I Never Know What To Do With The Body When I Do These So Heres One Of Those Things With Arms

i never know what to do with the body when i do these so here’s one of those things with arms™

Hi, I hope this is alright to ask but I've been having such a hard time with coloring digitally, and I was wondering if you had any tips for coloring skin? Every time I try, my work ends up unfinished and very overdramatic looking. While your art is much more beautiful- even in its simplistic look it has a polished and completed feel to it. Are there any exercises or simple tricks that you would recommend to a beginning digital artist? Thank you for taking the time to read this!

my skin coloring is very very minimal, as well as my coloring in general. Instead of shading in a very detailed manner, I use colorful line art in order to give a bit of depth to my characters. my tips is exploring - just play with your graphic program, try new things and new tools. these programs may seem intimidating because there are so many options and tools, but just try to experience them one by one. you will surely find out interesting effects and techniques! my second tip is try to learn from other artists. look at their work and try to learn as much as you can from their style, then try these things yourself! in the process, you will make the technique your own. just have fun with it! it may seem like there’s a “right” way to do things, but there really isn’t. good luck! ♥

Made these for fun, feel free to use them separately or not!!

hi hello !! could you show us your brush settings or have you already done a post on those ?? :0

You’re the first person to ask for my brush settings! :>

I primarily use these four:

I picked up these settings from pixiv/deviantart. 

Hi! Is it really necessary to learn how to draw the actual skeleton first in drawing humans?

Hey! While I wouldn’t say it’s absolutely necessary to draw the skeleton per say (though I highly, HIGHLY, HIGHLY advise it!), I would say that it’s vital to understand the skeleton of any creature! I have this feeling (based on art experience, especially college) that people never really explain why fundamentals are important, and so there’s this sorta confusion about “Why are we drawing skeletons, why are we studying anatomy”, and that’s exactly how I always thought. I dismissed really taking the time to internalize skeletal/muscle structure and it took a very heavy toll on my work. I improved at a snails pace. The moment I decided to understand WHY something moved the way it did, and the internal structure beneath, I made leaps and bounds of improvement! Drawing and studying the skeleton/muscle will help you grasp how things work and I pinky promise you it’ll feel like you’ve found that secret MarioKart 64 shortcut and place 1st in the Rainbow Road, it’s great

Rocks

Ah, don’t you love them, rocks. So fun to animate too.

If you’re into drawing pixel art rocks, boy does Patreon got you covered.

The above was a joke posted by Pedro ‘Saint11’ Medeiros (on Tumblr as the game dev team @studiominiboss) before releasing his real rock formations tutorial.

Pedro’s is probably the #1 Patreon page to follow and support if you’re into condensed tutorials about pixel art. Even though they seem on the surface as being about different concrete things to draw, they hold an even stronger underlying narrative about pixel art style.

Follow Saint11 on Patreon and Twitter.

Nauris Amatnieks a.k.a. @namatnieks​ is a newcomer on Patreon and also has some hard knowledge to share with you. His tutorials stand out by also showing weaker ways of completing each step, things you’re usually looking to avoid.

Follow Namatnieks on Pateron and Twitter.

Finally, a fellow Deviant who I’ve been following for a long time, Kat ‘RHLPixels’, completes the current rock trend with her newest tutorial. In good old DeviantArt fashion, the format is a long image instead of the eye-catching GIFs popularized by Pedro. There’s plenty of more of these old-shool long-reads in her DeviantArt album Palettes and Tutorials.

Follow RHLPixels on Patreon and Twitter.