Temperatur 🌡
First off thanks!!! I tried to make a tutorial but it ended up extremely vague and more of a step-by-step of a headshot i drew today for this purpose whoops;;; oh and I use manga studio 5 for drawing and painting but the hair thing works in sai and photoshop too.
This is one layer but If it’s a complicated drawing then i’ll draw it out and line it with a thin brush with no pressure sensitivity, and then bucket fill the shapes on separate layers, usually 1 layer per character and one layer for the bg.
I also might do color adjustment layers and merge them down as I go but I got lucky this time and didn’t have to make any adjustments.
I work on one layer but every 30 minutes or before I begin a new stage (hair, the eyes) I’ll duplicate that layer and paint on the topmost one. This way I can check to see if I over-rendered by hiding the top layer. If i over-render or mess something up, then I have that back-up layer that I can go back to and start that part again.
Some additional things:
- lost edges are where the edge of a shape bleeds into the other without any visible separation between the two. If you don’t need an edge consider getting rid of it for a more painterly look. Zhao Ming Wu does this beautifully.
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The very very darkest shadows on skin are almost always warm. Even if the light source is cool, the nostril will be a warmer color than the rest of the skin.
- warm light: cool shadows
- cool light: warm shadows
- Vary the hue here and there with little flecks of bright colors that harmonize with the local color of the object to make things pop
- If the background is dark, draw a very thin orange or dark pinkish line where the skin meets the bg. This is called a corona and will make the skin look like it’s glowing but without looking like you slapped an overlay filter on top
- you don’t need to use pure black AND pure white in the same image every single time
- The eye is drawn to hard edges, so use them where it counts!!
- Read Richard Schmidt’s Alla Prima for more of this kind of stuff. I got most of these ideas from that book
- and proko’s youtube channel
- ps that’s makoto
That’s all I can think of right now!!
Another sad song for this lovely boys, I had this idea stuck with me for weeks now!!
Just started imagining a Necromancer using their magic to create undead for the sole purpose of creating a musical number and they need back up dancers for their song solo.
Ah yes, the necromancer subclass: necrodancer
multiclassing in bard
THIS IS THE BEST THING I HAVE EVER SEEN
That last fatal scream tho
THE TERROR IN HIS SCREAM OH GOSH
i’m crying
WAAA-
I will always reblog this on the off chance some other poor soul has been searching for it
IT’S BACK
HOYL SHIT ITS B A CK
IT’S BACK?? ON MY DASH?
re-blogging again xD
what was that we were just saying about still having posts circulating from ridiculous numbers of years ago? 😂
Keep it rolling!






























