#drawing tip

[bugofmanynames]

DEAR ARTISTS, PLEASE READ THIS POST I STUMBLED ACROSS

IF YOU ARE NOT DOING THIS ALREADY, YOU SHOULD TRY IT

I even tested it out myself, it works great

[categorised-art-tutorials-tips]

How to draw: The position of the Fingers in Hand Poses Correctly (FINGERS WORK TOGETHER)

Credit: Valentart_

[wberry-foodfight]

I don't know who needs to hear this, but as a painting student I suggest:

Dish soap and boiling water is WAY better than terpentine or paint solvent to fix dried out brushes.

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Put the brushes in a cup.

Pour a dish soap.

Pour a boiling water to the level it doesn't reach the wooden part.

Leave them to soak and soften

Try to separate the hair on two parts, then on smaller and smaller parts.

At the end, carefully try to scratch off the paint and "break" the hair by carefully pushing it over a surface and moving (like over your palm). If you can't, repeat the previous steps.

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Works even with dried out oil paints. Stronger fluid doesn't mean better.

Tho in harder cases you'd have to repeat the steps a few times to restore the brush fully.

So if you can't afford new brushes, don't throw the old away. Even if they seem helpless, there is a hope for them to be like new.

[sincerely-sofie]

Have you ever wanted to draw something but you fought due to your skill level at the time you decide not to do it

Ohhh man. I’ve got so many projects that I want to make but haven’t because I view my current skill set as lacking— and they’re almost always drawing related, because I’m very insecure about my drawing skills— even moreso than my writing skills. To go on a tangent and paint a picture of how severe this visual art insecurity is, I will list off how many people I have directly permitted to read my major written pieces once I passed my mid-teens:

My older sister, because she was my co-writer for the project and not letting her read my work wasn’t an option

My mother on one occasion

My aunt, who has experience with writing and publishing, and I have only ever sent two pieces to

Look at that number of people. The number of pieces I shared with them, in total, was four out of the hundreds of projects I’ve made over the years. I was so precious about my writing because I’m insecure about it. I’m even more insecure about my art. I couldn’t list off all the drawing projects I hesitate to make because I think it’s impossible with my current skill level, not even in a thousand years, but I’ll give a few examples that are always in the back of my mind lately.

A semi-animated pilot to a fantasy-comedy cartoon parodying The Office, starring a goblin secretary who’s trying to assassinate her employer and take over as the final boss of an RPG-esque dungeon that operates like an office building, while her employer is a lich who misinterprets all her efforts to kill him as her being flirty, leading him to develop a very severe crush on the goblin. The project is titled “Boss Fight”, and I have all the resources I need to make it, but I drag my feet because of my art insecurity… also I would be doing all the voice acting myself, and I don’t find my voice very appealing even when I change it to fit different characters.

A webcomic about a fantasy world populated by bipedal bug people that features a very brief “save the world” plot, then focuses the rest of the storyline on how the characters recover from the events of their backstories and the trauma the experienced while saving the world. It’s titled “The Creeping Chronicles”, and I love the project but am so insecure about being able to do the story justice with my art skills that I’ve tentatively pivoted to making it a book series instead. It’s got 21k+ words across 10-ish chapters because I’m too insecure about my art to draw it fully.

A slice of life comic titled “Welcome to Wayside” that’s basically Gravity Falls meets Stardew Valley where a young girl saves a cryptid’s life and now he’s stuck helping her until he repays the life debt he owes. The story features a vaguely men in black-style evil secret agency called G.L.O.O.M. (Gents for Ludicrous Oddity Organization and Management) who have various ranks are named after facets of fashion (khakis are their grunt labor and pocket squares are researchers) and they use a threat-ranking system based on dress codes (i.e. “WE HAVE A BLACK TIE DOWN ON SOUTH STREET, REPEAT: BLACK TIE DOWN ON SOUTH STREET”), and I adored G.L.O.O.M. along with the cast of characters featured in the story, but I don’t feel confident in my ability to design interesting-looking original cryptids.

I could leave this post at that, but I’ve got an important thing to say on this subject—

If you want to make something but are hesitating to because your skill levels are lackluster, make it anyways.

Doubt kills more dreams than failure ever can. Let yourself make the thing, and let yourself make the thing badly. Love it and how ugly it is. The perspective is all askew in this part, and that character is horribly off model there, and isn’t it all amazing? You made that! You made a thing! And you wouldn’t have this thing that you made if you waited until the conditions were perfect to make it and refused to create the thing before your skills were sufficient.

There’s this terrible thing about creative projects— one that is very noticeable in drawing projects especially, in my experience. As your artistic skills develop, your artistic vision also develops to become more and more detailed and masterful… and it’s always going to be outside of your grasp. If you wait until you’re ready to make the thing, you will never make the thing, because you’ll never feel ready no matter how much you build your skills. But if you make the thing before you feel totally prepared, you’ll learn and grow artistically as well as personally, and will be able to feel more confident in future thing-making efforts.

[smallrat25]

Here’s how i finally figured out how to draw ninja turtle faces

now no surface will be safe from tiny leonardos

[sueisen]

Hey guys! Here is a lil tutorial for you if you struggle with drawing water digitally. It's actually super simple if you know the steps ^^ Hope you find this helpful! <3

[cathoderaykobold]

Cursed drawing challenge:

FOV too high

[postitforward]

It's a good day for art therapy!

Practice this method of drawing to improve your skills; reap calming benefits of the mind 💆

[williamhandsomeface]

To that one person who said pick different color other than grey when coloring so you can experiment with colors more:

[ahhvernin]

My favorite art hack to date is:

Buy more kneadable eraser than you need.

You only need a little to erase.

You can use the rest as a mess free model "clay". If translating what is in your head to 2d is hard, sculpt it with basic shapes, tilt it to whatever which way, put it in the perspective you need. It's solid grey so the tones and shadows are easy to see too.

[kingrayii]

Hey, ya'll artists!

I want to share this, in case someone doesn't know it yet!

I often use JustSketchMe to create poses!! It is free!! It is easy to pose the figures, screencap it and draw on top!!

It is very helpful, especially when you can't find that just right pose reference!

Yours truly,

Raymond <3

[thesundaytea]

*touches the microphone and clears throat*

Did you know:

That if you don't have a drawing pen for your phone/tablet, you can use a hot dog bun as a substitute?

*leaves mic and walks away*

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Blend Mode Types for Digital Art Drawing (Procreate, Clip Studio Paint, Photoshop, Fresco, MediBang, etc)

Credit: Procreate Handbook

[hellstreak]

drawing tip that I really needed to hear!

When drawings muscles don't add much gravity + weight

when drawing fat do

fat is looser and is effected by gravity much more !

[sentienceoverload-29]

Whenever I can't figure out what the fuck a certain characters outfit is. I just put them in a princess peach dress or a hatsune miku outfit. I highly recommend.

[ladybugappreciationblog]

Drawing tip: chubby / over weight people rarely ever have slim jawlines, draw the face chubby and the cheeks big

A lot of people seem to not notice that being over weight doesn't just effect the body but the face, and that's ok, but it is very rare to see a boney jawline on an over weight or chubby person. Give them a double chin even! The face should be chubby as well and more realistic if you do give them some fat in the face