How Do Draw Good

Hi! I was wondering what program you use to make your animations. I would like to make some myself. If you could do a tutorial it would be greatly appreciated!

Hi there!  I use TV Paint for all my animations.  I don’t consider myself an expert of animation or TV Paint, but Toniko is a very talented animator with great tutorial videos- I recommend you check out his site.  Good luck with your animating! :) 

Inktober day 16: well, this turned out better than expected ^-^ . #inktober #inkstagram #inktober2016 #inking #drawinggirl #drawing #art #traditionalart #illustration #girl #girlsinanimation #ink #balloons #artistsofinstagram #tumblr

Wolverine and my process on painting the Wolverine :D

Inktober day 8: no wifi yesterday to post this... #inktober #inktober2016 #drawinggirl #drawing #artistsofinstagram #art #traditionalart #showyourwork #girlsinanimation

Some lasso heads I’ve been experimenting with. Trying to make 2d shapes more 3 dimensional…you know, and I feel like I’m getting somewhere with these.  I’ve been doing these quite a lot these days so more to come! :D

Oh and happy new year guys!

Dr. King Schultz is a new favorite character of mine. He was easily my favorite from “Django Unchained.”

Captain America

Colored with crayons

HOLY FREE ART PROGRAMS BATMAN

I’ve had this list sitting around for a while (in case I ever want to try something new) and I thought I’d share it, because why the hell not, everybody loves free stuff. I’ve only used a couple, so for all I know these could be complete shit. BUT YOU NEVER KNOW, RIGHT?

*= available for both windows and mac os

GIMP * - Does a lot of the same stuff as Photoshop.

FireAlpaca * - Similar to Paint Tool Sai, so it’s a good alternative for Mac users.

Autodesk Sketchbook Copic Edition * - Simulates the look of copic markers.

MyPaint * - Basic stuff, nothing fancy.

Pinta * - Drawing program modeled after paint.NET.

Inkscape * - Vector/drawing program meant to be similar to Illustrator.

ArtRage * - Digital painting program; you can get the trimmed down version for free or buy the full version with more features.

Sumo Paint * - In-browser drawing app.

DAZ Studio * - Some sort of 3D model poser thing.

Pencil * - Software for animating.

SketchUp * - Tool for making 3D models. Looks handy for stuff like architectural drawings.

Blender * - Pretty popular 3D software.

escape motions * - Some browser apps, fun to fiddle with when you’re bored (the fluid fire simulation is pretty cool imo).

Twistedbrush (Pixarra) - Seems to be meant for replicating the look of traditional media.

Pixia/Phierha - A popular program in Japan, according to the website.

Krita - This was originally made for Linux and it looks like the developers haven’t ironed out all of the kinks in the Windows installer.

Artweaver - Another trimmed down free thing if you don’t want to buy the full program.

paint.NET - Pretty basic kit, probably good for simple stuff.

Project Dogwaffle - I’m not sure what this one is all about because I couldn’t stop laughing at the terrible website.

Speedy Painter - Lightweight digital painting program.

mtPaint - Originally made for pixel art; simple enough to run on older computers.

Chasys Draw IES - Supposed to be some sort of drawing+image editor thing.

PaintRibbon - Seems to be another plain old basic image editor.

DrawPlus - Looks like it’s made for graphic design and vector stuff.

SmoothDraw - I’m guessing this is a basic thing for people who don’t want to bother with complicated stuff.

how did you figure out how to do hands

well when I do hands I tend to break them into 3 big shapes 

starting with the wrist then palm, thumb then the fingers 

once I have the big shapes in I separate the fingers

here are some more examples of the different parts

one of the best ways that I learned how to draw hands was to draw a LOT of them, in different poses, while looking at a reference. This is a site that I found useful, 

it has 3D models of hands that you can change the view so you can see the same pose from different angles. p.s. this site i linked to does contain nude figures just a heads up  

Trying to figure out light and shadow... and everything in general in this drawing. Turned out to be better than I expected it to. If I had worked a little bit more on this, it could be Rey from Star Wars