Hi~ I'm just here to tell you that i love your art (and your charms -i just found out you had a shop *___* <3). I really love your comics, like I laught everytime i read them. I also may have been faving and rebbloging your stuff... AHEM!stalkingyouAHEM!... and well, I've also read your FAQs but I'm not sure if anyone has asked you this... Could give me (us -maybe there's someone else interested too?) some tips on how to draw "realistically", please?
AW THANKS—anyway! some of the best advice i ever received was when i was like, 16. it was, and this is might sound a little dumb but, “draw what you see”
this was a real eye-opener for me, and helped me a lot with realism. a lot of the time, you’re drawing what your mind sees, or what you want to be seeing, or what you wish made sense. and normally for me that’s just the ol’ noggin’ going “it’s fiiiiiiiiine just a little shortcut!” but you really need to break it into smaller pieces before you can create one whole
but now this raises the question of if you’re talking realism or or just making things look like they could exist in the material world!
a lot of it is knowing what details need to pop, and what need to fade/blur to the back, so the audience knows what to focus on! for instance, with this:
the background is sorta just a bunch of blobs, but i really laser-focused on jensen’s face. you can tell the bg is the beginning of what could be realistic, but it wasn’t the focus. it helps his face seem more realistic and sharp, but the bg is really helping support that. he looks interactive.
however, with this! :
it was the lighting that did the assisting. the thing that gives it that “realistic” feel is the fact that heavy blacks don’t outline everything. if you want a piece to have a realer-effect, try to avoid being crazy-heavy on the use of black (well, you know, unless it’s a black and white piece, but you catch my drift!)
i know that it seems tough, but black is really only there to really accent the shading on a face to make it more intense for me!
but i’m self-taught with all of this stuff; these are all just things that i learned along the way that helped me personally!
BEST OF LUCK WITH YOUR STYLE!! real things take so much time, but they are rewarding to work on in the long-run!
