#galaxy tutorial

Here’s a masterlist of all the tutorials I used for the Better Art Challenge and some more I thought would be helpful.

Also here’s a bunch of Pinterest boards I made for most of the days

Also a tag with all my art posts for the challenge

so yeah here’s the tutorials :)

Face Shape

same face syndrome!

position of features

step by step basic face

cute lil faces

different angles

angles and structure :)

side profiles

realistic facial diversity

all face features tutorial

jawline

Eyes (and expressions)

side eyes

tears

realistic eyes basic

realistic painted eye

making expressions

Hair

Advice on Hair

Basic Coloring

Hair Placement

Basic Brown Hair Coloring

Cartoon Hair

Colored Hair (for paint tool sai)

Curly Boy Hair

Drawing Black Hair

Curly Hair Tutorial

Noses

amazing nose tutorial

coloring and angles of noses

variety of noses

nose types

Mouth

cartoon mouths

realistic mouths

open mouths

cartoon features (mouths included)

different lips

Arms (look natural)

using references

structuring an arm

joints

proportions (of the whole body :)

Improving Anatomy

Legs (folds and all)

drawing legs tips

structure and gesture

motion for legs

long lines for action

limbs and line of action

Hands (figure it out!)

full hand tutorial (and anatomy)

parts of the hand

how to draw feet

Colors

UNDERSTANDING COLOR

color theory

color variations (in backgrounds :)

choosing colors

making color palettes

color theory tips

great guide to coloring

color effecting mood

color harmony

amazing color palette generators 

Shading

shading skin colors

DRAW THIS, NOT THAT [Shading and Light]

Shadows

skin colors and their shadows

understanding shadows

in depth realistic lighting and shadows

Lighting

the basics

lighting from angles

lighting references

candle lighting

colors for lighting

color hacks

Folds in Clothing

a guide to folds

bunched clothing

clothing fold tips

great folding tip!

just a nice reference

draped and tension

Movement

Drawing Motion in A Figure

How to Draw Gesture

Forest Background

one fun one that I like

making trees

forest background in photoshop

Water & Grass

Sky & Galaxy

galaxy tutorial (in Photoshop)

nice watercolor tutorial

Galaxy Tutorial 1

Galaxy Tutorial 2

Galaxy tutorial 3

Screen Shot Backgrounds

do’s and dont’s of making background 

Other Amazing Art Master-lists For All Your Art Needs

how to improve your art

art master-post 

another useful master-list :)

drawing prompts

free art programs and palettes

some art cheats

BIG art master post

So after painting my 30k Ahriman, I had several people asking how I painted his galaxy cloak. I finally got around to doing a tutorial on the general method with my 40k Ahriman (although I think I went a little overboard on the density of stars with this guy, oops). Anyway, here we go:

Black base! Although any kind of really dark colour would probably work.

Dapple on your first dark colour (in this case red), in the general area/pattern you want your galaxy effect in. For this one, I decided to try a spiral galaxy effect rather than a more random nebulae like I used on my 30k Ahriman. Make sure your paint’s fairly thin, and you can let it pool in certain areas to get some variation in coverage. It helps to have reference pictures!

Continue with whatever other dark colours you want to use - for this example, I went with pretty much the full spectrum just to demonstrate the different colours and transitions between them.

Once those are dry, start dappling thin layers of brighter colours a little more sparsely over the previous colours. You also don’t have to stay entirely on the previous layer, it’s okay to go over onto the black areas as well. In this particular photo, I’ve only done some red/orange and some green so far.

Continue dappling those brighter colours on! Here I’ve continued with teal, purple, more red, and blue. Make sure your paint’s thin enough that it’s still a little translucent - you can also push it around a bit to leave it thinner in some areas and more concentrated in others.

Keep building up thin layers of brighter colours over the previous layers. In this pic I’ve moved on to orange and yellow over the previous red areas.

I kind of skipped ahead a little here and continued on right up to white in just the central area of the spiral.

Once you’re up to the brightest colours, just start dotting it on in individual spots, rather than dapples like before. Here I’ve done the green, teal and blue. Make sure to rest your hand often if it start cramping up!

Here I’ve continued on with the violet, red, orange and yellow dots.

Finally, carefully dot on white paint for the brightest stars, including a few larger ones with added little shine lines. Try not to go too overboard with them though (like I did here, oops) - leave some areas with not as many stars.

If you’ve only used two or three colours (instead of a whole spectrum like I did here), you can also use a wash over the whole thing to help tie the different areas of colour together, then go over it with some more white dots again. I did this on my 30k Ahriman with a blue wash, since all the colours I used in that one had blue in them. You can also go back with the black to add in some more random patches with less stars to help break things up a little.

Better Art Challenge: GALAXY AND SKIES

So I found some an amazing tutorials on youtube and deviant art that I followed and i think most of them….turned out well. For the second one, it was made for photoshop and sadly i couldn’t find a brush like the one the person was using so that’s why it’s kinda shitty.

I actually followed the second tutorial a couple months ago on fire alpaca and it worked a lot better on this art….

So yeah that was mainly cause I didn’t have the brush. Anyways I didn’t make a tutorial cause 1 every thing I could say has been said in these tutorials and 2, these tutorials would be a lot more useful.

Tutorials used:

1: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YvD3GrDaHAE

2: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n78pvCMS9K4

3: https://www.deviantart.com/ryky/art/EASY-Night-Sky-tutorial-592605613

Ok! We’re trying another Instagram time lapse! Thanks for bearing with me as I figure out how I want to go about posting!! This actually has audio that explains the steps (as much as a 15 second clip will allow me). I’m pretty sure I use my teacher voice which is entirely unintentional but all the teachers out there will attest that it’s really hard to turn off sometimes >.<