First off, THANKS! I’m glad the neon love is something we all can agree on~<3

Theres no real trick or brush or mode honestly. It can be done in ANY program! its a bit about color theory, I’ll give you a very quick run down about how i see it:

A neon color will stand out against a group of dark colors 

but place a neon color among lighter, more saturated colors… it gets a little lost

take shiftys main color palette:

 His fur is neon radioactive green, his gums are bright pink, and his teeth are blue. this is supplemented by the clothes he wears, which are usually dark with some neon accents! 

Theres a good ol Neon Boy~! Keeping this in mind, It works even better when hes a rabbit!

Knowing all that, you can go about making all kinds of eye burning stuff!

I’ve been getting quite a few asks about the process for the patterns in my stylized artworks, so I decided to put together a couple of tips regarding them. 

Firstly, what you need are

—  CUSTOM BRUSHES  —

Most of the patterns I use are custom brushes I made, such as those:

For the longest time I was convinced making brushes must be super extra complicated. I was super extra wrong. All you need to start is a transparent canvas (2500px x 2500px max):

This will be your brush tip. When you’re satisfied how it looks, click Ctrl+A to select the whole canvas and go to ‘define brush preset’ under the edit menu

You will be asked to name your new glorious creation. Choose something that describes it well, so you can easily find it between all the ‘asfsfgdgd’ brushes you’ve created to be only used once

This is it. Look at it, you have just created a photoshop brush. First time i did I felt like I was cheated my whole life. IT’S SO EASY WHY HASN’T ANYONE TOLD ME 

Time to edit the Good Boi to be more random, so it can be used as a Cool Fancy Pattern. Go into brush settings and change whatever you’d like. Here’s a list of what I do for patterns:

- under Shape Dynamics, I increase Size Jitter and Angle jitter by 5%-15% 

- under Brush Tip Shape, I increase spacing by a shitload. Sometimes it’s like 150%, the point is to get the initial brush tip we painted to be visible.

- If I want it to look random and noisy, I enable the Dual Brush option, which acts like another brush was put on top of the one we’ve created. You can adjust all of the Dual Brush options (Size, Spacing, Scatter, Count) as you wish to get a very nice random brush to smear on your  backgrounds

The result is as above. You can follow the same steps to create whatever brush you need: evenly spaced dots that look like you painted them by hand, geometric pattern to fill the background, a line of perfectly drawn XDs and so on. 

BUT WAIT, THERE’S MORE

—  PATHS  —

But what if you want to get lots of circles made of tiny dots? Or you need rows of triangles for your cool background? Photoshop can do all of that for you, thanks to the magic of paths.

Typically, paths window can be found right next to Layers:

Draw whatever path you want, the Shape Tool has quite a bit of options. Remember, paths are completely different from brush strokes and they won’t show up in the navigator. To move a path around, click A to enable path selection tool. You can use Ctrl+T to transform it, and if you move a path while pressing Alt it will be duplicated.

Now, pick a brush you wish really was in place of that path you’ve drawn and go to layers, then choose the layer you want it to be drawn on. Then, click this tiny circle under the Paths window:

Then witness the magic of photoshop doing the drawing for you while you wonder how tf have you managed to forget about this option for the past 2 years 

You can combine special brushes and paths for all sorts of cool effects. I mostly use them in backgrounds for my cards, but you can do whatever you want with them.

Feeling that your drawings can look a little bit more fun? Do your character designs seem a little bit static or generic? Maybe they need a small push to their proportions!

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The “How to Make Your Art Look Nice” Series

Developing Style | Lighting | Flow and Rhythm | Thumbnailing | Mindsets | Reference and Style | Color Harmony | Contrast

1) The Sketch

The hardest part of the picture is to get the idea. I always try to include a story in my drawing to make it more interesting. The story in this picture is that the robot cuts a leaf from the plant he’s taking care of. It doesn’t need to be more than that. 

First I color block the shapes in to see that the silhouette reads clear. I keep my Pinterest open to feed me nice ideas.

2) Line & Blocking the Plant

After getting the basic shape in, I add the first pass of lines in the robot and block out the plant. I looked up references for the plant and for the watering can as well. Getting the references even for the objects like these prevents them from ending up basic and boring. I also flip the image several times when drawing to see if there’s anything weird going on.

3) Lines & Details

Then I lined the plant and added the details in.

4) Color & Tweaking

I usually add the colors in separate layers and then tweak them later. I didn’t save all my tries, but let’s just say that the robot was blue at first. I always try to keep the color in 2 or 3 main colors. More than that and it’ll start looking messy. I also added a color in the line to make it softer. 

Then it’s just tweak tweak tweak. I’m never happy with the colors, but nowadays I’m better realizing when it’s starting to get too nit picky.

5) Finished!

https://twitter.com/JimZub/status/1050560447424946177

Hey friends!

https://www.twitch.tv/tbchoi

you can get an account for free. even if it only lets you make one plan, you can edit it as much as you want. 

you should have no problem making different stuff.

okay so you can do stuff like this one that is what I was looking for

now you must be thinking “chami what the fuck? what can i do with that?”

well if you click one little button that says 3d you get this!

motherfucking 3d view!! but wait! you obviously want to see the insides more right? 

idk for painting or editing or reference or whatever, well you can do it and then you get this!

i don’t know if you get why i am so excited but think about the endless possibilities! 

ok I know there’s stuff like google sketch up and yeah it is cool but I find it kind of difficult and this… this took me 30 minutes to finish! 

And there are so many things!! look at what i did for school