#digital illustration tutorial

[nikoco11]

my recipe for drawing hands!

(small note that this is a shortcut that is more abt style and ease than anatomical accuracy. it helps to take time to really properly study hands, makes it easier to bend the rules a bit like this and have it still look good!!)

(learn rules b4 u break them or whatevah)

[anonbeadraws]

I made a Room Building tutorial! Lemme know if it helps! 🧡

Tip me here| Commission info here!

[terrichienyiart]

this is not a tutorial this is just me rambling

[laboratoryrats]

“Think of your shoulders as a rhombus”

Source: privateanime on twitter

[awanqi]

Wing Tutorial is HERE 🦅, now available on my Patreon✨ It includes full speedpaints, a step-by-step of the painting process, drawing tips + more!

[bethfuller]

here's a landscape tutorial!

i focused on natural environments for this one, if you find it helpful I'll be back with how I learned to draw buildings.

let me know if it helps! and have fun drawing ✨

[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

[natedhernandez]

Painted a Bagel

[cendiqii]

indigo

[olliemnjones]

Hey there! Your actually one of my inspiration for art! I really like how realistically shaded the backgrounds are and everything! Do you have any tips for shading in digital art?

Hey, I appreciate it, thank you! There are lots of things that go in to making a good background but this is the main idea that made backgrounds click for me:

Hopefully you'll agree that of these two shapes, the one on the right feels more 'real', despite the fact neither of these shapes are meant to represent anything. The shape on the right just has a noise filter and a faint light-to-dark gradient from top to bottom. Those two things create movement on a small scale (the noise) and on a large scale (the gradient). The presence of that sort of movement is what gets your brain to register something as real.

Here I've taken the shape and given it a new environment, a colour and then a gradient. The shape with the movement feels a little more natural in its environment, I think.

Then directly on top of that, I can start creating small scale movement, like the noise, through brush strokes. At first (on the left) the brushstrokes look quite out of place and unnatural. But as you work in to the surface more, creating more and more overlapping brushstrokes of various sizes and directions - all while trying to maintain the sense of that gradient - the strokes will start to more naturally integrate in to each other, creating a bed on to which other elements will lay naturally.

Here I give this abstract shape some context by painting some cracks and decay on it. These new elements create movement by giving our eyes more shapes to latch on to and jump between. I then added a pattern to it. This pattern adds more movement and reinforces the light effect by adhering to the gradient (getting darker at the same rate the wall does).

You can see I use this idea all through this picture. I make sure in any section there is always some kind of movement of light, whether its left-to-right, or top-to-bottom, corner-to-corner etc. Patterns like the woodgrain on the drawer or the textile of the curtain create additional movement and reinforce the dimensions of their respective forms by adhering to them. Bit rambly but I hope there's something useful in there!

[chuwenjie]

how I paint lilypads without manually drawing every single one!

[ramonn90]

Get access to my brushes, art tips, process videos, and files here https://www.patreon.com/ramonn90

[nikoco11]

little breakdown abt the same 4 lines i tend to use for drawing folds!!

not a tutorial just some notes ^^

ps sorry for spelling accordion wrong every single time. i will not learn from this

second ps the biggest diff between accordion and pinch is that pinch lines meet at the origin point while accordion lines imply a future meeting but don’t actually touch

[lynaferns]

BREAKING DOWN MY ART

The artwork I'm breaking down.

(Added text descriptions to the images (I did my best) in case you don't understand my handwriting)

Basically my rendering process and art techniques for all of my artworks. There is more to it of course but this post was centered on this whole drawing specifically and had to keep each description brief or this would have gotten excessively long. Besides, I've improved since this drawing and I do some things a bit diferently than before.

I can make more of these kind of post in the future explaining how I get to figure out the shapes and colors of things, basically how I draw.

A time span

BONUS

Don't take this last image as if now the artwork is completely wrong because of "bad proportions". This is a self critique, by the estandars I put to myself. Putting that aside, it's still a good artwork, I did a pretty good job on this one and I hope one day to find the same motivation to surpass it.

[laboratoryrats]

GoldCanines: “I had lots of questions on how I go about my shading ! ✨

Here is how I pick my colors, determine my layers, and lay out my shading !”

Source: GoldCanines on Twitter

[kkelsey--spring]

super quick tutorial on how i draw hair (I'm following a reference, bottom right)

establish the silhouette and hairline

2. separate it into chunks, its best to put the separating lines where the hair flow changes (ex. the top hair vs the side section)

3. draw the hair following the guidelines made, strands (details) are drawn mostly where the separating lines are

final: drawing more details + hair strands -- important to not overdo it as for my style, LESS is MORE (bcs i paint over it anyway) so i do the details in clusters (rather than filling every empty space). i tend to do two/three lines to signify hair strands

this is an extremely basic approach on how i draw hair, as mentioned, i paint over my sketches so there's no need for me to be drawing every detail, my best advice for drawing hair is to keep the basic shapes of the sections and to not draw every single hair strand there is-- this is how *i* draw hair, it's according to *my* style so i encourage you to study other artists' work that aligns with how you want to draw :D