A Small Texture Tutorial

a small Texture Tutorial

I’ve been asked a few times about how I use textures, especially gold textures, so I’ve decided to try and do a little tutorial about it. I’ve never really done a tutorial, but I hope it’s easy to understand, since it’s not difficult to apply :)

There are a hundred ways of doing the same thing, this is just one of those ways. For other (BETTER) tutorials explaining more about textures and other ways to use them, I point you all towards the 3 tutorials that taught ME the basics!

TUTORIAL: how to use textures by agosbeatle

TUTORIAL: Applying texture by Shinerai

Texture tutorial by Tervola

Character Introduction 01

Mirabella Tuk, a somewhat different kind of hobbit, but well known for her positive and humorous outlook on even the gloomiest of days.

She is based on the story “Gefährten 2.0″ by Elenor-Rohir and one of eight new companions.

Short snippet from the story (I translated it):

The 38-year-old drove her mare into a gallop with a merry song on her lips.

“Run, Nightstar, as long as we still can! We’re late anyway. You can rest once we get to Bilbo.”

The young woman’s appearance was quite unusual: She was a hobbit-woman, which was particularly noticeable by her long, brown curls and the cheerful, natural demeanour. However, what stood out was her rather big appearance for a hobbit and the shoes on her feet. For a hobbit a very rare sight indeed.

Nonetheless, she was friends with Bilbo Baggins, the hobbit that one day just up and went on an adventure with some dwarfs and the old wizard that roamed around the Shire from time to time. He had returned with riches no hobbit had ever seen before and the people quickly ushered whispers of inheriting his thirst for adventure from the old Tuk, his grandfather.

Perhaps, that was the reason why Mira got along with him so well. She also belonged to the Tuks family and with it the call for adventures, but that was not all. It was rumoured that her unusual size was due to the fact that no pure hobbit blood flowed through her veins. Perhaps she would still sit quietly at the stove and live an ordinary, peaceful life, if it hadn’t been for her parents’ death.

She had lost her parents at a very young age, leaving her behind as an orphan, raised by Bilbo Baggins as if she was his own. But that was another story for another day; today she might go on her biggest adventure yet, where her serenity and courage will be tested. Has her previous adventures prepared her enough for what is to come?

Please tell me if any of the links aren’t working

Faces:

Face Tutorial

How to Draw the Human Face

Quick Face Tutorial

How to Sketch Faces

Profile Anatomy

Drawing Heads

Basic Head Layout

How to Draw Ears

Basic Ear Tutorial

Ears and Noses

Drawing Noses

How To Draw Mouths

Mouth Tutorial

Lips

Lips Ref

Semi-Realistic Eye Tutorial

Tips for Drawing Eyes

Manga Eye Tutorial

Pixel Eye

Eyes in Different Angles

Expressions

Step by Step Expressions

How to Avoid the Same Face

Head Angles

Beards

Neck Help

Skull Tutorial

How to Draw a Skull

Hair:

How To Draw Braids

Headband Braid Tutorial

How To Draw Hair

Hair Tutorial

Another Hair Tutorial

Also Another Hair Tutorial

Tutorial: Hair

Tutorial for Hair

Simple Hair Tutorial

Hairstyle Tutorial

50 Male Hairstyles Revamped 

Let’s Do Hair!

Female Hair Tutorial

Curls

Pixel Hair Tutorial

Manga Boys Hair Tutorial

Bodies:

A Guide to Drawing the Human Body

How To Draw Hands

Hand Tutorial

Hand Gestures

More Hand Gestures

Arm Tutorial

Feet Drawing Guide

Foot Tutorial

Drawing Feet

Knees

Sitting Poses

Drawing Torsos

Abs Tutorial

Clothes and Accessories:

Clothing Tutorial (Notes)

How to Draw Flower Crowns

Helmets and Hats

Hoods

Fashion

How to Draw Tights

Jeans

Boot Tutorial

Plaid Tutorial

Lace Tutorial

Armour Tutorial

Creatures:

Wings

Folded Wings

Thoughts on Wings

Tutorial on Creature Design

Bat Wings on Humans

Pegasus Wings

Animal Legs on Humans

Dragon Tutorial

Dragon Wing Tutorial

Dragon Hands and Feet Tutorial

Dragon Mouth Tutorial

Dragon Head Tutorial

Dragon Scales

Clawed Hand Tutorial

Basic Horn Tutorial

Sauropod Tutorial

How to Draw Centaurs

Werewolf Anatomy

Animals/insects:

Animal Noses

Basic Animal Anatomy

Paw Tutorial

Fur Tutorial

Pixel Fur Tutorial

Painting Fur

Fur Painting Tutorial

Horse Tutorial

Horse Proportions

Horse Hooves

Horse Legs

Dog Anatomy

Simple Dog Tutorial

Wolf Paw Tutorial

Wolf Head Tutorial

Drawing a Wolf

Canine Leg Tutorial

Feline Comparison

Big Cat Paw Tutorial

Lion Head Tutorial

Cat Faces Tutorial

Snow Leopard Tutorial

Tiger Tutorial

Fox Tutorial

Rabbit Drawing Tips

Butterfly Tutorial

Rat Tutorial

Owl Anatomy

Feather Tutorial

Bear Anatomy

Objects:

Glowing Stuff

How to Draw 3D Rooms

Gun Ref

Slime Tutorial

Chain Tutorial

Gemstone Tutorial

Bullet Metal Tutorial

Lightsaber Tutorial

Gold Coin Tutorial

Jewel Tutorial

Nature/Food:

Tree Tutorial

How to Create Stars (With Photoshop)

Stars Tutorial

How to Draw Clouds

How to Draw a Rose

Simple Roses

Grass Tutorial

Another Grass Tutorial

Quick Grass Tutorial

Bush Tutorial

Rain Tutorial

Water Tutorial

Underwater Tutorial

Fire Tutorial

Snow Tutorial

Light Tutorial

Light Sparkle Tutorial

Mountain Tutorial

Another Mountain Tutorial

Moon Tutorial

How to Draw a Apple

Strawberry Tutorial

Colours:

The Psychology of Colour

Basic Colour Theory

Colour Theory 101

Quick Colour Reference Sheet for Designers

The Art of Colour Coordination 

Colour Profiles and Printing Explained

The Colour Strata

The Art of Harmonious Colour Schemes

The Ten Commandments of Colour Theory

How to Use Colour in Your Design Scheme

Colour Theory: The ABC’s of RGB

RGB vs CMYK

The Business of Colour Psychology

The Psychology of Colour

The Psychology of Logo Colour and Font Style

What Colours Communicate

A Colour Guide for Designers

Colour Theory: What People Really Think

Colour ROI

The Colours of the Web

Colour Design

Colour Help

How To Colour

Colour Blender

Colour Scheme Designer

Colour Meanings For Roses

Colour Palette Generator

Upload an Image and Get a Colour Palette

Another Colour Palette Generator

Color Hex

Colour Harmony

Skin Colour Palette

Pastel Colours

Greyscale Tutorial

Colouring Cloth

Hair Colouring

Photoshop Colouring Tutorial

Other:

How to Draw Dimension

Pixel Art Tutorial

Another Pixel Art Tutorial

Photoshop Brushes

Photoshop Layers Tutorial

Glitch Effect (with Photoshop)

Gimp Soft Shading

Blending Tutorial

Free Digital Sculpting Tool

Skeleton Drawing Tool

Repeating Pattern Tutorial

Free Art Programs

Silk - Interactive Generative Art

Creativity Cards

Don’t Know What to Draw?

Art thief!

Hello, earlier today I discovered a Instagram account that had stolen my art. Not long ago, it got taken down.

I’m not making this post to put them on blast but to warn other artists about them and people like them. They were commissioning me a lot (more than I usually get being a small account.) and rapidly, and I had suspicions but I chose to believe otherwise,

I believe they targeted me because I under price myself (so its easy to get art from me) and I often forget to put a watermark on my art and when I do, its easily croppable (which makes it EVEN EASIER to get art from me)

So be careful :-)! I’m not worried about myself, I’m more worried about other artists…. And especially younger ones :/ I was lucky to get a LOT of support from all my friends which i’m very grateful for! As I believe the amount of report is what got their account down. (Update on that at the end of the read more)

They go by lovegently on tumblr! So be careful if this person commissions you.

Keep reading

Sing my heart

A somewhat long lyric, poem thingy about a kind-hearted mermaid that saves a drowning sailor, only to realise that once he lures her out of the ocean, she can never return to it without drowning herself. He might have been beyond saving anyways.

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 Alarm will sound

I keep looking at the surface now

The water it only drowns somehow

How could I make that change?

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A voice screams out

Ocean will take what is not allowed

Watching them all sinking deeper down

Death will take them all.

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Sing my heart

I can see clearly how to break it down

I don’t know what would keep me now

I cannot return.

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Another start

I tell you I leave the water now

There was a time I would talk about

What it would do to me

Today it was differently

You say I am what makes you complete

That was all I need.

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Even tomorrows dawn

Can’t help forget all the sorrows drowned

I want to be wiser now

But I still feel the same.

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A taste of you

It can’t be another dream

Watching the sky is reality

Me and you wanting to touch water now

We were so close and look at us now

Oh how have we fared?

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Water is still

No way to know for certain now

Everything is turned upside down

No way to return anyhow

I don’t see the end.

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Touch of skin

I feel like thousand of sunshines warm

Brightly and buzzing it keeps me in

Everything will be alright

-

Darkness comes

I suddenly see it all around

Is that mirror even allowed

To show me how wrong I was.

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Clouds go about

Their daily routine in the sky above,

See how they fade deeper now

You laugh at me.

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Light shines out

I can feel there is hope around

There is another day about

I was looking for this.

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Even if you drown

I will go to the bottom now,

Turn away the oceans crown,

I know you want me to.

-

Scars go deep

I hurt in ways I should have not allowed

There is no hope that this plays out,

Yet I will stand the same.

-

Turn around

Look there goes my heart out loud

Screaming the words just to get them out:

“I should have left you in the sea to drown

I should have left you there.”

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See me now

Trust is so easily broken down

Watch you tear down yet another vow

How could I have been so blind.

-

Drag me out

Carelessly left to the sea out now

No way to return in one piece I say

You do not listen to me.

-

I fell down

Looking towards the dark surface now

Used to be calm and complete somehow

Now you took all that I had anyhow

There is nothing left.

-

Voice shuts down

As I go sinking deeper now

I feel the water around me now

There is no way I could keep this crown

And darkness will take me down

Deeper and deeper I hear no sound.

This is the end.

 Maybe I will revisit this at some point to make the rhymes a little better xD

Character Introduction 02

Nellá Fuieg, the red. It is said she got her byname because of her red hair but perhaps it is the red crystal edged into her staff instead.

She is based on the story “Gefährten 2.0″ by Elenor-Rohir and one of eight new companions.

Short snippet from the story (I translated it):

The Dwarf was just about to answer, as a bright shine and a sudden heat drew their attention to the campfire. Nellá stood by the fire, which had almost burned down and held a long branch into the embers. Instantly flames blazed to the sky and the fire started to burn so brightly that it lit up the entire campsite. Ruons first instinct was to stop her, but he soon realised what she voiced in the next second: “They have found us anyway.”

The moment she withdrew the stick from the fire, the Easterling realised that it was by no means a simple branch, but Nellás staff she carried everywhere with her. The crystal that was edged into its tip glowed a fiery red.