Line thickness tip

Have you ever struggled with line thickness and these annoying, thin lines? By default, pen pressure translates linearly to brush size. Meaning, a stroke of 1% pen pressure becomes a line of 1% brush size, 50% pen pressure becomes 50% brush size, etc. And this is where the problem comes from. Those stringy lines appear…

Chinatsu reference sheet

This was a long time coming but I finally made a reference sheet for my main girl, the tan beauty with golden eyes, Chinatsu. :p This serves both as general reference of the character and reference for anyone who might want to draw her. Importantly, it compiles a list of notes about what I find…

Kuro’s top beginner advice

Over the years streaming my drawing on the internet there’s been a number of questions I’ve gotten repeatedly from aspiring viewers in regards to advice for beginners. This is something that I actually feel very strongly about, and in this post I will talk about what I think are some of the biggest and most…

Kuro’s favorite things in 2020

Despite the hell that was the year of 2020, I’m thankful that I’ve had a lot of good things happen too. I finally moved back south after 10 years being away for college, reconnected with some old friends, got my teeth fixed, made this site, made my first piece of merch, and I collected a…

Kuro’s Favorite Games 2019

2019 was a pretty good year in games for me! I played a few really great games that pushed my standards for how good games can be. Here are my informal reviews for them.Sadly, due to some health problems I didn’t manage to play much in the final quarter of the year, and here’s hoping…