#traditional art tutorial

[jaeharuart]

[art-tnt]

Watercolor Tutorial with Yoichi Nishikawa

"Follow along and learn more about the whimsical beautiful world of background art with Yoichi Nishikawa. In this 30-minute tutorial Yoichi walks through the process, shares techniques, and introduces the tools used to create his signature airy cloud backgrounds. Academy Museum family day programs are made possible in part by a grant from the City of Los Angeles Department of Cultural Affairs. To protect the health of our community, the Academy Museum enforces health and safety protocols that are kept up to date on our website." - Academy Museum Youtube Description

[the-dye-stained-socialite]

How i draw chains

[note, the image i.d. for these are me following the steps i have written, drawn on on paper in red pencil]

step one: draw guidelines for where you want the chains to go

Step two: draw interlocking chain shapes. i find it easiest to do the full chain at once, it makes it look cohesive, and is easiest to control the shapes at this stage. i try to draw them with more of a gap than i want in the end, and aim for each new link beginning slightly away from the center, not fully touching.

step three:

repeat the process, but with a smaller inner [ shape now (you can do the outside or adjust as you need)

step four: fill in the other halves of the links! draw two lines a little away, making sure to leave that gap in the center still. if the li ks are really small or close you can get away with a single line

and that is how i, a traditional artist, draw chains without any shortcuts!!

[lutea-arts]

dear traditional artists: if you don't know about them- get a white gell pen.

so iim working on an art fight pic( character is Nora.) and , ooop, I colored the teeth brown. Now, if this happens to you, you can still save the piece.

Mycheated code? UNI-BALL SIGNO WHITE pen.

or most white out will do. Some deleter white 2 out with a brush and a careful hand or some white ink . A lot of people prefer white Jelly roll pens, but I stick with uni-ball.

Now this method works with alcohol marker, watercolor , watercolor marker, and black and white artwork. (God its a lifesaver for comics.) Now , I applied this over the area ans BOOM, teeth are white again.

You can also redefine the linework. might have over done it but it still worked out.

And here we are. Good as new. Be mindful, don't use this on a space you intend to color, only on spaces you wish to keep white.

final pic is here:

[blueapplesiren]

Traditional Art Tutorial: How I Photograph and Edit My Drawings to Make them Post-Worthy!

AKA my usual process of going from this:

To this:

I am doing this on an iPhone, but I did basically the same thing when I had an Android, too. So first of all, when I take photos of my art, I try and get the best lighting possible- for me, that means only photographing my art in midday, since that’s when the natural light in my house is best for that. I don’t currently have any electric lights that can produce the same effect, so that’s just what I do. I use the edge of the paper/drawing to help align the camera to get it as straight as possible; this saves a lot of time with cropping/correcting the angles. I got a good shot of this one, so I mostly just rotated it a little and cropped out all the empty space.

Because this drawing is in black and white, I added a monochrome filter, too. I personally think it makes the art look cleaner/clearer.

Then I go into adjust and apply the auto-adjust.

Then I just fine tune everything to my liking. I usually turn up the definition a bit and add noise reduction to make it look less pixelated.

And that’s how I edit my traditional art to look good online!

[junebug-is-bugging-you]

Marker shading/blending tutorial

A quick tutorial of how I shade and blend with my alcohol markers! Told ya I’d make one

Step 1 - Base color! Get your base color down and filled in!

Step 2 - More base color? What?

First make sure the area isn’t wet. If it’s still wait, wait a little bit for the ink to settle. Then take your base color again, and fill in the area you’re shading.

Step 3 - Finally, I can grab a different marker

Grab a darker color for the area you’re going to shade, and put that down on top of the part you just shaded. Don’t go as far as you did before.

Step 4 - Dammit I need the base color again?!

Go over with the base color once again, focusing it on the dark color and where the dark color meets the base color. Keep going until blended and then….

Voila! Beautifully shaded

Hope this helped!

[isthemedia]

Medi’s Long Awaited “Traditional Glow” Tutorial: (Part 1)

So this has been something that’s been asked A LOT when I do the glowing effects in some of my pieces. I’m a traditional artist-emphasis on alcohol markers. So finally I remembered to take pictures of my in process work of how I color my glowing effect. 

Not pictured-it’s best to have 3-4 colors of the glowing light. For this piece I used green. 

So I had a yellow green, a neon green, a bright green, and a spring green. 

Step one is that I roughly plan out where I want the glow to be with colored pencil-usually in the color of the glow itself. 

After outlining and cleaning up the sketch I fill in the area with the colors. The brighter areas got the neon green(everything in the foreground or in directly in front of the light source), while the more “shaded” areas got the bright green (see J’s other arm). 

Step 3, I use the yellow green to go over all the first green I laid down and some of the areas that will be hit by the glow but not as intensely. 

Step 4- I started to plan out the galaxy for Nova and from there realized how far I can bring out the green yellow. I also used the spring green to bring back the sonar ping that was lost in the first few layers. 

*NOTE!: Sometimes it’s alright to move onto another for coloring because sometimes you need to refine the shape and curvature to know where and how far the glow will cover. 

Part 2

[missioncomission]

Tips to vary your line weight when inking with pens! Line weight adds a lot of depth to a drawing, so if it suits your art style, give it a try!