Tutorials done by Stanislav Prokopenko who is an instructor at Watts Atelier.
Right click + New Tab to see the images in their original size. There are 10 images, sorry I had to chop them up because Tumblr has a image size limit and starts resizing.
have I already reblogged this? OH WELL
I just went back through over 900 liked posts and dug out all the art tutorials so i can keep track of them. I guess this might be helpful to some of you guys, so here you go.
Here we go then!
Freeware
Alchemy - this is a really fun program. You play around making abstract shapes until you start to see something in them, kind of like a Rorschach test. Then you use the shapes as a base to draw it from.
MyPaint - a pretty decent painting program that also has the benefit of working on Unix systems.
openCanvas 1.1 - I haven’t used openCanvas in years but it was a nice program with a pretty unique feel to it.
ArtRage - Only used this a couple of times donkey’s years ago just before I got oC, but I’ve heard good things about it.
The GIMP - In a similar vein to Photoshop, but free. I couldn’t get on with it when I tried it out a few years ago, but it’s pretty popular and is available on Unix systems and Macs.Sketchbook copic: a bit different program
Not-free-ware
Photoshop - Standard painting fare. Probably the most flexible program (particularly the latest versions) but not designed to act in a “natural” way. If you’ve used it for painting versus something like Painter you know what I mean. Who the fuck pays for it though? Google “Photoshop tumblr masterpost” and take your pick.
Paint Tool Sai - Far more affordable and definitely worth paying for if you can. The brushes are very decent (especially when they’ve been tweaked a little), the gui is simple and intuitive, and I dare you to find a program with which making smooth lineart is easier.
Corel Painter - My program of choice for most things. More tools than you could ever possibly use and pretty cheap on a student license, providing that you can prove you’re a student! It’s got a few bugs but if you want realism or a more natural feel than PS or SAI this is the program for you.Anatomy
anatomy and rotation of the head
Expressions
emotions and facial expressions
expressions from different angles (love this site)
Poses
Skin tones
paint some life into your skin tones
Colouring
gamut mask tool (very nice!)
5 easy ways to improve your colouring
fucking gradients, how do they work
achieving a painterly look in SAI
kuler (more colour schemes)
Brushes
a very nice setting for the sai acrylic brush
photoshop fur brushes (and tutorial)
Other peoples masterposts
love your fellow artist (anything from prompt generators to animation background here, very nice)
e-books
art e-books (mediafire download)
even more e-books (including human anatomy, animal anatomy, cartoons, animation, composition, design, scenery, perspective…)
Tutorials
a pretty extensive general art tutorial
tumblrs
criminallyincompetent (check out their #reference and #tutorial tags, they’re gold)
i think i’m gonna put a link to this on my about page for easier access dudes
Definitely making sure to look at this later
I reeeeeally should be sleeping… but… Yeah, I could have done this after I woke up. But this means it’s extra special. That’s how it works, right? I really like how this turned out.
Happy birthday to http://askaquasplash.tumblr.com/! You can now legally drink in all the cool countries, and Canada!
So, like 30-min challenge was Dizzy Twister. Shazam!
http://my-little-art-challenge.tumblr.com/post/22767297351/1-http-damnyeti-tumblr-com
This would be so much easier without… things… being things. Yeah.
Also, it’s totally past my bed time.
Watching Jessy’s stream. Containment Breach with “Sad Peanut” SCP-173. Hilarious shit.
Idea from the chat.
To prove I’m not dead yet, have some wip’s that are coming out okay.
First one’s the OC Aloha. I just really like the colors on this sketch, so glad I did it this way. I’ll probably do a second version that’s just lineart with a similar gradient.
The second is something very dear to me: a velociraptor with a tommy gun. To be precise, it’s a multiplayer character named Steve from the very first Medal of Honor (directed by Steven Spielberg). I’m drawing this because I miss the non-competitive fun and silliness that multiplayer games nowadays seem to have forgotten (to me, anyways). Back in the day, before you whippersnappers heard of no-scopes, HOF, and what-have-you, I was fighting against the likes of William Shakespeare and Werner von Braun on wireframe battlefields.
College and work are eating away my time and sanity. Once I make it to summer, I’ll finish all my other stuff, too. Imagine, me actually completing things.
I tried to draw a human Queen Chrysalis. I didn’t like the human feet I originally did, so I subbed in bug legs, and I like ‘em better. I might ink/color some other time if I come back to this and consider it to not look like shit.
In honor of Easter and the large number of White Russians I have just consumed, here is a pic of The Dude.
It’s time for me to take a note from him.
Abide.
*edit: I fucking hate that background. Can’t do tie-dye for shit. Now it’s gone.
So someone mentioned that my RPPony looked a bit like something from Family Guy. Thus I drew Peter Griffin the Pony.
Then someone said that Peter looked like Gaben, and someone said to make a Gaben pony. And I obliged. I feel slightly dirty.
I’m not to going to lie. I drew this just so I could look at Ridiculously Photogenic Guy for an hour.
I’ll probably clean this up, fix the leg a bit. A mechanical pencil from BJ’s on computer paper does not make for the cleanest art.
*edited the eyebrows a bit
- http://askmlcblobs.tumblr.com/
- http://ask-mr-cake.tumblr.com/
- http://asktheshadowdash.tumblr.com/
- http://askthosesillystickmen.tumblr.com/
- http://asktoolaroola.tumblr.com/
- http://blackwhirlwind.tumblr.com/
- http://cappedpencils.tumblr.com/
- http://damnyeti.tumblr.com/
- http://derpyanswers.tumblr.com/
2/4
Awww yeah #8
Hey, I got off my duff and did something!
Cheerilee for the 30 min art challenge… this is as finished as it’ll probably ever be.
Been arting on paper for my “hiatus” (there’s reasons for it, I assure you), so once I steal my scanner back from my apartment’s sysadmin I’ll throw that stuff up here, maybe put it through SAI as well.
*edit* might as well add the not-swearing one, too
A Bunch of Tutorials
FIGURE DRAWING
Human Figures & Their Proportions
HOW TO DRAW THE FACE
Reblogging so I remember to check these out when I have the time
