Notes On What Goes Into How I Do Expressions/faces.

Notes on what goes into how I do expressions/faces.

I felt bad I pretty much did a “draw a circle NOW DRAW THE REST OF THE OWL” for this question so I thought to expand a bit.

Magical glowy hair is the best. This was a basic lighting reference for myself but decided to post it anyway in case it helps anyone! Its really important to chose a light source in your illustrations, it actually makes things much easier when you add your lights and shadows.

I HOPE THIS HELPS. <3

I am not very good at tutorials, but I tried. ;u;

(Edit: OK EVERYTHING IS FINE NOW)

How do you get the line art out of your painted arts? Or do you not use it?

OH NAH i definitely still gotta use lineart, i have a really hard time visualizing where things go without it h h h a but here are the Basic Steps

most everything follows up to this point pretty regularly, and then getting the outlines out is me putting another layer over the TOP of everything, zooming in to at least 200% and. just. drawing over them with a tiny brush ( and sometimes a slightly larger one )

its not SUPER EFFICIENT but its usually my favorite step because its fun to switch the layer on n off and see the differences, ALTHOUGH maybe in 50 something years when im dying ill look back on all the time i wasted not learning how to draw without outlines and curse my wretched, terrible self

and thats more or less it ! its definitely a more complicated process when theres an actual background you gotta keep in mind but i dont have to worry about those because im a coward

SECRET FINAL STEP: ???????

How to do the gradient dots...thing

Just gonna post this here so everyone can see just in case they’re interested also. And don’t worry, I don’t mind people asking me how I do stuff haha. 

So someone asked me how I do those dotted gradient background like the image below so here goes~

First you make a new layer below your image

then you click the gradient tool. Make sure your foreground and background color is set to the default black and white. Then use it on the layer below your image.

Now go to Filter»Pixelate»Color halftone and click it. A window should pop-up after.

Welp there’s your window! Now change all the variables to 45

It should now look something like this! If you want the dots to have a different color then make a new layer above the dots and set the layer mode to “screen”

On that layer which is now on the “screen” blend mode fill it with any color you like using the paint bucket tool. 

And there you go! I hope this was helpful :’>