Hey there! I have no whitewashing to point out, but I’ve noticed that a lot of people commenting on this blog think colouring/picking the right colours for lighting and shading dark/non-white skin tones is hard. I think this skin chart by navate would be quite useful for everyone who has a hard time picking the right skin colours! Combined with this tutorial by the same artist it should give people a good idea of how to apply shading and lighting to the different skin tones.
Practice makes perfect, everyone! Good luck c:
Now if I could just find something like this for copic/traditional media. I’ve been looking… to no avail.
If I were more confident in my skills, I’d attempt a tutorial. I’m rather surprised such a tutorial doesn’t exist already, but I guess there are factors (such as fussy scanners) that deter such an effort.
This is actually really useful. I for one have a hard time picking the right colors whenever I paint non-caucasian characters, specially black people, they always look tanned instead :_(
Some beautiful and inspirational words from Mr. Gaiman. He is totally right that the old rules are crumbling. The old distribution channels are crumbling. Everything is in flux, and no one, NO ONE knows what’s next. Very true for the animation industry right now. I hope it leads to some awesome innovation.
On a personal level, I’m gonna follow his advice this year, and pretend that I am someone who can do comics. :D Then make some glorious mistakes.
I gave my first ever commencement speech to the graduating class of 2012 at the University of the Arts in Philadelphia.
I think I told them everything important that I knew about going out into the world and being an artist, so I may never need to give another one.
found the original xDD~~ sorry, deleted my other one and reblogging this one :D
(Source: vimeo.com)
Via DoodleNoodle
can I marry this girl.
Goddammit.
!!!!!!!!!
master level
holy fuck
Ow… my brain.
My brain just broke. ._.
Oh my fucking godtiss this is the best thing ever
… that was really hot.
Wait…what? I missed something.
Via Defying Gravity
This picture is basically the summary of my entire life.
errday at uni.
A Japanese tutorial on how to draw plaid on skirts, but can be used on any piece of clothing. The images are easy to follow, so the text is not important. Can be used with any medium or style. Source unknown.
Got some spare time? Make a comic!
Download the sample printable comic right here!
Reasons for doing this?
1: My followers can finally have a printed comic by me.
2: It seemed like a fun activity to do, specially with young kids.
3: It might be cool if interweb folks shared tiny little mini comics with each other. And a whole bunch of people can print each other’s comics and maybe we could collect ones by other artists. So… ya know. Why not?
EDIT: AHH! Before I forget, I should mention that this mini comic format was created by the folks at http://www.pocketmod.com/ I came by their technique while listening to Fear the Boot, a roleplaying game podcast as they were interviewing Stuart Robertson an indie tablet top rpg designer.
If you’d like, support those folks cause they helped me discover this neat design.
EDIT2: Added tags. Dag nabbit.
Holy shit I might try this!
Via Hikikomori-Style
