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For artists who have problems with perspective (furniture etc.) in indoor scenes like me - there’s an online programm called roomsketcher where you can design a house/roon and snap pictures of it using different perspectives.

It’s got an almost endless range of furniture, doors, windows, stairs etc and is easy to use. In addition to that, you don’t have to install anything and if you create an account (which is free) you can save and return to your houses.

Examples (all done by me):

Here’s an example for how you can use it

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art cheats

hello i am here today to not lose track of the art cheats i have discovered over the years. what i call art cheat is actually a cool filter/coloring style/way to shade/etc. that singlehandedly makes art like 20 times better

80’s anime style

glitch effect

glow effects

adding colors to grayscale paintings

foreshortening ( coil )

foreshortening ( perspective )

clipping group (lines)

clipping group (colors)

dramatic lighting ( GOOD )

shading metal

lighting faces

that is all for today, do stay tuned as i am always hunting for cool shit like this

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“Is that a pigeon?”  Titania 🦋

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Pssst~ Wanna get some free art?

Hello all) Today marks exactly one year since I’ve created this blog. To celebrate I’ve decided to do my first ever art raffle. You guys probably already know how such things work, but anyway. 

The rules are:

Like/reblog this post. Everybody asks people to be a follower to get an entry but I don’t really care for that. Yet I want to thank my followers somehow. So lets put it that way: if you were a follower before I’ve made this post, you’ll get two entries. If you weren’t, you’ll get one.

I’ll choose three winners via random.org (prizes are listed below)

How long will the raffle last? Basically until this post reaches enough notes. So no strict time limits. 

I’ll inform you if you’ve won anything. After that you have 3 days to respond. If not, I’ll have to chose another winner, sorry.

My strenght are human/humanoid characters. My main fandom for now is warframe, so I draw them pretty well too. Nsfw, gore, animals, robots and weird stuff in general are sadly not going to work.

Now let’s talk about the stuff that we’re all here for:

First prize: a full body drawing of your character. 

Second prize: a half body drawing of your character. 

Third prize: a bust/headshot of your character.

What else do you need to know:

All pieces will be fully colored but with a simple pose and simple or no background. 

References are most welcome. Describe your character to me if you want - it’ll make my job easier. 

Spreading the word about this raffle is greatly appreciated.

You’re new around here and don’t know what to expect? Check out my art tag to see what kind of drawings I do.

Got any other questions? Feel free to PM me. And good luck to all of you ;)

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Hey y’all I’m super close to 3k, so I’m doing a giveaway! ✨

Prize #1: Fully Rendered portrait, with or without complex background/lighting Prize #2: Full body drawing of your character of choice in their preferred underthings (oh la la) and an outfit/armor (optionally designed by me)

Rules:

Must be following me (duh)

Both likes and reblogs count, so you can have a total of 2 entries.

^ Please only one reblog though!

No giveaway blogs, if you reblog to a sideblog put the blog you follow from in the tags!

Have to reply within 48 hours if selected, or else I will have to choose another winner.

Giveaway ends September 1st at 3pm (Chicago time) Thank you all and good luck! 🍀

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I’m very close to a follower milestone so I’m celebrating by hosting an art giveaway. I’ll be picking three winners randomly when the giveaway ends.

Prizes

You can win a drawing of a character of your choice, canon or original.

1st prize: a full-body drawing

2nd prize: a half-body drawing

3rd prize: a bust 

Rules

You must be following me to enter the giveaway. New followers are welcome!

No giveaway blogs

Participate by liking and/or reblogging this post

If you win, please keep your request SFW. See my commission rules for a list of things I will or won’t draw

The giveaway will end August 1st!

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I figured it was time to share my brush set! These are some of my favorite brushes that I’ve been using almost exclusively for the past few months.  

I don’t really use any fancy brush settings as I’m still inept at photoshop after all these years, but lowering the flow and/or opacity and using the pen pressure setting for opacity will work wonders for easy blending!  I don’t use the misc. brushes frequently, but they’re still neat so I added them to the set! 

NOTE: The sketch brush IS NOT included in the set. It’s an amazing brush, called the Animator’s Pencil, and it’s definitely worth checking out Kyle T. Webster’s shop if you’d like to get it!  None of these brushes were made by me. I’m uncertain where I found some of them, but all of them are free and credit for them them goes to jigokuen, powersimon and zedig.

Have fun with these! :*

~*~*~ Get the brushes here! ~*~*~

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I usually don’t do tutorials because I’m not great at explaining stuff and I’m afraid of spreading misinformation, but I will sure as hell share a very useful art trick! Unless this is common knowledge, in which case I’ll shamefully return to my primordial cave.

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but Tolkien draws such cute dragons, omg

like look at Smaug, look at his ears, DON’T YOU JUST WANT TO SCRATCH BEHIND HIS EARS AND TELL HIM HE’S A GOOD BOY

and look at this guy, I guess he’s supposed to be ferocious but it looks more like “whoa man chill out, I’m just saying that those shoes with that helmet was maybe not the greatest fashion decision, just a little friendly advice, no need to get defensive.”

THIS LITTLE BB ALL CURLED UP AND TAKIN’ A NAP

I want this one to live in my pocket and be my sassy talking dragon sidekick

SO SMILEY!! “gonna go terrorize some helpless villagers aw yiss”

but my favorite is this little doodle here

just look at him

LOOK AT HOW HAPPY HE IS

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A small tutorial on how I approach the normally time-spending task of getting details on armor and save myself hours of work I would eventually hate after 30 minutes. Hope it’s the first of many!

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Zareena | Spring/Summer 2018

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Hi! Happy Tuesday! Today’s tip is on one of my favorite subject, color theory; specifically on chromatic fringe. It is the red fringe or hot saturated color you see at the edge of cast shadow and where it meets the light area. The rougher the object edge casting the shadow or the further away the object is, the more red fringe you’ll see. This is different than chromatic abberation, which is color fringing caused by lens failure. You can see chromatic fringe with your eyes. The more you paint from life and make observation, the easier it is to see. It’s one of those things that once you see it, you cannot unsee. :) XO, Griz

#griz #grizandnorm #tuesdaytips #colortheory #chormaticfringe #grizandnormtuesdaytips #grizandnormkittycatclub ps. On stylized painting, where you want to have a hard edge on a shadow, you don’t always have to put it. Like everything in art, you can choose to put something in or not. But it’s always good to know your basic and know the rules before breaking it. Happy painting!

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For anyone who wants a free pose-able human reference for drawing

The other day I came across this awesome program by accident (I don’t even remember what I was actually searching for, but on the several times I’ve looked for a program like this I’ve had no luck). It’s cool enough that I wanted to share it.

It’s called DesignDoll (website here) and it’s a program that lets you shape and pose a human figure pretty much however you want.

There’s a trial version with no expiration date that can be downloaded for free, as well as the “pro license” version priced at $79. I’ve only had the free version for two days so far, so I’m not an expert and I haven’t figured out all of the features yet, but I’ve got the basics down. The website’s tutorials are actually pretty helpful for the basics, as well. 

Here’s the page for download, which has a list of the features available in both versions.

There are three features the free version doesn’t have:

Can’t save OBJ files for export

Can’t download models and poses from Doll Atelier (a sharing site for users; note that the site is in Japanese, though)

It can’t load saved files

The third one means that if you make a pose, save it, and close the program, you can’t load that pose/modified model later. You have to start with the default model. I found that out when I tried to load a file from the day before (this is why reading is important…). Whether saving your modifications (and downloading models and poses) is worth $80 is up to you. 

But, the default model is pretty nice and honestly if all you’re looking for is a basic pose reference it should work fairly well as it is. Here’s what it looks like:

There’s a pose tag that lets you drag each joint into place and rotate body parts. The torso and waist can be twisted separately, and it seems like everything pretty much follows the range of movement it would have on an actual human.

Even the entire shoulder area is actually movable along with the joint! See, like how the scapular area of the back raises with the arm:

The morphing tag is one of the coolest features, in my opinion. It lets you pick and choose from a library of pre-set forms for the head, chest, arms, legs, etc. It has some more realistic body shapes in addition to more anime-like ones. Don’t like the options there? Mix a few to get what you want! Each option has a slider that lets you blend as much or as little as you want into the design. 

So you, too, can create beautiful things like kawaii Muscle-chan!!

The scale tag lets you mess with the proportions and connection points of different joints. This feature combined with the morphing feature not only allows more body shape variations, but it also means that you can do things like make a more digitigrade model if you want. (The feet only have an ankle joint, but for regular human poses that’s all that you really need, so whatever.)

Or you can make a weird chubby alien-like thing with giant hands and balloon tiddies if that’s more your thing.

The ability to pose hands to the extent it allows is far more than I could have hoped for from a free program. Seriously, you can change the position of each finger joint individually, as well as how spread out the fingers are from each other. Each crease on the diagram below is a point of movement, and the circles are for spread between fingers. 

And to make it a bit more convenient, there’s a library of pre-set hand poses you can pick from as well, and then change the pose from that if you like. 

In both versions, you can also import OBJ files from other places for the model to hold, like if you wanted to have them hold a sword or something.

Basically, this program is awesome and free and you should totally check it out if you want a good program for creating pose references.

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I couldn’t sleep this morning (lol) so I made this small tutorial.

I do a lot of things in lazy ways and this is one of them! clothing pattern and embroidery typically look good when it’s very neat (ie uniform width throughout the pattern) but that means it’s a pain in the ass to hand draw. Here I used the following tools to help me take advantage of photoshop Selection and Stroke functions to create containment lines and borders that are of uniform width. Combined with the hand drawn pattern (with pressure sensitivity turned OFF) this benefits from both the organic look of the original pattern and the precision of photoshop selections, and makes it look very carefully handcrafted while taking no time at all.

functions used: 

Select layer content: Ctrl+click layer thumbnail

Expand selection: Select > Modify > Expand

Stroke: Edit > Stroke

Brush

Can be used to draw embroidery, create clean line art (ie shoe laces), draw lace, tattoo looking designs, etc

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{ THE NETHERLANDS, 2015 }

Some Erasmus pics.

1. Bridge near Plantageweg, Rotterdam.

2. Tulips in Keukenhof, Lisse.

3. City street, Delft.

4. Rotterdam public library, Rotterdam.

5. Music gig, Rotterdam.

6. Flowers in Keukenhof, Lisse.

#photography #travel #netherlands #erasmus #aesthetic

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{ REPUBLIC OF MOLDOVA, 2014 }

1. View from a church, Moldova.

2. Artificial lake in Chisinau, Moldova.

3. Kitten playing, Vadul-Leca, Moldova.

4. View from a church, Moldova.

#photographers #travel #moldova #landscape #wanderlust

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{ NAPLES & SALERNO, ITALY, August 2012 } 

I have this hard time managing pictures I take during my travels. I’m too lazy to print them and organize them with a scrapbook, so I just download them to my pc and they remain there for ages until I decide to look at them again. 

So I decided that maybe they could be useful to somebody else if I just dump them here on Tumblr. Maybe aesthetics blogs? Dunno. 

Just let me know if you use them, I’d like to see.

1. View of Piazza del Plebiscito, Naples.

2. Paestum seaside, Paestum.

3. Botanic gardens, Salerno.

4. Galleria Umberto I, Naples.

#travel #travelling #tourist #wanderlust #pictures #photography #travelphotography #travel photo diary #travel photo blog #travel pics #naples #salerno #seaside #aesthetic