Thunder Kitten

Here’s a new tutorial. Grayscale painting.

Let us know if there are any other tutorials you’d like to see.

uuu thank u anon!! i hope this can explain it :^o

i use overlay all the time to make colours more vibrant and to make areas warmer or cooler. good for colourful ambient light (like glowy magic stuff).

multiply is really good for establishing a light source very quickly!! play around with the hue to get shadows with cool colours. for more detailed work you can use two or three tones on a multiply layer for more dimension.

screen is something i only recently started using regularly! it’s really great if you have a very bright light source. you can also use screen and paint on the edges of a backlit character to make the lighting more intense. a good thing to know about screen layers is that the darker the colour you use, the less it lightens; using black on a screen layer leaves no effect on the colours underneath (the opposite is true for multiply layers!).

 Nah it’s not rude at all so here you are a quick tutorial on how I do my bloody  joys.

Things to know:

I wouldn’t recommend looking up injuries reference because that’s nasty but if you aren’t afraid of real life gore, or like me who is determined to get shit down– then google is your friend. (I looked up for the first example one lmao)

Though looking up nosebleed isn’t so bad so that might give you some idea how blood would work

By all means, try other artist’s works as reference too if you’re too afraid of the two above. (trigger warning whatsoever)

Also know what you want to do with your blood:

For the first example: I want smeared blood so it’s mostly Paint brush to create the feeling she wiped her blood.

Second one is mostly splattered on him so I used Brush tool

Third is his own blood from damage but he hasn’t wiped it so it’s best for Brush + Pencil 3 combination

I’ve only do blood on skin, not other surfaces or splatted against the wall so that’s best to look up with Pixiv texture.

You’re welcome to use pure bright red for highlight but by all means, blood is not bright red. It’s a little bit duller and desaturated than that. Bruised blood is darker. Dried blood is brown-ish almost black.

I use different layer most of the time so I can erase the blood flow and fix it however I want, also it’s easy to change color that way.

So just do whatever you want to make it looks good to you.

trying to draw them accurately

We gather here today to mourn the passing of our dear friend skype

I’m self taught (and actually drawing is my very recent hobby) I don’t have any cool-professional-art-reference-stuff to offer (sorry, heh). 

To be very honest, i don’t even think those things are that important.