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ishcrem · 6 years

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Hey! Since you are self-taught, I wanted to ask you: what resources did you use to learn? And, if some of them are online, could you link me? I'm just starting out with art and I'd really appreciate it!

Wowza! There’s loads of refs online to use! Pinterest is one of the best places to find good refs in bulk. Anatomy reference boards are always an awesome find. (nudity tw: http://pin.it/DnlY1aV , http://pin.it/EqhEMo- ) If you can’t seem to figure out how to draw something a little more specific: google is your best friend. There’s also websites online that give you a timed gesture drawing session for free. Do all you can in the limited amount of time they give you. It doesn’t need to be pretty, it just needs to get the idea of the pose across (I don’t use them too much but I really should: https://www.quickposes.com/en/gestures/timed , https://line-of-action.com/practice-tools/figure-drawing/ )this is a nice playlist too: http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLtG4P3lq8RHFBeVaruf2JjyQmZJH4__Zv Hope these are helpful to you!! Good luck!!

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The ultimate outfits vocabulary (source: FRACTALZ LAB)

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I get asked a lot for tips with coloring black people, so i put together a little tutorial! (and bumps my kofi if you found this helpful)

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Okay so I followed this video about foreshortening and…

Sycra. I love you so much for making this video.

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Hey. I’m gonna break down how to draw a Black/African/Dark Skinned person’s lips.

Hello! In celebration of a new year, I’m gonna show all of you a tip how to draw lips for Black/African/Dark Skinned people.

If you’re drawing a black/dark skinned person, the top lip is a slight step above or below their actual skin tone while the bottom lip can range from a faded pink to brown.

Black/African men’s and women’s lip lean towards “nude/palm of the hand” makeup color. Some cases it’s pink but everyone’s lip color varies from pink to brown. In my experience of going outside my house, the darker the person, the pinker the bottom lip is while the lighter brown skin lips will be closer to their actual skin tone.

Another note is that the pink /brown tone on the bottom of the lip is near the slit of the mouth, not the complete lip like lipstick makeup. Try adding different tones to a lip and blending both top and bottom lips together because everyone’s different! A very good detail to remember.

TL;DR: USE A REFERENCE. GOOGLE IMAGE SEARCH DOESN’T BITE! Thank you for your time! Go out and draw them awesome dark skinned characters and people!

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How to draw INTERIORS tutorial by STUDIOBLINKTWICE

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ishcrem · 7 years

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why is everyone so aggressively obsessed on here about having/developing/maintaining a “style” who cares just keep drawing, it’ll come to you if you want it so bad and just bc u don’t see consistency within your own works doesn’t mean no one else does.. just keep that in mind… relax… also who cares

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ishcrem · 7 years

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art cheats

hello i am here today to not lose track of the art cheats i have discovered over the years. what i call art cheat is actually a cool filter/coloring style/way to shade/etc. that singlehandedly makes art like 20 times better

80’s anime style

glitch effect

glow effects

adding colors to grayscale paintings

foreshortening ( coil )

foreshortening ( perspective )

clipping group (lines)

clipping group (colors)

dramatic lighting ( GOOD )

shading metal

lighting faces

that is all for today, do stay tuned as i am always hunting for cool shit like this

#noice #thank you #ref

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Alien fireflies and Lance trying to show off

(dedicating this to @birbs-of-bluejay)

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sunset :’)

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electric boi

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I’ve been studying the classic black tie dress code (mainly from here) so I thought I could share my notes. Maybe they can be helpful to someone else, too. If I made any mistakes or things are really confusing please tell me. I also have some notes on white tie which I could share as well…

#ahhhh this is amazing #ref #clothes ref #suit ref

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overlay 101

#overlay #ref #overlay ref

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hey guys, i saw some color scheme websites going around, and i didn’t see my favorite site for colors, so…

this is colorhexa

you want color schemes?

wham

you want the color info?

here ya go pal

shades, tints and tones?

alakazam there it is

you want ya stuff accessible to color blind members of the human race?

it even tells you the percentage of people with the specific color blindness

it does gradients too friends

you can also add and subtract colors

here ya go my pals. love you, have fun with colors

#noice #colour scheme #color scheme

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Shorthand Google Reference Guide

I’m gonna type this up while it’s fresh on my mind because some of y’all don’t know how to use Google

SO YOU WANT TO DRAW A woman sitting in the grass.

IF YOU SEARCH: female sitting

Very vogue. Very male gaze. Good for fashion or model pictures, not very good if you’re wanting to draw a natural looking pose on a woman who isn’t a model and whose camera certainly didn’t fucking turn on by itself.

IF YOU SEARCH: female sitting pose

Arguably worse, depending on the use. My experience with “female + pose” searches is that you get a lot of IMVU and The Sims pose sets, and artists making sketch compiliations that… don’t always have great anatomy and are frequently just more stiff model poses. I do use similar searches for pinup sketches, ie, “female sassy pinup pose,” though “posing for pinup photography” and “how to pose for” will give different results if you aren’t finding what you need.

IF YOU SEARCH: woman student relaxing sitting on grass crossed legs

Closer. Still kind of staged looking. Maybe we don’t want her studying. Maybe we just want her relaxing. Still, you start to see how specific keyword searches will really get you results.

IF YOU SEARCH: woman sitting under tree grass relaxing nature summer

Nice. This is only a small handful of the results, but most of them more or less fit my mental image. Mostly stock images, but good for gesture sketches or figuring out a pose. Still… we could go further, and I think I will.

IF YOU SEARCH: woman sitting under tree grass relaxing nature summer senior photography

Jackpot. Senior pictures aren’t always awkward kids in braces. Look at how much more natural a few of these look? Compare that to the “Female sitting” search. Google Search tip #1 is basically “use more and specific keywords.” But just… one more thing I just… can’t get off my mind… what if I… just…

IF YOU SEARCH: black woman sitting under tree grass relaxing nature summer senior photography

Uh oh. So let me level with you, if you just google “dreadlocks,” expect a lot of white people. I spent over 30 minutes adding keywords to this search, and every page was still white people. Breaking it back down to “black woman sitting on grass” helped but gave me all the boring pose issues of the female sitting search. So basically, Google Search tip #2 is: Google image search is as White as the rest of the damn world. How do we find what we’re looking for now, then?

IF YOU SEARCH: black woman sitting in grass nature tumblr blackout

Beautiful, natural poses. Adding “photography” whitewashed it. Adding “summer” gave me bikini pinups. Searching for POC models using Google image search is infinitely more frustrating than finding a million thin white women, and you’re usually going to be better off supporting POC modeling blogs themselves than fighting with Google all day. Using “tumblr” and “instagram” as keywords may also get you a lot more natural, less Vogue Was Here hits. Pinterest too, on occasion.

But keep in mind that these are real people–especially using tags like “tumblr” or “blackout.” There’s a difference between referencing a pose or drawing different face shapes, and outright copying someone’s exact likeness without their permission. Maybe also consider liking/reblogging/following them if they’re a model or photographer. Use some common sense. You don’t own images found on google yadda yadda don’t be a dick.

Have fun being better at search engines and learning how to draw stuff!

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I ALWAYS THOUGHT THE HDR EFFECT WAS HARD BUT IT’S ACTUALLY LIKE A 5 STEP THING BESIDES DUPLICATING AND FLATTENING SHIT HOLY FUCK I CAN DO IT. I’M SO EXCITED WOW THAT’S LOVELY and I have to share because no one every taught me this.

Open your picture.

Duplicate layer (Ctrl+J)

Overlay that shit 50%

Flatten image (Ctrl+E)

Duplicate that one layer that you have now (Ctrl+J)

Desaturate (Shift+Ctrl+U)

Invert (Ctrl+I)

Gaussian Blur it to 40

Now overlay that B&W Blurred image

Duplicate and sharpen if necessary

AMAZEMENT WOW HOLY SHIT

#HDR effect #ref #editing ref

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ishcrem · 7 years

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Taking time to draw our fave Galra boy between exams

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