Wisdom from Sherm Cohen by way of Character Design References!
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This site has some cool arm anatomy, especially about how it changes as it twists, which is often neglected in ref!
Main account reblog if you didn’t see this fun thing *v *
How to sketch up a city quickly ^^ CLICK HERE FOR FULL SIZE. This is a rough re-creation of this sketch since there was interest in how I did it without pulling my hair off, and I wanted to share it in case people just need to get a rough cityscape in photoshop quick without the hassle and without the help of other programs like google sketchup.
Obviously this looks very rough it was meant to be and also because I made it in a real hurry, so please excuse some of the ridiculous looking buildings and other illogical appearances. to create more precise cityscapes using this method, simply stop using the brush tool and use line tool/polygonal lasso tool—even using the brush tool and holding down shift is fine—instead to create precise, straight lines. The slower you do this process the more accurate your final piece will be, however the premise of this method is that if you want/need to do it fast, you can.
good luck :D
!! Woah guys! Pixelovely’s new tools are finally out, one for hands & feet, and one for faces!
There’s now 429 photos of hands & feet, and 314 photos of faces. Dang!!
This is super cool news and I certainly can’t wait to start using them haha
I’ve got tons of tutorials on hands, feet and faces in their relevant tags, so be sure to check those out too nwn
YEAH lots of people asked about bodies and poses SO
UMM THERE”S not much i can cover on full bodies idk every cahracter is different so there are noEAXCT proportions for anythign REALLYIF YOU”RE NOT SURE WHAT POSE TO DO jsut draw a random gesture line that fits the direction of movement and sometimes u end up with really ENERGETIC POSES!! I DUNNO THIS METHOD MIGHT NOT BE FOR EVEYRONE SOBS i dont reallly know
Having troubles with facial angles in your drawing style?
The program is called Sculptris and is a free off-shoot program from Zbrush, that program that you keep hearing about but either takes selling your kidneys or piracy to actually use.
If you download it and sculpt out a facial model, you can have references for your own work for all of time. No more endlessly searching Google for reference materials or twisting/rotating/flipping a drawing to see if there are flaws. And you can easily edit it to create more facial types. This way, you can make character references for any and every face and facial angle that you can think of.
The program offers mirroring right from the start, so your faces will be perfectly symmetrical. You can turn off the symmetry for things like scars or otherwise.
It takes a little time. For instance, I downloaded the program on Christmas and, in my spare time, this took a few days of getting familiar with the program (first day) and then sculpting for a few minutes each day, mostly due to my perfectionist nature. And this one isn’t even done. I still have to mold the mouth, ears, and other smaller aspects before I consider it done. However, I was so giddy over the possibilities that I wanted to share this with my fellow artists.
From now on, I have reference for a face in my own style and will be able to create things so much easier in the future.
I hope that this helps you guys and that you have fun with it.I absolutely recommend Sculptris!
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This really useful oh my goodness. It takes a little figuring out, but once you get the hang of it it’s actually pretty easy. Just watch a couple youtube videos. Seeing how other people do it helps you to make sense of it.
OH BOY LOOK AT THIS HANDSOME IDIOT do you know how hard his stupid face is to figure out at different angles? DO YOU??? Now I have a 3D ref!!! AAAHH!! so excite much 3d wow very angles wow
A glorious fuck-ton of perspective angle references (per request).
[From various sources.]
Sources:
- Perspectives Tutorial by DerSketchie
- TUTO - male reference pose by the-evil-legacy
- tuto - women ref poses by the-evil-legacy
- Foreshortening Practice by Bambs79
- How to Draw Manga vol. IV - Dressing You Characters in Casual Wear
- HUMAN PROPORTION: SIMPLIFYING THE FIGURE USING GEOMETRIC FORM AND GESTURE by The Helpful Art Teacher
- Basic comic interpretation - different camera angle by diaemyung
- Foreshortening tips by scruffyronin
There’s zero way I’m not reblogging this
An ultra fuck-ton of human hand references.
Image (1) by GabrielCharest
Image (2) by Dhex
Images (3), (4) and (5) by kibbitzer
Image (6) and (7) by Erika Fabian
(Erika (to the best of my knoweldge) has no blog, but more of her work can be found [here] )
Image (8) by ConceptCookie
Image (9) by anatomy4sculptors.com
Image (10) by irysching (on DA and Tumblr)Please check out some of these sources, because there’s some more seriously good references from the same artists.
I promised that I would show a quick process of how I painted this haha. It’s not exactly a tutorial since it doesn’t really….teach anything…uhm sorry ;__;/ But yeah, I mainly just slap things on and try and blend them so they don’t look too blocky and stuff.
Sorry for my messy handwriting as well!
ever wanted to do some stuff? like, different stuff? tired of having to scroll through your huge ref tag? LOOK NO FURTHER!! Have a masterpost of LITERALLY EVERYTHING
which took me 5 hours to make so reblog itArt:
- Painting tutorial
- Female/male arms
- Kneeling + Sitting ref
- Dragon head view tutorial
- SAI brushes 86786
- Drawing expressions
- Sai Brushes 1
- NGE colour palette 1
- 100+ colour palletes
- Avoiding same face
- Face contours/highlighting
- free art MyPaint
- Body anatomy help 1
- How to shift images using blur in PS
- Drawing clothe folding
- How to draw ice
- Colour palette 1
- Colour palette 2
- SAI brush settings 2
- SAI/PS pixel brushes
- Warm/Cool gray
- Flower crown tutorial
- Skin colour palette
- Pink colour sheet
- How to draw butts&thighs
- The male torso
- Drawing glowing stuff in SAI
- Drawing horse/animal legs on humans
- Drawing clouds
- Muscular male with bow stock photos
- Pastel colours
- Drawing grass fields in SAI
- Expressions&Legs
- All about the human body
- 20+ colour palettes
- Colour conversion
- Kissing ref
- Creature design
- Colour meanings
- Creating expression
- Tutorial masterpost (100+)
- Lineart
- Canine
- How to colour
- Pose studies
- Feline comparisons
- How to draw penis
- Leaf pressing
- 100+ anatomy references
- How to draw folds
- SAI brushes 3
- Sitting poses
- Colour palette 4
- Cloud painting
- How to draw 3D rooms
- Colour info
- Colouring ref
- Hair tutorial
- Clothing ref
- Bodies and poses
- SAI brushes 5
- Colour scheme designer
- Folding ref
- Heads&Angles
- Paint tool SAI masterpost
- Drawing ref masterpost (10+)
- Hair+Fur
- How to draw faces
- SAI brushes 4
- Anatomy of mutant humans
- What should I draw?
- Free art software
- pastel colour ref
- Mass art ref
- Soft SAI brushes
- ways to draw stuff
- SAI brush settings
- baseball cap ref
- Penis ref
- Drawing human wings
- Cool free art software
- Huge art ref
- Colour blender
- 2 SAI brushes
- Photoshop for free
Writing:
- Inspiration 1
- Instead of ‘whispered’
- Music for writing fight scenes
- Writing fantasy
- Emotions vocab sheet
- How to reveal character
- Writers block resource
- Writing a death scene
- BIO help
- Music to help you write
- Writing prompt generators
- Got writers block?
- How to torture a character
- Degrees of emotion
- ULTIMATE writing ref, 500+
- Character names
- Body language
- 25 days of fic
- HOW TO DRAW ANYTHING
- Writing people of colour
- nanowrimo start kit
- character flaws
General:
- Becoming an adult masterpost
- cute OTP things
- Resource masterpost
- For bored people
- Anime + Manga recs
- how to make a blanket nest
- Getting an apartment
- what should i read next?
- If you’re bored
- Delete tourists from photos
- Cute pet nicknames
- Family tree explained
- Pulling an all nighter
- masterpost of themes/pixels/emoticons
- List of demon names
- Demons & Deities in the bible
- Moss graffiti
- Types of attraction
- Trampoline = outside bed
- College textbooks
- God masterpost
- Creepypasta
- OTP necklaces
- Super silky summer legs
- Plastic keychains
- How to write cover letters
- make music on itunes sound great
- Documentarys
- Classic lit
Makeup:
- Black/gold ref 1
- Cosplay eye makeup
- Halloween eye gore makeup (tw eye gore)
- Rotting skin halloween makeup
- Eyeliner ref
- bloody halloween nails
Gender:
Backgrounds:
Clothing:
Cheer up/Be happy
Sowing:
Food:
Exercise:
Games:
- PokéRadar guide
- Play pokémon games online
- Pkmn Shiny hunting guide
- Animal crossing new leaf face/hair guide
- Free RPG games
Mental health:
Jack Hamm’s Drawing the Head and Figure- Feet
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Source: JaneMere
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The Lip Tutorial~~~
The final part is on my Livestream the first minute is me trying to remember how to use it.
I also answered some asks:
Please reblog (and win!): Big sale on my Photoshop brushes to celebrate 7000 downloads: $2 off the best-selling Megapack!
(As always, Photoshop CS5 or higher is required.)
I already bought this but this is really handy as a reference for what each brush actually does haha
