If Life Is A Never Ending Loop Of Dirty Dishes And Laundry Then That Means Life Is A Never Ending Loop

The thing with a “main character”, is that the reader see the story/world from that characters point of view - we can often read the characters thoughts and feelings more than other characters in the story. You can also use the perspective to increase this “effect”.

You can use the eye-level to display the world seen from the main character. Look at the two pictures above, the characters have the same size on both pictures - the only difference I’ve made is to switch eye-level. And by just doing this, we switch between the adult and the kids point of view - even though they both look at the same thing.

So, when you are doing a perspective, FIRST decide the eye-level and after that start placing out all those annoying guidelines.

did you know moa (the hatoful boyfriend creator) has a blog page solely for references of hands?

well now you do, and here it is!

Thank you! :D I’m glad my tutorials are helpful ^^ Maybe this will help you with hair details and stuff like that (don’t overdo detail stuff though.) Basically, it’s nothing new xD

HOW TO TRANSFORMER: Part 1

Trust me, I'm a professional designer :)

Artist, please feel free to add your favorite details that I missed. I'm working on an illustrated/art tutorial version.

PART 2 UP NOW!!

HELP TO MY BELOVED ARTISTS

References is the artist best friend!!!

so here it is some resources for you to use! Please share, so you can help more artist uwu.

i can update this post if i find new things.

LAY FIGURE:

JustSketchMe

Magic Poser Web

Design Doll (this one isn't online, and you have to download)

Easy Pose on Steam (this one isn't a free app, and is more focused on "anime art style")

3D MODEL:

Female body - Sketchfab

Male body - Sketchfab

a lot of poses - POSEMANIACS

Reference Angle

Head Construction - guidelines - by Marc Brunet.

BACKGROUND:

Room Sketcher

SketchUp

BLOGS THAT HELP A LOT:

this amazing post made by starrify-everything

Pose Reference

BONUS:

this amazing hands brushes made by poxamarquinhos

a lot of pinterest bases

some twitter dot com shenanigans, might as well post this here too :D

art cheats

hello i am here today to not lose track of the art cheats i have discovered over the years. what i call art cheat is actually a cool filter/coloring style/way to shade/etc. that singlehandedly makes art like 20 times better

80’s anime style

glitch effect

glow effects

adding colors to grayscale paintings

foreshortening ( coil )

foreshortening ( perspective )

clipping group (lines)

clipping group (colors)

dramatic lighting ( GOOD )

shading metal

lighting faces

that is all for today, do stay tuned as i am always hunting for cool shit like this

oh hey new guide thinggg~ some basics on how to practice! there’s SO much I could add to this, so it’s just the basics :O

short (kind of): there’s more to practice than doing something repeatedly, it’s also learning new things, problem solving, and honest critique. Each of those is its own skill…also be nice to yourself!

Websites for Artists by alinalal_

[1] Color Zones of the Face [Tried to find source, I think it’s here ] 

[2] Navate’s Skin Chart Supplement – the actual tutorials are:  Section I: Skin Basics &  Section II: Skin tones

Two brilliant skin tutorials. Do not use flat colors for skin! Underpainting is important for realistic, vivid skin. Remember, underneath your skin is fat, muscles, red blood, blue veins, bones. 

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