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Hey Lilium! I love your Servant redesigns! I'm starting to learn to draw digitally so that I can design Servants myself, like Kriemhild. Would you have any advice you could give me on this?
Hi! Thank you so much for your words!
Iām a bit unsure if youāre asking for tips on digital art itself or on chara design?Ā Ā
In doubt, Iām going to go with ādigital artā in this post, if you meant chara des hit me up with an ask and Iāll happily provide for that :)Ā
*necessary intro*: please consider that my art education ended 10 years ago and never prepared me for more stylized/cartoon styles, so Iām self taught for almost all intents (100% regarding digital art).
Long wall of text under the cut:
First suggestion is to get a good, reliable art program.Ā
Plenty of artists use Paint Tool SAIĀ and Clip Studio Paint (currently using CSP myself and donāt plan to ever abandon it). Neither of them is free but both are less pricey than Adobe bundles and both were created more for illustrating thanĀ āphotoshoppingā purposes. Thereās plenty more but those are two I used and can recommend. Many art programs usually offer a 30 days trial so my suggestion would be to try them out and see which is more to your liking and offers the best quality/price wise.Ā Ā
By personal experience, itās much better to pay and have support than to find a free unofficial version and then get fucked and lose all your works when you update your operating system and discover the bootleg program doesnāt work anymore. Learn from me, donāt risk it.Ā Ā Ā
Next suggestion, get a drawing tablet or a tablet. Nothing too pricey as a beginner, when paired with a good program any decent tablet will do its job. What you really need is pen pressure, everything else is optional. People draw on their iPads with great results but never having tried I canāt give suggestions here, if not to look for artist who do and see how they work (YT surely has tutorials ābout it).Ā Ā
With hardware and software out of the way, letās get down to proper drawing business:Ā Ā
First of all, forget thatĀ ābut youāre not a real artist if you use references/copy posesā noise:Ā useĀ references, use all the references you want.Ā
If you want to paint a starry sky and donāt know how to rend the effect, maybe the glowing of a nebula? Look up Youtube and Deviantart tutorials, tumblr tutorials, look up on how all the artist you like paint and their tips, all the IRL photos in google.Ā
Something I personally find very helpful are tutorials comparing realistic and stylized styles and showing how to go from one to another, how to simplify shapes etc.Ā Ā Ā
Renaissance artist invented the darkroom/camera oscura to help them drawing perspective and thenĀ traced overĀ that shit. If Caravaggio traced to save time, then so can we.Ā
And thereās so many different ways to reach a similar result that maybe your first attempts will look like copycats of that tutorial you saw or that really inspiring artist. Itās fine. But the more attempts and the more you play with your program of choice, brushes you like/find more comfortable, the more you look up different sources and integrate bits of them all in a singular piece, the more your work will be distinct.
Now, onto one of the big elephants in the room: do you know howĀ to correctly sketch a human body from scratch? If yes, amazing! (all my respect).Ā
If not, thereās plenty of solutions without having to learn how to (which is the way I currently work bc drawing is a 100% hobby and Iād rather spend my time elsewhere than in re-learning human anatomy) and working digitally makes these solutions way easier.Ā
After you find aĀ āhow to draw anatomyā book or blog or tutorials and safely store it somewhere safe to go back and reference, then you canĀ
1. find stock photos, either from google (be careful not to use copyrighted stuff) or in bundles specifically created for artists to use as bases or references. On Deviantart for example thereās SenshiStock, incredible project with hundreds of photos free to use. The anatomy book/blog here will be useful if you want a certain body shape and your reference doesnāt match with your idea.Ā
2. chose a program like CSP or similar that comes with 3D stock poses which you can then alter as much as you like in size, weight, rotation, light direction, position of every body part down to each finger (in CSPās case, you can also download plenty more free to use poses, brushes, 3d objects, patterns etc created by the userbase and shared in the library bundled with the program).Ā Ā
3. if your main art program doesnāt come with human poses? no problem at all, get one just for this specific purpose, like Design DollĀ (both free/pay ver, imo free ver is more than enough),Ā Posemaniacs (free, online, uses flash), MagicPoser (free with option of in-app purchases, itās an app, good reviews, just tried it a little and seems quite good).Ā
4. less conventional but imo still useful, especially if you want to draw inĀ āanimeā style and proportions for Servants designs: go to My figure collections and use figmas.Ā
Theyāre highly posable plastic figures from the most different jp (and not) characters, each one with a photo gallery and as long as you modify the final piece and -important!- donāt sell it if you base it on a specific user photo? Iād say go for it. Or mix body parts of different figmas, or use theĀ āarchetypeā products, naked bodies made precisely for drawing bases, thereās options with both more āanimeā and more realistic proportion.Ā
I collect them for both owning Fate/other characters without spending a fortune and for drawing references and I find them quite well suited for this purpose. Why on earth despair if Iād ever want to draw Arturia in armor when I can just grab my figma of her, pose it, take a photo and then draw on it? :P
Now, hardware and software check, way to find poses check, what else?Ā
Layers are your best friends. For example, Bradamante? A good 50+ layers, some of them stored in folders so I could just select and deselect them to remove or put on mantle, lance, shield, sword etc. Just... remember to name them to save yourself a lot of time.Ā Ā
And changing a layerās opacity too, especially to draw the definitive lineart over the first rough sketch or for shading or highlights.Ā Ā Ā
The more I write the more I find things to write about so Iāll call it for now, this post is already a WoT as it is. Hopefully I was of use, but if you need more, ask right away and Iāll do my best! :)Ā Ā Ā Ā Ā Ā Ā Ā
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