#tips about digital art

[ramonn90]

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[nonomives]

How do you color your art!? Like color theory and stuff!! Your art looks so vibrant and gorgeous!!!

I like your Circus AU very much, Julie looks absolutely adorable haha!!

Babe im gonna be real with you, I just fuck around and find out--

Okok but in all honesty, I dont know. My main tip when it comes to coloring is knowing the value (darkness and lightness of colors). Your art could have the wackiest colors as possible but if you nail the values right, it will work out

Another thing, pride flags lowkey actually highkey are useful as references for color combos. Some peeps actually pointed out how Dolly's hair is the lesbian flag and yeaps--

Also also thanks! Have this Julie! Im still figuring out the other peep's designs but her's is pretty much set lol (i used the trans flag as a color guide hkabjdggjagjdg)

#i like to think these are just little tips to share #bro i legit dont know jajdjjsjdjsjdsk #i studdied color theory but like i dont remember what theyre about anymore im so sorry-- #messing around is part of my process lmao #welcome home circus au #welcome home #welcome home fanart #welcome home julie #julie joyful #digital art #eeart #my art

[sincerely-angel1]

Amara 💞✨

#dnd #new drawing #hand drawn #yeah i draw sometimes what about it #tumblr draw #drawing #my draws #art tips #art challenge #character art #original art #traditional art #my art #digital art #artwork #art #artists on tumblr #oc art #my characters #dnd character #characters #original character #character design #baldurs gate 3 #baldurs gate fanart #bg3 oc #bg3 tav #bg3 #baldur's gate 3 #tiefling

[tiredguyswag]

if someone accuses you of it being a fetish KILL THEM

if they're right KILL THEM ANYWAY cause it's still an annoying statement

by popular demand (two people asked for it), here's how to hand. here's the link to that article

#drawing reference #art reference #you guys dont understand how much i resisted from telling you about hand muscles #this is not an invitation to ask about hand muscles i am tired #bye #digital art #how to draw hands #art advice #art tips #hands #art

[peoplepersonoaktree]

I don't like this, but maybe someone else might.

trying to practice anatomy and shading/lighting, because I'm struggling-

It's freaking 2 am maybe I'll like it more in the morning

#I'm tired #idk how to shade #anyone have any tips? #or a good yt tutorial? #I might go back and clean this up tomorrow or smth but I'm on the brink of d e a t h rn so probably not #also idk their duo name #rottmnt leo #rottmnt mikey #hugs #art #my art #rottmnt #digital art #I still don't know how tags work #depending on how I feel about this in the morning #I might delete this #we'll see #They don't get eyes #because I didn't want to draw them #:D #AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA

[aroaceart]

@heropartnerweek Day 1 - Cooking

Scheduling my posts for Hero + Partner Week as I draw them.

These two are from my (theoretically) WIP fanfic Severed Link. In it the main characters are actually a trio - these two are Nova and Astrid, who both take the partner role. This actually takes place before the fic, when the duo are yet to meet their soon-to-be companion. They're in hiding and can't risk starting a fire, so if they want a hot meal Nova needs to sacrifice a little dignity so Astrid has a hot surface to cook with.

I've actually drawn these two before, though admittedly Astrid is less recognizable than Nova...

#digital art #pokemon art #pokemon oc #pmd #pmd ocs #pokemon mystery dungeon #cyndaquil #zorua #hisuian zorua #heropartnerweek #team new star #(i forgot about zoruas eyes always being kinda lidded so shes just really happy here ok) #(later edit: forgot about the ear tip colors too... srry but too lazy to fix now)

[cometisadragon]

I tried actually painting digitally for the first time, decided to do moon knight bc i love the goofy guys.

it’s kinda made to be a pfp so the background is kinda meh, progress pics and me rambling below the cut :D

i sketched on paper because i always prefer my pencil sketches over digital, then i moved it to procreate and traced lines. i took some liberties with the hood’s look bc i couldn’t find good reference pics :( overall, i’m really happy with this because i usually have a really hard time with digital art

i also finished the paper version because i was bored in class and had my sketchbook :3

#i’m open to tips/criticism but please don’t be an asshole about it #specifically about choosing colors #my art #moon knight #marc spector #mcu #mcu moon knight #procreate #digital art #digital painting

[avenin7]

Older Revali

#revali #botw #loz #i wanted to try and draw what he would look like if he got to age #personally i think he’d lose all the white but a bit of white feather tips seemed to fit #also he’s a deeper navy #his bow actually matches his feathers canonically so it shows that time has passed #sobbing about his braids #digital art #artbart

[excaive]

wh

where's my spare pen nibs when I need them.......

#cai.txt #cant believe i was like 'idk dont feeling like drawing digitally something feels off' and forgot about the pen tip being a factor #im pretty sure i have a singular non worn pen tip left BUT IDK WHERE THE BAG IS #i wonder if I'd flourish with digital art more if I got a new tablet... #its like 11 years old or something #if i cant find the spare nibs then i likely should consider getting a new tablet bc its annoying drawing with the nib like that #ough

[braisedhoney]

please tell me about the pigments i would love nothing more than to hear you talk about that one shade of red you like and the process it took too recreate it

... oh, op. you have no idea what you've unleashed.

alright. here we go.

OKAY SO THE RED PIGMENT. pr206. my beloved. my dearest friend. it was an absolute bastard to find because there are so many of these. however many you think there are, there are MORE, and that's only if you don't count the many many scenarios where colors are known to be multi-pigment mixes, usually varying in tone/shade/intensity depending on the brand and manufacturing style. some colors are more consistent than others, but there are situations where a color can be named the same and contain the same pigments and STILL look wildly different depending on the ratio, binder, and paper you use. and that's not accounting for the way the pigment is processed. some pigments (like pv19 for example) can come in so many shades it's frankly kind of ridiculous.

anyway, my quest begins when i am, admittedly, in an edgier phase. i want a blood red, but not specifically because of that—no, i want it because it is THE IDEAL COLOR (to me) for a perfect, warm, slightly muted but still intense shade to add to a muted autumn watercolor palette. and... if you look at my whole theme, you probably know how much i love warm colors. i want to paint mushrooms. i want to dim down some of the brighter greens to make them autumnal. i want the perfect red to put as an undertone.

the search starts in earnest.

the immediate issue is this: reds (and purples and pinks) have horrifically bad lightfastness. not all of them, mind, but many are NOTORIOUS for fading under uv light, which means they will also fade if exposed to sunlight even in passing should it happen often enough. and—in especially bad cases where they're essentially working with dye and not pigment—they can even fade inside your notebook. inside of a drawer.

so not only are we working with an unfortunate pigment base (i'm simplifying here, there's way more nuance to this but shh) but we are working with one that skews heavily toward floral pinks or oranges. the red i'm searching for is warm, but not orange. dries dark but not brown. is transparent, not opaque. that last part is agonizing, because i also desperately do not want a color that will fade on me or generally destabilize, and most of the stable dark red pigments are EARTH pigments like red ochre (pr101) or the like. which, while fascinating because of their historical usage in things like pottery and even cave paintings that last to the modern day, are VERY OPAQUE. this is an issue with my preferred style of watercolor painting specifically, because opaque pigments tend to lift easier off the page and limit layering.

the search continues. pigment after pigment breaks my heart for one reason or another, drying too close to the cooler purpleish-red tint of wine at best. i think i find it in perylene maroon, but the drying shift (the difference between how a color looks wet vs after it dries on the paper) is so extreme that it loses the luminosity AND it's more opaque than most. i languish.

for a while my search turns to creation. i try and mix as many of my single pigment colors as i can into something that vaguely resembles what i'm looking for—so i take quinacridones and mix them with napthols, with nickel azos, with dashes of ultramarines and burnt sienna. everything turns out either just a bit too opaque, just a bit too muddy (that happens with multi-pigment mixtures, and is why so many people swear by single pigment colors. it's personal preference, really, great art can be made either way.)

still, nothing works. failure haunts me. i sit before a pile of used up watercolor paper that is literally covered edge to edge in nothing but similar red squares with various gradients and blooms as evidence of when i tried and failed to convince myself my efforts were close enough. i admit defeat.

in the meantime i shift my focus. i try and appreciate different color palettes and profiles, experimenting with things like fully transparent palettes (personal favroite) to fully opaque ones that function more like gouache. but despite finding appreciation for it, i still think about the damn red that i could never recreate. it kills me.

and then one day, a youtube video. a pigment is being discontinued, and the watercolor community is distressed. this happens a lot, because pigments are actually not always popular because of artists—sometimes beloved colors are put out of production because larger markets like car companies no longer find them popular enough to invest in. this time, the casualty is pr206, aka brown madder, aka quinacridone burnt scarlet.

let me tell you a little about quinacridones. they are genuinely remarkable colors. they have their own cult followings because of how bright and abnormally stable they are under uv light. they're transparent. they're luminous. they come in mostly shades of red and pink and purple, though there are a couple oranges and yellows in there. (there are no quinacridone blues, as far as i'm aware, but the phthalo blues have that category covered.) they also rewet beautifully, so you can put them on your palette and let them dry and not worry about it turning into a useless little rock of color that you can't get any pigment from anymore.

quinacridone magenta (pr122) is probably the most popular of these, the most often used besides maybe quinacridone violet (pv19). a few years prior we suffered the loss of quinacridone gold (po49) and since then people have been On Alert when it comes to losing these colors. i am one of them, because i never got the chance to even see po49 in person, and now the tubes are so stupid expensive that even the student grade versions go for Ridiculously High Prices on ebay, and the professional brands are being hoarded like (ironically) gold by anyone lucky enough to have a tube left over.

but back to our main character. not me, the pigment. pr206. i have legitimately never heard of this one, which to be fair is probably because i try to limit the random colors i fixate on since the hobby can easily get VERY expensive if you aren't careful. but it's a quinacridone, and that catches my eye.

i open the video.

now, i'm sure any artist out there will be familiar with the fact that screens don't display color consistently. it depends on your device, but most can agree that something that looks cooler on one may be warmer on the other, it's just what happens. but i see this color being swatched, and my brain implodes.

it's almost a perfect match.

it could work. it could. years of thinking that same thought have left me bereft and mistrustful of this specific quest marker, but the thought refuses to leave me. probably because the 'discontinued' label flashes like a neon sign.

i resist for about six months, and then i cave. at this point i have genuinely been trying and failing to find this color for upwards of five years. i am desperate, and the color might not be available anymore soon anyway, and apparently i am weak to sales pitches. (note: the color IS now unavailable in some brands, but others bought a decent supply and should have it available for at least a little while, alongside po48 which is quinacridone burnt orange, a favorite of mine and probably one of the only oranges i use regularly. both are discontinued officially, but they'll still be on sale till those supplies run dry.)

the color arrives. i grab my favorite brush. i pull out my stash of paper that i save for special occasions.

it's almost perfect.

i mix it with quinacridone burnt orange.

the result is, i swear, a perfect match for what i have been searching for.

it's warm. it dries dark but not dark enough to look brown. it keeps its luminosity (thank you quinacridones). it's fully transparent (thank you quinacridones). i genuinely feel the urge to weep, but i don't because i am clinging at last to the dredges of my sanity and also salt makes watercolor pigments behave differently and i will not risk this glorious moment. finally, after all these years, bill cipher has a gun i found the goddamn COLOR.

i mix it with warm yellows and with my favorite blues. with the pinks, just to laugh. life is beautiful and i am painting its sunsets, and i do not care if they look ridiculously messy. i have won.

the moral of the story is to never give up. or maybe it's to remember you never actually know everything about even the fields you love the most, because this color totally blindsided me despite being much more common than i expected. or maybe it's that i seriously needed to chill out for a while.

but yes. that is the tale of one (1) of the colors that has taken up residence in my soul. i hope you don't regret asking now lmao.

#ney's art tips (art questions) #ney's chatter (ask answers) #so also i said that a good alternative to pr206 is pr175 #but i'm actually not totally sure about that because i've never tried it myself #watercolor is an expensive hobby and that's part of why i swapped to digital orz #BUT! from comparisons i've seen they are at least similar enough to scratch the itch #ironically i think i still USE po48 more than i do pr206 #but that one is also In Discontinued Limbo where you can buy it but supply is indeterminately limited lmao #still a gorgeous color though. #... wow. this was incredibly niche and probably barely coherent i am so sorry LMAO #but thank you for indulging my color madness. it was the only hobby i had for *ages*. #long post #very very long post #good god is this my longest text post? aside from maybe a hive story?

[cxrsedboo]

“lance why the fuck are you buying tuna, nobody eats that”

“okay FIRST OF ALL-“

they were sent by allura to get some food for everyone and ended up arguing like a married couple in-front of the cashier and everyone else in line for 10 minutes straight (nobody complained, it was thoroughly entertaining and entertainment is something you need when ordering subway) needless to say they’re no longer allowed to buy food for anyone anymore AT LEAST without someone there to keep the peace and prevent them from embarrassing themselves like toddlers

keith teases lance about buying tuna when he ends up eating a meatball sub so who’s the loser now (jk i love him dearly), i refuse to believe he doesn’t have some wicked scar on his face like on his eye or smth because number 1, literally everyone in the universe wants to bloody kill him but also because its cool and he deserves to have some sort of scar okay- also keith with earrings just hits differently

why is lance wearing a purple earring? honestly i dont even know myself but it looks good- the bandage was intentional though, mf got it 10 minutes before they were sent to get food after trying to impress the cadets with his awful skateboarding skills (he made a fool out of himself but at least he made everyone laugh, win win ordeal iykwim)

the shading is god awful on this but i still love it because of the stupid subway background that i found on google not even 2 minutes of searching, ty toast for helping me w the background i wouldve stared at pinterest for 30 minutes questioning my existence without your guidance

#vforce11 #voltronforce #voltron force 2011 #voltron lance #voltron keith #vf lance #vf keith #lance mcclain #keith kogane #allura ended up going back to tip the cashier a 20 for listening to lance and keiths bs for 10 minutes straight #poor guy was just tryna get their order and instead had to listen to them bickering over sandwiches #lance is now banned from skateboarding #but also not because lance trying to brag about how he’s the best at skateboaring and then falling is funny asf #the cadets are both incredibly concerned but thoroughly entertained #digital art #art #dj chatter #lance marry me rn #honestly wanted to make lance have a nosering but i felt there would be too much going on #also i cant draw noserings to save my life #ok im done i promise

[ramonn90]

Get access to my brushes, art tips, process videos, and files here https://www.patreon.com/ramonn90

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[sysig]

Btw, this is what editing on this paper has been like (Patreon)

#In other words: Hell #Lol #Normally I wouldn't show my process but I Must drag this paper it is So bad #Plus you can see some of the other little tricks I do! I leave things mo~stly alone but I will sometimes cheat where I can! #I'll also reconstruct if something can't be saved or if I just forgot to draw something on paper lol - or if I ran out of room #Ughhhh these edits took foreverrrrrr #I did some quick math on it somewhat recently actually #An average single edit takes ~4 minutes of continuous work #Averaged between the low of a couple minutes and high of getting into double digits #There was a whole thing about each page having approx. 30 doodles and each doodle being 4mins of editing and each set being 6 doodles etc. e #Basically I put a lot of time into my art and the majority of that isn't even drawing lol #I have Got to find a way to flip that metric... #But with these - these Easily averaged into the double digits each #It's mostly cleaning - stray lines don't take much time at all! Even reconstruction isn't bad #But for whatever reason this paper just Textures Horribly #Leave my blank spaces blank! I don't want toning there! #You can even see! I didn't leave behind all that many guidelines! It was just the paper being awful! #Some of it's still there if you tip your screen at certain angles #I can't because - broken hinge lol - so I mostly had to guess where to hit #Ugh. I'm just glad I'm finally done with this paper #I miss Norcom so bad :( I haven't been able to track down a distributor for years now

[sincerely-angel1]

My skills at drawing animals are really improving 💕

#tumblr draw #yeah i draw sometimes what about it #how i draw #new drawing #hand drawn #drawing #my draws #doggo #dog #dogs #dog art #dog drawing #dogblr #art tips #art challenge #character art #original art #traditional art #my art #digital art #artwork #artists on tumblr #art #art stuff #improvement #animals #great dane #saint bernard

[saturnvs]

just wanted to say a big thank you to everyone who has commissioned me so far - it truly, truly means the world. my family's economic situation is, frankly, terrible at the moment. so for me to be able to help support both myself and also my mom is a huge deal. thank you <3

#and now local tumblr artist saturnvs needs some rest #not sure about opening april comms but it might happen! otherwise i'll likely open again in may :-) #i'm gonna take a little break from digital art and do more traditional art againn #even small tips on kofi have been incredibly appreciated #it's good to know that people care and that people like my art that much

[forourtomorrows]

road trip !! road trip !! guess what they're listening to ?? (i have no idea either)

#why is leather so difficult to shadeeeeee #this is my last post of the day haha sorry #i just have a lot to post because my mind can't stop thinking about ace attorney #it's fun in a way but i do create a LOT of stuff...this is only the tip of the iceberg (idk if i said it correctly) #drawing a car is challenging though... #ANYWAY #digital art #digital fanart #ace attorney #aa #athena cykes #trucy wright #miles edgeworth #apollo justice #phoenix wright #delislittledrawings