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Steven Universe Fan Art!

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This blog aims to show the best Steven Universe fan art. Submitting and requests are welcome! :) I try to post something for everyone so please be respectful and supportive of each other
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onefell

Do you have any tutorials on anything? I would love to see your process! :D

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OK I whipped this up today, I dunno its pretty simple I think. Ive never made a tutorial, I wasn’t sure what to focus on so heres just how I draw start to finish.

I sketch out what i wanna draw, i keep it as loose as possible because I always overwork my lines and make things really stiff on accident

i usually flip the canvas to line to make sure its not skewed. Of course, I forgot and wrote the letters the wrong way.

FLATS. Its easy to block in color by just selecting an area you want to fill, expanding the selection by about 2 px and then hitting the fill bucket

To shade I use the “clip at layer below” feature so i don’t have to worry about staying in the lines, I pick analogous/darker hues when i choose what color to shade with. Sometimes I just use the multiply layer with a really bright color but that doesn’t always work out.

Using another clipping mask layer over the lineart, I color over the lineart so it looks kinda “lineless” in some places, but I keep darker lines to preserve detail. (I hid the color layer to better show the line colors)

Heres what my layer panel looks like. the red indicates a clipping mask

And thats basically it, i hope thats what you were looking for!

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I know I really don’t have to prove anything….but sometimes it’s fun! So here’s like a quick 5 min sketch of lapis! X)