#art hack

[datcravat]

quick tutorial on how I shade with solid black (a lot of people ask, hope this helps)

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[art-tnt]

Palette tip form Elicia Donze

[shadowcaststudio]

Where's the Floor

So lately when I do thumbnails for my comics, I play a game called "Where's the Floor". Basically, put a grid down to represent the surface plane.

I picked up this trick from watching animatics from "Rise of The Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles" from Nickelodeon. This leads me to this helpful trick, it's the grid pattern on the floor to show perspective.

Whether it is the floor or the ceiling, it's an easy way for me to know where the camera is in relation to the surface plane. Therefore, giving me an idea of how to draw the characters in that perspective. Also leads to dynamic shots and amazing high action scenes.

There was one other set of videos on youtube that uses their cameras pretty affectively, and that's a dance troupe from Russia.

You put a grid on the most important surface in that shot and it's basically the same principles!

Even their bird's eye camera, zoom ins made me think of shots taken in dancing scenes from Disney.

If you break down a shot from your favorite animated series, you can guess where the grid is, how it's tilted, and how the character should be in perspective to that.

Having this concept simplified really has helped with layout, perspective, and taking steps into more dynamic action scenes for me.

[lesiasmadness]

I've seen this trend where people would squish the face of their anime drawing to make it into the drawing's mouth, and I figured if I did that with Sonic the result would be a smile cause of that signature eyebrow curve

... a scowl. It came out as a scowl. Not that I'm complaining

[immortalsalmon]

"With you, I forget my goddess."

[blueboxbeagle]

Don't post you art on Tumblr as PNGs!

Ok this is important: Tumblr, at least in my experience, will desaturate PNG images but not JPEGs! For proof here's screenshots of some of my art as both a PNG and a JPEG on Tumblr.

Top is PNG, bottom is JPEG. Notice the difference, especially on warm colors.

PNGs might be better for storing images but please upload them to Tumblr as JPEGs!

[cyborgraptor]

stupid simple artist hack: send your images to your phone to check their color. since phones are more regularly up to date and higher tech with screen usage, they are the best out-of-the-box calibration wise. I'm saying this to save future headaches with trying and failing to calibrate your personal monitors with bullshit programs and whatnot

[alteredsu]

This is just a little post cause I updated the art in this pic and the original post. Because lighting and color make a huge difference. This is just for art people to see a difference

[curleefriess]

Metal Rendering/Painting Tutorial

[leomitchellart]

Here’s a useful tip for my fellow artists. When you have one cup for drinking and one for dipping your paint, make sure they’re in different kinds of cups. We’ve all had a moment where we accidentally put our brush in our tea or took a swig of Prussian blue. So make sure you use one with a handle and one without. Or perhaps one that you drink from a kid and straw, whatever your preference.

‘Cos when you’re getting into the zone you’ll reach for it without looking as muscle memory will take over. So it’s wise to have the two containers that need to be gripped differently. Like here, when I’m reaching for a drink, I know to reach for a handle, not pick up the whole glass.

[duchesscelestia]

this week's video discussing the good and bad sides of art hacks is now live!

[ehh-all-the-good-names-r-taken]

sketch something with a light-colored pencil. Do the line art with a dark-colored pencil or black pencil. Paint over it with the paint color matching the pencil that you used for the rough sketch.

IT WORKS

[redd956]

Military OC Art Posing Ref Hack

Search up N.E.E.T. swat on pinterest, tiktok, or Instagram and you got what you need.

[silentstaresfanficandfanart]

ANTOHER DISCOVERY

ok so really organic looking and natural stuff is hard to pull off right? so ive been studying and i remember using this brush that looks very much like grass, and as you can see up the upper right where theres a curved arrow here, pointing at some black blobs, i tried my best to illustrate the basic concept. Large medium and small, + stretching your shapes into the basic shape of whatever youre drawing (such as making very small thin lines for cracks on rock sas well as placing the rocks, or lengthy vines, or little round leaves) keeping the spacing ireggular, as well as keeping in mind the idea of smaller things near the edges and where it trails off to 'bring it closer to the average shapes of the rest of the thing its a part of' seem sto be able to help you get a better more ' natural' shape. im not sure if im explaining htis well but practicing making 'messy but following the idea of big things surrounded by increasingly smaller things' as well as even varying the opacity at times can really change how the lines look. again im not sure if im explaining this well its a bit hard to do words well when im listening to music but I've been trying to figure this tip out for YEARS and it took analizing a certain grass brush i have in my inventory of brushes before i realized why it worked so well : ) also going back and adding more darkness in the places you feel thered be more darkness (such as because of ambient occlusion ) can help a lot. though try not to overanalize what youre doing or your spacing will become too mathmatically perfect or sizing and you don't want it to be too equal or even. the more irregular the better

[heliosynchronisity]

i think i just accidently found the fastest way to paint chains (w/o a brush obvs) and i- how did i not figure this out sooner XD

[dumb-teambucciarati-headcanons]

The best part about drawing Bruno is that you don’t have to worry that much about proportions. Because if you like accidentally make one of his legs longer than the other you can just add a zipper and have his leg unzipped and then KACHOW problem fixed!