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[thundercluck-blog]

Hey friends!

Meg here for this weeks TUTOR TUESDAY! This is part one of two, where we’ll be studying expressions. Today we’re going to just take a peek at mouths and how they work!

If you have a recommendation for a tutorial just message this blog or my personal blog here! Have fun, Keep practicing, and I’ll see you next week!

[gloomyhome]

someone asked me how i made the ripple effects and i didnt know how to explain without visuals so i hope people find this helpful

[greentea-owl]

A couple people have asked me how I shade hair when I draw it, so I made this short tutorial! This isn’t to say there’s a “right” or “wrong” way to shade hair, this is just showing my process for doing it. If you have any questions, feel free to message me!

[thundercluck-blog]

Hey friends!

Meg here with this weeks TUTOR TUESDAY (I’m a broken record I know it’s Wednesday, sorry for the delay) I just wanted to show you guys some exercises that I do all the time and that I think are a bit more fun than what I usually teach! If you have any tutorial recs send ‘em in here or to my personal! Now go forth and I’ll see you next Tuesday! 

[bluedouble]

These concepts are HELLA IMPORTANT

[thechekhov]

I made a thing! I was thinking about this for a few days - because I realized that when I was young, I was also frustrated about being given the same advice over and over - without really knowing what it meant!!

Here’s 5 techniques which I have done before which have helped me grow as an artist, which are good for 5-minute warmups or just straight up challenges for your sketchbook! 

Obviously, these are not the ONLY techniques - they’re just the ones I find most fun! And maybe they’re not the most ‘correct’ ones out there, but it’s better than another comic about practicing more, right? 

Good luck to everyone on their drawings!

[jisunshines]

Basically, start with the main shapes and add extra strands and splits & gaps in the chunks of hair! If you plan ahead, hair works as a great mediator to control the rhythm of the picutre.

Going back to the anon’s comment about the way I draw hair being ‘free flowing yet cohesive’ (thank you btw!), the 'cohesive’ part probably comes from how I keep the sense of direction and overall shape in mind, and 'free flowing’ part from all the extra strands and empty spaces I add in.

Another thing I keep in mind is that hair follows the body’s movement with a delay because…gravity and physics…… I’m not sure how to explain this BUT ONE OF MY BOOKS SAYS SO AND IT’S TRUE OK

(If it’s hard to understand, grab a scarf and twirl it around to see for yourself!  The end of the scarf will twirl at a later timing than where you’re grabbing (the source of the motion).)

Of course, there’s a bunch of different ways to draw hair! This is just how I do it. I hope it helps!

(I’m somewhat shy to give any sort of tutorials…and honestly not sure if what I wrote makes sense at all AHAHA please go easy on me)

[thundercluck-blog]

Hey friends! Meg here for a really, long, wordy TUTOR TUESDAY! This week we take a look at drawing characters that are interacting. If you need help with anatomy here are a few tutorials: legs, arms/legs, necks, and here is a previous tutorial on poses. If you have any tutorial suggestions send ‘em in here or my personal. Now go forth and I’ll see you next week!

[drawingmodel]

Same animation but ¼ the frames and slowed way down to help with tweeting practice also repeating 10 times you don’t have to keep replaying

[edendrawsml]

Hi! Would you mind if i'd ask you.. have you got some kind of tips about how a watermark should be to look pretty but still visible enough? I'm so afraid to put it on my drawings because it kinda ruins them xD but still is necessary... I haven't ant idea how i should "design" it.. a font, handwriting, with opacity down, place it in corners or on the lineart,, ecc(sorry for my bad english).

That’s a very valid concern.  Unfortunately, the more visible/large/annoying the signature, the more protected your art will be.  I die a little inside whenever I have to cover up something I spent hours (or even days) on.  But I’d rather have it look kind of annoying instead of having someone else take credit for it, or worse, having someone SELLING IT illegally behind my back.

Having experienced (and having watched my fellow artist friends experience) various forms of art theft, I’ve come up with a few tricks to making it difficult for my signature to be removed.  I don’t have a set, “official” watermark; I experiment and play around with different looks depending on what the picture looks like.  You can try any of these ideas and see what works for you.  ^_^

~QUICK WATERMARK TUTORIAL~

Makeit legible.  Fancy fonts are pretty, but can be hard to read.  Your main goal is that EVERYONE can read it, even people whose primary language is notEnglish or those who have a different alphabet/lettering/symbols.

Place it somewhere that cannot be cropped out, such as near the heads or towards the middle of the picture. 

Place your signature/watermark where will be difficult to erase or cover up, such as an area with shading, or over a pattern

The safest location is on top of a character.  It looks ugly, but at least you can’t really sell merchandise of someoneelse’s art if there’s a giant signature across the way.

If your picture is black and white, be careful.  Someone might take it and try to color it, then pass it off as their own work.  Put your watermark on top of the lineart to make it more difficult to steal, preferably an area with lots of lines, such as hair or clothing wrinkles.

Be especially careful with pictures that can be easily made into merchandise (pins, mugs, stickers, bags, phone cases, etc), such as the one above.  Make the signature large and have it protect all visible characters, like a big unsightly shield.  XD

DO NOT’s:   (aka, some of my old mistakes)

Do not place it close to the edges/corners where it can be cropped. 

Don’t make it too tiny, and don’t lower the layer opacity too much.

Note:  If you do not want your art reposted/uploaded onto different websites/accounts by other people, I highly recommend adding to your watermark:  “Do not edit or redistribute.”  It’s not always enough to deter some reposters, but at least sometimes fans will call them out on it and say, “Hey, this artist doesn’t allow this picture to be uploaded onto different sites, you should remove it.”

That’s all for now, I hope it helps!!!  Good luck with your artwork and thank you for your message!!!  <3

[smash-chu]

Couple of tips on some bird things for art! Some which people rarely touch on in their own tutorials or tips, mostly the first and second one! If there’s any specific things you’d like some tips on just let me know with an ask~

[theramseyloft]

Wings and beaks for my artistic followers!

Dove and standard length pigeon beaks are flexible at the center of the upper jaw (like a hinge that can’t open vey far) and all of them, regardless of besk size, can pull the corners of their mouths round to accomodate their squeakers’ beaks.

[ariwtflol]

Quick Tip: Don’t know how to draw an expression on certain angle? Grab yourself a mirror and depending on how you place it you can get the same expression in two different angles! (I think this might work with two mirrors so you get three angles at the same time but I guess that would require an extra hand)

[annadesu]

Storyboarder - The best and easiest way to storyboard.

Storyboarder makes it easy to visualize a story as fast you can draw stick figures. Quickly draw to test if a story idea works. Create and show animatics to others. Express your story idea without mak

HEY Y’ALL, THIS IS FREE.

I know a lot of my followers want to storyboard someday, and this is a good starting point. :) Enjoy~

[itsdanfango]

Aaaa your art is so good, if you don't mind me asking, how do you draw grass like that? Whenever I try it looks like a big blob ;-; thank you :D

thanks. i feel like i do it differently every time, but i made a little tutorial here that hopefully gives you a good idea of how it usually goes

hope this helps!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[norisus]

I also use this same method for painting fur like this

EDIT: I also usually use the 4th nib but accidentally used the 3rd for this

[clockbirds]

tutorial for how to use the watercolour layer effect in medibang (featuring my sparkledeer, illuima *3*! also, a couple of points i couldn’t fit into the image:

i usually place a light paper texture as my background when i do this - it just completes the illusion of the effect.

if you want to see the texture through the colours, set the colour layers to the ‘multiply’ blending mode. doing this this might darken your colours a little! to fix it, adjust the brightness of you colour layers with the ‘levels’ filter.

all my colours are on a single layer! it’s not necessary though, but it replicates the conditions of traditional watercolour painting and you can blend colours a lot more easily *u*

all the brushes i used are available to download via the medibang brush cloud (just click the cloud shape option at the bottom left of your brushes dialog box).

hope this tut is helpful! i only recently found this effect in medibang myself, so i thought i would share it in case people weren’t aware ^w^

[color-palettes]

Pink Lemonade - Submitted by The-awkward-mango

#FF72A7 #FF8DB4 #FFAAB8 #FFEEAF #FF678B 

[artstreet-medibang]

Here’s a tutorial that shows how you can give your pics different vibes be playing around with the color of your shadows.

Give it a try

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