Sleeves, Necklines, Collars, and Dress Types
BEAUTIFUL post, where were you when I needed you??
Tutorials done by Stanislav Prokopenko who is an instructor at Watts Atelier.
Right click + New Tab to see the images in their original size. There are 10 images, sorry I had to chop them up because Tumblr has a image size limit and starts resizing.
I just went back through over 900 liked posts and dug out all the art tutorials so i can keep track of them. I guess this might be helpful to some of you guys, so here you go.
Here we go then!
Freeware
Alchemy - this is a really fun program. You play around making abstract shapes until you start to see something in them, kind of like a Rorschach test. Then you use the shapes as a base to draw it from.
MyPaint - a pretty decent painting program that also has the benefit of working on Unix systems.
openCanvas 1.1 - I haven’t used openCanvas in years but it was a nice program with a pretty unique feel to it.
ArtRage - Only used this a couple of times donkey’s years ago just before I got oC, but I’ve heard good things about it.
The GIMP - In a similar vein to Photoshop, but free. I couldn’t get on with it when I tried it out a few years ago, but it’s pretty popular and is available on Unix systems and Macs.Sketchbook copic: a bit different program
Not-free-ware
Photoshop - Standard painting fare. Probably the most flexible program (particularly the latest versions) but not designed to act in a “natural” way. If you’ve used it for painting versus something like Painter you know what I mean. Who the fuck pays for it though? Google “Photoshop tumblr masterpost” and take your pick.
Paint Tool Sai - Far more affordable and definitely worth paying for if you can. The brushes are very decent (especially when they’ve been tweaked a little), the gui is simple and intuitive, and I dare you to find a program with which making smooth lineart is easier.
Corel Painter - My program of choice for most things. More tools than you could ever possibly use and pretty cheap on a student license, providing that you can prove you’re a student! It’s got a few bugs but if you want realism or a more natural feel than PS or SAI this is the program for you.Anatomy
anatomy and rotation of the head
Expressions
emotions and facial expressions
expressions from different angles (love this site)
Poses
Skin tones
paint some life into your skin tones
Colouring
gamut mask tool (very nice!)
5 easy ways to improve your colouring
fucking gradients, how do they work
achieving a painterly look in SAI
kuler (more colour schemes)
Brushes
a very nice setting for the sai acrylic brush
photoshop fur brushes (and tutorial)
Other peoples masterposts
love your fellow artist (anything from prompt generators to animation background here, very nice)
e-books
art e-books (mediafire download)
even more e-books (including human anatomy, animal anatomy, cartoons, animation, composition, design, scenery, perspective…)
Tutorials
a pretty extensive general art tutorial
tumblrs
criminallyincompetent (check out their #reference and #tutorial tags, they’re gold)
due to an overwhelming like of my use of textures on my caps blog i decided to make a texture masterpost for anyone interested. this includes where i learned about textures and sites where there are an abundance of textures (ones i use most often).
tutorials
- google is always going to be your best friend when you need to know how to do something in photoshop. yeah, i know it’s kind of stupid recommending google but i don’t care.
- psdtuts - this site is probably the most popular and coincidentally the most useful. i would check out the video tutorials because those are how i learned how to do most of what i know.
- flickr tutorial - this tutorial is the same approach i go about editing caps. it’s very different but the steps are the same.
- psdlearning - another site like psdtuts but not as popular (at least i don’t think it is)
- i really wish i could add more sites here but (and i hate to be one of these people) i just experimented until i got something that looked halfway decent. the only advice i feel like i can give to people is download all the textures ever and work with them.
textures
- these are ones that i use most often, it is not limited to.
- first and foremost i suggest searching through deviantart, flickr and livejournal. there are amazing people out there with a lot of things to offer.
- fuckyeahresources - honestly go here and download everything (if you think “but i’d never use that texture!”, you probably will later on then again i hoard textures so maybe you shouldn’t take my advice.)
- ex-posed
- playingwithpsp
- lostandtaken
- northerndawn
- crazykira
- vikyvampirs90
- feelresoucres
- lookslikerain
- sanami276
can I just touch your face please
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Yarp, here’s an Expression Tutorial for all of you guys, I hope it helps some!Also a note I forgot to leave in:-TRY not to use generic expression indicators like sweat drops / nerve pops [ you know, the angry anime red nerve pops ] because those are just a lazy way of making your subject look angry or irritated. Use other factors, come on, there’s a lot to work with!————— ✯ [ REFERENCES AND VIDEOS FOR YOU TO LOOK AT! ]Here are some links I think that will be useful for you to use whilst learning about the world of Expressions. Interactive Human Face Anatomy for Expressions^Wonderful. Will help you find what muscles help whatever expression on the face, and help you see how it moves and where wrinkles will show.Der-Shing Helmer’s Expression Tutorial^A tutorial based mostly upon observation, go check it out! Character Expressions Meme^Good practice for starters, draw a character according to what emotion described.————————— ✯ [ VIDEOS ]There are some notable movies and videos of people that express a variety of expression that you could find helpful.“A Disney Sing-Along Sequel!”- Youtube Video^ Silly faces/ exaggeration/ variety of face pulls Ghost in the Stalls- A Youtube video^Hand motions/ exaggeration/ Just story telling and acting out also this is a hilarious story you should watch it!!! SPOILER ALERTS FOR HOW TO TRAIN YOUR DRAGON !!!! Scenes from HTTYD^ Lots and lots of expression used, watch hand motions and observe how the faces scrunch up into expressions, all movement counts!Pixar’s UP - “Muntz is crazy”^More serious/ concerned tone, Good to observe the moods expressed.El Dorado Scene^Good eyebrow use and whole face scrunches, also hand motions are wonderous.> If anyone has any useful links for reference, it would be great if you can suggest it to be put here too c: I feel there should be more.———————————-AND THATS NOT ALL THE REFERENCES HERE…As said, do lots of research! Watch a movie, or observe everything.And practice will make perfect. 8)—————————————--CREDITS3rd pic from the top is referenced from:RIDICULOUSLY PHOTOGENIC GUY….](http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m295hsp14Y1r69asuo1_1280.png)
Yarp, here’s an Expression Tutorial for all of you guys, I hope it helps some!
Also a note I forgot to leave in:
-TRY not to use generic expression indicators like sweat drops / nerve pops [ you know, the angry anime red nerve pops ] because those are just a lazy way of making your subject look angry or irritated. Use other factors, come on, there’s a lot to work with!
————— ✯ [ REFERENCES AND VIDEOS FOR YOU TO LOOK AT! ]
Here are some links I think that will be useful for you to use whilst learning about the world of Expressions.
Interactive Human Face Anatomy for Expressions
^Wonderful. Will help you find what muscles help whatever expression on the face, and help you see how it moves and where wrinkles will show.
Der-Shing Helmer’s Expression Tutorial
^A tutorial based mostly upon observation, go check it out!
Character Expressions Meme
^Good practice for starters, draw a character according to what emotion described.
————————— ✯ [ VIDEOS ]
There are some notable movies and videos of people that express a variety of expression that you could find helpful.
“A Disney Sing-Along Sequel!”- Youtube Video
^ Silly faces/ exaggeration/ variety of face pulls
Ghost in the Stalls- A Youtube video
^Hand motions/ exaggeration/ Just story telling and acting out
also this is a hilarious story you should watch it
!!! SPOILER ALERTS FOR HOW TO TRAIN YOUR DRAGON !!!!
Scenes from HTTYD
^ Lots and lots of expression used, watch hand motions and observe how the faces scrunch up into expressions, all movement counts!
Pixar’s UP - “Muntz is crazy”
^More serious/ concerned tone, Good to observe the moods expressed.
El Dorado Scene
^Good eyebrow use and whole face scrunches, also hand motions are wonderous.
> If anyone has any useful links for reference, it would be great if you can suggest it to be put here too c: I feel there should be more.
———————————-
AND THATS NOT ALL THE REFERENCES HERE…
As said, do lots of research! Watch a movie, or observe everything.
And practice will make perfect. 8)
—————————————-
-CREDITS
3rd pic from the top is referenced from:
RIDICULOUSLY PHOTOGENIC GUY….
Shirts!
a bit wordy but that’s just to give detail to the examples. There’s more to it when you take apart of how to make clothing believable xD
Hope it helps! C8 <3
I just figured that I should make a nice color palette chart from the GIMP palette that I have saved of the God Tier outfits’ color schemes.
Each palette is seven colors; the first two are shades for the hood color, the next two are (typically) for the upper torso, the last two are (also typically) for the lower torso, and finally the last color is the symbol’s color.
I am sort of doing the magical girl challenge? it’ll slowly get picked away at.
Day one: Generic
she’s obviously heart themed. the staff in her hand is the sparkling kokoro lolly staff of justice and love!!!! I took some influences from Sailor moon and Mahou Shoujo Madoka. Her magical helper is a “love bird” hahaha.
Day two: environmental.
its Lorax/truffula tree themed. I don’t even care. the Lorax is her magical helper. o___o
some more digimons
my two closest online friends have massive chests okay shut up.
in any case, Ellen has a pet frog, so obviously I based her digimon off that! I thought frogs in vests with banjos were funny, then I gave her a hat too. I thought Ellen would appreciate that. then I remembered that her frog was a girl so I have her a bathing suit top and bottom because it felt weird idk. she also has a teeny tiny tail, go her. I figure Ellen would be the crest of reliability, seeing as she’s so good at work and stuff!!
Chae is my little lamb but she likes crows so her digimon don’t really relate well but fuck you I made them. I like to think that Crawmon is super helpful but is considered bad luck by most digimon. I think she’d probably have the Crest of courage :’).
Whoops look at these shitty sketches.
I thought it would be fun to make some art of my friends and I in the Digimon universe with personalized Digimon. I asked them what animals they liked and picked one for each. I have a sneaking suspicion there is already a Goamon but I didn’t find anything when I looked it up so oh well.
in any case, I’m in Teal, with my Digimon being based off an Australian mammal called a sugar glider. they’re kawaii as all heck. I’d probably have the crest of Hope or Reliability or something I guess???
Andrea is in Pink, and her digimon is based off a Goat. I tried to draw one based off a hedgehog but omg those things are really hard to draw so I gave up. I also gave Goamon a sort of ying yang vibe to her so. I had this idea that she’d shoot energy beams from her horns. yeah. Andrea would have the crest of kindness fo sho.
Amanda’s in Purple, with her Digimon being based off a Corgi. also Goggiemon is probably my favourite. that bitch is fabulous. Anyway, Corogimon is pretty darn cute I think, but doesn’t really look like a digimon so I might come back to it and fix it later. Amanda would definitely have the crest of knowledge.
Tim’s in Green! He’s actually a bit older than everyone else, but I put him in the same age group for simplicity. in any case, I didn’t know what he looked like at 14 so I winged it. His Digimon was based off a white Bengal tiger and Gabumon. I personally thing Felixmon looks the most like a digimon lol, but oh well! I like his face. Tim would probably have the Crest of Light, I think. Light or Sincerity maybe.
in any case, there you have it!
