Hey There! Random Question But I'm Curious, How Would You Go About Drawing Chainmail? I Have A D&D Character

Hey there! Random question but I'm curious, how would you go about drawing chainmail? I have a D&D character that has chainmail under their armour and every time I try to draw them I'll start off by drawing all the links by hand then it gets way too tedious so I go look for chainmail pattern on google and paste it lmao but it feels like I'm cheating by doing that, and it clashes with the style I'm going for. I was wondering if you had any tips or tricks?

I don’t feel particularly great at drawing chain-mail either but there’s a technique I learned from a tutorial a bunch of years ago that I think makes a pretty good texture. It’s fast and the end result is cartoon-y enough to match a less photo-realistic style. I can’t for my life find the tutorial so I’ll recreate it here (using Photoshop):

1. Fill your canvas with black or white. Filter -> Render -> Clouds

2. Filter -> Filter Gallery -> Glass (under the Distort category)Keep smoothness as low as possible, play with the other settings

3. Find a filter in Filter Gallery that you like and apply it. Combine them, if needed.

4. When applying texture to the drawing, use Edit->Transform->Warp to make it fit the shape you’re trying to convey

You can stack more filters on after the texture is placed or draw over it with a textured brush to make it look less uniform if that’s what you want. Add a shine to it with a big soft brush, colorize it, go crazy. I go with whatever looks best to me atm.

This is how I did Geralt’s armor too, though since I knew the final print will be smaller than 1.5″ I didn’t worry about details much. 

Hope that helps!

BATS: AN ANATOMY GUIDE FOR ARTISTS & ANIMATORS

Bats are weird and confusing animals. I am not an artist but I have worked with many species of bats. Let me try to explain the weird flap mammals for you.

WINGS: THEY’RE JUST WEIRD HANDS

Hopefully you already know that bat wings are just big ol’ hands. They have five fingers (though the pointer finger is shortened). I’ve put my hand at the bottom there- just make the palm much smaller and the fingers much longer, and you have a bat hand.

Click the cut for more bat business…

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Some drawing tips previously posted on twitter. More drawing tips on my patreon. Hope some of these can be helpful.

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heres some information ive learned recently about various historical boob holders if you were interested. 

these arent super specific to decades or anything like that and there’s lots of variation and stuff, so this isn’t the best reference for making a specific historically accurate costume/character design but its stuff i thought was interesting to know

A long time ago an anon asked my thoughts about drawing backgrounds, so I finally got around to putting this together. It’s more prop-centric, but it still represents my philosophy to backgrounds. 

I’ll try to do something more about drawing actual background spaces in the future! Please let me know what you think, if anything is unclear, or if you have suggestions for other tutorials you might find helpful!