Guys, this video has helped me SOOOOOO much. It's a tutorial from an official Lego Designer on how to draw the Ninjas and Lego Minifigures in general! I highly recommend you watch. It's excellent!
It's #wipwednesday! What are you working on this week? 👋🌟💝
Next free blanket on my hook! This is the Triple Interlocking Block Stitch, video on my YouTube channel! Tutorial here! 💖
Let's tie this honeycomb karada - it takes some time but once it's built, you can pop it off yourself or a partner and have it ready to go in your rope kit as a portable full body harness - it's based off of my experience with macrame techniques and my love of ferking around with wearable rope art and I hope y'all enjoy ❤️🐝🪢
okay first off thank you for reminding me i was going to make a tutorial
So what you do is take your canvas (any size) and draw a diagonal line across it like so (can be any colors)
(Protip- hold shift while dragging the line tool to get a perfect diagonal)
Then go to the resize panel, resize by pixels, and change the horizontal size to 1 (TURN OFF ASPECT RATIO or it will make your entire canvas super small)
it will make your canvas the skinniest thing on planet earth but now what you do is go back to the resize panel and change the horizontal size back to what it was originally (in my case 576 but it works with everything)
and now you have a gradient made entirely in paint! super clean too
on the right is an example of one made with 3 lines (red, purple, pink) as an example of one with more than 2 colors if you want a smoother gradient. experiment! get wacky with it!
Now obviously with the gradient it gets hard to draw on (especially if you're going to be fillbucketing stuff) so under the cut is a bonus tutorial on how to transfer a drawing to a background (yippie!)
Start by drawing up your whatever on a seperate canvas but one that's the same size as your background
Do note that the way this works you have to make your color 2 on both canvases the same color and one that's NOT used in your drawing, else it becomes transparent- if you want to keep the color 2 white on both, make sure to color all white parts on your drawing with a very very slightly off-white to prevent this
Ctrl + A to select everything on your drawing canvas, then go back to your gradient and (making sure transparent selection is on) paste it in
Move the drawing however you want if it's not perfectly centered, add whatever else you want, and bam you're done
paint has a lot of cool tricks like this and when used it becomes as easy as any other program (save for, well, multiple layers)
OKAY SO. ANON WHO SENT ME THAT ASK ASKING HOW I DRAW FACES I THINK TUMBLR ATE UR ASK 😭😭I TRIED TO PUT IT INTO MY DRAFTS AND IT GOT YEETED INTO THE VOID. SO IMMA ANSWER IT HERE. IF IT SHOWS BACK UP I WILL LINK U TO THIS POST AND RESPOND TO IT.
FIRST OF ALL thank u very very kindly for ur compliments 🥺🥺 i was very happy for your enthusiasm and it was a big mood boost.
SECOND OF ALL: I'M SO SORRY TO HEAR YOU'RE HAVING TROUBLE LEARNING HOW TO DRAW SIDE PROFILES 😭😭😭 I remember being at that point, trying to draw them was a NIGHTMARE.
I'm pretty awful at teaching things??? BUt Imma give this a good ole college try:
I recorded myself drawing the First image in case that's more helpful than my attempts to explain xD
As for what you were saying about The nose and Mouth being on the same line: I'm imagining what you're talking about is the line starts at the tip of their nose and goes down to their chin? Kinda like some anime styles?
My recommendation would be to do what I show above: Draw an egg-ish shape. And the make sure to draw the nose as a Spike/Orb/Whatever shape is your dream desire, popping out of it. Kinda think of it like a mountain in the middle of a flat Plane. Sticking out like a sore thumb.
Besides that!!! References are your best friend!! Reference other artists!!! Reference IRL people!! And keep on keeping at it!! Like I said, I used to be TERRIBLE at drawing them, and here I am now :D I'm not always happy with them, and sometimes I still hate how I draw faces (working on that tho) but I'm miles better than when I was a kid. And if I can do it you can do it too :) Best of luck Anon! U got this!!
on the guide, draw a series of squished circles slightly overlapping.
using an eraser that is about 2-3 pixels smaller than your drawing brush, erase half the inner circle alternating sides as you go down the line.
then erase the rest of the inner circles the same way, but in smaller sections.
adjust the size of the eraser depending on how thick you want the inner lines.
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i hope this helps and i hope it's easy to understand! using chain brushes can be helpful, but they sometimes look too stiff, so i find doing it this way can look more fluid
Edit: I'm just using a basic round brush with min size up to 100% brush size varies depending on canvas size
have you ever wondered how I get that nice crispy texture on my art or how I do highlights??? well BOY do i have the video for you ^^
thank you for being so patient with me on this one!! it's been a really long while in the making, but im really excited that I now get to share my process with people :D pls lmk if this was helpful!!