#art tutorial?

akwhdawdg Thank you and OFCOURSE, I'd love to share my "secrets" Now, I'm not like the best or even average at teaching so- bare with me lol

I may post a more detailed post later since I don't know which style you're referring to but here's a general jist-

My standard shading style:

It features dramatic lighting, a mix of soft and cell shading, and abundant use of different layer styles and masking... Overall the rendering gives the characters more depth than my other styles.

"MSPA" (lineless) style:

This style relies more on cell shading and anti-aliasing, with gradients being added only for lighting effects (I am a chronic foggy glasses user). Simpler overall to compensate for simpler anatomy.

And simplified style (Used for Chibi and other merch):

Exclusively uses gradients and minor cell shading. While gradients are not required, I just think it looks more complete than if it was flat-shaded.

Again, I'll prolly make a proper rendering tutorial in my own time, but let me know which one you'd like to see first!

Thank you!

I don't really have a formal tutorial I've made myself. When I first started drawing fangs, I would just look at other's tutorials. These days I just add some bulky triangles to normal flat teeth and add shine to them and that tends to sell "CHOMPS"

Depending on the picture, like if I'm drawing a monster, I'll look at pictures of actual animals showing their teeth.

I tried to make a speedpaint to show what I meant with the triangle thing and how I actually draw fangs but Clip Studio Paint records waaay too fast if you draw too quick BUT UM

MAYBE THIS WILL STILL HELP?

Get inspiration- My default is imagination

Get a reference where needed- Heroforge is good for poses

3. Sketch to your hearts content- I had to change the feet a bit to work better with what I had in mind

4. Line art- now you can see better where you're headed!

5. Color everything- ( I sadly do not have something to show the color phase :( )

6. Shading and rendering- I paired it with adding smaller details, such as the decals on Dresden's coat, shoulder pads and boots

7. Do background- Slap color on color while you keep in mind where the light is coming from in the piece, the brain will fill in the context.

(How else do you think, you know that Ylthar is flying over trees?)

AND BOOM! You have yourself a DJ Grooves! I hope this helped! I'm not the best with explaining ((and sorry if i misspelled some words!))

REFERENCES my friend!

my dragons are an amalgamation of mostly cats (as in MOSTLY cats….I just know how cats move realllyyyyy welll so I like using that body plan), horses, crocodiles, and the occasional random lizard (and of course, bat wings.)

So, breaking down the morphology of these various animals, I can get a nice well-rounded dragon:

The legs are mostly catlike, with the larger/longer crock/lizard foot, the head is variable for various characters but it’s mostly a shorter, more stylized lizard/horse-like head, then the tail is a combo of cats/crocks/and lizards.

Then the wings, which I place up above the shoulder, high enough that the shoulder blades of the four upper limbs don’t seem to conflict.

Then it’s just up to fleshing things out:

Label your layers

Label your layers

Label your fucking layers

Also download refme because it's amazing