wembley's art cave

I'm learning how to art, and this is where I'm putting it.

[turing-tested]

“How arw you paying for photoshop” im not LMAO

[moonpaw]

link

👀

[moonpaw]

you know what heres a sai link too fuck the system

[moonpaw]

im back with clip paint studio

setup crack

download these two then setup paint studio right click one of the icons after its done and click “file location” copy the crack files into the main paint studio file then click on the crack.exe till it says ok open paint studio

good 2 go 👌

[wet-paiint]

REBLOG TO SAVE AN ARTIST’S LIFE

[bevnapart]

More like reblog to save an artist’s wallet lol

[slightmayhem]

Have not clicked link. I do not art. But good luck?

[nurritodesignco]

Just a quick tip to artists

If you’re an artist who likes to work really close, (like me), do yourself a favor and put up two views. You can do this by clicking View–> New on your toolbar.

There’s nothing worse than finally zooming out and realizing what you were doing was very wrong. This saved me a lot of grief tbh. I’m sure everyone knows this already but ._.;; I arrived quite late to that party.

[autumnbramble]

WHAT

[hidechonix]

[lolopan-cake-deactivated2018050]

That’s amazing..

[combustiblewater-deactivated201]

Does this work for Photoshop?

[metallikato]

For Photoshop you’ll wanna go to Window > Arrange > New Window for [Document]. 

[mizushimo]

BRINGING THIS BACK BECAUSE YOU HAVE NO IDEA HOW HELPFUL THIS HAS BEEN. This will save you hours and hours of backtracking (fixing a thing close up, zooming back out and realizing that the thing you fixed doesn’t work with the rest of the picture–rinse and repeat). As someone who uses the ‘squint and see if it looks right’ method of drawing anatomy, the tiny window is a goddamned life saver.

[altxin-deactivated20171115]

for my artsy followers

[ambient-design-blog]

For ArtRage 4 users, go to Tools > Reference Options > New View or click the little View icon in the Refs panel.

[ambient-design-blog]

Do you have a tutorial on how to use the shadow and highlight blending mode? For instance what colour do I use for shading? Is it best to use grey? I'm going to try it out on skin colours. c:

Here’s a sneaky tip: Shadow, Tint and Highlight are actually just Darken, Multiply and Screen.

Waaaay back in ArtRage 2, and also now in ArtRage Lite, those were the only blend modes, renamed to be more accessible to users who have never heard of Photoshop blend modes. The full version has the entire range, but we leave those three up the top as shortcuts/so people can actually keep using the ones they’re familiar with.

This means that any good tutorial on Photoshop blend modes will tell you exactly what you can do with these ones.

But here’s the basic intro ;D

Shadow, Tint and Highlight

Set a layer to use a blend mode in the layers menu.

Once active, you can click the blend mode symbol to quickly access the list of blend modes. Tint, Shadow and Highlight have unique icons (T, - and +), the rest just use ‘…’

Darken (Shadow) makes stuff darker. It basically takes the previous colour and the new colour and adds them together to give you a darker combination of both colours.

Darken is good for consistent shadows and for… more realistic lighting. So red light on blue will create dark purple because there’s a red ‘shadow’ over the purple background.

Multiply (Tint) makes stuff more of whatever it already is - it multiplies the effect. So if you add dark colour to dark, it gets darker. Add light to light, it gets lighter (this is why it’s used to vanish white backgrounds).

Multiply is good for shadows where you don’t want to accidentally shade over various lighter bits and for, well, deepening the effect. It will keep the overlay colour, so it’s more like you’re tinting the original with a new colour.

Screen (Highlight) makes stuff lighter, the opposite of Darken. So use this one for consistent lightening.

To answer your actual question:

Use the colour you want to emphasise. You’re not just making stuff darker, you’re adding colour - and the end result of that is going to depend on both the base colour and the new, blend mode, colour. 

This is the difference between adding a low opacity layer of shadow and a blend mode - blend modes interact. Multiply is halfway between no blend mode and ‘Darken’. 

No blend mode: Even layer of new colour over everything

Tint (Multiply): Some new colour added to the old colour softly over everything

Shadow (Darken): New colour mixed with old colour to get a darker and more intense combination of both

So I wouldn’t use grey - it will just make things greyer. In most cases, just use the same colour you used for the base layer. If it doesn’t look quite right, use a greyer (less saturated) version, or adjust the layer opacity.

Here’s some further reading on blend modes:

The ArtRage manual ;D https://www.artrage.com/manuals/artrage-4/layers/

Layer Blending Modes in Photoshop and Elements: a quick overview of all the possible blend modes http://www.northlite.net/ps/blend.htm

A more comprehensive overview based on ArtRage 3 (PDF) https://forums.artrage.com/files/layer-blend-modes.pdf

A video intro to the blend modes in ArtRage 4: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xETiycVkhJo

[piratereblogs]

[jacksonjekyllofficial]

skintone palettes

Oh hell yes

[lavisant-deactivated20140213]

th-thank you Tumblr

[cybersenpai-deactivated20130306]

yesss :A:

[beattingtheguy]

for any artists following me

[busket]

i recently deleted all my photoshop swatches on accident and had to go back to the default with no skintones so yES I WILL MAKE IT BETTER THAN BEFORE

[art-res]

These color palettes are great. Also will be writing an color palette app review soon, so stay tuned! ~ @art-res / @astrikos (main/art blog. Message me there and I’ll check out your art!) Please consider reblogging to help out the art community!

[wemblinarts]

A painting of Sookie Stackhouse from True Blood, done from this screencap reference pic.  It took me about a week and a half, but I’m really happy with how it turned out.

[wemblinarts]

I painted our dog from a photo reference.  I love how this turned out!

[wemblinarts]

I drew this from a step by step image by deviantArt user nyanfood.  Tutorial image at the link.  I’m really happy with this one!

[liminalsimian]

I may be in urgent need of a haircut, but I look good anyway. *winks at all of u*

[shellcollector]

Does anyone know of any resources specifically concerning how to draw faces loads of times while having them look like they’re the all still the same person/character? Assume I know that practice is key, I’d just like some additional learning stuff to try to help with how to practice and how to work most effectively. I can sort-of make them look sort-of like the same person, but only with extreme effort and having a sort of ‘master face’ I constantly refer back to, which is ~fine for stuff I’m doing at the moment but would make other things I’d like to do very difficult.

I’m assuming this is a difficult skill for everyone, although I’m worried that they learn it in the same way that they learn to write letters in the same way each time, which I have never been able to do - this is at least part of why my handwriting is so appalling. Okay, I’m not worried, I’m properly scared; I’d find some books or videos or whatever really reassuring just in terms of giving me something to hook onto. Just being told it is difficult for everyone and I should just practice, probably less so, because I do appear to have some sort of never-named, never-diagnosed lifelong co-ordination Issue which means I don’t always master things with repeated practice.

I’m okay with recs for things that cost A Money - I might not be able to get them immediately but if I know they’re worthwhile it will be something to think of in future.

Art people? @aprilwitching? @pilferingapples? @barrydeutsch? Other Art Friends and Followers? People who Know A Guy? Random helpful strangers? 

[barrydeutsch]

I go with having a character model sheet I can pin up in front of my drawing area.  After I’ve drawn a character in the comic for a while, I make a new model sheet consisting of the character at various angles, taken from panels I’ve drawn in which I think the character looks especially “right.”

In my experience, readers are actually much more forgiving than many cartoonists realize. There’s no need for a character’s face to ever be perfectly the same in every panel. In fact, it’s probably inevitable that how you draw your characters will evolve over time. What’s more important is that the basic character design makes it clear at a glance which characters are which - because although readers don’t mind (or, usually, notice) faces morphing a little from panel to panel, they DO mind not being able to tell characters apart.

So my advice, which might not be helpful, would be to not kill yourself over drawing faces with perfect consistency. Instead, work on making sure that you have character designs which will make it clear at a glance which character is which, even if the faces do morph a little.

[aprilwitching-deactivated201808]

reblogging just bc this is really good, concise cartooning advice

[rosalarian]

I break down characters into smaller parts. What is their eye shape? What is their nose shape? What is their mouth shape? What is their jaw shape? Even if I can only draw 3 different types of each of those features, that’s still 81 different combinations. They’re all fairly simple variations of features, but giving those features names helps to remember them all. It’s not just an eye. It’s an upturned eye or a hooded lid or an almond shape or a bulging eye. It’s not just a face, it’s a heart shape or diamond shape or square shape. I can remember that a character has a square jaw, thin lips, hooded eyes, upturned nose. 

Break ‘em down into parts, categorize those parts for reassembly later.

[wemblinarts]

I tried to paint a water lily from a tutorial and I think it turned out okay, though I definitely have a lot to learn about watercolor and inks on art rage.  Tutorial here.

[wemblinfool]

i tried to paint my water glass.

[wemblinarts]

Alex had me draw him a monster, and I followed his description- purple triangle body, one purple foot, one brown foot, four green arms, three eyes, orange glasses, and darker orange spikey hair.  lol oh and red and orange criss-cross stripes.  He’s a creative one.

[wemblinarts]

@breastforce created @projectbot13 , a bot named Skylar.  Red is a fantastic person and a self-taught programmer.  She’s one of my inspirations for trying to pick up a new skill like art.  I’m stumbling through this process and I have a long way to go, but here is Skylar, the most adorable robot.  Thanks to Red and Skylar for being awesome and bringing me joy through the day.  Can’t wait to see Skylar 2.0!

i used skylar’s icon and header image for reference pictures.

[wemblinarts]

@sarahsuzy1102 requested a manatee.  i’m still only using the pencils, but i think it turned out pretty good.

[wemblinarts]

So.... I got a drawing tablet!  This is my first attempt at anything on it, a traced screencap of boober checking wembley’s baloobius.  This is so much easier to draw on than my previous set up, so I think this is going to end up being really good!!  Send in requests if you want and I’ll see what I can do, doesn’t have to be fraggles, it’s just a good default when I can’t think of anything else.  

[drawingllamas]

hey! first of all, thank you , i’m glad you’re interested in my process!

it’s my first time making such a thing so i hope it looks okay lol

[wemblinarts]

For @mairzydotes