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A master post of Thomas Romainās art tutorials.
Thereās not enough space to post all of them, SO hereāsĀ links to everything he has postedĀ (on twitter)Ā so far : 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12.Ā
Now that new semesters have started, I thought people might need these.Ā Enjoy your lessons!
God Bless
Some tumblr tips for artists
ā¢ only the first five tags are serchable so make um count.
ā¢Some of the most popular art related tags are #art, #illustration, #design, and #artists on tumblr.
ā¢ If you put a link in your post it wonāt appear in serch results
ā¢ The best time to post seems to be from around 8pm to midnight east coast time
ā¢ socialize with other artists. Comments and asks are appreciated by a lot of us, and being friendly will encourage others to check out your stuff
Thank you for sharing these tips @evan-bryant! Really great stuff to keep in mind!
I did not know that about the tags!
psa to all my artfriends looking to get more traction with their art!
Me : trying to put hastag like that but only 10% people saw my blog
A quick coloring practice tip I made for Patreon
Comic | Patreon | Tip
Air Force of the Future 19 - Dropships
This is Lake Braies in Italy. Itās stunning. (Source)
HIIRAREFS: Basic and Intermidiate guide to colouring in
What better day to end the year then with a basic guide to colouring- This is for beginners or intermediate artists. Colouring is a big part to an art piece, whether you decide to use colours or not, thatās up to you, but for the most part, having some knowledge on appliance of colour will really help you out!
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ARTISTS WITH AN INSPIRING KNOWLEDGE OF COLOUR APPLICATION! Please take the time to have a look at other artists work so that you ca research and get inspired!
Gullacass: Uses brights, dulls and pastels to create brilliant guro, pop and macabre pieces| DA + TUMBLR
TinyCalcium: Old friend of mine who explores brights and mustard colours and places them as a foundation for their work | TUMBLR
BeastPop: Talented with opposing and Triwheel colours. Outstanding cell-shading, and knows how to flexibly bend colour form to their will in popart. | DA
H0stel: Fantastic composition of light direction and applies colour to bodies based on ambient occlusion. | TUMBLR
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COLOUR SLANG: I use some strange slang to express colour types and shades as well as groups. Although they may not be canonically correct, I will use these terms to describe colour palates to the best of my ability! Analogous: Colours that are near or adjacent to each other on the colour wheel, EG: Red and Orange
Oppositional/complimentary: Colours that are opposed or opposite from each other on the colour wheel, EG: Cherry and Green
Triadic: Colours that form a triangle on the Colour wheel, EG: Cyan, Magenta and Yellow. These three colours when mixed together will make black.
Arrowtype/Quadcolour: Four colours, that generally form an arrow shape on the colour wheel.
Tetradic: Colours that form a rectangle or square in the colour wheel
Neons: The very brightest you can get a colour, be careful where you use them as they can look ugly together at the most. Try to use neons when you are adding bright glowing objects to your piece. Neons are great for highlights.
Brights: Slightly washed Neons. Appropriate if you have characters that are colourful.
Washed: Very washed brights with a hint of grey. These are also useful for colourful characters.
Pastels: Colour with white in them to make them seem light.
Baby Pastel: Pastel with even more white in them, good for subtle highlights.
Darks: Colour with black added to them. Used mostly for lineart.
Mustards: Colours with dark grey added to them
Earthen: Colours with brown added to them
Warm and Cool colours: Warm colours are colours that range fromMagenta to Yellow. Cool ones range from Lime to Fuchsia.
Straight tones: A greyscale palate. or a straight scale of one colour from black to itās neon form.
Warm and cool tones: Warm tones are a greyscale mixed with warm colours and cool tones are greyscale mixed with cool colours.
Skintones: Warm washed or pastel colours generally used to colour in skin, but they donāt have to be warm at all! ( I will not show you a palate for this however)
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WHAT TO AVOID WHEN COLOURING: beginner artists, tend to go ahead and start by colouring their line art with neon and mustard colours. Neons are not necessarily good for base colours unless the character has a glow.
I often see lazy attempts to shade, often a beginner artist with use an airbrush and use black and white to shade and highlight their piece. This is not very effective, and Iām sorry to sayā¦ Itās kind of gross as well. Try to avoid being lazy. If you have a piece that has bold black lines, avoid using soft shading and airbrushing at this point of time.
Black and white isnāt always the best option when colouring in your piece, but it also depends on the style you are trying to convey. If you plan on only using straight tones to colour in a piece, black and white is good.
A GOOD BASIC WAY TO COLOUR For this basic tutorial I will show you a nice way to colour in a piece with bold lines. I will be using Mintyās Classic character as an example.
Begin with using brights that have been washed down a little and washed skin tones if your character is human based. Avoid using neons or mustards if you are able. If there is white on the character, such as the white on an eyeball or the teeth, consider using baby pastels. For Mintyās eyeballs I have used a baby pastel blue. I have chosen to use a darker and more washed version for her Irises.
With you foundation colours placed down, use a washed warm colour for the skin tone, such as a salmon. If the characterās hair or fur is warm coloured, use a pink or red orange to shade that as well. Use the cell shading technique. This may mean you will have to erase some of your shading so be sure to do this on another layer. For your baby pastels, you can use a regular pastel to shade it. For Mintyās eyes I have used pastel blue and lowered the opacity by a little.
For Highlights, I have chosen to use baby pastel yellow. I wanted the piece to be warm.
Applying a light airbrush over the top of the piece makes it feel a little softer. I have also applied the airbrush over the initial borders to create colour bleed, giving a very subtle reflective approach.
Colouring your line art layer, particularly if you have bold lines, can really make a piece look more interesting! I like to leave the overall outline black. You can gradient and bleed colour in your line art as well
Light tracing is a technique lots of artistās use, where they run a sharp line of highlight next to line art to divide borders.
This looks a lot nicer than the black and white shading, doesnāt it!? __________________________________________
This is a very very simple guide to applying colour to your piece! If This helped, please reblog and share this guide around!
If you have any questions or feedback, donāt be afraid to send me a message!
I legit have no idea why i did this-
feel free to use it- but pls credit me ^^ā
Luciusās face basically opens up like a flower~! As I said before, he secretes a sweet enzyme that drugs his prey/sexual partner and induces a state of euphoria~! ššø
An artist : Aw man! I saw my arts were reposted on Instagram. Iāve asked them to take my arts down but they ignored me.
Me : Say no more! Click this link,Ā then clickĀ āfill out this formā. Fill the form and wait for about 1-2 days, the staffs will remove the image you were reporting from the reposterās account :^)
hope you donāt mind me adding some more info :āD
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Usually links to those forms can be found on websiteās Terms of Service pages. (search for copyright or DMCA)
Any content youāve created, is copyrighted by you. You have full right to ask staff to delete repost. Your works deserve to be protected. ā„
Some pointers I keep in mind while drawing difficult angles. Posted these on twitter last month.
archbishop for the next arc of carciphona. I like it now but Iām sure Iāll cry about it when time comes for me to draw her 400 times in comic panels haHAA
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Studying Trees by Fabian Rensch
geekysideburns replied to your post: Iām having a hard time noā¦
Have you gotten to reference layers yet because OMG.
WAT IS THAT
Hereās what Iām trying to say in gif form. I rambled insanely.
The blue layer is set to reference.
Then you can do this.
And this.
Ohhhhhh that is so cool :O :OĀ :O
OMG!!!!Ā Youāve just shaved like 2+ hours off my work!!
THANK YOU!!!!!!!!!Ā ā„ ā„ ā„
So I just wanted to show some tricks that will improve your webcomic/comic;
So down below we have a quick random page-sketch, if you ask me, itās really easy to follow and hereās the fundamentals as to why:
1: Comics are Theatre
So a thing to remember that will put a zing on your comics is to have people do gestures, notice below how how the two characters are using their body language along with the second most expressive body part; The hands.
Reason why I say that people should remember Comics as Theatre is because on stage the actors had to do wide expressive motions with their bodies to convey to an audience that could be sitting far away on who is talking and what their mood is. ( this is why William Shatner is so expressive and all over the place during Star Trek. Because he was used to be on theatre.)
If you do notice in movies however, you can spot that the body language is kept subtle. This is because with movies you can get close to the actor and notice the changes in their faces and small things like fidgeting with their fingers to express restlessnessā¦. in comics, this is super hard to express the latter and you could accidentally end up with just characters standing right up in a pose ( i see a lot of new comic artists trying to convey the subtleness of a movie into a comic, and it endsā¦.pretty boring.)
TL;DR: Ā try to express your characters like an actor of stage would! Donāt be shy and donāt let them be it either. Youāll have so fun, trust me. Ā
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2: Remember the 180!
so a lot of people talk bout the 180, and I never got it at first tilā i began looking it up. Basically what it means is that two characters or a scenery should always be presented on being on the same side of the page (unless you had a middle panel showing the 90 degree turn of the subject/people.) Notice how the two characters stay on the same side through the page but the left one. It will help the reader to know who is who, and thats A and B when making a comic! TL;DR: Try to keep everything on the same side at all times unless you show a panel with a 90 degrees turn before going to 180.Ā ==========================================================
3: Ayo snake! you cute as hell
This oneās easy! Imagine a snake slithering over yo page ( itās a nice snek) and you follow it with your eye. Make your reader follow the snakes path as well! No but seriously; Try to always make panels and compositions so that they point to the next panel! Ā Be it via speech-bubbles or characters or environment. Notice how each panel literally guides you to the next. Character A looks to the right while character B looks down to the left, where her gaze hits the end of that panel which is compositioned to guide you down into the fourth panel, where char A almost points with her eyebrows and arms to the fifth ( which goes from top left to bottom right due to character Bās angle. Then just put speech-bubbles in the path and voila! The snake b slitherināā¦waitā¦..Slytherinā¦ohā¦
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Sizes are everything
Super easy but some forget; Remember to always have the smaller character be smaller than whats bigger than them. Donāt try to flip around and improvise sizes for the sake of trying to get an impact out of it ( unless they get further and further away). Oft it just messes the readerās perception of size in the comic if you experiment too much and they get taken out of it early and will just end up reading text on pictures.Ā SO this was just some quick tips, hope yall try these tricks out the next time you make a comic c: cheers <3
i donāt know whatās cooler tbh:Ā
Demon horns being broken halos from when they were angels.Ā
Demons willingly grow their own halos, but never complete the circle to symbolize their rebellion against heavenās strict order.Ā
In addition to the second one, angels are GIVEN their halos rather than earning them. Demons like Lucifer rebelled for freedom and individuality, thus demon horns all look different compared to an angelās boring halo.
Horns are useful tools, but if you join them into a circle they become useless badges of authority.
And the thing about wearing a badge is that you become a symbol of someone else. Youāre not you, youāre an extension of the entity whose authority youāre borrowing. You canāt be yourself until you ditch it
Hereās a visual representation of angels and demons.
I figure that as angels, theirĀ āhornsā would glow when connected to become traditional halos. However, this blinds the angel with heavenly light, making the angel rely on Godās guidance.
Angels who break their halos become demons, and willingly grow their horns in obscure shapes so it wonāt connect back into a halo. Because the halo no longer blinds them, demons can finally see but can no longer communicate with God for guidance ā the light they once gave to heaven now belongs to them, hence demons being proficient with fire allowing them to see in the dark.
Extra notes on horns & halos:
Circular horns (Halos) are smooth and easy for God to āgrabā like a chain.
Jagged horns are sharp to the touch and can pierce God.
Crucial notes I forgot to add:
The only way angels can break their own halos is through strong, direct, hard force; rebellious angels willingly fell from heaven, breaking their halos upon hitting our worldās surface. Thatās why demons are calledĀ āfallen angelsā.
The only thing that can hurt God and other angels is another angel, so the shattered remains of a demonās old halo would be reformed into tridents and pitchforks commonly associated with the devil.
Regretful demons wishing to commune with God again would either try to grow their horns back into a halo, or clasp their hands in prayer to form a circle with their own body mimicking a halo. It would faintly work. These demons would become the first priests, and spread the practice to humans.Ā
Trying to draw buildings
yo hereās a useful tip from your fellow art ho cynellisā¦ use google sketchup to create a model of the room/building/town youāre trying to drawā¦ then take a screenshot & use it as a reference! Itās simple & fun!
Sketchup is incredibly helpful. I canāt recommend it enough.
Thereās a 3D model warehouse where you can download all kinds of stuff so you donāt have to build everything from scratch.
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This is an incomplete tutorial, and it drives me crazy every time I see it come around.
We live in a pretty great digital age and we have access to a ton of amazing tools that artists in past generations couldnāt even dream of, but a lot of people look at a cool trick and only learn half of the process of using it.
Hereās the missing part of this tutorial:
How do you populate your backgrounds?
Well, hereās the answer:
If the focus is the environment, you must show a person in relation to that environment.
The examples above are great because they show how to use the software itself, but each one just kind of āplopsā the character in front of their finished product with no regard of the personās relation to their environment.
How do you fix this?
Well, hereās the simplest solution:
This is a popular trick used by professional storyboard and comic artists alike when theyāre quickly planning compositions. Itās simple and it requires you to do some planning before you sit down to crank out that polished, final version of your work, but it will be the difference between a background and an environment.
From Blacksad (artist: Juanjo Guarnido)
From Hellboy (Mike Mignola)
Even if your draftsmanship isnāt that great (like mine), people can be more immersed in the story you tell if you just make it feel like there is a world that exists completely separate from the one in which they currently reside ā not just making a backdrop the characters stand in front of.
Your creations live in a unique world, and it is as much a character as any other member of the cast. Make it as believable as they are.
Great comments and tutorials!
Iām a 3d artist and have been exploring the possibilities of using 3d as reference for 2d poses. I want to add a couple of tips and things!
Sketchup is very useful for environment references, and I assume itās reasonably easy to learn. If youāre interested in going above and beyond, I highly recommend learning a proper 3d modeling program to help with art, especially because you can very easily populate a scene or location with characters!
Using 3ds Max I can pretty quickly construct an environment for reference. But going beyond that, I can also pose a pretty simple āCATāĀ armature (known in 3d as a rig) straight into the scene, which can be totally customized, from various limbs, tails, wings, whatever, to proportions, and also can be modeled onto and expanded upon (for an example, you could 3d sculpt a head reference for your character and then attach it to the CAT rig, so you have a reference for complex face angles!)
The armature can also be posed incredibly easily. I know programs exist for stuff like this - Manga Studio, Design Doll - but posing characters in these programs is always an exercise in frustration and very fiddly imo. A simple 3d rig is impossibly easy to pose.
By creating an environment and dropping my character rig into it, I have an excellent point of reference when it comes to drawing the scene!
Not only that, but I can also view the scene from whatever angle I could ever want or need, including the character and their pose/position relative to the environment.
We can even quickly and easily expand this scene to include more characters!
Proper 3d modeling software is immensely powerful, and if you wanted to, you could model a complex environment that occurs regularly in your comic or illustration work (say, a castle interior, or an outdoor forest environment) and populate the scene with as many perspective-grounded characters as you need!
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Look at this amazing addition! This is fantastic!
Iām not an expert on hands but drawing mittens and awkward pentagons help me draw handsā¦ Also, having a mirror/table mirror on your desk and taking pictures of your hands with your phone really helps a lot too!
