First time digital drawing

[spark marlin]

Uhh I require some tips on how to make the line smoother? Also how the hell do you shade in digital art. (Also not my character design this is a friend oc). Any general tip would also be a great help!

And why are there so many brushes 😭

[tiny geyser]

NICEEE, it’s very much a different feeling drawing in digital v traditional.

There are all sorts of different methods to draw an shade, some is more painterly witha … painterly brush, some more ink like and hatchey, some with an airbrush… tldr someone probably has more practical tips than me LOL

[spark marlin]

Bro fr

[tiny geyser]

But you could watch someone’s speedpaint maybe or their process and see how they draw digitaly 🤔

[spark marlin]

I was so confused the first 2 hour

I have no idea what I was doing lmao

My first sketches looked like a-

[spark marlin]

Oooh good idea

I think

[tiny geyser]

How good of an artist do you wanna look at coz I know some crazy artists LOL

[spark marlin]

Uuhhh idk, I guess good

Cause good = good

I’m smart

[tiny geyser]

What are you using btw?

[spark marlin]

Magma

[tiny geyser]

Oooh nice

[spark marlin]

Ajajaj a friend recommended to me

It is rather simple application (not really)

[open scroll]

Oof theres lots of rendering styles. What kinda art do u want to achieve? U got examples?

[spark marlin]

Oh 100% gib me a sec

https://www.youtube.com/@YotsumiShiro

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Also having stabilizer on should help with line smoothing. Additionally you got good eye for lines. U just gotta start closing ur lines and playing with diff widths

[spark marlin]

Dream artstyle fr

[spark marlin]

What’s a stabilizer.-.

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Ooo hatching style

https://youtu.be/aR5jxvSQ14Q?si=YWS4p4eGlq_I_FBW

[tiny geyser]

Thats so cooll

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https://youtu.be/bNjkPMsbvTs?si=GAnIfyFQAVf4RhIV

[spark marlin]

This stabilizer???

[spark marlin]

Oooohhhh

[tiny geyser]

Does magma have a brush stabiliser, probably right

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The style ur aiming for is mostly lineart based. And sub-genre, hatching based

[spark marlin]

Hell ye I love crosshatching I was jus wondering how to smooth shade

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Brush stabilizer

[spark marlin]

W h a

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Idk magma so idk where itd be on ur app. Google would know

[spark marlin]

OHHHH ITS A SETTING

[tiny geyser]

Yeee

[spark marlin]

OHHHHHH

K I’ll try it out tmr

Tysm y’all

[tiny geyser]

I think youmll be plenty cracked at this, all the best!

[spark marlin]

I’m still ganna be mad confuse but it’s better than nothin!!

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Painting? Cell shading? Soft shading? Flats?

[spark marlin]

Uhhh yes????

Soft shading I guess idk

[tiny geyser]

Using an air brush is one way, mixing between colours is another way, blurring and smudging another

[spark marlin]

Thank you, I was a traditional artist before this so I already have an idea what to do

Here some of it

[spark marlin]

What’s an air brush .-.

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Lasso tool and airbrush lmaoo

[tiny geyser]

Lowering Opacity of the brush could be another way

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Rlly gotta hone in on knowing ur planes and forms if u want soft shading only.

[spark marlin]

Time to go back to google

[tiny geyser]

Air brush is the really soft fluffy lookin one probably

I havent used magma much ;0;

[spark marlin]

Man all I see are squiggle line

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Air brush is like an irl air brush

[tiny geyser]

It has soft edges

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Idk how to explain it lmao

[tiny geyser]

Like it blurs in the edge, but usually has a darker centre

[spark marlin]

Ye cause ima tryna find the option but I can’t find it

[tiny geyser]

Can you send a picture of all the brushes lul

[spark marlin]

Sure

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Modern problems requires modern solutions

[tiny geyser]

there are some crazy magma artists out there

And i am not one of them

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Never heard of magma before. Is it new?

[tiny geyser]

It’s a browser one you can use to draw with friends

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Ohhhhh that site

[tiny geyser]

Similar to drawpile and uhhh…..

Some other ones

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I know face but not face name

[tiny geyser]

Fair

Honestly you could probably just draw with someone and see how they do things lol

[spark marlin]

Why is there a brush called egg 💀

[spark marlin]

Thank you regardless man

Huge help always come in clutch

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The one called softer

Closest to airbrush

[spark marlin]

Ah okok

Woah that’s wut i used

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Lol i was just quoting smth

[spark marlin]

Didn’t work well

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Oof

[spark marlin]

Unless there’s technique or smth

Idk ima just ask my friend when they are on prob next week or smth

Cause they use magma

Anyways thank you both of y’all

Huge help fr

I’m abit less clueless now