hey

i’ve had a couple screwdrivers and i want to talk about colors for a sec. so, a tip from your mom. the tip: don’t use black and white for your shading and highlighting.

(pls forgive the quick doodle for the purpose of an example) one of these is clearly softer and more vibrant. it can play up your palette choices, even if they’re not that exciting by themselves- but pink or brown shading makes everything look really nice. how bout this one?

black and white values for your art won’t completely ruin it. but there’s way more you can be doing with it. low opacity black to shade an art piece is a lil bit boring. it doesn’t make any of your colors stand out, it doesn’t take much creativity on your part. won’t stretch the muscles. HOWEVER, that doesn’t mean you shouldn’t ever use black as shading. but to work it at its best, you have to actually use black. the purpose?

contrast! it’s great for drama. black shading is used for sharp graphic styles- you’ve seen it in a lot of comics before. it commands attention for a serious situation. imo, black should be used as its full self, or not at all. low opacity black just looks gross and boring. it’s way more fun to use other colors, i promise! this has been a chat about shading with ur mom.

Anonymous asked: Out of curiosity, what are the preferred brushes you like to use?

I have a ton of brushes, some made by myself and some downloaded from all around the web. These are my favorite and most used ones. I thought it would be best to show them with example pictures.

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Hard Round

For sketching, coloring, lineart. Great for blending colors. Spacing: 1%, Minimum diameter: 33%, Minimum Opacity jitter: 23%

Pencil brush

For sketching, lineart, coloring, quick doodles etc. It has a nice texture and is good for adding details. You can find it from the Stumpy Pencil blog.

Lineart brush

I made this for lineart specifically. Basically it’s the same as the default hard round brush, except Spacing is set to 1%. That enables smooth strokes no matter how large the brush size is. It’s also good for coloring.

Block-In

Large brush with texture, best for backgrounds. Also good for shading and blending colors. Get it from Ctrl+Paint.

Hard Square

Amazing for coloring all sorts of surfaces and textures. Smooth skin, shiny weapons, fluffy clouds etc. Made by Ben Hickling.

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I put them all here for you to download and try out. I hope they are helpful!

Tutorial of how I color hair on paint tool sai I hope this will help many people who are still struggling with digital coloring :’D

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More How To Draw Manga - Vol. 4: Mastering Bishoujo Characters

this might be useful for me later

do you ever just

“no that’s not dramatic and cheesy enough”

“getting warmer”

“t HERE IT IS”

i love this but i dont know how to do this

hoW

For those wondering about HOW to do this, here’s a short explanation according to me:

Drawing A to Drawing B: -the most obvious change is the exaggeration of the line of motion in the character.  

In Drawing B the line of motion is much more pronounced, creating more drama and movement to the whole composition

-The arms are open wider, showing more confidence and exuberance in the character, exaggerating their emotions so they can be more clearly read without having to look to the face for emotional cues.

-the legs are wider apart, adding to the aforementioned confidence but also giving the character a solid foundation, visually speaking.

-The head is tilted back and overlapped by the chest, adding a touch of dynamic perspective to the drawing.

Drawing B to Drawing C:  -Most obvious change is to zoom in on the character.  Character framing is just as important as what the character is doing.  Zooming in can help infensify emotions.  this shot is ALL about this character and what they’re feeling. -Because of the zooming in, the arms/hands would have gotten lost, so instead of making the canvas wider, the artist has elected to rotate the character slightly, bringing a dynamic angle to things and more intensity to the close shot. -While the character is more upright in this shot compared to Drawing B, in Drawing C the chest still slightly overlaps the neck, preserving the feeling of being slightly below the character (putting them in a position of power relative to the viewer), which helps maintain confidence and power in the character. -the chest is exaggerated to carry the majority of the body’s line of action so even though you cannot see the legs, our brains are able to fill in the gap and envision that line of action. -The cropping/framing of the character allows for a more interesting composition/negative shapes created by the positive (character) on the negative (background), creating more visual interest as well as a circular motion to the composition through the arms, across the face to the negative space for the eyes to rest in before dropping to the hand in the background and back through the composition again.

DID YOU DISSECT MY DRAWING TO FIND OUT WHY IT WORKS??  I LOVE YOU.  I LOVE YOU.  THANK YOU SO MUCH

i never know what to do with the body when i do these so here’s one of those things with arms™

Pixel Brush

Hey guys! A lot of you are asking about my recent textures and how to do them. I’m normally a cardboard-photo-texture-set-to-overlay-on-a-layer-above-your-drawing kinda gal, but lately I’ve been messing around with new grittier stuff.

so here’s my hard pixel airbrush made in photoshop. It’s super fun.

(THE FULL IMAGE SIZE IS HERE. USE THAT)

Load the image in photoshop. Select the whole canvas and go to Edit> Define Brush Preset. Select this brush from your brush menu.

Now go to brush settings and use these settings:

I would just upload the brush file itself but I don’t know how to do that. I ain’t a wizard. I don’t know how all the world works! Whatever! Learn how to make brushes yourself!! It’s very useful!

This brush is best used in high resolution (always work in high res!) It looks like soft grit when zoomed out, but when you get up close, you can see all the hard pixels.

penelope staring towards the sky, contemplating existence

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’What is hair and how i can render it?’

I got this question and I really wanted to show on very simple examples how to render hair. Because it really is… simple! Following this guide you will be able to paint hair in few minutes.

This is called the ribbon technique.

It is used by many artists out there. I just wanted to show you a couple of examples. As you can see I picked Adam Hughes and J. C. Leyendecker. Look at it and see how they paint the hair. It doesn’t look like a mop. It looks more like big, overlapping shapes organized in some fashion.

Try to imagine a string of hair like a ribbon. Ribbon symbolize a large portion of hair. Don’t focus on every single hair string, instead of this imagine it as bigger shape. It will catch light in highest point and it will have core shadows.

Establish where light is hitting the hair and where it turns dark. Start with big shapes. big brushes to get the lights and volumes right. Then You can go into details and paint small brush strokes to add details like single hair strings.

I attached two examples. First is very simple where you can clearly see and understand the similarity between hair and ribbon. Second example is theory put into practice. But it’s basically doing the same things as shown in simple example.

Let me know what you think about this?

I based my knowledge on James Gurney blog (author of Dinotopia and Light and Color book)

And for the example I used Faestock (from deviantart) photo.

Oh hell yes

th-thank you Tumblr

yesss :A:

for any artists following me

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

Made this because my friend didn’t know this was a thing, so I thought maybe others don’t either? Hope it helps someone out!