potent solar
I would love tips on shading, color, and making my lil fellas feel alive and more finished instead of looking like a wip. It takes so much work to shade on IBIS and it just looks bad? Ignore the paper, I was exhausted at that point. I love this work but it looks like a WIP, and the shading is really unoptimal and painfully manual. Thank you!
polar birch
I would love tips on shading, color, and making my lil fellas feel alive and mor...
Could you show me your dream style, so that I know where to direct you?
potent solar
Sort of an industrial horrific dystopia colors and shading with cartoon characters like so.
I don't know how to explain it
polar birch
It sounds like you're going for a syle similar to Bendy? Sorta like this:
polar birch
@potent solar It looks like your color choices are based upon already existing characters? Knowing this, you will have to work around creating a harmonious piece with a restricted color palette. Understanding the basics of color, such as complimentary, triadic, analogous and monochromatic will greatly help your wip’s look more finished and complete.
This video covers this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qj1FK8n7WgY&t=11s
Next, your values could be improved by sorting them into groups. As we can see from your wip, when we set it to grayscale the values look randomly placed and don’t work together as a whole.
To solve this, we can blur the background, make the background darker or brighter than the characters, and outline the characters. We could also darken the characters and blur the background. There are so many ways to create a good composition, you just have to experiment and see what works and what doesn’t.
This video covers the basics of this concept: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JuEkb6FNptE
Asking the questions, “why am I drawing this?” “how am I going to achieve this?” “Do I know how to draw this” “What references and skills will I need to be successful?”... before creating anything will direct you in a more logical direction.
If you want to level up your art fast, which will require some sacrifice and less time towards drawing fun things, I would recommend learning the basics of form, perspective, and line quality. When learning each of these concepts, study from other artists, watch tutorials, draw from life, and then test your knowledge by applying what you learned without reference. This should be a periodic process.
These videos should help you get going:
How to draw anything:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6T_-DiAzYBc&list=PLGh6HCgDR80BRXmFm0DU0tEawaglCR5Tz&index=6
Basic Perspective
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nAlCyQqEZSU&t=256s
Atmospheric perspective (great for environments)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3J2ZpJXyIQQ&list=PLGh6HCgDR80BRXmFm0DU0tEawaglCR5Tz&index=2
Basic anatomy:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lw0nZEw8IIk
More advanced anatomy (learn basic shapes first (also, David finch has many great anatomy tutorials that can be applied to any style. I highly recommend watching them all after you have grasped a solid foundation of form/3d shapes and perspective))
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KtPxn1yLy_U&list=PLr9Cp4B-Qan9vFyrOH87rwJ76DTowfrkT
How to frame your characters:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MYlgj1hwcYw&list=PLGh6HCgDR80CQKvn-UqQ0D3aue0GDHIQG&index=11
How to shade - The basics:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gmt6wtU9tUQ
That’s all I have to give. I hope this helps and good luck!
potent solar
thank you so much!