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Digital Painting Tutorials for Beginners

A wonderful collection of video digital painting tutorials.

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How to draw folds

Notes on how to draw folds back when I was teaching manga classes back in 2006. From the book “Drawing people” by Barbara Bradley.

http://www.amazon.com/Drawing-People-Portray-Clothed-Figure/dp/1581803591

This book has a very detailed description of 6 types of commonly seen folds and I think is one of the most educational resource on how to draw folds(Besides Vilppu and Bridgeman).

這是我以前教漫畫課程時給學生看的講義.來源是芭芭拉布莱德丽的”着装人物素描”«上海人民美术出版社出版».

書裡講解了皺摺形成的兩個主要原理(拉扯與擠壓)以及因兩種作用力下形成的六種常見的皺褶類型.

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Updated this article today to make it more reader friendly & linked some new content in.

Also I’d love feedback on the new site layout!

Added cards & revamped the homepage to look a lot nicer. 

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Resource Dump: Creating Characters!

Primary Characters

Your Hero: Top Ten Rules

10 Traits of a Great Protagonist

4 Steps to Creating a Truly Active Protagonist

20 Tips for Creating Relatable Protagonists

How to Center your Story

How to Create Unforgettable Protagonists

25 Things You Should Know About Protagonists

Creating Memorable Characters

Creating Strong Female Protagonists

Creating Dynamic Protagonists

How to Create Characters

Inner Dialogue - Writing Inner Character Thoughts

25 Things a Great Character Needs

5 Ways to Create 3D Characters

Secondary Characters

10 Secrets to Creating Unforgettable Supporting Characters

How to Write Effective Supporting Characters

Question to Ask (& Strengthen) Your Minor Characters

5 Tips for Developing Supporting Characters

Techniques for Creating Great Secondary Characters

5 Steps to Dazzling Minor Characters

3 Ways to Create Stupendous Supporting Characters

Creating Memorable Secondary Characters

5 Archetypes for Supporting Characters

Your Map to Creating a Memorable Minor Characters

Names

Top Ten Tips

8 Tips for Naming Characters

7 Rules of Naming Fictional Characters

Name that Character!

6 Creative Ways to Name your Character

Naming your Characters

A Guide to Naming Characters

Female: 1 | 2 | 3

Male: 1 | 2 | 3

Alien: 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5

Surname: 1 | 2 | 3 

Unisex: 1 | 2 | 3 | 4

Traits

List: 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9

Developing Character Traits

How to Create Good Personalities for your Characters

Develop Memorable Personalities

Give your Character Personality

How to Create a Character’s Personality

How to Make Sure your Character’s Personality Shines

5 Building Blocks of your Character’s Personality

Appearance

Appearance Generator

Your Character’s Physical Appearance

How to Describe a Character’s Looks

Describing a Character’s Appearance

Character Description Resource

Examples of Physical Characteristics

Describing the Physical Attributes of your Characters

How Great Authors Describe Character Appearance

Ultimate Guide to Nailing your Character’s Appearance

Describing Clothing and Appearance

Character Appearance Help

Character Description Resource

Describing People: A Person’s Physical Appearance

Describing the Physical Attributes of Characters

Speech

Talking About your Character: Speech

Variety in Character Voices

All your Characters Talk the Same

How to Create Distinctive Character Voices

How to Create Characters Who Don’t Sound like You

The Art of Voice in Fiction

Create Varying, Yet Realistic, Speech Patterns

The Art and Craft of Dialogue

Writing Character Voice

Creating Differences in the Speech Patterns of your Characters

Style: Person and Speech

Dialects: 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6

Backstory

Building Better Backstories

Basic Tips to Create Better Characters with Tragic Backstories

How to Write a Backstory

Writing Characters Using Conflict and Backstory

Backstory Description Generator

Questions to Create Character Backstory

How to Weave in Backstory to Reveal Character

Nail your Character’s Backstory

How to Write Backstory Without Putting your Reader to Sleep

How to Write a Killer Backstory

Diversity

How to Make Young Adult Fiction More Diverse

Writing People of Color

A Few Tips and Resources for Writing Characters of Colour

Writing Characters of Colour Tastefully

Writing With Colour

7 Offensive Mistakes Well-Intentioned Writers Make

Writing Characters of Colour

Describing Characters of Colour

Gender

Female: 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5

Male: 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5

Transgender: 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6

Non-Binary: 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5

Sexuality

Main Character Sexuality

On Writing LGBTQ Characters: 1 | 2

Writing Gay Characters

Guide to LGBT YA

Avoiding LGBTQ Stereotypes

Writing Bisexual Characters: 1 | 2

Writing Asexual Characters: 1 | 2

Pansexual & Demisexual Characters

How to Write Gay, Bisexual and Pansexual Characters

Introduction

Introducing a Character

Introducing your Main Character

Do’s and Don’ts for Introducing your Protagonist

First Impressions

How to Introduce a Character

How Not to Introduce a Main Character

Introducing the Protagonist

Development

Character Development

9 Ingredients of Character Development

Characterisation 1 - Character Development

How to Develop a Character for a Story

Character Development

Character Development Drives Conflict

Developing your Characters and Making them Interesting

Relationships

How to Write Strong Character Relationships

Character Relationships

3 Keys to Developing Character Relationships

The Secret Behind Great Character Relationships

3 Tips for Character Relationships

Building Believable Relationships

Sibling: 1 | 2 | 3 | 4

Platonic: 1 | 2 | 3

Romantic: 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6

Strengths

Identifying your Character’s Strengths

Character Strengths and Weaknesses

Introducing the 24 Character Strengths

Character Strengths and Virtues List

Strengths and Weaknesses

A Balance of Strengths

Flaws

123 Ideas for Character Flaws

DarkWorld RPG Flaws List

Character Flaws

Ten Ugliest Character Flaws

The Four Types of Character Flaws

On Giving Flaws and Weaknesses

Character Flaw Index

Goal

Why your Character’s Goal Needs to be 1 of these 5 Things

Goals Define the Plot

Goal Setting for You and your Character

How to Explore you Character’s Motivation

4 Ways to Motivate Character and Plot

Motivation

By Genre

Fantasy: 1 | 2 | 3

Sci-Fi: 1 | 2 | 3 | 4

Romance: 1 | 2 | 3 | 4

Thrillers: 1 | 2 

Horror: 1 | 2 | 3

Heroes

Your Hero: Top Ten Rules

How to Write your Own Hero Story

What Makes a Great Hero?

Creating Heroes and Heroines

Write a Story about a Hero

How to Create an Antihero that Readers Love

Heroes vs. Anti-Heroes

Create a Super Hero

How to Create a Brand New Iconic Hero or Villain

What Makes a Hero

Villains

How to Create a Credible Villain in Fiction

How to Make a Purely Evil Villain Interesting

9 Evil Examples of the Villain Archetype

How Not to Create a Villain

Creating Villains People Love to Hate

3 Techniques for Crafting a Better Villain

Basic Tips to Write Better & More Despicable Villains

Writing Tips for Creating a Complex Villain

How to Create a Great Villain

Do’s & Don’ts

Do’s and Dont’s of Writing a Good Character

How to Create a Character

Characterisation Dos and Dont’s

Female Characters of Do’s and Dont’s

Do’s and Dont’s of Dialect

Helpful Writing Blogs

fuckyeahcharacterdevelopment*

writeworld

referenceforwriters

thewritingcafe

aquestionofcharacter *

writingwithcolor

fuckyeah-char-dev

dailycharacterdevelopment

Clichés

Characters and Cliches

Top 10 Character Cliches

7 Lazy Character Cliches 

10 Most Cliched Characters in Sci-Fi

Four Worst Character Cliches

Female Character Cliches

Character Cliches to Avoid

The Cliche Character Test

How Cliches Can Help You Make Great Characters

Templates

How to Create a Character Profile

Writing Character Bios

Character Sheets and Character Creation

Gender/Sexuality Generator

Extremely Detailed Character Template

Writer’s Resource: Character Template

Character Description

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Click here for my storyboard tag

Just like I said in this ask, you should look at the kind of storyboards being made right now. TV, feature, and game animation all have their own styles of storyboarding. Studios, too. Certain things you’ll need for it no matter where or what you work on, though:

Quick drawing ability

Being able to deal with having 100+ of your boards thrown out and needing to be redone

Knowledge of composition

Knowledge of story/writing

Helpful links:

Rad How To

Temple of the Seven Golden Camels

The Living Lines Library

Animation Progression Reels

Books:

Animation: The Art of Layout & Storyboarding

Directing the Story

Dream Worlds

Story Structure

Hope those help!

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Hi there! I want to start drawing digitally and i want to start doing portraits and figures. But I don’t know how or where to start :o What would you suggest? Hope you’re well and thank you for your time!

Hi there! I am, hope you are as well!

Here’s what I’ve written so far on the topic! 

Beginner Artist Guides to: digital art

Art Fundamentals: color theory, anatomy, perspective, composition

Starting with the fundamentals is really important! For portraits, you gotta nail all of the above! 

Anatomy is really important. If you learn proportions and anatomy, you’ll be able to draw whatever portrait you want from imagination!

Master human anatomy today with these 9+ tips

Learn how to draw dynamic poses with these 25+ anatomy tutorials

13 awesome tutorials on how to draw hands

Draw More Accurately with this Exercise

Art-Res Anatomy ebook – (more details // updated 12/18/19 ) + other  premium content 

Art Supply Recommendations & Art Book Recommendations

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I’ve been getting some requests to make a tutorial on how to draw fabric. It’s really not that complicated when you break it down, but it’s still something people get stuck on and over complicate. Here’s my “bare bones” simple explanation as to how to draw fabric!

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Any posts about drawing necks that connect to the body?

OP: https://twitter.com/Manga_Materials

OP: http://fav.me/dco47xm

By kelpls on tumblr!

The question is a little vague, but I hope this helps! I found these on pinterest and couldn’t track the OPs. Please lmk who the artists are if you know!EDIT: Added credit!

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About a year back I made a hand tutorial that some people seemed to like, now at long last, I have created a follow up. I saw someone complaining that hand tutorials always focus too much on the palm and not how to draw the fingers, so for this time, fingers are what I decided to focus on. Part 3 is finished and coming soon as well :)

Part one can be found right here

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when i got this ask i got so nervous because i really suck at teaching;;; sorry for getting to this so late and letting this stew in my drafts but here’s my best shot! 

Some things to consider: Line of action is perhaps the most important thing when drawing poses and figures, as it is the balancing rod that guides the body’s movement. If the line of action is weak or doesn’t make sense, then the pose will not work no matter how much you try to fudge it. 

I forgot to mention this in the drawings but you can see that i start every drawing with a basic skeleton. As much as i wish i could draw without the aid of a skeleton, it’s the most essential part of drawing figures. 

USING REFERENCE PHOTOS IS A GODSEND. Do not disregard using references, it helps clarify the way a body can move and bend so so much. If you have trouble imagining how the fingers in a pose should look, try it out in the mirror and study your own hand!  

there’s so much to talk about with posing and figures, i feel like i hardly scratched the surface. But i hoped this helped somewhat! 

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New YouTube video! This one is about inspiration. It includes a full speedpaint of a painting and also preliminary art I did to...

New YouTube video! This one is about inspiration. It includes a full speedpaint of a painting and also preliminary art I did to prepare for the painting.

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Finding Artistic Motivation & Initiating Your Drawing Sessions

This is a topic I see a lot, whether stumbling across artists’ posts online, or talking directly to my friends. “I want to draw, I just can’t seem to pick up the pencil.” “I have no ideas, I just stare at a blank page.” Alternatively, “I have so many ideas, I don’t know where to start, and end up never doing anything with any of them.”

After technical improvement, I find that what a lot of artists call “motivation” seems to be the hardest part, and most vocally decried frustration, of creating. I have found over the last few years that it seems to be more focused around initiation. I like to use this word instead of motivation because, really, most artists I’ve talked to have plenty of motivation. They really want to do art and do it well, but getting started can be a massive task. I have this problem in every area of my life thanks to having ADHD, but I have a few tried and true methods to work around my brain’s resistance to initiation. They’re listed in order of how often I use them, but all of these things will get me to the page to at least start, whether I post what I end up with or not. 

1) Looking up learning materials and art resources. This is the foremost thing that can get my butt in a seat and a pencil in my hand. I inevitably will find some tip, trick, tutorial, art meme, or interesting tutorial to kick me into gear. I recommend either following lots of blogs and pages on your social media that regularly post art resources or compiling a large cache of your own. Personally, I do both. I run this blog to compile my cache of tutorials and instruction, I follow art resource posters both here on Tumblr and on facebook, and I get email newsletters and notifications from art podcasts (which I like to listen to when I’m drawing). I also take pictures with my phone every time I’m out and about and see something visually interesting, and I save photos of neat places, cool poses, fashion, funny snippets of dialogue I’d like to illustrate, and more in reference files on my hard drive. It doesn’t matter that much if you actually go through them regularly; you still build a visual library that way and they’re there for you to use if you need them!

2) Watching/reading media with a story. I love fanart. Everybody loves fanart. Fanart is what got a lot of us into drawing in the first place. Whether everything you post is fanart or you haven’t drawn it since you were ten, sometimes just drawing some art with your favorite characters is what you need to get yourself to set up your easel. The thing that never fails to make me itchy to draw is reading comics - looking at all that polished work, beautiful color, swooping perspective scenes, and tying it all up with a plot and characters I like gets my brain going. Reading books is just as good if I can focus on them; I love illustrating my favorite scenes. I also like throwing on my boxed sets of Smallville, Doctor Who, or House MD and setting up my tablet to just let the episode influence my sketching. 

Whether you finish or post any of it or not doesn’t matter; it gets you excited to put something on paper and can serve as a way to get your mind story-oriented before you ever get drawing. 

3) Looking at other people’s art. Deviantart is great for this because you can go into any tag or search or look at the art of people you follow, like you can with tumblr or instagram, but there’s also a “random deviation” button. But no matter what site you’re using, or if you’re using a book or a museum, dedicating your attention to studying other people’s work and trying to understand their process can be incredibly stimulating. Speedpaints can be good for this too because you see the whole process, however I sometimes find myself in a youtube spiral on them. I recommend specifically looking for artists who are close to your own skill level with a little wiggle room on either end. If someone’s skill is slightly below mine, I may look at their work and go “oh, that’s neat, but I would have done that like this” and then try to draw it. If someone is better than me but not so far beyond me that I’m intimidated, it can be very illuminating to look at their strokes and processes and go “OH that’s what I’ve been doing wrong!” and try out the new technique. 

4) Looking at my own old art. The older, the better. Beginner artists, for their lack of skill, make up for it with enthusiasm, inventiveness, boldness, and creativity. Even my oldest school-age artwork usually has something about it that I still really enjoy, and doing the comparison can show you how far you’ve really come. 

5) Buying art supplies and books. Last but not least, if there are art techniques you have read about but avoided trying because you didn’t own the materials to do so, do your best to acquire them. Pick up a few starter tubes of paint, make your own light box, or just top up the supplies you already like but might be getting low on. Art books, you can get at a library without spending a dime. Sometimes just holding the raw potential in your hand is all you need to take the first step. 

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