#not super used to doing colors and shading

[blushkurasakunyan]

WBK - Thoughts on Sakura's eye color

There's some discussion on what color Sakura's right eye actually is? Is it gray? silver? blue?

I would say, a grayish blue.

In the manga version, Sakura's eyes range from silver/gray to bluish gray as the series progresses The inconsistently is probably because he doesn't save that PARTICULAR shade of blue gray, but rather chooses "something close to that area" in the color wheel on CSP + stylistic changes over the years for a manga.

What I notice, is that the Cloverworks anime instead goes for a gray color that matches his hair. Most anime artwork and merch also use the same gray color palette, EXCEPT for the recent Windbreaker x Vasara collab:

Usually the merchandise team gets very strict instructions on how to design things, so i found it super interesting that they called his right eye "blue", and his collar is also blue. Granted it COULD pass as a grayish blue, but its still more of a blue. (It doesn't have a japanese version, only english, so can't cross check ^^;)

Manga covers:

His eye in Vol 22 is definitely more blue than the first volumes.

Interestingly, he's been pretty consistent with coloring Sakura's eye with these particular shades lately

The hex code 7A8BA9 represents a shade of dark grayish blue. 

Neat detail, Nii-sensei still has the rights to supervise the series in all the multimedia formats: he supervises the anime and game, looks over the merchandise, do some extra work for the volume releases, and draw bonuses. (12/24 Kodansha interview) That means he has some input on ALL the promotional materials for the series... and if he's ok with the final product, then we as the readers should be OK with it and not nitpick on whether its gray or blue, its really just a dark grayish blue.

And there we go :'D

[smilesrobotlover]

Oh yeah, I’ve been meaning to ask Smiles, what’s your like, process with doing comics? Like where do you start? Dialogue? Or loose outlines of panels, or something?

Someone has probably asked this before but I don’t remember heh 😅

-Sky Floor

I don’t think anyone’s asked me this! This is for long term comics. Short term comics I just think of it and go ham with it lol.

But for long term I start with a script:

As you can see, I change the dialogue a lot and move things around as I work on the comic, but as long as the vibes are there that’s all I really care about. I try to make things clear for myself so I know what I’m going for in the moment.

Then I thumbnail after finishing writing and editing:

Idk how other people do thumbnails but I draw the comic and then try to find good placements for dialogue, characters, and panels. I also write the script to the side so that I know where the dialogue goes (and once again, this changes sometimes but as long as the vibes are there that’s all that matters to me). Since it’s not a serious thing, I try to give the characters distinguishing features that don’t take up a lotta time (Wars’s scarf, Wild’s sideburns, Twi’s markings, sometimes their hair). I also write notes on what I’m going for if it’s not clear enough in the thumbnail, which is silly but it works for me 😅 as long as it’s clear to me that’s all that matters :) For short term projects I don’t care that much about doing thumbnails, but with long terms I want to make sure the pacing is good and things are clear since I’m taking it a bit more seriously. This doesn’t super work well I feel but it’s something I can lean back on when I draw the actual comic itself. Sometimes having to do everything in the moment makes things stressful

And then I work on the comic! I sketch it out, draw the panels and write the dialogue, and then I do a second sketch of the characters and move them all around to fit the dialogue. That way things don’t get too crowded or anything, which I’m still trying to improve! Then I line, color, and shade and voila, a comic page!

Like I said, things get switched around as I try to make things better, like switching Twi and Wild’s placement in panel 5 and adding another panel at the bottom. It just makes things a bit easier to read, and this happens a LOT. My thumbnails are drastically different than my comics 😅 which might get rid of the point of thumbnails but I guess they’re more like rough drafts of what I’m going for? But yeah! I also have colors I use as reference for the backgrounds and other things

Chapter 3 was a LONG chapter so there’s do many colors here, but I try to add all the colors I use on here just so I can reference back to them. It makes me life so much easier, tho this page got slightly confusing haha. That’s why some things are labeled. I also made sure to get the percentages right to make everything fit. I use refs for all the Links, and their items. Like swords, sheaths, and the Sheikah slate! Having all the refs out def crowds things up for me tho but it’s so much better than whatever I was doing before with all my other comics!

Not a fancy answer but this is basically how I do it and it works for me :) I find there’s a lot of ways to do things, but the most important thing in comics is to make sure things are CLEAR. It’s heavily dependent on visuals obviously, so thumbnails do help with making sure things are clear. This is something I’m still trying to learn and something I’m teaching myself, but yeah! That’s what I got :D

[leaderincrows]

Hiiiiii, dropping in for a brain worm. What's your drawing process like? Like how long does it usually take for you to go from sketch, coloring, layering etc until you hit the final work? Super curious what's your favorite part of the process for a work :)

By the way, love your art. It's so dynamic, quiet yet visceral, loving, sensual, and comforting in a lot of ways. Do a little dance jig whenever I see you on my dash bc I know I'm gonna be spoiled well 🙂‍↕️

🥺 💞💞💞 wow thank you so much! I just really need ppl to understand they are CLENCHES FIST in love. Rawing nasty but in love

I do have a speed paint of my last Raf piece that I can't post here because his hands are in his junk, but that's on Twitter here.

Most of my art takes 17 - 20 hrs! That Sylus x Zayne x Caleb threesome in their catch 22 fits probably took closer to 35 or 40. This is gonna sound wild coming from a nsfw artist but I actually really don't like drawing the human form. It's too restrictive and I don't like following references very much, I'd rather have more freedom. Replicating the outfits and accessories in this game is EXHAUSTING,,,, but I must. The boner demands it.

Join me below the cut and I'll talk more about my process and the two most influential pieces of art advice I've ever recieved: shade dark to light, and paint with color rather than a darkened version of your flat colors.

PaInT wItH cOlOr I will now proceed to use my silver dragon Sylus as an example.

I haven't taken an art class since I was in middle school so most of my learning was done on deviant art before it was an ai cesspool. Narrated speed paints and being introduced to other mediums were huge for me. I never learned color theory we go off vibes in this house.

So for my process now, I go through 4 or 5 phases of sketching. My sketches are still a little messy when I'm ready for them to be colored. Standard flat color process, also a little messy. I use one default brush for everything. Like EVERYTHING. When I got csp I messed around a lot (which you can see in my very first posts on this blog) but then when I found a brush I liked I married it. Sketch rendering everything.

I've been drawing dragons longer than I've worked with anything else. Also a lot of creature designing. My favorite step in the process is rendering and my favorite things to render are scales and hair! There isnt anything wrong with using brushes but I REALLY like drawing/rendering individual scales. Tedious is good sometimes

To do my base shading I flatten the color layers and copy it. Then on that new layer I go into tonal correcting and slide the hue around until I find a color I like. I bump up the saturation and lower luminosity, and set that layer to multiply. It's a bit hard to see but if you look on his neck and the back leg behind his tail, its a little blue; using a bit of color in the shadows is an easy way to make pieces more vibrant AND you're getting some backlight in.

And then I erase roughly where there will be highlight. I use a big brush and this takes just a few minutes.

If I want the piece more colorful I'll go in and add more of that backlight, like here with those light purple splotches on his tail, and the yellow edge around the tub, etc;

You can get away with slapping whatever color you want anywhere if you're gonna blend it and if its light/dark enough to work as a highlight or shadow.

Here's one of my spiderverse ocs, she's meant to be iridescent. Again its just a matter of blending colors well enough you can get them to work. And see how her base color is like a very light icy blue but some of the shadows are purple, but then others are a little gray so it's not overpowering.

And I dont use the blend tool, I color digitally like I'm using colored pencils.

And I typically do all the painting on one layer because too many layers is cumbersome! So I can't show you a few layers between the base shading and the final render because its all one layer! These still image tutorials dont work very well for me because its very 'draw the rest of the owl' !

It's also very typcial for the base shading to look naked by comparison. If you zoom in on his face there are a lot more scales. I don't sketch out fine details like this because I know that I want to do them later. Stuff like this you just need a clear image of the final piece in your head I think

If you see lineart in my pics its something I added during the painting process. I feel like it's been a long time since I've done proper lineart, after the sketch step but before flats.

Ok I feel like this is long so I'm stopping now.

[cute6troll]

Still getting used to digital art but I'm pretty proud of this

3rd life Grian :D

Please appreciate the little feather details, they are burrowing owl

[swhhdr-wthhr]

don’t you hate it when your brother brings the guy who tried to kill you a bunch of times to your party

original meme under cut

[meltedmush]

how long does it take you to draw your sketches/doodles? also do you have any tips to draw faster? 🙇‍♀️

I generally take 30 - 60 minutes a sketch,,,, but honestly really depends on how detailed it is.

Like a Chibi will be done in 20 - 25 minutes (Counting in the extra time I spend on minute details like a perfectionist 😭)

I for some reason really like spending egregious amounts of time on random objects too??? Unless it’s the in the background, I’ll spend 40 minutes refining it.

Random characters that are fully colored and rendered with take like 80 minutes.

The comics take usually take an hour or two per page. (If I decide to cross hatch it, my entire day will be gone with 4 pages… so I’ve been trying to find shortcuts. But not without sacrificing the quality for time lol)

I don’t think there’s any trick or magic to drawing faster. It’s really about weaponizing your artistic knowledge, and finding what’s comfortable or convenient for you!

There was a period of time where I would spend 11 or 12 hours on an illustration, and it wASS UGLYYYYY. (Some of these artworks are still available on my tumblr,,, but it’s SO LONG AGO, AND IT WAS MY 1ST OR 2ND YEAR GETTING INTO DIGITAL ART)

Overtime I learned what worked best for me, and practiced till I felt more comfortable with what I was drawing. Eventually I managed to shorten the time to 4 hours or less! Ambition was my biggest enemy but at the same time my biggest motivator. (And it still is LMFAO) 😭

EDIT (bit more to my way too long tangent): ALSO??? BRO DON’T BE AFRAID TO USE YOUR MESSY SKETCH AS LINEART OR DRAW ON TOP OF IT. I’VE DONE IT FOR YEARS NOW AND IT ADDS SUCH A GOOD EXTRA BIT OF TEXTURE,, AT THIS POINT I DON’T EVEN USE LINE-ART ANY MORE UNLESS IT’S A COMMISSION,, (IT’LL ADD LIKE AN 2-4 HOURS TO MY WORK)

[samaraxmorgan]

I’m working on making a navigation post for my blog and rlly liked how these banners came out so I decided to share them :) Full and colored version of the Sukuna drawing here and the Yuuji one here !!

More than welcome to repost with credit!!

[wheucto]

"I think we can help each other out!"

reference images

gosh the color palette in these is great

[shinx-stardust]

hands

[phoenixiancrystallist]

Month 12, day 29

Mah boi Flick getting some shade B)

[bonetrousledbones]

looking at this napstabot drawing that was supposed to be a quick flat doodle to show their side profile and thinking about how when i did that evil art style challenge a million years ago (jan. 2024) almost everyone said the opposite of my art style is painterly & textured

guys is that still true

[arielluva]

sometimes i feel like a fraud for relying on blending modes to achieve my color palettes and then i remember when i was 14 and thought i was great at coloring but my art looked like this

[sage-reads-things]

This is the first color art I've seen of the Yozakuras, so let's talk colors! Specifically, hairstyles. I gotta admit, I was surprised by the official hair colors. In my head, I was picturing Shinzo and Shion with coppery/auburn hair, and I pictured Futaba's hair as white blonde, not straight up bone-white. I'm happy to have correctly guessed Kengo's bright yellow hair, at least—he just feels blond lol. I also pictured Taiyo and Mutsumi having black hair, so I was surprised when they turned out to have red and blue, respectively.

I'm a little mixed on the hair colors tbh. I like that all the siblings are color-coded, but part of me feels like it's a little too much—I mean, siblings having wildly different hair colors AND it's all super bright anime colors like green and purple feels like overkill. I also feel like the excess of clashing colors can overwhelm the eyes when you put the Yozakuras all together in a group shot like this.

That being said, I do like the characterization tied up in the colors. Kyoichiro being the only child to have black hair feels very poignant, especially since he always wears black suits that make him look gaunt and ghoulish. I like the contrast between Kyoichiro (black) and Futaba (white), and the yin-yang element at play with Taiyo (red) and Mutsumi (blue). And I just looooove Nanao's cyan bucket-helmet, since it's a) fitting for the baby of the family and b) a good color for him.

I'm still not sold, but I can already feel the colors growing on me, so maybe it's just a matter of getting used to it *shrugs*

[goldendoodlerlockerlove]

All right, because @babsvibes asked me how I picked colors for my latest Thanksgiving art piece yesterday, I’ve decided to make an official walkthrough of how I do coloring/shading and lighting for my pieces!! This isn’t technically a tutorial, but maybe you can count it as one?? Take everything I say with a grain of salt, though, as I’m just a self-taught artist who still has a lot to learn!!

Usually, the way I start coloring is by taking a screenshot from the show and take the colors directly from there. Having a screenshot is also handy so I can use it as a reference! Is it cheating to take colors directly from the show?? Maybe, but I like doing it so so know the colors are exactly correct.

Using my latest piece of Bob and Gene eating Thanksgiving dinner together, I used this screenshot as both a reference and to take the colors:

Then, to do my shading, I take a shading brush in Procreate and paint in everywhere where there would be a shadow. I’ve trained my eye to look for places where I know light wouldn’t really touch, such as below an arm or neck or directly under a character’s hairline. Then, when I’m done, I just lower the opacity and pick a layer setting that looks the nicest to me. This is what my latest piece’s shadow layer ended up looking like (with the opacity turned up a bit):

Then, once I’m done with shading, I go on to lighting. I use a new technique now where I just paint in everywhere else (AKA everywhere I didn’t put in a shadow). I used to not even do lighting, because I found it complicated, but I feel it adds a nice touch to my pieces now. The way I do it is kind of tedious, but it’s what I’ve found I can help me understand lighting the easiest. Sometimes I also duplicate my lighting layer, use a Gaussian Blur, then turn the layer to “Add” to create a glowy effect. This glowy effect is usually reserved more for things like torches and flashlights, but I feel as if it gives my lighting an extra “oomph”. Here’s what my lighting layers looked like:

And to make my colors pop even more, I use my phone’s edit feature to go through the process of putting on a nice-looking filter and going insane with all of the features! I’ve found it has a really nice effect.

If I want to go even crazier (yes, I actually do this), I might go into this photo editing app I have on my computer and do even more messing around with filters and colors and the like.

It’s called Polarr Pro Photo Editor for anyone who’s curious!! I also put on my signature in here if I forgot to do it in Procreate.

But that is how I do my coloring and shading/lighting!! I’m still learning and I’m sure I’ll continue to improve. I definitely still have a lot to learn when it comes to shading and lighting!! There are honestly so many ways you can tackle this, so my method absolutely isn’t the end all be all!!

I even have a different technique for when I’m doing a simpler piece or just want some shading that has a lot more texture. I duplicate my color layer, lower the saturation, make a mask, and “paint in” the light really quickly with a super textured brush.

Here’s what it looks like before:

And here’s what it looks like after!

I actually find this technique a bit difficult because my brain works in shadows and finding where shadows would hit, so painting in the light is a challenge. But it can be fun too!!

If anyone has any techniques of their own, feel free to share them!!

[violetscanfly]

I colored em

>:)

[jailbreak-show]

First concepts / doodles / first animation in an animating program!

[Video description: Polly tilting her head back and forth. End VD.]