Here it is, my long winded tutorial, complete with some step by step action. I see a lot of people talk about wanting to diversify their artwork but not knowing how. This is my help to you. You really should take the time to invest in learning diverse eye shapes as diverse artwork always makes you a better artist. And frankly I’m really tired of drawing tutorials that talk up character diversity but only have the stereotypical “one Asian eye”.
I did some step by steps for those three diagrams, but I actually got them from this blog which has 14 of those examples! (Bonus: it’s a makeup blog so if you need help with that or want some idea of how to shade these eyes, there ya go)
Artist friends, let me just tell you a thing. FUCK Wacom. Fuck Wacom and their planned obsolescence, fuck Wacom and their broken drivers, fuck Wacom and their over-priced tablets. For years we’ve dealt with them with no alternatives but let me tell you a thing.
I recently found out my Intuos 4′s Pen had broken and rather than spend £60-89 for a new one I decided to get a new tablet. Now, I could get the new “Intuos” (which is just the re-branded Bamboo) and i was going to until I found this beast.
This is the Huion
H610, it has almost twice the drawing space of the low-end Intuos and double the pressure levels. The one and only negative is that the pen requires a battery.
Not only that, it is larger than my Intuos 4 which I paid £150 for back in the day. Know how much this cost? £55. The same as the basic Intuos.
I am in LOVE with this thing. Let’s compare this with the lowest of the low end Wacom Intuos line.
Intuos Huion
Active Area: 6 by 3.7 in 10" x 6.25"
Pressure Levels:
1024 2048
Hard Input Res: 2540 LPI 4000 LPI
Express Keys:
4 8
Not to mention the Intuos is HIDEOUS with buttons that are in incredibly awkward places.
The fact that a £55 matches and exceeds the £150 Intuos 4 I bought years ago speaks worlds. And do you know what the very final nail in the coffin is?
THE DRIVERS. ACTUALLY. WORK.
It’s time Wacom had some real competition in the market, if you’re looking for a new tablet please consider a Huion over a Wacom. I used to be a Wacom fanboy too but now?
All I can find is good reviews on this thing and people doing the same thing I am doing, trying to convince people it’s worth it. So… You have the information, use it as you will.
I have a huion H610 and I absolutely love it
I had a huion H610 and I can absolutely confirm that it was an extremely nice tablet and for the use I got out of it- an outstanding value. It most certainly performed comparably nicer than my intuos. That said, Huion has a bit to work on with durability. And I had more issues with huion drivers than I ever did wacom. I got maybe 2 years out of the H610 before it died. Now, I do put a lot of mileage on my tablets and I produce work daily- so two straight years of that… TL;DR, it’s a worthy investment if you aren’t saving for a tablet monitor, but if you’re like me and you live in Photoshop every day, you get what you pay for.
10/10 recommend this tablet for those on a budget that want more surface, better pressure sensitivity for a hella good price. Great for students!
I’m not convinced it has the endurance for a heavy work load.
My intuos 3 still lives.
I work at a Digital painting classes and we had only Wacom tablets for two years, but HUION was kind enough to provide their tablets for our classes. We have a lot of different Huion tablets and all of them work wonders! Pens are much convenient especially in comparison to Wacom Intuos/Bamboo pens (they’re so freacking thin). You don’t have to charge them very often (it can work somewhere around 2-3 months).
I have that wacom and it works just fine but reblogging for future uses (when my wacom finally decides to let go)
I use a H610 pro (upgraded from a 2008 small Wacom bamboo), have done for two and a half years, and I’m drawing constantly and this thing has yet to kick the bucket or give me any major issues.
My pen is on its way out (the casing has cracked and I’ve pulled the sections apart by accident a couple of times, but it still works! It’s just it’s only a matter of time before the crack gets bigger and I have to start taping it up lmao) and I don’t know how well it would hold up to being carried/bashed around a lot, but aside from the pen casing crack (which rn is having exactly zero affect on my ability to draw) I’ve had no problems with it and I absolutely swear by this thing.
don’t worry about making it super-accurate, just focus on the characteristic parts of the face and have fun
the outcome might not look like the ref, but it will be different and more varied than faces you draw out of your head, an dprobably pretty rad on its own right!
feel free to reblog with your drawing, if you want!
Spudfuzz on Deviantart made the original resource, which I modified to be a bit more realistic. She gave me permission to post this.
☛These swatches, like all art resources, should be used as a “jumping off point!” All colours are relative, and change with lighting conditions. As they are now, these swatches work best for adoptables, character lineups, and other art where local colour is important. ☚
Artists–please recognize and embrace the various ranges, hues, and values brown. I so often see characters meant to be medium and dark brown regulated to a “I’m too afraid/internally prejudiced to use the correct skin color.” Relative color is legit a thing, but I’ve seen a lot of brown-skinned characters appear much lighter for reasons that obviously aren’t relative color related.
Agreed, I’ve had many of my dark brown ocs lightened, and had artists be very difficult to work with to get the tone brought down into the correct shade. Which, can make me feel uncomfortable, and maybe even regret commissioning someone. I am very understanding when it comes to limitations, but if you get a character with a colorswatch, take from it. If you’re not comfortable doing a dark skin color due to inexperience, say so, and either turn down the commission, or learn. Otherwise getting angry at someone who keeps telling you it’s too light, just makes you look like an asshole.
if you get a character with a colorswatch, take from it.
if you get a character with a colorswatch, take from it.
if you get a character with a colorswatch, take from it.
i have hard artists get pissed off at me and swear i never gave them swatches, that i gave them incorrect references, that they’re going to charge me more to fix my characters’ skintones even when my swatch link was in plain view in my reference list, right at the goddamn top. it’s hideously unprofessional and you bet your ass i warned all my art buying friends about these folks. if you fuck up skintone, you fix it. it’s your mistake, not mine.don’t make excuses to draw my character white.
