Let me see if I can dig up a tutorial a friend of mine made one. The horizon line method never made sense to them either, so they learned to block things out in broad sweeps and use a gradient of color to differentiate between "planes" of distance.
i don't do a lot of buildings, but i also take advantage of gradients to help with the whole planes thing. i also tend to do a lot of color blocking when i do actually draw like. backgrounds? idk i'm not very good at it myself and never really did the horizon line thing
I haven't drawn anything in ages so I can't participate in that regard, but I have a fairly massive art ref blog with actually fairly organized tags if anyone is looking for that sort of thing.
Here's one that isn't exactly what I was looking for, but is fantastic for interior spaces. I have issues with layout sometimes, but this helps pull it all together for me. (Here's another with the same idea, slightly different floor plan.) Here's another that isn't what I was looking for, but definitely pushes the light/color/depth side of backgrounds more than the specifics of perspective. It's a good example of nonstandard perspective, too. Here's one that pretty much along the lines I was thinking of! It's got a grander scale for the environment, but the basic concepts can be reduced to smaller areas. It turns out I was misremembering some studies they posted, but this and this are how they were blocking out vague city shapes. Lines were completely unhelpful for them, but this parsed better-- you could combine this and pretty much all of the other tutorials and get away with lineless perspective if you wanted, since blocking out swatches of color is much gentler on the brain than liney messes.
does anyone have any good tutorials or advice for block shading, like for black and white comics? Kind of like this or this? i always struggle to get the balance right so the whole thing doesn't look like a formless mess.
holy poop, i just found this tutorial and i am in love. it's all about arms and the dude goes -really quick- but it's really straight forward and simple and I can pause to catch up. but it makes -sense- to me. sharing for everyone, go forth and draw buffness.
a thing i am trying to figure out: there is some detail about noses--i think to do with the nostrils?--the inclusion of which makes the difference for my brain between 'cool abstraction i guess' and 'THAT IS A HUMAN FACE.' am running experiments to figure out exactly what it is, still do not have my finger on it, am annoyed
i just skimmed the thread so idk if this has been covered already but: how to draw front view faces of beasties with snouts? i can do profile and 3/4 (...sometimes) but front view is rly ?????? to me
Hello friends, I am here to ask if anyone has advice on digital painting in colour from greyscale. It is a true mystery to me.
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by the way, i have a discord server for artists and crits https://discord.gg/xxeSpQV figured it might be an easier way to get faster responses to things! it's also just for general art talk and postings
Apologies if something like this was posted earlier in the thread and I missed it, but does anyone have any tuts/resources for a *Total Ametuer* at storyboarding or roughing out comics when you have the ideas but get lost trying to put scenes together? It's like I lose the thread of my story in the time it takes to pin down the panels. I've been going through some medication/mental health fuckery that has the upshot of super convoluted/intense dreams, and I've been wanting to get them down as comics (which is the closest to how I dream idk) I have no pretensions of Comic-artistry /Being A Manga-ka When I Grow Up, just weird surrealist notions that are hard to pin down
http://mcsiggy.tumblr.com/post/153828563018/aishishii-rapidpunches-short I found this recently as a guide to how to do a short comic I'll search around for some other stuff when I'm not so tired
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oh DAMN, thank you @KathyGaele !!! I have been making an effort to motivate myself by having my tablet hooked up AT ALL TIMES, I'm gonna finish the draw I'm doing and hopefully start these TONIGHT. or tomorrow, tomorrow is more likely.
