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
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