michaels-studio
A place of peace and art
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Main blog is @michaels-reblog-station. I'll try to post art here often and I'm open for any requests. No request is too much to draw for.
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michaels-studio · 4 years ago
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For artists who have problems with perspective (furniture etc.) in indoor scenes like me - there’s an online programm called roomsketcher where you can design a house/roon and snap pictures of it using different perspectives.
It’s got an almost endless range of furniture, doors, windows, stairs etc and is easy to use. In addition to that, you don’t have to install anything and if you create an account (which is free) you can save and return to your houses.
Examples (all done by me):
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Here’s an example for how you can use it
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michaels-studio · 4 years ago
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Having troubles with facial angles in your drawing style?
Try a 3D sculpture of your art in your own style in a free program that is simple and very easy to use.
The program is called Sculptris and is a free off-shoot program from Zbrush, that program that you keep hearing about but either takes selling your kidneys or piracy to actually use. 
If you download it and sculpt out a facial model, you can have references for your own work for all of time. No more endlessly searching Google for reference materials or twisting/rotating/flipping a drawing to see if there are flaws. And you can easily edit it to create more facial types. This way, you can make character references for any and every face and facial angle that you can think of.
The program offers mirroring right from the start, so your faces will be perfectly symmetrical. You can turn off the symmetry for things like scars or otherwise. 
It takes a little time. For instance, I downloaded the program on Christmas and, in my spare time, this took a few days of getting familiar with the program (first day) and then sculpting for a few minutes each day, mostly due to my perfectionist nature. And this one isn’t even done. I still have to mold the mouth, ears, and other smaller aspects before I consider it done. However, I was so giddy over the possibilities that I wanted to share this with my fellow artists.
From now on, I have reference for a face in my own style and will be able to create things so much easier in the future.  I hope that this helps you guys and that you have fun with it. 
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michaels-studio · 5 years ago
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I’m not super fond of the way vampires turn pale no matter their skin tone so here’s a proposal:
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Colder tones!!!
This was loosely based off livor mortis which is the bluish-purple discoloration of the skin of dead bodies. It’s a result of the gravitation of blood but fuck that vamps are purple now
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michaels-studio · 5 years ago
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Some head related art notes. I hope some of these are a bit helpful. Patreon / Gumroad
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michaels-studio · 5 years ago
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[pixiv] [part 2]
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michaels-studio · 5 years ago
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Gold Painting Tutorial by CelestialFang
Follow the artist on Instagram!
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michaels-studio · 5 years ago
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I get asked a lot for tips with coloring black people, so i put together a little tutorial! (and bumps my kofi if you found this helpful)
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michaels-studio · 5 years ago
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Surnames are just as important as given names. So, I compiled a list of the websites I use to find my surnames.
English Surnames
Dutch Surnames
Spanish Surnames
Scottish Surnames
German Surnames
Italian Surnames
Irish Surnames
French Surnames
Scandinavian Surnames
Welsh Surnames
Jewish Surnames
Surnames By Ethnicity
Most Common Surnames in the USA
Most Common Surnames in Great Britan
Most Common Surnames in Asia
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michaels-studio · 5 years ago
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I’ll be doing drawing studies like this one exclusively for 10 usd patrons They’ll also get more rewards <3 (and 1usd / 5usd patrons too <3 )
Go check it out
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michaels-studio · 5 years ago
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Disclaimer: I’m completely self taught so my art is not necessarily anatomically correct nor realistic. This is just how I personally draw shoes.
Chunky Big Shoes !! Shoes are one of my absolute favorite things to draw so I’m glad you like how I draw them! these are the only real tips I have lmao. I always just make a vague shape (sorta,,,looks like a cartoon steak or smthn) and then draw the shoes.
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michaels-studio · 5 years ago
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Friendly PSA to make your trans ftm oc/headcanons better. 
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michaels-studio · 5 years ago
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how to draw arms ? ? 
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michaels-studio · 5 years ago
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why you should be drawing the boring things
I’ve always seen people, and I used to be the person that thought, ‘I don’t want to drill or practice art because it won’t help me improve,’ etc. Now, if you do art as a hobby and have no intention of rapidly improving, then by all means, continue on your way.
But if you’re striving to improve, are unhappy with your art or ability, or want to gain any kind of recognizable skill with art, you have to drill.
Being in art school, I’ve realized that the amount that I improve [even with my non-school related endeavors] directly correlates with how many exercises I’m doing in my studios, or how often I’m independently drilling anatomy. If I’m doing 4 or five pages of 30-second gestures a day, my art block stays away, I’m more flexible, and I can draw better for longer, and most importantly, I improve faster.
If you don’t know how to drill, I’m about to tell you.
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At LEAST use references. Comic book artists, master artists long dead, and most of your favorite artists either draw from life or draw from reference, and yeah, drawing from life sucks, I hate doing it, it’s hard, but that’s the point. You have to train your eyes to see, not just your hands to draw.
Research the difference between ‘gesture’ and ‘form’ in art. [This was MINDBLOWING to me when I was starting out. Everything clicked, and I suddenly knew the secrets of the universe.]
Apply them. Take a piece of printer paper and google ‘art model.’ Find some poses you like, and poses you don’t like, and restrict yourself to 30 seconds per image. This will make you find the gestures in the figure and help you with more efficiently expressing the pose. [I’ve done pages and pages of these. They’re not supposed to look good, they’re supposed to help your brain.] You can also use a nifty site called line-of-action to do it automatically for you.
Anatomy comes in time. By no means do I know everything about human anatomy. For a long time I thought that knowing the bones and muscles was useless, [since I wasn’t drawing them, duh] but I’ve found that knowing how a body part moves is amazingly useful at helping you understand how to draw it from certain angles without having to memorize the view of the shoulder from every plausible angle. You don’t have to know the name of every tendon in the body, just know that there’s a muscle that goes from the ear to the collar bone, and it twists when the neck turns. That’s it. If you know that and practice, you’ll be able to draw more accurately. No sternocleidomastoid necessary.
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So draw the hard stuff, draw guys if you usually draw girls, figure out where every leg muscle is, then fill a few pages with anatomy sketches, draw an arm from memory, then use a reference and see how much you didn’t know. It’s not impressive to have every ounce of visual information of the figure in your brain, it’s just limiting. Use references.
Draw gestures, draw anatomy, draw hands, draw the boring stuff.
You’ll get much better.
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michaels-studio · 5 years ago
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I had this idea sitting around for a while
Draw the squad/ot3 lol
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michaels-studio · 5 years ago
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Draw The Squad from my Folder Cutie Refs! 
feel free to use and Post your results but DO NOT REPOST THE ORIGINAL!
PS The top hand is the middle person’s!
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michaels-studio · 5 years ago
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Art tutorials by Disney artists Griz and Norm Lemay
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michaels-studio · 5 years ago
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truly
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