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julsiji asked:

Hello ❤️ I truly hope I’m not bothering you, but I found your art randomly on tumblr and I fell in love with it! Also because I’m trying to learn how to digital paint in a similar style (I’m an artist too, I work as bookish artist ❤️) and I’m hanging some struggles mostly with textures and coloring 🥹 can i ask you if you have some tips?


Thanks in advance and sorry again for the trouble ❤️

lumoxy answered:

No worries, dear! As I’ve mentioned before, you may always ask me for tips as I’m always willing to help! (As much as I can that is, haha!) ♡

My main tip would be to just have fun with it! Try out some different brushes, different ways of coloring etc. I also find it super helpful to look at my favorite artists and see what techniques they use, how they render/color a specific part of their drawing and try to integrate that into my own work.

I’d also recommend to work in layers for basically everything. Sketch & linework - but also separate color in different layers. (For example; one layer for skin, one layer for hair, multiple layers for clothes etc.) This way, you can easily adjust the colors if they end up not to your liking without having to start all over again. (I started out with a green jacket for Sirius but thought it was too Slytherin for him so changed it easily to a more Gryffindor red!)

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Honestly I’m basically just ‘winging’ it most of the time as well, as I’m also still exploring the world of digital art as I’ve been a traditional artist most of my life tbh!

For textures it’s just the same; just have some fun and try out different types of brushes. I stumbled upon the 'tamar’ brush in the Procreate classic library and it has the most perfect texture (in my opinion) and I’ve just been using that for most of my coloring since! ♡

Because I’m originally a traditional artist, I also put quite a few of those techniques into my digital work - such as more of a crosshatch / lines for shading technique when I do the linework for my art; this gives a good 'textured’ base to put my colors on. I’m also a very big fan of 'alpha lock’, which is an option you can select on your lineart layer to easily change the colors of those lines. This way you can soften the black into a gray for the eyes or a dark red for the lips etc. I hope you can somewhat see it in my Sirius’ linework down below! ;’-)

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Anyways, I hope this was somewhat helpful to you! My ask is always open for my (pretty shitty but hopefully helpful) art tips ♡

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What do mages wear? Robes! What do robes look like? Not bath robes!

The semi-formal everyday robes as well as the traditional cloak with lapels are inspired by graduation gowns.

Traditional robes are worn by higher ups at the Ministry of Magic and also the most important and wealthy magical families who take pride in their status (the Malfoys, the Blacks excluding Sirius)

Casual robes are the only robes with lengths shorter than knee length, so they can be more like tunics. They’re more fitting for physical professions and activity like sports and the like

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i'd like to add that the shadow color isnt necessarily dictated entirely by the primary light source, but the bounce light! so for the example of a sunny environment, the reason the shadows are blue are because of the light from the blue sky reflects across the environment; but, if the character were to be under tree cover, the bounce light would be coming from the leaves and thus the shadow would look greener.

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Yee yee!!! You got it right on the nose!

Bounce light is something I didn't cover but I adore it!

Gotta work on my bounce light 💪

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My good friends this is called using a

Gamut Mask

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James Gurney is an absolute master and gives really good clarity on colour techniques. Yes, it is traditional paint focused, but the principles are the same. Yes it is informed by the environmental colour but as a painting technique it is achieved this way!

I would also suggest that in digital processing, rather than apply a regular colour layer at a mid opacity, try out the different types of layers, Eg. Screen or Multiply. This can give you at least a starting point to help direct your colour palette.

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Layer Blend Modes are so so so important to working in digital art. There's a ton of math that goes into figuring out how the layers should blend together, which is why some of the modes you can pick are literally called Multiply, Add, Divide, and Difference (that's subtraction). The graphics software takes the color values of your base and blend layers and runs a calculation to get your resulting layer appearance. The ones that don't have specifically mathematical sounding names are still doing calculations, but they're more complicated (think linear Algebra and higher). Some of them, like dodge and burn, are named for actual photo editing techniques.

While it's not super important to know about the mathematical side of blend modes, I think it's worth knowing at least enough about how each of the categories of blend modes works and why they do what they do; if for no other reason than having a starting point when you start experimenting with them in your work.

An overview of the basic blend modes and how they work from Genevieve's Design Studio: Accessible with minimal color knowledge; practical and illustration focused. https://youtu.be/kMc87hQrJd0?si=TWCB365pKSfWS8p0. (16 minutes) This creator also has a ton of free resources you can download, including a Blend Modes cheatsheet, but fair warning: you have to create an account to get them!

Want to learn even more about the math-y stuff? It has great film visuals! A video from FilmmakerIQ: You need some basic knowledge of RGB color models, understanding of values/luma, and at least a tenuous understanding of Algebraic formulas. (26 minutes) https://youtu.be/F7_kaTP7_W4?si=x0urqXZ8f51nQVKl

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