Animation smears lecture from Chapter 3 or FULL VERSION of my Complete Introduction to 2D Animation which you can find on https://gumroad.com/stringbing
I’m sure a ton of people already know how to do this, but I only learned recently, so I wanted to share one of my favorite thumbnailing tricks! Color matching is SUPER helpful to quickly map out potential color schemes :D
[EDIT] this is in Adobe Photoshop, sorry for forgetting to mention that!
20 year old beginner: one year of learning flute and butterfly knife skillz :)
Fun fact: Adults actually learn those “You need to practice!” skills better than children do.
Kids tend to want to do literally anything aside from learning this skill my parent is forcing me to learn.
Adults actually can sit down and practice things for hours on end. Adults WANT to practice to get their skills better. Adults deliberately set aside time every day to practice. Even if it’s just 20 minutes, it’s productive growth and not wiggling in your chair mournfully watching birds out the window.
Anything from Drawing to Weaving to Violin to fuckin flipping bufferfly knives like a pro - choose a skill and LEARN, dammit! None of that ‘Children’s brains are more malleable’ bullshit. Brain squish is not the end-all of learning!
Here’s another round of my rough animation for Castlevania. I animated most of these during the revision process to help along scenes we wanted a little more impact from. Since they were scattered throughout the episodes, I thought I’d do a side by side so you can see how the roughs got translated into the final product.
Next week I’ll post the sequence where the majority of my animation effort went. I hope you’ll look forward to it.
Pues no es que esté yo a favor del porno pero he ido a hacer un post de espaldas, piernas, manos y tal y ya me han censurado.
He ido a buscar “eros” y “literatura erótica” “erótica” en tumblr y no hay nada, así que como siempre bajo cierta apariencia de ética y moral llega la censura. Como ya decía V de Vendetta
I drew a quick chart about good wrist and finger exercise before playing Splatoon (or engaging in any other intense activity such as but not limited to gaming in general, programming, drawing, computer work etc.) As with all stretching exercise, these should only be done in moderate speed. You only want to loosen up, not break your hands!!
… and it kinda exploded on twitter haha
This is a good thing to have explode anywhere. I did some of these and my wrist felt a ton better. I do a lot of typing and repetitive motions at work (need to do more drawing) but my right wrist is always JACKED. This is such a cute and great guide for exercises all in one place!
i write my first drafts longhand with a fountain pen. great for creativity (can’t backspace with a pen, and colorful ink makes everything better!) but hard on the hand. i’ve been doing some things sort of like this but it’s nice to have a reference sheet. i bet these would be good for avoiding knitting cramps too.
Un anónimo ha preguntado: Why do professional artists draw the whole piece in grayscale and than redraw it in color? Wouldn't it be faster to do it all in color from the start?
There is so so so much theory and technical stuff that goes into this whole process of “grayscale to color” painting (which I absolutely love).
Oil Painting
I assume you’re talking about digital painting, but let’s talk about traditional oil painting first! In oil painting, there’s a process called “glazing”. The artist will lay down monochromatic values for a basic layout (usually in either grey or a sienna brown, which is more useful for laying down a base for skin tones). Then, with thin layers of the desired color, they will “glaze” over the underlayer, combining value with color. Glazing is a very subtle technique, but that’s what makes it so great. The subtle shifts and layers of color give the painting “life”.
(img. credit: willkempartschool.com)
Digital Painting
Just like in oil painting, the point of painting in grayscale first is to achieve really distinct values first before adding color. For some, dealing with value and color at the same time will be too overwhelming and not achieve the same effect.
Different colors correspond to different values. As you can see, yellows are super light while blues get super dark.
(img credit: ConceptArt.org)
There is a downside to doing it this way, and you’re right: it does take longer to first paint it in grayscale and then add color onto it.
He goes over the ‘why’ of using grayscale much more thoroughly than I did, gives a demo, and states why he feels this is an ineffective way of painting.
He makes an excellent point of how we don’t perceive color in terms of value, and therefore why it is hard to translate grayscale to color, or vice versa.
All in all, my personal opinion is that for an artistic process, grayscale-to-color painting is a bit tedious and creates more of a problem than it does solve one. Instead, studying value maps and doing monochromatic studies can improve your use of value within a color piece.
I hope this was helpful in clearing up why artists paint in grayscale before using color! Grayscale is helpful in studying value and clearly showing lighting on a piece. 3D modelers and designers may use grayscale in their pieces because they want to focus on the form and not color. It all depends on what your use and purpose is!
Was getting some of my images ready to be made into prints today so I thought I’d make a guide for anyone else interested in making prints of their work :D