Art Discussion

[Ana Nymus]

I LOVE the lackadaisy tutorials!
also if you did one of expressions/telling a story though drawing that would be super amazingly awesome

I second these emotions.

[Noodles]

Er... I can do a little with anatomy and/or inking, though it'd be in WIP-photos-with-explanations format and idk how helpful it'd be.

[Piney]

This doesn't quite count as a tutorial, but I made a process video of the lineart for blep Sigrun for whoever's curious.

[Curry]

eeee video and rtr, those are some of my all-time favorites as well!!!! I LOVE Lackadaisy so much and the expressions give me life. I could also try making a tutorial of my own but I feel like it would just repeat what they say?

Piney, that's super interesting! I've always wondered how you get those lines :0

[Piney]

Piney, that's super interesting! I've always wondered how you get those lines :0

...through close scrutiny and sometimes tedious work.

[SugaAndSpice]

someone do a tutorial for animals, that is something i CAN'T DO AT ALL.... (cat's kind of okay, because I just look at my cat and use him as reference lol)

I can do this!!! Just have to get a good camera angle... and don't judge. My voice sounds like a little kid on recordings.

[RandomTexanReader]

also if you did one of expressions/telling a story though drawing that would be super amazingly awesome

Will do (gimme a week)

[Guardian G.I.]

There are plenty of tutorials at Tumblr:

http://artutorials.tumblr.com/
http://myreferencestash.tumblr.com/
http://the-art-post.tumblr.com/
http://anatomicalart.tumblr.com/
http://human-proportions.tumblr.com/
http://artists-help.tumblr.com/
http://f***yeahreferences.tumblr.com/ (that's no no for the wordfilter, apparently - copy that link to the address bar and replace the stars with the proper letters)

For those who have a Wacom tablet and Photoshop, there are a lot of very useful videos at ctrlpaint.com. There are a few videos about pencil drawing techniques there, but most of them are about digital painting.

Also, for those who are starting out: Andrew Loomis and his books. They are really good - I personally started out learning to draw by reading Loomis's "Fun with a Pencil"

[Haiz]

the art tutorial nobody asked for:
~*THE HAIZ WAY*~


how do I do the colour thing. it's so soft and nice

I posted it on tumblr, but I'll post it here, too

Spoiler: ive never done a tutorial before • show

people keep asking how I colour my artstuffs, and the answer is: impractically. This is probably the most impractical way to do digital art but I keep doin’ it. Here’s how:


First, I take a phone photo of a sketch I wanna work on. This already means that the final result will have pretty low resolution for a work of digital art - nothing to make prints out of or anything. You can size it up and stuff, though! I just can’t be bothered to attempt professionality. but we already knew that.

ANYWAY, first thing I do is to fix up the lightness/contrast in photoshop. (I’ve got CS2 because it’s freeware and I know how it works.) I mean this is kinda really basic but it’s an important step for me? now it looks lineartier than before. CONGRATS



theeen I open FireAlpaca (another freeware program. it’s like a wonky SAI). I know, I could’ve done the contrast thing in firealpaca, too, but whatever. Okay, so the most important part about my colouring is that I don’t use layers. At all. I paint directly onto the pencil sketch. I use the watercolour brush, and mess around with the size/opacity percent as I go. The thing about the watercolour brush, is that it’s affected by the colours around! So when I paint close to the pencil lines, they smear into it like shadows. Nice.



next I just splat on a lot of colours, usually with opacity settings on low. That means I can just paint over pencil lines - if I don’t press too hard - and they’ll still be visible. That’s how I usually colour faces, anyhow. Just smear it all over with a colour and work out the details later.

You might have noticed I have the Pen Tool selected now. Whereash the watercolour fuses with colours close to it, and its intensity varies with pressure - the pen tool is static. It will draw over things, unless you meddle with the opacity again - as I’m prone to do.



Fixin’ up the lines with the pen tool. And from here I just switch between using the pen and watercolour tools. Usually I do that the whole way, but the order of things don’t really matter much. Just go with the flow.
Sometimes I do a whole drawing in just the watercolour tools. However, if draw something digitally without using a pencil sketch as a base, I use the watercolour tool a lot less.



next step is to just mess around till you’re happy! …or till it’s wayy past midnight and you’re tired and don’t feel like working on it anymore


tada

I have no idea how coherent or helpful this was, but there you have it. I don't think I can make any tutorials that others wouldn't make better, but if there is anything you'd like me to do, make a noise! I'm going to bed now

[AquaAurion]

This is such a good idea!

I don't know if this qualifies as a tutorial, it's more like "how I draw hands": http://aquaaurion.deviantart.com/art/Hand-Tutorial-523273101.

I have a collection of tutorials from dA I like here.

[OrigamiOwl]

the art tutorial nobody asked for:
~*THE HAIZ WAY*~

Nice! Weirdly enough, that's really similar to how I use oil pastels, all the smudgies! All the colour blobs!

[Haiz]

Nice! Weirdly enough, that's really similar to how I use oil pastels, all the smudgies! All the colour blobs!

I think it's kind of obvious I'm a lot more comfortable with traditional methods than digital ones, heh

[RandomTexanReader]

~*THE HAIZ WAY*~

how do I do the colour thing. it's so soft and nice

Spoiler: ive never done a tutorial before • show

people keep asking how I colour my artstuffs, and the answer is: impractically. This is probably the most impractical way to do digital art but I keep doin’ it. Here’s how:


First, I take a phone photo of a sketch I wanna work on. This already means that the final result will have pretty low resolution for a work of digital art - nothing to make prints out of or anything. You can size it up and stuff, though! I just can’t be bothered to attempt professionality. but we already knew that.

ANYWAY, first thing I do is to fix up the lightness/contrast in photoshop. (I’ve got CS2 because it’s freeware and I know how it works.) I mean this is kinda really basic but it’s an important step for me? now it looks lineartier than before. CONGRATS



theeen I open FireAlpaca (another freeware program. it’s like a wonky SAI). I know, I could’ve done the contrast thing in firealpaca, too, but whatever. Okay, so the most important part about my colouring is that I don’t use layers. At all. I paint directly onto the pencil sketch. I use the watercolour brush, and mess around with the size/opacity percent as I go. The thing about the watercolour brush, is that it’s affected by the colours around! So when I paint close to the pencil lines, they smear into it like shadows. Nice.



next I just splat on a lot of colours, usually with opacity settings on low. That means I can just paint over pencil lines - if I don’t press too hard - and they’ll still be visible. That’s how I usually colour faces, anyhow. Just smear it all over with a colour and work out the details later.

You might have noticed I have the Pen Tool selected now. Whereash the watercolour fuses with colours close to it, and its intensity varies with pressure - the pen tool is static. It will draw over things, unless you meddle with the opacity again - as I’m prone to do.



Fixin’ up the lines with the pen tool. And from here I just switch between using the pen and watercolour tools. Usually I do that the whole way, but the order of things don’t really matter much. Just go with the flow.
Sometimes I do a whole drawing in just the watercolour tools. However, if draw something digitally without using a pencil sketch as a base, I use the watercolour tool a lot less.



next step is to just mess around till you’re happy! …or till it’s wayy past midnight and you’re tired and don’t feel like working on it anymore


tada

I wanted this so badly thank you so much thank you thank you thank you.

[RandomTexanReader]

also if you did one of expressions/telling a story though drawing that would be super amazingly awesome

*ahem*
I tried.
Let me know if this is helpful or what I need to do a better job of explaining.

[Ana Nymus]

*ahem*
I tried.
Let me know if this is helpful or what I need to do a better job of explaining.

Yes! That's actually really helpful! And I think you did a good job of explaining stuff, with plenty of pictures to illustrate your points. And it's funny! Yay humour!