Whenever People Are Like SKETCHING CIRCLES IN SAI IS SO HARD Im Like

whenever people are like “SKETCHING CIRCLES IN SAI IS SO HARD” im like

Hi! Happy Tuesday! Today’s tip is on one of my favorite subject, color theory; specifically on chromatic fringe. It is the red fringe or hot saturated color you see at the edge of cast shadow and where it meets the light area. The rougher the object edge casting the shadow or the further away the object is, the more red fringe you’ll see. This is different than chromatic abberation, which is color fringing caused by lens failure. You can see chromatic fringe with your eyes. The more you paint from life and make observation, the easier it is to see. It’s one of those things that once you see it, you cannot unsee. :) XO, Griz

#griz #grizandnorm #tuesdaytips #colortheory #chormaticfringe #grizandnormtuesdaytips #grizandnormkittycatclub ps. On stylized painting, where you want to have a hard edge on a shadow, you don’t always have to put it. Like everything in art, you can choose to put something in or not. But it’s always good to know your basic and know the rules before breaking it. Happy painting!

Do you have any tips on submitting your art online/ or in general to sell commissions?

submitting your art: just keep doing it, and block people who insult your work if they really cross a line, but try looking for useful critique tucked in between the horrible words! be it Nasty or Constructive critique, make it work for you so you can improve- the best flip off to haters is your gradual improvement and the knowledge that their words only made you more formidable!

commissions: if you’re gonna be doing paypal transactions make sure to do it via their invoice system! paypal’s been strict with its ToS lately but also the invoices help give you a record of what exactly you wanted to sell and for how much, and if a dispute comes up you can, in the most literal sense, pull up the receipts to protect yourself!

VERY LONG SHIMEJI TUTORIAL by Ziven

Update as of: 4/6/12 

I’ve added some new Shimejis to the pack (additions may be seen below, and added stars by the names on the list of those Shimejis which now come with their own custom configuration files inside for behaviors. I’ve added two download links, one for “Mischievous” and “Calm” versions of the English Shimeji program, where the Shimeji are set to multiply more often or not at all, respectively. I personally configured the settings for these.

This is mostly because I know the program is taxing on some computers, and also because some people use them at work. On another point, they’re just difficult to enjoy, I think, if you have many of them running at one time. I’d rather have a bunch of individual ones running around than 50 of only 3 different sets.

So now that you’ve been updated, onto the tutorial!

I decided to put this here because, well, I’ve been learning about Shimeji for the last forty-eight hours nearly non-stop. In an effort to search every corner of the internet for them, I’ve done translating, a few tweaks of program behavior, and definitely enough to not have any more trouble with Shimeji. So, I’m going to post the tutorial here. If you’re as obsessive compulsive as I am and you have some questions, feel free to message me or something.

A lot of people have been posting “How to fix” and stuff like that, but they’re just really… lazy. These ways work, but only with standard shimejis and they don’t typically explain why it is that things work the way that they do.

Feel free to share this with whomever you wish, but don’t copy and paste it anywhere without my permission, k? It took a long time to put this together.

(Just as a note, I’m copying/pasting this from elsewhere - hypocrit, I know, but it’s my own tut! - so the images aren’t exactly where I’d want them, but it’ll have to do.)

So, without further ado: my Shimeji tutorial.

Keep reading

Do you have any tips on digitally shading?

u gotta be very specific anon a lot of things happen when I’m shading ;u;

but here’s a very basic walkthrough of my general process (NOT a tutorial because this doesn’t go in depth at all and I guess it’s not really useful if you’re not sure what to look for?)

Great Brush Packs

Whoops, sorry that I didn’t notice that link was broken! D: 

Here are my favorite places to find great brush packs:

DeviantArt - an awesome community! 

Krita Brushes - krita is an amazing open source digital painting program

BrushLovers - good PS brushes

@digitalbrushes​ - tumblr love!

Cubebrush - paid, but there are also rotating freebies. Buying brush packs supports fellow artists. 

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