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@roymbrogart
I made a friend! Literally!
I finished this brushbuddy art doll earlier this week and he is very cute. It's got a wire armature inside and is fully posable, including the leather fingers and toes. (There are also magnets in the feet to potentially stick it to things later.)
Natural Black Hair Tutorial! Usually Black hair is excluded in the hair tutorials which I have seen so I have gone through it in depth because it’s really not enough to tell someone simply, “Black hair is really curly, draw it really curly.”
The next part of Black Hair In Depth will feature styles and ideas for designing characters and I will release it around February. If you would like to see certain styles, please shoot me a message!
YES! BOOSTINGGGG FOR MY FOLKS WHO WANNA/NEED TO KNOW HOW
Oops I never posted this art doll I made last year for a pathfinder oneshot. She's a ratfolk who willingly became a yaoguai for Reasons.
Hands, feet, and head are sculpted and attached to a wire armature with some clay on the limbs and torso for weight distribution and bulk. It was wrapped in quilt batting and covered with brown felt. The tail is wrapped in pink leather. I sewed the clothes from roughly modified doll patterns.
I tried to make posable ball joints for the hands and feet and fucked it up several times but they do work which is cool. There are also magnets inside of them so I can have her hold small magnetic objects. She can balance on one foot too!
However, don't ever use sculpey's air dry clay it's massive garbage and sticks to everything but itself. Literally had trouble painting because the dry clay would try to peel off onto the brush, like wtf is that. Stick to their polymer clays. Nara air dry clays >>>>> sculpey air dry.
Finally turned some of my favorite real brush and stamp textures into a custom brush pack!
This set includes 16 texture brushes (.abr) that work in Photoshop, Procreate, and Clip Studio Paint (v1.10.5+). They’re beginner-friendly and great for adding subtle grain, texture, and depth to digital artwork.
What’s included: ✦ 16 custom texture brushes ✦ 3 process video tutorials / time-lapse demos ☁️ Cloud ⭐ Shooting Star 🍳 Fried Egg ✦ 3 beginner-friendly step-by-step tutorials to follow along
The tutorials show how I use the brushes in actual illustrations so you can easily recreate the effects or adapt them to your own style!
✔️ Can be used in personal and commercial artwork ❗ Redistribution or reselling of the brushes themselves is not allowed.
If you have any issues downloading or installing the brushes, feel free to contact me with your receipt at [email protected].
You can find the brush pack in my shop! 🌙✨
Revising some of my horse drawing tips pages, starting with necks!
Corrected some muscle names and added more explanation/ method.
Hip page update!
Here are a couple more sections! Going to put all of these into a poster format soon
Thank you so much @andlightplay !!
Drew some vegetables to demonstrate Rebelle 8 pro's super thick paint in action.
More wing anatomy! gonna cover a variety of examples on dealing with foreshortened wings :) starting with this one
could you make a paw tutorial? like how you draw paws?
Looks more like a guide rather than a tutorial, but I hope it’s still helpful
Also, I made a similar post on anthro paws as well if you’re interested
Also, do you have any tips on poses and anatomy? Someone else mentioned it already, but your poses are so fluid and expressive!
posted this a good while back on twitter but heres a sketchy little diagram of what I focus on with poses
most of these are important in making appealing posing in animation. you can absolutley convey a characters personality, background, what theyre thinking through posing, something I try to strive for everytime I start a pose! I think keeping that in the back of your mind as you make a pose can make the world a difference in how expressive it comes out.
Im quite practiced in the fundamentals of art so this can occupy more of my brain as I draw, which brings me to the second point part:
from an anatomy standpoint your best bet is learning muscle and bone structure and applying that to gestured life drawing. I personally believe thats the most effective way to learn. yes even with cartoon characters with rubber hose limbs, knowing the rules to know how to break them is very important.
I personally love anatomy, but I understand this can get so boring, try not to burn yourself out with it, you should always have some play with your studying. if anything at least do gesture drawings, it may seem like a lot of work but its very helpful in the long run.
bonus foreshortening with cylindric tube method:
I've made a sheet of quick info and tips on drawing medieval european plate armour. You can view it on a screen or print it as a leaflet to keep in your sketchbook ✌
https://ko-fi.com/s/2096e0f063
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i'd like to add that the shadow color isnt necessarily dictated entirely by the primary light source, but the bounce light! so for the example of a sunny environment, the reason the shadows are blue are because of the light from the blue sky reflects across the environment; but, if the character were to be under tree cover, the bounce light would be coming from the leaves and thus the shadow would look greener.
Yee yee!!! You got it right on the nose!
Bounce light is something I didn't cover but I adore it!
Gotta work on my bounce light 💪
My good friends this is called using a
Gamut Mask
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James Gurney is an absolute master and gives really good clarity on colour techniques. Yes, it is traditional paint focused, but the principles are the same. Yes it is informed by the environmental colour but as a painting technique it is achieved this way!
I would also suggest that in digital processing, rather than apply a regular colour layer at a mid opacity, try out the different types of layers, Eg. Screen or Multiply. This can give you at least a starting point to help direct your colour palette.
Layer Blend Modes are so so so important to working in digital art. There's a ton of math that goes into figuring out how the layers should blend together, which is why some of the modes you can pick are literally called Multiply, Add, Divide, and Difference (that's subtraction). The graphics software takes the color values of your base and blend layers and runs a calculation to get your resulting layer appearance. The ones that don't have specifically mathematical sounding names are still doing calculations, but they're more complicated (think linear Algebra and higher). Some of them, like dodge and burn, are named for actual photo editing techniques.
While it's not super important to know about the mathematical side of blend modes, I think it's worth knowing at least enough about how each of the categories of blend modes works and why they do what they do; if for no other reason than having a starting point when you start experimenting with them in your work.
An overview of the basic blend modes and how they work from Genevieve's Design Studio: Accessible with minimal color knowledge; practical and illustration focused. https://youtu.be/kMc87hQrJd0?si=TWCB365pKSfWS8p0. (16 minutes) This creator also has a ton of free resources you can download, including a Blend Modes cheatsheet, but fair warning: you have to create an account to get them!
Want to learn even more about the math-y stuff? It has great film visuals! A video from FilmmakerIQ: You need some basic knowledge of RGB color models, understanding of values/luma, and at least a tenuous understanding of Algebraic formulas. (26 minutes) https://youtu.be/F7_kaTP7_W4?si=x0urqXZ8f51nQVKl
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this post has been up for five hours and has two notes. i think tumblr shitcanned it because it has pictures of women wearing bras on it. very cool. no censorship message, just vanishing it
AHHHHHH someone put all the info from the now-extremely-hard-to-read, 10+ year old bra post into one nice infograph! THAT POST WAS MY BOOB BIBLE. Yay Boob New Testament!
this post has been up for five hours and has two notes. i think tumblr shitcanned it because it has pictures of women wearing bras on it. very cool. no censorship message, just vanishing it
dragons
DRAGONS LOCATED
mini guide to comic lettering
Art is a sport
One common thing I see among artists who are just starting out is that they are very precious about their work -- ironically, way moreso than experienced artists. They need to get every line JUST right, because in their mind, getting that line just right is what stands between the piece being bad and it being good. I was like that too, for so long that I'm still struggling to catch up because of how it hampered my progress.
Being precious about every line is kind of like a track sprinter starting a run, but then restarting every time their foot lands in any slightly suboptimal way. This is comes off as silly, because we know that the "unit" of what they are doing is a sprint, and that they would make their greatest progress by finishing the full sprints, because that's how they train.
Well, similarly, the "unit" of art is a finished piece. What stands between the sprinter and the time they want isn't 1 individual step, but 1000 sprints. What stands between the beginner artist and making art they like the look of isn't that 1 line, but, i'm sorry to say, 1000 pieces.
Taking note of any mistakes you made afterwards is something done by both the experienced artist and experienced sprinter -- this is healthy and helps you improve. But you can do that later, after you're done.
That line is good enough.
New brush pack up on my gumroad!! reallyyyyyyy excited about these
pay what you want $0 minimum as usual
not sure how many people know this but if you love your sketches and find your lineart stiff, one of the first things you need to do is check if you lineart brush is heavy from the first pixel you attempt to draw. if there's drag lag (ie the brush starts considerably thinner or delayed and gets more opacity or heavier as you go), you'll draw lines very similarly to how you sketch
Okay I JUST realized I never posted these on here—- BUT BASICALLY, about a year and a half ago I started doing these experimental black hairstyle posts that were threads long on Twitter, to give artists a source of inspo for their black ocs whose hair they wanted to try something new with! There’s more to black hair than just the selected styles portrayed in media, and I thought it would be fun to show people how much texture, shape, fades, length, and style can be combined when drawing black hair—-cause it’s a kind of manipulation our hair can do irl! The OG posts were lost with the hacking of my original Twitter account (@/bagels_donuts) but I’ve since reuploaded the whole thread to my new Twitter (@/ItsDonutsFR)! I hope artists on tumblr find these useful, sorry it took me so long to post them here😭🙏🏾 I’ll upload them all in parts!
Part 1: Long masc hairstyles + playing with fades
