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if you ever feel like it I would LOVE to see a little tutorial from you about how you paint. i am obsessed with your paintings!!!! I love your use of color and how you do do lighting and like your strokes and just!!! Everything!!! it’s so beautiful and I keep just finding myself staring at it and trying to absorb it into my brain. sosososo good. argh. anyway. if you have any tips that would be great cause i would love to learn to paint but im intimidated and I don’t know where to start haha
I hope this helps a little!!
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I work in Clip Studio Paint but the layer settings are similar in various drawing programmes. I work on canvases around A4 format 300dpi.
I also recommend looking at the things that taught me a lot when I wanted to first get into digital painting:
This painting tutorial by @littleulvar
Speedpaints (especially drawlloween) by Mirey's (also on deviantart)
Little Friend Shaped Creature is getting festive! 🌟
Painting is one of the most magical steps of the process of making little sculptures. It's when the personality of each piece really comes through!
This particular color palette was designed to be soothing and festive at the same time. ✨
If you're curious about learning more about the process of making miniature sculptures, you can find over 100 making-of videos, including articles and tutorials on here!
Thank you for all of your lovely art! Would you be willing to make a post on how you draw Will's hair so curly? Especially my favorite the one where he sleeping with Nico. Thank you much and very kind if you do!
Anon I have kinda of a poor english bad writing when not in cursive and teaching skills that would make an actual teacher cry But here is my best attempt of a tutorial, before I was a digital artist I spent a lot of time in traditional art so my techniques aren’t anything extraordinary and my artist mentality is pretty much the oil painting mentality of “just paint on top of it!”
As a kid I always said that cheetahs are my favorite animals. And they still are among my favs!
Not surprising therefore that I made a drawing tutorial about them some years ago:
hihi! would you mind maybe doing a tutorial on how you color on paper please? Especially for your Micah piece omg it’s so good, markers KILL me they’re impossible to use
Tysm!!!
First, I sketch on a 200-gram sheet with a red pencil of any material, although I recommend a red wooden pencil.
Why? Watercolor can be a bit tricky with red pencil. The main reason is that red often contains more transparent and finer pigments than other colors, making it absorb more quickly into the paper.
Knowing this and having our sketch, it's time to move on to watercolor ^-^
1- Choose the base color for your drawing, in my case, I'll use red as the base color.
**Tip: The color should be diluted if you want to use it as a base, although this depends on what you want to represent! In my case, I diluted it with red.
Afterward, I like to outline where the shadows will go with the same base color, so that when you put the character's colors on top of the base, they look shiny.
2- You must let it dry well, and then start painting on your dry base!
**Tip: I start painting from back to front, I don't know how to explain it well, but consider the following order:
Skin
Hair
Hat
Clothing
Or if you're doing a drawing with a background:
Background
Skin
Hair
Hat
This is to make your watercolor look clean, but if you have a different way of painting, it's not necessary to follow the order ^-^
PS: Try to follow the shadow pattern you made with the character's color. I made some videos to make it easier to understand 🐤✨
3- Then, when everything is ready and dry, I like to emphasize with different types of black gel pencils to give it a comic book aesthetic, like my drawing style.
Here's a video where you can see a bit of the process
Wish me luck everyone. I finally got my art program back and I'm gonna try painting ice today for one of my art pieces. It's an effect I've never tried and before and it looks way harder than water.
Actually, if anyone has any tips on digitally drawing/painting ice, I'd love to hear it. I need to have all the help I can get. Lol! - ✒️🐉