Tag: art reference

vextera:

Volume Commissions Mini-Tutorial

The recent Black Panther Charity Stream I participated in was the 4th time I’ve streamed volume work, and every time I do, I get comments about how quickly I’m able to whip out pieces. 

Here’s some general advice on doing volume work, and some additional information on my personal process! Hopefully some of it helps you. 😀

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erichibbeler:

A long time ago an anon asked my thoughts about drawing backgrounds, so I finally got around to putting this together. It’s more prop-centric, but it still represents my philosophy to backgrounds. 

I’ll try to do something more about drawing actual background spaces in the future! Please let me know what you think, if anything is unclear, or if you have suggestions for other tutorials you might find helpful!

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rapidpunches:

frogonadogonaloginabog:

rapidpunches:

Hello friends, this is the long awaited tutorial on Line-Quality, Art-Style, and Same-Face-Syndrome.

  • Line-Quality is improved by building Muscle-Memory.
  • You build muscle memory through Drawing-Exercises.
  • Art-Style is developed over time through Observation and Routine.
  • Routines such as… Drawing-Exercises. 

And now for… the Ultimate Drawing-Exercise-Routine!

It’s called Snake-In-A-Basket!!

Draw any kind of snake inside of any kind of basket. You have 5 to 20 minutes to complete it before each/every Big-Serious-Illustration to tackle. No more, no less time!

Draw it… NOW!

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(my example that I drew in GIMP)

Art-Style is not necessarily what you think it is. A fairly common style issue discussed in artist circles is the inability to draw the same character twice while retaining their likeness or the lack of uniqueness which makes our art (recognizable) distinguishable from another’s “oh! YOU drew this!”.

Here are the fastest pathways to attaining the elusive Art-Style:

  • Repetition!!!!!
  • Recurrence-of-Thematic-Elements (everyone is sad, robots, someone is always shirtless, etc)
  • Same Color-Palette used for everything you draw
  • Same-Tools (line width, brush set, same paper, canvas size)
  • or Same-Program

(examples of palettes!! you can’t go wrong with having a rainbow)

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Some Amount of Explanation:

If you draw on the same size or same scale (A6, A5, A4, A3 | B6, B5 | Letter) or in the same orientation (Landscape or Portrait), it helps you learn Composition intuitively by training you to make use of the space you have. Also it’s easier to print out and frame if you draw on common photo print sizes 4×6, 8×10, etc.

Even if you make a lot of use of Blend/Blur and you’re more of a Painter than a Cel-Shader– deciding to use a Set Personal-Default-Color-Palette instead of randomly choosing them on the Wheel/Triangle-Thing will still give you enough stable consistency.

Onto the next thing!

Same-Face-Syndrome is normally caused by one of two things. If it’s not one then it’s the other: Same Shapes or Same Details.

To make noticebly different characters you have to Exaggerate.

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Circle, Square, Triangle, Rectangle?
Short, Wide, Tall, Thin?

Before you try your hand at drawing any Face or Body Type, draw another Snake-In-A-Basket first. 

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You think I’m joking?

No. I’m not.

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So to wrap up, you need to Warm Up to draw, you need to make a color palette and stick to it –or just use the same Crayola pencils, or the same kind of Bic pen, same kind of sharpie, .7 or .5, and have themes like “plaid flannels for everybody” or “hoodies and jeans”. Find those things you can execute consistently, like hatching or stippling, and if you like it, stick with it! 

Hope this helps!

Now draw a SNAKE-IN-A-BASKET!

Why the snake in a basket though?

This is the alternative looks a bit more abstract. The Snake-In-A-Basket makes use of different lines going in different directions but in one visually comprehensive Object. Its purpose is to build confidence in making long, medium, short lines.

It bears reblogging again.

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