Tag: tutorial

Sure hon! I have a couple ways I do tears but, lately been just resorting to this way 🙂 Super fast and easy peasy!

1. I save tears for last, putting them above all the layers. I’ve tried linearting them but never was happy with how they looked -3-

2. I’ll use white and draw the tear streams in! If you have trouble making the tears look like tears, I suggest looking up references on google. Just good to do anyway! After I draw them in, I bump the Opacity down to 50%, but the percentage changes depending on the color of the character. Making the tears barely visible is good!

3. Last are the highlights and shadows!  On their own layers, I put shadows beneath the main tear layer and the highlights are above the other three. Also adding more white in the eyes helps them seem more wet.

I hope that helps! Thank you so much ;u;

~Weird Hyenas

Sure, I can try my best! I’m not a good teacher like, at all, I only have experience in Photoshop Cs6 / Photoshop CC. I also use a specific brush that you can download HERE, which works for the photoshops I list above. I tried using the same brush in CS5 and it didn’t quite work, BUT you can pretty much use the way I ink with any brush. I use that brush for sketching, inking, and shading ^u^

First off, PATIENCE! PATIENCE IS THE BIGGEST KEY!!!! It’s so easy to get frustrated and bored with linework, if you find yourself rushing too much; step away. Put that away for tomorrow and come back to it fresh minded. I do it all the freakn time xnx’ 

1. Depending on what I’m planning on working on, I use HUGE canvas sizes. If I don’t plan to do a detailed piece, I use 2000×3000 canvas sizes, but if I know it’ll be sooper detailed or it’s a commission, I use 4000×6000. 

Once I have a sketch done, I’ll turn down the Opacity of the layer to around 20% or lower. 

2. These are the settings I have for the pen I use. Pretty much for any pen, I have them at size 4-7 with the Spacing turned all the way down. The varying sizes depends on how big the canvas is and how thick I want the linework to be.

3. The base linework is pretty simple, just outlining things. I wouldn’t keep the lineart like this though, time to add some line-weight! This is something I still really need to work on myself, my apologies ^^’

4. Adding extra ink to places where there’d be shadow can give the linework some more depth! I tend to do it where there are creases, and of course where they’re might be a lot of shadows (I’d honestly plan where your light sources will be ahead of time. If the light source is coming from the top left, have the thicker lines of the lineart lean away from the light (so, have them be on the right of, so like Bhailiu’s face here would have thicker lining on the right side of it’s face. I didn’t do that here but YEAH trying to describe stuff!).

5. I love cross hatching, though I don’t do it very consistently. I tend to add smaller, defining lines to bring out the shape of character’s faces, textures of things, etc! If you’re expecting to shade your lineart, I wouldn’t go too crazy with em. You’ll end up losing a lot of these little lines when you shade, or they don’t quite fit the shading sometimes. These lines look best for just lineart, or flat colors!

6. Lastly, this is a thing I used to do. Doing a really thick outline can REALLY make the lineart stand out, but I wouldn’t suggest doing this if you’re going to do a background too. This is best for solo pics just to have the character really pop out!

I really hope this helps! Apologies if this is just confusing or unhelpful >n>’ ALSO, HEY OTHER ARTISTS!!! If you have suggestions or know of some really useful tutorials/resources to add to this, please do!

~Weird Hyenas

Useful References!

Hey guiz!

Since I started doin some tutorial stuff, I’ve gotten a few more requests. I have full intention on getting to doing more tutorials, but I figured in the meantime, I offer some sources that I often go to!

On my personal blog I will often reblog and tag things I find particularly useful to me. Which the reference tag can be found here!

I also have a folder on my DeviantArt with brushes and more references I come across, here!

I follow a handful of blogs that provide really useful references for anatomy, color theory, and loads of other things. Below are some of the blogs I follow 😀

Art References – good for a buttload of different types of references from human anatomy to animal anatomy, texture, shading, etc. 
Fuck-ton of Anatomy References – Nude warning for those not comfortable with nudity, this is REALLY good for anatomy references as they use real life models (LEARN FROM LIFE YO) as well as diagrams for muscles and stuff.
Color Me Curious – Color pallet blog that has been super useful

Posemaniacs – Using 3D models of humans of different sexes, age, and body types this is REALLY helpful as you can pick a pose from their list, and move it around to get a good angle.

I hope these are useful to yalls! Like I said I’ll still be doing my own tutorials when I get some freetime. 

ALSO, please feel free to add your own sources to this post 😀

~Weird Hyenas, Mod

weirdhyenas:

I still personally don’t think I’m that good with snarling faces, I have a lot of studying to do on that. BUT, this is pretty much my thought process on them! I hope this helps! If you need any other specific visual aides I’ll be happy to draw them 😀

Wolf, dog, or lion snarls are the kinds of references I go to. With the teeth, I’ll often draw the cheekbone, jaw and muzzle as bones before finalizing the sketch above it. 

OOC : Sharing this here too!

|| Other Tutorials ||

OOC : Well, I had an ask for this, but when I went to screencap it I couldn’t find it anymore. Aaaaaaalrighty then.

Someone asked for tips on shading Kuronium, so here they be! I’ll admit that I have an awful time explaining things for tutorials, but hopefully these will help 😀

I will also be doing a “How to draw Kaos” tutorial too! But if there are any other tutorials you would like to see from me, feel free to suggest some! ^u^ I apologize these do take a wee bit to do. I will now be tagging any and all tutorials in their own tag as linked below! (or, just type in ‘tutorial’ in the search bar of the Weirdlanders page)

Other Tutorials (tutorial tag)

what about the people who want to go AAAAALLLLL the way back to the first post , or those who can’t figure out what post/tag their looking for exactly ?

OOC : I do apologize if the question keeps flying over my head, I can be so stupidly oblivious it hurts xD BUT I think I get what you’re asking for now.

Do you mean the beginning post of the plot thread? If so, that is a great idea! Like have one tab on the sidebar for “Plot-threads” (as there’s soooo many different plots going on because I can’t freaking sit still worth a damn) if I made a tab for every single one the page would go on forebah. It’ll definitely have to happen when I’m free enough from commission work to do it, as it may very well be a hefty thing to do as this blog has so many posts now.

But if you mean like, go to the very beginning of the blog, here’s a cheat!

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works for any blog, but you can type after the original blog link and change the number. Not sure how many pages there are? I usually type like 100 or something and it’ll at least have page numbers at the bottom of the page (at least for Weirdlanders) of whatever was the start of the blog.

I do apologize if this blog is like super messy! I never EVER intended for it to be as big as it is now, it was originally just a ‘fack it’ blog for my skylander stuff so I wouldn’t bog up my regular art blog weirdhyenas with only Skylander shiz xD But I will do the first idea as that is a really good idea, of late i’ve been trying to at least have the plot threads in the posts but having a list would be beneficial too!

I had someone ask me on dA on any tips when drawing Kaos, and after doodling this up (since I can’t explain things worth a poop, i’m an awful teacher) I figured I’d share here too! 

I have my own way of drawing him through preference, since I MUCH prefer his cutscene model from Giants compared to the baby-face he has more recently (at least in cutscenes). I tend to draw him more adult looking (since he’s nearing his 40s when he even wakes the Queen up) though age in Skylands doesn’t really seem to matter all that much. I also color him with slightly darker skin cuz because I feel it matches his color palette better

I mostly suggest just watching the youtube movies of the game’s cutscenes and screenshotting tons of different poses to get a bunch of good references! 

Enjoy!
~Weird Hyenas, mod