(not applicable to everyone each person has their own way to use each program)
Start with a sketch!
Do lineart over sketch, and make sure its in a DIFFERENT COLOR!
From here you can isolate the lineart by just erasing the lineart color! (and ctrl + makes the tool your using bigger)
Now we have just the lineart!
From here I color, just using the paint bucket tool and drawing the markings on
Adding the shading, I choose the colors I chose, then use the edit colors tool to make them darker and a slightly different tint.
Now for the painting process, I use this to mix my colors together. Basically find two colors, paint a line inbetween them using this paint brush tool and one of the colors, then select the inbetween color. This is mostly the same as how I paint in other programs.
COLOR TANGENT!! When digitally paintings it is sometimes better to just choose a color that would be inbetween, ESPECIALLY with yellow and blue. Its kinda complicated but how the computer does its calculations it can grey out your colors.
But I basically do the painting mixing and coloring all around the piece, choosing inbetweens everywhere, and smoothing out the shading lines, I tend to go over my lineart here
And Im done!
Just adding a lot of details + I tend to do the bg last
My style depends on which piece im working on, sometimes I use the paint brush for all of the piece so its a lot smoother
This was done with the paint brush in MS Paint (the one I used in the mixing section) but it is still the same process, I would just use the paint brush instead of the pencil
but this one was done entirely with the pencil tool, so its up to you which style your going for
Hope that was helpful, and at least taught some fun ms paint tricks heh. Its really fun to work with because it forces you to work on one layer
could you give a tutorial on how you draw/shade water? Its so good the way you draw it
this is as quick + basic as i could describe it! Though in my last illus with the wave in it, i also did dip more extremely into colors as well (some shades of light green and purple were used).
here have the quick and dirty step by step of how I paint the desert tenakth weave (or any weave really). made for someone on the visual novel project and thought it might be useful to someone else 🤷
I was going to record a short YouTube video for this but I really don't have the energy right now so here's a sheet tutorial for now.
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Lemme know if you don't understand some of my notes and I'll be happy to explain to the best of my ability, I know they're written kinda weird which is mostly because I made them for myself to go back to in the future, but I thought eh why not share em ;)
These are the brushes that I used. Default "Soft Blend", "Round Brush", and "Flat Brush". Plus a version of the Flat Brush that I added a taper to, and a version of the 6B Pencil that I messed with "grain" for (scale, depth, brightness properties). Note: my custom brushes take up stupid RAM. Pencil Baby laggs soooo bad.
Fill a layer with low opacity color
Erase where the light hits (or less pigmented areas. I couldn't decide.)
Add detail with the darkest mix of the layers (purple in this case) and light.
Paint every color that isn't there already…See, this is why I told me not to word this like a tutorial. It's just misleading. But did me listen? Noooooo.
More babbling below the cut ⤵
Mess with curves graph
Color zones (layer mode: color)
Um…paint? use a super low opacity brush with fleshy flesh tones to pretend the sketchy line work isn't there.
Liquify to correct proportions. Ask friends why color looks muddy. Friends may point out that Ed's cheek is pretty close in value to the background.
Bring some blue lighting back with a low opacity fluffy brush (layer mode: color dodge)
Go "eh, I've learned what I wanted from this." and post it on Tumblr. 😋
Actually, though, I am really happy with what I figured out here. The underlying drawing isn't working for me, but I'm super proud of the colors 🌈
little breakdown abt the same 4 lines i tend to use for drawing folds!!
not a tutorial just some notes ^^
ps sorry for spelling accordion wrong every single time. i will not learn from this
second ps the biggest diff between accordion and pinch is that pinch lines meet at the origin point while accordion lines imply a future meeting but don’t actually touch