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Hey Im mexican this is my main blog and where I reblog whatever I find interesting 

[violainebriat]

tiny tutorial thing I meant to make for the people I sometimes help out on portefolios : ) just wanted to share perspective doesnt have to be a bugger, yknow ? 

[dinolich]

great advice! In storyboarding no one has the time to draw out full and complete perspective grids, these are great ways to get a sense of depth and field in a short amount of time.

[claire-sketches]

Great advice on perspective!

[modmad]

literally how I do the perspective in nearly all of my boards

[catbishonen]

can you do a tutorial on how you color your artwork? it's so pretty!! 😍🤩

this is not the best and only way to color but personally i think it’s easy and quite effective for beginner artists who are practicing setting the mood for an artwork or laying out ground work for more detailed illustrations

I’m using Clip Studio Paint for this drawing.

Step 1: The base color

Use magic wand and bucket tool to lay out the base color, you can use different layers for each colors to be more precise, and it’s easier to change the colors later on. I use mainly warm tones for my base color because i prefer the look of it. Step 2: Coloring the lineart

Use a clipping layer above the lineart layer to do this step (there are other ways of course, you can search for them online) Color the lines that isn’t intersected with the background, the inner lines. Especially the skin part to reduce stiffness of the lineart, also help adding shadows.

I usually draw the darkest shadow areas with my lineart so i can color them at the same time.

Step 3: Adding shadow

Group the lineart + base color into 1 big group. Add a clipping layer above that group. Switch the layer mode to “Multiply”. Add the shadow area using a desaturated/grayish hue of your choice to set the mood for the drawing.

Example:

If the mood you want is more broody, use more cool tones (blue, purple,..)

 If the mood is more festive or happy, use more warm tones

A drawing should consists both cool AND warm tones, other wise it would look dull. The second example has too much warm tones because the base color is already warm. 

Step 4: Add filter layers/adjustment layers

This is where the magic happens. Enhance your art work by adding more Multiply and Overlay layers, set the mood as you like it to look, balancing the tones, play around. I wanted this particular drawing to have an overall cold feeling to it, so I added a blue multiply layer

Adding light with a beige overlay layer, using the airbrush with low opacity. This also help creating contrast between the shadow and light areas

But wait,,, it looks,,,,,, it looks too sad!! they are comforting each other after a terrible situation! Adam is not dead! I need another warm multiply layer!

There, it’s now finished.  Quick tip: If your colors are looking off/doesn’t go well with each other, group everything and add a beige multiply layer on top! It would look better instantly! Learning color theory, color harmony also helps A LOT!! find tutorials and study from the masters! Good luck with your art, Anon!

[cmirael]

man i just rly adore ur colors!! how do u go about choosing them? urs fit really well with the mood while also still remaining like they fit the color palette of a character. i feel mine end up super boring 😓

Hello anon, thank you for asking, I’ll try to explain my process, and I hope it makes sense!

Once I have some lineart done, I usually just put down some colours, they don’t have to be accurate, but they still fit the characters. It’s messy, and I use a brush that blends too, so some of the colours mix together. 

Gradient maps/sets are great, I use them all the time on every piece. You can also just put down a lot of different colours on a picture, and work on it that way. 

I use a lot of gradients, to help me build up interesting colours. Even though it may not show in the end result, it is a start, a base, that I can continue to build on. A strong base of colours is your goal, whether they are soft or saturated. 

It doesn’t seem like much, but there is a difference, and even a little bit of a colour change can help you along. You can be very subtle or very bold with your choice of colours and gradients, there really isn’t a wrong answer. 

The difference between these two pictures, is that I used some more gradients + a multiply layer to add shadows. I love warm, dark colours. I’m not a professional artist, and when I work on a picture, I tend to go with what looks good, rather than what looks realistic. I put down colours and shade in ways that I personally find interesting, even if it isn’t totally accurate

Here’s an example of my layers. I build my colours using gradient maps/sets/overlays/screens, etc. Experiment with colours, learn some colour theory, even if you only know a little bit, it can help. I erase what I don’t like from a gradient, and keep what I do like. I always check my original layers and make sure I don’t lose colours that I find interesting. I work those colours back into the picture. 

From here, I paint, and just work on the picture using the colours and shadows I have made. It can be messy, or neat, whatever you feel is best for your art. 

Add effects, additonal colours, edits, whatever you like, it’s all up to you! I hope this helps at least a little, and I’m sorry if it’s confusing at all. 

[nonetoon]

Made a tutorial on how I do my sprite/pixel art stuff for 1 Cup of Magic! I apologize for any typos I was kinda working on this late and I think my brain was buffering a bit. 

[neilsanders]

Hi! I love you random doodle animations! I'm learning animation myself, but doing walk cycles are pretty hard, do you have any tips?

For me animating a walk is about figuring out four poses for each step, eight drawings to get a cycle of both legs stepping and looping back to the start. Each of these poses serves a specific purpose, when I’m doodling quick walks I’ll usually just do these eight poses and I can quickly see if it works or not.

The first pose is the contact position. This is what many people will consider the drawing that best illustrates someone walking, It’s the stride pose where the front foot is thrust forward and just touching the ground and the back foot is about to lift off. Think of the Johnny Walker whisky logo (a classic purposeful stride).

The second is the down position. This is the pose where the front foot takes the weight and generally the body will drop into the pose. The main thought that drives me when I’m thinking about this pose is how heavy is my character and how fit are they. If they’re weak they’ll sag into it, but if they’re fit they’ll cushion into it like a coiled spring. It’s also a good single pose for an illustration of someone feeling sad, tired or angry (STOMP STOMP STOMP).

The third pose is the passing position, this pose is about the legs crossing over and swapping, one straight and the other passing through. It’s purpose is to clearly show the audience that the legs are crossing and when someone gets this wrong it will look more like the character is hopping or shimmying forward without swapping legs. It’s not an illustrative single drawing that I’d ever show alone, when you see it in photography it looks awkward and odd.

The fourth post is the up position, the push off to throw the body and leg up and forward into the next step. Like the down pose it’s based on weight and energy, with energy being the biggest driver of thinking for me. It’s a great single pose for illustrating someone who’s happy and bouncing along (Singing a happy song in their head).

Have a look below to see some of my silly approaches to walks. When I’m figuring these out I’ll either work through the poses straight ahead (in order) or begin with one pose and get it right for both feet first then go from there. Most people recommend working on the contacts first, then the passing positions, then the downs and ups but I just figure it out as I go based on which piece of the puzzle unlocks in my imagination first. Very expressive walks or runs will often begin with the downs and ups. The first drawing is what unlocks it for me as looking at it sparks my imagination in being able to picture how it’ll flow. It could be either the contact (stride: busy, confident, anxious), down (stomp or slump: heavy, angry, depressed etc), or the up postion (bouncy: happy, light, drifting, etc).

It’s all about personality.

If you want more grab a copy of “The Animators Survival Kit” by Richard Williams, or “Animated Performance” by Nancy Beiman. Richard’s book is wonderful for technical knowledge and is very set on how things should be done. Nancy’s book is more about learning the basics and then finding your own way with a focus on acting and expressing yourself rather than copying the work of others. I love and regularly revisit both and found Richard’s really valuable in the beginning to get professional looking results early (general rules and copying the work of professionals) and Nancy’s to help with feeling free to play and find my own voice! I have played around with developing a short course in the past, maybe I’ll make a skillshare or online course for it some time.

[zubneo]

the process!

[wonemie]

another art tutorial post :) this time it’s for rainbow effects

[livinthefuture3000]

livinthefuture wallpapers [2/2]

[merrigo]

dream workspaces #109281

[chuwenjie]

summer’s almost over so here’s some summer themed drawings~

[nibu-i]

The concept of this one drawing was "Loneliness". The smoke represents memories you once shared with other people that can not be touched nor felt again as the smoke fades, but just because you can not have it it doesn't mean that it didn't exist at the time and should be held precious. The rabbit head represents loneliness as a devil and belongs to my series of emotion-devils that can be found on Instagram using the hashtag #Nibuidevils

[owlhouseismyhome]

[pixiescout]

Sunlight

[inkwell-attitude]

all the tips I found for drawing a fantasy map are like :) “here’s a strategy to draw the land masses! here’s how to plot islands!” :) and that’s wonderful and I love them all but ??? how? do y'all decide where to put cities/mountains/forests/towns I have my map and my land but I’m throwing darts to decide where the Main Citadel where the Action Takes Place is

[fatal-blow]

okay so i know i said most of this in the replies but it might be easier to actually reblog and say stuff instead lmao

Cities - go near water!  freshwater lakes and rivers (rivers especially) are the best places for cities because A) source of water and B) travel and trade is much easier cus you can put your boats like right there.  Basically ever relevant city ever was built on a lake or a river.

for rivers in general - because gravity, rivers run from mountains (forming from melting snow and ice (this is why they get fat in spring–more stuff melting)) to lakes/ocean where they can empty out (and even lakes will have rivers leading out that eventually get to the ocean), which can help when mapping out where those start and end.  rivers are also much thinner and faster in steeper elevations and very slow and wide when the land is flat

mountains - i like to think of what the tectonic plates look like because that’s what makes mountains!  mountains are also never standalone they’re always in mountain ranges (archipelagos are really just underwater mountain ranges babey).  a cool trick I like to do is occasionally separate mountain ranges across continents, because over time the tectonic plates shifted and literally split the range in half.  These mountains are really old tho so they’ve eroded and therefore it makes them smaller and rounder (like the appalachians) as opposed to relatively young mountain ranges like the rocky mountains which have taller and sharper peaks

Another mountain trick: if your mountains run along the ocean, the ocean side of the mountains will get a LOT of rain while the other side will be very dry–almost desert-like, in fact.  think of temperate rainforests in British Columbia vs the drier conditions in the canadian prairies

forests - depends on how warm the area might be.  coniferous forests are found further north (before you hit the tree line, and then it’s only tundra onwards) but as you head south you get leafier trees, and the leaves tend to get larger too

If you think about general elevation too, you’ll have places that might be swampy (wet + lower).  if your world has an ice age like we did, then glaciers may have carved the land, leaving piles of soil in the south that was left when the ice receded and places where the bedrock has been bared north of that (like the Canadian Shield in Canada–the reason we see that is because of the glaciers)

You might also have a land that’s dotted in a shitton of freshwater lakes as well because the meltwater filled the holes that the glaciers scraped out (this is why canada has so many goddamn lakes)

and if the ice age was more recent than it was in our world, then you might not even have the forest re-growth and it could be a lot of open plains

tl;dr i like to think of major climate events that might have also shaped the land on top of some basic rules

[possiblypedanticrpgideas]

The Artifexian has an entire series on building your world from literally the stars down and then the ground up.

Worldbuilding Videos - YouTube

All my worldbuilding videos

Though, for fantasy, you can make the world operate on entirely different principles:

With that done, the actual topic of city placement can be covered by videos like this:

Or

Once you have your places, if you want help naming them in realistic ways, this video can help:

This one is on architecture, which is definitely a subset of cities:

But for a more relevant practical guide on making settlements realistic:

Here’s a quick guide for making demographics:

[inkwell-attitude]

holy shit?

[bunjywunjy]

do you have any cursed/blessed harris hawk facts?

Harris’s Hawks are the only pack-hunting raptor on the planet! they go after rabbits with tactics similar to those found in a pack of wolves, driving it away from cover until one of them can go down and nab it.

this also means they’re more social than other hawks, and will do things like stand on each other’s backs or hold hands for no reason

[tel358]

[art-res]

Launching the Visual Reference Board Generator

Check it out at https://artres.xyz/references/!

I wanted to make something to complement https://artres.xyz/ideas/. 

Spent all day figuring out how to make a Masonry layout in CSS & call images from Unsplash! It’s mildly buggy and sometimes people tag things kinda weird on Unsplash so it’s not perfect yet. 

Unsplash is neat because the photographers donate their images so you can use them as a reference without attribution. Of course, I definitely encourage you to go to the site and give the photographers your support. 

Current list of topics it generates visual reference boards for:

Truly Random

Environments / Landscapes

Random Environments/ Urban only / Natural only

Perspective Practice

Textures and Patterns

Cloth

Color Inspiration

Animals

Humans

Sports

Food & Drink

Here’s a preview of what it does:

Hope you enjoy it!

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[art-res]

Updated a few of the boards to hopefully reduce image redundancy and make them more relevant and exciting!

[art-res]

On spring break so hopefully will be able to add cool features soon!!