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art cheats

hello i am here today to not lose track of the art cheats i have discovered over the years. what i call art cheat is actually a cool filter/coloring style/way to shade/etc. that singlehandedly makes art like 20 times better

80’s anime style

glitch effect

glow effects

adding colors to grayscale paintings

foreshortening ( coil )

foreshortening ( perspective )

clipping group (lines)

clipping group (colors)

dramatic lighting ( GOOD )

shading metal

lighting faces

that is all for today, do stay tuned as i am always hunting for cool shit like this

Nope, you're redteaatmidnight I know how to read things. msdisdain is the author!

ohhhhmg then I'm so sorry!! I thought I'd checked who posted it, and I didn't see any other name so I thought it was you ^^' but thanks for your kind words!

New tutorial! Enjoy:)

Got tagged by the wonderfully weird @definitelynotadulting

Rules: answer the questions in a new post and tag 20 blogs you would like to know better!

a - age: 17

b - birthplace: Munich, Germany

c - current time: 16:51

d - drink you last had: afternoon tea to wash down some cake

e - easiest person to talk to: definitely Jessica and Julia ( my Squad ppl T.T) although not on Tumblr

f - favourite song: Don’t make me choose one!! AHhh. Okay uhhhh... 11th Doctor Epic Suite from Doctor Who, Nightwish ‘I Want My Tears Back Now’, Cat Stevens ‘Can’t keep it in’, Green Day ‘Still Breathing’ and P!atD ‘Nicotine’

g - grossest memory: Oof uhm... I think I purposefully ate a fly that had landed in my drink? Might not be the grossest but the grossest I can think of atm because you tend to shove em in drawers never to be opened again?

h - horror yes or horror no: pretty impartial actually, horror yes, if it’s well done and psychological, horror no if it’s just plain gory and a waste of fake blood

i - in love?: sadly, no, I wish I was, but then again, it’s so stressfull actually just being in a one sided love

j - jealous of people?: I do tend to get quite posessive of people whom I love dearly and want to keep in my life, but I try not to let it hang out or get in the way when they’re making new bonds. But in general, yes, some jealous glances have occasionally been cast by me, although I try not to

k - killed someone?: Do daydreams count? 

l - love at first sight or should I walk by again: I don’t believe in ‘love at first sight’ because in my opinion, ‘love’ is something extremely complex and you have to build up a whole lotta other things before you can call it love. I do concede that you can feel attracted to some people faster than to others and at first glance think ‘you might be very interesting, I want to get to know you more’

m - middle name: Victoria, which I am, to be honest, quite proud of

n - number of siblings: one, a wee brother, if you disregard my two half-siblings

o - one wish: to never stop having an incredible passion 

p - person you called last: @becausethegalaxytoldme bc he wanted to spread the good news personally rather than text me haha

q - question you’re always asked: ‘who’s that supposed to be?’ when drawing like can you not???? How am I supposed to know??? I just drew them???

r - reason to smile: my incredible to death loved friends and family and my curiosity to find more fantastic people in the world

s - song you sang last: ‘can’t decide whether you should live or die’ by scissor sisters as I scrolled through the Sherlock tags

u - underwear color: blimey, had to check for that one, Navy blue

v - vacation: Austria or Scotland, there is no inbetween

x - x-rays: uhhhh teeth for braces, arm cause I twisted it?

y - your favourite food: nyah, I eat almost anything, but can’t say no to grandma’s cakes *grabby hands*

z- zodiac sign: libra (srsly tho, 90% of the Internet seems to hate on libras like... why????)

tagging: @galaxytalker @becausethegalaxytoldme @twisting-vine-x @librikolibri

sob I have so little friends here

scrappy doodle!! been practicing male features and... getting better? I hope so 😢😥😥😥

Tagged by @definitelynotadulting you get to see the full glory ☄of my lockscreen, a Stargate fanart, my homescreen, a landscape pic (#aesthetic I know 😂), the last song I listened to, Amaranth by Nightwish and an old Winter Holiday selfie bc I rarely and badly selfie… Thanks for the tag though!!

Feel tagged, everyone! Especially @galaxytalker @becausethegalaxytoldme @knightofbloodofficial @librikolibri But only if you’re up to it, it would be lovely though!

Colour pallets are such a pain urgh...

Arttrade on Instagram with michelgiulica’s beautiful Wolfgirl OC ^^ I’m not quite happy with how it turned out and I’m not happy with the style at the moment but that’s all in the upcoming practise

wohooo, progress, anyone?

I’m getting more and more used and accustomed to my tablet and although it took me pretty long, I got a result that I actually like very much :)

I have no Idea how many people know this but its a life saver

Start off with a crappy scanned/phone taken picture like so

Mess around with the SAI Filters, I usually go color deepen all the way to the left then mess with brightness and contrast until I find a good balance I like, then to top it off with a copied layer on multiply to make the lines darker

Click what I boxed off and the magic has already happened

you now are left with a clean lineart layer that you can color underneath to your liking : 0 Hell you can even color your lines however you want as well for a colored lineart

duet

here’s to my favourtite Shinigami XD greatly misunderstood by the fandom though, I feel T.T

more practise on my wacom, it’s tedious and it’s taking me ages... but I think I’m slowly getting the hang of things. I always tend to overdo stuff so I decided to try and keep it simple, one layer for each colour... any good?

why does my digital art look like I’m 10 years old? ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhh this artblock is driving me mad. There is nothing that I draw at the moment that pleases me and it’s making me crazy. :/ I know digital is hard to grasp and everything in art is all about practise but lately it’s just been frustrating me no matter how hard I try it never looks like I want it to

sooooooooooooooo this is like my first ever finished original digital art... I’m not really happy with it, but I’ll post it anyway to see the progress I’ll be doing ^^ 

all the credit goes to @/cyarin, this is her concept, her idea, everything, but for me it was a really really good practice for my digital art since I got my new wacom drawing table yesterday and I’m loving it!! I watched her tutorial on youtube, if you’re interested, go check her out, she’s amazing and one of my fave artists on the net!!

A guide to becoming an artist

here’s to all beginner artists, a few tips I’ve come to collect over the years in my experience:

1. don’t compare yourself to others. just... don’t do it. Stahp. Get a drink, get off those thoughts.

2. if you wanna draw, draw. Easier said than done, but keep in mind: Michelangelo didn’t get so good by picking his nose.

3. It’s not about talent. Art, ironically, is a little like Math. If you have more of a knack for it, good for you! But that doesn’t mean you can’t catch up to those brainiacs by practising! AU CONTRAIRE, Practise is key

4. GOOGLE PICTURES IS YOUR FRIEND: got questions about anatomy? don’t know where that muscle should go? Ask google pictures. Also, when you’re in artblock, but you still wanna improve, go copy a few pictures, pic the thing you wanna focus on, (Arms, face, eyes, animals, etc) and just doodle.

5. VERY IMPORTANT FOR DOODLIN!!!!!! Dunnae give a fUcK!!!! seriously. fuck it. scribble. dribble. doodle the sHiT out of that wolf/hamster/wing/eye whatever. it’s a doodle, not the mona lisa. (For publishing purposes, the messier the sketch the better, because the audience will think these things come easy to you, hence you didn’t have to press it out like a shit on a bad intestine day; also try practising to guide your pen lightly grazing the paper, it will add to the effect)

6. You’re NOT expected to know every detail by heart, every proportion!!!  you need helping lines?? Go do them helping lines!!! Gradually, the more and more you practise, you will see, the helping lines will be in your head and you’ll be tracing them on paper.

7. TIME IS YOUR FRIEND! Something’s off with your drawing? Get up and walk around the room, get a drink, go massage your hamster, play chess with your dog, take a bReAK!! Chill dude, your drawing won’t run away. Maybe let it lie for a day? A new perspective can help you loads.

8. Redraw the shit out of terrible drawings from when you were younger! it’s a motivation to see how much you’ve improved

9. Instagram is a TREASURE CHEST for artists, go get some inspirations!! (for practise, go copy some works, but CREDITTTTTTTTT IF YOU POST IT!!!!!!!!)

10. It’s not a competition, your art is dope dude, and if you’re not happy with it, that’s okay, perfectionism is in all of us, but remember from time to time to look back and check what you’ve achieved, you’re amazing! Don’t take shit from anyone, criticism comes in many ways, don’t let others jealousy hidden in mean/disrespectful/know-it-all smartass comments hinder you from pursuing what you want to do

So the last two boys have been characters from an RP me and my friend have been doing and I really adore their characters... >=< so lol just gonna spam you. His name is Amity, his boyfriends name is called Dar as short form from Dareios and their story is a long and still open one, created by us, the writers haha. #art #owncharacter

I feel like a proud mum... #newOC #art #artist #anime #manga #animedrawing #mangadrawing #animeartist #instaanime #sketching #doodles #sketchdaily #animeartgallery #animeart #alwayswithpencil #monochrome #lineart #doodle #draft #cleansketches #pencil #varaoc

I have a thing for shoulder free knitted Sweaters with tank tops underneath, okay? XD

When your drawing has more aesthetic than you... #artistproblems #art #artist #anime #manga #animedrawing #mangadrawing #animeartist #instaanime #sketching #doodles #sketchdaily #animeartgallery #animeart #alwayswithpencil #monochrome #lineart #doodle #draft #cleansketches #pencil

William T. Spears

Never make fun of someone’s passion because that’s the thing that saves them from the world

(via jellybaby007)

I find it so sad to see when someone’s talking about their passion and you can see the light in their eyes, it’s such a special glint that makes them so beautifully radiant from the inside out and then they lower their eyes and apologize and it’s so heartbreaking because probably at some point someone didn’t care and they’re afraid to bore you so they stop talking and you’re like “nonononono please tell me more!” just to see them light up again because someone cares and even if you know nothing about the subject you just listen because it’s their passion....

“But who prays for Satan? Who, in eighteen centuries, has had the common humanity to pray for the one sinner that needed it most?”

- Mark Twain

This is honestly my favorite quote. It’s changed how I look at life and religion.

(via the-bitchextraordinaire)