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1. Ah Fai was a chief animator for McDull’s animated features. He’s super cool. Ultimate senpai.

2. Previous post on breakdowns right here

Some thoughts on acceleration and force

I presented this in the order of how I slowly understood the trick of delivering force - first an abstract concept of impact taught by Ah Fai, then a more complicated discovery on the acceleration pattern, last back to a more abstract concept of breakdowns.

Like I’ve previously stressed, 2D animation is everything but one single approach. There’s no one rule that rules them all, but interchangeable ideas with math, or physics, or music, etc. There’s no “perfect” animation either, but what is perceived as organic and dynamic. E.g., using the Fibonacci numbers to animate didn’t bring me a perfect animation! On the other hand, a tiny change in the pattern could already make the feeling of force so much more powerful.

Not so much of a tutorial than a personal experience. I hope you find this interesting hahaha

#animation

mhaikkun

Hey mhai, how do you shade your noses? I have trouble with that, especially in the front view D:

hello! I made a quick little tutorial to show how I color noses generally! of course, it all depends on the lighting of your piece, but this is pretty basic

so start by drawing your nose and coloring it in!

when it comes to painting, I like adding a new layer and clip it to the base, so that when I paint it doesn’t go over the colored area!

I also made noses a little red, so pick a color that’s slightly redder than the skin tone you’ve got

add a little shadow at the bottom!

highlights are also really important! they help make shapes look more three-dimensional

lastly, I always use my watercolor brush to lightly add tones of red to the lineart where there’s skin

voila! a nose!!!! I hope I was able to help!

#tutorial #faces #noses

momokrys

also ss’d the process of the xy cheebs for fun~ one of these take me around 4 hours… i’m a turtle…

click >here< to see all the pokemon trio cheebs!

#process #cute!!

okolnir

I made a new video! cloud 9 drawing process from start to finish. Art is here! http://okolnir.net/post/150694746772/

http://shilin.deviantart.com http://twitter.com/okolnir

#process #speedpaint

artistsaurio

Heads up PayPal is changing ToS again

And they are getting even more strict when it comes to not using invoices for charging for Digital Goods.

Whatever Invoices make you uncomfortable or not, you gotta start using them if you want to keep your PayPal and your money. Changes starting this October 19th.

Honestly I don’t get why so many artists are so overwhelmed by invoices, takes just a few clicks to set up.

And is not only “oh you have to use invoices because PayPal says so” if you don’t use invoices you’re putting yourself at risk of being scammed by an user abusing the buyer’s protection.

Since PayPal ain’t got no idea of what those $50 you received were for, but the buyer is saying they didn’t got anything for the money, PayPal will just side with the buyer.

I’m seriously begging ppl, start using invoices. I’m tired of seeing ppl complain their paypal was banned, or is under investigation, or worse, the $100 they got for a very complicated commission, 3 months later get a refund issue.

just

start

using

invoices

for your own sake.

Here is how you use invoices because I can’t keep playing devil’d advocate, yes I would love to help you get your PayPal restored but just this last month I had to help three persons, and they were MORE than aware of this issues.

Just protect yourself.

Step 1. You login and click here

Step 2. You click create new Invoice. YOU NEVER CLICK REQUEST MONEY, unless you want to risk yourself to get scamer by buyer’s protection exploit and not only lose your money but your paypal account, and any future paypal linked to your irl name.

Step 3 You follow this steps

1. Invoice for amount only

2. Ask your client for their PayPal email and put in that field

3. Add a vague description of what you’re doing, something like “Character Coloured with Background” is good enough, and if you need more than 1 character you can type in “2″ where it says amount, or just say “2 characters”.

Warning: don’t type in “Naruto rawing Sasuke”. That will get you banned.

4. Click send.

Optional steps. Create a template, doesn’t take more than 10 minutes and it will save you a lot of time for future invoices, you can even click on “items” right next to “create invoice” and add a list of services you offer such as “character sketch” “character flats” along with a price, so next time you invoice you just add to the invoice from your list of items and you saved yourself some more time.

More importantly, you protect yourself from buyer’s protection exploit because if PayPal knows you’re doing digital goods, then you will be allowed that you did in fact created a digital good.

Keep PayPal happy, as for right now there are no alternatives to this service, and this is the only source of income for many freelancers.

Stay safe.

awkwardtimezone

Heads up, all commissioning artists

#important #paypal #commissions

japhers

there are so many more effective, consistent and convenient ways to do this but I usually go about it the basic way mostly because detailing lace can be so therapeutic most of the time lmao

#MMMMMM #clothes #GOOD SHIT

maruti-bitamin

Reference Books

Just to answer some questions in regards to reference books and such, this is the series I like to use the most.

If you google “背景ビジュアル資料” (Haikei visual siryou), you can find quite a few places that sell it. The particular one I’m using right now is Vol. 2, but there are many different installments with a variation of themes. <: (170pg-ish of photos)

#backgrounds #!!

maruti-bitamin

Shipping 12" x 18" Prints

Info post!

Recently a few people have asked me about shipping large format prints, so here is how I tend to mail things.

1. Materials: 1 piece of 12 x 18 foamcore, 1 plastic sleeve, washi tape, packing tape, 48" wide kraft paper (Around 80lb)

*The kraft paper is bought in yards, so I tend to buy 10yd at a time and it can make about 20 envelopes. *The 12" x 18" foamcore has been cut from a piece of 32"x40" sheet. (It makes about 5 backings.)

Keep reading

#shipping #ohhhh :0c

maruti-bitamin

A Small Scanning Tutorial

For TGA-Tsurugi and a few others who inquired about scanning in and editing traditional media. There are, of course, many ways of going about it, but this is what has worked best for me personally.

Here is the comparison of a blurry photo and a scan of an image.

Scanner Model: Canon LiDE 35 (8 years old now:D) Photoshop (7 or CS both works)

1. To obtain the scan, I set the scanner mode at 300dpi on Colour Photo.

2. Go to Settings-> Set Fading Correction to “Hard" (On default, images can scan in quite faded, so setting it to hard can reduce colour loss. But keep in mind, it will pick up all the dust and sometimes over-saturate the colours but that can be easily fixed.)

3. Everything else on the scanner, I leave at default, and scan.

4. Once image is obtained, I will clean off all the unwanted dust and textures in Photoshop with eraser and healing brush.

5. Now to adjust the colours.

6. For altering brightness, I go to Image->Adjustment->Curves. On RGB, there are 4 channels. RGB itself is great at adjusting the light and dark. (Move the curve around with your mouse to test it out.)

7. For other colour adjustments, you can use the 3 other channels in Curves. (Red, Green, Blue.)

8. As mentioned before, scanning pictures under "hard” fading correction can oversaturate. To fix that, go to Images->Adjustment->Hue/Saturation.

9. In the menu, there should be “Master” and also 6 other colours. You can choose to adjust the image entirely, or adjust selective colours.

And that’s pretty much the process for obtaining and editing a scan. 8)

Hope that helps!

#scans

idahlrillion

This is how I draw hands. I simplify the shape and then later I will add the necessary details. It makes it easier to get them right. But the only way to learn how to draw hands is to just keep drawing them.

#anatomy #hands

anatoref

More How To Draw Manga - Vol. 4: Mastering Bishoujo Characters

#hands #expression #gestures

eighty-percent-takumi

Fellow Clip studio user!!! Please bestow your brushes upon me!! (please uwu)

Sure!! :D

I use brushes from here and here!

(read more)

Keep reading

#brushes #clip studio

panic-doodles

#eyes

teesshinystuff

20 ways to draw a more consistent character

TAKEN FROM HERE: https://sites.google.com/site/houseotwisted/junk/20drawings

1. Draw the most common appearance for your character. This is your comfort zone. (Color)

2. Draw your character from the front, the side, and the back. This is something called a ‘turn sheet’. It’s a little boring to do, but will be very helpful to you in the future to have on hand.

3. Draw your character from the front, the side, and the back, but have them in nothing but their undies at most. This is to show off how your character is built. Drawing nothing but a straight pant-leg with no structure under it is no way to learn! (Skip this if your character doesn’t wear clothes)

4. Draw your character at three different ages than they currently are. (Must be noticeably different. No ages: 4, 5, and 6, etc.) Color one of them.

5. BANG! Your character just heard a loud noise right behind them. Draw their reaction!

6. Draw a bird’s eye view of your character.

7. Draw your character feeling very happy. Show body language.

8. Draw your character feeling very angry. Ditto.

9. Draw your character feeling very sad. You know the drill.

10. Draw your character with a different body type than they usually have. This helps you map distinguishing features onto different ‘templates’.

11. Draw your character if they were the opposite gender.

12. Draw your character as a different species than they normally are.

13. Somebody has just handed your character a live duck. Draw their reaction. Keep them in character.

14. Mary Sue the HELL out of your character. (Due to being asked “What is Mary Sue?” several times, I have included a link to the evil that is Sue: [Click if you dare.]

15. Draw your character lifting something heavy. (no magic allowed!)

16. Draw your character in an opposite role than they appear in your story/continuity.

17. Draw your character doing something they enjoy.

18. Draw your character doing something they do NOT enjoy.

19. Draw your character in a dynamic pose that is not a profile shot (from the side).

20. Draw the most common appearance for your character. Color it. (Pssst! See if it improved from the first one you drew. I bet it did!)

#character #character design #practice