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KEITH'S CORNER

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My Brush Pack Is Finally Done!

My Brush Pack Is Finally Done!
My Brush Pack Is Finally Done!
My Brush Pack Is Finally Done!
My Brush Pack Is Finally Done!

My brush pack is finally done!

Download it via dropbox: Link

Download it via Clip studio assets: Link!

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More Posts from Daintykeith

2 years ago

“Loving you was like going to war, I never came back the same.”

— Warsan Shire

4 years ago

Hi, I’m Keith! ψ(`∇´)ψ

I’d love to add to this study of reference guide so you guys can see there are so many ways to study. 

❤ Let’s have a look into this study ❤

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In this one I followed @angelganev​‘s guide in his youtube channel on how to do faces. As you can see, this way shows you how the lines connect into one another naturally. 

To get into more detail, in this study i drew two times. The first time was drawn on red over the drawing and in black was the drawing next to it. It isn’t perfect, but it’s about learning! 

I reccommend you to check his youtube channel (angel ganev’s). It’s worth your time and effort.

❤ Now, let’s have a look into this other study ❤

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This is the classic side to side that takes into account the most important features of the drawing. However, you can see the photo upside down, right? This is another way of learning how to study and sketch.

Changing the rotation of our reference makes us try harder to understand what’s in the image and even more replicate it in our own style. With this in mind, you can see the big difference between the first and second sketch.

❤ And finally, let’s take a look into the final study! ❤

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IT LOOKS WEIRD AND AWFUL, I KNOW. However, this is taking the “drawing over the reference” to another whole level.

I painted over the reference, trying to understand the blending and the basic coloring in black & white method. But, you know? Maybe the traditional sketching isn’t for you! 

For this method I choose big round brushes and try to follow the general shape of it all, of where the eyes and hairline, of where the ears go and keep it GRAYSCALE. Why? Colors may distract you from the main purpose: PRACTICING, especially in this case because we are shading. 

Blending is more of a choice, but at first it’s better to keep it rouch and the grays may eventually blend bit by bit. It doesn’t have to be perfect or exactly as the picture, feel free to change.

It doesn’t always have to be done on top of a drawing, but side to side. The drawing below was one of the results I had after painting over references, making this a HUGE improvement in my drawings!

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However, the most important thing to take into account when you’re trying to learn how to study references is properly knowing what brushes you like the best for this! 

As you’ve seen in the previous studies, you can see different brushes such as: soft spray, hard round, big palette soft round, and pencil brushes. 

The brush you choose will give you a different result depending on what you want

Let me show you what I mean:

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Hi, Im Keith! ()

The first sketch has a more detailed style and rough pencil shading and gains dimension through these. The second one is a more clear structure and less shading and unrefined features through mere lines. 

Do you want a clear line-art style or instead a soft blended style? It’s up to you!

Knowing your brushes will open your way to how you will study your references and being courageous to overcome your mistakes will let you learn what you need so you can improve.

I hope this is of help y’all o(* ̄▽ ̄*)ブ

How to study references

In one of my previous posts I talked about how to choose references, but I never explained what to do when you find the perfect reference. “Obviously draw it!” Well, yes but no! ( •̀ ω •́ )✧ When you first approach a reference, you obviously want to draw it, but previously it’s very important that you study your photo. And I don’t mean watching it in detail, but break it into minor concepts. Studying is very important when you first start to draw, also because it helps you to memorize the concepts that make the reference, so that in the future you might not need one!

1. Photo Reference: to be as clear as possible, I decided to do this process myself. 

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this is the reference that I chose, particulary beacuse of the lights and the lack of background :) What I did after choosing the ref, is breaking it into geometric shapes an straight lines.

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This process doesn’t have to be detailed, it’s just a way of looking how the shapes can form a figure. The trick is to look at the lines as they are: lines. Don’t think about the whole picture, concentrate on the single line.

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(please excuse the poor quality of the image, but my computer is terrible!) what I did, is taking the single structures and lines one by one and remodulate them so that I could make a (basic!) sketch of the whole thing. I did not trace, as I don’t really like to do it, but ONLY FOR STUDY PORPUSES, you can do that too.

2. Art Reference: so, this is the hard part. Or rather, the part that seems the hardest. The whole thing is: you have to study the techniques, but leave alone the initial composition, so how to do it? It’s really simple! Let me explain:

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let’s say you really like this artwork, and you want to try to imitate the artist. What you want to do, is doing the exact same thing we did with the photo: break it into pieces and remodulate the whole thing. 

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see how i “absorbed” the artist’s style in a new way? obviously, this is only one of the ways of studying an artwork! you can study artworks on numerous levels: lights, anatomy, brushes used ecc…


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1 year ago

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1 year ago
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Unsplash -  photography, illustration, & art

Pixabay - same as unsplash

Pexels - stock photos and videos

Getty Images - photography & illustration

Veceezy - vectors and clipart

Gumroad - photoshop brushes (and more)

StockSnap.io - stock photos

Canva - needs login but has lots of templates

Library of Congress - historical posters and photos

NASA - you guessed it

Creative Commons - all kinds of stuff, homie

Even Adobe has some free images

There are so many ways to make moodboards, bookcovers, and icons without plagiarizing! As artists, authors, and other creatives, we need to be especially careful not to use someone else’s work and pass it off as our own. 

Please add on if you know any more resources for free images <3

2 years ago

New writing rule: Checkov’s friend

If you introduce a named character with a relationship to a protagonist, their character arc must be resolved in a way that feels reasonable and satisfying

Which is to say: they can’t just dissappear when they’re no longer a convenient plot device