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19 Malaysia. He/Him.  Fandom i'm currently on : Any Fandom .

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1. Ah Fai was a chief animator for McDull’s animated features. He’s super cool. Ultimate senpai. 

2. Previous post on breakdowns right here 

Some thoughts on acceleration and force

I presented this in the order of how I slowly understood the trick of delivering force - first an abstract concept of impact taught by Ah Fai, then a more complicated discovery on the acceleration pattern, last back to a more abstract concept of breakdowns. 

Like I’ve previously stressed, 2D animation is everything but one single approach. There’s no one rule that rules them all, but interchangeable ideas with math, or physics, or music, etc. There’s no “perfect” animation either, but what is perceived as organic and dynamic. E.g., using the Fibonacci numbers to animate didn’t bring me a perfect animation! On the other hand, a tiny change in the pattern could already make the feeling of force so much more powerful. 

Not so much of a tutorial than a personal experience. I hope you find this interesting hahaha 

[lelelego]

hope this tutorial helps, anon!! a lot of this is a result of experimentation and seeing what looks best based on your picture. what i’m essentially doing is relying on the overall “mood” bg colour tie everything together cohesively by putting the local colours over it on the “soft light” filter. the other changes i do, such as the blue light on him and the flavour elements are all based around making it more cohesive, e.g. the glow from the pool is all over the background AND the subject, instead of just the pool, pulling them together, if that makes sense! 

of course this also relies on having some sense of what a realistic version of your scene would look like - for this comic i looked up “pool scenes night” on google to gather references i could take the colours from, and looked up lighting references for the way light would hit a face if coming from the bottom, stuff like that.

the other example is from a commission i did: 

in this case, the lighting situation has a lot more light, and isn’t as atypical as pool-at-night lighting. so it was easier to rely on my usual method of colour layering, i.e.

local colour on multiply (as opposed to soft light) 

monochrome shading on normal

again, experiment experiment experiment! hope this helps! 

[protect-and-love-animals]

Siberian Husky exploring Northern, Ontario 🇨🇦

Credit

[tinywitchdraws]

Quick process gif with notes as a raffle prize for @ramyeonart <3 hope you like it!

[rtilrtil]

Late last year I wanted to start a series of short tutorials called Tip Jar, as a way of saying thanks to my fans and giving back to my patrons. This is the first of the series I have made, showing my technique on quickly filling in lineart so you can get to painting without coloring outside the lines faster. 

Someday I hope to turn these into video tutorials when I have the income and the time, but for now I hope that I will be able to share useful tips in this infographic format.

Full tutorial image

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[americanninjax-deactivated20191]

This is exactly how I do my flats.

[chillyfeetsteak]

This is how I do my flats! Really quick and easy!

[shoomlah]

Worth sharing because this is exaaaaactly how I do my flats!  I get this question all the time when I post my process videos, and this explains it far more succinctly than I ever could. :)

[blindsprings]

This is also how I do my flats but unfortunately with lines that are see through (or sketchier) you get a lot of jaggies all over the place. So I play with channels!

So alternatively step 1.5 is to click on the channels tab, and create a new layer. Fill the areas that you magic wand(ed) with black (leaving the characters/whatever you want to fill white). Click out of the marquee and use gaussian blur (i use 3.0 on a huge image, sometimes you need to go down for a smaller image)

Then you go to image/adjustments/levels and put in–and this is where I sound like a mad scientist–88 1.42 and 122. Which cleans up the edges so they’re pretty clean! 

Then all you do is click on the circle at the bottom of the channels area (”load channel as selected) and then go back in to layers and click on a layer to load your original view again! and then do the rest of the steps. It will cause you to clean up corners a lot but it saves me a whole heck of time since i have a rougher inking style. This step takes all of 3 minutes at most but otherwise I’d have to base everything by hand :I Or spend a good 40 minutes cleaning up jaggies.

TL;DR alternative step if you have rougher/sketchier lines.

Oh! Since my lines often don’t join correctly, I create a layer underneath and fill any holes before i do selection (with “select all layers” ticked off) which is admittedly tedious but again. Way quicker than doing it by hand! So yeah if you see this and are like oh gee whiz this doesn’t work with how I do stuff, try this added step?

(this is also how to do a stroke around an image that is cleaner than what you get from the layer styles box– I adapted these steps originally from a DA tutorial on how to get clean strokes!)

[anatoref]

Hands Row 1 & 2 Row 3 Row 4 Row 5 & 6 Row 7

[vonzent-deactivated20221104]

I don’t usually reblog, but im throwing this here as a bookmark for myself

[vonzent-deactivated20221104]

Dear Vonzent, how do you practice?

with intent and focus.somewhat a big question. You should have a reference point of what you wanna achieve, a goal. that’s one thing.Second- Intent FocusIntent focus is genuinely focusing one thing at a time and setting aside a solid un-interrupted time to study whichever subject you wish to improve, anatomy, color, music, etc. Avoid just doing it casually and seriously study the subject matter somewhat slowly and really challenge yourself to ask questions on why/how things work. a solid 1 hour of actual intended focus is better than 3-4 hours of casual practice meaning just kinda doing it without really thinking about it and not having a solid guideline of what you wanna achieve. each practice should have a goal/criteria. A lot of folks will simply say “practice a lot” and this somewhat not a good approach since this can lead to burning out when not being mindful of the practice. Rather it should be “Practice with intent”, you can still clock in of course more hours to speed up the process, but always work smarter not harder. Third- References and Materials Take the time to find reference materials, books and folks who perform excellence in the field that you wish to improve. Properly learn the rules and technical side of things. you cant break the rules if you don’t know what those rules are. Take classes on the subject matter if possible, or look on youtube, lots of free sources on the internet!Fourth- Copy, Trace and consume imagery with intent Do yourself a big favor, and simply download all the images that inspire you. Whenever I find I see a picture that I like I download it. If it really inspires me, I will simply study it, copy/trace the imagery and apply it to my own. Want to paint like William-Adolphe Bouguereau? do a master copy and try to understand the artist careful use of color and brush strokes. Or maybe Mike Mignola? Trace/copy some of his imagery so that you can understand his use of composition/shapes and lines.Mimicry is important when you wanna understand how one does a particular thing. Because once ya learn how to perform the task effectively you can then put your own spin on it, and that’s where the magic starts/improvement. Last but least, you will inevitably hit a pleatue, the infamous art block, frustrations, the feeling of stuck. More then often these are signs of big improvements coming down the pipeline. So keep practicing and these frustrations will come and go. Cheers and Good Luck!

[thedamnthinguy]

I got commissioned by @fabrissou to do a “guide” on how I personally draw beefy dudes!  Please read the disclaimer! This isn’t exactly a tutorial: it’s just how I approach drawing men! Thank you!

[phoebe-does]

a piece of advice my dad gave me and I’ve never forgotten is, “if you won’t worry about it in 4 months, don’t worry about it now.” saved me countless times, it’s a philosophy to adopt and help improve your life. Failed a test? ask yourself if you’ll think about this still in 4 months? Made a fool of yourself in public? I doubt even the people who saw it will remember it past today. Know you could have done better? Ran further? don’t beat yourself up over it, you can do better tomorrow. Don’t overthink things, a lot of negatives matter less than you think they do.

[beccatherose]

art tip: gray is the secret to color richness. if you put a ton of super rich colors next to each other, they all look pretty bright…but if you put a rich color next to a desaturation section, it’s gonna pop out like crazy. everything is relative!!

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[soundlesswind]

Photoshop Tutorial: How to paint water in 10-ish steps. Reblog to save a life.

[drawingden]

Light Steps by TamberElla

[dommifox-deactivated20181204]

Much like my leaf/tree tutorial this is another crazy simple guide but it might help a few of you! I love to get a lot of thumbnail type ideas down first before I settle on something final so I like to use this quick method as a way of exploration, basic research into what I’m trying to achieve and a means of creating variety in my work (I hope!) On the flip-side I know a lot of people struggle with creating environments in general, this could be a good way to ease yourself into drawing them without getting too bogged down in details and technicalities, just blasting your ideas down onto a canvas!

[inactiveart]

o( ❛◡❛ )o !

[skiubun-deactivated20201217]

I found a nice palette to sketch with so I did some stress doodles. tonight was very hard for me so drawing max dabbing neil in the eye is how i make myself feel better

[woshibai]

“News” by Woshibai

The Giclee print of  “News” : https://woshibai.bigcartel.com/product/news