Summer addict
Recently I was asked to make a tutorial on water rendering, so I spent some time making one. It’s not exhaustive; It’s mainly aimed at rendering drops and streaks of water, but I think that’s usually what people mean when they ask about this. If you want to convey sweat, or like the character is…
This month I launched a couple new tiers on the Patreon: Beach shopper and Beach shopper +. Get access to everything on the Patreon plus some monthly merch, for a combined price that’s lower than getting it separate. Stuff available is the same as in the store. More merch to come if this goes well….
Another year, another list of favorite things! I get a kick out of reading other people’s favorites lists, and I enjoy compiling my own. I hope some of you like it too. :> You might notice that this year there’s no anime on the list! Sadly, there was none I particularly liked. There’s still lots…
I’ve been working on the new store for a while, and same on getting the posters produced and ready, and it’s finally all come together! There’s 4 posters available to start out – some recent hits like the Ramlethal piece, Samus piece, Azula, and of course, Chinatsu. (I’ve also ordered more stock of the Chinatsu…
You’ve linearted your piece, you’ve laid down the base colors, and now you want to figure out how those colors change when they’re in shadow. What do you do? Most people’s first intuition is to just turn down the brightness of the color. We’ll use the skin color here as our example and lay down…
2021, also known as 2020 part 2. Could’ve been a better year, but there were still plenty of things to salvage it. This list goes into my favorite finds. Sadly a category that’s woefully underrepresented this year is videogames, and that’s due to the hand pain I’ve had. Hopefully this year I get better and…
If there’s one tool that I think every new digital artist should know, it’s how to use clipping layers. Clipping layers are what separates the savages from the civilized artists. In this tutorial I hope to teach you all about them. Usually when you start out drawing digitally you try to do everything in one…
Vector layers are one of the coolest features in Clip Studio and they’re a godsend for doing lineart. They allow you to circumvent a lot of the annoyances with traditional raster lineart, and have a bunch of neat little options that improve your workflow. This article goes in depth into how it works and why…
If you’ve ever tried to lineart a tube, a rope, or something of that sort where it’s a curved tube volume, you might’ve discovered how hard that is to do accurately by hand. As humans we just have trouble eyeballing this kind of stuff with precision. Thankfully, you don’t need to eyeball it. This is…
