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Would you ever consider sharing tips on how to draw hair? The hair in your art is so pretty and fluffy <3

I can definitely give some tips on how I draw hair, but I’m not sure how well it would apply in a different style haha

Blah blah blah that probably was a horrible explanation of my process so let’s just see it in action (sorta)

Im sorry if this makes little to no sense, im bad at tutorials bc I don’t know what im doing

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i've been asked what brushes i use so here they are (ibispaintx only)

bonus details:

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VARIAN!!!!! DROP YOUR BRUSHES!!!AND MY LIFE!! IS YOURSSSS!!!!! /ref (take ur time lol no pressure/gen) I’m just frothing at the mouth over ur art 👍

Okay okays here they are

Ok first brush isnt mine its by Sainotuno00 great brush ive used their brush for most of my sketches now :]

All brushes below are made by me

These two are my most used ones currently

⬇️ i draw with my finger which means I cant draw with pen pressure so I left the pen pressures sliders untouched to all of these brushes. Ill leave the adjusting to you pen user guys :]

Here are other brushes i use for coloring & rendering

And these two lineart brushes below I dont use often anymore but i thought id still share

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New brush who dis

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John Biggers (American, 1924-2001), Hands. Charcoal on board, 18½ x 24¼ in

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ty! \(^_^)/ feelin good so ill try answer in detail for ya!!!! 

most of the time i just do basic cell shading. here ill explain my rendering process after i choose my base colours, ill try keep it short & sweet!! nvm warning buckle up its really super long.

flat colours -> fully shaded!!

⭐️Picking shading colours!

usually it's just the base colour with +saturation OR a hue shift! i dont really lower brightness.

This is what i mean by HSB, i never use the colour wheel i prefer the sliders!!!

i like my art to look super colourful so i do things like shading pink with blue instead of with a darker pink or red, as shown in the above callie piece.

examples ft lumity:

skin: i always keep it very simple & cartoony! over the nose, below the eyes, the neck & sometimes the tips of the ears is where i'll put shading

hair: as u can See, it's not darker than the base colour at all!! for dark hair like luz's, i brighten & saturate the colour, and for light hair like amity's i just shift the hue a little!

⭐️more kewl tips:

colourpick from yourself!!!! instead of making a new colour for everything, try using a colour u already have down!!!! like below: by limiting my colour palette, it looks more harmonious

really messy image but i hope u get what i mean. also the "off white / black" thing is a separate choosing base colours thing!! i can expand on that if anyone's interested 😙

shove halftones in wherever they fit. here are the 2 pngs i use!! there a rlly good alt to gradients, i used a LOT of them in that callie piece!!! clipping mask over where u want it & alpha lock to change colour.

⭐️here's a WHERE i put the shading:

look st the environment ur guy is in!! pick where your light source is coming from & look where that light will hit and where it is blocked by something.

bounce light: the sun's light is also shining on the grass! so powerful the green reflects right back!

this is kinda more realistic lighting now.

i kinda just put a circle wherever theres a corner!

and i put that Beautiful Shape a lot wherever. i change it a little depending on the character, sometimes its triangular or squarey but thats the base shape! i dont even know what its called but i love it.

look at this hello weird shape guy!!!

actually, my grandfest art are probably some of the most detailed art i have! u can see urself where i put shading & stuff - they do have more desaturated colour palettes though:

& here are some additional examples ^_^ flat colour -> shaded -> multiply layer -> lighting

in this one u can see the hand & leg at the back are completely in shadow too :)

anyway i think that's kinda it? i dont really know how to explain it, i just do what feels & looks right to me??? remember that im Not an expert & this is just how i do things :)

i will always repeat my no1 tips tho: keep drawing!!! and copy ur fave artists!!!!!! it really will hell u find what u like!!!!!!!!!!!!

i hope this post helps a little & answers ur question😇 never be shy to ask me anything cuz i love answering & chattin w u guys!!!!

EDIT: just saying these arent set rules or anything!!!! u can see just how many times i Dont follow my own advice LOL. my artstyle is super inconsistent, i rarely draw things the same every time

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Can you teach us how you draw inkling and octoling hair

of course sure!! made a little guide thing.

i always say imagine it's a balloon. balloon hair!!!! This is because it is a frequent comment i get Lol i love it

colouring;

step 1 base colour. i always use an off-white for the whites, usually green or blue! nice & vibrant for the main ink colour.

step 2 halftone png clipping mask, alpha lock to change colour! or a normal gradient will work too!

step 3 shine & shade. v simply. i have done a rendering tutorial post if ur interested

examples ^_^ ⬇️

octolings now!

and examples! ⬇️

hope this helps a bit 😉

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Frank Brangwyn aka Frank William Brangwyn (Welsh, 1867-1956, b. Bruges, Belgium, d. Ditchling, East Sussex, England) - Swans, c. 1921, Paintings: Oil on Canvas

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I love being in a chaos cult, I sure hope a psyker doesn’t make my head explode

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Hey seiishin, I'm a beginner artist and i was hoping you could give a full tutorial on how you color?

hello! this is a bit of a hard question to answer since i dont think giving a tutorial of how i colour without learning any foundational colour concepts first would be very beneficial, so i'll try to give you some basic tips on picking colours instead since this is a very VERY expansive topic and im simply not the kind of person that can pass on that knowledge very well especially since im not the best at it lol

when im picking colours for my drawings, i try my best to "unify" the colour pallet so that it seems more cohesive, this tip from ggdg sums it up pretty well i think

other than that, i usually try to pick colours that generally look good together based on different colour harmony concepts, like these!

i'll try and show you an example with something i'm working on right now. you'll notice i didn't colour pick tinkaton's colours from its art and went for a warmer pink and saturated the blues of the hammer a little.

you'll also notice the canvases i draw on are NEVER pure white. this isnt to say pure white is something that can never be used but white is a colour that usually influenced by surrounding colours, so pure white in most pallets just wont look right. so its not usually a colour i would use as a backdrop if youre trying to pick good colours for your art. but again, there's always exceptions and this isnt a hard rule. here's pure white compared to the colour my canvases usually start with

another thing i should touch on briefly is colour relativity and the importance of value and saturation.

value is SUPER SUPER important for making sure all the colours in your art stand out from each other and read clearly. as you can see here, most of the values here stand apart from each other, and i can see that i probably need to adjust the darkness of the light blue in comparison to the pink hair tips, though the lineart separates them well enough already i think. this is also a good way tocheck you havent made any dark skinned characters too light. values are important guys!

hot tip: put a layer of pure black on top of your art and set that layer to "colour" and BOOM! you can see the values of your art in grayscale.

and i'll also briefly touch on colour relativity. because we percieve colours relative to each other, we usually read a colour as something its not when its surrounded by certain other colours. let's take a look at my background drawings in the cover i did for the shuichi saihara zine:

though i only used a bunch of different purples, when all of them are perceived in relation to each other, a warmer purple can look like blonde hair amongst all the other purples!

as for the brushes i use while colouring, i like textured brushes! i bought these so i cant share them for free but im sure there are many free alternatives out there

anyway, sorry if this isnt exactly what you wanted, but there are TONS of people out there that have worded this better than i ever could, i would suggest looking up some youtube vids on colour theory, but i hope these little tips are useful enough!

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colours? colours :) one of my friends generally wanted help on colours and i went. a little bit overboard and decided to just fully format it into a pseudo-tutorial

if it’s not clear what the first image is, basically what you do is merge all your colour layers multiple times to be shadowing and highlight layers and mess with their hue/luminosty/saturation levels, much like on the lineart colouring section. again, making it more saturated and more purple/blue for shadows and lighter for highlights.

don’t take it as gospel or anything it’s honestly just what i do to make it easier for myself due to having Joint Issues but i think it might just help people Without pain possibly do art a bit faster and/or experience less frustration? maybe??? ps. im aware this information probably won’t be new for quite a few people but there’s always going to be new people who didn’t know, so i don’t see the harm in posting this

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if yall was curious uhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh art tutorial;

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How do I render my art?

This is not the only method there is but it´s the one I use, hope its helpful to ya´ll! 🙏✨

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HEY sorry if you’ve answered this before or if there is no answer but how are you so good at gesture/expression/form when it comes to character art

I think that, like that spongebob thing i reblogged, I learned most of what I know about expression/posing/gesture from looking at storyboards for shows with expression/posing/gesture that I really like.

I find rough storyboards to be very informative about what an artist is thinking in the process of making a pose/expression! Seeing how it looked before they cleaned it up will show you which parts they paid more or less attention to, and stray strokes can give you an idea of how they formed certain lines or shapes. Sometimes you will also get to see guidelines that are important to constructing the pose, but are erased from the final image.

Lots of other behind-the-scenes type art for cartoons and animated movies can also be good for this, especially expression sheets

I just got like really REALLY into cartoon production stuff for many years, since thru most of high school I wanted to be a storyboard artist, so storyboarding stuff ended up informing a lot of how I approach art to this day.

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I wanted to make a mini tutorial on some of the stuff I do when I do digital painting. The first one is simple but something that took me a long time to realize, the second is something I haven’t seen anyone talk about and has really helped me out when painting.

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hi i'm an artist and i do pastel art. how do you color dark skinned characters in pastel art without whitewashing them?

i get asked this a lot by many artists and i totally get it

The first thing to note down is that coloring dark skinned in a pastel way is NOT about lighting their skin but rather about lowering the saturation in their skin tone.

what i mean by this is to focus less on skin tone and more of how piercing the color is. pastel are is soft and carries a fragile color scheme. many artists who don’t know how to color dark skin usually make the mistake of coloring their characters like this:

DO NOT DO THIS^^

artists coloring dark skin like this in pastel art is the primary reason why the myth of “you can’t color dark skin in pastel art” still lies around. The problem with these color scheme above is that this happens due to the artist focusing on the fact that dark skin is brown rather than trying to put effort into getting the skin tone to fit the color scheme. The color in these drawing have skin tones that down match the scheme at all and stands out too much hence the easy way out to this problem for these artist is 

W H I T E W A S H I N G ~

PLEASE DO NOT DO  THIS WHEN DRAWING A DARK SKINNED CHARACTER!!!

Rather than whitewashing them, the solution to this problem is to lower the saturation of the skin tone to fit the scheme

GO FROM THIS:

TO THIS:

^This fits the scheme so much more better because there character is clearly brown without their skintone being saturated to the point of hurting your eyes

M o r e  E x a m p l e s ~ 

from the colors i used on the skin tone of these two pieces the colors are around the same range of darkness 

The only difference is that one is more saturated than another

Welp those are all my tips for coloring darkskin for pastel arthope this was helpful :’0