#jo.tutorial

i can show you how i do it!

now here’s some specific tips:

EYELASHES:

eyelashes are optional and you can do whatever the hell you want with ‘em! here are some examples:

here i have them on the bottom. usually i use bottom eyelashes on men. idk it just looks cute

here i have them on the top lid. i just think it looks pretty on nabiyah here. you can see i drew them curled up on the left eye so you can see the lash outside the outline of the brow + cheekbone.

here i have eyelashes on both the top and the bottom, mainly because beast is wearing makeup and i want to create the illusion of mascara!

EYE...SHINES? SPARKLES?:

you know the cute little white dots? the little sparkly things? yeah here are some tips + variations on those:

on haruhi, eurydice, and tamaki i used a little open oval as opposed to the usual dots. sometimes i do that when i really want to emphasize the glitteriness of the eyes. no particular reason. don’t @ me

PUPILS:

obv the traditional pupil is a circle, but lately i’ve been getting a little spicy with it...

HEARTS! i’ve been making pupils HEARTS! because i’m ADORABLE! and it brings me JOY!

SHADOWS:

hamlet’s eyes are shadowed underneath AND above because he’s fucking TIRED and it’s been a really rough few hundred years for him. i put a faint line of lighter color in the middle to evoke some depth in the shadows and make the ones in the corners darker. for eurydice, she has some very cute makeup on because she’s pretty and chic. i did eyeshadow by putting some dark paint strokes over her top lids and turning on gaussian blur on procreate to “blend” it. i also blend gray on the top of the white part of the eye to give the eye some sexy depth (as seen in the video).

ooh yeah!! i went years thinking that i was Too Good for the things that are like this:

I KNOW YOU SENT THIS A MILLION YEARS AGO AND I’M DREADFULLY LATE AND FOR THAT I AM SORRY. i got this ask after i posted the girlpayne drawings last month, so i assume you were referencing her hair. i wasn’t quite sure how to explain my process in words, but i took the procreate screen recording and slowed it down by 75% so that it’s clearer.

while lining the sketches, i draw the curls on the outside first before filling in the empty space. left girlpayne’s hair is a little more springy and all over the place, so i had a lot of fun making it big and bouncy, but right girlpayne is a lord, so i figured angelica wouldn’t let her hair be half as fun as it was when she was just doing the puppet show.

part of the way i draw curls is the brush i use. i think i used the “dry ink” brush in the procreate “inking” folder. it tapers at the end, so all of my lines came to a really sexy little point, so it was easier to get the illusion of springiness. i don’t really have an order of operations when it comes to drawing curly hair, mostly i just play it by ear.

yes! first and foremost, look at this. so many people whitewash seph so i made a guide on how to find her skin tone.

persephone is very expressive, so i look at pictures of amber playing seph and try to emulate her expressions.

i always try to put an element of fun and joy into my pictures of seph because she’s a fundamentally joyful character.

her color palette always has green in it, so i make sure to use colors that compliment green. the flowers in her hair are always a fun opportunity to add a pop of color.

i made a little palette for her back in january and i still use most of the colors on there currently:

aight here goes:

for the first part, you do this four times:

then this two times:

and then for the cute little higher part:

then repeat!

notes:

G C E C G C E C G C E C G C E C

G# C Eb C G# C Eb C

C Bb G# Bb G

what a question. there’s no One Way to shade on procreate, but i use the blending tool on either the “my paint tool sai soft blend” brush from haze long’s blending brush set OR the “salamanca” brush from the procreate painting brush set (it comes with the app).

here’s what shading with salamanca looks like:

the edges are rougher, it’s almost like painting on a canvas.

here’s what shading with haze long’s sai blend brush looks like:

it’s very smooth. the colors blend into each other seamlessly.

good question! i only just started shading faces the way i do, and it’s a very trial-and-error process. most of the time, i’m just like, “there should probably be a shadow there!” and then i add it. but if i’m using a reference, i consult that before deciding where shading should go. the default spots for me are always:

- sides of the face/cheekbones/forehead

- eyelids/underneath the eyes/in the corners of the eyes to show that there’s depth there as the nose starts

- under the nose or on the sides of the nose

-below the bottom lip

highlights are similar! i usually put them:

- along the middle of the nose, then on the tip of the nose

- on the cheeks if they’re on the fuller side

- on the bottom lip

below are two examples of face-shading in my usual style, then in a realism study, and then a profile example in which the same “””techniques””” apply.

as for coloring fabrics, i use whatever procreate has to offer. in this picture, i used the “rad” brush from the vintage brush collection that procreate has.

then for the fabric of her tights, i used a new layer to paint those parts of her legs black, and then decreased the opacity a little. then i drew a lighter stripe down the middle and blended it, giving the illusion of tight, almost-opaque fabric.

for these two, i’m not ENTIRELY sure what i used, but i know it was either one of the glitter brushes from haze long’s glitter brush set for the fate dress, and either the “heavy metal” procreate brush or something from the “textures” procreate brush set for eurydice’s sweatshirt.

now for khaila’s jacket, i painted every little stroke myself. you don’t always need a fancy texture if you know that what you want can be achieved by yourself, you know?