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Ah okay okay teka teka (im the same anon who asked to befriend you)

I have a weird question what is your art process? And another weird question how do you color and shade your art? Im sorry if it was weird i just really like the way your art keep up the good work

Not weird at all anon!!! I will do my best to explain but I’m not entirely the best teacher, since I more feel like the best way of learning is to just keep trying stuff by yourself until you feel comfortable in what you’re doing, but I’ll give an outline of how I draw characters at least in hopes that that helps!! I’m glad you’d want to learn from like, me of all people, considering I’ve lowkey always wanted to help people with learning about art but I don’t know how to go about it since I’m entirely self-taught from speedpaints on YouTube, with some slight high school art education lol

1) pose

aka. my least favorite part. because I never know what to do here. Sometimes I scroll through google until I find something I like, because even if I have a pose idea in mind, I almost never end up liking it when it’s printed onto the screen. Reference is very good for this as well! I also highly reccomend doing gesture drawings or smaller thumbnails if you like to go through some ideas before you choose something -- unless you really like that first idea lmao. I usually just do one or two poses myself unless I’m having a really off day.

two tips I would reccomend! this falls into the gesture drawing category, but just make shapes to represent where things would go!! It makes things easier to get in perspective as well as they’re just faster to draw. It may take a bit of practice to look at things as mere shapes rather than body parts or things, but once you get the hang of it, it’ll be very handy!

I also would reccomend (although everyone i know hates this) flipping your canvas in some form! In digital it’s much easier (i have a hotkey that just horizontally flips my canvas), but in traditional media you have to be a bit more creative. The main point of this is to just look at your piece from a different perspective, because sometimes you might not notice something looks really off until you change how you’re looking at it!

I usually end up at this part with this kind of sketch. Sometimes if I’m confident enough in the pose, or it’s a headshot, I’ll skip this step altogether.

2) sketch and lineart

I’m gonna sound like one of those awful “How to Draw” books here but like... there’s not a whole lot to say here other than pretty much follow the guidelines you set for yourself and come up with a cleaner sketch, followed by lineart which, for me, is jut a final version of the sketch. I don’t really have any fancy pen I use for it -- it’s literally just a more dense and thicker version of my sketch brush lol. I made them to be similar to the pencils I use just cause it was easier for me to adapt to from traditional works, since that’s where I started.

one tip I do have though... for me, personally, and I know a lot of people who don’t like doing this! But I like to make a new layer and draw on top of the previous sketch so I don’t have to keep erasing. But you don’t have to! Some people merely work on the same layer of a sketch until they like it and then color that. This is also very normal for traditional pieces as well, since you don’t really have layers to work with unless you get another paper and trace over that (which is really annoying if you don’t have a light table.)

I also like doing some hatching for my outlines... just cause I like how it looks lol

3) flat colors

Okay so I do this really simply tbh. Basically, I select everything I want to be the background (like this)

and then invert my selection like this

And fill it in with a base color (usually it’s a skin tone of sorts but sometimes if I have multiple characters I go with a neutral tone like gray or if sometimes bright colors if the character has generally desaturated colors to their outfits. For this I’m just going to use a slightly-purple white because, well, bone lol)

Now this is a little more specific to the program I use (that being Paint Tool SAI), and over this base layer I use essentially a clipping mask layer over top the base and fill in colors where they go. That way I can be lazy and not go outside of the lines because the program does it for me~ lol

Essentially my layer setup looks like this! (but way more. this is just a brief example. also yes, I don’t name my layers, but I know a lot of people who get lost very easily like this lol)

From here I just outline where I would put the color on its seperate layer, then select everything in the outline and fill it in. I actually came up with this method semi-recently, because between AtF and ULR I needed to make a lot of art pieces really quickly, and this decreased the time it took me to do base coloring by almost half. I also break one of the “crucial” rules I was taught while learning art things this way. Usually, you’re supposed to work back-to-front, light-to-dark. But I’ve found that it’s a lot easier for me when I fill in a large area with one color, and then make layers below those, so I don’t have to keep being so intricate. My layers end up looking really blobby lol

But here’s the end result!

4) outline color

This is definitely something newer i’ve been doing, but I love it, because it really gives a much softer look to the image, and helps with the colors as well.

So, for my basic outline color, I usually use a very dark red. I don’t like to use straight black (in most cases, sometimes there’s just a character with a very dark color palette and I do go with black, but usually the surroundings are dark, too) so I just start with this red I came up with a while back.

To change this, you could just use the hue/saturation adjustment, but I’ve never been a bit fan of that. Instead, what I do is I select the original color for the outline (which is this)

And just use the outside circle to spin it to a color more suited to the piece. I’ll choose purple for this!

Then I make another clipping mask overtop the outline layer, and just fill in the whole thing with this color.

This is the end result (of this step lol, there’s still more coloring I do)! It’s pretty subtle, but sometimes it makes a huge difference.

But from here, I color outlines between where the same color is on the piece. For example, where the blue overlaps over itself on the fur or onto the boot. Usually I just kind of select the color and grab something darker and more saturated. Sometimes I adjust the color if it looks really bad lol but there’s no specifics to this. These all go in a clipping mask layer just above that purple one for the lineart.

Also, if I’m using a darker color like black (which I am here), I won’t typically go over it, because if I try to make a darker or more saturated color from it, it becomes more obvious/sticks out more than the main outline, which is not what I want. This is to make things more subtle than anything!

The flat colors then look like this! ... unless I missed an overlapping part, which happens. So often it bothers me, because i notice it IMMEDIATELY after upload lmao.

5) shading

I borderline do this differently every time. But I always have one consistency: the whole image gets put into a folder, and then overtop of that, a clipping mask with the “Multiply” mode on it.

I also tend to lean towards using a soft grey-purple or grey-pink for shading. That’s the nice thing about multiply layers, you don’t need to know at all about color theory /hj. Okay, well, sorta lol. I just am far too lazy to come up with different colors for every single color. While it’s not as bad with the characters here, most of the characters I’ve drawn in the past had very complicated designs, making shading a tedious and un-fun part of art. I’ve also just always been really bad with colors.

But essentially, when you use this overtop the whole piece, it looks like this!

Of course, for this one, I won’t have this layer like this. But sometimes if you have a darker-lit piece you’re making and like starting out with the same base colors (like, say, so you don’t get the colors wrong, so you can color-pick them from an image you already have), you can do this and leave this layer the way it is, and then make another Multiply layer on top of it.

You can also just blotch in spots you want to have shaded (typically based off of the light source, or where the light shining on your piece is coming from), something like this:

...and then erase around them to make the edges crisper and give it more depth. I usually then, for ones like this, have another multiply layer overtop of this with a gradient of shade, and then a sort of “outline” of shading, which is a multiply layer that I put only on the very edges of the current multiply layer. It sort of ends up like this:

but... y’know, better, since this is a messy example lol

But my favorite way of shading is actually kind of... “Reverse” shading. Essentially, I use the first example of the Multiply layer I showed, and erase where I want the light to hit the character. This gives it a lot more depth in the end and usually has a more intense lighting than my former example. But the former example is a lot quicker!

and cleaned up to fit the piece more...

And, since this layer on its own is actually really light, I usually go over with a couple different ones to create more depth! This is where I usually use the first method I described, just because it’s easier, and at this point, you’re really just darkening the points where much less light is hitting.

6) highlights/extra

I’m throwing the eyes in extra, because in this case, I’m gonna draw Lust’s eye glowing. Just for fun lol. But I’ll start with the highlights!

It’s actually a lame process.

Above all the multiplay layers I have, I usually make another clipping mask layer, but this one in “Screen” mode. So, it looks like this:

And then I just... make a gradient lol.

now this is way too bright, so I usually decrease the opacity of the layer so it’s more reasonable. Sometimes I adjust the location of the screen layer, so it’s covering more or less of the piece. I settled on this:

I also selected the lineart and base multiply layer for the shading and deleted anything on the screen layer in these spots, so the highlights would only be on the spot where there’s light already hitting it.

After this I do what’s called rim lighting! Which is, essentially, just putting nice bits of highlight at the edge of the lineart. I just like how it looks lol. I use another screen layer at 100% opacity above the main screen layer for this. (and I’ve actually been using @tatatale’s lineart brush for these, cause it’s a very nice and crisp yet malleable brush)

Almost done, but of course, his eye’s pretty crucial lol. I just use the same brush I use for highlights to draw eyelights, since it has a very crisp edge to it. I’ll just draw a purple heart for Lust~

and from here it’s. almost like improv. But for the most part when making glowy eyes, I use a lot of layers that are in “Overlay” mode, “Lumi&Shade” mode, and normal mode. I typically copy and paste the shape I drew in different layers, blurring it in some to make a sort of “glowing” effect. This is what I ended up with:

and then I add a simple background with an outline because I’m lazy and......

7) done!

hope this helps like... at all lol 😅😅😅 I’m not the greatest teacher in the world since I tend to forget crucial steps... so hopefully this is good for something!!!♥♥

This could be the most important post I’ve ever shared. Please Share it with anyone who is or might be going through this terrible disease.

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((The ability to appreciate and evaluate human aesthetic is not determined by your sexuality))

I love “how do you do math?” questions. Here’s how my brain does it:

How about you guys?

Please, reblog! IIt’s called self defense. Apart from having here, in the US, one of the highest cases of homicide and rape in the world and high rate of GBV, think about how this could help your mother or sister

“i really liked your post!”

Thanks How About You Reblog It :)

So i hear you like snakes. How do you feel about hognose snakes? Ever heard of them?

Yes, they are fun and adorable and silly

I thought I’d share this because it’s basically a documentary on the fandom from someone not in it and MY WORK MADE AN APPEARANCE TWICE AND I WAS LIKE GJFKDK. BOTH A PAGE OF FELLSWAPX AND UNDERVERSE IN A NUTSHELL MADE A BRIEF APPEARANCE.

26:25 & 31:07

WE DID IT BOYS!

A lesson in how to gird your loins.

via The Art of Manliness

Do non-americans realize that the United States is literally just a bunch of countries in a trench coat that agreed to be semi-nice to each other in order to sneak into the Big Boy Club? Because let’s be honest that’s just what the USA is

Hands Row 1 & 2 Row 3 Row 4 Row 5 & 6 Row 7

is this orange or yellow.

So memester @improvidence318​ (THANK YOU) shared fish/women hat alignment chart for @bonelyheartsclub​ skellies(FANTASTIC), so me & @nairi-0​ (ILY) whipped these up as fast as we could

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Lottie is Gay and Doesn’t Know It

1. She is exclusively attracted to princes, despite having never met one.

She won’t even DANCE with boys at her party who aren’t princes despite thinking they’re good boys who would treat girls well (she advises the boy she doesn’t want to dance with to find someone eager to dance with him, rather than tell him to go home).

To me this comes across as her choosing “prince” as the ideal that she finds attractive solely because it’s theoretical, the imaginary Perfect Boy who doesn’t exist. This is common among young people who aren’t exposed to homosexuality but don’t feel attraction to people like they’re “supposed” to.

2. She’s never comfortable around Naveen, always thinking about things that have or could go wrong.

Part of this self-consciousness is obviously because he’s a fake, but even when she’s set for marriage and all her dreams are coming true she’s antsy and upset and lashes out at her dad while trying to over-please the fake Naveen.

She also glances nervously at the priest right before the pronunciation, as though still dwelling on things that could go wrong rather than her happy moment–and this is the scene in which she’s been the MOST visibly relaxed with the prince.

She’s realized something’s wrong with HER not feeling attracted to the prince, despite him being “perfect” for all intents and purposes, and she doesn’t know why that is.

3. She doesn’t kiss Naveen right away despite saying in the opening that she’d kiss 100 frogs if it meant becoming a real princess.

Tiana interrupts her sure but only AFTER she’s been counting and recounting Naveen’s story back to him. She’s stalling because she doesn’t want to lock herself into another marriage with someone she’s not attracted to.

4. She doesn’t actually want to marry a prince, she just wants to be a princess. When she’s proposed to she barely pays any attention to her rapidly-transforming, lying fiancee because she’s so enamored with the image of herself as royalty. She actually shoves him away.

5. She’s absolutely in love with Tiana and still doesn’t know it.

She compliments Tiana more than any man in the film. She respects all of Tiana’s life decisions even if she doesn’t even slightly understand them because of their different perspectives, supports her dream of a restaurant even if she doesn’t share it, and is willing to give up potential romance with a prince, the thing she has dreamed about all her life, at the drop of a hat to comfort a humiliated Tiana.

And then there’s this line.

Charlotte La Bouff is only actually willing to kiss a prince if it means her best friend Tiana’s dreams will all come true.

shocking

type “i am” in the tags and whatever comes up first is your new mandatory kin

I found this funky picrew maker and I just had to share it!

Tagging: @hellbubu, @justsittinginsilence4, @louiserandom, @mike-remington-hanson, @yamireiki, @crystallized-shadow, @callmeasyouwantidk, @blamedorange, @nobodysperfect2133, @onegiant-dorito, @moon–bug, @nachobean, @amyrallis, @silverutahraptor, @akayauchiha, @star-the-spacewaifu and anyone else who wants to do this!

Alright, for the first time I’m starting a tag game!

I found this really cute PiCrew :D

Tagging @justanothergaypunkteen @crazy-emo-bitch @sinner-1999 @vamp-void @devil-die @lie-in-the-darkness @voidisaking @paypalroyalee @king-ofconfusion @starlight-siren @rammbook @whatever-happens-imma-stand-tall and anyone else that wants to do this 🥰

Some OC questions

1. Your first OC ever? 2. Do you have a personal favourite among your OCs? 3. Have you ever adopted a character or gotten a character from someone else? 4. A character you rarely talk about? 5. If you could make only one of your OCs popular/known, who would it be? 6. Two OCs of yours that look alike despite not being related? 7. Are your OCs part of any story or stories? 8. Do you RP as any of your OCs? If you do, introduce one of your RP OCs here! 9. Would you ever be willing to give any of your OCs to someone else? 10. Introduce an OC with a complicated design? 11. Is there any OC of yours you could describe as a “sunshine”? 12. Name an OC that isn’t yours but who you like a lot 13. Do you have any troublemaker OCs? 14. Introduce an OC with a tragic backstory 15. Do you like to talk about your OCs with other people? 16. Which one of your OCs would be the best at biology (school subject)? 17. Any OC OTPs? 18. Any OC crackships? 19. Introduce an OC that means a lot to you (and explain why) 20. Do any of your OCs sing? If they sing, care to share more details (headcanon voice, what kind of songs they like etc)? 21. Your most artistic OC 22. Is there any OC of yours people tend to mischaracterize? If yes, how? 23. Introduce OC that has changed from your first idea concerning what the character would be like? 24. If you could meet one OC of yours, who would it be and why? 25. The OC that resembles you the most (same hobby, height, shared like/dislike for something etc?) 26. Have you ever had to change your OC’s design or something else about them against your will? 27. Any OCs that were inspired by a certain song? 28. Your most dangerous OC? 29. Which one of your OCs would go investigate an abandoned house at night without telling anyone they’re going? 30. Which one of your OCs would most likely have a secret stuffed animal collection? 31. Pick one OC of yours and explain what their tumblr blog would be like (what they reblog, layout, anything really) 32. Which one of your OCs would be the most suitable horror game protagonist and why? 33. Your shyest OC? 34. Do you have any twin characters? 35. Any sibling characters? 36. Do you have OC pairs where the other part belongs to someone else (siblings, lovers, friends etc)? 37. Introduce an OC who is not quite human 38. Which one of your OCs would be the best dancer? 39. Introduce any character you want 40. Any fond memories linked to your characters? Feel free to share! 41. Has anyone drawn fanart of your OCs? If yes, maybe show a picture or two here (remember sources & permissions!) 42. Which one of your OCs would be the most interested in Greek gods? 43. Do you have any certain type when you create your OCs? Do you tend to favour some certain traits or looks? It’s time to confess 44. Something you like about your OCs in general 45. A character you no longer use? 46. Has anyone ever told you that you treat your OCs badly? 47. Has anyone ever (friendly) claimed any of your OCs as their child? 48. OC who is a perfect cinnamon roll, too good for this world, too pure 49. Which one of your OCs would most likely enjoy memes 50. Give me the good ol’ OC talk here. Talk about anything you want If you want, you can tag your ask answers with #yetanotherOCmeme so I can check them out too `v´9

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Writers: You Can Have as Many Fucking WIPs as You Want

Hey friends. I just wanted to throw this out there because I see a lot of posts from writers lamenting that they’re starting new WIPs without finishing the old ones. Some of this is in the form of memes and jokes, some of it is in the form of updates or confessionals, but there’s always this implication that writers are doing something wrong by starting something new before the old thing is finished, hopping from project to project, or working on multiple WIPs at once. So I just want to say this:

The writing process is not linear.

Bouncing between multiple WIPs is totally okay.

Abandoning old WIPs that you’re no longer interested in is totally okay.

Starting 10 or 20 or 30 stories for every 1 story that you finish is totally okay.

Only wanting to work on something that’s exciting to you (a new thing) and not something you’ve burned out on (an old thing) is totally okay.

I get that feeling like you’re always starting and never finishing anything is a big bummer. But it may help to remember that despite years of capitalist indoctrination, the creative process is not an assembly line.

Sometimes it takes writing 100 pages to realize that your idea is untenable, or that you’re not actually that interested in it, or that you want to take things in a completely different direction with a totally new story.

I’m a published writer and I average at least 10-15 WIPs for each one that I actually finish. It may take me two sentences to abandon it, or 200 pages. And sometimes I come back to them and finish them in the future. But after 20 years of writing my computer is full of barely-started stories that were destined, for whatever reason, to die.

If you’re turning your back on a story that really excites you and you deeply wish you could complete because you’re scared or blocked, that’s a frustrating pattern that’s totally worth trying to fix (I’ll be addressing this problem in detail in a new book I’m working on!). But for the most part, having a ton more WIPs that you actually finish is a completely normal part of the creative process and you don’t need to be so hard on yourself about it. You’re doing great, and I’m cheering for you.