#Process

[meruz]

I’m absolutely obsessed with your art! Your art is such an inspiration, and I like to analyze it to make my own work grow (don’t worry, I am not copying ur style. Perfection is impossible to cheat off of)

I’d like to know- How do you get that dot/noise-ish texture? In the tmnt art you made, one is Raphael’s arm had a bright cyan light from it, but then fades into little dots- I’d like to know how you do that.

Ofc you don’t gotta answer! If you see this in your inbox and don’t want to answer, that’s okay <3

hi! firstly thank u im flattered ;_; secondly its funny to get this ask because i actually made a tutorial for this months ago and i was like.....actually im a little anti-tutorial because i think online art communities pass them around and treat them as a "you've been doing art WRONG this is the RIGHT way" thing and not as like. individual technique sharing. idk. also nobody asked so im not gonna post this. but u asked so... here i am posting it LOL

basically its just the dissolve brush mode in photoshop with the softest default brush + some sneaky masking to get the right fall off/shadows that i want. u can technically use eraser instead of masking but idk i find its a pain to edit afterwards.

this has kind of been my default coloring method for the past... year plus now? basically i just do all the work in my inks/flats stage and all i do for "paint" boils down to like. 2-3 of these lighting layers (normally one key light and one bounce light. sometimes more key lights depending on how much i hate myself) i used to do shadows with this too but then i stopped because it was getting too complicated. sometimes if i want it to be glowy ill throw a frickin.... outer glow layer style on the light layer too.

you can also see me kind of work thru this method in a couple tiktoks (1) (2)

[iraprince]

gonna show u guys a little opalescent highlight hack i threw together today

rainbow gradient above your main figure (i usually have all my main figure folders/layers in one big folder, so i can clip gradient maps + adjustments to it!). liquify tool to push the colors around a bit. STAY WITH ME I KNOW IT LOOKS STUPID RN I'M GOING SOMEWHERE WITH THIS

THEN: set it to add/glow (or the equivalent in ur drawing program), lower the opacity a bit, and apply a layer mask. then u can edit the mask with whatever tools you like to create rainbow highlights!!

in this case i'm mostly using the lasso fill tool to chip out little facets, but i've also done some soft airbrushing to bring in larger rainbow swirls in some areas. it's pretty subtle here, but you can see it better when i remove the gradient map that's above everything, since below i'm working in greyscale:

more granular rambling beneath the cut!

u could also just do this with a brush that has color jitter, but what i like about using layer masks for highlight/shading layers is how simple and reversible it makes everything. i can use whatever brushes i want, and erasing/redoing things is super low stakes, which is great when i often approach this stuff with a super trial-and-error approach.

example: have u ever thrown a gradient w multiple colors over an entire piece, set it to multiply etc, and then tried to erase it away to carve out shadows/highlights? it's super frustrating, bc it looks really good, but if u erase something and then change ur mind later, u basically would have to like. recreate the gradient in the area u want to cover up again. that's how i used to do things before figuring out layer masks!! but masking basically creates a version of this with INFINITE undo bc u can erase/re-place the base layer whenever u want.

anyway, back to rambling about this specific method:

i actually have TWO of these layers on this piece (one with the liquified swirls shown above, and another that's just a normal concentric circle gradient with much broader stripes) so i can vary the highlights easily as needed.

since i've basically hidden the rainbow pattern from myself, the colors in each brushstroke i make will kind of be a surprise, which isn't always great -- but easily fixable! for example, if i carve out a highlight and it turns out the rainbow pattern in that area is way too stripey, i can just switch from editing the mask to editing the main layer and blur that spot a bit.

also, this isn't a full explanation of the overall transparency effect in these screencaps! there's other layer stuff happening below the rainbow highlights, but the short version is i have all this character's body parts in different folders, each with their own lineart and background fill, and then the fill opacity is lowered and there's multiply layers clipped to that -- blah blah it's a whole thing. maybe i'll have a whole rundown on this on patreon later. uhhh i think that's it tho! i hope u get something useful out of this extremely specific thing i did lmao

[kelogsloops]

forever repeating 'trust the process' in my head while making these marker portrait studies 😅 #brbchasingdreams

🎵 Blue Wednesday - Things In Between

[queenoftheantz]

I actually took photos of my process this time! I always look for these when i try to learn the medium, so here you go! Details on the process is in the alt text!

[ungoliantschilde]

“Heaven’s Devils”, by Joe Lansdale and Bruce Timm.

[staticcolour]

Commission o7 Process below the cut

[missusruin]

wip vs finals; paint-blob edition

[skunkes]

how would you go about drawing a double chin on a thin person with a thin neck? i have one and i never know how to portray it

oh i have this bc i have a weak ass chin

dis is some examples of how i like to do it...this is with the assumption of not much face fat as well. i like the half line leading to the chin, half line leading to the neck to make the fold.....but depending on how much fat, the chin bump just sits separately from the sides of the face. i find the neck also widens closer closer to the jaw bc of the mass accumulating there

as for 3/4s it also depends on how much fat but the chin existing as its own separate little landmark to imply more fat below it still applies

[stealingpotatoes]

i only remembered to take one wip screenshot of some of my ms paint doods which makes for the funniest and most useless process pics

[puba24]

Trying to jump back on productive wave, so doing fast daily sketches

[vanessagillings]

As promised...process shots! All of my pieces for my solo show at Nucleus Portland were painted in gouache with a tiny bit of watercolor at the end. A lot of these originals as well as prints are available here!

[maxyvert]

👻Ghost Lady process👻

The footage waited years for me, and finally it could become a lil video. >Finished illustration here<

[tsrmarina]

Quick sketch study ✍️

I must do more studies before finishing any other pieces 🫠

Time-lapse of the process:

Get print:

[nokomento]

i…had time at waiting room earlier today lol

some durging around