For people curious about my settings
1. I use the brush tool for almost everything, even for lineart. Easy for rough sketching.
2. Blending, works better with a texture thrown in.
3. Flat brush gets you a semi painterly look, wonderful for laying down color and whatnot.
4. Overlay abuse, I actually do most of my color blending with them haha
Brushes downloaded from here I believe
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Here is a 30 day original story development challenge. It can be filled by prose or illustration or comic or even just script, whatever works for you and how you’ll be displaying the setting. Feel free to reveal as much or as little as you want.
Day 1 - A main protagonist, their bio.
Day 2 - A Main protagonist’s love interest(s), their bio(s).
Day 3 - A main protagonist’s best friend(s), their bio(s).
Day 4 - A main antagonist, their bio.
Day 5 - The place a character sleeps.
Day 6 - The place a character works/goes to school/hangs out whatever.
Day 7 - A major story location.
Day 8 - A character’s parent(s) or guardian
Day 9 - A minor antagonist.
Day 10 - Your character when they were young(er)
Day 11 - What kind of people show up in the background in your world?
Day 12 - How does a character comfort themself?
Day 13 - What kind of foods are popular in the setting?
Day 14 - What is a character’s biggest regret?
Day 15 - What are a character’s bad habits?
Day 16 - What was a character’s first romantic and/or sexual encounter like?
Day 17 - What are popular sports and hobbies in your setting?
Day 18 - What would your protagonist do if they saw your antagonist on the street?
Day 19 - What would your antagonist do if they saw your protagonist on the street?
Day 20 - Demonstrate a character and their best friend and/or love interest interacting as they most commonly do.
Day 21 - What is a character’s deepest desire?
Day 22 - What animals appear in your setting?
Day 23 - A unique place in your setting.
Day 24 - Where did you draw inspiration for the setting/story from?
Day 25 - A character’s proudest moment.
Day 26 - What special talents or abilities does a character have?
Day 27 - Describe/Illustrate is an average day to a character.
Day 28 - A character’s most embarrassing moment.
Day 29 - Describe/illustrate an important thematic element.
Day 30 - Describe/Illustrate a major event in the setting’s history.I think…I’m going to do aR （· ♠ ·）
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The thing with a “main character”, is that the reader see the story/world from that characters point of view - we can often read the characters thoughts and feelings more than other characters in the story. You can also use the perspective to increase this “effect”.
You can use the eye-level to display the world seen from the main character. Look at the two pictures above, the characters have the same size on both pictures - the only difference I’ve made is to switch eye-level. And by just doing this, we switch between the adult and the kids point of view - even though they both look at the same thing.
So, when you are doing a perspective, FIRST decide the eye-level and after that start placing out all those annoying guidelines.
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gif of the painting process:
Sorry this was so darn long D:. tried to make it as short as possible. I’ve been asked quite a few times on how I paint before now, and I’ve never made an actual tutorial until now. Hope this helps clear some stuff up :).
Hi! I came across this really really useful posts on DeviantArt. I thought I could post it here. It was taken from THIS posts (I pretty much copied and pasted everything, so PLEASE go there if you want to see the original posts. I don’t own it, it’s not mine). It’s a really useful posts when it comes to know more about the amazing tool Paint Tool SAI and the things you can do with it.
FREE VERSION Paint Tool Sai Download
Paint Tool SAI Official Site
Unofficial English Pack
Read a ReviewIndividual Tutorials
SAI Tutorial Part 1 and Part 2 by Spoonzmeister
Paint Tool SAI tutorial by dragonchickaya
Paint Tool SAI Tutorial 2 by dragonchickaya
PAINT TOOL SAI TUTORIAL 1 by xxlilevilangelxx
Tutorial - Paint Tool SAI by Salacia-Mao
Sai Tutorial by Val4s
Paint Tool SAI - Tutorial by Lelia
Paint Tool SAI Tutorial by kioisrad
-How to start a new drawing in SAI, plus a short rundown of the different brushes.
Paint Tool SAI Tutorial 2 by kioisrad
tutorial paint tool sai by Hamabi
SAI Paint Tool - Tutorial by LaFataliteLine Art tutorial in SAI by himiko
SAI Tutorial: Vector Line Art by SakuraChan776
Sai Tutorial: Masking by SakuraChan776
Paint Tool SAI: Line Tutorial by Infitima
Coloring Tutorial by sakimichan
Lineart and SAI tutorial by suzuran
Basic Coloring Tutorial SAI by e-nat
tutorial, part 1 - hair and tutorial, part 2 - skin by tanukitchokes
Paint Tool SAI quick tutorial: How to Shade by KoiFishSushi
Wave’s Coloring Tutorial by suzuran
SAI Paint Tool Tutorial:: 1 Line Art by ClassyPirate
SAI Paint tool tutorial:: 2 by ClassyPirate
SAI Paint Tool - Tutorial 2 by LaFatalite
SAI Simple Color Tutorial by masquevale
Eye Colouring Tutorial? by Fushi-Chou
Semirealistic Eye Tutorial by yuumei
Hair Tutorial SAI by Niaro
Hair tutorial- Paint Tool SAI by merki-the-vampireMulti-Subject Collections:
Paint Tool SAI Tutorial Part 1 and Part 2 by Rueme
Lineart Tutoral for SAI by Rueme
Lineless CG Tutorial: HAIR by Rueme
Kimi’s Paint Tool SAI Tutorial Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, Part 4, Part 5, Part 6, Part 7, Part 8, Part 9, by kimicatdemonFor all you Sai peeps.
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So about a MILLION YEARS ago on my dash, someone was asking for tutorials/advice on moving from digital art to traditional art. And I somehow utterly failed to remember to recommend this book:
Blue and Yellow Don’t Make Green, ISBN-10 0967962870.
This book. This book. THIS. BOOK. I went through a goddamn art degree and I don’t know how many semesters of oil painting before I found this book, and goddamn do I wish I had it then.
It doesn’t just go into basic subtractive color mixing—it goes over the properties and undertones of the most common/useful pigments. Applicable to watercolor, gouache, acrylic, oil, every medium that lists its pigments. It was literally the difference between “WHY ARE MY PURPLES ALL SHITTY GREY” to “WOOT SO BRIGHT AND PRETTY”
YMMV, but it’s only about $20 new, less than that if you get it used. It’s cheaper than the actual paints themselves. AND it means buying less paint in the long run, because who the hell needs hooker’s green when you can mix it yourself.
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Test Number Two. Stay tuned. Next week she uses the sword.
For those of you who missed it: Test Number One.
-Jake
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If Earth Had Rings
First off, they would be really pretty to look at. They would also dominate the sky in both night and day at exactly the same place as they would never rise nor set. And at night you would see the Earth’s shadow swing across the rings, like in the 4th photo here.
However, life would be very different on Earth if this were the case. Nocturnal animals would have a hard time being nocturnal, as the light reflecting from the rings would illuminate the night.
Because we are closer to the Sun than Saturn is, the rings would be more rocky than ice, making them less bright but still pretty bright. In fact, you would see far less stars at night (living anywhere other than the equator or the arctic circle) because of the light pollution and not to mention ruin most meteor showers because of that.
During the day the rings would block sunlight in certain regions of the planet creating wild weather cycles and effecting plant life as well. So basically, they would be definitely pretty to look at but they would also make a whole lot of things screwy.
Illustrations by Ron Miller // io9
— Click the photos for captions
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Okay so I followed this video about foreshortening and…
Sycra. I love you so much for making this video.
YOU GOTTA BE FUCKING SHITTING ME
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