9 months ago

Hey! I wanted to make a long post filled with art tips for folks who need it!

these are just my thoughts as someone with a decade+ of experience & has worked professionally, don’t feel obligated to take any my advice!

Feel free to comment w/ questions!


Basic advice:

  • Don’t be afraid to use references (from real life examples)

  • when shading, it’s best to shade with slightly dark colors but never straight up black/gray unless you’re FULLY rendering in greyscale first!

  • Anatomy can be broken down into basic shapes such as cylinders and boxes!

  • when shading, first treat what you’re shading like a basic 3D shape before worrying about shading the extra details.

More Advanced advice:

  • when you’re doing full scenes, pay attention to the color “hierarchy” and how that draws the viewers attention, a piece with primarily cool colors (blues), if you add a small amount of a warm color (red), that red will draw the viewers focus/attention giving them the impression that it’s supposed to be the focus of the scene!

  • focus on details that are meant to be in the actual focus of the piece, the more detail something has the more “in-focus” it would be in real life, as if you look at something in real life in the distance you notice that it has significantly less detail than it would close up.

  • with rim lighting, rim lighting is ALWAYS going to be touching the darkest shadow in the piece, opposite of the light source.

  • both soft and hard shadows/light exist, so don’t be afraid to use a softer brush and harder edge brush! But look at real life references to understand how to properly use them both. There is usually never just one or the other in a setting though unless it’s specific circumstances.

  • anatomy, it can easily be broken down into three different repeating shapes. Boxes, ovals, cylinders!!

  • although the spine ends halfway down the human body the line of action connected to it goes down to the foot, when drawing if you’re struggling with a pose try to extend that line of action! It will help and also make the pose more dynamic.



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