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Full guide to Clip Studio Paint’s UI

Give it a watch if you’re a beginner.

or just click on it to give me views pls i spent 2 months on this

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For drawing references 

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I just wanted to tell you that you legit opened my eyes to a whole new level of creature design. I was annoyed that many of my cross-breeding attempts looked like Splicing, but I didn't know how to *define* what was wrong. Now it'll be a little easier to spot and improve on, I cannot express how much your tips and art have renewed my love of creature design. And for that I am sincerely SO grateful. <3

you're welcome! I'm glad I could put into words what bothered me so much growing up HOWEVER

Splicing is not wrong.

Some quick review:

Creature Design Masterpost || Splice Vs Blend || Splice/Blend griffin tutorial

Splicing doesn't make things wrong, but it makes them unnatural. Sometimes unnatural is the way to go!

To refresh splice vs blend: A manticore using Asiatic lion, Indian scorpion, and "ancient Persian bust" statue reference. I like to reference animals and people of the time and place where myth originates

Splicing (top) looks like a creature formed by a bored god; meant to be uncanny and threatening in its familiarity. But the blended version (bottom) looks more like a predator that evolved in the jungles of India that can and will swallow you whole.

Both blending and splicing are valid, but I like blending best in most circumstances. Let's try another one.

I think we can all agree this creature looks super cool. But what is it? There's probably some lion (big surprise, people love making lion beasts) and a goat (kri-kri), and from the mouth/tail/scales probably a snake (Anatolian meadow viper) It's neat but it doesn't match the ancient descriptions enough to identify the myth.

Little easier to tell now huh? I kept the markings spliced as well for even more distinction, but colors and markings matter less to a chimera than easily identifiable anatomy. The chimera is the Original splice, so even though a blend looks more "realistic" it doesn't work. Plus, by chasing "anatomically feasible" I've eliminated the "serpent for a tail" because it doesn't make sense evolutionary. But by doing that, I lost a HUGE part of what makes a chimera and chimera.

Compare the blend map with the different arrangements of splice maps. You can get really creative with your seams and stitches, so treat splicing as a technique and not a sin. True mastery of a technique is knowing when and when not to use it.

Blending almost always makes things look more natural, but sometimes...

You ask a question better left unanswered

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HEY THIS IS IMPORTANT whats your favorite place to find drawing references?

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Real quick I think you should all Know the beauty of Tone curves it’s like in a bunch of art programs and I’m noticing not a lot of people use it nor know about and I think you really should try it out

Like if you have a picture you’re done with drawing or in the middle of one and wanna mess around with the colors or fix them

Go to Edit->Tonal Correction->Tone Curve

And you get the Tone Curve editor Which has 4 channels- RGB,Red,Blue,Green

RGB Channel effects all the colors and becomes this whole “how bright or dark” you want it kind of thing like example:

I wanted the brightest part of the drawing brighter or something like this

You can go to different color channels and have fun with that too like

So please go use this have fun

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fat bodies, fat anatomy, and how body fat tends to work should be taught as standardly as skinny anatomy and how muscles work in art courses. fat bodies are not an outlier. fat bodies are not a minority and theyre not abnormal or wrong. fat bodies are normal and they belong in art teaching spaces as commonly as other anatomy, because fat bodies ARE normal anatomy. people have diverse bodies and there will never be a single body type that encompasses the "normal body type"

tldr; fat anatomy should be taught as a staple in art courses just like any other anatomy. this is fact <3

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Yooo how do u draw teeth? Like ur art has me dying like it's amazing! I understand looking at reference helps but it's still hard to get the concept...if u can explain that would help, thanks if so!

ok!! i’m not the best at explaining but here’s what i generally think about when i draw teeth. aside from understanding ppl’s teeth are arranged in a curve (think two letter “U”s on top of each other) i also try to remember how many teeth there usually are in a human mouth. from there i tend to stylize pretty heavily while still keeping those two in mind. i hope that helps o/

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How I pratice drawing things, now in a tutorial form. The shrimp photo I used is here Show me your shrimps if you do this uvu  PS: lots of engrish because foreign 

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ModernDayJames’ Perspective tutorials all in one playlist! This series is really handy for helping you to learn perspective and gives you ways to practice it as you learn. You’ll want to start from the bottom and work up though as it’s in reverse.

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Is there a website to look up models or people  to draw, with gender, ethnicity, and age filters. (if possible)?

 For example if a wanted to make a cartoon character realistic and use a real person for reference or to edit the photo to look like them?

I’ve been just googling  white 20s male, black female 40s etc. (can’t find any good references for kids either)  and been sifting through the results.

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Hey friends, Meg here for WOOPS IT’S WEDNESDAY! Today we’re taking a look at how to study values and the importance of knowing how to use them! It’s not all about color, you know. If you have any tutorial recommendations send ‘em in here or my personal. Now go forth and I’ll see you next week!

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Two Overwatch concept artists go through their processes for how they design a character using Wrecking Ball!

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Launching the Art-Res Artistic Anatomy Notes Ebook!

Hi guys! I worked a long time on this ebook!

What’s This?

I make most of my resources available for free on my website, artres.xyz. 

However, I do need a way to pay for the domain name and keep up the art-res discord sever, create tools like the idea generator, and buy my college books. 

This ebook made for those who want to read a compilation of anatomy articles and resources in a cleaner, offline format. It also includes some master posts not seen on the art-res site. 

It’s currently 21 pages but will continue to grow.

Note: no external resources or images are posted, only a link to the original source so 100% of the traffic is viewed on the creator’s social media/original site. 

Get it!

bmc.xyz/l/anatomybook price is $8, a coupon for the first 10 people to use code BMC-7051 thanks everyone!!!

Thank you!

Thanks for reading! If this post helped, please consider reblogging it or sharing it with your friends! ❤️

More useful articles and resources / support Art-Res | my art tumblr

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Is there a website to look up models or people  to draw, with gender, ethnicity, and age filters. (if possible)?

 For example if a wanted to make a cartoon character realistic and use a real person for reference or to edit the photo to look like them?

I’ve been just googling  white 20s male, black female 40s etc. (can’t find any good references for kids either)  and been sifting through the results.

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HEY THIS IS IMPORTANT whats your favorite place to find drawing references?

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Gesture, forms and animation from ModernDayJames to help with drawing characters!