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God, I fucking LOVE the color of the sky
Could u please give some tiles on drawing heads/faces? Just found your blog and you are AMAZING, have a great day!
Hmm, okay so first of all, I’ve always said I’m pretty bad at tutorials and explanations, so I absolutely can’t like, guarantee that any of this stuff will work for anyone, let alone everyone. Artists have different techniques that they find work best for them.
On the other hand, I didn’t want to just say “practice!” and leave it at that. So here’s an attempt to explain how I, personally, go about drawing heads and faces. (Apologies if the images come out gigantic and make this post really long.)
First of all, I do the typical circle with two lines. I don’t necessarily use the circle as the actual head structure; I just find that this really helps me get a feel for the direction I want the person to be looking, and where the features should be placed. The main thing that helped me get a hang of faces was always keeping in mind that they’re three-dimensional, and not just a flat oval with lined features slapped on top (I started off in 2001 drawing anime so I had a lot of bad habits to break and actual anatomy to learn. Nothing against anime, it’s just not the best thing to start from because it’s SO stylized.)
Sometimes I’ll do that little line on the side to remind me to keep the features where they should be and not let them slide too far over on the face. It’s sort of…where I differentiate between the side of the head and the front of the face, I guess.
I also like to draw the nose early on because it’s in the middle of the face and helps me know where the rest of the features will be. Sometimes I’ll do eyebrows too, which I’ll touch on later.
Rest of the features next. Once again, keeping in mind that the eyes are sunken into the face a little, and the nose protrudes.
Sometimes if I’m having trouble I’ll do some really crude shading ot help me figure out where exactly things should be placed, keeping in mind the structure of the skull underneath (pink being where shadows would fall).
Hairline comes next - I no longer need the circle underneath.
I like to add hair last, on top of an already-drawn head so that I don’t accidentally make the skull too big or too small. Hair probably needs its own whole tutorial or something so I’ll leave it here for now.
Different face shapes are pretty easy if you break them down into really simple ones to start. Detail comes after, so don’t get too caught up in it in the start. Like I said before, I like to do noses, and sometimes eyebrows, because it really keeps me in line and helps me not make the rest of the features too big or too small (at least not past where I want them, stylistically) and it keeps them where they SHOULD be according to the structure of the face.
Honestly I have no idea if this is at all coherent. I never took many actual drawing classes or anything, most of this is just stuff I’ve figured out myself that works best for me. I like to look at things that artists better than myself do, figure out why I like it so much, and work at improving those areas of my own art. Personally, my own biggest problem to get past was that whole 3D thing and not drawing a human face as a flat thing with lines slapped on top of it. Knowing the underlying structure is boring, but important.
I really hope this helped in SOME way, even if it was really small. Thanks!
ok, let me explain
I’ve never really done anything like this before. I just wanted to make a comic based on the greatest post on this website and I wanted it to become more and more detailed as it went along. It took me a little over a year to finish and it was all made without using a tablet.
Please click on the individual images to get the full experience. Thank you.
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More things from my twitter, timelapse of how I color gold materials in my style!
Just trying to get a drink of water
a compilation of the best gay moments from Squid Noir for ya!
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Casual and personal questions
- Do you like candles? Why?
- What languages do you speak and which ones would you like to learn?
- If you had wings, what kinda would they be?
- Why are you bitter?
- Do you like lillies?
- What is that one song you can actually relate to?
- What is your pet’s name? Or, if you had a pet, what would you call it?
- How many pillows do you have in your bed?
- Does it bother you when people smoke close to you?
- Do you still live with your parents? If not, at what age did you move out?
- Which of the seasons is the prettiest?
- Do you enjoy swimming?
- Do you own a bike?
- What kind of music do your parents enjoy?
- When is the last time you had some ice cream?
- Do you prefer to keep your things organized?
- What was your childhood dream job?
- Are you forgiving?
- Do you change your underwear daily?
- What is your favourite holiday?
- Do you believe in astrology?
- Have you ever been high?
- Did you kiss anyone in elementary school?
- Is your room dusty?
- Are you shallow?
- What is the prettiest thing you own?
- Who is the prettiest person you know?
- Have you ever kissed anyone without any further intentions?
- What time zone are you in?
- How many friends do you have in Facebook?
- How many followers do you have in Tumblr?
- Every social media you use?
- Are you from a big city or a small town?
- What eye colour would you prefer?
- Do you shave? How often?
- Do you trust anyone 100%?
- How often do you drink tea?
- What is the worst place to sleep in?
- Do you have freckles?
- Do you want to be saved?
- The highest place you’ve ever been in?
- Do you live in the moment?
- Do you care what people think about you?
- Do you spend lot of time in front of a mirror?
- Do many people know you have tumblr?
- How many days is it until your next birthday?
- What are you afraid of?
- Do you wish to be famous?
- Who makes you happy?
- Are you happy?
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MUSIC ASKS these are actually pretty fucking hard but why not
- 1:A song you like with a color in the title
- 2:A song you like with a number in the title
- 3:A song that reminds you of summertime
- 4:A song that reminds you of someone you would rather forget about
- 5:A song that needs to be played LOUD
- 6:A song that makes you want to dance
- 7:A song to drive to
- 8:A song about drugs or alcohol
- 9:A song that makes you happy
- 10:A song that makes you sad
- 11:A song that you never get tired of
- 12:A song from your preteen years
- 13:One of your favorite 80’s songs
- 14:A song that you would love played at your wedding
- 15:A song that is a cover by another artist
- 16:One of your favorite classical songs
- 17:A song that would sing a duet with on karaoke
- 18:A song from the year that you were born
- 19:A song that makes you think about life
- 20:A song that has many meanings to you
- 21:A favorite song with a person’s name in the title
- 22:A song that moves you forward
- 23:A song that you think everybody should listen to
- 24:A song by a band you wish were still together
- 25:A song by an artist no longer living
- 26:A song that makes you want to fall in love
- 27:A song that breaks your heart
- 28:A song by an artist with a voice that you love
- 29:A song that you remember from your childhood
- 30:A song that reminds you of yourself
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Mood
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HIIRAREFS: Basic and Intermidiate guide to colouring in
What better day to end the year then with a basic guide to colouring- This is for beginners or intermediate artists. Colouring is a big part to an art piece, whether you decide to use colours or not, that’s up to you, but for the most part, having some knowledge on appliance of colour will really help you out!
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ARTISTS WITH AN INSPIRING KNOWLEDGE OF COLOUR APPLICATION! Please take the time to have a look at other artists work so that you ca research and get inspired!
- Gullacass: Uses brights, dulls and pastels to create brilliant guro, pop and macabre pieces| DA + TUMBLR
- TinyCalcium: Old friend of mine who explores brights and mustard colours and places them as a foundation for their work | TUMBLR
- BeastPop: Talented with opposing and Triwheel colours. Outstanding cell-shading, and knows how to flexibly bend colour form to their will in popart. | DA
- H0stel: Fantastic composition of light direction and applies colour to bodies based on ambient occlusion. | TUMBLR
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COLOUR SLANG: I use some strange slang to express colour types and shades as well as groups. Although they may not be canonically correct, I will use these terms to describe colour palates to the best of my ability! Analogous: Colours that are near or adjacent to each other on the colour wheel, EG: Red and Orange
Oppositional/complimentary: Colours that are opposed or opposite from each other on the colour wheel, EG: Cherry and Green
Triadic: Colours that form a triangle on the Colour wheel, EG: Cyan, Magenta and Yellow. These three colours when mixed together will make black.
Arrowtype/Quadcolour: Four colours, that generally form an arrow shape on the colour wheel.
Tetradic: Colours that form a rectangle or square in the colour wheel
Neons: The very brightest you can get a colour, be careful where you use them as they can look ugly together at the most. Try to use neons when you are adding bright glowing objects to your piece. Neons are great for highlights.
Brights: Slightly washed Neons. Appropriate if you have characters that are colourful.
Washed: Very washed brights with a hint of grey. These are also useful for colourful characters.
Pastels: Colour with white in them to make them seem light.
Baby Pastel: Pastel with even more white in them, good for subtle highlights.
Darks: Colour with black added to them. Used mostly for lineart.
Mustards: Colours with dark grey added to them
Earthen: Colours with brown added to them
Warm and Cool colours: Warm colours are colours that range fromMagenta to Yellow. Cool ones range from Lime to Fuchsia.
Straight tones: A greyscale palate. or a straight scale of one colour from black to it’s neon form.
Warm and cool tones: Warm tones are a greyscale mixed with warm colours and cool tones are greyscale mixed with cool colours.
Skintones: Warm washed or pastel colours generally used to colour in skin, but they don’t have to be warm at all! ( I will not show you a palate for this however)
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WHAT TO AVOID WHEN COLOURING: beginner artists, tend to go ahead and start by colouring their line art with neon and mustard colours. Neons are not necessarily good for base colours unless the character has a glow.
I often see lazy attempts to shade, often a beginner artist with use an airbrush and use black and white to shade and highlight their piece. This is not very effective, and I’m sorry to say… It’s kind of gross as well. Try to avoid being lazy. If you have a piece that has bold black lines, avoid using soft shading and airbrushing at this point of time.
Black and white isn’t always the best option when colouring in your piece, but it also depends on the style you are trying to convey. If you plan on only using straight tones to colour in a piece, black and white is good.
A GOOD BASIC WAY TO COLOUR For this basic tutorial I will show you a nice way to colour in a piece with bold lines. I will be using Minty’s Classic character as an example.
Begin with using brights that have been washed down a little and washed skin tones if your character is human based. Avoid using neons or mustards if you are able. If there is white on the character, such as the white on an eyeball or the teeth, consider using baby pastels. For Minty’s eyeballs I have used a baby pastel blue. I have chosen to use a darker and more washed version for her Irises.
With you foundation colours placed down, use a washed warm colour for the skin tone, such as a salmon. If the character’s hair or fur is warm coloured, use a pink or red orange to shade that as well. Use the cell shading technique. This may mean you will have to erase some of your shading so be sure to do this on another layer. For your baby pastels, you can use a regular pastel to shade it. For Minty’s eyes I have used pastel blue and lowered the opacity by a little.
For Highlights, I have chosen to use baby pastel yellow. I wanted the piece to be warm.
Applying a light airbrush over the top of the piece makes it feel a little softer. I have also applied the airbrush over the initial borders to create colour bleed, giving a very subtle reflective approach.
Colouring your line art layer, particularly if you have bold lines, can really make a piece look more interesting! I like to leave the overall outline black. You can gradient and bleed colour in your line art as well
Light tracing is a technique lots of artist’s use, where they run a sharp line of highlight next to line art to divide borders.
This looks a lot nicer than the black and white shading, doesn’t it!? __________________________________________
This is a very very simple guide to applying colour to your piece! If This helped, please reblog and share this guide around!
If you have any questions or feedback, don’t be afraid to send me a message!
thechocolatedemiboy
THANK YOU I NEEDED THIS
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mockeryd
I’m gonna reblog this forever and ever and ever and ever
These are some quick notes. If you’ve got questions about shading/colors lemme know I’ll edit the original post. When making a piece I always want to make sure the overal rendering is good. Eyes are drawn to contrast. When you pick your colors make sure there are enough pleasant hues, enough contrasting values, and ENOUGH SATURATED AND DESATURATED COLORS
When you choose to do high saturated flat colors make sure your shadows and lights are desaturated. If you make your lights warm make your shadows cool. For values always check if your piece still looks appealing under a black and white gradient filter. If not, bump up those values! If your piece looks fine in black and white but trash in color HANDLE YOUR SATURATION.