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Anonymous asked:

Hey, if im not bothering, could i ask how you started drawing and coloring the way you do digitally? Because i started drawing digitally recently and i want to eventually get to the point that my drawings look smooth and semi-realistic and i thought I'd ask because i thought you might know (and i love your art...)

novallion answered:

Oh fam I don’t know if I can pinpoint for you how I started developing this style. I just knew from, like, high school on that color was the most important thing for me. I have like, an influence map that helps me narrow down the specific things I like to draw, and things I’m working on.

I can tell you I learned my color theory from these tutorials, specifically this one on ‘Beauty Spots” Ive obviously devolved into a mess of rainbow coloring that follows no real principles, but I do take advantage of the Curve function and the Levels Function a lot for finding things that look good.

As for how I got this look? Im not 100% sure because you can look at my stuff from a year ago and see that its not like, the same. BUT I will tell you that I limited myself with WHAT I USE to paint with, and perfected basically these three brushes. Hard Brush (to apply color), a Rough or Wet Smudge (in CSP ‘Running color on Fiber’ is good, in Photoshop I use Kyle Webster’s ‘Kyle’s Paintbox- Wet Blender’) and occasionally an airbrush if I want to soften an edge or add light or a certain hue like to skin. Usually if I make a mistake while painting I smudge it out until its smooth or ill make a layer above and paint the correction and merge down)

Now that I have this routine fused into my soul, I explore a little more with different brushes, but the process remains the same. 

Uh, theres no other way to explain without showing you so more below the cut

My style is basically:

•  Sketch Layer on Top (That Will Eventually Be Merged Down)
• Lineart Layer (If I Feel Like One and Will Definitely Be Merged Down)
• Color Layer
• and occasionally a multiply/overlay/screen layer (for color correcting, that gets merged down)

I make a lot of copies as I go in case I need to fix a mistake or like I colored everything wrong, but essentially I Pick and Choose my colors from the Color Layer, and nothing else. My shadows? You can find somewhere in the base gradient or a desaturated version of it. Highlights too. My style is: Use a smudge tool and paint with the smudge tool and a hard brush. 

1. Sketch (and like, a base gradient)

Sketch is at the top, color gradient on bottom. Then I use the color underneath to color my boy. I know his skin is grayish brown, so I choose one of those colors and with the opacity on the brush like at 40 or 50 (or if you have a brush that’s pressure sensitive with opacity you dont have to fiddle with it) I let the Blue and green bleed through.

My boy’s hair is white, but its best to avoid Pure White and Pure Black when you’re painting (especially when youre throwing down a base color) So I chose a light light tint of the green. Here’s the base green from the gradient below:

as compared to his hair green

and later, to make it more white or if I plan on doing dappled lighting, etc, I can use SUPER CLOSE BUT NOT ACTUALLY WHITE WHITE to highlight his hair.

Not gonna lie though, a lot of this is just. Practice and studying color. and learning how light works in conjunction with form and color (two principles of art) and I’m not the best artist out there. A lot of what I do is UNREALISTIC. But its the way I do it, and im working on it??

its about building up from the bottom. This below is about thirty minutes of painting after I had the base colors slapped down. I dragged part of his pink in and painted it over the blue in his hair, and then picked from the purple it made and started adding it around. I’m probably not the best at explaining but.

I hope this helps? 

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[josephine-meis]

Halo! A friend of mine asked me to teach him the Gobelins’ way to animate a turn around, so I drew this tutorial. I thought maybe you guys might be interested too c:

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a quick grass tutorial

[urswurs]

I’ve never really wrote a tutorial before so apologies if this is bad

1. okay first thing I do is pick three colors, a mid, dark, and light. I like to check the colors in greyscale to make sure there’s enough contrast between each one.

I then plop down a blob of whatever my middle tone color is.

2. next, I take my dark color and just sort of randomly place it around. I try to make sure there’s a good amount of both the mid and dark tones spread throughout. I personally like to keep it kinda messy. I also have pen pressure on for both brush size and opacity, so I can have some blending action going on.

3. for the next step I do the exact same thing as before, except with the light color.

4. aight this is where we start adding details. see how you just have a bunch of colors and edges where two colors meet? use the eyedropper and go to an area where two colors meet, eyedrop a color, and then use that color to draw in your grass blades. I do this at every point where colors meet. should note I personally like to use a square brush, but you can really just use anything.

5. you can technically stop at the last step if you’re going for a more simple look, but to add more details I go to the “empty” areas of solid color and just draw in random strokes using a color nearby. it’s just a way to fill up the empty space.

6. basically more of the same idea of eyedropping and drawing. for more variety so things look interesting, I like to add random plant shapes.

7. and so the grass doesn’t look too plain, I add random dots of color and pretend it’s flowers and stuff.

and there you have it, this is how I approach drawing grass.

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Anonymous asked:

Would you ever do a simple tutorial of how you draw horses? I want to make centaur OCs but lord horses are difficult creatures to doodle 😭

what-the-floofin answered:

Mmmm there are so many guides that cover what I do, and I really don’t do anything more than those. Still use the whole blocks and sticks and form building and whatnot. And a buttload of references. Anything I could say different would kinda step beyond the stage of simplicity?

To offer something though I would like, suggest tweaking the use of circles when it comes to drawing horses. Or anything, really. Circles are great and highly accessible for fast, general drawing, but few natural things are perfectly round. Look at a horse from the front or back - it’s square and flat and meaty and saggy too, depending on your angle.

So like, I dunno, if you wanna step it up a notch, try changing your use of building-circles into something like this

And especially practice being able to see these shapes in dimension

And then piece them together. The triangle will really help guide the line up. Highly recommend.

Honestly I just follow the same gist of Hubedihubbe’s quick tut (please check it out, very good points made, much cleaner, actually labelled) so I kind of feel like I’m parroting here but.. I break down the rest in lines and diamonds.

As a personal preference, I like marking in the shoulder blade to elbow and the hip to knee, as they create pretty important shapes towards horse recognition. If something keeps looking off, check your leg length. A super rough way to get a close idea of what you need can be found in using most of the shoulder block for a landmark? It’s not perfect maths, it’s a rough tell. The hind legs are then worked out via the red line, setting the hocks above the intersection across the knees 

And uh, it goes on from there. You gotta look at pictures, do the study, and learn the meats. No real other way around that part.

There’s a horse bod.

But the reason of learning how to see those shapes in dimension is so that you can push your poses further! Try piecing it together with your front-view knowledge. And look at references, always! 

Shoulders are pretty narrow compared to the belly and hindquarters, unless you start looking into the draft breeds - then both ends more or less square up together. But moving on, more leggies are slapped on that thing

And fleshed out with all that meat knowledge :P (I know I haven’t gone into heads but this was about centaurs anyway. This guy just felt like he needed one)

And when it comes to practice and learning, don’t be afraid to simply draw these shapes directly over an image. It will help familiarise you with how these base forms interact with one another, how far they can squash and stretch and look at a whole variety of angles. It’s just practice!

Doing that helps to gain a solid concept of the subject, so that when you do set out on your own you can find that convincing territory.

So hey, this has been a very long and terrible not-tutorial. More like insight or something, and would only be helpful if you’re somewhat familiar with horses and already got the fundamentals of drawing down pat, since I skipped over a lot. 

Haven’t drawn a horse before though? I recommend you the Shrimp method

Anyway, hope all this was kinda interesting

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[vinsketchbook]

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(Edited Typos)

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[drawingden]

quick and easy: Rivulets And Rain by ZedEdge

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[drawingden]

Simple lineart trick by Looji

Support the artist and check out their commissions!

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[fire-star-animations]

I’m not entirely the right person to ask but I’ll give you a basic run down.
Also, check out Uzlo from DA’s Wing Tutorial < It’s a wonderful layout and go into far more detail that can definitely help with your wing needs.

So not the best example, but I’m really terrible at explaining things. lol