My tumblr is mostly about art. I really love to share my own art and beautiful work from others. My goal is illustrating a book or a comic, so I train a lot to achieve this goal someday.
I probably should have started doing this forever ago but I wasn’t sure how long I was gonna stick with drawing these comics. But I guess we’re in it now! This will be continually updated~ EVERYTHING UNDER THE CUT
You don't have to suffer the tedious process of filling in your line art manually or paint bucket filling all those little areas. (I mean unless you just enjoy doing it that way) Have this time saving tip!
I use Clip Studio Paint for this tutorial but many other programs have these same tools and shortcuts!
where do you find your textures? ive been having trouble finding good hd scans of weathered paper, and yours all look so good
Before i got a paper pack from Retrosupply, I actually made my own! And I still do sometimes when i want a specific look!
I start with a toned paper color background (play around with ivory and yellowed whitish hues)
then on a layer on top of that, using a slightly darker hue than the paper color i chose, i use a large scaled toothy texture brush to add grit!
Then I play around with adding more dirt layers, playing with layer settings, darker/lighter speckling, staining with watercolor brushes, ect, to find the look i want! To make it look photographic, i go over the edges of the paper using a dark brown airbrush to add drop shadows. You can add creases, folds, warping, ect. this way, as well! If you wanna go extra, i also use lighter effect layers to add light sources!
(Then once I have The Look, I collapse those layers onto one and add transparent hand brushed texture layers over the lineart :])
You can make any kinda paper you want this way, too, without having to buy any packs!
All the textures I used here come with the drawing program i use! So no having to buy extra stuff :D
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