TL,DR: This is an outline for my next How To Make Your Art Look Nice Tutorial on appeal and interest and this is how I go about the early stages of my tutorials!
Before we get to the outline itself, I think I want to be transparent with how I approach making tutorials because I don't think I talk about how much writing and thinking this takes! I like to tackle topics that...
2020-11-15 04:42:26 +0000 UTC View Post
Some sketches, story ideas, and brush experiments! I'm really enjoying how Clip Studio Paint makes sketching so much faster than it needs to be. 2020s nearing a close and I wonder how many sketch pages I can churn out before it ends. Thinking of compiling these for a PDF maybe.
2020-11-10 03:40:32 +0000 UTC View Post
I think I want to give sense to the look of this type of magic that I want to mostly base on water. I also want to bring bubbles/ripples into its look.
For the most part, I want its uses to lie on the manipulation of weight so flight levitation and telekinesis is a common use of it.
I dont rule out the concussive nature of water though so they're good projectiles. A bunch more uses ...
2020-11-04 06:54:37 +0000 UTC View Post
A bit of a big one but I was thinking about this the other night (and I talked about this on stream) but I'm not so sure it's explained well through text!
I feel thinking in this sort of matter helps a lot when it comes to pushing shapes. This takes a lot of practice and needs an eye/visual library for this to work effectively. I realized you'd need to know what shapes to use and where/ho...
2020-11-03 10:44:45 +0000 UTC View PostBeen a bit of a weird month on my end again! I think I've been working on acclimating to Clip Studio Paint and I feel like I'm getting there. The next challenge is figuring out how to paint and texture haha!
In other news, I think my internet has begun to stabilize itself after a few months of being weird???? I'm gonna look into having a stream test run some time and hopefully it won't bl...
2020-11-01 01:50:28 +0000 UTC View Post
Adding my sketch requests for those who opted in for annual memberships! All done in CSP which I am slowly (but surely) getting used to!
Thanks for the characters everyone!
2020-10-27 07:28:02 +0000 UTC View Post
Some characters I've been thinking about! They'll definitely be going through shape tweaks when I actually get to making this (whenever that'll be haha).
2020-10-21 09:44:50 +0000 UTC View Post
another animation assignment! I know it said lipsync and the post is a gif but i’ll have this go through a feedback phase before posting haha In the meantime though here’s what i’ve been busy on the side with. Just wanting to share here what I’ve been posting in the discord wip channel.
I’ve been wanting to do some lipsync so this assignment got me excited! I realized making thi...
2020-10-18 11:56:29 +0000 UTC View Post
It's easy to fall into drawing the head first but starting out with another element can help with posing problems. Whenever I want to switch up my pose composing, I like to start with either of these four! There are a bunch more though and I feel your drawings follow whatever your start drawing first.
Drawing torsos first is a safe way of starting a drawing and I personally like starting ...
2020-10-13 04:08:51 +0000 UTC View Post
Some other characters I thought about
2020-10-05 10:20:20 +0000 UTC View Post
I picked up CSP for my laptop this month when it went on sale (I didn't like the subscription bit of iPad) and these pages were spent trying to figure out how to replicate the feel of my Photoshop brushes. It's not quite there but once I'm confident with them, I hope to release them over at gumroad!
I REALLYY love the filling tools of CSP but the brush feel isn't doing it for me yet! I wo...
2020-10-04 06:20:32 +0000 UTC View PostHi all! It's been a been a bit of a month for me as I feel like I've did some half resting/half working from what I feel could've been from an upcoming burn out from the stuff that's been happening. I noticed I've been drawing much less outside of work other than my sketchbook but even that I don't even draw much on. I think the timing of the LBX weekend was pretty poor on my end as while I wan...
2020-09-29 00:30:35 +0000 UTC View Post
Trying to get used to working on CSP so I did this round of requests on it. Still trying to figure out what brushes and settings work for me!
Thanks for the new characters!
2020-09-26 04:43:25 +0000 UTC View Post
Not drawing related but!! Just wanting to go about this small project I did and I feel like I want to have something to return to. I posted these shots over at the discord a bunch of weeks ago but I think only now i want to write about my ~experience with 3D~
Anyway some background: When i got my computer, I was stoked to do computer stuff after being stuck with an ipad for a year now. On...
2020-09-21 11:25:09 +0000 UTC View Post
I've been a bit busy catching up on some things but I've managed to do something quick over Lightbox Expo's weekend using the shared canvas of Magmastudio which I announced over at the Discord. Thanks to those who passed by and made some drawings! Hoping to do this more as I do enjoy doing this!
2020-09-17 01:18:19 +0000 UTC View Post
Misc stuff I've posted over at the discord! Mostly self-indulged stuff here as I still enjoy drawing them and lowkey want to get faster in drawing them. Also trying to draw the other characters in this story.
2020-09-10 08:40:15 +0000 UTC View Post
Some more sketch pages I've finished. I want to be more loose and different with my color choices. I also downloaded some more brushes so perhaps I can play around with those more. I feel like I can pull more inspiration from other artists though. Perhaps something I should always keep in mind.
2020-09-08 09:37:48 +0000 UTC View Post
Hey everyone! Hoping you all have been healthy and safe. It's been another busy month over at my end but I can finally say that I've been doing some character design work for The Owl House. I've been learning a lot these past weeks and I would definitely like to condense and write down my learnings into a post. I think I just need to figure out how ahaha.
Have a small King I did as ...
2020-08-30 14:24:06 +0000 UTC View Post
Done on stream! I wanted to try out Kyle's Webster's Photoshop CC screentone brushes but I ended up switching the textures back and forth which was kinda inefficient ahaha.
Thanks for the characters!!
2020-08-29 04:19:15 +0000 UTC View Post
Some stuff I’ve been doing as exercises for a friend’s animation workshops. These two are basically exercises on interaction, one with a character and another with a prop. I realized I don’t do this much and that I really took my time making these. I’ve come to realize that i’ve become a bit more patient with this sort of stuff as I t takes a lot of care and time put into it.
Some sketch pages done on my new laptop and it's been a bit of a tough adjustment period coming from the ipad pro! Some of my PS brushes that I've imported into my ipad feels weird coming back tbh!
Also working on a display tablet that isn't the ipad pro+pencil is taking a bit of getting used to. I kinda miss the 0 parallax and input lag but I do not miss having a small space to work with...
2020-08-16 04:41:34 +0000 UTC View Post
Doing another one of these because it's been a while! This kind of stuff usually just happens in my brain but I thought of writing this stuff down and maybe nail it when making conscious decisions when dealing with pushing shapes/proportions.
Anyhow, I'm a fan of Nathan's work and how they incorporate shape...
2020-08-12 03:01:11 +0000 UTC View Post
I've been learning to adjust to working on a computer and again and I've been neglecting uploading my random sketches that have been lying around in Procreate. It's kinda hard to keep thinking about actually saving and backing up these files as they're usually stuff I just sketch.
I think I've talked about this before but a lot of years ago, I used to trash and delete all sketches I didn'...
2020-08-06 07:46:54 +0000 UTC View Post
Oh boy, rewatching this was kinda painful haha. I’ve been chipping away at this in small bursts as I struggled a bit in making this. I don’t do this sort of style/shape language often so I suppose it makes sense the first half of the video was my getting shapes and the composition right.
I wanted to play around using as much parallel lines and diagonals but I feel that I could’ve pu...
2020-08-01 02:28:12 +0000 UTC View PostThis month has been a busy one. Not really much to update other than thinking about stuff for the brainsoup aaaand ordering a shiny new laptop! I think after a whole year of solely doing work on the iPad, I’m ready to return to doing normal computer things haha. Perhaps I can stream/host some draw/practice sessions over at the discord this time!
Also maybe down the line is working...
2020-07-29 02:41:46 +0000 UTC View Post
some sketches I’ve been doing in between work. Some characters I havent been drawing much!
2020-07-24 13:35:36 +0000 UTC View Post
Still using True Grit textures for this one! I still feel I can still push its potential tho haha. Thanks for the characters, everyone!
2020-07-23 10:49:36 +0000 UTC View Post
I’ve been caught up with some exciting work but I’m trying to find some in between time to sketch! Being constantly reminded of how much talent is going around is a real double edged sword! On one hand, you want to push yourself to be better WHILE ON THE OTHER, it feels real daunting!
I’m gonna **try** drawing more motorcycles often! I feel like it’s a nice exercise in perspective...
2020-07-14 12:38:53 +0000 UTC View Post
Something that’s relatively easy to try! I did this when I was playing around RoughAnimator and I decided to make it a bit easier to digest.
I think this is a neat trick in limited animation commonly seen in anime where they don’t really do mouth shapes for specific sounds. For the most part, especially in conversation scenes, they use 3 mouth shapes when delivering dialogue. It m...
2020-07-11 03:05:46 +0000 UTC View Post
Continuing to work on some character design portfolio pieces. I’ve been wanting to try my hand in the production side of character design which involves turns, mouth charts, and hand poses. I’m missing a character acting page but I’ll probs get to that later on. Not gonna lie though that there is a lot of pressure into making these kinds of things as they will be used as reference by arti...
2020-07-10 08:28:50 +0000 UTC View Post