Pose & Anatomy Practice

Ink Drawing Tutorial by  Bryan Schiavone

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.

From my Archive! 

Poses for Artists – Pose Reference Book Series

Volume 4 - Couples Poses

Here’s a guide on how I personally get the watercolor vibe on my art! I learned my part from this tutorial here. The key is just to experiment a lot I think, as with everything else in art :33 

Arms, shoulders and upper body - reference sheet

for the binary pen, if im using large canvases from 2500-3500px, i use 5px brush and for anything <1000px i use 2px brush.

Hi guys. hands holding stuff

Volume 1 - Dynamic and Sitting Poses $14.95 Paperback $8.00 Digital Ebook PDF

Volume 2 - Standing Poses $14.95 Paperback $8.00 Digital Ebook PDF

Volume 3 - Fighting & Various Poses $14.95 Paperback $11.00 Digital Ebook PDF

Volume 4 - Couples Poses $14.99 Paperback $11.00 Digital Ebook PDF

This week I’ve prepared some tips for everyone who is confused with arms. I know that pronation and supination is confusing and I recommend to learn in by heart <3

I have also announcement!

The day is approaching when I will release ebook or Gumroad PDF with all my anatomy tips + additional lessons + commentary.

I still am thinking how I will publish this but it will be done. Anyone who’s interested finally will be able to get everything in one place and some more good content. I will post some dates soon so look for that in next few weeks !

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Heyyy, @mastermeg commissioned me for a little tutorial on how I personally draw tears!

Kisses

How to design stylized character that is still believable? By that I mean, it looks like realistic human but although is something that would fit video game or comic? 

Check out those simple tips from me :) As an example I am using Street Fighter characters.

that’s photoshop cs5 like pretty much everything i always draw haha

it’s super difficult to say where stuff like style elements come from bc most of the time i’m not really even aware of them myself and the reality is that every single thing i’ve ever seen in my entire life has contributed to the way i draw lol. like i don’t feel like i have a particular style, like there isn’t really a specific look i’m going for, what happens just happens

i don’t know if all artists feel this way, bc like rationally i know i have a style, i have several styles for different purposes actually, and while they grow and change there’s still always something there that makes them recognizable – to other people apparently, like i couldn’t point that shit out to save my life tbh but i’ve heard that it’s distinct

the color thing (or rather, the lack of color, which i’m slowly trying to get rid of) is pretty obvious, like as a kid i hated making a mess and thus didn’t enjoy painting, and i was a very wilful child, so i pretty much refused to learn colors, and the older i got the more difficult it became bc i remained headstrong and annoying and would “fight against the tyranny of color” as if it was a noble quest of some sort, even though in reality it was just because in my garbage brain being bad at things is the end of the world always so it’s better not to try if i can’t immediately be excellent at the thing

but uh. stylistically, i’ve definitely picked things up from my friends, like, a lot. like the way i draw noses, a lot of it is probably from @inkblotbun, or at least i remember having a distinct moment of “wow i love how he draws noses, i want to try that” and some of it stuck. i look at @heikala’s stuff all the time bc i love how she does color and backgrounds and while i still can’t really use what i’m learning from her i hope that one day it’ll sink in. also when i get in a new fandom i slowly develop a way of drawing the characters that integrates some of the original work’s style with whatever i’m doing and then that also becomes part of my repertoire – not always in a way that pleases me, like right now my eye game is pretty voltron-ish and i’m not super happy about that bc i feel like that anime eye thing is kinda a mismatch with the rest of what i have. i really need to do some figure drawing to clean the slate a bit

which is also a thing that i do, and what i’ve always done: when in doubt, use realism as your starting point. when i don’t know how to do a thing i will see what it looks like in real life and then adapt that. which means that there are and always will be a lot of bits and pieces that are 100% the result of figure drawing with zero creative input from me (e.g. shiro’s arms. okay my creative input is to make them fucking huge bc i’m into that. i guess that counts.)