Anonymous asked:
How to paint an ocean wave?
Not really a tutorial, but maybe copy what this person does?
Hi! Here is an article I wrote about the biggest mistake an artist can do. If you find it helpful can you please reblog it?
Adrienn
I want to improve my motion, composition, and creativity whet it comes to urban back grounds. 2 point perspective feels slow, and older cities are not made of boxes. :p
Don't we all! :D
I recommend taking it one step at a time - study study 3 point perspective, then study 4 point perspective, then study composition, then study motion. One thing at a time! If there are multiple things you're uncomfortable or unconfident drawing in, you may get overwhelmed trying to compensate your current ability trying to do all of them for a complete piece!
Tumblr itself has a lot of great architecture in it's "architecture" tag. I have some perspective tutorials on this blog's search system as well.
Anonymous asked:
Hello, so I just recently got into digital art and I was wondering if you knew any basic tutorials for a beginner like me. I have never used a tablet or photoshop before so it's all new to me and the tutorials I looked up were advanced and confusing. I am trying to digitally draw/paint an anime like character but I have no clue how to paint or shade digitally. Can you help me? I would greatly appreciate it.
Hi there
You may wanna start with cell-shading :)
The best way to learn shading/highlighting is to reference from life I think. I've read... wow, what's probably been hundreds of tutorial in the past for how to paint and shade certain ways, but it gave me a hard time when I tried to do things on my own, rather than using the tutorialist's carbon copy.
Alternatively, there are some tutorials in the "shading" and "digital painting" tags if you go thru the search bar on my blog. I tag all my submissions for ease of search in the future! There may be something that will help you in there already :)
Anonymous asked:
i just got an idea for a double exposure drawing using smoke, but the only hq reference pictures i can find are very thin smoke and i'm looking for super super thick billowing smoke (it's will be coming from a train). Is there any you can find? if not it's okay, just thought i'd ask. I love your blog and i use it all the time, so thank you!
Hi There!
This may have seem the obvious, but have you searched trains billowing smoke? D: You probably have.
I am not sure what other alternatives to offer you to help you out, other than maybe getting some screencaps off of films where there is a train with smoke billowing from it.
For some reason, Back to the Future III came to mind. With the colorful smoke coming from it hahaha
Sorry I'm not of any help here, and sorry if I'm late.
If any followers have any ideas, comments are always open!
I found this among the Slow Mo Guys’s videos and they recorded a dog running and leaping and since its in slow motion, it looks to be super useful for drawing canine creatures in motion because you can pause the video and get really amazing reference photos for various motions!
How to improve your sketches - avoid that Chicken Scratch!
Artist Tool Reccomendation: REFBOARD
A lightweight program designed to simultaneously supply you references whilst you create
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this single post is more useful to me then four years of art school
Anonymous asked:
For the person who asked about selling all the rights to work and how does it affect pricing: Professional illustrators whose lectures I've been on have said that it's unusual to sell all the rights, but when there is a good reason the price should be at least triple. If you sell all rights, make sure in the contract you transfer the juridical responsibility of the work to the buyer. (i.e. if someone finds the work offensive, the one who has bought all the rights bears the responsibility)
Alright! Thanks for your word in, I've been curious about this myself.
I'm kind of new to freelancing, but I've been asked to do some promotional artwork. The employer (understandably) wants the copyright to the artwork, and wants to know how that will affect the price. I'm not sure how much more I should charge for the copyrights. Do you have any advice for me?
Hi there!
This was something I was a bit tentative to answer. I asked on an anonymous forum about Artwork for their opinions, I'll copy and paste some of the best answers.
Answer 1:
You did not mention one of the most relevant points. Is your employer asking you to create artwork of a character/property they own?If you are creating a derivative piece of art, the artist generally does not keep any copyright over the artwork. You are being hired to do a task to their specification, and this is the exact type of situation where work-for-hire is appropriate."As far as I know, the employer is only paying for a service of getting a picture drawn, and shouldn't need to pay for any "excess copyrighting fees" ."There is no excess copyright fee. This is just normal negotiation. I'm guessing your employer is no more experienced in this than you are. But take it as a good sign that they're even asking you about it and show a willingness to negotiate price."And why does the employer want the 100% rights to the artwork he didn't make?"Again, you need to answer if you are working based on pre-existing characters, or even just a description of a character. Who specifically drew the artwork is irrelevant. Imagine if every animator who worked on a cartoon thinks they have a piece of the character, and starts reprinting their cel. It would be chaos.
Answer 2:
Book covers, commercial illustrations etc. used to be commissioned for a project, with the commissioner paying a license to use the piece. This meant that when the work got reprinted the artist would get a royalty check. This is what happens to authors when they get their work re-published...
...Both of these scenarios USUALLY let you sell the commissioned art as a print or use in your portfolio once the NDA expires. If they want a work for hire AS WELL as permanent exclusivity to the piece you should jack up your prices considerably because you're forfeiting your right to continue profiting off of a piece you made, the right to upload it online for exposure as well as the right to put it in your professional portfolio.
If you guys CAN try to negotiate for royalty, because this was at one point somewhat common in the industry, but due to fags who don't understand money and think exposure is equal to financial success it has become rare.
Concern Answer 2, is your illustration for a book, or something that doesnt get sold, like a poster? Because it makes the employer ask - what's not going to stop this artist from selling prints of my commission at Artist Alley?
It depends on what you're being asked to do I suppose, but I hope that some of that information helped.