tamakid:

I got a lot of asks about this so I made a tutorial on how I was able to emulate the 80s aesthetic, please keep in mind I’m not an expert and what I put here is just what I personally did. I hope you guys like it and hope it helps

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Mega Charizards X & Y: FULL BUILD

hensocks:

Photo by: Somatic-Studios

A month before Anime Expo 2015 we decided to make Pokemon costumes! Specifically Charizard’s Mega evolutions, X and Y. We used a hollow foam body technique because we wanted the costumes to really convey creature proportions yet stay as light as possible. We first started out with looking at a bunch of Charizard concept art, screenshots, etc. and began mapping out how to put a person somewhere in there.

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Tutorial: Overlay Gifs

paperlings:

A lot of people have been asking me how I make overlay gifs. I’ve tried to explain as best as I could but I am one to admit that i’m very shit at explaining and teaching things, so sorry if I completely mess this up. I have pictures though! 

Difficulty: Medium? You need to have some basic gif making skills for this. 
Program: Photoshop CS5
Feel free to ask questions if you don’t understand something. 

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sanjanasart:

Rooster painted using the following materials -

~ Hydrus cobalt blue - https://goo.gl/1rTBa7
~ Hydrus alizarin crimson - https://goo.gl/qoJ84o
~ Hyrdus quinacridone violet -  https://goo.gl/uEpvkX

~ Hahnemuhle 640gsm cold pressed paper 

~ Escoda Perla number 2 synthetic brush - https://goo.gl/J5UiXV

+ A ton of other brushes for filling in!

Special thanks to Pryces for kindly letting me use the track “Medasin - daydreaming ft. JOBA" - Check out more of Pryces awesome music on Soundcloud! - https://soundcloud.com/pryced

Don’t forget to subscribe to my YouTube Channel over here! >>> https://goo.gl/Wv7UZn

azjazo:

aishishii:

rapidpunches:

SHORT STORY/ONE-SHOT/ONE CHAPTER/COMICS 101 CRASH COURSE RAPIDPUNCHES’ STYLE

I’m NOT an expert but I have some working experience I can share. You need experience to become great. Here is my set of instructions, tips, and notes towards making a 12-page comic.

My method is to work backwards. Personally I work “backwards” because the end is the only wholly necessary page or set of panels in the story. Everything in between is open to editing and hacking as the most important moments are emphasized and chosen.

I even plan/draw the end page first. The end is the last page a reader sees- so spend your freshest energies on making it as epic, memorable, poignant, and beautiful as #$%^&.

If you draw the pages from 1 to 12 sequentially you run the risk of fresh to burnt out- an uneven distribution of drawing skill. (treat the first page and the 2-page splash as you would the last).

Roughly… the steps to making your comic is

1. WRITE
2. PLAN THUMBNAILS
3. DRAW

…BEGIN THE WRITING (DO NOT SKIP NO MATTER WHAT) like this, in this order:

• How does it end?
  
• Does the protag succeed or fail?
  
• What is the turning point of their story?
  
• What the protag do that led them there?
  
• Where does it start?
  
• Who is this protag?

EXAMPLE:

• Guy gets mauled by a bear.
  
• This is a fail on the guy’s half.
  
• The bear must eat something or he’ll starve to death.
  
• It’s the guy’s fault the bear can’t find other food. He caused the avalanche that buried all the cabins.
  
• The guy is yodeling in an avalanche zone.
  
• The guy is some guy.
  

CREATING “THE BEAT SHEET”
Take the above stuff and reorder it to make sense.

1. This guy yodels.
   
2. Echoes roll.
   
3. Snow slides down.
   
4. Avalanche buries the mountain.
   
5. Cabins are engulfed.
   
6. This bear has no access to cabin food and garbage.
   
7. Bear eats this guy.
   

Expand. Blow up important beats for emphasis. Keep less important beats brief.

1. This guy is hiking in the snowy mountains.
   
2. He comes across an avalanche warning sign.
   
3. There is nobody around but him.
   
4. A dumb expression forms over his face and he yodels.
   
5. Echoes roll but nothing nearby is moved.
   
6. At the top of the mountain the snow drifts twitch.
   
7. Guy, satisfied, hikes away from there still yodeling.
   
8. Frozen snow cracks.
   
9. Snow puffs billow and great slabs of ice crash down the mountain side.
   
10. Guy sees this and hightails it to safer ground.
    
11. Animals, people, are all panicking and getting pushed over by the rushing snow.
    
12. Cabins are destroyed.
    
13. The guy takes cover by an outcropping of rocks, fastens himself securely to the rock face, and waits for the avalanche to die down.
    
14. Avalanche dies down.
    
15. A lone bear shambles over from the other side of the mountain.
    
16. The bear goes to where a cabin used to be (only roof tiles are left). Bear sniffs a dish satellite.
    
17. Bear forlornly eats a food wrapper.
    
18. Bear tries to dig.
    
19. Guy comes down from the rocks he as climbing and sees bear.
    
20. Bear stops digging and sees him.
    
21. Guy runs.
    
22. Bear chases him down.
    
23. Bear eats the guy.
    

BEAT SHEET COMPLETED!!!

• After the beat sheet, write up all the sound effects and speech bubbles and conversation/dialogue you want to be in your comic.
• Since comics are a visual medium, highest priority is given to the beats. If a story can’t be told with the art without the dialogue– you messed up and it’s time to rethink your life choices.
• Try to keep all your text chunks as short as a tweet. Professionally you don’t want more than 25 words per speech bubble and no more than 250 words per page.
• Next is translating the beats to pages…

STRUCTURE OVERVIEW:

[1] point of entry, in media res, hero intro

[2][3] conflict. establish conflict, setting, and mood by the third page.
[4][5] rising action/false resolution to conflict/investigation

[6][7] turning point/plot twist/epiphany (this one epic image, to page spread is pivotal, spend a lot of effort into creating this)

[8][9] aftermath/“darkness before dawn”/struggle
[10][11] recovery/“rise and conquer”/“fall”

[12] resolution/final end/cliffhanger

[front cover][interior]
[interior][back cover]

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My maximum per page is nine panels but I’ve seen pages that have way more. I like to have about 3 to 4 panels per row or less but I’ve seen the “rules” broken before. Advanced comic book artists manipulate time with the number of panels and the size of each panel.

remember, DIAGONALS!!! open up an issue of batman, superman, spider man, deadpool or whatever youre reading theyre everywhere.

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…DRAW IN THIS ORDER:

• Page 12,
  
• Page 6 and 7 (this is typically one large image that takes up the space of two pages),
  
• Page 1,
  
• and then the rest.
  

ONLY “DEVIATION” ALLOWED:

• Page 12 and 1*
  
• Page 6 and 7,
  
• and then the rest.
  

*Draw the first and last page as a spread in situations where the beginning of the story mirrors the end of the story.

Cover is dead last.

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(If at the very end you find out you need more pages and it’s absolutely unavoidable and totally necessary you have to add them in fours. Try to stick to 12 pages for this crash course.)

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FURTHER NOTES:

• Plan and draw the pages in spreads (the twos) since this is how it will appear in print and when you submit them to an editor for review guess what, the pages with an exception to the first and last will be reviewed as spreads.
  
• You at most only need one establishing panel of the setting and environment (scene) per page.
  
• Forget “true to life” perspective outside of the establishing panel). Practice diagonal composition of objects and subjects within panels. For dynamism.
  
• You don’t have to present the text all in one go (one paragraph or bubble). You can and should break up paragraphs, sentences, and if you need to single out words– to make smaller, more easily managed bubbles to scatter through the panel.
  
• Less important moments have smaller panels and or lesser detail. More details (or more word bubbles) slow down time. More drawn detail also creates a concentration of values (it’s darker and sometimes combines together as one shape or mass)
  
• Know your light sources. Control the blacks. Control the values.

TIPS | COFFEE? :3 | dA | IG |  ♡ |  ❤ |  ⋆

(more coming soon 11/22/2016)

study study study study study

ohbuckle:

Faux Piping in Acrylic for All of Your Seriously Inconvenient Piping Needs

1. Paint the top edge a lighter color and blend. 

2. Take a darker color and make a very thin line right above the lighter area.  This simulates the shadow that would be created by a 3D pipe sewn on. 

3. Take a few steps back and see if anything looks weird, or draws your eye.  Do this in natural lighting, or in lighting similar to your debut venue. Optical illusions are tricky.  Fix anything that looks fake.

Painted depth is not very convincing from the side, but very nice from a normal distance and much cleaner than a real pipe would be on this crazy seam.

(Also an example of recycling vinyl by refinishing it with acrylic.)

 Have fun! ;p

trisketched:

How to Make Your Art Look Nice: Lighting

Think your drawings are lacking that extra “oomph”? Maybe adding a little bit of lighting can help!

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The “How to Make Your Art Look Nice” Series

Flow and Rhythm | Thumbnailing | Mindsets | Reference and Style | Color Harmony | Contrast

anatoref:

Drawing Legs
Row 1: Left, Right
Row 2
Row 3
Row 4 (Source Unknown)
Row 5
Row 6
Row 7

rubyetc:

art tutorial

artist-refs:

depornable:

A reference or guide for anyone who needs help with wrinkles/folds

(these belong to markcrilley, from his book “Mastering Manga”)

nameanonauthor, here’s another good guide to wrinkles & folds if you need it ^_^

SO MANY BEAUTIFUL PUNS ~💖

miyuli:

I’ve been studying the classic black tie dress code (mainly from here) so I thought I could share my notes. Maybe they can be helpful to someone else, too. If I made any mistakes or things are really confusing please tell me. 
I also have some notes on white tie which I could share as well…

as-warm-as-choco:

A master post of Thomas Romain’s art tutorials.

There’s not enough space to post all of them, SO here’s links to everything he has posted (on twitter) so far : 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12. 

Now that new semesters have started, I thought people might need these. Enjoy your lessons!

lindsaylohoean:

generalsecretaryofthecpp:

punkisdecedied:

HOW TO WRITE A CONVINCING ESSAY

It’s too late. It’s far too late for me to use this.

eddieallanhoe asked:

Ahaha thank you so much! It’s very, very cheap and basic, I did it as a fun self-indulgent project while still high on con vibes. I’m glad that you liked the design, as I always envy other people’s creative tattoo designs XD

- I literally cut up nude-colored tights, the toes are just beneath the holes for my fingers on my palms, and its loose beneath my sleeve. 
- I stretched it onto this fat cardboard cylinder I had lying around to draw on the pattern with sharpie. The material shifts around a lot, so it can be tricky to properly get the design down, and sharpie isn’t very permanent on fabric, so it has been fading and smudging over time. 
-I have not worn this to a con. I would only suggest this for if you need something cheap, fast, with easily accessible materials. You could potentially improve the smudging aspect if you were to use fabric markers, but I don’t know for sure haha.

In the future, I really want to give this custom tattoo method a try. It looks awesome!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=smRH-_KjZnQ