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How to Paint Light by jonhuangart

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In honor of the upcoming revs event, I thought I'd finish this idea I had: a basic guide to the way I draw Furnace's helmet. Dunno if it'll be helpful to anyone, and I'm sure others have their own way, but I figured it'd be nice to share!

I really do recommend laying down shapes over top of a figure, it's really helpful for figuring out the perspective!

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What program/brushes do you use? I love the texture in your art

Thank you!! It took a lot of trial and error to get to where I currently am with rendering, so I’m really glad to hear someone notices and even likes it! 🥺🖤

The programme I use is Procreate for iPad!

The brush I use for lineart is mostly the brush pen, found in the Procreate Calligraphy brush set. I find this one has the best fluidity and weight, while being very clear and soft. When I’m looking for a rougher line however, I will turn to the chalk brush from the same brush set.

The base colours are always set with the flat brush, found in the Procreate Painting brush set. I sometimes use the studio pen from the Inking brush set to make an outline and fill it in later, but that’s only when I’m feeling really nitpicky LOL

All the shading is done with the flat brush as well, but the highlights I do with the brush pen. The “highlights” here are the bass guitar strings and belt details, leather and metal shine, chain, and hair strand highlights.

And finally, I achieve the dynamic backgrounds by using the grain 1 brush from MiksKS’s 12 Grain brush set (link here) It’s probably my most used out of all the brush sets I’ve got downloaded, I absolutely adore it! :D

And here is an example of the chalk brush in action! I absolutely love this brush when I’m trying to achieve rougher lines and textures. I love the grittiness and sharpness of it, while it holds the same weight and fluidity as the brush pen.

And while I didn’t think it was relevant to your question, I’m adding it in as well just in case; when I’m making simple anatomical sketches I’ll usually use the flat brush, and when I’m making more detailed sketches I’ll use the brush pen :)

🖤 Hope you find this useful!! 🖤

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Trixie caught you slippin’

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got an ask recently about the way my digital art looks like traditional, so I tried to explain the steps on my self portrait, feat. some of my favorite artists and favorite brushes. sorry if it's incoherent, I'm not used to explaining my process besides "I've been professionally studying traditional art for half my life and I'm really bad at technology so I just paint digitally the way I do on paper"

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Hey there! Your actually one of my inspiration for art! I really like how realistically shaded the backgrounds are and everything! Do you have any tips for shading in digital art?

Hey, I appreciate it, thank you! There are lots of things that go in to making a good background but this is the main idea that made backgrounds click for me:

Hopefully you'll agree that of these two shapes, the one on the right feels more 'real', despite the fact neither of these shapes are meant to represent anything. The shape on the right just has a noise filter and a faint light-to-dark gradient from top to bottom. Those two things create movement on a small scale (the noise) and on a large scale (the gradient). The presence of that sort of movement is what gets your brain to register something as real.

Here I've taken the shape and given it a new environment, a colour and then a gradient. The shape with the movement feels a little more natural in its environment, I think.

Then directly on top of that, I can start creating small scale movement, like the noise, through brush strokes. At first (on the left) the brushstrokes look quite out of place and unnatural. But as you work in to the surface more, creating more and more overlapping brushstrokes of various sizes and directions - all while trying to maintain the sense of that gradient - the strokes will start to more naturally integrate in to each other, creating a bed on to which other elements will lay naturally.

Here I give this abstract shape some context by painting some cracks and decay on it. These new elements create movement by giving our eyes more shapes to latch on to and jump between. I then added a pattern to it. This pattern adds more movement and reinforces the light effect by adhering to the gradient (getting darker at the same rate the wall does).

You can see I use this idea all through this picture. I make sure in any section there is always some kind of movement of light, whether its left-to-right, or top-to-bottom, corner-to-corner etc. Patterns like the woodgrain on the drawer or the textile of the curtain create additional movement and reinforce the dimensions of their respective forms by adhering to them. Bit rambly but I hope there's something useful in there!

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How i draw Grass

A friend of mine commed me to draw this and then after asked me to teach em how I do backgrounds so for the next 45 minutes, I spent it doing this how I draw grass tutorial.

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When was the last time you cleaned your sewing machine? It's a simple task, and something I do between projects. Have you noticed your thread tangling or tearing? Stitches being skipped? A funky noise that shouldn't be there? Chances are your machine needs to be cleaned. Cleaning it will prevent it from breaking down and requiring repairs, and that can get very expensive.

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Composition tutorial

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If we think of things as 3D forms, they exist even when we can’t see them.

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How I Approach Figure Drawing

Got asked about tips for figure drawing and…I have a lot to say! I thought to just catalogue what I’ve been doing to build up my figure drawing knowledge and habit, so hopefully this is a useful reference for anyone interested in figure drawing :)

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i can't find delicious coconut cake, please save me

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Microsoft Office, like many companies in recent months, has slyly turned on an “opt-out” feature that scrapes your Word and Excel documents to train its internal AI systems. This setting is turned on by default, and you have to manually uncheck a box in order to opt out.

If you are a writer who uses MS Word to write any proprietary content (blog posts, novels, or any work you intend to protect with copyright and/or sell), you’re going to want to turn this feature off immediately.How to Turn off Word’s AI Access To Your Content

I won’t beat around the bush. Microsoft Office doesn’t make it easy to opt out of this new AI privacy agreement, as the feature is hidden through a series of popup menus in your settings:On a Windows computer, follow these steps to turn off “Connected Experiences”:

File > Options > Trust Center > Trust Center Settings > Privacy Options > Privacy Settings > Optional Connected Experiences > Uncheck box: “Turn on optional connected experiences”

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new brush set for CSP on my gumroad!

pay what you want!

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DIY use tissue box as a pencil holder.