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cryptidmullet · 1 year

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a little nostalgia for today

#based on a post i saw on here #im graduating in 2 weeks and it has me feeling some kinda way #my art tag #procreate #original art #background study #perspective drawing

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xephia · 11 months

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xgermankittycatx--commsopen · 8 months

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sunrise!

#good omens #good omens 2 #good omens fanart #fanart #good omens season 2 #no spoilers #go fanart #go2 #crowley fanart #crowley #aziraphale's bookshop #perspective #perspective art #perspective drawing #perspective practice #color practice #sunrise #art #my art

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idoodlestuffsometimes · 1 year

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DRAWING BACKGROUNDS: TIPS AND TRICKS

So many people are afraid of drawing backgrounds and I think it's a shame, so here's some tips and tricks, because I'm not perfect at it myself but I think the hardest part is really just knowing where to start.

First off: Perspective

Yeah, yeah, that's the scary word. But I promise you, once you're familiar with the basics, backgrounds are a LOT less intimidating. Don't get discouraged if WHEN you have trouble with it. Even professional artists struggle with it. I promise you, screwing it up is good and normal. That's how you learn after all!

Now I'm not going to go into detail on how to do it here, because honestly there are a thousand and one free resources online and in libraries that can explain it far better than I ever could in a singular broad-strokes tumblr post. But I AM at least telling you you should familiarize yourself with these basics:

Important Terms: Horizon Line: A horizontal line across your canvas, showing your viewer's eye level and providing a location for most of your vanishing points. Vanishing Point: Integral to drawing in perspective. The sides of a 3D object get smaller as they become farther away from the viewer in space. This point is where the parallel lines of a side eventually meet.

The Basic Types of Perspective: One Point Perspective: Good for drawing things that you're looking at straight on. Two Point Perspective: Good for drawing things at an angle. Three Point Perspective: Good for drawing things the viewer is looking up or down at, especially at an extreme angle.

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And if you're comfortable with these and serious about improving your skills for use in storytelling, I also might suggest looking up:

4 Point Perspective: Great for extra wide or tall shots and for camera tilts if you're doing an animation or animatic. I think some other names for this in animation include "banana pan" and "warp pan."

5 Point Perspective: Fish-eye lens. Good for all your angsty anime boy slipping into madness needs!

Some perspective tips I wish someone had told me earlier:

Objects' relation to the horizon line is constant. A super helpful tip to remember when placing a character or object in space is that they will always (assuming they aren't changing in size or moving up or down) have the same relation to the horizon line no matter how far or close they are. If your horizon line is at shoulder height for your focus character in the foreground, any character of the same height in the background will still line up with the horizon line at the shoulders.

How to pick the distance between your vanishing points: 2 pt perspective uses 2 vanishing points, 3 pt uses 3, etc, etc, but how close should they be? Well, first of all, for anything that isn't one point perspective, one or more points will usually be off the canvas. Super annoying, I know, but the closer your vanishing points are, the more warped your drawing will become. Second, a helpful thing to know is that choosing the distance between your points is basically the illustration equivalent of picking your camera lens! Photography buffs will know that wider (shorter focal length) lenses show more space and make the distance between foreground and background more dramatic, while longer focal length/telephoto lenses are flatter, and more focused and intimate. The same is true of vanishing points that are closer (shorter focal length) or farther apart (longer focal length).

2 point/3 point/etc doesn't actually mean you're limited to that many points total on your page. this one confused me a lot when I was getting started, lol. A lot of examples will show you drawings of nice, neat cities or something, in which all the buildings are facing the same way in order to demonstrate perspective drawing. But in real life, buildings don't all face the same direction. They're at all sorts of different angles. So how do I do that??? Answer: Just because you're drawing in 2 point perspective or whatever doesn't mean you... have to actually keep your 2 points in the same spot. You can move them around, just keep them the same distance apart, so you're not screwing up your camera lens.

Other Tips:

Use reference! The instant you try to draw a house, you're going to forget every house you've ever seen. That's just how it goes. Buildings are complicated. Do yourself a favor and collect a few reference images first, buddy!

Consider details (like architectural style, amenities, and materials) Your building will look more like a building when you keep in mind that buildings have gutters and door knobs and light switches and paneling and stuff, and aren't just boxes with roofs on them. Again: reference! You will forget electrical sockets and baseboards exist immediately. Art brains are dumb.

Use details and texture to fill in negative space Giant stretches of blank space tend to be boring and distracting. Put a few suggestions of wood grain or something on that wall back there, bud, just don't overdo it.

Line weight Darker, thicker lines draw more attention, look heavier, and look closer to the viewer than lighter, thinner lines do. Take advantage of this to draw the viewer's attention to your focal points, de-emphasize less important details, and imply depth. It's up to you to decide how you want to use this and what your style is, especially once you start getting into combining or replacing it with shading, values, and color, but a helpful rule of thumb is to try reserving your thickest lines for focal foreground characters and use thinner lines on backgrounds, especially details in the far distance.

Perspective guides If you're drawing digitally, take full advantage of any perspective tools you have access to! A lot of art programs lately have begun adding perspective guide features that let you set up vanishing points and then literally guide your hand as you draw so you stay in perspective. Some of these include Procreate, Clip Studio Paint, and Adobe Fresco. (still sadly none in Photoshop as far as I'm aware, what the heck, Adobe!). Check through the settings of yours to see if it gives you any perspective guides or other similarly useful tools. They're 100% worth it! And for god's sake, if you've got any skew or perspective warp tools, draw your complicated shapes flat and then warp them instead of spending an hour on it! Don't make my mistakes!

#backgrounds #art tips #tutorial #art reference #drawing tips #perspective drawing #the owl house #hunter toh #doodle art #doodletext #rambling topic #yes i'm using my blorbo to demonstrate art tips what about it #this took longer than i meant it to lol. i got really into the examples #thank you for your patience guys #this turned out to be a GREAT exercise for me as an artist too actually. Trying to explain things is rlly good practice #I didn't even get into values and such. I can only ramble so much I'm afraid

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artofjim · 1 year

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worked on this for the 25th Anniversary voice cast reunion at a local con this weekend.

Prints Available Traditional Ink, Digital Color

#cowboy bebop #spike spiegel #faye valentine #jet black #radical edward #ein #sci fi art #perspective drawing #digital painting #corgis in space #character art #cowboy bebop fanart

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knotty-et-al · 6 months

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Dodecahedron and stellated dodecahedron WIP - perspective drawing on isometric dot paper

So I drew this dodecahedron and then the stellated dodecahedron below.

And when I drew that stellated dodecahedron I made some very annoying mistakes (in the last steps!)...

As I could not erase those ink lines, I improved and cut out the parts with mistakes...

Sadly, the cut outs are irritating for the perspective drawing. (I will show you why shading the faces will help make sense of this shape once I have made a second drawing of it.)

Now I cannot shade the stellated dodecehedron as it would look very messy with the cuts.

So I just use the stellated octahedron part as an interesting collage item.

I could even insert neon-colored paper, which would make it look fancy.

But for making a shaded drawing I might draw a second one - but without those mistakes...

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catmintrose · 1 month

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Cursed perspective

winging some perspective doodles idk what any of this is lmao

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soukokumychildren · 5 months

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Y'ALL ITS FINALLY DONE I BEHOLD YOU THESE TWO!! And now they BOTH glow!! MUWAHAHAHAHA!

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heartreeart · 4 months

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College assignment I did, re layouting a scene from Carmen sandiego on Netflix, I shall colour it eventually 😅

#digital art #drawing #digital artist #perspective drawing #perspective #carmen sandiego #college #assignment #Layout #art wip

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cruelseraph-art · 7 months

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newsprint #2

#drawing #transmasc artist #artists on tumblr #digital art #newsprint aesthetics #trans art #pomegranate #scopo #eyes #words #brart #brartist #transmasc art #scenery drawing #perspective drawing #visual poetry

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manasseh · 4 months

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learning how to draw! resources masterlists | Month 1 Part 2

Collections of videos, references, tips and takeaways and other helpful resources I've gathered on my drawing journey :)

To keep it concise, the list is curated down to include only things relevant to a months 'assignments', and only the resources that were the most helpful to me. My notes and takeaways will also be linked as seperate posts!

A) perspective basics Assignment (from Marc Brunet's 1 Year Plan): "Basics of Perspective (horizon line, vanishing line/point, simple volumes from different perspectives)"

[ ⊱ my notes & takeaways (types/styles of perspective drawing and their purpose, different learning goals, random tips, etc)]

most helpful videos ⊱ exercises from marc brunet's 30-day plan ⊱ the perspective assignments from 'what I learned in concept art school / term 1' - Nia Tora ⊱ 'understanding perspective' playlist by moderndayjames (honestly a one-stop! Goes into buildings, product design, more freehand work, MANY great takeaways) ⊱ 'understanding perspective drawing like kimjunggi' - dr. draw (simpler, fast-paced) ⊱ 'mastering freehand perspective' - conceptual ink academy (Nia Tora's school, great great channel for concept art!!)

boxes!! ⊱ 'how to rotate a box in perspective' by dr. Draw ⊱ 'divide a rectangle into perfect thirds' coils!! ⊱ 'how to draw foreshortening with the coil technique' ⊱ etherington brothers' perspective hoops post! ⊱ @beidak-art's perspective hoop brush to help with that

There's much more to add, but this was most helpful for me starting out this month - I will add onto this as I learn more. I took 'basic' very lightly! I dove into anything and kept what was way over my head after trying for later haha. Mainly some of the concepts from the concept art school video, and some of moderndayjames' series go pretty deep.

coming up: "DIY Curriculum", or how to make yourself a plan | Month 1 Assignment Resources: a) figure drawing / b) perspective basics [this post] / c) studies of art you like | Lists of Warm-ups, Exercises, and ideas for Drawing studies | Tools Recommendations | Lists of youtube channels eg I love so far | Maybe more :)

#drawing #learning how to draw #art #art education #artists on tumblr #learning artist #art resources #drawing resource #resources #masterlist #masterpost #perspective #perspective drawing #fundamentals #concept art

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maze-of-tones · 4 months

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