#Step By Step Tutorials

[kodasea]

Rendering step-by-step (2022)

[programming-fields]

https://programmingfields.com/use-redux-react-redux-in-react-js-with-example

[the-mang0tree]

How do you draw the bodies? I know you made a tutorial on how to draw the helms, but I’ve just gotten into transformers and I’m struggling with the mechs😭

i made this in advance LOL hope it helps

[tanuki-kimono]

To complete past diy kimono dressing for Sylvanians Families/Calico Critters I shared before (see 1 / 2), here is a new step by step by @haluchobin to create cute easy to put on obi :

Tie a thin elastic into a loose loop around the tail

Slip both ends of a ribbon through the loop and sew into place

Tie another ribbon around the elastic covering the knot. Style it into a bow, you can try to mimic real musubi if you want

Put on the finished obi and enjoy!

[poofroom]

Here are some painting tips, as promised. I hope they will help beginner artists!

Composition

Position of characters on the sheet

Choose the location of your character to be beneficial to the appearance of the art in general, you can accentuate the important places where the viewer should look first by using perspective and composition.

Tone sketch

Set the lights based on references, but adjust to your own, favourable lighting.

Contrasts come in many forms. Contrast in color (warm and cold), values (dark and light), shapes soft and hard, straight and curve, etc.

Less is better. Work on the details of the most important part of your work while cutting down everything else. If you do strong detail in one place, don't forget to add looser detail in another so the viewer's eye can rest. For example: If you are detailing a portrait, don't detail the background as much. Next to a place of high detail, there should be a place of low detail so that the picture does not look overloaded.

All in all, you can twist and break perspective, anatomy and shapes to convey your idea better. No rules are made of steel, they should support your imagination, not restrict it

Anatomy

Break down objects into simple shapes to arrange them in space.

Check references! plasticity comes first, then structure (muscles are important, but proportions and line of movement come first).

Take a photo of yourself, you will be able to understand how to perform your pose naturally. Color/light.

Light is part of the composition, put it in a way that highlights the important things. Air perspective

General rules of composition. From the general to the particular, first prepare the general scene, correctly place contrasts and accents, make everything important in contrast, and take the unimportant into an aerial perspective. (aerial perspective, or atmospheric perspective, refers to the technique of creating an illusion of depth by depicting distant objects as paler, less detailed, and usually bluer than near objects.)

When all the points are ready we can start working out the details.

When all the details are finished again it's back to the overall picture, looking at it from a distance. Check if the accents you wanted to draw attention to are working. They should have the highest contrast. Check if the contrast is not created by objects on the edges, where you don't want the viewer to pay attention. For example, if you are painting a portrait then the focus should be on the face and not on the details of the clothes or details in the background. (You can always convert the image to black and white and check the contrast)

Save the stages of your work to check against the initial idea and see what things have changed for better or worse!

[megumiluvv]

Of course this had to happen today. Nanami’s tie just had to act up today. What even is today? Your anniversary with Kento, of course! He dressed up all nice and planned a beautiful day for you and him, but his tie won’t tie correctly and the reservation will end soon if you don’t arrive on time.

He fiddles with the tie once more and attempts to untie the knot that somehow formed, but for some damned reason, it doesn’t work. It’s a little too late for him to completely change outfits, and he almost humors the thought of leaving without his outfit complete.

Luckily, you finally come into the room in your gorgeous outfit and see his struggles. You giggle and your footsteps echo through the room as you approach your husband.

“Tie issues?”

“Yes. I don’t know how it knotted up like this,” he sighs and runs a hand through his hair. “We’ll be late to dinner.”

“No, we won’t, I already started the car. All we have to do is fix this tie and go out to eat, we’ll be there exactly the time you planned. Punctual just how you like.”

Saying things like that reminds Kento why he fell for you. You always knew what he was thinking or knew what he needed. He never knew how you did it, but one day you had stolen his heart.

Perhaps it was your sweet smile. Or maybe your actions. Maybe it was the way you bantered with Gojo and never let him get to you. Whatever the deciding factor was, Kento loves you. A lot.

Your hands deftly work the part of the tie he’s having trouble with and untie the knot. You then lift his collar and start tying it. He watches you wrap the wide end of his tie around the narrow end, then move it through the loop you created. You then push it through the knot you created and pull the narrow end to make the tie the correct tightness and fix his collar. He sighs in relief and kisses your hand.

“Let’s go now, yeah?” He mutters against your hand.

“Mhm.”

You grin and take his hand, walking to the car, feeling his wedding ring against your fingers. The radio happens to play the song you two consider “your song”, and you hum along while he silently drives and admires your voice. You arrive at the restaurant right when you said you would, punctual as he likes. You sit at the table and order your food and drinks. When it arrives, he raises his glass to you with a small smile.

“To another amazing year with you, and many more to follow.”

“Indeed.”

You clink your glasses and drink, the rest of the night goes without a problem and you two return home to watch your favorite movie, after changing out of the clothes from dinner. You fall asleep against his shoulder and he chuckles quietly, rubbing your back and carefully lifting you into his arms. He carries you to bed and carefully unties his tie before joining you in bed. He hopes there truly are many more years to come.

Masterlist

[mellosdrawings]

Alrighty, let's tackle the second part of this request!

Here's a tuto on how to draw the nightmare that is Azul's hair!

First, a few observations.

Contrary to other characters like Jamil, Riddle, or Sebek, Azul's hair doesn't immediately tell you everything about his personality. For someone as calculating and (trying to be) mature as Azul, you'd expect his hair to be slick and and each strand to be at it's proper place.

It's the contrary here. Azul has wavy, almost curly hair that is completely all over the place.

It's because that's his own struggle that is shown here. Azul has always fought against himself, being his octopus nature, his weight, or even his hair that won't stick down. That boy is just cursed to forever have something about himself that doesn't fit his aesthetic.

(Personally whenever I look at Azul upside down, I really feel like it'd be the kind of hair for a cool extroverted guy in an Idol gacha game)

Step 1. Hairline

Azul has a simple round hairline so simply draw an arch.

Step 2. Hair root

Azul's hair all comes from a point right above the left side of his left iris, so I would suggest you draw Azul's face (and even glasses) first.

Step 3. Bangs

Azul has two strands that fall between his eyes, just a bit to the right. Start from the root point you placed earlier, and draw two wavy lines intersecting. The first will stop at the upper rim of his glasses, above his right iris area. The second will stop at the lower rim of his glasses, below his right iris area.

All of Azul's hair will be made with soft waves that fork back up, so train yourself to do that move flowingly. You're not done using it.

Step 4. Front hair 1

There are two strands that seem closer to us and frame the other bangs, so let's draw them first. In my example I drew the lower strand a bit too high, it should come right above Azul's right eye. The upper one thought will almost be horizontal. Both of those will reach the area above the right ear.

Once more, waves.

Step 5. Front hair 2

Now the two strands between the last two. They will go further than the ear.

Step 6. Side strand

Azul's tentacle-like strand. It is composed by the only strand of hair that forks towards his face, instead of outward. It goes around the eye and reaches lower than the middle strand.

The second part is the actual tentacle. It hides the ear entirely and reaches down to Azul's chin level.

Still, always a wave that forks outward.

Step 7. Ahoge

Yup. "Mature" and calculating Azul has an ahoge. That might be the only part of his hair that does indeed reflect his personality. Azul can be quite immature and stupid at times. (For those who don't know, "ahoge" literally means "stupid hair" and it's usually used on stupid or immature characters)

Simply make it start at the root point. It's about the size of Azul's hairline to eyes, but globally just make it go up above where the rest of his hair would go.

Step 8. Right side

That is the part that people (even Yana if we trust the notes she made) struggle with. There is a volume here that can't be too fluffy or not big enough. It's actually just the size of half his face. Put your mark and do your best to fill it without going further.

From there, draw about 4 or 5 waves. Connecting each tip should make an arch, with the further point being the strands at Azul's eye level.

Step 9. Behind the ear

The only part of Azul's hair that is well groomed is those few strands of hair, that look like they were pushed behind his ear. This is also the only part (alongside the ahoge) that isn't made using a wave.

Step 10. Left side

And we're back to drawing waves, this time forking left. There is about 3 waves to do. These strands won't be as fluffy as the right side, sticking closer to the skull, but still add some volume. Wavy/curly hair just can't stick to the skull (I'd know it *sigh*)

Step 11. Details

Time to check your proportions, add a few lines within the strands, add more lines at the roots to show that his hair go from here.

Finished!

So. Idol!Azul when? (One day. One day I'll do that Housewarden Idol AU)

(Last note: he does have an undercut. I'll forever go crazy about Azul of all people having a fuckboi (/affectionate) haircut)

(Official pic from the Magical Archives)

[monstermonger]

I've been asked a few times now, if these kinds of illustrations are traditional or digital. it's both <: The inks are traditional, made with 03 or 05 micron pen.

Then I take it to Clip Studio. Paint-bucket and basic brushes are used for big blocks of color and some preliminary details.

Brushes: Dense Watercolor, Transparent Watercolor, India Ink Darker Bleed, Bit Husky, G-pen, Milli Pen, Cross hatching texture brush. Blend: Running Color On Fiber

Somewhere in there, I'll pick up a free-to-use watercolor texture and set it on overlay, to see how it meshes with the values I already sketched in. I'll finish up the rest of the smaller details/values with the same above brushes. And voila.

Hope that's helpful <:

[crypticscarecrow]

lord help me them blocks gonna be the death of me

[maetersart]

Wouldst thou ever consider publishing a video box record of thine artistic algorithm so that a lowly mortal may learn?

Many people ask about speedpaints and content like this. Right now we're not making videos (yet!), but we publish such step-by-steps of some illustrations each month on our P@tre0n. Not only gif format, but also each stage separately + PSD versions of our files. Plus, sometimes small tutorials about the drawing process

Recordings will be coming soon. This is in our plans. Just our drawing process is a bit wild and a lot of things change in the process, even in the final.. especially with effects :’)

Our work usually always starts with a few sketches, with or without color (depends on how complex the piece is), and then a lineart > rendering parts > adding details > finalizing

Here you can see how Astarion's face changes throughout the process… We didn't like something all the time

[allisonchinart]

First sketch > Flat Colors > Finish | x

[atomicc]

BRUCE IS FAT!!!! He literally has a very simple body plan that doesn't work in the same way a humans body would so you can't even say "oh well idk how to draw fat bodies" he is just two ovals. OVALS. And God That Excuse is bullshit anyways because every single human Bruce I see has him as eehhh kinda husky but could easily be seen as skinny if you didn't look close enough. It's sad. It's sad to finally have a fat character treated as not only a good thing but someone who is a heart throb that people fawn over and no ome draws him fat.

Look at this. No excuse. That's his body shape. He doesn't have the same body shape as JD or Branch or anything he has a round body shape. He's not just Branch but a little thicker he is unmistakably fat. JD is husky. Bruce is fat. Ok. Please. Begging.

[ohlawdthebirds]

This world is an awful, scary place, but I'm knitting a sweater and maybe everything will be ok. If not, at least I have a new sweater.

[iztea]

helloo!! i was wondering how you go about rendering hair because i’ve been staring at your drawings for HOURS and i’m in love. like literally entranced with your art style.

sorry if you’ve already answered this question!!

hii! sorry for the late reply, i wanted to use this ask as a opportunity to drop the little hair "tutorial" that i promised a while back so here it is; this is how I personally draw hair ** side note: i didn't use any references for this one so it's strictly painted off the top of my head

[tanuki-kimono]

Adorable papercraft/pepakura kimono made for Sylvanian Families (Calico Critters) figurines. Patterned origami paper is cut to form 3 different pieces (top, bottom, collar). You’ll find the measurements and step by step on OP’s website (example below is found here):