#art tutorial i guess?

[miguxadraws]

Hello, I hope you don't mind me asking, but I love your art style so much, and the way you draw Ragatha!!!

Would it be okay if I asked you for advice on how to draw Ragatha's hair?

Thank you!

It's perfectly fine to ask me for advice, but just so you know, I'm not the best at explaining my art processes tbh. I've never done an art tutorial or anything similar to that.

However, I tried making a small guide here on how to draw Ragatha's hair - well, how I draw it at least. It's sort of a rough sketch, but hopefully it'll be useful for you!

First off, I'd like to point out that when I began drawing her character, I used one of her official 2D artworks as reference to draw her hair, not her 3D model!

To be more specific, I used this one:

Another important thing to take into consideration is THE VOLUME her hair has.

If you have curly hair and it's long enough, you might know that to make it have that sweet sweet volume, you gotta style it in LAYERS! The same applies to Ragatha here, which you can actually see in the image above! If you wanna make her hair look voluminous, you need to draw it in layers (Assuming you'll be drawing it similarly to how it looks in canon - like dreadlocks)

Anyways, now onto the process!

1st step - Bangs

When drawing her hair, I will always start by drawing her bangs first. It helps me sort out where the other locks will be going for the most part.

I will always start by drawing the 4 locks that go on top of her forehead. The two in the middle will always be shorter than the ones on the sides, but that's just my preference.

Once that's done, I do the longer locks that go down along the sides of her face.

2nd step - Locks on top + bow

Bow is not mandatory, but I must admit it does make my life easier when i'm drawing her, because then i'll always know where to put the two locks she's got on top of her head - that being right where the bow begins - behind it.

3rd step - Superficial layer!

Once you get the two higher locks and the bangs done, this step becomes way easier. You just gotta fill the gap between them.

I'll normally draw 3 on each side, but of course that will depend on the thickness of the dreadlocks you're drawing. It's overall pretty simple.

I like making these 3 locks more droopy than the other 2 coming from behind the bow, but that's also just my own preference.

4th step - Secondary layer

As you can see in the two examples in the center, the shorter locks on top will sort of flow in the same way as the 2 smaller bangs in her front. They go up, then down.

The longer ones that go behind her neck will just go straight down since they're longer and therefore heavier, just like the two long locks on each side of her face.

Clean up + fixing asymmetry

In the top left example, some of the locks were asymmetrical, so I fixed that after cleaning up the sketch. Mistakes like these tend to be very noticeable once you clean things up, so try keeping each side as symmetrical as you can to one another, especially if you're drawing her front view.

Anyway, that's pretty much it for my process! I feel like I could've elaborated a bit more and made this more organized, but at the same time I kind of have no idea what to do lol sorry

Still, I hope this helps you out somehow!

[shandzii]

unsure if my ask went thru bc i didnt see the popup that said it sended over so i’m typing it out again

i NEEED NEEDD a tutorial on how you draw & design mechs bc the way you draw them is literally perfection in every way. this is from an anon who wants to make mech ocs but is unsure where to start theyre so complicated to design

dusting off my tutorial brain

my style of mech is very influenced by transformers (mix of different continuities and tf artists that I like) so I look at a lot of characters for inspiration

There's a lot of stuff you could add to it too like vents, pipes, antennas, fins, wires, joints, etc..

[hexcii]

Some things might be misspelt or worded strangely. English is weird. Anyway here's the rendering thingy I promised, tosses it at you and RUNS!!!!

Oh and also the finished piece

MY WIFEEEE

I'm also open to any questions or clarifications about my process yippiiii hot artists don't gatekeep or whatever the saying is

[tomahachi12]

omg HOW DO U DRAW HAIR.... I've been trying forever to draw this one characters hair rt and it's driving me nuts

funny thing

I am notorious for not drawing a character's hair consistantly

I look at a lot of references, but things are always chaging lol

BUT ANYWAY, I'll show ya'll how I do it (:

using V as the victim model *click the read more*

starting off with the head

I'll mark off the hairline, but in the case of the Workers and DDrones, I'll use their helmets or headbands for their hairline

after that, I figure out where I will place their part, if needed

I'll block out their bangs using large shapes

add any side bangs

then fill out the main body of their hair

next I'll clean up any intersecting lines, so I don't have to fight them later, and add any little extra details

then I'll start adding randomish lines, breaking up the main peices

and add more to fill in the gaps

And done!

I tend to use quick, flowing lines when drawing hair, and encourage y'all to try the same

also practice with different lengths and types!

[holy-reference-in-a-username]

??????? im doing this now???

[dragonskulls]

i remade my old talon tutorial with a few extra tips! these are just things i have learned from references, other artists and experimenting myself, so i hope they can be helpful for you!

[potato-lord-but-not]

i see you have a little grain effect on all of your digital art that I've seen, and as a fellow krita user i NEEEEEDD to know how you do it bc it's just so scrumptious looking

OKAY SO you want to find a noise texture of your choice and upload it as a pattern here, in the upper left corner, I forgor what it’s called:

Then you can use the bucket tool to fill the whole canvas on its own layer. Then you want to make the blending mode or whatever “combine normal map”. I then turn the opacity down to like 5-10% depending on how it looks with the drawing :)))

Here are some close ups of that grain effect, the combine normal map option makes for some really fun and subtle coloring that I prefer over some of the other blending modes

[machetelettuce]

Can we please get a Nari eye tutorial for both simple and detailed versions? Blease bro he's so eyes I need to know how to draw him 😭

my silly narinder eye tutorial,,, i hope this helps :)!!!!!

[batsyl]

Yes hello, have an Obi-Wan with a pinch of ObiMaul

Don't know which version I like best, so there ya go

[egophiliac]

hi! this is Insomniac Anon here!!! I noticed on some of ur artworks (specifically the unique magic posters), that u have a textured look to em, like paper or grain ... i wanted to ask how u get that effect? is it a brush, a filter, or like an overlay/png u use ... ? pls tell me!! ;v; I really like how the texture looks, so i wanted to know how 2 do it since ure a very big inspo 2 me LAWL ... I've been doing art practices in diff styles i find, so, i wanted to know a bit more how you do it :^D

thank you! :D :D :D it's usually photos/textures of paper that I've messed around with; I have a bunch of free/paid/ones I took myself. anytime I see good photos of paper I add it to the collection...it is my weakness. 😔

I mostly use Photoshop, but this should work in any program that supports blending modes (also I did this in like an hour to use as an example, please forgive it :')

image by itself before texturing:

with the texture pasted in (for this one I'm using this public domain one from Pexels):

then mess around with the blending mode to see how it looks -- in this case I went with overlay, but soft light and hard light are usually good ones too, it really depends on the texture:

then with a bunch of messing around with opacity/colors/saturation/levels/adding in a bit more texture until I like how it looks:

et voilà, texture! (waves hands)

[moraent-keys]

How do you draw Red Son’s bull ears?? I literally cannot do it and it makes me sad😡

Sorry, I’m not that great at explaining things but I tried my best!

(Forgot to mention but those tufts of fur inside the ear I also make both round sometimes instead of round/sharp)

[vampyrebug-art]

So terribly sorry if this has been answered before-- but how do you get that texture in your pieces? It's absolutely gorgeous!! and your method of layering the colors is stunning, do you have any tips for that? Thank you!! ;w;

no one has actually asked this before, so dont worry !!

i dont know how well i can explain it though 😓

i put down a base layer in my color of choice

then i use a small pencil brush (personally i love 'dirty pencil pastel' or 'sawdust' both by robogart on itch.io) and try to avoid overlapping my pen so that most of the individual strokes are still visible

small is relative but to put into perspective i use a 1800px x 2250px, 450 dpi canvas and a 10-12px brush

more or less the same method for the shading and highlights too

i record a lot of my drawings for instagram/tiktok, so hope this helps better visualize what i mean 🙏🙏

[foreversagacious]

Heya, you are an absolute beautiful person and seeing the way you make colors and values pop always make my day.

I'd love to see the tips for the progress of rendering if you can.

Nevertheless, good luck with school and remember you are the coolest cat ever to exist.

<3

oh man this made my day now YOU are the coolest cat to ever exist

since my most recent drawing was done in greyscale and simply adjusted with gradient maps, i thought id base a ‘tutorial’ off my second most recent piece since it has more substance to it

sorry if this isnt the most helpful haha… feel free to modify and interpret the following ‘advice’ as you wish, i am not at ALL qualified to be teaching people shit about art i kinda just fuck around and hope it looks cool in the end

let me know if yall are interested in a greyscale/gradient map tutorial

oh and to the people wondering yes the lighting symbolism was intentional!!!

[manuzillust]

Would anybody be interested in seeing some process posts for my art??

For example my scarecrow went from this to:

Or i could maybe make small tutorials with little tips??? I dont like editing in video format, but the blog type posts on tumblr seem fun to make!

Let me know in the comments🫶

[seashoreships]

not sure if i already asked this, apologies if i have but have you ever posted how you draw bodies? you draw them like perfectly and i would love to know how you do so 😭

I’ve got a vid under the cut of the sketch’s process, but really it’s a lot of guess work atp. Totally recommend gesture drawing and studying… gulp…. Andrew loomis… if you want to understand the basic anatomy of it all

[faenaussa]

Tried out procreate for the first time and redrew a meme. Original image under the cut.

Is this anything?