I normally never used the default buttons on the pen and usually disable them. After using a cintiq companion with limited button mapping and no keyboard i realized i had no proper way to adjust my pen size.
I changed the buttons on the pen to increase and decrease pen size.
Not sure if anyone else does this but I think its a good tip.
If you’re stuck when painting a material like water, zoom up really close to the reference photo. Can really help you understand how color and light play off a surface.
Step one: Make a layer on top of your drawing and fill it completely with white
Step two: Set the blending mode to “Color”. It’ll make the entire image greyscale, and you can check your values, or work underneath (This helps me pick a variety of colour combinations)
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tbh I saw this on twitter, and wanted to contribute Hope it’s helpful to someone!
Throwback to this portrait tutorial that I made last year ^^ Do you find this helpful? If you are interested in learning more about my techniques and process, then feel free to check out more tutorials on my Patreon page! (link in bio)
Practice drawing people in unique positions by taking a screenshot from a choreographed scene in a musical and drawing your oc/muse in the position of one of the characters.
Aaron’s Art Tips #15 - Art Lessons - Get out of the studio!
“ In this episode of Aaron’s Art Tips Aaron talks about the importance of getting out of the studio and getting outdoors. Aaron takes you out in his boat and shows you a little bit of where he likes to get away and experience the wildlife of south Florida. The only way you can build up you visual library is by getting out and experiencing life. This is one of the major things that will make you a great artist.
I made a how-to viddy to show a sooper quick way to remove a color cast from a gif in Photoshop. To make a really pretty gif, you’ll need to do hue & saturation adjustments on a per-color basis, but if you just want a gif not to be extremely purple (as in this example) or extremely red (lookin’ at you, Xuanwu), this will do the trick.
Most of us have one, or more. For lists, chores, or even doodles. And inevitably, some jackass (you) used permanent marker on it.
No worries. Grab a black dry erase pen. Mark OVER the permanent marker. Now erase. The ink of the dry erase pen has a solvent that keeps it from fast drying. It also reactives the permanent markers ink to a wet state.
Also if you want to use one as a canvas for say sharpie art, this is a great technique to erase mistakes, or take out small parts. Used to work in a call center and I have probably a stack of 20 of these dry erase boards, all with sharpie art on em.
