Art Un-Tips

Art Un-Tips

Here are some ways to see improvements in your drawing quality and productivity through inaction, not action. They’ve worked for me and may help you too.

use less colours. It forces you to carefully consider your colour choices, not draw things just because you see them as a certain colour

use less layers. Don’t waste time flipping between layers, just separate the essentials (line, colour, shadow…)

don’t be pedantic about lineart. Most people don’t notice small blips in lineart, and unless you’re doing vector or professional art, the time trade-off isn’t worth it

lower your stabilizer. Low levels are enough to assist with curves. Higher levels make sharp turns hard. Adjust to your comfort, but see how low you can go

quit sooner. Spending excessive time on one drawing can be a bad habit. If you’re learning, you want to draw many different things, so quitting and moving on helps

Not sure if I've asked this, butt in regards to your last picture you uploaded and all of your drawings, how do you know where to line up the head/cranium with the rest of the spine in cases where the head is turned or posed?

well that is simple, the head ideally sits in the middle of the spine…

positioning the head is not the difficult part, in most cases ‘artists’ don’t need to make things ‘look’ right but make it ‘feel’ right. specially when drawing idealized and/or from imagination altering proportions and poses is rather common ⁽ˢᵘᵖᵉʳʰᵉʳᵒ ᶜᵒᵐᶦᶜ ᵃʳᵗᶦˢᵗˢ ᶠᵒʳ ᵉˣᵃᵐᵖᶫᵉ⁾

the easiest way⁽ᶦᶰ ᵐʸ ᵒᵖᶦᶰᶦᵒᶰ⁾ is to use the shoulders. Most of the time when drawing poses i will actually place the shoulders first and then draw the head. Maybe try ‘gesture drawing’ as exercise.

HEY ARTISTS!

Do you design a lot of characters living in not-modern eras and you’re tired of combing through google for the perfect outfit references? Well I got good news for you kiddo, this website has you covered! Originally @modmad made a post about it, but her link stopped working and I managed to fix it, so here’s a new post. Basically, this is a costume rental website for plays and stage shows and what not, they have outfits for several different decades from medieval to the 1980s. LOOK AT THIS SELECTION:

OPEN ANY CATEGORY AND OH LORDY–

There’s a lot of really specific stuff in here, I design a lot of 1930s characters for my ask blog and with more chapters on the way for the game it belongs to I’m gonna be designing more, and this website is going to be an invaluable reference. I hope this can be useful to my other fellow artists as well! :)

What effects did you use on the A2

Gradient, those dots thingies (it’s one of Photoshop filters), chromatic aberration, noise. That’s basically all.

This beautiful thing by AquaSixio/ @cyrilrolando​ is an interactive, compilation of all of his amazing tutorials. 

You need shockwave to view it. If you don’t want to, please visit and adore his tutorial folder. Here’s a list of all of them: 

Tutorial #18 : Color Map Tutorial #17 : Turtle Colors Tutorial #16 : Shades Tutorial #15 : Adjustment Layers Tutorial #14 : Photo-referencing Tutorial #13 : Water Tutorial #12 : Creativity Tutorial #11 : Three textures Tutorial #10 : Color Tutorial #9 : Layer Tutorial #8 : Cloud 2 Tutorial #7 : Arround a drawing 3 Tutorial #6 : Brush Tutorial #5 : Arround a drawing 2 Tutorial #4 : Arround a drawing 1 Tutorial #3 : Light and shadow Tutorial #2 : Cloud 1

They’re all well made, in depth, and stunning. 

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