im mari and i like to draw warm things art tag: #my art do not redistribute, repost, or alter my work without my permission business contact: [email protected]
🍩 It's time to introduce our next guest, the very talented @maridoodles!
🌵 With a sweet style and chibis cute enough to eat, Mari's art is an absolute treat ✨ But rhymes aside, we're delighted to have them in the zine as a guest merch artist!
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Less than 10 copies of my mermaid comic anthology are left!
These will not be restocked, get your copy before they’re gone!
NEW!! The Water Lilies: A Mermaid Anthology Comic Collection
My MerMay 2021 comic collection is available in print! Follow the days of celestial mermaids as they tend the ocean, a swamp queen in her kingdom, the reunion of medieval lovers, and grabbing a bite to eat.
• 40 pages (+cover) full color
• Size 8 ¾ x 6" inches, staple bound
• 5 comics + an unpublished bonus comic!
• Includes bonus character spot illustrations and sketches
this is the basic pen that comes with SAI. I use it for sketching, lining, and throwing down colors. It's very lightweight to use, and responds great to pressure. i like how soft it looks but it's still solid for selecting areas and paint bucket filling when coloring later on
MARKER BRUSH • BLENDING COLORS
this is the marker tool, i have it set to a fine flat tip to use like a copic chisel tip end. It's semi transparent so it works just like a marker, more pressure will give more color. It's great to add a wash of shading in a picture when using on a separate layer. When coloring on one layer, it'll pick up colors and blend them like when painting with oil paints.
here is an example of using it to lay down shadows in this wip, but it leaves a lot of harsh edges that i'll blend out with a watercolor brush.
SUGOI BRUSH • LINER
this brush i got from an artist that's no longer on tumblr...
i do not use this to color because it pulls colors really weird when painting on one layer. But it's great if you want very straight lines. I use this when i want thicker consistent lines like my merch art
it also layers very fun because it's semi transparent. I use it when I want very soft casual lines like in this illustration, see how the lines blur into the colors on the layer underneath?
CRAYON BRUSH • TEXTURE
this is my favorite brush. it mimics a rough 2B pencil, it has a beautiful texture. However, it has so much texture that unless you have very thick lines it'll leave pixel gaps so you cannot use the paint bucket fill/select tool making it not great for lining.
I use it to add blush lines and shade hair like Serafina's from my Ghoulfriends comic. Use it on a seperate layer for the sharpest results
i saw this brush theory trend on instagram and wanted to join because i love talking about all i put into my art