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Rock Study Note

So here I wanted to explain my thought process for when I study and hit a roadblock.
When you study and you’re just having a hard time figuring out why it’s not working, best thing to do is take a step back. What is the point of the study, what are you trying to achieve, what do you want it to look like, why did you start the study in the first place, when did it start going wrong, right at the start? The middle, or the end?

You need to actually ask yourself this question.

Early June Studies

Just a little note, I’m currently working on backgrounds more and studying anatomy on the side. I tried to freehand the building you see in the 3rd pic and boy I immediately knew something was off about it so I just tried to trace it and i learned a lot from tracing!!
Before I went off to try perspective grids, I researched other artists to see how they used their grids. i watched how they started with the grid and how they would use it for bigger and smaller objects.
I already know ...

Pose Breakdown

wanted to give my thoughts on the pose of this Pride piece! Sorry for my shitty handwriting tho lol

May Trad Studies

Here are some of my traditional studies! I'm pretty rusty with traditional, I kept trying to undo the paper T_T but after all these, I feel like everything's coming back! And even anatomy, it's been a Good While, like over a year?? More?? Of not studying it. Been procrastinating orz. I need a few more pages of these to remember

My Sketchbook is the Articka Note Hardcover Sketchbook and my pencil is a regular cheap mechanical pencil lol. I like the Sketchbook cuz the paper is really th...

Early-Mid May Studies

May isn’t over yet but what a month! I finished up a freelance gig and I had a lot of time to study! Except, I forgot how to draw for a bit T_T Plus I’m trying out new techniques and processes for painting, so you’ll see a variety of things I chose to study, some unfinished, some finished, the good and the very very ugly!!
I’m also doing traditional anatomy studies, I’ll see if I can post some of them as well. Hope everyone is doing good, wishing a great rest of May and happy Ju...

10.05 Process + Notes + PSD

Hiiiii long time no post haha, I’ve been studying a lot behind the scenes, so I have some things saved to post hehehe. I have for you all a study, process notes along with my psd!
Regarding the psd, as usual please don’t add on to my art or modify it. You may turn off and on the layers, move them around or even change the layers, but at the end of the day, the original art should not have changed, meaning you may not draw on it, add on to it in any form or way! That’s my condition f...

Textures 101

Made a lil textures tutorial!! Get it here !

How to add textures to your drawings digitally!

Click here for my random brushes

Click h...

March Sketches

I experimented a lot during March, was really fun but got busy towards the end 😭

And happy April everyone, hope this month brings you joy! Ahh so busy busy ><

21.02 Video Process

After nearly a month of procrastinating!!!! I have uploaded the 5 part video process of this study! (No voice)

Here is the playlist!

It’s not sped up, that is my normal speed, hope you enjoy and learn something from it!

Trust the Process [Comms]

** Warning there's a bunch of flashes of images!
I wanted to post these commission processes because I just wanted to say to trust the process! Sometimes things have to look shit at first to be beautiful at the end 😌 take my wise words 

also hopefully by posting these, someone out there can feel better about having "bad" sketches! They aren’t supposed to be neat or fine, sketches are only supposed to get your idea down! Keep pushing, keep going! Don’t give up on pieces ...

Late Feb Sketches

Noticed I was falling into studying too much (which is actually bad thing lol*) so I switched to sketching!

*Just a little explanation why it’s bad to study too much, think of studying as training for a sport… that’s just it. If you study too much you’re only training, you aren’t putting anything into practice! You aren’t playing the sport >;U

If you got my how to study guide, I mentioned it there that you need a balance of studying, practicing AND observation. 2023-02-28 13:47:28 +0000 UTC View Post

19.02 Study Gesture + Detail

So I did manage to record the last study but only the gesture part and the details no color, sorry lol my mom walked in when I was doing this and I’m not ready to start explaining to her why I’m drawing a half naked man 😭😭😭

19.02 Study + Lil Notes

Trying to practice people and painting them!

So as always I gotta start of with the gesture! (Always)

I moved straight to detailing the muscles and forms of the body from the gesture and adding simple shadows

I wasn’t sati...

Jan Study Process + Notes

The PSD for the torii is has already been posted along with the video process but I decided to compile the process pics into a pdf that’s attached!

Heres the Notes for my tree study:

flat Color using a color jitter brush (that’s why there’s multiple colors there)

simple shadows

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31.01.2023 Study Video Process + PSD

Here’s the video process for the study I showed earlier! The individual pics are coming next 🫡🫡

The PSD is also attached so I hope you can sort of get an insight to my process.

As usual please don’t touch my study, you may turn on and off my layers, change them, move them around, but at the end of the day, my art should never have been changed. Meaning you can’t draw on it, add on it, erase anything and so on.

Jan Studies

I completed 30 studies in Jan and these were my faves (tbh the rest were ugly) and Included the refs as well! In my next post, I’ll share some process pics as well as a psd so you can see my process for them!! Notice me doing multiple in a day lol I was crunching these studies to make my 30 for the month 😭

My focus for January was mainly on painting so I’m thinking of moving to anatomy and people studies for February! Thank you so much for the support in January and for February ...

Wonder Process Notes

So I wanted to talk about my process for this piece Wonder. My idea for the piece was something… magical, a sense of wonder. You look outside your window and there’s just so many plants! It’s a beautiful yet strange feeling. Keep in mind what I wanted!

Ref:

So this was my reference, I went off that and started sketching away

Sketch:<...

Studies 2022

Get it here!

I added some commentary only because I had a lot of thoughts compiling this lol

And with that 2022 comes to an end! After compiling all my studies I realized… I didn’t study as much as I wanted. So this year I made a challenge to myself, 30 studies a month, I can skip days, I can do multiple in a day as long as I make 30 in a month.
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How 2 Make Comics

And it’s finally done, get it here !! I hope you like it and more importantly, i hope you go make some comics!!!

Let me know if you have any questions!

I’m still compiling my 2022 studies, so before January ends, It’ll be out hehe >:)

Happy New Year 2023!

Happy new year everyone! I hope this year treats you well and you get all that you wish for!

Thank you for all the support in 2022, I cannot thank everyone enough.

A little change of plans, the skintones tutorial was pushed back to February so I can make a little ‘how to make comics" tutorial because I want to seriously take on making my indie graphic novel this year, I want everyone to join me in making comics they want to make! And I know a lot of folks don’t kno...

Color Demo

This was actually one of the most fun guides I've made, definitely not going to be the last! Get it here!

The demo is a follow up of the color fundamentals tutorial from last month, I basically talk abt how color is used in animated movies, in my art, and how to use color in your own art :]

So that using your knowledge of color fundamentals and now this dem...

Late November Studies

I’m trying to get a bunch of studying done before the year ends and hopefully my schedule clears up so I can focus on studying more. You’ll probably see a lot of ugly studies because I’m trying to loosen up and experiment! I’ve come very far this year, especially in bgs and color and light. I know it’s always easy to lose sight of how far you’ve come when all you see are your recent studies, but I can just feel that I’ve gotten so much better.

I may not have gott...

Mei Study PSD

I thought this study was interesting so I attached the psd for this study to this post! Please don’t tamper w my art, the psd is only for you to learn from! You can turn on and off the layers and check stuff but at the end of the day, my art should never have changed! Thank you if you have any questions ask me :] lemme know if PSDs are something y’all like, I’m happy to provide some of my study PSDs!

Color Fundamentals

It’s hereeeeeee

So these are the basics of the basics of color, I wanted it to be short (it’s 80pgs short lol) and simple so anyone could just understand right away how to use colors and how they can improve their colors!

If you see any typo, pretend you don’t LOL. As always if any of you have any questions, I’m more than happy to help ^^

Next...

Conductor Process Photos

GOD KNOWS I tried sooooo many other colors than I have shown. I went through probably... over 50 color schemes, wish I was kidding LOL

Just wanted to show yall that for colors especially, I go thru multiple ideas before settling on the final. Basically I kept going, trying different gradient maps, using the color jitter pen, using ALL the layer modes, combining all of the above at once just to see what I could get. Till I hit a point where I went "THIS IS IT!"

It’s also a good...

Color Fundamentals on the 15th!

I hope to make it by the 15th!! This particular tutorial will also be released for the public, but at around $8-9, so yall are getting it at a discount!! ;D
Still thinking what tutorial to do for December, while I'm on Color I think I could just tackle skin tones 🤔 much thoughts, anyway December is still kinda far, I'll think of it after I'm done with this!

Late October Studies + Following up the Study Demo

Helloooo everyone!! I've probably studied more the past few days than I have the whole year. Maybe it was the study demo but I was really motivated to study more these days!!

A lot of it was unfinished and I find them ugly, but I still think they are worth showing!

Following up on the study demo, my goal for all these studies was to find out how to incorporate textures into my work more. It was hard, I don't think I fully did it, but I know I'm one step closer!!

Color Fundamentals on the 15th!

Discord has voted for color fundamentals!! I'm so excited to make this one 😳!

I touched on it a little in the characters to bgs, so I'm glad I get to expand on it!!

Study Demo

As promised <3

Here is my Study demo

In the drive, is a 30 page pdf running through my process, thoughts, some notes, the PSDs and a 30 min video demo (which is in real time!) I gotta say I did learn a lot from doing this demo and I sure hope you learn something as well!

I’m still deciding the tutorial for next month, but let me know what you’d like to ...

Study Demo on the 15th!

I'll be doing a study demo this month! Covering my thoughts, my entire process, you'll also receive the PSD for the study and I'll try to record my process as well ❤️

Next month, I'll be talking about Color basics 👀!! Basically Color 101! Before moving on to skintones in December!! Or let me know what you want next :>