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[yorugami]

A painting study of My Neighbor Totoro

Because studying Ghibli screenshots is such a nice way to learn painting, while also relaxing enough after a hard day.

#ghibli #my neighbor totoro #fanart #painting study #digitalart #artofyorugami #clip studio paint

[iravaid]

Art tips I beg of you share your wisdom

Oh god oh fuck I'll try, a lot of my art process is vibes only, i kind of just zone out and Draw and a picture appears

I have to stress that practice is the most important part of art, even if said art looks shit and you feel like the world is ending because you're not doing well/making tangible process/it's not turning out how you want. Gotta push through that by accepting that hey, sometimes your art turns out looking Janky, so what? You still took the time and effort to make art, and you're more of an artist than you were before starting the piece. You can sit back and figure out how to constructively criticise yourself without destroying your own self confidence for the sake of a viewer who isn't there. Practice being neutral about noting the parts you dislike - 'this anatomy is awful and I'm shit at it, why do i bother' isn't going to help as much as sitting back, going 'damn that looks weird, lol' and then looking up reference photos similar to what you'd been hoping to draw and figuring out where things went wrong.

When starting with a drawing, person or animal, I find myself focusing on the silhouette initially. Sometimes i might play around with a solid colour, or focus on the outline with a thin-ish pen. It helps to be aware of certain curves on a form and how it relates to other features of the body proportionally. Look at the empty spaces on the piece and look back to those in the reference, or your own intuition, flip the canvas etc, and see if it looks 'right'. Get funky with it when in the draft stage

Tracing for practice and reference also helps - but don't trace blindly, instead use it as a chance to figure out how the lines of a person/animal/construct move, and how can you replicate that in art. Make guidelines and notes on how things are proportionate to each other, isolate singular lines and practice them over and over to build up the muscle memory.

kind of like the above, where I used photos of an oc's faceclaim (Andy Lau) and traced over them, isolated certain features, made guidelines, and so on

When figuring out how to draw faces, I use a couple little anatomy tricks to keep things in line before tweaking some of the features to make things more unique:

Corners of the mouth tend to align with the top of the jaw. The corners of the mouth also align with the pupils if a front-facing figure is looking straight on. The inner corners of both eyes align with the outer nostrils. Top of the ears align with the top of the eyelid and earlobes align with the bottom of the nose.

This can change depending on feature size etc, some people have bigger or smaller eye or theyre close together or further apart, or they have large earlobes or none at all, or their nose is small or big. I just use it as a guideline to make sure features are in order because. Uh. I keep forgetting to draw in the guides during the draft stage.

Variability of the human face lends well to avoiding same face syndrome as you can stretch the features quite a bit. It may feel weird or wrong drawing a face with different features to how you're used to, but that's the point of practice and progress.

For rendering I found using the colour zones of the face (shown below) adds a lot of oomph and depth after finding my own rendering attempts falling a bit flat.

(above, from Gurney Journey describing the colour zones of the face)

(below, by ArtofYorugami on twitter)

I make the three colour bands, blend them to the contours of the face, then set the layer to multiply and lower the opacity to around 10-20%, and make further tweaks there to where it best suits the face being drawn.

Other little things

Eyes aren't totally white, make them a touch grayer and also add a little bit of blue to give it some depth. Same with teeth but I've yet to figure those freaks out

Hands are the devil but draw them enough times and you can flub your way through them until they feel normal. Would recommend having at least one finger in a different position to the rest, as our hands naturally rest with the index finger away from the rest. Again, use a reference, trace for research and building muscle memory, be cognizant of the muscles and bones at play in the hand and wrist. There are reference compilations on pinterest I've found in the past that have been helpful, and taking a photo of your own hand is an option as well.

A hand's palm width across is also the height of your lower face. That sentence doesn't make a lot of sense - but if you put your hand over your mouth, the top will be touching the bottom of your nose, and the bottom of your hand will align with your chin, more or less. Again, this can change from person to person but is helpful when eyeballing proportions.

Reference sites like x6ud is very helpful for angles of people and animals. Apps like Handy are helpful with figuring out how certain angles of light interact with the face. Videos like this one and this one are also good lighting references. Just looking up 'face under different light angles' on a search engine or pinterest will also be fruitful. Books like Michel Lauricella 's Morpho - Fat and Skin Folds is also very useful and you can find free pdfs online with enough safe digging. And there are a number of tutorials by tumblr artists on a number of desired topics

For expressions, it can be difficult to word the search right to find the specific look and angle you want as a reference. If you're willing, I'd recommend taking a photo of yourself making the expression at the intended angle. No one but you has to see the photo lmao

Uhhh. Multiply, overlay, add (glow) are your friends if you use CSP, play around with pens and layer effects until you get ones you like. I'm partial to the CSP textured pen for lineart and the watercolour pen for rendering

I think that's all i have ahjfjdks 😭 sorry, hope this helped a little bit!

#ask #anon #apologies if this isn't much help! I'm self taught so am just vibing #my art #iraart

[lilmisssunbear]

My take on @ArtofYorugami 's DTIYS. 😇

#dtiys #draw this in your style #artofyorugami #digital painting #artists on tumblr #lilmisssunbear

[theec0ward]

#artofyorugami #yorugami #art #cherries #ducks #artph

[shitonionsays]

@Hamsta180 @ArtofYorugami @HeyEunjoo A café owner offered me two free coffees if I tweeted compliments about his place. The entire sum of my public impact is worth about $3 at retail.

https://twitter.com/oniontaker/status/1333689762968846338 , in reply to https://twitter.com/Hamsta180/status/1333683985164218368

#oniontaker #twitter

[ashwalkersblog]

Ava Caine Navien Water Mage who fights for Monster Kind in the Great War. Monsters vs Humans. Ava is my person OC so please don’t steal. Art made by Artofyorugami.

#Ava Caine Navien #My OC

[yorugami]

The Outbreak Begins ( The Last of Us HBO)

Fanart of Joel and Sarah, because the show was awesome! I can’t wait for the next episode!

#the last of us hbo #tlou #joel miller #sarah miller #fanart #digital art #digital painting #the last of us #artofyorugami #yorugami

[yorugami]

Gouache Painting Study: Silver Spoon anime

Another painting study of an anime background, this time from Silver Spoon. Learned a lot, but still a long way to go.

#gouache painting #silver spoon #anime background #gouache #study painting #anime #fanart #artofyorugami #yorugami

[yorugami]

Alan Wake II fanart

I am obsessed with this game, and I finally got around to painting a fanart for this. Took a lot longer than I planned, but still worth it XD

#alan wake ii #alan wake 2 #alan wake fanart #remedy games #digital art #artofyorugami #yorugami #digital illustration #fanart

[yorugami]

Endure and Survive

BRB crying at the zambie show again TT n TT and had to paint some Sam to vent out all the feels. Gonna add Henry in some other day soon.

#the last of us hbo #the last of us episode 5 #sam #sam and henry #endure and survive #tlou #the last of us #digital art #fanart #artofyorugami #yorugami

[yorugami]

Anime BG painting study from Mushishi

Had some time in between tasks at work, thought to do more anime BG studies. Also grass is hard.

#mushishi #yorugami #artofyorugami #digital art #fanart #painting study #anime art #anime bg #clip studio paint

[yorugami]

Alan Wake II fanart (version 2)

I am obsessed with this game, and I finally got around to painting a fanart for this. Took a lot longer than I planned, but still worth it!

(Note: Updated and fixed a few things that were bothering me.)

#alan wake #alan wake 2 #alan wake ii #alan wake fanart #remedy games #fanart #digital art #yorugami #artofyorugami #digital illustration

[yorugami]

quick study of some anime flowers

reference: Wolf Children

#artofyorugami #digital art #digital illustration #wolf children #anime bg #art study #flowers

[yorugami]

Mimir, The Smartest Man Alive (God of War Ragnarok)

Making merch for a con, and thought I’d paint Mimir as a bookmark because I love the dude in the game. Also for just a head he has a surprising amount of hidden details.

#mimir #god of war ragnarok #god of war fanart #the smartest man alive #fanart #god of war #yorugami #artofyorugami #bookmark

[yorugami]

Týr the Norse God of War

I love the design of Týr from the new God of War Ragnarok games. I also love his voice so much. Been wanting to paint him since he first appeared.

p.s. he also weirdly reminds me of MoistCr1TiKaL haha

#týr #tyr god of war #god of war ragnarok #god of war fanart #fanart #digital art #digital painting #artofyorugami #yorugami

[yorugami]

A painting study of the movie Wolf Children

Just wanted to do another anime screencap study, and what I learned from this study is that grass is harder than you think to paint. XD

#digital illustration #painting study #wolf children #fanart #anime screencap study #digital art #artofyorugami #yorugami