Dare to drink a cup of Madness?

Again this is my personal take on color! It really depends on the situation and what you personally value, and in the end practice is your best friend.

links:

genice’s color practices

color palette challenge (one iteration of it; there’s lot of people who made them)

(not mentioned, but helpful)

Patrick (H) Willems’s video essays on color in film; specifically his ones on

Wonder Woman and Marvel

I thought he had one on John Wick too but I can’t find it. If you like saturated colors though, check that movie out!!

go to services

find touch keyboard/handwriting panel

double click

set to disabled

click apply

then click stop

wait for the green bar to finish filling

then close it

Me, an idiot:

Truth be told, I don’t really have a fixed coloring process as I’ll often experiment and most of the time just roll with whatever I need at the moment (trying to follow a process is just counter-productive to me), but I do have some sort of base:

Mine: Standard Art Process • Lineless Art Process • Picking Colors • My Brushes • Lineart Pencil • Blending/Watercolor

The Ochako gif is your friend about how I do my coloring, but just in case the most important thing is I never use a flat tone, no matter how subtle the color blending/gradient is:

I really don’t know what is the “soft glowing” tbh ^^’ could be visual result of the color blending, a luminosity layer, a screen layer or just some very soft touch of a light color over the final piece.

Rec posts: Bri’s explanation on picking Colors • Basic Glow Effect SAI < not so complete, but covers the basic of the luminosity layer, I’ll add that you can use a hard light layer (use any rough/strong brush for the highlights) under the blurred one (any soft brush or blur tool over a hard brush works, just mind the pressure/intensity)

I have a few questions I got from my previous tutorial:

WHAT?! 

What the fuckkk? 

HOw!???

So I made another one that will hopefully be less confusing. This is NOT a general drawing tutorial of clothes or clothing folds. It’s only for design, composition and pose. Long post!

1) Draw a random scribble. This is the same scribble that I drew so beautifully last tutorial so I can’t let go of it just yet

But no, I chose this again to show that one scribble can spawn many ideas. You just need to use your imagination <3

2) Choose the head’s position. The head’s position is important because it will establish the pose of the character, whether he faces front, back, side, etc. 

3) Using this line from the scribble as a guide, you can draw the collar bone. Now you’re slowly getting a pose. (Excuse the horrible gif quality)

4) And from this line you can draw his left arm and hand, The guide scribble kind of looks like its a hand in a salute pose, don’t you think? So:

I didn’t draw a salute pose exactly but that’s cause at this stage I’m already planning what he is doing with that hand, maybe he is holding up his cap? That might look more interesting than just him holding up a plain salute

5) I used the Transform Tool to make the sketch smaller so his pose would be more readable when I use this scribble as a guide:

Now we finished drawing the pose for each of his hands. Do your best to make the hand poses look cool because like I said before, hands boost your drawing’s awesome factor by 50%

6) Still sort of using the shape of the scribble as a guide,I drew the rest of the body.

7) Draw the hair just so you can get it out of the way, but do note that I followed the scribble for the wind direction his hair will blow away from 

8) Add more flying elements! Flying elements help the composition, so don’t forget about them. They can be anything from cliche rose petals, clothes, hair, or even to a pet monster!

9) Keep going, your imagination is literally the limit

10)

For the record you don’t have to follow every single line of your scribble, but I’m following a lot of it just for the sake of this tutorial.

11) Finish the big parts of your sketch…

12) …so you can go on and add little details. I also changed his left hand pose to a closed fist so I can attach a blade on his wrist. That kind of looks like a blade right? Right??

13) Finished!

I’d really like to see you guys’ sketches-from-a-randomass-scribble! ^^

This tutorial is made possible by my beautiful patrons. If you’d like to help a girl  out please come check my patreon! Thanks for reading~

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