Mr. Darcy: Ah, Congratulations, Miss Elizabeth. I See You’re On Time Today.

could u do a tutorial on shading? how do u get your lines so straight? im a huge fan of ur art and i would love to learn how !!

Shading (without a specific light source)

1. Flat Colors

2. Add a lighter color or a darker color to the original color in order to add more value to the flat colors.

If you look at the image below it shows the comparisons of the new color that was added to the original color in order to see the difference between the two.

3. Add the shadows in order to show which object is above another object. To create the shadows I used the colors shown below and set them to ‘multiply’. This adds more depth to your work. 

4. Use ‘multiply’ to give more emphasis on certain aspects on your work. Like for example the leaves.

5. Add the finishing touches and you are done!

Shading (with a specific light source)

All you gotta do is determine where the light source is. In the image below, the light source is the sun. The little sun will guide you on which parts should be illuminated or shaded. 

Here are some examples:

In order to see the difference that shading can do, here is a process gif!!!

As for lines, I believe that everyone’s style is different. Some choose to do little strokes while others do just one big stroke. As for me, I just do one big stroke in order to maintain the fluidity and consistency of the line. Here is a picture of comparison:

If you want smooth lines then just try and draw it in one swift movement. If you don’t get it right, don’t erase the part that went wrong (because it will be obvious that it’s no longer one line but 2 lines because the continuity of the original line and the new line won’t be the same). You have to redo the whole line from the beginning.

 If you practice this a lot you will notice that your lines will be better and at the same time, you will work faster because you don’t have to do so many strokes. Btw  when you draw the line do it fast, like really fast, so that you won’t encounter any mistakes. 

Just draw a lot and you will get the hang of it and I also hope you know that each artist has their own style. So maybe the one swift stroke works for me but the many short strokes work for you. Just draw in a way that’s more comfortable to you. Anyway, hope this was helpful and have a good day!

i wonder what’s happening right now over at hogwarts

The lip sync tutorial they DON’T give you

I mentioned on twitter that I wanted to do a lip sync tutorial and immediately got some people who were interested so I put one together real quick!

I’m going to use a bit of unfinished lip sync from my taz animated part as reference. They’re just gifs so no sound, but you should still be able to tell that he’s saying “I’d say a solid B… Solid B minus.”

Anyone who’s looked up how to do lip sync has seen phoneme charts. Phonemes are just the shape your mouth makes when you make certain sounds.

When you do lip sync, you want some kind of reference to make sure it’s right

What’s easiest is to say it yourself and pay attention to the shapes your mouth is making. Since you’re going frame by frame, your audio is slow enough that you can make each shape slowly and distinctly and you can get each individual phoneme down in the animation.

Don’t do this.^

An easy way to tell if you’re animating lip sync wrong is if you run out of frames to make each shape. You don’t need them! Making each shape is unnatural. People talk quickly and the mouth doesn’t have the time to get into each shape. They blend together, sometimes to the point where the shape doesn’t change at all!

Not only does the 2nd gif take less frames and energy to make, it’s more relaxed, it looks less distracting, and his lips are much easier to read!

These are reference charts to show the differences more clearly

This is the difference between getting swallowed up in every last detail and paying attention to reality.

What matters more than hitting every syllable is making it look natural and flow with the acting. That’s why anime mouth flaps can work so well. A strong pose through the whole body matters more than one mouth shape.

Cute

If anyone wants to know

The Danish vikings yelled “VI ELSKER SØDE KATTEKILLINGER” which means “WE LOVE CUTE KITTENS”

Oc. Doesn't have a name yet. Just a good boii.

A comic I did two years ago and never finished

Part 01

Sadness

A bunch of drawing I HAD COMPLETELY FORGOT ABOUT. They have been in my computer for I don't know how long, for the gods. #doodles #oc #sketches #iforgotthem https://www.instagram.com/p/BqqLq5NAm4Q/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=1ecs5r6v2a7pr

Quick CLIP STUDIO PAINT trick

If you’re like me, then you guys love shading your sketches or lineart. Like this:

But if you erase a bit and shade more with black on low opacity it’ll look all wonky so you use the color picker. Or hell you scan or take a photo of a drawing you made on paper. But then this happens if you wanna put color under it!

Oh no! Now I have to set it to multiply to color it in! And then I can’t color in the lineart! :(

Fret not, my dear friends! I found the solution! Go to [Edit] > [Convert brightness to opacity]

And suddenly you have this:

This way you don’t need to set the lineart to multiply and can color it in! It also works perfectly, if you use this nifty little trick on traditional drawings that you scanned.

I hope this helped you guys, because I sure as hell didn’t know about this until yesterday! ♥

I know, my friend. It hurts. But'll remember him properly, like you said, as a bright star.

The brightest start still shines

Why is this whole situation so ironic? I mean why music can heal the people who listen to it, and why it doesn’t have that power on the musician who make it. The last person who died was Kim Jong Hyun, the one who inspire me to write this whole thing.  I receive the notice when I was on the bus on my way home and since then I can stop crying. He has committed suicide. He had depression and after some time he died. His case hit me real hard, I have been a ‘’real’’ kpop fan since this February and I have also have depression. It’s hard to deal with it. You truly pretend to be the happiest person on this world on the exterior. To make the ones around you believe it, to not make them notice how you feel because if they do you suddenly feel more like a burden than you already do it before. But inside of your brain all things change, you feel like and absolute shit and you only think that the only thing you do is feeling that you don’t matter to anyone even to yourself. But back to the real thing, he was one of the best singers that Korea has had, part of one of the most famous and successful gups that the kpop industry has have, one person whose smile could light up your day, who was a little dork, in conclusion, he made you love him. You may think. Why does he died? he got everything that he wants. But you’re missing something he got all his life ahead. He has only 27. Yes, the cursed number. Another one to join the 27 club, with many others as Amy Winehouse, Kurt Cobain, Janis Joplin, Jimi Hendrix, Brian Jones, Jim Morrison… and many others. I still refuse to believe that he is gone now, I have been listening him all day, sobbing. Lying to myself, to make me believe that he isn’t gone for ever. Finally, my sincere condolence to his family, his friends, to Shinee, to all his SM level mates, and to all the Shawols.  Let’s not forget that mental illness isn’t a joke, they are real, and we must fight TOGETHER   against them. You are not alone, we aren’t alone. Let’s remember him as the bright star he was. Rest in peace sweetheart.