For @fallsintograce, from her fic, Ocean Rose. Feel better, Grace! You are one of the most prolific writers I’ve ever met, so impressive! love you, darling.
I discovered something useful today, taking breaks or exercising never helps me but THIS does, sharing to save a life
I just found out that some pro artists that work for companies like Dreamworks etc sometimes hold their pens this or similar way so it gotta work. Recently I spent 5 days on drawing for long periods of time (we talk about min 5 hours in one go to max 12 hours long crunch) and not once did my hand bother me.
yo here’s a useful tip from your fellow art ho cynellis… use google sketchup to create a model of the room/building/town you’re trying to draw… then take a screenshot & use it as a reference! It’s simple & fun!
Sketchup is incredibly helpful. I can’t recommend it enough.
There’s a 3D model warehouse where you can download all kinds of stuff so you don’t have to build everything from scratch.
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This is an incomplete tutorial, and it drives me crazy every
time I see it come around.
We live in a pretty great digital age and we have access to
a ton of amazing tools that artists in past generations couldn’t even dream of,
but a lot of people look at a cool trick and only learn half of the process of
using it.
Here’s the missing part of this tutorial:
How do you populate your backgrounds?
Well, here’s the answer:
If the focus is the environment, you must show a person in relation to
that environment.
The examples above are great because they show how to use the
software itself, but each one just kind of “plops” the character in front of
their finished product with no regard of the person’s relation to their
environment.
How do you fix this?
Well, here’s the simplest solution:
This is a popular trick used by professional storyboard and
comic artists alike when they’re quickly planning compositions. It’s simple and
it requires you to do some planning before you sit down to crank out that
polished, final version of your work, but it will be the difference between a background
and an environment.
Even if your draftsmanship isn’t that great (like mine),
people can be more immersed in the story you tell if you just make it feel like
there is a world that exists completely separate from the one in which they
currently reside – not just making a backdrop the characters stand in front of.
Your creations live in a unique world, and it is as much a character as
any other member of the cast. Make it as believable as they are.
Great comments and tutorials!
I’m a 3d artist and have been exploring the possibilities of using 3d as reference for 2d poses. I want to add a couple of tips and things!
Sketchup is very useful for environment references, and I assume it’s reasonably easy to learn. If you’re interested in going above and beyond, I highly recommend learning a proper 3d modeling program to help with art, especially because you can very easily populate a scene or location with characters!
Using 3ds Max I can pretty quickly construct an environment for reference. But going beyond that, I can also pose a pretty simple ‘CAT’ armature (known in 3d as a rig) straight into the scene, which can be totally customized, from various limbs, tails, wings, whatever, to proportions, and also can be modeled onto and expanded upon (for an example, you could 3d sculpt a head reference for your character and then attach it to the CAT rig, so you have a reference for complex face angles!)
The armature can also be posed incredibly easily. I know programs exist for stuff like this – Manga Studio, Design Doll – but posing characters in these programs is always an exercise in frustration and very fiddly imo. A simple 3d rig is impossibly easy to pose.
By creating an environment and dropping my character rig into it, I have an excellent point of reference when it comes to drawing the scene!
Not only that, but I can also view the scene from whatever angle I could ever want or need, including the character and their pose/position relative to the environment.
We can even quickly and easily expand this scene to include more characters!
Proper 3d modeling software is immensely powerful, and if you wanted to, you could model a complex environment that occurs regularly in your comic or illustration work (say, a castle interior, or an outdoor forest environment) and populate the scene with as many perspective-grounded characters as you need!
Here is a list of twenty dialogue prompts! Thank you everyone for contributing!
“Hey man, remember that one time you almost destroyed the country?” “Yeah bro, that was wild.”
“The shortest moments are the longest memories.”
“Are – did you – did you just BLOW UP THE MOON?” “You said it was irritating.”
“You know, when you said you were pregnant, I honestly expected our child to be…you know.”
“We celebrate now, we may not see tomorrow.”
“For the last time: I’ve met the devil and you’re not him!”
“Sure, let me just..lie down here”
“Dont cry for me. Celebrate over our legacy.”
“How could you be so selfish?!” “I learnt from the best.”
“Pineapple /really/ doesn’t belong on pizza.” “Good thing this isn’t for you then.”
“You are one in a million” “Cool, where can I meet another 7000 of me?”
“You know what saddens me the most? The fact that when we both go back to our timelines, we won’t be able to befriend eachother again. Hell, I don’t even know if we’ll be the same people!”
“Hi, I’m the Grim Reaper, and this is Jackass”
“Just because I fight on the side of the angels, don’t make the mistake of thinking I am one.”
“dude, I think your whole ‘im Steve I eat people’ thing is getting kind of old.”
“You worked for my uncle for 15 years, and he never once asked you to deal with a body?”
“Bruh, I don’t think possessing people is good for you”
“I leave you alone for one minute and now we have the king of hell, several cats and a large goat in our living room. What the hell were you trying to do?”
“What even *is* the right amount of eyes, Karen? You tell me.”
“How can you just leave me here, covered in orange juice and surrounded by your old victims?“
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