Since I Have A Long-form Comic Taking Place In A Sorcerer’s Tower, I Did A Little Study To Level Myself

Some of you have been asking for a tutorial on how I draw faces so I threw together a thing for you. *finger guns*

I would like to make a new bunch of tutorials… I wish I could carry out my intention. Incidentally, It’s going to be “How to draw poses by using gesture drawing method ”, 

high quality expression references with varied facial types

More helpful art tips 2

* leads to a twitter thread Tutorials

Drawing a mountain with volume*

Painting the chest*

Color in Painting [Part 1][Part 2][Part 3]*

30+ lessons on drawing in perspective

Six types of fold when drawing drapery

Using references*

IMAG master classes (paid)

Planning values*

Reference

Knee Movements*

Kato Anatomy*

Making Products

A beginners guide to zines

Opening an online store [Part 1][Part2][Part 3]*

Studying Design for TV animation (on a budget)

Lighting in a room*

Windows

Bricks

Form rendering cheat sheet

Brushes

Drawmaevedraw brush set (ps)

Traditional Texture Brushes for Photoshop and Procreate (paid)

Other Resources:

Huge list of resources w/ a focus on getting into the animation industry.

Thread of study resources*

Resume guide (for an internship at nickelodeon)

Agents for Illustrators

Filing Taxes as a freelancer

3D art

Low poly horror in blender (paid)

Blending grass with the landscape (UE4)*

Ghibli Style trees in 3d (Blender)

Spritestack - a voxel editor suited for 2D artists.

how to draw arms ? ? 

If you struggle drawing heads in different angles watch this!

OMG I found this video and it is a absolute goldmine! Its filmed by a Disney story board artist and they make drawing heads in any angle easy! now granted it takes practice to get this technique down but it soooooo helps.

The video below goes into deep details.

In conclusion, obrounds.

Sorry for the long post (I think it’s most legible in this format but yikes it’s long)

How i shade !

Not the same Anon, but hyacinths please

Hi friend, thank you so much for your interest! I’m going to go over how I draw these flowers, but I realized midway that I’m actually very terrible at drawing these in particular, haha. There’s a reason I’ve lowkey avoided doing them so far, and I think it enabled me to highlight a bit more, the way I choose my arts.

It’s quite hard to teach just “how to draw a specific flower” mostly because I myself don’t know - the most important thing I can emphasize is using references! 

I personally dislike drawing these flowers in my art, and I couldn’t figure out why until I started this tutorial.

One thing I tend to notice when I look at reference pictures is how flowers move as a ‘whole’ and their relative ‘flexibility’. I pay attention to that because the way I do art, I choose the flower in part based on appearance and how natural they will look in a specific composition. 

I tend to like flowers that sprout outwards and have a kind of ‘loose’ appearance. The red lines here show the ‘direction’ I want the flowers to go in.

This is where these flowers pose a bit of a problem. Because arranged in clumps, they are very stiff. It’s not a bad thing if that’s what you’re looking for, but it’s not what I wanted, exactly, for this image. 

They just stick straight up, because they have very stiff leaves and a tight packed pattern. (They sometimes tilt though, mine always did). At this point, I could decide the form isn’t right, and this isn’t the flower I want. But there’s also another thing I could do, which is altering it’s appearance when I draw it, slightly.

Left is a simplified version of the shape, while the middle is a more detailed image. The furthest to the right is a close-up of a single flower. Depending on what you want to portray, you can choose to alter what you want your flowers to look like. 

As you can see, when drawn closer up, the flower has a lot more flexibility!

So with this, I ended up drawing the batch of flowers a lot larger than how it would be normally, while still retaining the recognizable flower and leaf shape. 

So what I’m trying to convey is that sometimes you have to study references, but then know you can pick and choose what aspects to highlight in your art. That’s I think, how you can get your flowers to look extra ‘dynamic’ in your work - by accentuating their specific shapes to work to your advantage! And also playing with their colors and such! But hyacinths come in so many colors that any would work!

I hope this is helpful to you, anon! 

i literally love how your color and shade if it’s ok do you have any tips on digital coloring? you don’t have to answer this if you don’t feel like it :) thanks!!

hello friend!! i have a tutorial i made on twitter a while ago which is more or less how i make my colours more interesting. i still use the technique and in general it’s just a lot of colour adjustment nothing too special LOL here!!