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gg makes art: process dump

Wed, 15 May 2013 03:09:40 -0400

I promised WIPs and process stuff a while back. I don’t take pictures of stuff as I’m working on it because I don’t have a camera, so I am afraid I only have what I scanned or did on the computer from the start. Basically it’s just thumbnails, sketches, and finishes. This post be full of text (complaining) and pictures, so it’s under the cut.

I did a bunch of thumbnails, scanned them, traced the one I liked best with Sai to clean it up, printed it out and retraced with pencil onto watercolor paper. Color studies were done in watercolor on sketchbook paper before doing the final. In the end the scan is pretty much unaltered, because the colors match what I needed them to. Valuable lesson learned? Hell naw.

Thumbnails for Ysolde and Ainmere. No clue how to compose this picture.

Did the color study on the computer and that is a STUPID IDEA. This scan isn’t exactly true to the real colors/contrast but it basically shows you how inadequate the original is compared to what I wanted. I ended up overlaying the color study on top of the original to make it match. Moral of the story: do your color studies with your paint and you will know how to get what you want.

But I am an idiot and did a digital color study again. I can’t find any of the sketches for this. The original is not warm enough. Also needs more glow.

Thumbnails for Ysolde’s head. I still like the top right one a lot but it’s a pretty generic composition.

The sketch. Where it ended up is a few posts down but I still want to redo his face and put a pattern on the floor. So this one isn’t done yet!

The end.

scanning and cleaning up trad art

Fri, 10 May 2013 00:42:59 -0400

areu:

thank you so much!! having your scanner kill a piece you worked on for a while sucks, my epson scanner isn’t the most perfect either but a little work in photoshop can make it better :) image heavy step-by-step tutorial under the cut!!

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eyecager: https://www.facebook.com/Anatomy4Sculptors/photos_albu...

Fri, 10 May 2013 00:42:47 -0400

eyecager:

https://www.facebook.com/Anatomy4Sculptors/photos_albums

Such a fantastic resource!!

Edit: http://naiadestricolor.tumblr.com/ pointed out they have a kickstarter going on!

jordan-haruka: Plenty of people have asked me this and I found...

Fri, 10 May 2013 00:40:30 -0400

jordan-haruka:

Plenty of people have asked me this and I found it helpful and useful.

helpfulharrie: Source: Coyotemange See Also:(click)

Thu, 09 May 2013 20:22:47 -0400

helpfulharrie:

Source: Coyotemange

See Also:
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carryalaser: WATERCOLOUR CHEAT CODES I made really quick...

Mon, 06 May 2013 21:05:29 -0400

carryalaser:

WATERCOLOUR CHEAT CODES

I made really quick tutorials full of swatches to send my mom who wants to take up watercolour painting for a hobby. I’ll share them here as I find time to type what I wrote her.

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The first two pictures illustrate discoveries in mixing skin-tones. I try to find paints that make it faster/easier to mix skin colours - even if you’re adept at making these tones out of other colours, the right combo of purple and yellow can cut out a lot of time and money. The one I have most success with is “violet gray”, then “permanent magenta” for darker and wider ranges, and “purple lake” when I was cheap and it was on sale.

Mix these (sparingly) with raw sienna. The darker the purple the less you’ll need to add to your yellow (yellow ochre works as well). Ultimately, watercolour is tricky to mix so if you’re not confident right away make sure to paint swatches before putting a loaded brush to paper, otherwise be ready to mix with water on the paper.

For a lighter, paler, redder skin tone, raw sienna + brown madder is what I prefer, although as you can see in the first image (about half-way down the page on the left), “cadmium yellow pale hue” and “cadmium red deep hue” work just as well, and might be cheaper on you. With that combo, however, it’s easier to get stuck mixing a ton of orange.

Back to permanent magenta, it’s great with browns to get darker tones, not just for darker skin but for shading. I keep three browns on my “skin” palette (last pic), “burnt umber”, “burnt sienna”, and “vandyke brown”. Mix it with some skin-tone, even just a little, to keep it from looking straight-out-of-the-tube.

So mix your skin tones, make a few test swatches to figure out how much water you need (every brush behaves differently), and lay down some washes.

In the middle of the first piece of paper is a gradation in a skin tone (violet gray + raw sienna) from really warm (“brown madder”) to really cool (“turquoise”). This was done wet in wet, to show what kinds of tones you get from adding warm and cool colours.

To the left on the bottom are a couple light washes of colours painted over a skin tone (same ol’ raw sienna + violet gray) to show how different colours look on this mix when applied dry on dry. Blue (I used turquoise again) is great for some shadows, implied stubble, and veins close to the skin, reds and most browns for warmer shading, yellow for jaundice or boogers… you get it.

On the bottom right is an example of really warm vs. really cool shading on the same skin tone mix (just guess). The initial skin tone wash is a bit warm for the cool side, but the contrast makes the shadows really evident. Different colours in shading will have different effects that way. The only surprise here is the use of dark blue “indigo” which is great for coming close to black when mixed with other colours.

On the second page are two more noses, different skin tones, and just three extra passes with skin tone washes - although difficult to tell because I was lazy and didn’t wait long enough for them to dry after the 2nd pass. The extra passes aren’t particularly warm or cold leaning, but simply draw off of the initial tone I placed.

IMPORTANT: These little quick studies serve to be as economical as possible, using few colours but still not looking just like an awkward mix of red and yellow or brown and yellow. For a more detailed or accurate representation of skin tones, a ton more colours might be added - for instance the darker skin tone on the right would have more pinks, and of course different parts of the body appear to be tinted differently. Also never forget no matter what colour or how dark skin is, skin is shiny. Be mindful of even diffused light. At the same time - perfect representation of skin is hardly necessary. More expressive colour treatment rules.

But ultimately - colour in skin - who cares! Just play around with colours you like, build a base that’s easy for you to mix quickly for wet on wet or however you prefer to work. Play with colours on different planes or surfaces of the body, with light, and take everything I say as a tips - not rules - ‘cause watercolour is really unpredictable and that is often the best part.

Another note: I use pencil tins for palettes, it keeps things portable, easy to mix, minimal paint waste, and I can rearrange paints easily to make mixing easier. I usually have three but you could get away with one or two. If you try it out, keep the paints and empty space clean with jut a bit of water and the wipe of a cloth/kleenex.

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The third picture shows a really quick, easy, natural black mix I make. It’s simply “Hooker’s Green, Dark” and “Dioxazine Violet” at almost equal quantities. You can mix it with a blue or red or yellow for a warmer or cooler black, depending on which you need. I included some gradation and overlapping swatches. Just keep in mind black can be very powerful in watercolour, or any opaque application of the paint, so use it sparingly and with a plan in mind.

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Despite my shitty watercolour sketches up here, I spent a huge amount of being a child working at a cooperative gallery with some contemporary and purist watercolour painters alike so I picked up a lot. If anyone wants me to be more specific about something, or maybe produce a more specific guide or sketch for a problem you have, let me know and I can try to help out.

These were things my mum asked for and that I produced with her knowledge of the medium in mind, so if it really did interest you but you’re stuck on something, or found something I said vague and confusing, let me know.

EDIT: A tutorial I made to talk about paper. It’s important stuff. [link]

Coats

Mon, 06 May 2013 20:52:36 -0400

Coats

pinkrosesbluebow: Hi, there! I’m back with an extremely short...

Mon, 06 May 2013 20:50:42 -0400

pinkrosesbluebow:

Hi, there! I’m back with an extremely short guide to kimono!

Disclaimer: I do not pretend to know everything there is to know about kimono and this guide only covers the smallest fraction of information. What is in this guide comes purely from my own knowledge and research, and I am very sorry if I made any mistakes. Let me know if I did and I’ll fix it asap :). I’m also sorry for the terrible drawing of the girl on page 4(rilly rilly bad) :T

Lastly, these pics are massive! Forgive me! m(__)m

LINKS:

(All of these will be in Japanese. There are lots of pictures so it’s okay if you can’t read it!)

1) Kimono (this is the page I referenced for my drawing on page 4. It is a wonderful breakdown of kimono structure and the artist shows much more detail than I did. Check this link out for sure!)

2) Obi Reference #1

3) Obi reference #2

4) Obi reference #3

5) Moar obi!1!

6) Google Japan image search results for ‘kimono’

7) Google Japan image search results for ‘obi musubikata’ (obi how to tie)

And that’s all! I hope this was useful for anyone wanting to draw kimono but perhaps having a little trouble with the details :)

bowlofnouilles: YES PERFECT

Sat, 04 May 2013 02:43:02 -0400

bowlofnouilles:

YES PERFECT

Photo

Thu, 02 May 2013 20:08:43 -0400

fuuuranz: Just as I answered in a previous ask, majority of my...

Mon, 29 Apr 2013 00:00:41 -0400

fuuuranz:

Just as I answered in a previous ask, majority of my works included experimenting so this is probably far from being the actual right way to achieve DR style but it’s what I did so ahaha sorry :v

I used Sai.

<—Soft line brush—Flat brush—Airbrush—Eraser—>

Soft line- Used for sketching, colouring, painting. You’ll need to be familiar with the pressure sensitivity when blending so better get a feel for when to press hard to get solid colours. Adjust the min size depending on where you’re using it, eg. at 0 for fine lines.

Flat brush- The whooshy effect lines. Again, adjust min size to your preference; set to 0 to get the pointy flick stroke.

Airbrush- Didn’t use it on John but tried on Jane. Mostly on her face to give it that glowing kinda look. Else, mostly used for minor adjustments of colours and extra blending.

Eraser- Self explanatory, adjust density to fit your needs. 20% then stroke a couple of times to get the whispy lines. I Used 80-90% for normal erasures

After sketching, added rough shading, then the base colours on a different layer underneath the sketch. I just flattened it afterwards and worked on one layer all through out.

I went and redid a lot of parts as I progressed.

For after effects, moved it to photoshop: duplicated the whole thing -> gaussian blur -> set blur layer to linear burn at 25% opacity

Also added a pattern overlay on the original layer: greyscale paper (kraft paper) -> Overlay at 45%

Teach me, Velpi-sensei! Paper Chibis edition

Mon, 29 Apr 2013 00:00:29 -0400

hiiro-ouji:

Hey guys.

So yesterday I got a reblog saying that they were interested in knowing my process so I’m here to give you a really rough tutorial on how I make things like this:

Warning: Very image heavy

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helpyoudraw: Landscape Speedpaint Tutorial

Tue, 23 Apr 2013 13:39:29 -0400

helpyoudraw:

Landscape Speedpaint Tutorial

okng: queensimia: ac110: theshiningd: cautioncat: I think...

Mon, 22 Apr 2013 16:20:02 -0400

okng:

queensimia:

ac110:

theshiningd:

cautioncat:

I think this could be considered a reference…

w-wait could this mean. WHY WOULD I BLOG THIS

Who knows

Reference, indeed.

Hell, I can use it.

#reference it is, then.

okamikyru: Hand Poses by Melyssah6 I stumbled upon these and...

Mon, 22 Apr 2013 16:19:46 -0400

okamikyru:

Hand Poses by Melyssah6

I stumbled upon these and love them! If you struggle with hands (like me) these are great for practice and referencing. Thought I’d share my finds with other artists~.

PencilCat: 30 Days of Art Improvement Challenge

Mon, 22 Apr 2013 16:17:22 -0400

PencilCat: 30 Days of Art Improvement Challenge:

pencilcat:

Are you tired of feeling like your art just isn’t improving? Do you want to do a 30-day challenge that’s actually useful? Welcome to 30 Days of Improvement Hell. >:D

I made this because I’ve been feeling super ‘blah’ about my art these days, and I needed something to kick-start myself. Who wants to do this with me!? Start now or whenever you can (now you procrastinators!). Challenge yourself and have fun at the same time!

Tag your posts with #Improvement Hell so everyone can follow along and see each other’s awesome artwork. I may even create a blog and reblog them! :D

What are you waiting for? START!

Self-Portrait - Introduce yourself

Draw a figure using a reference - link to reference

Draw a figure that’s in action, using a reference - link to reference

Draw a part of the human anatomy you have trouble with. x20, with atleast 5 being skeletal/musculature studies.

Draw more figures. Quick gestures and silhouettes. x20, with atleast 10 different body shapes

Let’s have some fun. Design a character from this character generator. (created by PreservedCucumbers)

Pick the weirdest object in your house/room. Draw it. Shadows and Highlights.

Find 2-3 objects, make a scene with them. Draw it. Bonus points for creativity. Double points for dramatic lighting.

Draw a landscape of a place you’ve never been or drawn.

Draw a BG with 1pt Perspective. Negative points if it’s a railroad or an empty street.

Draw a BG with 2pt Perspective.

Look out a window. Draw what you see. Bonus points for adding something interesting.

Draw an interior setting with the character you designed on Day #6 in it.

BG with either bird’s eye or worm’s eye view.

Halfway there! Draw three ‘action’ scenes with different compositions in each. Quick sketches are fine, just make them interesting and understandable! Bonus points if it’s the same scene, but different composition.

Draw a single page comic with 5-7 panels (the story begins and ends on one page).

Draw an animal you’ve never drawn before. x10 Link references.

Draw a car. Negative points for whining. Hint: Use a perspective grid.

Think of the thing you hate drawing the most. Guess what? Draw it! Negative points for lying to yourself.

Pick an object in your house/room. Now design a character from it, using the shapes, forms, textures, purpose and colors as inspiration. Also link/post the object you used. Negative points for using a humanoid action figure.

Draw a character/object/scene, and shade them using ONLY solid blacks and whites. Bonus points for good use of lights/shadows

Draw a different object/scene/character. Shade using hatching, crosshatcing, and/or pointillism. Bonus points for lights/shadows and textures.

Colors! Pick a color palette, and paint a scene/character/object using only those colors (some blending allowed). Bonus points for good use of lights/shadows.

Draw and color a scene/object/character - no lines allowed! (aka - lineless art). Don’t forget light and shadows!

Draw a scene/character in a style you’ve never drawn before. If emulating an artist, credit+link. Bonus for color style.

Draw a character. Draw 10 emotions/expressions. Bonus points for ‘uncommon’ emotions. (i.e. anxiety, guilt, despair, loneliness etc.)

Draw three random shapes using your opposite hand (or your foot). Now design characters from those shapes.

Turn on the tv (or load your illegally downloaded movies). Pick an actor and draw them.

Almost done! Let’s have some fun. Draw some fanart. Bonus points if it’s super obscure and unknown. Make people guess what it’s from.

Last day! Find a drawing you did within the last year. Now draw it again using what you’ve learned! Link it for comparison!

Look at all that amazing improvement! Congrats!

helpyoudraw: Loom’s Paneling Musings (Part 1, Part 2, Part 3,...

Mon, 22 Apr 2013 16:15:44 -0400

helpyoudraw:

Loom’s Paneling Musings (Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, Part 4) by LOOMinate from DeviantArt

Suite Pretty Cure Direct Download Masterpost

Thu, 18 Apr 2013 23:44:30 -0400

riribelle:

OH LOOK ANOTHER PRESENT~!

This is the entirety of Suite Precure, including the movie! In addition, this is the Blu Ray release, mostly because it’s the only MKV batch release available now. This means the OP and ED are all shiny and pretty and creditless! All files are completely virus free and if you don’t believe me, 4shared virus scans every file before uploading it, ensuring nothing bad is getting uploaded to their servers.

A QUICK NOTE:

Suite is a really fantastic season, naysayers be damned. :D I love the dynamic and the Cures~!

MAKE SURE TO DOWNLOAD /ALL/ OF THE OP AND ED FILES. IN ADDITION, THEY H A V E TO BE IN THE SAME FOLDER YOU PUT THE EPISODES IN. The reason for this is that Coalgirls is really weird and they cut out the OP and ED of the episodes, instead syncing it with the separate OP and ED files. This means if you don’t download the OPs and EDs, your episodes WILL NOT HAVE AN OP OR AN ED.

The movie is story related! It fits between episodes 36 and 37. You won’t miss much if you don’t watch it then, but it’s a nice little thing, so I recommend seeing it!

This release is MASSIVE. It clocks in at 31 GB. Don’t say I’ve never done anything for you guys. =P

YOU WILL NEED:

A stable internet connection.

A program that plays .mkv files. VLC or Media Player Classic will suffice.

HOW THIS WORKS:

Make a 4shared account.

Download the episode.

Play it in your video player of choice!

IF YOU’RE HAVING ISSUES: just let me know! :D

LOOKING FOR MY MASTERPOST LIST?: It’s right here!

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eyecager: So 0033/Red Ink Teacher has been updating with some...

Thu, 18 Apr 2013 23:37:21 -0400

eyecager:

So 0033/Red Ink Teacher has been updating with some more great sheets of hands and feet.

These are amazing to study from since he breaks down the forms pretty well and I guarantee after doing a few studies of their feet or hands you pick up really quick on how to break them down yourself to suit your needs. When all I owe is cleared away definitely want to do a long series of studies of his after I acquire some paintbrushes and ink from here.

qiow: short explanations (this is all in photoshop...

Sun, 14 Apr 2013 03:24:02 -0400

sketch

lines (optional)

value (also optional but probably Better If You Did)

color adjustments

flats set to overlay

paintover

final details/adjustments and fiddling

qiow:

short explanations (this is all in photoshop btw)

sketch

lines — i dont even do this part normally? usually my sketches are detailed/clean enough that i dont need to do lines but!! if i dont do lines then i have to do a complete paintover later which i was too lazy to do this time so. lines.

values — i also dont do this but i hear talk its a Good thing to do (or i just continually check the values/contrast with a b/w gradient map which is also a thing i just started doing)

put like 5 color adjustment layers on the values so when i overlay the colors it wont look boring as Heck

flats!! and set them on overlay (i did more hue/sat adjusts because the good thing about digital painting is being able to cheat)

make a new layer on top of everything (except lines) and start painting over everything real neat like. get distracted a lot.

colored some of the lines here, esp the lighter parts, also redrew some of the lines (i’d been doing that throughout this whole thing though) and fiddled around and added details. basically i play around with it until it looks acceptable

POST! (optional: hit publish and notice a Grave Error. fix and edit and thank a deity for the photoset option.)