#artists reference

ATTENTION ARTISTS

If you need inspiration for accurate vintage outfits from the 40s onward, do I have the source for you!

The above link will take you to a large collection of full scans of catalogs from Sears and JCPennys, among others.

Drawing a character from the 90s?

Here’s some pages from the men’s section of the 1994 JCPenny Christmas catalog.

How about the 60s?

Check out these lovely references from the sears 1965 Spring/Summer catalog

This site has so much to look through! Do yourself a favor and check it out

Here’s some examples from a 1942 spring/summer one

the whole is a concern, apparently sharyn contacted OP's university dean to report them because she thought some spam mail was them harassing or something.

* if you want, you can always give smart sharpen a try, rather than just using sharpen. you can control the amount and how it’ll affect the surrounding area, rather than just an overall application of sharpness.

* photo filters are also a neat thing and can help unify colors of a piece or even set a mood. there are cool and warm filters, along with colors (red, orange, blue, purple, etc)

* i tend to do a separate layer filled with grey (7f7f7f), then noise > add noise > gaussian at around 3-5%, then set that layer to overlay. it adds noise to your picture and helps break up the color of your image and adds a neat effect!

* having trouble with a particular curve of your lineart? use path (pen) tool. trace out the shape that you want and then loop it back around to the origin point. go path > make selection, right click the selection, then use stroke. after that you can just erase any of the line that you do not want.

* if you want a straight line with your brush, click the starting point on the canvas, hold shift and press another point. viola! straight line. 

* if your image looks a bit flat, i find that adding a new curve layer and setting it to ‘linear curve’ helps immensely.