Some notes I put together for my CDA Class. Just stuff that I use. Take with grain of salt.
Jules of Nature

Love Begins
let's talk about Bridgerton tea, my ask is open

祝日 / Permanent Vacation
todays bird

tannertan36
he wasn't even looking at me and he found me

Andulka

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DEAR READER
Show & Tell

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Sade Olutola

pixel skylines
art blog(derogatory)

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oozey mess
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Some notes I put together for my CDA Class. Just stuff that I use. Take with grain of salt.
Color Theory
秘密なんていくらでも持っているものでしょう
Legs Study-Tutorial Thingy by Scarletfrost
Tree Tutorial v1
… AND THAT IS THE WAY I MAKE FIRE! Simple and messy “how to gry”. I will add quick smoke tutorial / step by step too Just wait. \o/ EDIT: Sorry for small images >8C I am not good with tumblr image sizes and I have never understood them. But by copying the image URL you can see bigger sized images!
art resources, fire
Awesome! thanks grypwolf
Summer Smoothies - Submitted By ghostpigeon
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So to those that might not get many asks or just dont know what pose they might want to do here is the Palette-Pose Maker!!
Palette: [x] Poses: a/b/c/d/e/f/g/h
And I think it goes without saying that if you get a number+letter that dont exist pick again!
PLEASE DO NOT REMOVE THE TOP PART OR THE CREDITS
♥ Hi! Animal Crossing mugs are finally available again (shop at Mon Amie)! The first design has been updated and there is now a second design featuring more AC friends ♥
For Noel! <3
hoonding replied to your post: realtalk ive been drawing wings with v…
yeah your wings are pretty fukkin rad i really need to learn from you on this subject tbh because mine are schiesse
overly simplified method: draw red zigzag first
important structure reference for when you’re actually putting the feathers on:
i mostly cheat and just scribble so much you cant see me fucking up the actual feathers but yeah im lazy
i’m in friend love with all of you
u gay
macklemore didn’t die in a thrift shop for this
If a needed background element competes unduly with a character for attention, contain it within a shape or grouping of other objects.
The idea here is to direct the readers’ attention to the most important part, without leaving out less important parts that enrich the scene. We may do this by isolating the most important part from the rest, and grouping the trivial parts together so that they won’t be a distraction.
Hey, I wanted to ask how you do transparencies for your lighting when drawing a scene, I kind of suck at backgrounds and would love your advice! btw cute profile pic!
Oops sorry late response. I was busy with a stupid report for this illustration project -___- Okay so Im really new to doing backgrounds, something I’ve only recently started to look into and this hardly counts as a background but yeah. Last semester I took a illustration course for the first time and it was amazing. I learned a lot of things I never even considered. One of them being this tool. Fucking Polygonal Lasso tool. I never used it, i always used the free style lasso but this is damn useful for lighting and shadows. This is what the scene looks like without any lighting. The two light sources will come from the outside of the two windows but for now I’ll just do one.
I used the polygonal lasso tool to create this shape around my light source. Used the gradient tool from yellow -> transparent
This is what it looks like with the line work,
With the other background colours, make sure the light layer is on top of all the other colours.
I did the same for the shadow of the boxes, just remember which direction your light source is coming from. And at this point the yellow light layer transparency is on normal.
But you play around with them, and mess around with the opacity, I used ‘Lighten’ at 53% opacity and viola. I also erased the light that was sticking out of the box. I have no other advice lol because I’m still super new to this but yeah. POLYGONAL LASSO TOOL.
Tuesday Tips - 2 Basic Storyboarding Rules Here’s 2 tips that are so simple it hurts when I forget them. In the process of re-boarding over and over, they can be lost in the shuffle sometimes. Drill these 2 tips into your head! -Norm
Thanks my awesome animooter frand Ju Li Khaw who is Supreme Emperor of Motion.
I’ve been getting a lot of asks lately about the brushes and textures I use in my work, so here’s a BIG FAT REFERENCE POST for those of you who were curious! Bear in mind that I’m really lazy and don’t know what half the settings do, so don’t be afraid to experiment to figure out what works best for you :>
BRUSHES
Pencil I use the pencil tool with SAI’s native paper texture both for sketching and for applying opaque color with no blending. Lower opacities give it the feel of different pencil hardnesses, while full opacity makes it more like a palette knife, laying down hard-edged, heavy color for detail work or eventual blending with other brushes. Ink Pen Mostly made this because I’m lazy and I didn’t want to have to keep turning my textures off/opacity up when I wanted to ink something (even though I don’t do it very often), or lay down flat colors. I find the line quality to be much more crisp than Photoshop, and you can manually adjust in-program stabilization to help smooth out hand wobbles. Round Brush The plain ol’ brush tool acts as sort of an in-between for me in terms of brush flow. It’s heavier than my usual workhorse brush, for faster color application and rough blending, but not as heavy as the pencil tool, which has no blending at all. I like to use the canvas texture on this brush to help break up the unnatural smoothness that usually accompanies digital brushes, but it works just fine without. Flat Brush A brush tool set to flat bristle is by far my favorite to paint with. I don’t use any textures with it because I think the shape of the brush provides enough of that by itself. I use it for everything from rough washes to more refined shaping and polish. It’s just GREAT.
Watercolor Best used for smooth blending, washes, gradients, and smoky atmospheric effects. Cloud Basically a grittier version of the watercolor tool, because too much smoothness weird me out. Good for clouds and fog, as the name suggests, or just less boring gradient fills.
TEXTURE OVERLAY
To further stave off the artificially smooth look of digital painting, I almost always overlay some sort of paper texture, and it’s almost always this one, which I scanned and edited myself. You’re all welcome to use it, no permission required!
Using overlays in SAI is just as easy as using them in Photoshop. Just paste the texture into its own layer above everything you want it to apply to, and change the layer mode to Overlay. That’s it!
Want a more prominent texture? Up the contrast. Something more subtle? Lower the contrast or reduce the layer opacity. You can also use a tinted overlay to adjust the overall palette and bring a little more color unity to an otherwise disparate piece! Just be aware that too much texture can hurt the readability of the work beneath it, so I’d err on the side of subtlety.
Hope that helps!
-L