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How to Draw a Damn Fine Ass Top Image, Row 5 & 6 Row 2: Drawing People by Barbara Bradley Row 3 Row 4 Row 5 Bottom Image
An image I had in my head when I first saw the beta trailer of the first Kingdom Hearts game. It fits perfectly with the events that happened in Kingdom Hearts 3.
“Stay clear of the shadows for you don’t know what may lie within them.” A personal project I’m working on to make into its own manga series someday. Be sure to follow me on my new Twitter! https://twitter.com/Keyblade25Dave
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**artwork by the incredible @artastic-n3k0**
Announcing the 3rd Annual Kingdom Hearts OC Week!
It’s already that time of year again where we come together to celebrate the unique and wonderful fan created characters of Kingdom Hearts!
This year is planned to be larger than ever with more mods on the team and we’re so excited to meet everyone’s characters.
Without further ado, let’s get into the details of the event!
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Kingdom Hearts OC Week ~ August 2nd-8th, 2020
Rules:
~ There’s no obligation to have an entry every single day or to follow the given prompts.
~ Make sure to tag @khoc-week and use #khocweek2020 when you post your entries!
~ Please no entries that would require a mature rating. That goes for anything excessively gory or suggestive.
~ Always be respectful of other people’s creations and entries. Want to give feedback on a submitted OC? Great! Just keep it positive! This isn’t a week for critiquing, it’s a week of supporting!
~ All OCs MUST be for Kingdom Hearts
~ Any additional questions? Feel free to send in an ask!
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Prompts:
Day 1 (August 2nd): Introductions – Whether you are returning or this is your first time, introduce us to the OC(s) you’ll be focusing on for the week! Show us a picture or a one shot that explains who they are. What do they like? Dislike? Give us the run down!
Day 2 (August 3rd): Bonds of the Heart/Ties That Bind – Who’s important to your OC? Who makes them who they are? Do they have friends, enemies, a significant other?
Day 3 (August 4th): The Power Within – What does your OC use to protect themselves and others? Any special abilities or weapons that they specialize in?
Day 4 (August 5th): Treasured Memories – What does your OC treasure most? Is it a memory? A trinket? How and why is it special to them?
Day 5 (August 6th): Facing Their Fears – What are your OC’s fears and failures? How do they deal with them? Have they been able to overcome them? Will they ever be able to?
Day 6 (August 7th): Life’s Perks – With no worlds to save or Heartless to battle, how do they spend their free time? What are their hobbies or talents? Give us that slice of life goodness!
Day 7 (August 8th): Summer’s End – With summer coming to a swift end, what does your OC do to enjoy it? What do they wear? Any special activities?
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That’s about it!
We can’t wait to meet everyone’s amazing characters!
Everything tagged will be reblogged and shared here, so make sure to keep an eye out for your and others’ OCs!
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Source: deviantart.com
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Kiki’s Delivery Service is one of those movies that I feel any aspiring artist should see. The struggle of Kiki in this movie is one that ANYONE who wants to further themselves goes through, that transition from taking what you love to do to something that you make a living off of.
As artists we have all been in the place where Kiki is. That place where we can’t draw anything right, can’t paint anything right, can’t sculpt anything right, that place where everything comes out wrong over and over and we begin to question if we’re actually good enough for the talents and skills that used to come to us like second nature when we were just using them for fun. That place where we want to give up because we suddenly can’t ‘fly’ like we want to, because everything seems too difficult to do that.
But that doesn’t mean it isn’t there, just because it isn’t working right then and there when you want it to be. If you can always fly, then it wouldn’t make those times when you did as special. It isn’t necessarily easy to grow up, nor is it necessarily easy to live with the artistic struggle of losing inspiration. But you can’t just throw up your hands and say ‘No, I can’t do it anymore’ because you’ll NEVER fly if you do that.
You gotta wobble before you stand.
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Anonymous asked:
HELLO!! Hope I’m not bothering but I wanted to ask u how do you add that weird texture on your drawings? 00: they look so awesome!!
HI ANON!!! and not a bother at all! i just use some textures and overlay them on my art! i like using paper textures the best because its the kind of look im going for! just set your blending mode to overlay and adjust the brightness/opacity however you like!
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Anonymous asked:
Ur content brings tears to my eyes ILYSM 😭 I also have a quick question! How do you create those prism light effects? They look amazing!
HELLO!! and THANK YOU!!!
heres a quick guide! theres a rainbow brush under the decoration tool in the natural scene subtool in CSP that i use a lot for this!!
OH AND RULE OF THUMB following the laws of physics, red will always go on top (from the light source) because it has the longest wavelength, making it the most visible compared to purple
make sure your layer blending mode is on linear dodge add (for ps users)/add glow!! the gaussian blur is optional, but you can experiment with the look of the light refraction however you like ^^!! hope this helps!!
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my high-school art teacher: You need to learn how to draw geometric shapes in order to– me, 15 years later: you are like a little baby. watch this
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Source: artstation.com
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Gonna post this silly little tutorial thing here too, just in case it helps anyone else out or if anyone was curious about how I personally like to colour stuff!
Enjoy reading my chicken scratch :^)
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As promised, here is a very brief overview of transparency art! Thank you all for your interest!
Note: the images are transparent too!
Below the cut I included a sort of walkthrough of one of my transparency pieces!
Firstly, thank you for your interest! I will give a walkthrough of this piece here!
As a short disclaimers, I just want to say that this is my way of doing it, and there are many other ways different artists may make works as well, and all ways are correct! I’m just showing you how I do it!
Secondly, I’m specifically talking about photoshop CC, which is the program I am using. The concept itself is the same, but how to implement these features may vary program to program.
Lastly, I still consider myself sort of a beginner, as I have not done transparency arts for that long, and I still have a lot to learn, so take these tips and walkthrough with a pinch of salt!
When deciding what to make, I wanted to go with the concept of a background inside someone, and the idea of the ocean and Lance hearing it through a shell kind of came to me.
I first started with the lineart of Lance! It was initially drawn on white:
Then, I made a pure black background layer on top of the white background layer. That would be to see the white! Following that, I solid colored lance with pure white. It’s helpful to make the background color semi transparent so you can see both the black lineart and white.
The use of layer masks was key to making these kinds of transparency works. They allow shades from black to white to be drawn ‘normally’ on the mask and translate them into levels of opacity!
In this image, for demonstration, I made a bunch of rectangles on a mask layer over the plain white layer. The rectangles were drawn with different shades, but because they were on a layer mask, that translated those shades to opacities. White = completely solid Black = completely transparent
Using layer mask, I made the gradient for the ocean.
The next was drawing the ocean and sky. I made these with pure white at different opacities. I tended to alter the opacity of the brush a lot to achieve the different variations of white. These were done on many white layers on top of one another.
I continued doing this and layering whites on top of one another until it resembled an ocean, then went back to the original white layer and added shadows using layer masks again! I repeated switching between layer masks and drawing on top with white these until they look satisfactory!
I also used the voltron symbol and colored it pure white and added it in! Along with stars and other sources of light! I used a blurry brush with a low opacity for the ‘glow’ around the clouds and the icon!
Lastly, I opened Lance’s eyes! They were ‘drawn’ just by erasing the bottom white layer with the pencil tool I used for the lineart, but they could have also theoretically been done using layer masks too.
And he is done!
Important: When saving the image, ensure you are saving it in a format that preserves opacity! For example, in photoshop I save it as a .png file! Make sure that you get rid of the background so you are left with nothing there!
On photoshop it looks like this:
I hope this was helpful! Depending on the type of art, the techniques used in transparency works may vary! Sometimes I use mostly just solid erasing rather than layer masks, other times, like this, I use a lot of masks and layers. Often if you are doing works with gradients, varying levels of grey, shade and smaller details, masks are better, while for the type of “disappearing/changing” parts of linearts, erasing is better. This is only one way of doing it - the potential in this kind of art is endless!
I hope this reads okay, and if you have any other questions, you can always message me! If you got through this long walkthrough, thank you very much for reading!
If you are interested in seeing more transparency works, I made a blog dedicated to them @transparent-art and if you make transparency works, show me, I’d love to see them! (I love this type of art so much!) Have fun experimenting!
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I’m kicking off this little tutorial series with one of the best tips I ever got! More obvious tips coming soon ~
Art credit (left to right): Victoria Joh - Maciej Sidorowicz - kaylabarart
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Anonymous asked:
Oh my stars your art is amazing!!! Do you think maybe you can make a shading tutorial sheet? owo
Hey there Anon! Sure thing! I’ll do my best to explain the process of how I usually do things in regards to coloring and shading. I’m not the greatest at Explaining, so I’ll do my best to keep things as crystal clear as possible!
Step 1: LineartI’ll start with Lineart purely because this step is important to the coloring process in one regard, and that is making sure the entire line layer is closed without any holes. Even the smallest little gap will make the selection process hard later, and we don’t want that. So the cleaner lineart you have, the better. I’m going to go ahead and use my Monster Hunter Generations Huntress for this.
Step 2: SelectionEither in Photoshop or SAI or whatever you use, click outside your character and any other negative space surrounding them. This means…basically anything that’s not your character. Then go to Selection > Inverse and invert the selection. You should have something similar to what I have below. This makes it so much easier to add colors without having to worry about all the little nooks and crannies that could mess the cleanliness of the drawing up real bad.
Step 3: Flat BaseCreate a new layer beneath your line layer with the selection still active. This will be our color layer. Remove the visibility of the line layer, and fill the remaining “Silhouette” with a dark base color. This makes those nasty corners look a bit cleaner, as sometimes if there is a lighter color your computer will want to make them stand out pixelated. Again, this is just for cleanliness beneath the line layer. Turn your line layer back on, as they will now act as barriers for the fill bucket tool. Make sure the entire silhouette is filled, and that no lines were accidentally selected! You want a see a completely filled and flat color if you turn the line layer off.
Step 4: Flat ColorsAt this point you can lock the transparency of your Color Layer, and go ham. Either with the pen or a fill bucket, figure out how you want to color your character and add in the flat colors. Notice I’m on the same layer as the Base that we made. This is so those lines still play nicely with one another. Clean up where necessary.
Step 5: Analogous Color GradientWell, we don’t really want our character to be too flat, do we? This is where the color wheel becomes your best friend. Select similar colors with the Magic Wand (like I’ve done her skin tone here) and using the color wheel, choose an analogous (that means “close by” in color wheel terms) color to add a bit of depth to the color. For skin, I usually go with a red or a bronze, sometimes purple. Use the airbrush for this. Then, deselect and select another color to gradient, until all the colors have some degree of new color to them.
See? Now things look interesting! We added some blue to the greens, some purples to the reds, some blues to the grays and so on and so forth.
Step 6: ShadingOkay, here’s where things get interesting. Time to shade. Make a new layer between the Line Layer and Color Layer, and make sure you make it a clipping group/clipping mask. This is so it won’t go anywhere that you don’t have color. Set it to multiply or linear burn (whichever you think looks best) and bump the opacity down to about 40-50%. Choose a color (or color-value gradient, if you have drastic value changes in your piece that make light and dark values not play well with the single color you picked, and swap between those) that you want the shadows to be; I like deep pinks and purples. AVOID BLACK. I first use the Pen tool to get down “hard” shadows - shadows cast by hard materials, close shadows, and inorganic materials. Once I’ve got those down, I head on over to the softer areas, such as the skin, hair and cloth and alternate between the watercolor and marker tools to give “softer” shadows. There’s no real law to this, you just have to know where shadows fall and how they behave and work with those three tools to get the look you want.
Step 7: “Highlights” - Rim Lighting Okay, these aren’t really “highlights” in the correct sense, but adding sort of “rim lighting” around forms really helps make a picture pop. To do this, make another layer above the shading layer, set it to “screen” and keep the opacity at 100%. Then, get really familiar with your CRTL key because you’re going to be color sourcing a lot. To add a rim light to a form, select the base color of that form, and use the marker to trace along the edges. For example, I picked up the nude from the skin, the silver from the dagger, the gold and maroon from the hair and the tawny brown from the skull to use on those specific objects. Any place you want clean works well, but the edges of forms works best for this technique. Additionally, if you’d like, you can create another layer above the Screen Layer and set it to Linear Dogde, and do my “glowing eyes” technique on anything you want to stand out, such as the metal of the belt, gold objects and of course, eyes.
Step 8: The OverlayAlmost done! While your photo can now stand alone as “finished”, there’s one more thing that I enjoy doing, and that’s adding a simple color overlay to bring the whole picture together. This is done by flattening all the layers you have so far (you’ll want to “Merge Down” in order from bottom to top or “Flatten” to avoid the layers going crazy on each other) into one layer. Then, make a layer on top of that one, set it to a clipping mask, and set it to “overlay”. With the Airbrush, choose some colors (I prefer soft pinks, blues and violets) and go along the “edges” of your character with a BIIIIIG brush. This kind of resembles soft ambient lighting or shadows. I just think it makes the photo look nicer.
TA-DA! And Now we’re done!
And there we go! I hope that helped, and I also apologize cause this ask sat in my box for awhile and I never got around to it until now. :PI’d be happy to answer any questions y’all have, but this is the simple basics! Remember to practice practice PRACTICE! -Gael
