#art style guide

[mattplatonic]

halooooo could you make a tutorial or something like that on how you draw I really like your style and I would like to see your drawing process, the brushes you use and how you choose the colors etc, I hope this is not annoying

Hello, Anon! I'm glad you asked this!

My style is... Hard to describe, I mostly free-hand things.

(A recent example of a work in progress.)

I've actually done a tutorial before on how I draw things, for the lolz! I don't think it helps much tho

As for colors? I try to pick bright colors that pop, not quite neon, but not quite dull either. I think that colors shouldn't clash when you put them in grayscale, too many colors? Reuse them! Most of my pallets aren't more than 4 colors. Another thing? I hate pure yellow so I always use an orange-yellow. (If you really just want a color pallet, use the wario land 2 pallet. 'Sept, use better yellows)

As you could probably see, I like adding colored lineart details most people would miss, which also ties into how I shade! I mainly shade using cooler and darker versions of the flat colors, and mainly think of an imaginary light source where the shadows go in the opposite direction of.

I use Aseprite and Ibis Paint X, Aseprite is a pixel art program, so... only one brush there! I mainly use these 3 brushes on Ibis Paint, however.

Are there any other things you might be curious about? Happy to help!

[asexual-spongebob]

it’s art style guide time. yippee!

[bauhausdog]

how i do my drawing style (obv not every thing is for everyone and this is how i personally do it art are not rules but exploration)

i draw with my palm resting on the tablet, i cant do super precise movements with my hands so i use thick lineart and a bunch of stabilizer for that. if i need long lines i can just lift my hands. i use a 2016 samsung tablet after i switched from the horrible sliperry drawing tablet

currently i use a "pen" brush with opacity AND size jitter so it can sketch and line when i want. ON GREATER BLENDING MODE, this gives a marker sort of look (lines wont overlap)

canvas is 1000x1000 because my tablet is slow and also pixely crunchhhh

my sketches are shapes and dynamics first then anatomy second, in my process i find that treating the sketch as a "newgrounds funky shape artstyle" kind of thing makes things fall in place much smoother too so thats a bonus, and also obv i like it that way lol, its much looser and less stressful, eyeball is my guide. when done my way it looks "imprecise".

I grabbed my shapes/dynamics principles from some of what sinix does and the anatomy/gesture is like 2 bites of knowledge from anatomy guides (the ones who helped me with the style most were the ones who focused in dynamics) furry anatomy was by looking at art and photos, but 80% was just me messing around and finding out

generally i do my sketches in one layer because i softly erase instead of making a new layer (too much work and i cant do really precise strokes) this makes some soft sketchy lines a bit visible, i make a outline if i think the color is drowning the lineart

use curve adjustment to make soft strokes less visible and stronger strokes more visible, i do this because i really like how for me it creates more space for color/shading to fit in

either use 'enclose and fill' tool from krita or just make blocks of color by hands, i make a loot of layers in this process because i like to finetune the colors to my liking and to shade cleanly

currently the way i pick colors isnt too crazy, mostly its based on color theory ideas and my own taste as the judge, if i feel experimental i will try to make some "weird/wrong" color decisions to make it a bit more fun.

as for the color theory what i apply from there is mostly relations with hue saturation and value and my own personal understanding on how they interact together (quick example, for me increasing the saturation of a color "darkens" it a bit)

after this i paint/shade, i try to make it look fun, i use a basic round brush with opacity for more control

after this i make collages backgrounds on my computer WITH ALSO KRITA, my sources of images vary (wikimedia commons, tumblr blogs, pinterest, flickr)

the way i get this specific look is to mess around with some photo manipulation (curves adjustment blending modes), i like krita because it gives you a bajillion filters and blending modes

my favorite ones: "gradient map", "color to alpha (removes background)", "cross channel adjustment" "levels", "hsv adjustment", "curve adjustment" BLENDING MODES: "hard mix (photoshop)", all of modulo blending modes, "overlay", "hard overlay", "lighten", "darken", "dissolve"

mostly what i do on images is bump saturation on hsv adjustment (krita legacy mode on hs vadjustment makes colors a bit more distorted), cut some greens on levels, compress blues and reds, compress saturation, decrease the lightness range and adjust hue a bit if needed, mess with noise and layers. mostly i keep in mind to make the lightness range different from the subject so it doesnt melt together,

if you want more distortion compres with levels and use posterize

glaze on my windows virtual machine (i use linux lol) on high on low quality (this is to protect from theft but also gives a funky filter)

[nepalsaysrawr]

Hello y'all. Nice style guide we're having. Maybe you'll learn a lot from this style!

Just did this art style guide inspired by my Specimen 2 art style and @plebcomics' art style guides. Just reusing an image I posted earlier.

Do any of you fall under this art style? Please let me know.

PS: Can you spot the Ninas hidden in this image?

[caughtshrimpin]

meme time~

[godofthestupid]

Disclaimer: I do not actually know how they paint the eyes,this is just me guessing their process purely from observations

Transcript:

General Shape:

- Upper eyelid is always thicker than the lower one

- younger characters tend to have bigger and rounder eyes than the adults

- there are five parts to an eye: 1. the upper eyelid corner(towards the nose) ; 2. the upper eyelid main part ; 3. the upper eyelid corner at the back ; 4. the lower eyelid ; 5. the iris

Eyelid:

- more muted color of the hair + accents with saturated eye color

Iris:

- lots of muted darker colors

- hue and saturation shift in lighter areas

- highlights are almost pure white

Eye drawing Steps:

sketch

flats

first shadow

first color

second shadow

highlight color

refine

[almakrowan]

I have officially closed the kofi membership, at least for now, so… nothing holding me back from sharing the chibi tutorials (so far, I'm going to be updating it in the future~) 🤗 ENJOY! INTRO

PEA CHIBI

BEAN CHIBI

(tbc...)

[dictatortirah]

Doing something

[n3arell-art]

“I thought this lantern might help?” // “No version of this where I didn’t come get you, is there?”

[wisteriasymphony]

hello everyone this is my daughter marinette and she loves to kick puppies and spit in people's food and if you're mean to her i will kill you dead

[pixelguzzler]

i has a question.

how do you manage to make pixel art fit with the drawn parts of the art pieces? i think you're amazing and i love your art style, but it's amazing how you manage to make it feel like they fit in the same universe even being different styles (being pixel and drawn parts)

you are amazing <3

Thank you so much, I think you're super amazing :3 this is just a rough guide mostly on how to achieve the mixed resolutions, I hope it's at least interesting!!!

[allisonperryart]

PDF:

Back from my birthday hiatus, and um, wow... was not expecting this kind of overwhelmingly positive reaction to a simple QRT about how we used Dissolve Mode in our BG paintings on Carol and the End of the World (see last image) - since people seemed to have enjoyed that so much, I thought I'd put all the pages of the Carol and the End of the World BG Paint style guide I drafted in one post! TBH I'd been meaning to do this for awhile but kept forgetting since I have it in a different folder than the BG paintings themselves... I believe all the paintings are mine and all the designs are by Alex Myung unless otherwise noted. I wrote this pretty early on pre-vis, so some of these guidelines got a little massaged during production, but the broad strokes are definitely still there! This wasn't the only style guide on the show BTW! A couple of our other leads Alex Myung and Kal Athannassov also put together a BG and Character Design style guide that are super cool - unfortunately I don't have the files myself (nor would I feel comfortable posting work that's not mine) nor do I think they've posted them yet, so if you two were looking for a sign to do so, this is it!! Now you have everything you need to paint like a Caroler - thanks for looking!! Showrunner: @dan-guterman Art direction: @ellemichalka

[somegrumpynerd]

Assorted Horror and Killer doodles since there aren't enough of them c:

Killer by Rahafwabas Horror by Sour-apple-studios

[buttercupshands]

Extraterrestrial Satellite Communication | Loop

"Oh? So you don't follow the script, and say your lines exactly the same way every time, to make sure your party doesn't think you're acting weird?"

Or a small thought of a hsr and isat crossover lead to me trying to imitate the style of character announcements!

From my notes Loop starts as a 4*, one that'll always be there to help if needed, almost Asta-like, but has an optional Two Hats related 5* that's actually changes the path to Hunt similar to Siffrin's base path

In case of Siffrin he's like Trailblazer in that regard changing path at least once Story-related reasons

Like becoming Lightning Nihility at Act 4-5!

I honestly just had fun sorting and imagining everyone in that setting

Just im case non-hsr players wonder

But in Loop's case they follow Elation actually, but that's not a playable path, so it's a Sparkle situation basically

Or at least that's what I thought of when thinking this up shruggs

[missholoska]

been wanting to do this template for months and decided to throw all three of The Faves at it ✨

[5m1ling-3yes]

So my friend, @printerevei brought up a really good question, asking if Dipper ever found out what Stan's "tattoo" really was.

It got me thinking. So I drew this.