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i made a tutorial on how to draw beach water or somthing idk

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I created a quick walkthrough on my process! You can do the same with any digital art program and brushes you like. As always, learning comes with critical thinking and if you feel this does not apply to you, then no worries! There’s no correct way to do things as long as you achieve the results you want. 

The technique can be customized with different brush types and colours, and can be as simple or heavily rendered as you so desire. I hope it helps a little! I like to do lighting like this in my own work for a sense of atmosphere.

Please ignore the fact I spelled complementary wrong, it’s been a long week ok lol

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need refs/inspo for period clothing?

here you go:

Medieval (9th-15th century):

10th century and earlier

Romance (1000-1250)

11th century

12th century

13th century

more 13th century

14th century

more 14th

15th century

and more 15th century

Gothic (1150-1550)

Renaissance (1520-1650)

16th & 17th century

16th century

more 16th

Tudors (1500-1550)

more Tudors

Elizabethan Period (1558-1603)

Jacobean Era (1603-1625)

17th century

more 17th century

and again

and even more

this won’t stop

Baroque (1600-1750)

Georgian Period (1714-1830):

18th century

more 18th century

18th century women’s fashion

18th century men’s fashion

Rococo (1720-1770)

Classicism (1770-1790)

children 18th-19th century

Regency Preiod (1811-1820)/ Empire (1800-1820s):

1790-1820s

more stuff on regency and georgian era

even more

that’s not enough regency

and more

how is there so much

early 19th century men’s wear

early 19th century women’s wear

Victorian Period (1837-1901):

Romantic Era (1820-1840s)

Civil War Era/1850-1860s

1870-1890s

more victorian

Edwardian Period (1901-1910):

1900-1910s

Belle Epoque (1880-1910s)

more edwardian/belle époque

Modern:

1910s-1920s [Fashion between the World Wars]

1920s

more roaring 20s

so much 20s

1920s hairstyles

1930s

1930-1940s

1930-1950s

1950s

more 50s

1960s

1960-1970s

1980s

lots of periods in one spot/fashion through centuries:

here, here, and here is almost everything (and properly ordered)

also here with lots of historic fashion magazines

100 years of beauty (includes lots of other cultures too!)

historic fashion

costumes of antiquity

more historical clothing

history of fashion

more history of fashion

“vintage” clothing

historic costumes

children’s historical fashion/toys

details

historic wedding dresses

historic assecoires (hats, shoes…)

hats

masks

parasols

lots of embroidery/jewlery

Short disclaimer: Most pictures show clothes of royalty, aristocracy, and burgoisie as their clothes weren’t worn as much and especially not for labour, which is the issue with farmers/workers’ clothes, which also were reused quite often, whether to sew new clothes or have rags. So please keep this in mind!!

It really is very European-centric as I am European as well, and I apologise for it if you expected more from it. I definitely lack the knowledge to determine what are accurate portrayals of other cultures, and to find content for them is really difficult as well. This is why I would encourage you to submit any resources you have to my blog! If you have any book recs or know good pages, please let me know!

Another edit/note: Pinterest has changed a lot since I made the post, so you need to be signed in now to see more than the first row of the boards, I’m really sorry about that! (Also I tested all the links and on my original post they still work, if you’re having isues with that.)

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Light and Shading Tutorial

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Tutorial: Clothing Folds

Im not that good of a teacher/instructor, but i hope this small tutorial on clothing folds helps ;o;

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Hi! At work I often have a few minutes of downtime while the computer does it’s thing and I want to use some of that time to improve my drawing skills. Any little exercises you can recommend?

Absolutely! 

What comes to mind first is something I did as a part of a ‘how to improve’ tutorial. 

Post it notes are usually found around the office, so this is a great way to use company money to further yourself. I recommend trying to do this quickly, as well. The idea is to un-train your brain from throwing down incorrect details. 

The steps are:

Think of one (1) thing you wanna learn to draw.

Draw that thing from memory on a post it.

Look for a picture of that thing on Google, or in a book. Think about what you got wrong in your first drawing. 

Take another post-it and draw that thing again. (Without reference.)

Look at a reference again. Check for mistakes again.

Rinse and repeat.

This exercise was inspired by the How to Draw Anything tutorial by Xuu on DeviantArt. I recommend everyone give this a read. It’s an excellent approach to drawing as muscle memory instead of some unobtainable ‘talent’ that you have to magically happen upon. 

- Mod Chekhov

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a page full of faces

watch the tutorial + painting process here

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I’ve been getting some requests to make a tutorial on how to draw fabric. It’s really not that complicated when you break it down, but it’s still something people get stuck on and over complicate. Here’s my “bare bones” simple explanation as to how to draw fabric!

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I've always loved drawing people and especially portraits. Your art is so inspiring! Do you have any advice on drawing portraits with accurate proportion? What aspects are the most important in portraits, do you think? And what are good exercises? I'm sorry for bombarding you with so many questions! :3

Thank you! There’s one thing about drawing portraits that I don’t think I’ve ever touched on, and it’s the technique of constraining features.  Basically, it becomes easier and more intuitive to rotate the face in 3D space once your mind grasps exactly where the features are located and, furthermore, where they can’t be located.  

I use a weird double trapezoid shape that I’ve depicted below in red to keep track of facial feature placement every single time I draw a face.  It follows the top of the eyebrows, touches the corner of the eye, traces down to the corner of the lips, and finally ends at the bottom of the lips.  

The shape of the constraint will change depending on the person’s features, and it works for every angle of the head.  For me it really internalized where each part of the face was, as well as where it started and ended. It kinda helps moderate your drawings; i.e., you’ll stop drawing features that are wildly misplaced or off-sized.  I don’t literally draw this shape out every time I draw a face, but I see it in my mind’s eye 100% of the time.

If you’re still learning proportions, a good exercise is to grab pictures of people and trace this shape over them (either digitally or with a marker or something) to get an idea of what realistic constraints looks like.  Then go back to studying faces, and constantly check your drawing by tracing along the eyebrows and down to the bottom of the lips to make sure that things aren’t off (e.g., the constraint isn’t terribly asymmetric).  It takes a while to get used to, but it might help you get a good feel for portraiture.  

There’s one other unrelated thing I like to do with faces, and if you’ve seen a lot of my pics you’ve already picked up on it.  If you kinda add some shading to the area on the cheek just below the eye and down to the nose, I think it adds a decent amount of depth to a face.  Don’t go overboard of course but there’s another little tip that could be of use.

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Hey friends!

Meg here for TUTOR TUESDAY! Just a quick beginning look at colors and some color theory! I’ve had a few recommendation for color palette stuff, so I hope this is a start! Paul has done some on color as well! If you have any recommendations send ‘em in here or my personal! Keep practicing, have fun, and I’ll see you next week!

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Things I wish I knew when I started drawing

My experiences with traditional art have been challenging to say the least, mostly because I didn’t really *get* some of the more obvious tips and tricks. Some of it was definitely jealousy of people with tablets, though. If someone had reminded me about a couple of these things, I wouldn’t have gotten frustrated enough to give up on art for a year. Hopefully they can help prevent others from doing the same. 

It can take a painfully long time to learn new or unfamiliar techniques. If they don’t come naturally, your intuition isn’t going to help you. 

The time it takes to draw something decreases drastically once you really start practicing it. Ever heard of ‘muscle memory’? It’s real. Your hands have it. Even after just a couple tries, you’ll be surprised at how much easier it gets. 

Don’t force yourself to try and copy someone else’s style, or learn a bunch of complicated techniques. It’s time consuming and will end up costing you more in the long run. 

Adding more lines isn’t going to make it look better. It’s good to trace the outline of what you have in mind before filling it in, but adding a bunch of dark lines in close proximity to each other just makes it look messier. 

Avoid sketching and making lineart with a dark pencil. The easiest pencils to find in a school store are almost definitely HB pencils, which are a middle ground. You’ll have better luck erasing those extra lines if you use a(n) H pencil (2H, 4H, H). 

WAIT UNTIL YOUR INK DRIES BEFORE YOU START TO COLOR OR ERASE ANYTHING. Inking is a delicate process and one wrong move can distort how your drawing looks overall. Wait a good 1-2 minutes before checking with a piece of paper or fingernail to see if it’s finished drying.

Unless it’s a really special marker, don’t color using a light marker over a dark marker. A mark will stay on the tip of your marker and stain everything you try to draw with it afterwards.

STOP COMPARING YOUR ART TO STUFF OTHER PEOPLE DRAW! When you look at some of the fantastic artwork online, it can feel intimidating. What you need to remember, is that you’re seeing the finished product of what was a long process of trials and errors leading up to a culmination of the artist’s strongest efforts. 

And, last but not least, the tools don’t make the artist or the art. YOU, the artist, are the one with the vision to achieve a final result. Even if you don’t have that fancy white marker that shows up on top of black, you can still demonstrate good technique and a sense of style. 

Thanks for coming to my TED talk! Now get out there and go make something beautiful!

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Rebecca Solnit, The Faraway Nearby

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tragedy as a genre asks us repeatedly “why did this have to happen?”. why did medea kill her children? why did lear reject the only daughter who truly loved him? why cant estragon and vladimir simply walk away? we can accept the idea that these are events made inevitable by some facet of the characters personalities. we can argue that circumstances forced their hand. but ultimately we dont have these answers and thats why i think tragedy. is a genre so given to retellings and repetition. the why is tantalizing — maybe if we play it again, we can figure out where it went wrong. so anyways as always we’re back at hadestown’s “its a sad song, but we sing it anyway. to know how it ends, and still begin to sing it again, as if it might turn out this time …”

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Heather Havrilesky, How to Be a Person in the World

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