Late Last Year I Wanted To Start A Series Of Short Tutorials Called Tip Jar, As A Way Of Saying Thanks

Late last year I wanted to start a series of short tutorials called Tip Jar, as a way of saying thanks to my fans and giving back to my patrons. This is the first of the series I have made, showing my technique on quickly filling in lineart so you can get to painting without coloring outside the lines faster. 

Someday I hope to turn these into video tutorials when I have the income and the time, but for now I hope that I will be able to share useful tips in this infographic format.

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BATS: AN ANATOMY GUIDE FOR ARTISTS & ANIMATORS

Bats are weird and confusing animals. I am not an artist but I have worked with many species of bats. Let me try to explain the weird flap mammals for you.

WINGS: THEY’RE JUST WEIRD HANDS

Hopefully you already know that bat wings are just big ol’ hands. They have five fingers (though the pointer finger is shortened). I’ve put my hand at the bottom there- just make the palm much smaller and the fingers much longer, and you have a bat hand.

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when i tell people how i got good with drawing, i get the same reaction that saitama gets when he told genos how he got super powerful. when I first started drawing i couldn’t draw for shit. i traced printed dragon ball z posters everyday until one day…i realized i wasn’t tracing anymore, i was doing it from memory.

Please allow me to walk you through my creative process:

Sometimes it starts off as a simple exercise: can I draw an expressive face?

“Nice!” I think to myself. “But…now I’m curious: what has her so terrified? What might possibly-”

“Okay, but this leads into another question: how did he get up there?”

“Of course. We have a reaction (surprise) to an effect (lizard) with a cause (man), but now I want a motive for this story to complete it. Why did he throw the lizard?“

A long time ago an anon asked my thoughts about drawing backgrounds, so I finally got around to putting this together. It’s more prop-centric, but it still represents my philosophy to backgrounds. 

I’ll try to do something more about drawing actual background spaces in the future! Please let me know what you think, if anything is unclear, or if you have suggestions for other tutorials you might find helpful!

Draw a usually dangerous/aggressive creature having a casual cup of tea with a human. They talk about their problems, the human listens quietly as they sob about their wife leaving them and taking the children.