#outlining tutorial

[bellamyblakru]

destiny was never going to let you leave in one piece, young warlock. it’s never that kind, but you…it forced you to be. and being kind is never wrong—that never makes it any less painful, does it?

[fidgetspringer]

Turned today’s study into a messy little guide!

[pumpkster]

hii sorry if you’ve already answered something like this in the past but how do you shade? ur art is always rendered so nicely and the colors are chosen so well!!

HELLOO THANK YOU! SO let’s start from the basics

when something is white or black you can change that to something else, here’s an example (for black you can just pick any colour and make it darker)

2. if you have space (in the background? idk how you call it) you can put a showy colour

3. colour picking - i tone it down / take the saturation

i dont add lighting unless there's something like glass

separation line cuz its gonna get a bit long

1.

you get your base colours ( i revived my oc for this ) (now after the basics u know where the white, black and [in this case] yellow came from)

2. i hope you know how to use layers

specific art style thing, i dont know what that is

3. if you arent the type of person to stick all the layers of your base colours then CHANGE IT!! for this tutorial

so what you are going to do is create a gray layer, all gray, fill it, the layer has to be on top of the base colour layer

u click that button, it has to look like this

4. you create another layer (above the gray one) (it has to be on the same layer mode with the second button so what you do doesnt go out from the base colors)

then you put your shading, I use red

+ i like to remark around the lineart bc yes

5.

trust me

[extra unnecessary info = a good mix is red + blue, and purple or brown are good on their own (in multiply)]

6.

you experiment with the layers, adding or deleting until you like it (i usually dont like if the shading ends up too not-colourful or too heavy) (the modes for these layers are multiply and SUBEXPONER) (I DONT KNOW THE TRANSLATION BUT ITS THIS ONE)

7. once you get what you want you merge the shading layers one per one to the base colour layer, so its all gone, you have all in one layer

8. BORDERS

you make outlines around the shading, in a colour that is more ?saturated? / showy <- you can use these same lines you are doing to just remark what you want (like the speechbubble, bad example but u get it)

in the black color i used (here its darker blue) i didnt use a lighter saturated colour like everywhere else, i used a darker blue

9. SECOND ROUND OF BORDERS

whats the difference between these and the ones from before? in this step your starter color is the base color (in the other you picked from the shading) , you dont go too far to make it outstanding

all of this it makes it more solid

10. AND LAST you colour the lineart (in the same layer mode you used before where what u do doesnt go out of the layer)

very saturated here and i randomly added orange bc reusing colors is cool (since the filling behind the hair was yellow it ended up like this)

edit: i dont like to change much from the outlines, more the inside because i like it when it looks like a sticker

thank u for reading

[lizzybizzyart]

process gif and images for this piece in case anyone wanted to see how my chaotic brain works

the secret to this one was actually a lot of texture layers and a lot of playing with csp tools

[flippythedoodle]

-introductory post-

hi yall, its me

made this thing so i can post stuff im proud of on more than one account, specifically ambigrams

REQUESTS APPRECIATED AND ENCOURAGED

... if you're gonna be respectful ab it. i won't do bigoted, harmful, mean shit. the words of an ambigram are united into one beautiful work of art, and as should we. i can do most any type of ambigram, symmetrical or asymmetrical, conventional or nonconventional, or maybe one you made up! that would be really cool.

----------but flippy, what are ambigrams????------

the definition is quite hard to pinpoint, as it either is too vague to properly distinguish it from something entirely different (like synonyms, heterograms, etc) but the main thing is:

an art form where one or more words are taken and combined with respect to each other such that both are visible from different perspectives/orientations

symmetrical means it uses a single word, while asymmetrical (or symbiotic if you prefer, although that makes them sound like theyre alive) means two or more words.

----------------------flippy, i can't read them!!!!!!----------------------

yeah, it takes a really really really good ambigram to be able to be read clearly both ways. if you can't, and i mean really cant read an ambigram, it's ok, its likely nobody else does either, and i or the ambigram creator is biased to the reading bc they already know it. this is why i made this account, to try to learn how to make mine better :D

-------------but flippyy, what do they look like?????????--------------

examples include:

correct readings in order of top to bottom, left to right:

astound, healing, houses, dumber, 👦/happy, hi!/hey, frick/fuck, hiding/plain sight, stay/leave here, inside out/outside

[agatedragongames]

Creating a simple outline shader

Learn how to create a simple outline around an image in a fragment shader using the GLSL programming language. Easily portable to other shader languages.

[bonefall]

Your art is so gorgeous i wish i was good with color palettes like that *cries in forest cat corner

Pfff! The way I pick color is super easy and lazy, you can learn to do it too anon I promise.

Just don't "max out" the color you're picking. Like, if you're picking red, don't go ALLL the way to the bright corner. Go a little midway over the palette and pick a color there to start with.

Also, when you're shading, don't shade with a darker version of the main color. That's just another version of 'shading with black.' Try going around the color wheel to shade instead-- for example, if you're going to shade yellow, use orange. If you're going to shade orange, use purple.

And coloring the lineart is ridiculously overpowered. You can watch a sketch go from 0 to 100 by adjusting the color of the lines.

Just play around with it! Have fun! My art suddenly got a lot more fun and bright when I stopped being sooo concerned about perfect colors and clean lines. Use lots of layers and try lots of stuff, and don't spend too long fixing one thing that bothers you. Move onto the parts that spark joy.

[torchflame]

(click for better quality since tumblr DESTROYED IT)

*giggles and kicks my legs and twirls my fingers around my hair* first torchflame post on this acc 💪time to get consumed in brainrot

their absolutely gorgeous design was by @almighty-shortest (look look look I drew them 😎)

[blackmonitor]

How to make an outline brush in Procreate

I just learned this but I actually hate following video tutorial about stuff like these so I made a step by step one if anybody is interested 

1. In the Brush Library, tap to the plus symbol to create a new brush

2. On the menu of the new brush, in the Stroke path, set Spacing to zero

3. Then in Stabilization menu, set the amount to 25%

4. Next go to Taper menu, and bring down the pressure taper a bit, and set Size up to 50%. 

5. Then go to Apple Pencil and set the Opacity to 0%

6. Then save it by tap to the Done in the top right corner

7. Now open Brushes again, swipe to the left, and duplicate the your newest brush

8. Then in the brushes, after one of the new brushes is already selected, hold then swipe to the right the other new brush, so both are selected. Then tap on the option combine

9. Then tap on the new combined brush

10. Tap on the top left corner to the brushes and then to the combine mode, choose Difference 

11. Then tap to the secondary brush, go to the properties and set the maximum size around 60% (or as you would like to see)

And congratulation you have your own outline brush! Have fun with it ❤️

[selkiecoded]

old trucy i messed with until i liked it again (˵¯̴͒ꇴ¯̴͒˵)つ──☆*:・ﾟ

[abra-ka-dammit]

i wish the ppl posting CSP brushes in the assets store would give more demonstration of how the brush actually works in practice rather than here is what a stroke looks like on a white background and here is a fully rendered and finished piece that i used this brush in somewhere

like....how did you use it to accomplish what you did? whats the point of giving us a tool with no instructions on using it? am i just needy???? are we just supposed to pick up on it? are we just supposed to futz around with it and hopefully produce something we like despite probably never figuring out how to use it as the original creator intended??? is that how art is?

[deus-ex-mona]

c (dawg) o m i n g s o o n

[mephistophelita]

[mink-thedrawingresearcher]

The line thickness of your artwork can have a huge impact on how it looks! Learn about different line weight styles in my tutorial video:

[kimmkitsuragi]

finally replaying hollow knight like 🥺😮😍... this game is so full of sense of adventure and discovery it's NEVER gonna be not fun or exciting

[pedroassmanpascal]

How do y’all find your own art style? Everything I draw without a reference i think is awful, and I’m second guessing everything lol