i dont know what im doing???

Some hand references.

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Redid a post by fucktonofanatomyreferencesreborn with sources because they never source anything and I don’t want to reblog that post because I don’t want to support blogs who don’t give credit to people

(No, stating that the art is ~not yours~ and ~came from elsewhere~ IS NOT PROPER CREDIT. Many of these have usernames and such on them but not every single one and you still ought to link back to the specific piece)

Just in case someone is interested. You can get my Sai brushes in my gumroad:

:’D Thanks! Here’s my process on how I do it, so you can join the dark side.

So here’s the basics. What you’ll need to remember when working with transparencies are the range of opacity and shades of gray. 

Black is the base that will show up on the white tumblr background and so will be what you want viewers to see FIRST. The opacity can be changed to add various shades of “gray” that’s only visible before clicked/dragged.

Gray is visible in both clicked and default Tumblr background, so any elements in your drawing that needs to be visible in both can be colored any shade of gray (how light/how dark is up to you on how visible you want it to be on one side or the another).

White is only seen when the image is clicked/dragged. The opacity of the white can be changed to add various shades of “gray” that won’t be visible on the white Tumblr background.

So here’s a quick sketch of what I’m planning to do the effects on… (keep reading below)

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