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Here’s some helpful tips to keep in mind when drawing the hands. There’s more tips in the full video!

Well gosh, You make me sound like I’ve really got a handle on everything! Haha. Thank you.

I assure you I’m not always that organized - sometimes I juggle more balls than I can handle! I’m also absolutely positive that my life could be considered pretty plain by comparison. But, having said that, it’s essay time:

I don’t really know how I juggle it - I just do! I feel like I prioritize the things that are most important - when they’re the most important to me. Does that make sense? I always make sure that I’m doing my best at my day job. I’m lucky to have such a job in the first place - so I try to take care of it. Then of course I usually have freelance work waiting for me at home. I try and spread this out, doing a few hours here and there throughout the week. It does tend to pile up and overlap sometimes, but other times there are weeks when it’s quieter and I get a nice break. A break being not having to do extra work outside of my usual work, haha.

Then I have personal work! The funny thing is - even when I spend all day painting for other people - art is still what I want to do in my downtime. I can go a little while without painting for myself, but after a while it turns into a really big itch, and as distracting as it is -having personal work I want to do at the same time as freelance- it keeps me going.

The other thing to know about me is that I’m incredibly selfish. I do a lot of work, there’s no getting around that. But I also know when to just down tools and do what I want. Sometimes the work does pile up and it collides into another project and deadlines group together, but if that happens - I stop. I get the work done, and I stop. I turn off my stupid PC and I go sit on my ass with some wine and a book. I know when to ask for more time, I’m learning to say no. I never try to take on more work than I can handle in the first place, and I definitely give myself a break when things get too crazy.

And then, If I’m completely honest - I’m not that social. I’m really not. My parents always used to complain about me being an antisocial git when I was growing up and I suppose it’s true. I’m not a party goer, I don’t have a ton of friends. I’m very much a home-body and honestly, I kind of want to spend the majority of my time painting and reading. I find it very fulfilling - give me a moment to wander, and that’s exactly what I think about doing. I do enjoy going out, particularly with friends from work, but I’m a quiet soul at heart. Give me time to paint and read, and I’m a happy bunny.

Here’s an example. The drawing on the left was done in 2003 and the one on the right was done in 2012. Slow and steady wins the race.

You sure have seen this post. It has spread like wildfire over the past few days so I doubt there is any artist out there who hasn’t seen it. But even if you didn’t, you should read on because I’m about to tell you a handy little thing that can help you to protect your art from such assholes as the anon who submitted this bullcrap, as well as art thieves in general.

The magic word is Metadata.

Metadata is like an invisible signature that is embeded into a file. It can contain all kinds of information, like Title, date, keywords for online seach engines, and copyright information. And the best thing is, since this information is “hidden” in the code of your picture, it’s hard to remove it.

There is a nice basic tutorial on how to add Metadata, or “additional file information” to your images in photoshop. It’s really, really easy so check it out!

“Adding Your Contact And Copyright Info To Your Photos With Photoshop” on PhotoshopEssentials.com

I’m not sure if you can do the same with any other art program. If you know how to do this in other programs / can confirm that it works the same way there, please tell me so I can add the information to this post.

No problem! your english very good @kingcrownlight !

I don’t know any pages where you can find this but I guess I can show you how I do it ^^

NATSU’S FIRE TUTORIAL

First of all here’s our fire reference:

Let’s get started!

Create 2 layers, one for the Background and one for the fire. Place the Fire layer on top of the BG one.

Activate the “fx” layer at the bottom of the Layer window and then select > Outer Glow. Type all the properties as shown below 

Do the same process for the Inner Glow, which is right below the Outer one.

You can now edit your fire by painting it with different tones. You can also use the Eraser tool to create a different shape

Add a new layer and position it under your Fire Layer, I used a red tone to make the fire more vibrant.

FINAL STEP: (Optional, you don’t really have to do this)

You can add a motion blur effect to your fire by doing this:

Double your fire layers (except the Background);

Merge the new 3 layers and hide the original 3 ones.

Go to Filter>Blur> Motion Blur> and add the properties as shown below

and TAH-DAH! Our fire is done!!