial? set of advises?? name it whatever you want. hope someone of y’all will find it at least a bit helpful!
special thanks to @cozy-capybara for literally inspiring me to make this thing
5 min tutorial for trcelyne, hope it helps!
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How to Draw Hands by zephy.fr
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I made a tutorial! I hope it is helpful. Some of the styles of eyes are from Studio Ghibli,Sailor Moon, Pokemon, Dangan Ronpa, Fire Emblem, Ace Attorney.
Please ask me if you have any questions! <3
thumb range of motion reference by Astrikos hopefully this helps someone!
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Hey hey hey! 💕 🤠 I am trying to find some references/tutorials of the heads in different angles like left, right, top, from the back etc. If you can please and even if you can't thank you! Love your account.
This one was pretty highly requested and includes drawings that cover chins, jaws, necks, and heads.
Notes & Measurements
Approximately : bottom of eye to the bottom of the chin = chin to collar bone
Do not flatten the back of the head, unless your character has a dent in their head.
It’s easier to draw these angles if you draw a cross that guides the eye line and then the flat vertical ( | )line of the face.
https://artres.xyz/post/a-round-up-of-anatomy-quick-tips/ & https://www.tumblr.com/reblog/160735188527/DYrPmYIp
Putting these images because they are in public domain:
https://issuu.com/vinicius.dinofre/docs/andrew_loomis_-_drawing_the_head_and_hands
For the back. of head, I think the most important part for a convincing drawing is paying to attention to how the neck/shoulders look from behind and then the ears!
Hope this helps!
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Do you have any tutorials on drawing side profiles? I’m always struggling with drawing everything past the nose and eye. Ty!
Hi!
I just made something for you:
This recent ask is similar to yours and may also help!
https://art-res.tumblr.com/post/635187257333202944/hey-hey-hey-i-am-trying-to-find-some
I included a bunch of images from Loomis.
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Hi, I hope your day is going well :)
I'm about to experiment digital art for the first time, and I'm a little nervous... do u have any tips (maybe about the art program ecc.)?
And where should I start as a beginner?
Hello dear🌟
Thank you, and congratulations on the new experience and I hope you find it thrilling! I'm not a tech savy or hardly know enough to use the full capacity of what those programs offer. But I can tell you few things about it, specially based on my practice coming from a traditional background.
But first, talking about art software; there's alot. Depending on what device you're using for a start. My main mane is Sai paint tool 2, and Clip Studio Paint, both PC windows solo and both are not free, so I recommend MediaBang. Its the closet professional free software out there I think. Can be used on all systems, windows android and iOS, if I'm not mistaken. So if you got a pc and android phone, you can easily draw on both with a drawing tablet that works on pc and android! (I only tried it recently tho so I can't tell its a smooth working method)
I was going to recommend you FireAlpaca too as it stood as a replacement for Sai for years but now I downloaded to test and it turned out to be another 'simpler'... mediaBang 8l
I think its a very simple nice way to get you started, its not cluttered and you can find labels easily, now I spent some time on it. It has wonder stabiliser, actually the best on any other software I used. I know it can be a help to get your strokes more clean but there will be ways the debate of not over using them so you wouldn't relay too much on them, which I think its valid, but we are dealing with computers here that has to process everything we move in a certain way, and if your normal strokes on it looks much awful on screen than what you normally do on paper, than some stability tweaking is much better than continuing frustration. (But that's just me side tracking)
The easiest steps into making digital art with any app would be:
Finding a favourite Brush. You can almost use one brush throughout the whole drawing process by minding the size and the density of the brush and really keep tweakingit to your liking. But of course, it can be much neater, and easier, to use a brush for each purpose. Using a hard ege brush like ink to draw lines or sharp edges. Using a soft brush to add shade or color or blend, you can use an airbrush. For blending colors, you can always use watercolour brush, smudge, or blur.
Using layers. One of the best things about digital art is the ability to use layers. You can use as many or few as you like. The starter layer can be the sketch, you lower the opacity and add a new layer on top to ink or define the sketch, when you done you can hide the lower layer by clicking the eye icon and you got yourself a squeaky clean mess, heh. You can also using the blending mode with layers. Let's say you want to add light to your painting, you add a new layer and set ilthe blending to "Add". Then choosing light orange color you draw the sun beam or light up few areas as you like. You can experiment with all of the blending modes as each create a different results and helps tie picture together.
Using Filter. It can help you adjust the picture to the desired hue, saturation and contrast. There's all kind of ways to fiddle with these, you can always Google them to have more understanding of what you're doing. If not, do what the rest of us surely do; slide those bars mad till everything looks pretty, hehe
This is just me nitpicking, but I love to erase with my favourite brush instead of using the eraser, cuz then you keep the pictures harmonious with brush strokes even when you erase something it wouldn't stand out too much in the picture and doesn't introduce unwanted contrast within the drawing's lines, if I'm making any sense. Anyway, you can do that simply by clicking on the transparent square near the colors.
The things the software vary the most on is textures and endless ways to editing the pic, and of course, how smooth the program works with brush strokes and editing them and huge files of canvas. But it all will come in time and you can learn about them easily to find what suits you the best by experimenting on them!
Here's links to more random art tips if any could help:
Art-ing attitude +Simple colour theory
Expressions and posing
Blur and blend
I hope this is of help in any way and I haven't confused you more x'
Wish you all the best, and cheering you on🙌🔥
Underrated post! I love the tips here!
Hi! I love your transparency / visual shift artwork, but I was wondering: how on earth do you do it? Mind sharing your secrets???
Here’s the quick explanation vvv and you can find the full tutorial >>> here!
Is there a website to look up models or people to draw, with gender, ethnicity, and age filters. (if possible)?
For example if a wanted to make a cartoon character realistic and use a real person for reference or to edit the photo to look like them?
I’ve been just googling white 20s male, black female 40s etc. (can’t find any good references for kids either) and been sifting through the results.
https://generated.photos/?ref=producthunt
https://generated.photos/faces
This site probably has what you’re looking for!
Look at what you can sort by!
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Unsplash - photography, illustration, and art
Pixabay - same as unsplash
Pexels - stock photos and videos
Stockvault.net - stock photos
freepngimg - icons, pictures and clipart
Veceezy - vectors and clipart
Kissclipart and kissPNG - more vectors and clipart (often transparent!)
Getdrawings - simplistic images and drawing tutorials
Gumroad - photoshop brushes (and more)
Canva - needs login but has lots of templates
Library of Congress - historical posters and photos
NASA - you guessed it
Creative Commons - all kinds of stuff, homie
Even Adobe has some free images
There are so many ways to make moodboards, bookcovers, and icons without infringing copyright! As artists, authors, and other creatives, we need to be especially careful not to use someone else’s work and pass it off as our own.
Please add on if you know any more sites for free images <3
Thanks for the information!!
I will reblog this everytime i see it
Ok so while we’re at this, I just checked out Unsplash, and it’s an AMAZING site for free images?
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