Art references - General

Meta

• Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain - this book is more for clearing the misconception that you can’t draw (free version here)
• How to Practice - Improve your Art Skills, the Smart Way!
• 【10 Digital Art Tips】 For Beginners
  • Two routes after sketch: lineart and painting
• Free Video Library - Ctrl+Paint - Digital Painting Simplified
• Quickposes: pose library for figure & gesture drawing practice

Composition

• Understanding Composition
• Composition in Art

Lighting and shadows

• Shading Light and Form - Basics
  • This has a nice explanation of specular highlights
• Basic Lighting & Colour Theory - Tips on How to Shade
  • This focuses more on mechanics such as using a brush and switching hues
• Improve Your Art with Better Shadows
  • Shadow color is ambient color
• Light and Shadow - 10 Minutes To Better Painting - Episode 6
  • Halftones should be closer to lighter values than shadows
  • Asaro head can be used to visualize light and shadow on a face
• How to Draw Shadows on Objects and People
• How to Shade a Drawing
  • When simplifying a form, decrease the number of planes that form consists of
• Top 5 Shading Mistakes
• Ambient Occlusion (and Ambient Light) for Painters
  • Ambient occlusion is the darkest part of a shadow, that isn’t lit by ambient light
  • 11:28 in the video has a good explanation

Mechanics

• The Best Brush for Digital Painting (Beginners)
  • Use big brushes at first, then at the end of drawing use smaller brushes
• Painting like a Sculptor
• DIGITAL COLORING Like a PRO! - Fast and Effective!
  • First add base/gray color layer to entire drawing so clipping layer can be applied for other layers
  • Add grayscale layer, then add color layer on top
• Tips on varying line-weight｜How to use Thick & Thin Lines
  • Contours facing the light are thinner, contours facing away from the light are thicker

Cloth

• How to Draw CLOTHES Wrinkles, Folds and Creases｜10 Art Tips
• CLOTH AND DRAPERY 1: Cloth, Folds, Junctions, and Armor
  • Excellent categorization of folds
• CLOTH AND DRAPERY 2: MOVEMENT IN FABRIC
  • Excellent categorization of folds
• Art Clothing Mistakes (wrinkles and folds)
  • Don’t tuck the shirt underneath the breasts
• Drawing Clothes 1: Wraparounds
  • The body is made of cylinders
  • Clothes should wrap around these cylinders
  • For foreshortened limbs, imagine a cardboard tube to simulate it
• Drawing Clothes 2: Drapes & Folds