How To Make Your Art Look Nice: Thumbnailing

How to Make Your Art Look Nice: Thumbnailing

It’s here! For those artists who spend loads of time trying to figure out why their art is not coming out the way they want it to be, making thumbnails (or making studies) is the thing for you! It’s also great of getting rid of the habit of zooming in.

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Mindsets |  Reference and Style | Color Harmony | Contrast

A coolio fuck-ton of female arm angle references.

Credit goes to melsrefs (on tumblr). You should flood Mel’s inbox with fanmail so s/he’ll make more of these epic references.

Lighting is often underestimated in illustration – a lot of illustrators and beginning artists look at it as a decorative element, or as purely a tool used to showcase the form. A lot of beginning artists are afraid of shading and of using harsh lights. But even with the lighting mastered, even with perfect rendering and good understanding of form in space an integral element of the light remains missing in their pieces. 

Look at the samples above: the same character’s head has been used in every thumbnail, and the only thing I have tweaked was the cropping and manner of light used on the features. Every single one of these frames tells a different story and gives off a different vibe simply by using light to focus on the features I want you to focus on.

Read how lighting can be used to enhance character, mood, and interaction within your pictures below the cut.

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@theamazingartofescapism asked me about how I draw hair. I’m sure I missed out heaps of stuff but in general this is how I approach it. Hope it’s helpful :D 

Source: AuroraCarina-Chan

This isn’t a tutorial or “how to” just simply my process. I’m sure there are other artists who use completely different methods and it works just as effectively, or more so. 

(*whispers* there are several typos, pls ignore them ;v;)