Narisz

I'm glad you like her! Thank you!! <3

Oh, thank you!!!!

The most important thing I learned this year, that it's very important what position and angle your tablet/drawing device is and from what angle you're looking at the drawing, because it can really mess up the proprositions/anatomy. :')

Can I ask what types of brushes you use to color your pieces and how to get such a good balance of lineart and color?

Hi!! Sure!! I don't know, if I'm the perfect candidate for art tutorials, cause I'm nowhere near professional, but I'll share the foundation of what I'm doing most of the time.

I work in Procreate, so I can only recommend brushes from that app. I use the HB pencil for details and the face mostly, while 6B is for the outline and some bolder lines. Lineart colour is very important, I think. I love doing it with darker shades of red, and recolour it as the drawing progresses (adding a layer above the lineart with clipping mask mode). I use the Old Beach brush for colouring and shading as well. I either do the darker colour and dark layer modes route for shading or just paint the shades/lights with colours I choose. (I'm doing this nowadays, bc I'm lazy for all that layering.) I also shade sometimes with pencils, like on real paper. It very much feels like doing water based painting on paper.

I add the background then, and a darker layer for either just the figure or the whole drawing. Then, I draw some sharper lights with the pencils, I mentioned and add a light airbrush layer that follows the lines. I also use the airbrush for some additional lights and shades and play with layer modes. Finally, I give it a noise filter and book it done. I also try out a bunch of patterned brushes just to give some more artistic touch to the whole thing.

I always almost paint over things in every step, so no layer stays untouched, and becomes a big mess at later stages. Xd

That's it basically, hope it can help you!! :)

...nevermind.