This is an exceptional breakdown on how to approach illustrations depicting a scene. Characters and backgrounds should not be considered seperately when you are painting an image of a character interacting within a setting. They are a single visual entity; a narrative. Likewise, a painting doesn’t need to include a detailed environment to be successful. It depends on your goal for what you wish to communicate.
I really like this post..! It’s very succinct about something I have tried to explain myself and have not been very good at explaining. What an excellent resource!
if you’re doing black edits of a character please please please use a color palette for reference so your edit doesn’t end up looking racist (like orange/red) here are some good ones
Hello! In celebration of a new year, I’m gonna show all of you a tip how to draw lips for Black/African/Dark Skinned people.
If you’re drawing a black/dark skinned person, the top lip is a slight step above or below their actual skin tone while the bottom lip can range from a faded pink to brown.
Black/African men’s and women’s lip lean towards “nude/palm of the hand” makeup color. Some cases it’s pink but everyone’s lip color varies from pink to brown. In my experience of going outside my house, the darker the person, the pinker the bottom lip is while the lighter brown skin lips will be closer to their actual skin tone.
Another note is that the pink /brown tone on the bottom of the lip is near the slit of the mouth, not the complete lip like lipstick makeup. Try adding different tones to a lip and blending both top and bottom lips together because everyone’s different! A very good detail to remember.
TL;DR: USE A REFERENCE. GOOGLE IMAGE SEARCH DOESN’T BITE! Thank you for your time! Go out and draw them awesome dark skinned characters and people!
Posted this to twitter, but it seems like a lot of people either didn’t know or wanted to boost it, so posting here too:
Hey hey, yo yo, if you’re gonna draw a kimono, or gi top, or whatever, remember it crosses left over right. Unless your character is dead.
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I’m gonna have to add this b/c I just saw another one, but CR S2 Ep1 JUST dropped, and already I’m seeing a number of Beau designs with it crossed the wrong way. PLEASE PLEASE be careful, ppl
Reblogging with a helpful (semi-scribbled) visual. Tagging for Critical Role b/c we need to be mindful if we do Beau in this kind of top ^__^
Type in your terms and preview the videos, taking screenshots to use as reference of the exact moment you like. This way, you won’t run into exact reference copying (since it isn’t a photo) and the poses tend to be more dynamic.
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