@kaardalaa

@kaardalaa

Here you go. Here’s some advice on hands, the curse of every artist. Let’s be real, hands are weird and hard. But like everything, you can train yourself to learn how they work. 

Learn the shapes with simple exercises, take reference pictures of your own hands if you need something specific. Don’t give up!! 

A hand doesn’t need to have absolute perfect anatomy, just find the style and shape that works for you!

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This is a tutorial I did for @retro-sci-fi-songbird​ on how to draw faces in ¾ view.

Something that I didn’t get much into in the image is the importance of form (i.e. three-dimensionality) when drawing a face, especially at this angle. After all, a person’s face exists in three dimensions, so think about the forms of the face, not just its shapes and lines. For example, you can think of the bridge of the nose as a rectangular prism, and the tip of the nose and nostrils as spheres. If you’re confident with drawing rectangular prisms and spheres, then suddenly drawing a nose becomes easy! This is useful even if you’re drawing in a very flat/stylized manner (e.g. manga, art nouveau, pop art), because having that knowledge of realistic form will give you the ability to render things convincingly, even if you choose not to draw in the style of realism.

Hi! I love your art. In particular your edges are really sharp, but still lineless (if that makes sense?). If it's not too much to ask, would you be willing to share some tips for achieving those edges on digital? Thank you, and have a nice day! :)

Here’s a few tips^

Also, not included in the pic: Make sure you’re not working on a small canvas.  For instance, 1000x1000 pixels will probably result in some unintentionally soft edges, because you won’t be able to zoom in to refine the painting.  I usually use 4000x4000, for reference.

Aha so I thought I’d make a post about some tips on shading? I originally made this for my Patreon but I made it available for everyone so might as well post it here too \o/

“pillow shading” isn’t really term but I’ve always called it that 0v0

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