Tanu doodles.

I made some studies and thought to make a tutorial of how to make these kinda clothes. I am no expert but might be able to share some insight to it ^^

- I use clip studio paint so photoshop and procreate users might have brushes and buttons a bit differently

Little shoutout to @Alturdbutt on Devart who originally asked for one!

Steps explained: 1. Sketch your scenery roughly, this is where you decide where your objects will be placed. Keep in mind the foreground, midground, and background. Use your chosen reference to get a feel for where things should be placedIn the second sketch I have the foreground - mid - and background highlighted in sections 2. Keeping the sketch layer on top, begin blocking out your colors for any sky visible and your foreground/midground. Use your sketch roughly, and feel free to add things

3. Place the background. Usually, objects in the very back will appear lighter and this creates depth, of course this can depend on your individual piece and the mood you want to create 4. Get rid of the sketch layer 5. Start refining shapes. Things like grass, leaves, and other textures

Thanks! Uhh it generally shifts based on the texture & shape I’m going for, but here’s my general process / rule of thumb:

Or if you lock layer transparency — or however its called in Photoshop — you can use a textured brush to quickly pepper in some highlights & shadow to add a gold-ish effect:

You can make shiny & glittery gold pretty easily when you use a dappled airbrush. It’s the same process as above, but with a spray of large-to-fine dots. It takes a little more time, but the result is cool.

The standard version of ClipStudo comes packaged with the saturated line tool, which generates sunburst effects. And so we wind up with something like this:

got a couple of questions on ig about how i choose colors and i spent way too long putting these together so!! here’s a small color picking guide 🎨✨

short answer: you probably use “overlay”, where you could be using “colour”, which is a layer mode designed to… well, colour.

overlay applies both colour and value. the more neutral the grey in your base is, the better the hue will stick to it. it also means if you choose a lighter or darker shade of whatever colour you want, it will lighten or darken your values respectively. the closer the value of this colour is to true grey the less your  base will be affected.

too dark, especially considering the highlights. looks out of place, mostly because this is not a way to paint dark skin.

too light, not enough contrast where i want it.

okay, pretty dope, but i personally don’t like how desaturated the white is.

colour, on the other hand, won’t affect your values, and gives you more saturated effect as opposed to overlay.

you can see the difference in hue, but not in value, and the shadows and lights remain saturated. colour mode can be a bit tricky to work with, because everything is so intense. so i like to lay my base colour on one layer, and then, for all the details, i add more colours on a new layer - this way i can mess with them without screwin up my base. it goes more or less like this:

there she is

i apply the colours to colour zones. more on what the fuck that is here

i lower the opacity of the colour zones layer, because that just looked crazy

i add more rose to the cheeks, subtle purple to the eyelids, pink to the waterlines, and some dope lipstick. then i add some red to the ears on a separate colour dodge layer.

Seriously, where did Steve find that armor? I hope he didn’t steal it from an aggressive warrior or something…I don’t want him to get in trouble, ya know? It’s been a year since this tutorial is on Patreon, so I’ll post it for everyone now! (I have to work on a reptile scales or transparent materials tutorial one day tho)

Underwater tutorial: https://darhak.tumblr.com/post/642964456883765248/steve-why-is-he-always-like-this-metal-tutorial

found a way to record my screen and maybe this one will help someone out

final:

I created a color palette challenge. Feel free to use it!

I don’t feel particularly great at drawing chain-mail either but there’s a technique I learned from a tutorial a bunch of years ago that I think makes a pretty good texture. It’s fast and the end result is cartoon-y enough to match a less photo-realistic style. I can’t for my life find the tutorial so I’ll recreate it here (using Photoshop):

1. Fill your canvas with black or white. Filter -> Render -> Clouds

2. Filter -> Filter Gallery -> Glass (under the Distort category)Keep smoothness as low as possible, play with the other settings

3. Find a filter in Filter Gallery that you like and apply it. Combine them, if needed.

4. When applying texture to the drawing, use Edit->Transform->Warp to make it fit the shape you’re trying to convey

You can stack more filters on after the texture is placed or draw over it with a textured brush to make it look less uniform if that’s what you want. Add a shine to it with a big soft brush, colorize it, go crazy. I go with whatever looks best to me atm.

This is how I did Geralt’s armor too, though since I knew the final print will be smaller than 1.5″ I didn’t worry about details much. 

Here’s a Gif of the brush in action so you can see what it looks like:

You can find the brushes here! 💕💕💕

I will also be posting an extra notes pack for $5 that will cover:

-how to add stars and effects easily

-how to adjust your image easily

Easy Water Surface Tutorial

Hi friends! Stay a while and commit some ART SINS WITH ME.

Well not really, tracing is a very helpful tool for the right purpose, and I’ve personally been helped tremendously by making my own little method when working on improving my anatomy. Here’s how I go about it!

I have a very hard time looking at a Typical Anatomical Reference Photo™ and understanidng how everything fits together. I get distracted by light and shadows, I never know where to start my drawing and I very VERY easily get stuck overworking” one section of the body, like an arm. I don’t like 3D psoing software either, so I started doing this to work on improving my Real People Anatomy, along with methods like quick sketches from life and timed sketch studies, and so on!

Thank you and I’m sorry for borriwng your handsome man photo from google, Shutterstock!

So, making a direct trace over A Thing doesnt help me very much with tring to improve on this specific thing that is human anatomy. 

Instead, I do this: 

hi, thank you for the compliment :)

honestly i consider myself to be a beginner artist as well. everything i draw takes me a lot of time because i am always following tutorials and references! that’s why my art style always fluctuates. i always try to learn new things from every piece i draw. i don’t think i can make a tutorial because there are SOO MANYY out there already.

heres some tips that have helped me:

use references for lighting! you can find them on pinterest, fashion magazines, deviant art, tumblr. references can be found everywhere

if you are bad at choosing colours, you can colour pick on a photograph or use websites that generate colour palettes.

do studies. be patient and take the time to practice and learn the absolute basics. it won’t be fun but a good core foundation will really help you, like learning basic anatomy.

here are some  shading tutorials that might help you:

https://caughtinthehurricane.deviantart.com/art/Coloured-Shading-Tutorial-How-to-pick-a-palette-343488733

https://twin-tail.deviantart.com/art/Color-Theory-Mini-Skin-401210564

https://cgcookie.deviantart.com/gallery/62933151/Facial-Features

also i would suggest not using the airbrush to shade everything :) i use the custom photoshop hard round brush and some custom brushes from brush packs (try and experiment to see the style you like)

https://houstonsharp.deviantart.com/art/My-Brushes-424639896

https://loish.deviantart.com/art/the-loish-brushset-477640124

https://akiraanderhill.deviantart.com/favourites/56661274/Brushes

and lastly i would suggest watching a lot of painting videos and time lapses. you can learn a lot from just watching someones painting process

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N4svsmMZLZI

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QfcdH062V_8

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YZQDe-slZUo

hello i am here today to not lose track of the art cheats i have discovered over the years. what i call art cheat is actually a cool filter/coloring style/way to shade/etc. that singlehandedly makes art like 20 times better

80’s anime style

glitch effect

glow effects

adding colors to grayscale paintings

foreshortening ( coil )

foreshortening ( perspective )

clipping group (lines)

clipping group (colors)

dramatic lighting ( GOOD )

shading metal

lighting faces