#lowkey art tutorial

[affluent-havoc]

Hello and congratulations on so many followers! Your art is always so interesting to look at, you deserve them :D

And as for the ask, I noticed that you use a lot of cool effects and colors in your works. What applications do you use, if any? For editing, making the gifs, or even for drawing? Sorry if you've answered this somewhere else, Im just curious (o^◡^o)

Oh! No problem at all! I have not actually been asked this yet and I am happy to answer! As for my process, it's a mix of differing things. For one, I use Clip Studio Paint, occasionally drawing in MS Paint and bringing it to CSP to edit. Or, I just use MS Paint in general though, honestly, though I call it MS Paint, it's actually just Paint on my computer. It's got layers and everything which is pretty cool so calling it MS Paint is a stretch. It was MS Paint at some point though. My computer updated a while back which is why it's all different. Here's what it looks like btw. Opened some layers up for demonstration.

I mostly do a lot with multiply layers and just mess around with them, sometimes going to the Edit menu in CSP, Tonal Correction, and then Color Balance. I usually do that after I'm done with a piece and I wanna give some harmony. Also, before I forget, I use CSP for my gifs. Since I have Pro I think and not Ex though, I cannot make BIG animations. I am limited with gifs. Another thing I will mention is that I got CSP via a disk online if that helps! I do not remember the price as I did not buy it myself. Got CSP when I was a kid still like... dang. Think it was sometime in 2016 though I genuinely don't remember. As for actual art advice, one big trick I've been using is having a light opacity layer of grain over my pieces which can help the colors not be too bright or just add some nice texture. I also just try and use textured brushes sometimes both for line art and shading. I just go to Filter on the top right here, Render -> Perlin Noise, move it all the way to the left

Then, I lower the opacity of it to my choosing, usually to 15% or 25%. It all depends on the exact vibe I'm going for it and I try not to give myself TOO set of rules for certain things

Also, since I might as well, I have two-ish ways of shading. First one is just picking a color in the color wheel, coloring with that, and having it be on a multiply layer, sometimes in a light opacity to ensure it's not too bright. A newer way I shade now is to use the base color, make it a bit darker, going a bit in a diagonal way on the color wheel, and then coloring like that. This shall be the example in which I will demonstrate by shading Byakuya's hair over here. Also, I don't usually isolate the shading subject in question with the little magic wand tool. I sometimes do it just for skin to ensure I'm getting the red undertones of the skin in that specific area only

Here's the color wheel before and after

I like to try and move the wheel a bit to the left to add some variety For the pen, I like to just use the standard pencil brush though I also mix it up a bit now and again

And here it is roughly shaded to the right side.

Another thing of note is that, as of recently, been playing around with adding these TV lines.

Just kinda went and typed "TV lines" in a search engine, put it into CSP, lower the opacity, and play around with blending modes. Here's an example I did for a more recent piece.

Hope this was useful. Prob forgot a few things but I tried to make it understandable. Plus, I'm still learning too on the things I do with my art. It's always good to innovate now and again :D But yeah. Hope this made sense. Kinda went a bit all over the place

[gio-utti]

how are you so good at drawing people's skin!? my feed is like a soap commercial right now from all of your perfect flesh. (also thank you, your work is really nice to look at c: )

FIRST OF ALL THANKS😭💖

And hmm about flesh and skin overally, I think what helped me the BEST to make it look realistic was paying more attention to and managing the cold and warm undertones! I think it started when I saw this thing here for the first time👇

(I have NO IDEA who's the author I'm so sorry,, I have it saved for so long on my phone it got lost💀)

From there I started paying attention to other artists' arts, pictures (better if unfiltered/if people have no makeup on) and started "mapping" where regions should I put each color not only on the face but also the body and here we are😂🙏

I think these illustrate well how I apply (and often exaggerate them, specially the greens) akdjjs and this cold/warm tones apply to all skin colors too btw

The last one is how I distribute it in bodies more or less aoskapskap

The other think yo consider is obviously the skin folds– and for these I also use a lot of refs ORRR take pics of myself if it's something more specific akdnsjs

This may or may not ended up with me having tons of very shameful and ugly pics on myself on my phone😍

BUT THATS IT KANDJS

[akqrus]

I will write tmrw... I WILL WRITE TMRW.

[todostiddies]

Eren Boyfriend Headcanons pt 3

Modern Eren headcanons for GNreader, a continuation of pt 1, pt 2

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watched youtube and tik tok tutorials on how to take better pictures because he wants to impress you

but also thinks you're worthy of only an actual photographer you're so beautiful to him and so he want to fill his camera roll (and his insta!) with you and make it look worthy

this also shows because he lowkey becomes like the photographer in the group that sometimes when he's feeling sentimental and/or drunk he'll heckle the group on nights out for pictures and pull the whole "we're gonna grow old one day and need these to look back on" line

he also begins to take really artful photos sometimes?? and people get a little shook cause he'll have a great perspective and shot and then other times he holds his finger up to the camera to make it look like a butt in front of every other picture lmao

if he gives you a bite of something hot he'll blow on it for you first <33 and then he'll bring it to your mouth and feed you and sometimes make you blush just from his insane unblinking stare as he gauges your reaction lol

but if people are eating with you guys and conversation is flowing don't be surprised if Eren eats the bite he just prepared for you because he got too distracted

then he'll look to you all shocked like it wasn't his own hand lmao and he'll give you a cheeky smile or a pout before making another bite for you or he'll pull the iconic cheesy line "just checking for poison babe" with an embarrassed blush

judges horror movies like it's his full-time job

literally will ruin some movies or moments for you by commenting or joking about the characters and set up too much (he does it because he's secretly afraid and has to diffuse his own tension and keep a brave face for you)

has a drawer of letter's he's written to you as a suggestion from his therapist, so sometimes after fights or feelings of pent up love or other feelings he doesn't know how to verbalize he'll write them all down and it's helped with your guys' communication a lot since it gives him time to process and figure out how to say things

he plans on giving you the letters on a big anniversary or the night before your wedding

if he's in a good mood he will dramatically swing your arm while holding hands

sometimes he wordlessly plops his headphones on your head at random times and plays a song for you to hear then looks at you for your reactions and finally for your spoken opinion when he takes them off your head with a raised brow

he hates doing his homework but likes to help you with yours, and if you're burnt out or fall asleep working he'll often times do some of the work for you or help speed the assignment along (with your consent and he's learned all your writing and work styles so he can mimic you pretty well but I don't condone academic dishonesty obvi but lets be real we've all been there)

whiner

whines when he wants your attention

and whines when he gets it (if you know what I mean wink wink)

back to the photos, he has SO many photos of you and of you guys together. But he doesn't just take them and keep them, he'll shove the photo in your face and make you give yourself at least four compliments and then at least one about his photography skills lol

will randomly make eye-contact with you and plaster on the biggest smirk before lifting up his shirt to flash you his abs and v-line when he's in a good mood (and horny)

sometimes when you guys study together and he gets bored he'll take one of your open notebooks or planner and scribble in the margins and fill it with little compliments and song recs for you to find later

if he is shit talking someone this man simply does not care who hears it

he'll be so loud and bold about it too

"Eren, they're right behind you?"

"So?"

whenever you put on chapstick or anything on your lips he says "gimme a taste" and then kisses you

he'll always give a review too. like about the flavor to texture and mostly it's raving but there has been some snubs

a fry stealer to the very worst degree

always wants a sip of whatever you're drinking and if he likes it then that's your and his drink now

big fan of Zelda and always tells you that he'd be your Link if any dark calamity took you

also gets super giddy when you play Zelda in Mario Kart or Super Smash cause then he gets to pick Link even if Link isn't always the best to play with (which is an actual Nintendo crime but maybe I just suck at playing Link lol)

gets so fucking mean when playing Mario Kart as in he will throw every obstacle your way and does NOT let you win and is not above resorting to straight up distracting you or messing you up while playing

will sometimes steal Zeke's bike and take you on rides on it

he'll go fast with just himself but always keeps it under 60mph with you if even that

hums to himself while cooking <33

he can cook but he can't bake because he likes to play around with recipes a lot (by play around I mean he won't have ingredients and is too lazy to go to the store to get them so he wings it)

likes you to taste test his food

and there's always one candle half melted in his kitchen from yalls dinner dates <33

Thank you for reading, I hope you enjoyed!

[guthraiel]

officially finished kcd 2 so now im gonna complete the younger hans and henry meeting fic and some art wips i have because my brain is overtaken by this game HOLY FUCK

(spoilers under cut but its just my rambling mentioning the ending and some plottwists really)

ive been a hansry truther since the first game in the sense that henry is sooo clearly a bisexual loser and so is hans. imo the two most logical choices for henry's romance are hans and theresa, who, in each of the games they're romancable in are the ones who henry has known and trusted longest. theresa in KCD 1 is his childhood friend, the one person who shares his survivors guilt and the memories of skalitz. while in KCD 2 hans is the one person who has been with henry throughout this whole thing and never really left his side (excluding the arguement at the start and the various kidnappings and being taken hostage)

like either way imo those are the most 'cannon' romances to henry and i really wish kcd 2 adressed the existence of theresa a bit. she's by far the most interesting woman in the franchise since warhorse does lowkey struggle to write women in a way that's logical. i mean the way every female around henry throws herself at him except his main LI's who all follow some version of the girlboss trope is... man come on. i actually do really like both rosa and katherine, but i think there could've been just a teensy bit more done with them

also like what the fuck is up with henry's mother. idk if her name or any personality being excluded is meant to be an artistic choice to show how henry remembers her as just 'mom' and ignores any other part of her character but like wtf. both radzig and martin get names, a backstory and a deep relationship with henry while his mother is just. there. i get that this is the 15th century but in the first game it's clear in the tutorial that hal and his mom are CLOSE like i wish we got to see a bit more of that tbh

i have words to say about samuel as a character but none of them are appropriate for tumblr so i will abstain. tldr i actually like him a lot henry getting a brother-butnotreally is actually really sweet. like despite the fact that he lost his family and everything dear to him there is still someone who cares about him in a familial way. i hope we'll het to see more of him in some of the upcoming dlcs although i doubt it since he can technically die during the game (and i'm pretty sure in a canon run you should leave him behind)

okay last point to the characters is one ive had since kcd 1 but THE NAMESSS WHY ARE THEY NAMED THATTT

henry of skalitz my ass bro THAT'S JINDRA 😭😭 jindříšek even!! like i get that ř may have been an issue but just have him be jindra instead of jindřich then???

hans capon is just a bit silly like jan ptáček could be a pronouncable name, not to mention there is SO many characters named jan already so even Jan Capon i could lowkey get behind more

also i do fully believe non czech speakers miss out on the game a bit, there are parts of bg dialogue that are in czech and add just a bit of humour and immersion to the game (like in taverns, markets or during henry's nightmare in suchdol where the skalitz/maleshov people hiss 'you killed us')

okay ttldr this game is really good i just needed to yap since my friends whove finished it dont share any of my sentiments

if u have thoughts to share please do im curious what impression others got

[timisart]

Hi, @tryingtimi’s here with another blog to try and get back into the habit of creating visual stuff besides writing. Hah. We’ll see how it goes.

What you’ll find.

Mostly digital sketches, full digital paintings ocasionally, traditional paintings once in a full moon, and when I get myself together to open an animation program again, short little animations. Probably silly too.

The themes will vary as I plan to start off with challenges, but once I’m more confident and consistent, I’ll stray to create stuff for the stories I’m writing. (Friends’s too)

What to expect.

Yes, the above two things are entirely different in my case, lol.

art practice sketches

art ramble from time to time

bad anatomy for the time being

fanart maybe

mostly fantasy

nothing nsfw as long as i’m bad at anatomy

a sudden announcement of open comissions because that’s another (albeit long-term) goal of this little endeavor here

reblogs of other people’s art

reblogs of tutorials

reblogs of nsfw and gore art (probably, it’s not a promise, but minors stay away just in case)

Tags & Other blogs.

#challenge | #tutorial | #resource

Plan is to crosspost on instagram, but the beginnings are always lowkey on my end, so come back for that in a year, lmao. Tags constantly added.

writeblr (main) | writing advice | writeblr recs

[pigeonstab]

Do you have any advice/recommendations/tips to improve drawing anatomy? I’m working to better my art and you’ve lowkey inspired me to upgrade my skills! You’re very talented and I love your art so much that I could eat with a side of ketchup anyday fr lmao🙏🏾💖🌸

aww!! Thank you, I'm glad.

I had the help of pinterest tutorials mostly, so I'd look there first. Lots of study and practice are what do the trick.

For me learning anatomy was a lot of just having fun drawing characters until I felt compelled to learn to draw better. Try to push yourself to draw the things you like better (drawing for the sake of practice is awesome sure but let's be real drawing stuff you like is where you're more likely to give it your all)

I naturally kind of took it step by step? (this is hard to teach lol seeing as I'm self taught and didn't really know how the journey would go) I think in terms of difficulty you have proportions, posing and hardest is perspective, which I'm still trying to learn to do lol. I think focusing on the first steps first and foremost gives good bases that allow you to dip into the steps above. If that makes sense. Once you have an okay grip on proportions you can try posing, and once you have that for posing you can try perspective. (I still struggle with getting the proportions on the first try but a lot of it is about having an understanding of how things are supposed to look, rather than the skill of drawing itself. Now I know how to correct it)

Otherwise for concrete advice (and this one goes for drawing anything ever, not just anatomy) you need to break things down into shapes. Based mostly on what moves in a body.

[gomigo-dog]

This is less of an “ask” and more of a “OMG YOUR ART IS SO AMAZING IM MELTING”- but I love your Suk art sm… he needs more love generally and you blessed my feed (also I absolutely adore your Dungeon Meshi posts ✨✨)

For the ask part: favorite Suk head canon?

Thank you, really appreciate your kind words 😭😭😭 I watched monster mostly bc ppl are raving about it being kino and didn’t expect to develop a brainrot for any of the characters (and even if I did it would prob be one of the protagonists). Turns out I’m terribly wrong 😭

Not sure if you’re asking for widely accepted head canons (which I don’t think are any because barely anyone knows about detective suk, let alone an entire community that could’ve come up with multiple head canons) or my own head canons but I can share some.

1) I’m honestly kinda shocked how tall he is bc he didn’t seem tall at all in the show? I drew this very YouTube math tutorial coded chart to triangulate his height. For 🇺🇸 folks out there this means he’s 6’2 freedom units. However given Czech men has an average height of 6 ft (182cm), maybe this explains why he doesn’t look tall in the show.

2) Though there’s no canon age, I believe he’s 23 yo because it’s heavily implied that he’s a fresh grad on his first job, which prob explains why he only had college friends (instead of coworkers?) and acted kinda stupid and naive (not in a bad way it’s adorable).

3) If that’s his age then it didn’t make too much sense to me for a 23 yo to be at a bougie ah bar drinking whiskey on the rocks in his suit. Bro def looks more like a beer person to me. He prob has no game and 0 rizz bc he only cares about tv shows and hockey or something.

4) Somehow I think he was prob short and chubby as a kid and no one really took him seriously.

Here’s all I can think of as of now. Id love to know your headcanons too ��‍💨 (yall welcomed to use my ask me)

Also this is lowkey kinda incoherent. I’ve lost the ability to organize my thoughts coherently likely bc my digital footprint mostly consists of short comments, brainrots and using AI to fix everything. it’s honestly kinda scary. Thanks for reminding me I should be reading and writing more 💀

[divineei]

modern!atwow x musician!reader

modern avatar mlist!

desc. headcanons for modern avatar: the way of water teens with a musician significant other who’s in a band. reader plays a different instrument for each character.

a/n. if this flops i’m retiring. real shit.

— neteyam. ( guitarist s/o ♪! )

he sleeps with a t-shirt of your band every. goddamn. night.

gives it back to you once a week so you can spray your perfume on it. you ended up bringing him a bottle of ur fave brand and he sprays the cologne on it every time he washes it (aka ever fucking week)

mans hooked. to both you and your music

listens to your band’s songs at least once a day. either w/ headphones or on full blast it doesn’t matter

his whole family knows all the lyrics

sometimes tuk comes to his room and jumps on his bed while playing air guitar and he absolutely joins

other times tho he closes his eyes to focus and pays special attention to the guitar while having your smile in mind

he once spent like 2 weeks watching youtube tutorials to (kinda) learn one song so he could play for you

was it good? no it was fucking hideous. was it the sweetest fucking thing ever tho? absolutely it was

always tries to pick you up after band practice

my boy would rather miss his basketball competitions than miss one of your concerts

this one time he actually tried to skip a match bc your performance was at the same time and the mf showed up backstage like “hEy🙂”

you had to call his mom for him to leave (u snitch that was kinda foul)

definitely knows abt “the rockstar’s girlfriend” aesthetic and makes it his personality. like he’s so into it

you got him a t-shirt that said “im with the band” as a joke but he actually wears it and its hilarious

— kiri. ( keyboard s/o ♪! )

comes to your house just to hear you play

she brings a book and lays down on your bed while you make new music

ADORES watching you come up with new tunes!!!!!!

you always have that focused look on your face as you move your fingers over the keys at makes her want to take a picture (she actually has a few ngl)

always goes back home humming your new melody

you record covers of her favorite songs on your keyboard and give her a cd that she listens to on her discman (she defo owns old gadgets like that)

sometimes puts her phone down on her window stool, where she has her favorite plants, and leaves it there with your music playing. she likes to think it help her plants grow

lowkey gatekeeps your songs

there was this one time you couldn’t sleep bc she kept appearing on your mind, so you connected your headphones and made your “ode to kiri”

it was 2am when you vídeocalled her to play for her what you just wrote

and kiri being the sensitive person she is, swore she could feel your affection through the music, little tears threatening to fall from her pretty eyes

it was truly a treasured memory in your relationship

until a loud ass knock on your door and an equally loud “FFS ITS 2AM!!!!!” almost made you drop dead

she absolutely laughed at you btw

— lo’ak. ( bassist s/o ♪! )

brings you stickers so you can decorate your bass w/ them

“aye babe i got a new sticker for your guitar” “for the hundredth time lo’ak, its a BASS!!!”

yeah he knows it annoys you and no he’s not gonna stop

his lockscreen is a picture of you on stage with a bunch of lil hearts he drew around you

when he goes to your concerts he tells everyone you two are dating

“you see that one over there bro? pfft yeah, we’re together” “do i know you man????” 💀

when you told him your band didnt have a logo yet he showed up at your door 3 days after, super excited and with a bunch of sketches to show you

i also think lo’ak would be really into graffiti art

so he goes around the neighborhood spray painting your band’s logo on the streets walls

“lo’ak you’re gonna get us in trouble” “oh cmon, its good promo!!”

he messes up with your amplifier when you practice, turning up and down the volume, the treble, etc. until you throw your pick right into his fucking forehead and he’s like:

“ma fault 😨”

the moment he (finally) sits still he actually pays really close attention to how your hands move

“damn, you make it look so easy” “im just good with my fingers ig”

cue the dumbest smirk you’ve ever seen

— ao’nung. ( drummer s/o ♪! )

imma just say it; he is popular. by that i mean ma boy has hella contacts

AND by that i mean he makes sure your band always has a venue to perform at. always first on every list fr

“ao’ stay the fuck away from my drums”

actually a fucking menace. tries to impress you by smashing the drumsticks everywhere.

“nah babe check me out i got it this time srsly”

rhythm left the room the moment he sat down

he even attempts some tricks he seen you pull off during your concerts, like throwing the sticks up or rolling them between his fingers.

they always end up either on the floor or hitting his dumbass head. it’s cool tho, u kiss it better (after a well deserved smack bc what did i tell u)

he’d still insist on learning so you two end up having a chick flick moment where you guide him by putting your hands on his

boy actually blushes. just a smidge

“your ears are red” “stfu no they’re not”

might not know shit abt making music but seeing the look on your face when you play is enough to make him see how passionate you are

loves being alone with you in your band’s backstage lounge

he’s so fucking extra he got his friend outside the door like some whack ass bodyguards. they’re so into it too bro

“aye keep walking man🕴️” “move along bitch aint nothing to see here🕴️”

whenever you’re about to go on stage he stays with you in your band’s room and massages your hands

makes sure you always put some baby powder on your palms before you perform in case you start sweating so you dont drop your drumsticks

— tsireya. ( vocalist s/o ♪! )

she sings along to your songs whenever they play

ao’nung is sick and tired of listening to her and uses ear plugs all the time bc he once told her to stfu and got smacked

you two even make your own carpool karaoke and scream the lyrics together on the parking lot

and she NAILS IT!!!!!

like my girl can sing fr

in fact you’ve asked her to help in a few songs for harmonies and second voices

she helps you out a lot with your vocal practice and your breathing exercises

she sits down with you and counts each second with her fingers when hold your breath and when you try your best to hold a specific note

let’s be honest here. A LOT of your songs are abt her

you really don’t have to tell her, she knows they are. bc when you’re up on stage singing abt the perfect girl, you look right at her. and her heart beats faster every time

sometimes you send her your lyrics like “what do u think of this??” and it’d be a full on poem abt her that makes her smile so goofy. kicking feet and everything

every time you get in the shower and start humming/singing her phone is ready

actually has a video of you freaking tf out bc you had an idea for a new song while showering and you stormed your way out the bathroom, wet and hair full off shampoo

“REYA PASS ME A PEN QUICK” “NAH WHY ARE YOU BOOTY NAKED PLEASEHAhH”

you had to mop the floor after that

— rotxo. ( acoustic guitarist s/o ♪! )

makes sure you are never out of strings to change

but since the strings are heavier from an electric guitar, he knows you sometimes hurt your fingers playing

so he bought you a bunch of finger protectors.

he’s a sweetheart, but those whack ass things he got you looked like this

yeaaah…. no. 💀

actually offensive he’d think you need that shit but you let it go bc he really just wanna be there for you

the actual definition of #1 fan

he’s on every concert

and i mean EVERY. CONCERT. front row, backstage, glowing sticks on one hand, phone on the other and zooming on you and only you

he goes to your house more than you go to his, just bc he always wants you to play smthn. and this way you dont gotta bring your guitar back and forth

when you’re together in your room, you get your guitar and he asks you to play some lofi style tunes

especially loves it when it’s summer and the both of you just lay down with the windows wide open and the breeze goes in and out. has a cool glass of your fave drink with a straw and he holds it up to you while you play

one thing ik for sure is rotxo is lowkey good at making beats/bases

the two of you have definitely made a few tracks purely for your enjoyment (like this)

many many many beach dates where you bring your guitar and he lays his head on your lap while the sun sets

taglist. — @rainbowsocks, @dearstell, @erenjaegerwifee, @neteyamyam, @lvrcpid, @grierpilots, @littlexscarletxwitch, @elegantkidfansoul, @anm3mi, @kachowness, @boilingpots , @lagoonabluebabe, @lethalvenus, @casiia, @liluvtojineteyam, @inluvwithneteyam, @syulangg, @junnniiieee07, @drugs-for-memes, @ilovejakesullysdick, @lovelyygirl8, @neqeyam, @ak-aaa-li, @sakura-onesan, @babyymeme, @gender3nvyy,

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[iztea]

Iztea I need your help💔💔 I'm genuinely trying to find my art style but I'm not very good at art in the first place, I'm a beginner and I just don't feel motivated to draw anymore because I'm not good at it,, can you pls link your tutorials so I can try to follow them the best I can..😓 I genuinely love your art and your a huge inspiration but I can't draw for shit. A lot of the tutorials on YouTube don't actually help me as much as they do for other people so I'm lowkey putting my faith in you to try and help me lmao, I just can't get the proportions of anything right, like I can't draw a body or head,, and when I trace things it just feels like cheating in art like ugghhjjnn,, can you help me😓☹️

If you struggle with proportions, then drawing over the reference photo (which you should totally have, btw) to get a feel for the distance between things is a great starting point. I also think you should have simplified anatomy references, as well as references from other artists. Basically, everything I mentioned here i don't want to repeat the same points

Tracing is not "cheating" if you're using it to learn. It can be very distasteful if it's used for finished art, where it is obviously meant to replace actual skill, or if it's traced from another artist. If you're using it to study and as a stepping stone to improve your skills, then it's totally fine and even encouraged (it's like doing assisted pull-ups at the gym). But you gotta to play it smart—tracing the actual outline without engaging in critical thought leads to ugly, mediocre, commercialized art that we don't want because we're cool based and always striving to improve ourselves

Okay anyways "But how exactly do I trace references in a smart way, iztea?" Well, like I said, you can lower the opacity of your reference photo and draw over it. Use the general shapes and volume of the body as your guide until you learn to draw without them. Don't follow the outline exactly—exaggerate or stylize the limbs to your liking. For example, I like drawing small wrists and long, slim necks because I think it looks more appealing. So whenever I'm using a reference, I (subconsciously most of the time) slim these body parts down, elongate the fingers, and so on. If you're still not sure what your style is, that's fine too. Use this exercise to find out what your hand naturally leans into

I'm not the cleanest sketcher, and it's been a while since I've done this sort of approach, so excuse the messiness but I wanted to show an example of how I'd tackle this technique. If you look closely, you'll see that I didn't exactly draw over the body parts, especially in the neck and arm area. I exaggerated the posture by adding more gestures—I made the shoulders rounder, the skull bigger, and the arms and neck longer and slimmer. I didn't focus on details like the face or fingers because that's not the point

The next important step after creating your guidelines is to redraw the lines from scratch on a separate layer, but this time without the reference. Set the reference aside and focus on copying your own guidelines. Afterward, compare the two drawings to check if your proportions are accurate. If they're off, take note of any recurring mistakes and correct them. For example, I have a tendency to draw the mouth too far down on the face, so it's something I am always aware of whenever I'm drawing. Other times, I draw the eyebrows too high from the eyes and so on. Another important thing to point out is that not all references are created equal—there are such things as bad or poor references. If the body’s silhouette looks like a blob or the limbs are heavily foreshortened, you'll find it much harder to draw so for practice, I recommend choosing poses that are fluid, clear, and expressive, with good lighting and features you can exaggerate. This will make it easier to understand the form and you'll have more fun in general I've provided a little comparison below. I'm not saying the 2nd pose is terrible and impossible to draw, it's obviously not, you can draw anything you want howeveerrr if you're just starting out, painting the 2nd one can be much more challenging due to it not being very clear in shape, value range, pose, gesture etc. So what I'm trying to say is to choose your poses wisely too

I don't remember doing any tutorials outside that hair one unless you consider my rambling sessions tutorials (i don't) but you can also scroll through the #ask iztea: art talk hashtag for whatever art-related question I might have answered I'm too lazy to link everything so YOU put the work and stalk my page

anyways yeah idk this is how i'd start.... so to summarize:

pull up references, from both real-life people, simplified anatomy sheets, and artists you like

draw over your reference photo and treat it as your training wheels

close the og reference, and use the newly traced, much more simplified outline as your new reference, and now draw the pose again, but "freehand" this time

compare the traced and the freehand version, take notice of your proportions and try to correct them

choose good, readable, easy to draw refs

never give up never what

[moregraceful]

Decided I needed an attitude adjustment and a stupid project to subsume my identity in so I made a paper bag book which I have wanted to do for a while and decided for Lent I'm gonna be nicer to my hockey teams and also myself. This will go fine after Friday 👍

Tutorial here for anyone who is curious.

[Video ID: a hand flips through a book made of different colored paper bags. The person filming laughs and says "yay".]

Process pics and blathering under the cut.

Last year I was talking to my church kids about the concept of "love your neighbor as yourself" because I was trying to convince them that the inverse had to be true too, like if you don't love yourself, you can't love your neighbor too...like you can't love your neighbor more than you love yourself, love starts with you. And that's why it's important to drink water and be nice to yourself. And they said whatever Mr. Goose you're so cringe. Can we do a BeReal in class. And I said fine but you have to help me clean up after class (they did not.) But I was thinking about that this morning because I was like, I don't like how I am behaving about my hockey team. This is not the thought pattern of someone filled with love for the people around him. Which is maybe regular brand depression but I spent too many years dragging myself out of being a huge hater to really love how being terminally mad and unhappy makes me feel. So I was like ok, for Lent I am going to be nice to my hockey team. But also that has to be true of myself and this has historically not been true of myself, as literally anyone who has interacted with me for an extended period of time can attest 😎 But ok, for Lent I embrace 1. being nice to my hockey teams, 2. being nice to myself.

But a key part of Lent is the practice and I was like there's no way I magically don't want to immolate myself and others at the end of a game and it's not like CBT has worked on me ever at all, so we're gonna make an art practice of it. I don't know what that looks at all but I'm gonna do it. And one of my goals this year was to use more of my art supplies and I'd wanted to make a paper bag book for a while and I was too lazy to go find and designate a sketchbook for this project -- and also imho sometimes it's good to get a little weird with it. So I grabbed a bunch of gift bags and we are going to see how this goes 😤 Some of the gift bags are really dark and I'm sensing an impending chalk pastels situation but it is what it is.

NOW progress pics

Took off the handles and then glued the edges of the bags and then had to fold them in half. Thank you to the whale who provided that bone folder. I did Elmer's glue for gluing the edges.

Glued the pages together with PVA glue because I remembered I had it lol and realised that it might be sturdier than washable kid's glue. And then realized it was going to take one million years to dry so stacked two 5lb weights on it. After it medium dried I glued a gift bag I got at a holiday shop which I'm lowkey mad about because I don't really want a Lent book with winter holiday imagery on it...but that is what markers, paint, washi tape, etc is for.

Shrove Tuesday is not really something Methodists celebrate because we have never had rizz and we never will but it was nice to do something today anyway.

[ninjapaste]

My birthday is tomorrow (the first of the first girl✨️) so im gonna dump this 2023 SPLATOON art before 2024

Most of them are sketches and WIPs though

Im gonna go through each one too:

So we got some Terry spread on a page

Drawing of @slauterhause 's Ebony!

And this peak tutorial i made in 5 minutes oof

And this Orion art which i lowkey have a problem with now i just hate it a little bit and the WIP looked better

But I do like the styles i experimented with here! I want to redo the punk one it needs to give

This was just a lighting experiment, less concerned with shape and more concerned with rendering and colouring over greyscale

Lineart for a an isometric WIP i started a while ago

Drawing of @debbyghost13 's Zero being helped by a particularly charitable and rich fellow

I was sleepy on christmas and drew this, hoping the height comparison makes sense to me

Oh and Hubert!

See you next year, everyone!

[fadeintoyou1993]

For this ask -

HOPE ANDREA MIKAELSON AND ELIZABETH JENNA SALTZMAN!!! The only characters to have ever character’d EVER

already did lizzie so hope <3

favorite thing about them: how much of a deeply pathetic loser she actually is like its literally so funny when people write her as someone whos like badass or like doesnt go to therapy because like that is literally not her she goes in canon to therapy every week or so or well she did in s01 but anyways lets not get into THAT lmfaooo but umm yeah so she goes to therapy weekly and she has like plants that she tries really hard to take care of and she bakes like every other day and she like watches.. wait ill conitnue this in the headcanon part so sorry

least favorite thing about them: literally nothing shes the most perfect girl thats ever existed:)

favorite line: when she said Who cares what lizzie saltzman thinks :( because like shes who :(

brOTP: hope and kaleb forever and ever and ever and ever and ever and everrrrrr :) also her and jed :) she would never fvuckinv talk to penelope park STOP trying it. and handon when not romantically. omg also halyssa altho i also ship them romantically :)

OTP: hizzie :) and handon because hope has two hands like landon said :)

nOTP: hosie literally the most disgusting fucking rotted bitch ive ever laid my eyes upon. stupid ship stupid fandom terrible fuckin vibes just rotted disgusted and gutted. i wisgh hope mikaelson had killed that girl so bad my god... hope literally gave josie the only thing that could kill her bc her ass KNOWS she not gonna see that bitch again so shes fine PLUS if she does see her she dies immediately after:)

random headcanon: ok so back to what i was saying before!!! hope like watches the randomest fucking cooking shows there are like she knows all of them and she can rank them by season and she knows so much fucking random shit and random information about the most random things and she like goes to the gym everyday and she like lowkey uses Pinterest and pins a bunch of random workout routines and art tutorials and shit like that like god shes so annoying i love her so much :)oh and shes so autistic actually

unpopular opinion: um i have so many :) i think she actually is a bottom sorry :) i dont think she can flirt either she just says things wholeheartedly because she is an autistic individual and people think shes flirting but shes just like that. she thinks shes really cool doing those one liners and stuff shes like im a hero and so i have to do my one liners :) and thats why landon and lizzie are obsessed w her because shes just like that.

song i associate with them: do you realize?? by the flaming lips

favorite picture of them: this one that she drew:)

send me a character and i'll tell you....

[sillimancer]

I beat Disco Elysium (finally). I stand by pretty much every opinion I've had about it during my liveblogging:

Hands-down some of the best/cleverest/funniest writing I've experiencing in a game maybe ever, on par with the Portal series.

The lack of (good) fast-travel and confusing leveling up mechanics genuinely made me want to give up on an occasion or two. Getting stuck behind a skill check with no immediately obvious way to gain more skill points was EXTREMELY frustrating. I had to look things up more than once. I still don't really understand the point of the Thoughts mechanics.

The soundtrack lowkey sucked; I had the music muted for most of the game but I did turn it back on periodically to hear what new places sounded like. I was never really impressed. The ambient noise was good though and the voice acting was incredible. Really enjoyed it.

The art is BEAUTIFUL. I loved the oil painting vibes and the portraits of all the skills are gorgeous.

I think maybe Disco Elysium suffered a bit from not explaining things enough and/or not showing enough. Even now as I'm watching the credits I'm not entirely sure how many possible endings there are, or even if there is more than one (aside from like, prematurely dying). I didn't feel particularly challenged except when I was working against the game mechanics, like that goddamn skill check with Titus I got stuck at and almost quit over. I thought I'd soft-locked myself until a walkthrough pointed me toward a side-quest I could still do.

I guess it's just not entirely clear what I could have done differently, if anything. Disco Elysium feels like a game that's designed to be played more than once but as it stands right now I don't know what the value add would be of me playing it again. There weren't really that many stones I left un-turned and it was never clear where my decisions actually affected the trajectory of the plot. I spent most of the game feeling at least a little lost; I would've genuinely liked to have been spoon-fed a little more, at least in the second act.

It almost reminds me of like a 90s game that just drops you in the environment and wishes you luck, the key difference being that those older games usually came with paper manuals with tips and guides to help. Disco Elysium does have an in-game tutorial but I rarely found it actually useful. It never told me something I didn't figure out on my own through context, except maybe that you can sit on benches to pass time when Kim isn't around (but I never needed to do that and Kim was always around anyway, so like? what's the point?)

I wouldn't recommend Disco Elysium to people who don't like point-and-click mystery RPGs. I think this game has a really niche appeal. But I WILL say that there absolutely is an audience for this game that will love it for eternity, and I gladly place myself among them.

I'm not eager to play it again but I AM eager to read what the rest of the world has to say about it and fill in all the gaps I've been left with.

[shentheauthor]

hiiiii! i noticed your ask box is open and wanted to ask: can you do a baizhu x black reader, and he’s trying to do her hair?

Yeyeye

Baizhu doing black! Reader’s hair

Ok he doesn’t have much experience with hair that isn’t straight

Both he and Qiqi have straight hair, so he doesn’t get much practice

BUT!!! He will learn for you

Since he can’t get YouTube tutorials, he’ll find books

Ask around for good products to use

This man does his research, bc above all else, he wants you to be happy and healthy

He’s also SUPER busy all the time tho, so it will take some time to get the knowledge and practice he needs

But when he gets the opportunity, he will sit you down and try

He’s better at twists than anything else, but locs are good too

Braids will take him some time to learn, as will cornrows and other styles

But hey, he’s trying

He really likes doing your hair. It’s a nice way to relax after doing so much work

He will have to take breaks due to his health, since he doesn’t have the most stamina, especially in his arms

At the end of it tho, you will have a beautiful head of whatever hairstyle you ask for

He’s lowkey fascinated by your hair texture, since he doesn’t get to play around with it that often

Bonus: changsheng likes sitting on top of your head, regardless of your hair texture, bc it’s warm and your hair feels nice

I hope this is okay! I myself am not black, but I’ve been learning more about black hairstyles and textures for art purposes, as well as my boyfriend. Lmk if I did smth weird or wrong and I’ll correct it <3

[sodatelle]

hallo i'm the same jay n scara enjoyer anon but i just wanted to ask how did you get to learn digi art on your phone and how did you improve? i've been in an art burnout for years and i'm looking for something new to try out :0

Hi Anon Welcome back …. Sorry to hear about the art block.Its the devils curse

Lowkey it’s because i couldn’t afford a tablet or an ipad or anything fancy and so i turned to . the next best option (my ohone)

i’ve been drawing on my phone w my finger Like… Probably for 10 Years now .(i’m 17) U kinda just get used to it after a while … it’s Not much different from drawing on a tablet except for a Few things:

• your Finger oils will Get on your screen. and You will have to Aggressively Wipe your phone On the bed or couch to get it off

• any Kind of fingertip papercut renders You useless. alternatively so does Any bandages on your fingers .Rough day for you

• LOT more zooming in to draw . also Drawing with Your finger Impacts Your whole lifestyle I swear my Wrist Art and my Finger art looks Widely different…

Anyway Whjen i first started out i was Lowky terrible . It helps getting to know the app (i’ve been using the free version of ibispajnr for like 10 years (hook me up ibispaint i deserve) Which also Limited me to Never being able to use gradient map (Rip

Anyway@. ibispaint in particular was easy And had tutorials on yt on certain Stuff .. it just takes time To slowly Learn how to use the app and adjusting to doing everything with Your pointer finger and thumb . Otherwise jys really not so Differenr! 😊 You don’t lose your Fundamentals or understanding you just have to readjust to zooming in a lot more To get rhe details and precise strokes you want … pays off int the end though . i Can draw anywhere i Want