Hi Selpuku! I was wondering if you would ever consider making a coloring tutorial? I really love how you do hair, especially Chigiri's and Michael's hair. <3
Hi anon! Thank you for your kind words, I don't do anything special for shading the hair but here's a breakdown on my layers, sort of.
✒️Byguma brush on CSP
This brush set is one of my favorite and I recommend getting them from the OP. If you're interested in trying one out, here's a drive link to download the one that I use the most.
Also I have a whole list of my favorite CSP brush on my website if you're interested in checking them out! https://selpuku.art/#brush
what blending mode(s) should I use for highlights 😭
That depends on what kinda look you're going for! In general, it's good to use overlay/add/color dodge on "underlights" (i'm just making this term up idk if it's an actual thing-) and the normal blending mode for "overlights", since it's the pattern our hair in real life tends to follow!
Here's a visual example! I like making the "underlights" less contrasting (with the base hair color) but more saturated, while the "overlights" are more contrasting but less saturated, which gives a certain "boom" to your hair coloring! Because the contrast is pleasing to the eye!
I hope that helps, feel free to ask more questions if you still have any!
if your drawing hair tutorial doesn't go over curly and kinky hair, you're not teaching "how to draw hair," you're teaching how to draw straight hair.
if your rendering skin tutorial doesn't go over dark skin, you're not teaching "how to render skin," you're teaching how to render white skin.
if your sculpting and rigging human bodies tutorial doesn't go over fat bodies, you're not teaching "how to sculpt and rig people," you're teaching how to sculpt and rig thin people.
it's fine not to know everything about a subject and not to know how to do a specific thing, but don't pretend you can teach how to do an art technique in general if it only applies to models/characters/etc of a certain privileged status
Me: hmmm I got an idea for a character that's different than the ones I'm already working on. let me write down my ideas and then look up some tutorials. I know I do constantly but still.
Very first tutorial I find:
Me: oh right there's a weird (promotion? rule? expectation?) appearance = personality for some reason
Took me what? Like 2-3 hours to color, I’m using lotusbubble (on insta) way of coloring to guide me. I rlly rlly love how they color so I was studying and perceiving the hell out of their art and their brush strokes.
I think I did pretty good! I’ll edit some stuff in the end but for now I’m just relaxing and stretching and dinkin some good ol oiter