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TSUYO'S MOUTH SHAPE RULE
A personal character design technique for giving your characters more dynamic facial expressions
Reminder, this rule isn't meant to be used 100% of the times. This technique is just a rule, and as they say, rules are meant to be broken.
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Thoughtful angel
This is in willow charcoal on smooth newsprint, with 4b charcoal pencil accents. Willow on newsprint is my favourite way to draw and I can't recommend it enough. It's very fragile, but it's also very forgiving - just swipe at it with your finger and it disappears or you get an atmospheric shadow. If you're into art but haven't tried it... do! It also has the advantage of being very cheap. But the main thing for me is that it's very organic - you can really see and feel the life in it. It's like there's less of a barrier between you and the art. That's not to say it makes things easy - you still have to put in the hours and accept frustration! But I love it.
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drawing cats
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Dirty Little Animals
That song is so going to be my most listened song this year. It fits both of them so well.
Art nerd alert underneath:
If you like drawing with (waterproof) ink, you can try watering small amounts down. Dried layers don't smudge like aquarelles do but liquid ink behaves like aquarelles on wet surfaces.
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hello, dearest topsy! ❤ i know you're busy and flooded with asks so don't feel pressured to respond right away but as someone trying to get their art off the ground, do you have any tips about lighting and general composition? those are two areas that have always been tough for me to figure out and you're an absolute boss.
may your road lead you to warm sands, my friend! :)
HELLO! I'm SO SORRY it's taken me so long to get around to answering you!
Lighting and composition are honestly still two things I struggle with myself, or at least it FEELS like a struggle. One of the resources that helped me out with color theory and thinking about shadows/light/etc. was this book:
It has a REALLY interesting and helpful comprehensive breakdown of color theory, both the basics and a bit of advanced stuff, as well as plenty of examples of practical application.
Also, one thing that I find helpful is working from limited color palettes when painting. Usually I'll either pick and choose the colors that interest me to create a palette, or use the Procreate feature "Create Palette From Image" (which is awesome). Here's an example of what I mean:
As for composition.... man, idk what to tell you. I kind of just eyeball it and aim for balance. I used to have pretty bad compositions, and then they slowly got better. Very slowly. Taking inspiration from classical art, as well as modern illustrations, is also a good way to trick yourself into being better at coming up with compositions.
But if you want one of the more classic examples of types of composition, the "Letters/Symbols" trick can be really helpful if you're stuck:
(I wish I new the source of this image, but it's been passed around the internet so many times at this point that I just have no idea. So if you know what book this is from, sound off in the comment!)
I hope this helps, my friend!
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Was reminded (because I am kinda terrible at social media) that I ought to let people know I made an art history video about the cave art in Lascaux: How it was made; what pigments and what ingenious art tools were used (Paleolithic mouth-powered airbrushes!); and the historical development of ideas of the Paleolithic and how they were shaped by prejudices of the time.
And I bust some myths:
The cave paintings and engravings had nothing to do with hunting. The animals that people of the time hunted don't show up in the cave art.
It is very unlikely that men made that art. There has not yet been found any physical evidence of adult men in any of the decorated caves of France and Spain -- but there are numerous examples of footprints and finger-marks of smaller people, from woman-sized down to baby-sized, and groups of children alongide woman-sized footprints.
For some weird reason most of the scholarship on Lascaux identifies these smaller footprints as "adolescent boys" for no apparent reason apart from, well, sexism. The increasingly unlikely and awkward contortions made to rationalize how half-grown boy children made this magnificent art, rather than any acknowledgement that perhaps experienced adult women artists had a hand in it, feel kinda bizarre to me.
Anyway, here's my art history video. It's educational!
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Of all the TikTok comments I've gotten judging my structure breakdown/tracing technique, this is the one that is simultaneously the funniest while also being the one that made me the most angry
Because the assumption that I use this technique because I don't realize art takes time is. Kind of insane. When you don't know how much time I spend on each piece
(note, each of these are estimate because I don't measure how long it takes me to draw stuff in exact hours, so I'm going off the average of 7 hours per day)
7 days/49 hours
10 days/70 hours
14 days/98 hours
and finally
30 days/210 hours, and as of yet unfinished
Obviously time does not dictate skill and my art is not superior because it takes a very long time (I'm just particular as shit and use tiny brushes on HUGE canvases) and yes part of why I do this IS to save time building a base to work off of so I can start drawing the actual piece
But to suggest I do it because I'm not willing to let my art take time is uh. Untrue. We'll just say it's untrue
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One of my favorite effects is a sort of reverse splatter paint. When the base layer of acrylics is completely dry I paint a second coat in different colors and quickly splatter water over the entire piece. I dab the water droplets away with some paper towel and voila! An energetic abstract base for my art. 🌈
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sry for the out of the blue ask but your art is so freaking gorgeous i am seriously floored!!! i was wondering if you would share how you get that lovely grain texture in your drawings because it's like a visual stim to me. i love it!!! hope you have a wonderful day <3
thank you so much!! this ask has totally made my day 🫶🌟
i’ve recently become obsessed with the stock procreate Noise Brush. i’m using it for rendering a lot right now because i like how abstract it is and it pairs well with rough sketches.
the above sketch looks way more complete and 3D despite still being my first draft!
i also use the stock procreate Dry Ink brush because it blends nicely with the noise brush but lays down a much denser line, so it’s good for coloring in large spaces while still keeping that painted look.
these hands were inked with Ink Bleed because i love the crunchy texture of that brush. it has a very nice sketchy quality that can still produce some really precise lines.
as for rendering with the noise brush, i like to do each big block-in on a separate layer. i lay down a bulky shadow with noise and carve out wherever the light hits the surface using a dry ink eraser. that way, it looks nice and stenciled. when i like my new shadow, i usually combine it down to the main shadow layer for simplicity’s sake, and begin a new layer for the next shadow. this is so that i can easily erase and create the perfect gradients without affecting the pre-existing shadows.
i’m always happy to share my techniques and talk about them! i’m always learning new things and changing how i do things and i have no ten commandments lawl. i’m glad you say the noise is like a visual stim because it’s the same way for me, it’s so satisfying! i hope this is helpful :’D
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been recording my process on how i draw since i keep forgetting... I've been having a lot of fun at trying different techniques lately ^^
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I really like the way you draw the folds on clothing, do you have any tips on how to draw folds? I can't figure it out.
I do better at showing what I do so I hope this helps!
Tried to explain in drawing, I really do hope this helps!
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Once upon a time, in a bustling city, a young woman named Amelia looked out of her office window at the concrete jungle that surrounded her. Amidst the stress and chaos, she found herself longing for something more. She yearned for nature, for open skies, rolling hills, and serene lakes. What if, she thought, she could bring these landscapes into her urban existence? And so, the seed of an idea was planted: she would learn how to draw landscapes.
Like Amelia, you may be yearning to create, to make your mark on a blank canvas. Well, you're in the right place! This comprehensive guide on "how to draw landscapes" will demystify the process, with step-by-step instructions to turn your artistic aspirations into reality. Let's embark on this journey together, picking up our pencils, brushes, and palettes, and create masterpieces from our minds and hearts.
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How and when do you use gradient maps for things? (I find your usage of them fairly interesting :) )
Pretty much all my uses of gradient maps involve copying the entire image and then making a new layer to then do the gradient map to (I'm using procreate these days so this is the only real way to use a gradient map as a layer style)
The most basic thing I'll do is make an otherwise black and white image a little more interesting color-wise by setting a gradient map to overlay or color or whatever gives me the best contrast, or sometimes just normal, and tweak the opacity until I'm happy with it
Sometimes even on those I'll tweak what turned out what color with additional layers, so for example let's say the gradient map says light colors = pink and dark colors = blue, but I think it'll pop more if the light area in one area is blue as well so I'll just color it that way
Sometimes I will use the gradient map as a base layer to then add colors on top using layer types like multiply
Sometimes I make a gradient map from the entire image but clip it to the shadows only
Sometimes I'll use a gradient map that matches a character's colors and then manually re-color everything else using the same palette (often I purposefully don't do it perfectly to preserve texture)
And finally sometimes I will lay down flat colors, then create a new layer with exaggerated shading, make the copy-paste gradient map layer from this shading, and then set the gradient map to a layer style like multiply or overlay but turn the shading layer off so the gradient map layer is the only remaining shading, or create new lighter shading under it to support it
I do a lot of different things, I'm often experimenting and just trying stuff until I like the results
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